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Our computing programs are blessed with excellent award winning faculty members. For example, Dr. Feagin won the UHCL President Distinguished Research Award last year. Dr. Davari won the UHCL Distinguished Teaching in 1992. Drs. Boetticher and Al-Mubaid are recent finalists of the UHCL Piper Teaching Award. There are many others.
This list is growing even longer yesterday.
This year, UHCL adds the Outstanding Lecturer Award and Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Award to honor distinguished lecturers and adjunct faculty members. I am very pleased to announce that our computing programs are making history by winning both inauguration awards.
Ms. Krishani Abeysekera won the inauguration outstanding lecturer award. Many of you know her as the dedicated and friendly instructor of data structures and computer systems administration. Krishani is also a finalist of the UHCL Piper Award last year.
Mr. Kumar Peeris won the inauguration outstanding adjunct faculty award. He is the effective, helpful and reasonably demanding instructor of Java, Advanced Java and Web Application Development and has taught for us in the last 17 years.
Both of them received their B.S. and M.S. degrees from UHCL. I am not going to state their long lists of accomplishment here. Instead, I would encourage you to stop by their offices and congratulate them on winning these honorable awards so deservingly.
Congratulations, Krishani! Congratulations, Kumar!
(Krishani and Kumar received their awards from President Staples and Provost Stockton.)
Jan
26
Rosie Haji in Houston Chronicle
January 26, 2009 | Permalink
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Houston Chronicle also had an article on Joshua Generation. Rosie Haji, an UHCL alumnus with BS and MS degrees in CS, was featured as a leader. Here is the online version. The Sunday printed version had a nice photo of her.
Congratulations to your accomplishment, Rosie.
Jan
26
Dr. Boetticher in Houston Chronicle
January 26, 2009 | Permalink
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Houston Chronicle had an article featuring computational finance courses. Dr. Boetticher and his financial data mining course were placed prominently in the article. It also has a nice photo of him. The work of Quan Nguyen, a CS graduate student, was also highlighted.
Our congratulations to their successes!
You can also dig the article.
Jan
24
New Graduate Student Orientation deemed as conducive
January 24, 2009 | Permalink
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The new graduate student orientation was held on the past Thursday.
Dean Davari and CIS Program Chair Dr. Yang first welcome the students.
Mr. Dilhar De Silva, CTO of AtLinks.com and 2008 UHCL Distinguished Alumni, impressed on the students to have big dream, and discussed how they can best prepare their study and future career.
I then gave a talk on many topics important to the students: advising, foundation courses, candidate plan of study, controlled courses, resources, academic honesty, TA applications, etc. You can find the powerpoint presentation here.
Many faculty members attended the orientation and added their insight. They included Dr. Sharon Hall, CS chair, Dr. Terry Feagin, Dr. Gary Boetticher, Dr. Dan Kim and Dr. Hisham Al-Mubaid. Ms. Kim Edwards, our secretary, also attended.
The orientation was deemed to be useful and interesting by most participants, new or continuing students alike. If you miss it, be sure to come next time!
Jan
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New CS/CIS MS Student Orientation
January 15, 2009 | Permalink
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We will hold a new CS/CIS MS Student Orientation on January 22, 2009 (Thursday) 4:00 to 5:30pm in Delta Room 241.
All new students are expected to attend! The orientation is the first one we hold and it should benefit current students too so all will be welcome.
Mr. Dilhar De Silva is the guest speaker. He has impeccable industrial experience. For example, he was a member of the industrial group that defined the UML standard. UML is now used by millions of developers. He is a founder and the CTO of AtLinks Communications and has worked on many types of companies, from startups to blue chip companies like Computer Associates. He has interviewed thousands of CS/IT applicants and hired hundreds of them.
He is also 2008 UHCL Distinguished Alumnus. He will talk about how you may best prepare yourself for study and future career.
I will talk about things you would like to know here: opportunities, CPS, foundation courses, advisers, waiver requests, controlled courses, academic honesty, TA applications. Those are things that may help you to best plan your study here.
Refreshment will be served. There will be a Q&A section. You may ask your favorite questions, such as how to improve your chance on getting selected as a TA; is snowing and hurricane evacuation really that common in Houston; or how many programmers will it take to change a light bulb.
Hope to see you there. Here is the tentative agenda:
1. Welcome (5 to 10 minutes)
Dean of SCE: Dr. Sadegh Davari
Division Chair: Dr. Bun Yue
CS Program Chair: Dr. Sharon Hall
CIS Program Chair: Dr. Andrew Yang
2. How to best prepare your study and future career at UHCL (20 minutes)
Speaker: Mr. Dilhar De Silva
“ 2008 UHCL Distinguished Alumnus
“ CTO and founder, AtLinks Communications
“ Member of core industrial group of UML standard
“ Hired hundreds of CS/IT employees throughout his career
“ Capstone project mentor
3. Things you want to know about the UHCL CS/CIS programs (40 minutes)
“ Opportunities and challenges
“ Advising and Candidate Plan of Study
“ Foundation Courses
“ Controlled Courses
“ TA applications
“ Academic honesty, and more
Speaker: Dr. Bun Yue
4. Questions and answer; social time (20 minutes)