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Elon Activities for June 1, 2008 - May 31, 2009last updated: May 29, 2009 This is a work in progress of activities as they occur throughout academic year Department activitiesPainted four faculty offices: Michele, Megan, Shannon and Duke. (June 2008) Thin client for faculty suite ordered by Andre. Andre indicated that there was no charge to the department. IT director for city of Burlington, Roger Burden, called with an opportunity for a summer internship developing a access database and appropriate front ends. Greg Galante expressed an interest to Michele. I called him and he has an interview next week. Maggie Presley took a job with RevUp Media in data management. Signed Purchase order for 16 chairs for Lynn for Duke 304. The cost of 16 chairs is 2,826.00 Duke 304 will have all 16 machines of the same type. We expected 8 new this year to complement the 8 one year old machines but Fred kindly made all 16 the same type. Met with Andre on Monday July 14 to review image for fall lab installation. Lynn also stopped by. Megan stopped by previous week. All faculty had a chance to test out image to hopefully make this year installation even better than last year. Chris Rowe stopped by and dropped off a Cisco switch that Elon is no longer using for Lynn. July 27, 2008 - I attended SURE presentation by Vic McGlaughlin. Vic was mentored by Joel Hollingsworth and the work was fantastic. The presentation showed the framework on the apple touch to allow a program to move to other apple touches if the machines support bonjour. A really cool feature was the demonstration of the graphical figure spinning right, left and head over heals on the multiple touch system. Vic also showed the use of the accelerometer. The framework is a key part of Vic's honors thesis that he will continue work on during academic year 08-09. Sept. 4, 08 - Worked with Debbie Wall to see if internship opportunity still available at AIG in Greensboro for Jeff. Debbie indicated that it was. Reviewed resume with Jeff. Hopefully will work out. Sept. 4, 08 - Working with Jane and Brett at Credit Suisse to arrange a Sept. 23 visit to capstone class and to visit ACM student chapter. Sept. 8, 08 - Duke Hutchings will be research mentor for Jonathan Citty for fellows. Sept. 15, 08 - 499 Research submitted and approved for Brad Nock and Tom Porter with Dr. Duvall and Jamie Schatz with Dr. Conklin. Sept. 27, 08 - Attended parents weekend for meeting with parents. Sept. 30, 08 - 7 of 9 capstone students sent is a resume to Credit Suisse for consideration for on campus interview on October 8, 2008. Jane Mehringer and her team have given superb advice to Elon students. October 6, 2008 - Attended a nice lunch put together by Lynn Heinrichs with Rick Watson and Marissa from University of Georgia on the Global Textbook project. Department paid for the luncheon that was also attended by Michele Kleckner, Tim Peoples and Michael Strickland. October 10, 2008 - Presented department to a student from Raleigh, Daniel Eagle. He was a very talented student with web development experience. October 11, 2008 - Wrote letter of recommendation for Clarke Rainey for Wake Forest. October 12, 2008 - Six Elon senior CS majors attended a invited career fair at Credit Suisse. Kassim, Tom, Brad, Vic, Kyle and Stu. They indicated that the visit was worthwhile and got to see an incredible amount of storage hardware to handle the data generated by the stock market. October 14, 2008 - Wrote recommendation for Jonathan Citty to ODK. October 16, 2008 - Wrote recommendation for Yakira for Elon sorority application. October 21, 2008 - Major storage improvement and software configuration updates made to Duke 306 server room. Chris Funkhouser got a rack to hold 8 new gradi machines received as part of summer 2008 refresh. The old server room was completely reconfigured to take advantage of the rack to significantly improve the access and utilization. The eight grid machines have been configured with Ubuntu linux. They will be configured with mpi. October 25, 2008 - Shannon mentored 2 teams at Elon Programming Contest at Duke University. First team of Vic, Brad and Kyle finished 75/147 teams and completed 2 problems. The second team of Tess, Evan and Tyler finished 119/147 and solved one problem. November 12, 2008 - Seven Elon Computing Sciences majors interviewed at Credit Suisse. This is very exciting. The students indicated that Credit Suisse revealed that 200 students sent in resumes. 70 had on site interviews at their university. 28 were brought in for a full day interview and 14 would receive offers by Thanksgiving. Elon had 8 of the 28 interview at Credit Suisse. The interviewees were Nicole, Sarah, Kyle, Vic, Stu, Kassim, Brad and Jessica. Nov. 19, 2008 - Had lunch with Tom Vecchione, Brett Woodard and Jane Mehringer from Credit Suisse. Jane was here for mock interviews. She is a most impressive Credit Suisse recruitment manager for their technology analysts. She has hired four Elon CS and CIS students for the summer program. She indicated a possibility of others hearing next week. Nov. 20, 2008 - Appointed by Nancy Midgette to Academic Support Review Committee. Nov. 20, 2008 - Career center has found two hot internship opportunities with JP Morgan Chase and Black and Decker. Michele has notified students. Chris Funkhouser and Joel did a superb job of rearranging the department compute server room with new racks and rearrangement. Jessica Stewart on Feb. 6 got accepted at University of South Carolina for PhD in Mathematics. I had the pleasure of writing one of her recommendations. Jessica Stewart on Feb 27 got accepted at Baylor. I had the pleasure of writing one of her recommendations. Faculty Faculty offices were all painted during June for Michele, Megan, Shannon and Duke. Department paid $547.00 software maintenance on InDesign to support package for MMA capstone. Conference: Michele IACIS International Association for CIS - Savannah, GA Oct 1-4 - $1770 present two papers: Lessons Learned: The Creation of a CS/CIS Gateway Class - The Use of an Action Item Based System to Implement and Document Embedded Assurance of Learning Activities. Conference: Lynn IACIS International Association for CIS - Savannah, GA Oct 1-4 - $1554.84 present a paper.A comparison of student use and understanding of text messaging shorthand at two universities. Michele approved to teach social entrepreneurship 2 hours spring 09, 2 hours spring 10. Will get department reimbursed for a 4 sh course in spring 10 to fill with adjunct. She will also teach a a 2sh in fall 10 and spring 11. Met with Steven House on Monday July 14 and received approval. Megan created an ad to better promote the lab and sent to all faculty and posted in hallways http://trumpy.cs.elon.edu/cis325/2008LabFlyer.pdf Attended 2 day Business School Summer Planning Retreat on August 19 and 20. Attended August 22 Department Chair morning session hosted by Nancy Midgette and got superb overview of Disabilities and Career Center. CS held retreat on Sunday, August 24, 2008 in Duke 203. Selected to do an ABET accreditation visit on Nov. 9-11. Attended Elon Picnic on August 26, 2008 Attended planning week FR&D session on August 27, 08 by Kim Jones. She did a superb job. Department updated and submitted Honors Thesis Guidelines to Maureen on Friday, August 29, 2008 Ryan Barnard received and accepted his position as an adjunct instructor in the fall for CSC 230. He was one of top, top former students. He is extremely talented and a very strong addition to the program. Attended freshmen convocation on Saturday, August 30, 08 with Michele, Joel, Megan, Duke and Lynn. Ken Modesitt kindly expressed a willingness to be considered for an external reviewer for department in 09-10. I indicated that department will discuss in January 09. He is an extremely talented ABET head evaluator. Sent a welcome email to all students the week before the first class to inform them of internships, carpenter lab, MSDNA, new faculty, programming team and ACM. The intent of sending an email before school starts is to try to increase awareness of options. My interview with graduating seniors indicated that some were not aware of options. Megan and Duke sent an email to all students the Friday before the first class to indicate to them the first meeting of the ACM student chapter. They also posted flyers. They had 15 students show up for the first organizational meeting on Sept. 2. This is a great use of email and pushing out information to students to help them become aware of opportunities. Megan created a great pdf of Carpenter Lab and Duke 304 lab that all students were notified of. Credit Suisse agreed to visit campus on Sept. 23, 2008 to visit seniors in CSC 462 for CS and CIS. In addition, will meet all student members of ACM from 4:15-4:45. Called AIG follow up on intern interview for Jeff Vitalis. They have set up interview for Tuesday 16, 08. Jeff received notification on Sept. 17 that he had been awarded internship. October 5, 2008 - requested marketing letters to be sent to all CSC 130 students for AY 07-08 who received a B or better to consider CSC 230 for spring.October 6, 2008, letters generated and signed. October 20, 2008 - Duke Hutchings submitted request for Hultquist summer fellowship for first year faculty. The request uses the new on line system. There was a small issue that was resolved with Kim Jones on the response to the other sources of funding. The new electronic submission is a very nice feature added by FR&D for the year. The processing time from faculty to chair to dean can be in a matter of hours. October 21, 2008 - Summer fellowship investigation on Enterprise Computing in the Elon BA and BS Majors in Computer Science. October 25 - Represented department at Family Weekend. 5 students visited to find out more about majors in CSC and CIS. November 5 - Appointed to assistant dean search committee with Jim Bisset, Tim Peoples, Nancy Harris, Carolyn Whitley, Nancy Harris and Pam Kiser. November 6 - Attended business school monthly meeting from 4:15-6:15. November 9-11: Performed ABET PEV evaluation of a California State University with Team chair Don Bailes. November 13: Administered ETS test to 11 seniors during senior seminar capstone course. Joel and Shannon led a review of ETS using GRE sample on Tuesday Nov. 11, 2008 while I was making an ABET visit. November 14: Had the pleasure to sit in on CIS 330 class from Duke Hutching on using Design Heuristics to evaluate a web site. This was really exciting as the classs reviewed JAP airlines web site. The class had superb comments on aspects of the site that were difficult to use. Most students presented their finding from the front of the classroom and showed excellent oral presentation skills. A comment that stuck in my mind was that 3 to 5 testers could find 60-75% of the problems with a web site. November 22: Presented department fall admissions open house to 6 students on Saturday. Vic McGlaughlin volunteered to help and did a super job. He showed videos of his Touch research that he is doing with Joel. November 24, 2008 - Department faculty submitted 3 FR&D requests this fall and all three were approved. Lynn Heinrichs had her semester fall sabbatical approved for her research in "A Case Study in the Diffusion of a Knowledge-Sharing and Collaboration Platform". Duke Hutchings was awarded a Hultquist stipend for summer reesearch on "Fitts Law and Multiple Monitors". Dave Powell received a summer fellowship for research on "Enterprise Computing in the Elon BA and BS majors in Computer Science. Dec. 3, 2008 - Helped Ryan Rosenberger with an internship by putting him in contact with Joe Magyar at RevUp. Ryan indicated that he will be doing web development. Dec. 4, 2008 - Attended chairs meeting with Provost candidate Steven House from 10:45-11:45. Attended faculty meeting with provost candidate from 4:10-5:10 in Larose Theater. Dec. 5, 2008 - Attended breakfast with Provost candidate in Isabella Canyon room. Dec. 18, 2008 - Part of Associate Dean search committee for the College of Arts and Sciences. Tim Peoples chaired the committee of Pam Kiser, Jim Bisset, Nancy Harris, RaDonna Smith and myself. The committee made a successful recommendation to Dean House. Dec. 18, 2008 - Credit Suisse will visit a combined class from Megan (CIS 301) and Shannon (CIS 335) on Feb. 9, 2009 to discuss summer internships at Credit Suisse Dec. 18, 2008 - Department purchased first Google Android Development phone for Joel for course exploration. ($399). Department ordered a second on January 12, 2009. Dec. 30, 2008 - Tried to get 7 tables due
that are being replaced in Koury this summer. I received reply from Brad that
these tables have already been Jan. 13, 2009 - Duke had some great ideas of how to improve the senior survey. He had students suggest changes in his CIS 330 class and has proposed to make a cut of it himself. Jan. 21, 2009 - Submitted lettter of recommendation to Northeastern University for Svetlin Tzolov. Jan. 21, 2009 - Submitted letter of recommendations to Baylor (previously sent to U South Carolina, UNC Chapel Hill) for Jessica Stewart. Jan. 19, 2009 - Submitted paper with Joel to International Conference on Mobile Computing. Should hear back by March 23, 2009. Jan. 19, 2009 - Ordered third Android device for Joel's mobile computing class. Feb. 9, 2009 - Credit Suisse visited class of principally juniors from 9:25-10:35. Megan and Shannon kindly joined their classes together for the visit. Jane Mehringer was fantastic. She brought two managers and two alumni with her. The group presented IT development at Credit Suisse and discussed possible summer internships. It was extremely well done. All presenters were fantastic and offered a different perspective. The company feels like a fantastic place to work. Feb, 17, 2009 - Jane Mehringer had on campus interviews of 11 students. Ten students from the class she visited on Feb. 9 had sent their resumes to her. Jane indicated that 4 or 5 may be invited to the full interview at Credit Suisse next week. Jane is the best HR person that I have ever met. She is a dedicated, caring person who actively tries to help each student that she comes into contact with. Feb. 18, 2009 - Reimbursed Shannon for 424 for purchasing Android for use in Joel's class. Feb. 18, 2009 - Signed check request from Shannon for 833 dollars for Tess Stamper to work on research with Shannon. The CATL grant funded only 2 or the 3 students that applied. One student was told that she could be on it but the money was already spent. Carolynn Whitley indicated that I could use department money and have a check directly sent to Tess. Feb. 18, 2009 - Notified award winning department students of Elon College Faculty and Student Awards of the ceremony in McCrary Theater on May 7, 2009 from 4:05-5PM. March 3, 2009 - Joel and Megan agreed to present to NC Research Biotech visitors and represent the department on March 16th. March 3, 2009 - Shannon and Joel were promoted. March 3, 2009 - 4 students were invited. 14 students in all of North Carolina
to interview for a summer internship. One student received an offer from March 5, 2009 - Megan had the clever idea and ordered a bulletin board
for more prominent display of materials across from the doorway March 7, 2009 - Fellows weekend - interviewed 4 students interested in 3-2
engineering program. 3 in Computer engineering and 1 in March 8, 2009 - Reviewed Academic Support Review document from Donna and sent in small edits. March 10, 2009 - Visited career fair in Koury gym to support students and career fair. Two potential opportunities are EMC and US Census Bureau. March 11, 2009 - With Tom Flood and Jeff Clarke walked through building to
identify maintenance issues to be considered. Discussed four offices to be
painted, March 13, 2009 - Gave Spring Orientation Weekend department presentation for admissions to one student Alex and one parent from Newton Massachusetts. March 13, 2009 - Received travel approval from Carolynn Whitley for ABET retraining. March 24, 2009 - Final athletic report submitted by Donna to Nancy Midgette. March 25, 2009 - Joel announced programming contest at A&T on April 4th. March 25, 2009 - Four faculty offices painted. Joel, Lynn (partially will complete after graduation - did window and spot painting for now), Barbara and mine. This means that all were repainted since June 2008. March 31, 2009 - Attended convocation for honors given by Madeline Albright. April 3, 2009 - to help enrollments, Michele placed a computing science advertisement on the Moseley bulletin board, I place oned on the Duke first floor electronic bulletin board. Michele is running a quarter page article in the pendulum next week to help increase enrollments. April 3, 2009 - CSC curriculum meeting from 11am - noon. the discussion was on book choices for CSC 130 and CSC 230. The new Absolute Java was selected. April 4, 2009 - Presented Spring Open House on Saturday from 9:40-10:40 for Parents and 10:45-11:45 to students. We had a good turnout of 8 students. April 6, 2009 - CIS curriculum discussion with Lynn, Dean Gowan and Scott Buechler. Mary allowed CIS to have a representative on the core curriculum committee for the next two meetings of the year to represent CIS 211. Fred Melchor indicated that 5 blade servers will not be on 3 year refresh cycle for Duke 306 this year but will be on it for summer 2010 April 9, 2009 - Attended presentation by Jim Goodnight, the CEO of SAS. He received the Elon University Medal for Entrepreneurial Leadership. April 14, 2009 - Met with faculty excellence awards committee to make recommendations for Elon College Awards. It was an honor to see such incredible applicants and their many contributions. Other members, Maurice Levesque, Nancy Harris, Mike Sanford, Katie King April 17, 2009 - 2:30-3:30 attended a committee meeting to discuss copyright and patents at Elon chaired by Bonnie Bruno. April 19, 2009 - Need to see how marketing by Michele with Pendulum ad and posting of courses on electronic bulletin board in Moseley and Duke is helping. April 19, 2009 - Need to send out a department newsletter reminding students of carpenter lab and password. Indicate to them research areas, internships. Remind seniors that if they would like web programming to consider CSC 430 in spring. I think we need to distribute newsletter more frequently to majors. Perhaps discuss the Mth 231 or Math 206. April 20, 2009 - Doug Cox (dcox@accurusresearch.com) offered an Elon student a internship opportunity to develop a web site. Senior, Evan Morris, indicated a strong desire for this opportunity and he wil contact Doug for more details. April 21, 2009 - Joel and I had a paper accepted for the @worldcomp'09 conference. The acceptance rate was 25%. The paper was titled "Integrating Mobile Computing with Android in Computer Science II and Computer Science III". Joel is presenting in July in Las Vegas. The final proof ready paper was submitted today for publication. April 25, 2009 - Attended program evaluator retraining on new ABET criteria for 09-10. The training was a full day at Orlando Marriott Airport. The class was well attended with experienced evaluators from across the country from states such as Alaska, Texas (Texas Tech), Maryland, New Jersey, New York, California, South Dakota, Georgia (Mercer, Georgia Southern), Pennsylvania (Penn State), Virginia and Florida. April 28 Surf day - Faculty presentations from 9 - 10 by Lynn, Joel and Duke. There were approximately 25 in attendance to include Dean House and Provost Francis. April 28 Surf day - Department students presented 5 of the 132 Surf Presentations. Johnie Blackwell (advisor Lynn) presented "A comparison of student use and the understanding of text messaging shorthand". Vic McGlaughlin (advisor Joel) presented "An embodied mobile agent framework for iPhone OS". Brad Nock (advisor Shannon) presented "position based and keyword based parsing for automatic retrieval of web page information". Tom Porter (advisor Shannon) presented "extending the ID3 algorithm to handle confidence values. Dan Cresse, Kyle Schutt and Tess Stamper (advisor Shannon) presented "3D Virtualization: Learning German from a Video Game" May 4, 2009 - Had opportunity to sit in on final presentations in Maureen Allen's CIS 211 8AM class. The presentations were fantastic. Each student presented a PowerPoint presentation that described their access database design, forms and report. In addition, each student demonstrated an website developed with expression web. The web sites covered boat detailing service, landscape service, a stationery business, a dance studio business, a jewelry business, a construction web site and a local grocery. May 4, 2009 - Sat in on honor's thesis presentation by Vic McGlaughlin. He did a great job on the changing SDK on iPhone to develop a mobile framework. May 7, 2009 - Joel Hollingsworth won the college of arts and sciences Excellence in teaching award. There are 205 full time faculty members and to be one of three faculty to receive the award is outstanding. May 7, 2009 - Department handed out student excellence awards at May 7th, Elon College Faculty and Student Excellence Awards presentations from 4:10-5:30 in McCrary theater. Awards were handed for CS Academic achievement to Vic McGlaughlin, CIS academic achievement to Brad Nock and Nicole Olavarria. Department service to Dan Cresse. Programming Team award to Kyle Schutt. Al Carpenter award to Brandon Walters. May 12, 2009 - Andre has a data drop request for 2 lines in Duke 304. He indicated a cost of 550. He discussed in with Mike Thompson and indicated work will be done after May 30. Lynn asked for one in front and one in back. May 12, 2009 - Brian H has had a great internship possibility. He has been interviewed on JSP, servlets, IBatis and SQL. May 12, 2009 - Evan Morris has indicated that he has spoken with Doug Cox , a Burlington employer, about a short term web development project. Doug kindly thought of Elon for a small job that he needed done. Evan was excited to get some experience that he can us to enhance his resume. May 12, 2009 - Chris J. has taken a job with Orasi Software. He also had an interview and offer from Bit-Sys. May 13, 2009 - Attended faculty staff awards luncheon: entire department was at luncheon. May 20, 2009 - Joel and I met with Christopher Waters, Fred Melchor, Tony Rose, Melanie Brookbank, Stefanie Poe, Anthony Bennett, Christian Funkhouser to discuss transition of CS department support this summer. Joel and I distributed and walked through a list of the needs for system administration of academic licenses, five department server blades, Carpenter Lab, Duke 304 Lab, and university labs. We discussed user account creation for courses in fall such as CIS 211 and CIS 325 and the need to backup all user accounts. Christopher indicated that he is still visiting other departments to understand their requirements. He will set up a meeting to discuss next steps. May 21, 2009 - Shannon and I met with Mike McGovern and Don West from Southland Electrical. Don and Mike discussed their technology needs and desire to continue to support Elon interns. He indicated that the company is 85 and heavy users of the web to support sales in 140 countries. They are currently actively involved in better CRM and workflow of orders. May 21, 2009 - Started to distribute survey and collect data to better understand the needs of our graduates in industry and the graduate school. May 23, 2009 - Nathan Shemonski stopped by. He has been accepted at Univ. of Illinois in PHD EE program. May 29, 2009 - Attended Google I/O on May 27 and May 28. 3500 attendees. Awesome vision of future. Html 5.0, css and javascript were heavily focused on. I also signed up for and attended the GTUG users group for San Francisco. They met on May 26 from 6-9PM. 200 plus attendees. The raw energy and passion of google developers is impressive. Alumni and Workforce Professional
Brian currently programs in a windows environment using Visual C++. His office currently is a group of 6 developers. They perform their own IT administration. Brian showed us his workplace. He has a nice dual monitor display in
addition to a laptop on his desk. He is currently programming in Visual C++
2005. The development team of 6 use Team Studio for configuration management
and bug reporting. He indicated that team uses weekly scrums.
Avery discussed how his company interviews. The company has 2 phone
screens and then a on-site interview. The on-site interview has 3 separate
interviewers of about 45 minutes each. During the interviews, Avery stressed
the need to show involvement in your undergraduate career (e.g.
internships, awards) and soft skills (being able to communicate and listen).
These are the main things that I have been asked about during interviews. Most of the programming questions are relatively basic however I cannot stress how important having a solid foundation for databases is. It’s not just about knowing the basic ER programs but knowing how you write a query for an Oracle DB versus for a Microsoft SQL Server and being aware of the functionalities that both offer. October 2008 - Cassandra Scott a 2008 graduate is working with NSA in software development. She indicated need to know JEE and Agile Programming in her assignment. November 2008 - Bob Ciskowski, a senior IBM techology consultant, indicated that embedded systems are extremely hot and that "Software Runs the World". He also indicated a strong focus on Web Servcies and SAAS. November 2008 - Wei-Shan Chiang, a CTO of a Simulation Group of Dassault Systems, indicated that Web 3.0 and Web Services are strong technology directions for the future. He indicated that JEE is still a hot area and requested by customers. December 19th, 2008 - Sean Crilley stopped by. He just graduated from UNCC with a Masters degree. He felt that a very important improvement to our program would be more exposure to databases. In all of his job interviews, he was asked DB questions. January 2009 - Wei-Shan Chiang and I had a lunch meeting to discuss trends in technology. He felt that application server technology was stable and that EJB and Web Services were solid components that students should understand. He indicated that the Google Web Toolkit was an important trend in web based APIs. March 2009 - Received Feedback from Scott O'Brien from Fidessa where he is a senior consultant. He emphasized a strength is programming languages. He emphasized the need to be able to do requirement specifications. He also indicated an increased need to consider performance in processing large amounts of data. May 19, 2009 - Received feedback from Chris Weitzen on how well Elon prepared him for graduate school at Wake Forest. Chris felt very well prepared. When comparing Elon grads to other grads in program he remarked "while everyone had their own special strengths, he felt that Elon was very strong on progamming assignments and being able to program May 19, 2009 - Received call from Matt Lane. He currently works at a start up company called Great Wall Systems in firewall optimization. Matt graduated from Wake Forest in Jan.1, 2008 and is considering returning to graduate school at UNCC n Computational Finance. Debbi Wall was looking for recent grads that may be interested in a local web development opportunity. I sent her email addresses for Alex Stull and Maggie Presley. Credit Suisse brought a 5 person group to talk to the CSC 462 senior seminar and also to the student ACM chapter on September 23. They did a fantastic job explaining what they do and the outstanding opportunities that they have available. They presented some excellent tips to students on interviewing and Jane Mehringer kindly reviewed student resumes. Jane brought Roger Hutchinson, a VP and three former Elon grads, Kristin, Mike and Brett. The senior capstone class thought is was very rewarding. Credit Suisse had an open house on their campus. They invited seniors to it on October 14th. Six seniors attended and greatly enjoyed the event and seeing the large amounts of storage and processing capacity.
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