Four SCE professors formed the UMKC E-Save through Automation and Education team which proposed and helped implement alternative-energy-focused projects envisioned by Paseo Academy high school students. According to the UMKC Today article, a partnership with KCP&L (Kansas City Power and Light) resulted in Paseo students having “access to the resources of the area’s major energy [...]
SCE professors Cory Beard, Vijay Kumar, Yugyung Lee and Praveen Rao teamed up with KCP&L and Kansas City Public Schools to host a solar energy workshop for high school students attending the Paseo Academy of Fine and Performing Arts. For more information see the UMKC Today article “Solar Energy Workshop Empowers Students.”
Selected from a competitive pool of over 1000 applicants computer science graduate students Pratima Gorla and Swati Son have received scholarships to attend the 2012 Grace Hooper Celebration of Women in Computing being held October 3-6, 2012 in Baltimore, Maryland. Pratima Gorla was awarded a Mastercard scholarship and Swati Soni was awarded a GE scholarship. [...]
Feichen Shen and Sourav Jana, software architecture and software engineering computer science Ph.D. students working with their faculty advisor Dr. Yugi Lee, presented their work on “Semantic Search Engine for Clinical Trials” at the SHARPn Summit 2012, at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, organized by Mayo Clinic on June 11-12. Feichen Shen is currently working [...]
SCE congratulates our graduate students, Vida Ferdowski, Xuan Liu and Swathi Soni, who were awarded funding by the UMKC Women’s Council which for 41 years has annually provided UMKC women graduate students’ access to research and/or travel funding via the Graduate Assistance Fund (GAF) awards. The awards are competitive and a maximum of $2000.00 may [...]
SCE congratulates Professors Yugi Lee and ZhiQiang Chen! They have been awarded a 2012 research grant from the IBM Smarter Planet Faculty Innovation Program. Today’s Smart Grid, as an ‘Energy Internet’, holds the promise of transforming the behavior of individuals and communities towards more efficient and greener use of electric power but currently technological gaps [...]
The IBM Academic Skills Cloud was utilized by students in two of Dr. Yugi Lee’s Fall 2011 courses, CS551 Advanced Software Engineering and CS590VC Virtual Worlds in Computing. UMKC’s School of Computing and Engineering is one of fifty select universities which have access to the IBM Academic Skill Cloud. The cloud repository has access to [...]
