SCE is very proud of alum Rajiv Chilakalapudi (Master of Science in Computer Science 1997), our 2013 SCE Alumni Achievement Award Recipient. Traveling all the way from India, Rajiv spent several days this April at UMKC and SCE reconnecting with the faculty that inspired him, sharing with SCE students and faculty how he started his [...]
Tim Sylvester is getting noticed. He was recently listed in the the ENR Top 20 under 40 and is an active contributor to KC’s entrepreneurial community. Tim’s company, Integrated Roadways, recently completed installing modular pavement slabs on I-35 for KDOT. Future versions will include sensors that capture data related to roadway conditions such as traffic [...]
Eleven years ago Steve Dispensa co-founded Phonefactor which quickly became a leader in multifactor authentication (MFA) solutions. A gifted computer scientist, Steve found the undergraduate and graduate coursework he took from several SCE computer science faculty provided him the theoretical and technical knowledge he needed as the Chief Technical Officer for Phonefactor. The innovation and [...]
“Without your generosity, we couldn’t educate some of what I consider to be the best and brightest students in the Kansas City region, the nation, and the world,” said Dean Kevin Truman as he thanked the donors attending the 2012 SCE Scholarship Luncheon which brought together SCE’s scholarship donors and their student scholars. Connecting our [...]
UMKC SCE Alumna Taya Upkes was featured in Tuesday’s July 24 Kansas City Star article, Engineering challenges: Keep female graduates, stoke interest among girls. The article focuses on the opportunities for female engineering graduates and the unfortunate nationwide trend of fewer women choosing engineering as a career. Laura Loyacono, Director of the Kansas City based [...]
SCE is proud to congratulate two SCE graduates that have announced new start-ups. Aniruddha Shukla, Director of Innovating Solutions, is responsible for launching a new document management system for businesses, Innodocx. According to Marketing Director, Jake Bourret, “With Innodocx, you create your own private cloud by organizing your documents neatly on a central repository with [...]
Enjoying perfect weather 75 degree weather, 50 plus SCE supporters participated in our annual SCE Alumni Golf tournament and hit the links at Deer Creek Golf Course on May 30, 2012 to raise funds for SCE scholarships. The day concluded with a clubhouse dinner and presentations. Sponsors included Black & Veatch, Burns & McDonnell, Gibbens [...]
SCE is fortunate that the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Kansas City chapter saves a few slots for our SCE students and faculty when they organize their professional tours. This month’s tour of the Smith Electric Vehicle plant tour turned up two SCE Alums working at Smith Electric Vehicles, Robin Carroll-Dolci and Anupartha Howlander. These [...]
52 golfers signed up for this year’s SCE Alumni Golf tournament and hit the links at Deer Creek Golf Course on June 1, 2011. The day concluded with a clubhouse dinner and presentations. Sponsors included Black & Veatch, Burns & McDonnell, Gibbens Drake Scott, Olsson Associates, The Golf Doctor, Trekk Design Group, and Superior Bowen [...]
170 SCE undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students graduated May 6, 2011 from the School of Computing and Engineering. Leonard Graham, P.E., President of Taliaferro & Browne, Inc., a Kansas City consulting engineering firm, and SCE alum, was our keynote speaker. He spoke on how his technical education has helped him in his career and future [...]
