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SCSU recognized for Most Affordable Online Computer Science Program in 2024 St. Cloud State TODAY – St. Cloud State University
St. Cloud State University has been recognized as one of the top institutions nationwide in 2024 for its online program offerings by BestColleges, a leading online resource for college planning and advice.
SCSU was ranked second in the nation for Most Affordable Online Computer Science Program, noting SCSUs convenient blend of foundational and specialized courses within the program, which specializes in big data applications or artificial intelligence and machine learning.
This program offering at SCSU is designed to be done asynchronously, yet students have the opportunity to attend state-of-the-art on-campus labs that provide hands-on, graduate-level work.
In 2024, BestColleges revised its methodology and approach to school rankings, focusing on the most important factors that students consider in their college decision-making process. Its new methodology incorporates key metrics such as affordability, student outcomes, flexibility and accessibility, and ease of admissions. These metrics were taking directly from BestColleges College Choice and Admissions Survey, which reflects the top preferences and priorities of students nationwide.
BestColleges rankings are tailored to meet the needs and interests of students, providing them with valuable insights into the colleges and universities that align with their goals and values. Learn more about BestColleges methodology.
Learn more about this program and thefull list of world-class academic programs and resources availableto students at SCSU.
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Xiaoqing Song Receives NSF Award to Research Gallium Oxide-Based Electric Vehicle Traction Inverters – University of Arkansas Newswire
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Xiaoqing Song, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science.
The National Science Foundation has given a $300,000 grant to Xiaoqing Song, an assistant professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, to support his research project focused on advancing high density and high-operation-temperature traction inverters. Song's project explores the integration of gallium ooxide packaged power modules to enhance the power density and temperature range of electric vehicles.
Collaborating with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the project sets out to innovate power module packaging, establish reliable strategies for gallium oxide power devices and demonstrate the capabilities of a high density, high temperature traction inverter.
"By eliminating technical barriers for gallium oxide device integration, this project will foster the development of next-generation, high density and high-operation-temperature power converters," Song said.
The traction inverter, responsible for converting stored direct current (DC) power into alternating current (AC) power to drive electric motors, stands to benefit significantly from gallium oxide technology. Song said, "Gallium oxide can make the traction inverter smaller, lighter, more efficient and capable of operating across a wider range of temperatures.
"Gallium oxide has a larger band gap energy compared to conventional silicon and wide band gap semiconductors. It enables high breakdown electrical strength, low intrinsic carrier concentration and correspondingly high operation temperatures," Song said.
One challenge addressed in the project is the low thermal conductivity of gallium oxide, which hinders efficient heat removal. Song outlines the plan to develop advanced power module packaging techniques that enable low thermal resistance, low parasitic inductances and high-temperature operation capability.
"National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has significant experience in power module simulation, fabrication and characterization, as well as world-class experimental and lab capabilities for evaluating and designing efficient and reliable power electronics systems. The PI will collaborate with them to design and develop a gallium oxide-based high density and operation-temperature traction inverter for automotive applications. This project will help establish a long-term partnership with NREL that can catalyze further research and development of ultra-wide bandgap power semiconductor devices," Song said.
Song shared that the collaboration with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory aims to design and develop a gallium oxide-based high density and high-operation-temperature traction inverter for automotive applications, fostering a long-term partnership that can drive further research in ultra-wide bandgap power semiconductor devices.
"Other applications include power grids, data centers, renewable energy, space and defense, etc.," Song added.
The success of the project, he believes, will provide valuable insights into gallium oxide device modeling, packaging, gate driving, protection and application in power converters. These advancements are expected to catalyze progress in transport electrification and the deployment of gallium oxide technology in challenging environments.
"The research achievements and experiences gained in the fellowship will sustain and promote the PI's future multi-disciplinary research activities in semiconductor devices, multiphysics analysis, power module packaging and high performance power electronics. Other broader impacts also include the education and development of the next generation workforce in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), the encouragement of more women and underrepresented minorities in electrical engineering, especially in the area of wide and ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor devices, power module packaging and power electronics with hands-on lab experiences," Song said.
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Computer Engineering Wins $2 Million Grant to Imagine a More Inclusive Future – Cal Poly
A revolutionary project to reimagine Cal Polys Computer Engineering Department has secured close to $2 million from the National Science Foundation as educators seek to transform engineering education on campus and across the country.
The highly prestigious award through NSFs Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (IUSE/PFE: RED) program, which supports radical changes to the training of undergraduate engineering students, will fund the five-year Breaking the Binary project.
Through workshops, dialogue and critical mentoring, CPE students and faculty will examine their perceptions and beliefs to uncover implicit bias within the department, then reimagine a department that is designed for all its members, from curriculum to physical spaces.
We want to make the department a better place for students, faculty and staff of different races, genders, sexual orientations and abilities, among other social identities, said Computer Engineering Department Chair Lynne Slivovsky.
She believes that addressing equity and justice within the department will lead to increased diversity and inclusivity, bringing about shifts in the demographics of the computer engineering population.
College engineering departments are not doing the kind of work we are doing on this scale, she said. Its revolutionary.
The project, which officially launched in June 2023, has broad goals including holding workshops and encouraging dialogue in which faculty members examine their perceptions and beliefs.
We can identify that different models are at play instead of assuming this is how it is for everyone, said Slivovsky, giving the example of shifting from a deficit model that focuses on learners weaknesses to an asset-based one that focuses on the strengths students bring to the classroom. In the end, we want to determine how we can design things differently.
The grant team also is exploring ways to deepen relationships between and among students, staff and faculty.
We can build authentic relationships that allow us to have a greater appreciation for each other and ask honest questions about perpetuating systemic structures, she said.
Those relationships will ultimately enable a more collaborative dynamic between faculty and students, fostering a tailored educational experience.
We want to be a place that values everyone for who they are and how they show up, where they can learn computer engineering but not at the expense of their own identity, Slivovsky said. The grant team includes members from inside and outside the department who are committed to making a difference.
Professor and co-principal investigator Jane Lehr called the grant a tremendous achievement that will enable faculty, students and staff at Cal Poly to take transformative action to create a new approach to doing computer engineering that will serve as a model at Cal Poly, nationally and potentially beyond.
Lehr serves as the director of the universitys Office of Student Research and is a professor in ethnic studies and womens, gender and queer studies and affiliated faculty in computer science and software engineering and science and technology studies.
The interdisciplinary faculty team also includes Bridget Benson, associate dean and computer engineering professor, Andrew Danowitz and John Oliver, computer engineering professors, and Liz Thompson, director of the General Engineering program and industrial engineering professor. External and internal advisory boards will support and aid the team.
Experts outside Cal Poly will also lend their skills, including Jon Stolk, professor of materials science and engineering education at Olin College of Engineering, and Susan Lord, chair and professor of integrated engineering at University of California, San Diego.
Founding Director of The Noyce School of Applied Computing Chris Lupo expressed his enthusiasm for the grants broader impact. The school that launched this year combines three departments Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Software Engineering.
This is a groundbreaking opportunity that will not only transform computer engineering within our college but also revolutionize the educational landscape in this field, Lupo said. With this grant, we are poised to embark on a journey of innovation, collaboration and daring invention.
Image caption: Students in lecturer Rich Murray's capstone computer engineering project lab class work on projects involving a ventilator and a prototype rover in 2021. The computer engineering department recently received a National Science Foundation grant to address equity, justice and inclusion.
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Pearl Hacks to host 10th annual hackathon – – The Daily Tar Heel
Generally, I don't really have much time or really much of an excuse to just sit down and do work on a project I'm really interested in, Kate Ma, 2023 Pearl Hacks participant, said. It was really nice to have a space where we could just sit down for a day and really harness our creativity and see what we could come up with.
Participants can either enter Pearl Hacks with a team or form one at the event and are encouraged to attend workshops being held during the event. In addition, they cantalk with mentors to integrate what they learn from the workshops into their projects.
Jagani said submissions for each category are judged by representatives of its specific sponsor. For example, this year Google is one of the sponsors, and employees from the company will judge the projects submitted under that prompt.
Other prompts created by the Pearl Hacks team will be judged by faculty in the Department of Computer Science.
Depending on the success of each teams project, different prizes can be earned including AirPods, backpacks and other merchandise.
Patel saidduring her first UNC hackathon experience, the supportive environment really stuck out to her.
I had never been to a hackathon that valued team bonding and meeting other students that are similar to you, and that's really what Pearl Hacks is all about, Patel said.
A current senior, Jagani remembers coming into UNC intending to be a computer science major. But, she saidafter Pearl Hacks she found the information science major which ended up fitting her interests better.
Jagani said she hopes Pearl Hacks can help participants find something theyre passionate about, whether that be computer science or something else.
It's a beginner-friendly hackathon meant for women and gender non-conforming students, so it's just a super supportive environment overall, Patel said. But since it is beginner friendly, we aren't specifically looking for computer science students you can be literally any major.
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Southeastern adds Masters in computer networking and administration – an17.com
HAMMOND Southeastern Louisiana Universitys Department of Computer Science is now offering a master of science degree in computer networking and administration. Delivered exclusively online, the program is designed to address the widening skills shortage in enterprise scale networking, including cybersecurity and system administration, and follows best practices needed for the workforce.
Computer Science Interim Department Head and Instructor Bonnie Achee said the degree prepares students for positions such as computer network administrator, network specialist, network design engineer, system software developer, and system administrator.
We are proud to offer a 100% online master of science in computer and networking administration, said Achee. This cutting-edge program will serve both recent graduates and industry professionals who seek to advance or transition to a career in systems administration, high-performance computing, and systems security, to name a few.
Coursework is offered every fall, spring, and summer, ensuring students can graduate in a timely manner, Achee explained. Hands-on labs are also provided through online services, giving students 24/7 access to state-of-the-art computer networking and administration labs.
For more information, email mcna@southeastern.edu or visit southeastern.edu/mscna.
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Chicago Public Schools Awarded With 23 AP Computer Science Female Diversity Awards – Lawndale News
Nearly two dozen Chicago Public Schools (CPS) high schools earned the 2023 College Board AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award for achieving high female representation in Advanced Placement computer science courses. The 2022-23 School Year also marked the fourth consecutive year that female and non-binary students comprised the majority of AP Computer Science Principles exam takers throughout the District. Schools honored with the AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award maximized their commitment to computer science education by expanding girls access to AP computer science courses, specifically in AP Computer Science A (CSA) and AP Computer Science Principles (CSP). The following schools achieved either 50 percent or higher female representation in at least one of the two AP computer science courses, or the percentage of the female computer science exam takers met or exceeded that of the schools female population during the 2022-23 school year:
Chicago Academy High School*
Chicago Mathematics and Science Academy
Curie Metropolitan High School*
Eric Solorio Academy High School*
Lane Technical College Prep High School*
Von Steuben Metropolitan Science Center*
Walter Payton College Prep High School*
World Language High School at Little Village Lawndale, to name a few.
CPS was an early adopter of the AP computer science program, serving as a pilot district in 2014. Since the AP CPS exam became available in 2017, 10,158 CPS students have taken the AP CSP exam, with 50 percent of 2023 test-takers identifying as female or non-binary, well above the national average of 34 percent.
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CIA Computer Scientist Joshua Schulte Is Sentenced to 40 Years – The New York Times
Information stolen from the Central Intelligence Agency began showing up in 2017 on a website called WikiLeaks.
Over eight months the site published more than two dozen groups of classified documents that it called Vault 7, outlining the secret methods that the United States used to break into computer networks used by foreign governments and terrorists. The disclosures caused what the government termed catastrophic damage to national security and set off an intensive hunt for the person responsible.
On Thursday, that person, Joshua Schulte, 35, was sentenced in Federal District Court in Manhattan to 40 years in prison. Mr. Schulte, a computer engineer, had worked for the spy agency for six years, holding the highest security clearances and designing hacking tools.
He was convicted in 2022 of charges including illegally gathering and transmitting national defense information. That followed convictions in 2020 for contempt of court and making false statements. He was also convicted of receiving and transporting child pornography.
Judge Jesse M. Furman said Mr. Schultes actions amounted to a digital Pearl Harbor that caused untold damage to national security.
Im blown away, to put it mildly, by Mr. Schultes lack of remorse, the judge added.
Addressing the court for 30 minutes just before Judge Furman handed down his sentence, Mr. Schulte did not apologize but asked that he be sentenced to time served.
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Dr. Sharon Torrence Jones has been Inducted into the Prestigious Marquis Who’s Who Biographical Registry – 24-7 Press Release
Dr. Jones is an expert in STEM and Computer Science education, bridging the gap between our everyday actions and the application of technology.
CHARLOTTE, NC, February 05, 2024 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Dr. Sharon Torrence Jones has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
With more than two decades of excellence in K12 education and computer science, Dr. Jones is an expert in STEM and Computer Science education, bridging the gap between our everyday actions and the application of technology. Leveraging her passion, she founded and is the chief executive officer of the dot. Consulting and the Dottie Rose Foundation (nonprofit), both companies named in honor of her grandmother. Upon launching her businesses in 2016, she has focused her efforts to support educators find their voice in STEM/Computer Science and close the gender gap in technology for women and girls. Over the past 7 years, the dot has grown to serve schools across the country impacting and supporting more than 3500 educators and Dottie Rose Foundation has served over 2400 girls with a 95% rate for all programming.
Outside of her primary career efforts, she lends her expertise as a co-founder and board member for Carolina Women In Tech and is a valued member of the North Carolina Teachers Association, the Society of Information Management, the Small Business Administration Council for North Carolina, and a board member of Entrepreneurs Organization Accelerator (EOA), among other professional organizations.
Prior to her current positions, Dr. Jones served as a CTE teacher and instructional management coordinator for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools from 2008 until 2015. Among her professional accomplishments, she was named an SAS Global Faculty Scholar in 2015 and 2016. She also was recognized as the STEM Leader of the Year in 2015 and Opportunity Champion in 2019, both by Charlotte Business Journal. She was an educational technology company finalist at the 2020 NC Tech Awards and was listed among the Top 100 Leaders in Education by the Global Forum for Education and Learning in 2021. In 2022 and 2013, she was awarded Educator of the Year by the National Center for Women in Information Technology and received an Excellence Award for the Best Technology Training Consultancy by Acquisition International in 2022. Added to these, she was listed by JPMorgan Chase as one of 100 Women to KNOW in America in 2023.
To prepare for her professional journey, Dr. Jones earned a Bachelor of Science in communication studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2002 and a Master of Arts in Teaching in business and information technology from East Carolina University in 2003. Following these achievements, she attained a Doctor of Education in adult and continuing education teaching with a concentration in computer science from North Carolina State University in 2011. She subsequently gained a master's degree in school administration from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2014.
Looking to the future, Dr. Jones intends to expand both organization's outreach through commitment and consistency. She aspires for the dot. Consulting to become the leading STEM consulting company in K12 education while fostering innovation in the field. She and her team have also initiated The Dottie Rose Foundation Legacy Fund, an investment fund aimed at reaching a $1 million milestone to provide young women with access to funding for their education, business startups or other ventures that align with their goals.
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Sartell Schools Doing Its Part To Boost State’s Computer Ranking – WJON News
SARTELL (WJON News) --Sartell-Stephen Schools is doing its part to offer kids a wide range of computer science opportunities. Code.org recently ranked Minnesota last in access for high school students to computer science but Sartell High School offers 5 different courses to its students, two advanced placement computer science classes, and three elective options. High School Principal Shayne Kusler says they are always looking to add more:
"We're always looking to expand our offerings based on what our student demand is. I would agree that in Minnesota we need to do better and I look forward to being able to offer more. At Sartell, I think we offer more than some places but certainly still can look to increase our options."
Kusler says they also work with community education to get younger kids interested:
"We do and those are offered I would say at the lower level than the high school. There's not a lot of community ed offerings at the high school because those students choose robotics for example as their extracurricular activity, but our robotics team, and specifically our robotics coach, have been doing a great job with community ed to offer opportunities for our younger students to get involved early on."
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Sartell Schools are also part of Project Lead the Way, a nationally recognized engineering program. Chad Dukowitz heads up Project Lead the Way at the Middle School and he says the classes also help get kids into the industry:
"We need people in those industries right now, and so I have a unique opportunity of giving them a taste of robotics, giving them a taste of woodworking and construction and engineering that maybe they haven't thought of before."
Over the last three years, Sartell has had an average of 170 students in its computer offerings. Students also have extracurricular opportunities through the Robotics team, and the school is looking at potentially adding an Esports team in the future too.
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One person can supervise ‘swarm’ of 100 unmanned autonomous vehicles, OSU research shows – Oregon State University
CORVALLIS, Ore. Research involving Oregon State University has shown that a swarm of more than 100 autonomous ground and aerial robots can be supervised by one person without subjecting the individual to an undue workload.
The findings represent a big step toward efficiently and economically using swarms in a range of roles from wildland firefighting to package delivery to disaster response in urban environments.
We dont see a lot of delivery drones yet in the United States, but there are companies that have been deploying them in other countries, said Julie A. Adams of the OSU College of Engineering. It makes business sense to deploy delivery drones at a scale, but it will require a single person be responsible for very large numbers of these drones. Im not saying our work is a final solution that shows everything is OK, but it is the first step toward getting additional data that would facilitate that kind of a system.
The results, published today in Field Robotics, stem from the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency program known as OFFSET, short for Offensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics. Adams was part of a group that received an OFFSET grant in 2017.
During the course of the four-year project, researchers deployed swarms of up to 250 autonomous vehicles multi-rotor aerial drones, and ground rovers able to gather information in concrete canyon urban surroundings where line-of-sight, satellite-based communication is impaired by buildings. The information the swarms collect during their missions at military urban training sites have the potential to help keep U.S. troops and civilians more safe.
Adams was a co-principal investigator on one of two swarm system integrator teams that developed the system infrastructure and integrated the work of other teams focused on swarm tactics, swarm autonomy, human-swarm teaming, physical experimentation and virtual environments.
The project required taking off-the-shelf technologies and building the autonomy needed for them to be deployed by a single human called the swarm commander, said Adams, the associate director for deployed systems and policy at OSUs Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute. That work also required developing not just the needed systems and the software, but also the user interface for that swarm commander to allow a single human to deploy these ground and aerial systems.
Collaborators with Smart Information Flow Technologies developed a virtual reality interface called I3 that lets the commander control the swarm with high-level directions.
The commanders werent physically driving each individual vehicle, because if you're deploying that many vehicles, they can't a single human cant do that, Adams said. The idea is that the swarm commander can select a play to be executed and can make minor adjustments to it, like a quarterback would in the NFL. The objective data from the trained swarm commanders demonstrated that a single human can deploy these systems in built environments, which has very broad implications beyond this project.
Testing took place at multiple Department of Defense Combined Armed Collective Training Facilities. Each multiday field exercise introduced additional vehicles, and every 10 minutes swarm commanders provided information about their workload and how stressed or fatigued they were.
During the final field exercise, featuring more than 100 vehicles, the commanders workload levels were also assessed through physiological sensors that fed information into an algorithm that estimates someones sensory channel workload levels and their overall workload.
The swarm commanders workload estimate did cross the overload threshold frequently, but just for a few minutes at a time, and the commander was able to successfully complete the missions, often under challenging temperature and wind conditions, Adams said.
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