CITE Students Participate in Annual Undergraduate Research Day

Warren Shelton

On January 26, several Marshall University Computer Science students participated in the 9th annual Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol in Charleston.

The research day took place at the Charleston Capitol rotunda. Members of the state Legislature and the executive branch were able to talk to the students who created the posters in order to better understand the importance of undergraduate research.

“I am very impressed with the level of expertise shown by our Computer Science majors at the Undergraduate Research Day. I am proud to have them represent the College and Marshall University,” said Interim Dean of CITE, Dr Wael Zatar.

Thirty-two students from Marshall participated and of the nineteen student posters ten were our own Computer Science Students!

The following is a list of the Computer Science participants, along with their home counties or cities, disciplines, research posters and advisers:

• Devin Albrecht, Cabell County (Computer Science/Information Technology), “Multimedia Web-based Lab Equipment Training and Tracking Application System” – Jonathan Thompson, adviser
• Mark Carroll, South Point, Ohio, and Matt Ferguson, Cabell County (Computer Science/Information Technology), “RSS with TTS” – Venkat Gudivada, adviser
• Daniel Kissel, Cabell County, and James Figler, Cabell County (Computer Science/Information Technology), “Code, Compile, and Chat Client” – Hyoil Han, adviser
• Nitish Garg, Cabell County, and Tim Hall, Cabell County (Computer Science/Information Technology), “Spotection” – Paulus Wahjudi, adviser
• Joseph Hall, South Point, Ohio (Computer Science/Information Technology), “Document Retrieval to Identify Evidence of Protein Roles” – Hyoil Han, adviser
• John Lilly, Mercer County, and Cecil Rappold, Kanawha County (Computer Science/Information Technology), “MUBuddy” – Jonathan Thompson, adviser
• Duong Thach, Cabell County, and Luu Pham, Cabell County (Computer Science/Information Technology), “An Interactive System for Personalized eLearning” – Venkat Gudivada, adviser
• Stephen Turley, Kanawha County, and Warren Shelton, Proctorville, Ohio (Computer Science/Information Technology), “Lockout” – Hyoil Han, adviser
• Edwin Warnick, Proctorville, Ohio (Computer Science/Information Technology), “CRES – Cyber-security Research and Education System” – Paulus Wahjudi, adviser
• Sean Sovine, Cabell County (Mathematics and Computer Science), “The Implicational Logic” – Carl Mummert, adviser

Dean's List for Fall 2011

The Dean's List for the Fall 2011 semester is out and the College of Information Technology and Engineering would like to congratulate all the students who made it. To make the Dean's List, students must hold a 3.3 GPA or higher while taking at least 12 credit hours.

Congratulations to everyone on the great work!

For the names of the students who made the Dean's List, click this link.

ENGR 107 - Wind Turbine Competition

Wind Turbine Winners

Students in the Engineering107 class were tasked with the challenge to create a wind-turbine that produces energy. Various factors such as turbine blade length, weight and shape had to be taken into account in order to achieve a maximum energy throughput.

On the day of the competition, the students were graded according to many defining factors such as amount of energy generated as well as the quality and design of their turbines.

After two days of testing the final results were in! Joshua Lockard, Cody Queen, and Patrick Castro were the three students whose turbine generated the most energy!

Congratulations to all the students who worked hard on their projects and came up with innovative and exciting designs!

For more photos of the participants and their turbines, click here.

William Reuschel Optics Co-Authorship

William Reuschel

William Reuschel, a research intern from the Computer Science Department has been recognized as a co-author on the first peer reviewed paper created by Marshall Universities' Optic’s Lab.

William is currently a senior at Marshall University, pursuing degrees in Computer Science and Chemistry. He works with technical consultants to develop the specific procedures used in the Optics Lab measurements and wrote the software that interfaces with the lab’s instrumentation, gathers data, and stores results.

The paper, entitled Character-contrast measurements on reflective displays using replica masks appeared in October’s issue of Journal of the Society for Information Display.

The journal deals with the replica-mask method that measures the contrast of character strokes on reflective displays. It provides measurements of the diffuse reflectances, both with specular included and excluded.

Congratulations on the co-authorship William and good luck with the upcoming paper!