Schedule of Events

Saturday February 11, 2006

 

·       8:00 – 8:45am: Registration and Continental Breakfast at Room J-151

·       8:50am – 8:55am: Dean’s Welcome, Dr. Mike Murphy, Dean of CSE, Room J-152

·      8:55am – 9:05am: President’s Welcome, Dr. Lisa Rossbacher, President of SPSU, Room J-152

·       9:05am – 9:35am: Keynote Speech, “Engineering and Technology Education,” Dr. Zvi Szafran, VPAA of SPSU, Room J-152

·       9:35am – 9:45am: Break, Room J-151

·       9:45am – 12:15am: Parallel Sessions

1.     Math and Computer Science  (Session Chair: Dr. Venu Dasigi): Room J-202:

o      “Math Education Pipeline for K-14,” Dr. John Gordon.

o      “Math Modules from TISP,” Amy Wilson.

o      “Revolution and Evolution in Computer Science,” Dr. Bob Harbort.

Coffee Break: 11:00am – 11:15am, Room J-151

o      “Exciting Areas in Computer Science,” Dr. Orlando Karam.

o      “Education and Career Paths in Computer Science,” Dr. Venu Dasigi.

2.     Information Technology and Software Engineering  (Session Chair: Dr. Frank Tsui): Room J-251:

o      “Emerging Areas in Information Technology,” Dr. Andy Wang.

o      “Education and Career Paths in Information Technology,” Dr. Becky Rutherfoord.

Coffee Break: 11:00am – 11:15am, Room J-151

o      “Teaching and Learning Web Design in a Hop, Skip and a Jump,” Dr. Rich Halstead-Nussloch.

o      “Software Engineering and Educating Our Future Engineers,” Dr. Frank Tsui.

·       12:15pm – 1:00pm: Lunch, Room J-151

·       1:00pm – 3:10pm: Demonstration Sessions

1.     Intelligent Robotics Demonstration, Room J-251: Dr. Andy Wang, Dr. Juan Guzman, Prof. Scott Tippens, etc. This session will demonstrate various kinds of robotic systems developed by SPSU students. Attendees will have hands-on experience on how to build intelligent robotic systems.

2.     COPIRE Project Demonstration, Room J-251: Dr. Patrick Bobbie. COPIRE (Community-based Partnership for Integrated Research and Education) is a NSF-funded project at SPSU, collaborated with Kennesaw Mountain High School and South Cobb High School. The project participants will share with the audience their experience and research achievements in embedded systems education and training.

3.     Image Processing Project Demonstration, Room J-202: Dr. Chih-Cheng Hung. Recent developments in image processing, distributed computing and GRID computing will be demonstrated.

4.     Wireless Security Demonstration, Room J-202: Dr. Abdullah Faruque. This session will focus on wireless communication, wireless security, and wireless network-based home applications such as thermostat control via a cell-phone.

5.     Real-Time Systems Demonstration, Room J-261: Prof. Ron Schoeder and Dr. Juan Guzman. A model train controlling system will be demonstrated in our Real-Time System Lab. This lab has various hardware and software systems for teaching real-time and embedded systems.

6.     Computer Games Demonstration, Room J-201: Dr. Andy Wang, Dr. Orlando Karam, and Prof. Barbara Thomas, etc. Build your own computer games within one hour using a game engine! You will also play some games developed by our students.

·       3:10pm: Survey and Adjourn