ISAT Director s TMU (Thursday Morning Update) Thursday, April 2, 2015

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1 ISAT Director s TMU (Thursday Morning Update) Thursday, April 2, 2015 ISAT GOALS of ACADEMIC YEAR 3S for One-Two-Star (12*: One School, Two Degrees, & Multiple Specializations) 1) Make ISAT Stable focus on enrollment increase to be School 2) Make ISAT Sustainable focus on continuous growth in teaching, research, & service Specialization, Certificates, New Degree Programs, & RSOs 3) Make ISAT Successful - focus on high quality programs with reputation undergraduate researches, accreditation, & funding ANNOUNCEMENT ISAT Faculty and Staff Meeting When: Friday, April 17, 2015 from 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM Who: All Faculty & Staff Agenda: o Memo for IST CIP Code Change o RME for IST Degree Name Change and Specializations o NUI for IST MS Degree and Specializations Meeting on Catalog and Program Changes When: Friday, April 3, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM & Tuesday, April 7, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM Where: Morris Library Who: Director, Program Coordinators, and Office Manager CASA Spring Research Colloquium When: Friday, April 10, 12:00 PM-11:00 PM Where: CASA C0111 Topics o Systems Modeling and Simulation for e-healthcare Supply Chain and Information Systems, presented by Dr. Stephen Shih, Professor of Information Systems Technologies. o Big Data Analytics Challenges and Opportunities, presented by Jim Sissom, Associate Professor of Information Systems Technologies Honors Day - SIU When: Saturday, April 11, 2015 Starting from 1:30 PM 2:30 PM Where: the Student Center, International Lounge University-wide reception will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the Student Center, International Lounge. At 2:00 p.m., President Randy Dunn will provide a brief welcome, followed by special remarks by the Outstanding Teacher of the Year, Dr. Gary Apgar, Associate Professor, Animal Science, Food and Nutrition, College of Agricultural Sciences. College ceremonies will follow at approximately 3:00 p.m. 1

2 2015 Honors Day - CASA When: Saturday, April 11, 2015 Starting from 3:00 PM 4:30 PM Where: Transportation Education Center ISAT Faculty and Staff Meeting When: Friday, April 17, 2015 from 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM Who: All Faculty & Staff Agenda: IST faculty recommended the following things: o Memo for CIP Code Change Toward IT ABET Accreditation o RME for BS Degree Name Change from and Specializations From BS in IST (Information Systems Technologies) to Information Technology (IT) Networking and Security track to Information Assurance & Cybersecurity (IAC) Applications Development and Web Design track to Web & Mobile Application Development (WMAD) o NUI for MS Degree in IT and Specialization MS in IT IAC Big Data Analytics (BDA) SIU Cyber Security Day 2015 When: Saturday, April 18, Where: CASA C111 Classroom. URL: Tom Imboden, Associate Professor of Information Systems Technologies (IST), invites interested faculty and students to attend an event that is quickly approaching. ISAT, in conjunction with the Security Dawgs, a registered student organization, is hosting SIU Cyber Security Day 2015 on April 18, The event will be located at ISAT in the Applied Sciences and Arts building, Room 111 and computer labs. ISAT Ad Staff Meeting When: Friday, April 24, 2015 from 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM Who: ISAT Director, EST/IST/TRM Program Coordinator, On-Campus/Online/Off-Campus Advisor, Admin Aide, Officer Manager, & Web Master Agenda o ISAT Update o EST Update o IST Update o TRM Update o Budget 2

3 o o o Advisement Scheduling Web and Social Media Big Data Research Computing Facility on SIU Campus The IT Research Computing and Cyberinfrastructure team has been busy recently to set up new computing facility on campus. These new computing and storage capacity provide much more opportunity for Big Data research and development on the horizon. As you may know IT Research Computing leases 100 TB of research storage from IT Systems Dell Compellent SAN environment. Half of the 100 TB have been allocated to various research projects at this time but utilization is relatively low. IT is working on renewing our storage lease for another year until we can acquire and deploy centralized research storage. If your Big Data or related project has significant research storage needs, please let me know. The mid-range HPC computing environment that we recently acquired is here on campus in the Wham Data Center and IT is currently working out cluster software stack issues and OpenStack environment. The mid-range HPC environment will likely start to become available in late April. EVENTS Tech Dawgs RSO - Spring 2015 IT Experts Speaker Series When: Wednesday, April 5:30pm Speaker: Chris Wiegman, ithemes.com Topic: Success Off the Beaten Path: Making Money with IT Outside the Office Chris will be discussing his career path in the IT industry, leading him from a LAN Admin at SIU to the developer of a widely popular WordPress plug-in. Make plans to attend and hear Chris speak. Where: CASA C204B Officer: Allen Ewing (techdawgs@siu.edu) Adviser: Tom Imboden, Associate Professor of IST URL: 3

4 Women in Cyber Security (WiCyS) 2015 Kylee Williams, majoring in Computer Forensics and Networking and Computer Science, Jolene Hatchett, majoring in Computer Support and Networking, and Jessa Gramenz, majoring in Computer Forensics and Network Security, Sue Zamora and Prof. Belle Woodward, IST Associate Professor, attended WiCyS 2015, a two-day conference for Women in Cyber Security, in Atlanta, Georgia. WiCyS is an effort to bring together women (students/faculty/researchers/professionals) in cybersecurity from academia, research and industry for sharing of knowledge/experience, networking and mentoring. The conference, funded by the National Science Foundation along with industry and educational sponsors, offered workshops, panel talks, mentoring sessions, research presentations and a host of keynote speakers including Phyllis Schneck, Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications to the Department of Homeland Security. (See the picture below.) All three students from John A. Logan Community College felt the conference was a tremendous opportunity for personal and professional growth. Jessa said of the conference, I felt it was really empowering. It was a good opportunity to network and find mentors. Kylee stated, What impressed me so much was how enlightened the women at the conference were. It s inspirational to see such strong female characters and the diversity that comes together. Ignorance is left behind in pursuit of a more technologically enlightened culture. Jolene added, We need the diversity in age, race, gender, and ethnicity. Everyone s opinion and perspective matters. We can all work together for the common good and make things happen. Find the strengths in everyone, put them together, and use them to achieve your desired outcome. Currently only 11% of cybersecurity professionals are women, and these students are working to increase that number. CONGRATULATIONS! Serving the Judicial Review Board (JRB) Dr. Stephen Shih, IST Professor Congratulations on being chosen to serve on the Judicial Review Board. Student-Oriented Research, Dr. Andrey Soares, IST Assistant Professor Under the leadership and supervision of Dr. Andrey Soares, Assistant Professor of Information Systems Technologies (IST), a team of IST students (Alex Glasnovich, Geovane Piccinin and Marcelo Bandeira da Silva) attended the 20th AITP National Collegiate Conference and Career Fair in Omaha, Nebraska, March 26-28, Geovane and Marcelo are visiting students from the Brazil's Science Without Borders program. More than 540 students attended the conference. This year's event had 14 technical competitions ( Our students participated in the Web Project contest, the Systems Analysis and Design contest, and the Database contest. They also presented the results of their web project, titled Tobacco User Profile Viewer (TUP Viewer). The TUP Viewer is an educational resource that will allow faculty and students to create fictitious case studies of patients who use tobacco. Students could use the tool to generate patient profile as the basis for a comprehensive treatment plan exercise or assessment. Dr. Joan Davis, Professor of Dental Hygiene, participated in all five phases of the web project with the roles of client and subject matter expert. 4

5 ON THIS WEEK S CALENDAR Thursday, April 2, 2015 o 8:00 AM 10:30 AM, Graduate Council (GC) Meeting, Student Services Building, Rooms 160/170 o 2:00 PM 3:00 PM, Technology Mentor Program-Advisory Committee Meeting, IT NW Annex Conference Room Friday, April 3, 2015 o 9:00 AM 3:00 PM, SIU Open House, Student Center, Second Floor, International Lounge o 11:00 AM 12:00 PM, Meeting on Catalog and Program Changes, Morris Library o 2:00 PM 3:00 PM, Distance Education Meeting, ISAT Director s Office o 3:30 PM 5:30 PM, SSC Research Lab Meeting, ISAT Conference Room Saturday, April 4, 2015 o 9:30 AM 12:30 PM, MiC and YG Chapter Student Organization, ISAT Conference Room Monday, April 6, 2015 o 8:30 AM 10:30 AM; 10:30 AM 12:30 PM; 1:00 PM 3:00 PM, SIU Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Forum, Student Center Ballrooms Tuesday, April 7, 2015 o 8:30 AM 10:30 AM; 10:30 AM 12:30 PM; 1:00 PM 3:00 PM, SIU Graduate Students Creative Activities and Research Forum, Student Center Ballrooms o 11:00 AM 12:00 PM, Meeting on Catalog and Program Changes, Morris Library Wednesday, April 8, 2015 o 9:00 PM 11:30 AM, CASA Ad Staff Meeting, CASA Conference Room AND FINALLY If you see something in this update that you want to comment on, please send me an at my SIU SamChung@siu.edu Also, if you know of somebody who might be interested in receiving the ISAT Director s TMU, please ask them to send me an and we will gladly add them to our mailing list. On the other hand, if you prefer not to receive the ISAT Director s TMU, please let me know as well. Thank you. 5