October 1, 2006 | Dr. Yang granted prestigious ARP award
In June 2006, one of our Computer Science and Computer Information Systems faculty, Dr. T. Andrew Yang, received a $48,780 grant from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s Advanced Research Program (ARP) for his proposal, “SOCO – Secure and Optimized Communication and Organization for Target Tracking in Wireless Networks.” Only 10 of the about 100 submitted proposals were awarded. In addition to equipment money, the award will allow Dr. Yang to hire several research assistants per year for two years to work on advanced research in the area of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), especially the Optimized Communication and Organization method that he and his students devised for target tracking in wireless sensor networks. Target tracking is the way that wireless sensor networks detect intruders and intruding objects. For further information, see http://sce.uhcl.edu/yang/research/index.htm.
September 22, 2006 | 12th Order Runge-Kutta method solved!
In August, 2006, Dr. Terry Feagin, one of our professors of Computer Science, solved the 7,813 nonlinear equations of condition (in 325 unknowns) for a twelfth-order explicit Runge-Kutta method with 25 stages. The method is the highest order Runge-Kutta method ever developed (with a reasonable number of stages). The previous highest order attained was ten (Hairer, 1978). The method is currently being refined and tested to determine how it performs on real-world problems in science and engineering.
September 1, 2006 | CIS Program Accredited
Our sister program, the Computer Information Systems program, is now accredited by the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) under the Information Systems curriculum. ABET is the accreditation body for engineering and computing program in the United States.
Before this accreditation cycle, there were only 16 programs in the United States accredited by ABET under the IS curriculum, none of them in Texas. Thus, UHCL is the first Texas university accredited by ABET under the IS curriculum. Furthermore, before this accreditation cycle, there were only three US universities with programs accredited under the three ABET curricula guidelines of Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Information Systems respectively: Drexel University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and University of South Alabama. Thus, UHCL is the first Texas University and the fourth U.S. University to achieve this feat.
August 1, 2006 | Welcome to our new faculty member, Dr. Dan Kim
The department is very pleased to successfully recruit Dr. Dan Kim as an associate professor of computer information systems and computer science. Dr. Kim was an assistant professor in Michigan State University. He is a very active researcher who has published more than 40 technical papers in leading IS and CS journals and conferences, including the Communications of the ACM, Decision Support Systems and IEEE IT Professional. His main research interests are in E-Commerce, Information Security and Trust. Please join us in welcoming Dr. Kim.