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Campus Report
Engineering students in competitions
team from the University’s School of Engineering is being honored as one of only 80 throughout the world to be selected to compete in the IEEE Computer Society’s annual International Design Competition. Students are challenged to design a computer application that can change people’s lives. Students from UB engineering and computer science/engineering will compete in May in the semifinals. The World Finals will be held in Washington in late June.
UB engineering students are in another competition in April. They’ll be entering their projects in the American Society of Engineering Education’s New England Section competition at West Point Military Academy. UB students have won first place in that event two years in a row and in 2000 also took third place in the competition.
UB sponsors international conference
he University of Bridgeport was one of three major sponsors of a very successful International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Technology and Automation in Cairo, Egypt, in December. The Industrial Electronics Society (IEEE) and the Electronics Research Institute of Egypt were cosponsors. Some 200 scientists and engineers from around the world participated. Dean Tarek M. Sobh of UB’s School of Engineering was co-chairman of the conference and a primary organizer. Some 97 papers were presented on subjects ranging from advance control and intelligent systems to automation, robotics and mechatronics. The conference alternates between national and international sites every other year. Sobh said the 2002 conference will be held in the United States.
Iona honors Mulcahy
ona College will honor UB’s Dr. John W. Mulcahy Charles Dana Professor of Educational Leadership with an honorary doctorate degree at its May commencement. Mulcahy, director of the education doctorate program at the UB School of Education and Human Resources, is a graduate school alumnus of Iona. He holds master’s degrees in business and in English from Iona. The college is celebrating the 200th anniversary of its founding community, the Congregation of Christian Brothers. "Your ministry of teaching teachers and of continued scholarship in the field of education serves as a model of leadership for all people who believe that the vocation of teaching is indeed a blessed one," Brother James A. Liguori, president of the college, said of Mulcahy in a letter informing him of the honor.
Engineering gets grants
he faculty of the School of Engineering has received a number of recent grants.
Dean Tarek M. Sobh was awarded a $3,500 United Nations Development Program grant to perform research on rapid prototyping in support of manufacturing and automation. Sobh also received a $7,500 grant from the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst Fund to explore academic and industrial opportunities in Germany for student placements and research.
Khaled M. Elleithy, a professor in computer science and engineering, received a $3,500 grant from the United Nations Development Program to investigate web agents.
Internet courses growing
he Distance Education program — courses, certificate and degree programs UB offers over the Internet — is expanding.
The university received a $40,000 grant from the Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium to develop an online program leading to a Master of Science degree in Instructional Technology. Dr. Jerald Cole of the School of Education and Human Resources will develop the program. Dr. Cole is a well-known expert on learning technologies and has developed a number of courses on the Internet.
Snow does fall on this UB paradise on the Sound.Here's a glimpse of a recent day when we became a winter wonderland. It was one of the few times we’ve had snow this winter. |
A four-course program leading to a Certificate in Marriage Education is being initiated and will begin in the summer. It is designed by Dr. Josie Hauer for counselors, therapists, clergy and others in related fields.
A second four-course certificate program, designed by Professor Jonatan Jelen, will be on "Managing the Digital Enterprise." It will prepare current and future leaders, executives and managers with the essential knowledge on how to
combine the internetworking technologies and information economics with business applications.
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