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ISAT Director’s TMU (Thursday Morning Update) Thursday, April 14, 2016

ISAT GOALS of 2015-2016 ACADEMIC YEAR 3S: Making ISAT Stable, Sustainable, and Successful 1)   Make ISAT Stable – Stable Enrollment 2)   Make ISAT Sustainable – Sustainable Credentials 3)   Make ISAT Successful – Successful Curriculum ANNOUNCEMENT o   Students! Your Concerns and Issues about Your Class

In addition to your instructor, who can you contact to get more help? Feel free to discuss any concerns of your learning experiences at ISAT. Your feedback or concerns are so important to our ISAT growth with quality. We are ready to help you. o   Academic Advisor: Ms. Shannon Gwaltney

Office: ASA 107 Phone: 618-453-7281 Email: shanng@siu.edu

o   Office Manager: Ms. Donna Colwell Office: ASA 106 Phone: 618-453-7200 Email: dcolwell@siu.edu

o   School Director: Dr. Sam Chung Office: ASA 106 Phone: 618-453-7200 Email: samchung@siu.edu

o   Check ISAT Website at http://isat.siu.edu/faculty-staff/staff/

•   ISAT Faculty/Staff Meeting o   When: Friday, April 22, 2016 from 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM o   Where: ISAT Classroom (ASA C111) o   Agenda: important information will be shared before starting the summer 2016 semester

such as budget status, summer/fall/spring schedule, annual performance review, workload assignment, IT minor, etc.

•   Cybersecurity Day o   When: Saturday, April 23, 2016 from 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM o   Where: ISAT on the SIU Carbondale campus o   Info & Registration:

http://isat.siu.edu/activities/cyber-days/cyber-security-day-2016.php

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The format is changing a little in that we will only have two guest speakers in the morning and a full, four hour mock cyber defense competition in the afternoon. We will have student volunteers helping attendees during the mock competition and will have different challenges and tasks for high school and college participants. Our student volunteers have been working hard to prepare our Cyber Stadium environment and creating a fun and exciting mock competition modeled after the official Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition events.

Our speakers include Tom Harness, a local business owner planning to discuss social media security, and Curt Wilson, a security researcher who will discuss the cyber threat landscape. These guys are experts in their fields and will be sharing their expertise during short talks. Student groups will also present some demonstrations

and tips to help participants during the mock competition. Lunch will be provided and we are hoping to again have t-shirts and some fun door prizes too. More info and the link to register for students and faculty attendees can be found here: http://isat.siu.edu/activities/cyber-days/cyber-security-day-2016.php

•   NSA Scholarship

IST is now set to begin registration for the second round of the SI3C NSA Cyber Scholarship program (Associate Professor Tom Imboden, IST Associate Professor). Please encourage as many students as you can to participate. Students who complete four short, online security labs and write an essay on security will be considered for one of eight $1,000 scholarships! Any student who will be enrolled at SIU or one of our partner colleges for the summer or fall semester can participate. High school students can participate too as long as they are enrolling in a college by fall 2016.

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More info and the registration link can be found here: http://isat.siu.edu/activities/nsa-cyber-scholarship/ (Registration: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PLYWRHG)

•   SIU Commencement o   When: Saturday, May 14, 2016 from 5:30 PM o   Where: SIU Arena All of graduating students and faculty are cordially invited to 2016 Spring Commencement!

EVENTS •   SIU Externship Recognition Ceremony

o   When: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM o   Where: SIU Student Center The SIU Externship Recognition Ceremony was held on Tuesday, March 29th at the SIU Student Center (5:00 pm – 7:00 pm). ISAT had 4 IST students complete an externship over spring break (March 14 – 18, 2016). Dr. Andy Wang, CASA Dean and Dr. Becky Robinson, CASA Recruitment and Communications Specialist supported this program. Congratulations! o   Christopher Patrick, IST

Sponsor: Bonnie Kucharski, Liaison Technologies o   Neal Wachter, IST

Sponsor: Bonnie Kucharski, Liaison Technologies o   Travelle Stewart, IST

Sponsor: James Mayer 2002, Mayer Networks o   DeRontae Taylor-Craig, IST

Sponsor: Arden Lockwood 2015, SIU Project Management Office

CASA Extern Ceremony 3 IST Extern Students with ISAT Director

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(Christopher Patrick, DeRontae Taylor-Craig Dr. Sam Chung, Travelle Stewart)

SIU Extern Students Christopher Patrick (IST Extern),

Dr. Brad Colwell (SIU Interim Chancellor), Dr. Randy Dunn (SIU President),

Travelle Stewart (IST Extern)

•   Undergraduate Creative Activity and Research Forum (UCARF) 2016

o   When: Monday, April 4, 2016 §   Poster Judging Sessions 8:30am-10:30am & 10:30am-12:30pm §   Open session 1:00pm-3:00pm §   Awards Presentation 3:00pm

o   Where: SIU Student Center

Six posters were presented at UCARF 2016. o   Poster 84

Ren Jing (IST) Advisor: Andrey Soares, Ph.D. Poster session voting migration from paper to an online platform using LimeSurvey

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o   Poster 90 Hong G. Jung (IST), William R. Taylor (IST) and Adedayo A. Olugbade (JALC) Advisor: Sam Chung, Ph.D. A Comparison of Java Development Environments for Beginners - Is the Cloud Cool?

o   Poster 95 Jeremy Y. Kim (AUT) and Shane Mueller (IST) Advisor: Sam Chung, Ph.D. Problems and Solutions of Current Automotive Cyber Security

o   Poster 123 Alan Y. Park (IST) and Ben W. Fairbanks (IST) Advisor: Sam Chung, Ph.D. A Comparison of Web Application Development Environment with Architecture: Traditional and Cloud Approach

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o   Poster 141 Peter Schorsch (IST), Lee Cooper (IST), Cody Lingle (IST), Ren Jing (IST), & Ziyad Alotaibi (IST) Advisor: Andrey Soares, Ph.D. Web Application for the Midwest Water Polo Society (MWWPS)

o   Poster 205 Megan Hall and Andrey Soares, Ph.D. Department of Linguistics and School of Information Systems and Applied Technologies Transfer of Dr. Joan M. Davis’s Tobacco Education website from Joomla to Wordpress

•   Sixteen Johnston City High School Students in Johnston City, IL Visited IST Program.

Ms. Heather Will, Computer Network Class Teacher at Johnston City High School, brought 16 high school students to visit with faculty, staff and students of the IST program on Friday, April 8, 2016. The visit was arranged through Mr. Tom Imboden, IST Associate Professor. The students had a good lunch at SIU Student Center before visiting several IST labs. Mr. Hong Jung, IST senior student, guided them to CASA C205 Network Lab. Mr. Majid Memari, IST Graduate Assistant, and two IST undergraduate students (Hong Jung and Shane Mueller) shared their experiences of the Network Lab. Then, the high school students moved to CASA C212 Cybersecurity Lab to have experiences on Steganography. Then they moved to CASA C2014B classroom and had an IST Program Information Session

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with Dr. Sam Chung (ISAT Director), Ms. Shannon Gwaltney (ISAT Academic Advisor), and two undergraduate students, Shane Mueller and Hong Jung. Each student received a gift bag supported by Dr. Becky Robinson (CASA Recruitment and Communication Specialist), Ms. Sheila Cheatham (ISAT Admin Aide) and Ms. Donna Colwell (ISAT Office Manager). Several questions regarding scholarships and future careers were answered. Especially, several students asked “why SIU IST?” to two undergraduate students.

Steganography - Cybersecurity Practice

in CASA C212 Cybersecurity Lab. Why SIU IST? - IST Information Session

in CASA C2014B Classroom

•   2016 CASA Honors Day Ceremony

o   When: Saturday, April 9, 2016 from 3:30 PM o   Where: Transportation Education Center (TEC) o   Who: ISAT students who received an invitation for their recognition!

Dean Wang and the CASA Honors Day Committee cordially invited students and faculty to attend the 2016 CASA Honors Day ceremony. 507 CASA students received an invitation to be recognized at this year’s ceremony, which was held in the Transportation Education Center (TEC) at 3:30 pm on Saturday, April 9, 2016. Guest speakers included SAH Associate Professor Richard McKinnies, 2016 recipient of the E.J. & Mary C. Simon Distinguished Faculty Award, and Paula Staab-Polk, 2016 recipient of the CASA Distinguished Alumni Award. The Keynote speaker was Brian Brannman, President/CEO, Dignity Health Siena Campus, Henderson, NV. Brian received the CASA Distinguished Alumni Award in 2004. Forty-eight ISAT students (15 EST, 28 IST, and 5 TRM) were invited based upon their high GPA (greater than or equal to the accumulated GPA 3.5). Eleven ISAT students attended the ceremony.

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IST Students IST Students

EST Student IST Student

ISAT Students with CASA Dean Wang and CASA Advisory Committee Chair Camelle

Logan

Faculty Volunteers: Mr. Jim Sissom (IST, Associate Professor)

Mr. Martin Hebel (EST, Associate Professor) o   Visitors from Germany

Professor Hans-Eberhard Schurk, President of the University of Applied Science, Hochschule Augsburg, Germany visited the IST program on Wednesday, April 13, 2016. The invitation was done by Ms. Belle Woodward, Associate Professor of IST. Both programs and collaborative opportunities were discussed with Dr. Sam Chung, ISAT Director.

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Prof. Hans-Eberhard Schurk (left) and Associate Prof. Belle

Woodward (right) CONGRATULATIONS o   A research paper of Dr. Stephen Shih, Professor of Information Systems Technologies (IST)

titled “Designing Intelligent Field Service Systems with Integrated Use of Big Data Analytics and Internet of Things” has been accepted for the 26th International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM 2016), which will be held in Seoul, Korea in June 2016 (http://www.faim2016.org/). The paper has been gone through a blind review process by three referees. Congratulations!

o   SIU Student Web Development Team at the AITP National Collegiate Conference The SIU Student Web Development team attended the Association for Information Technology Professionals (AITP) National Collegiate Conference and Career Fair in Rosemont, IL from April 7-10. The team is composed of five students (Peter Schorsch, Lee Cooper, Cody Lingle, Ren Jing, and Ziyad Alotaibi) who are currently enrolled in the Information Systems Technologies (IST) program at SIUC. Dr. Andrey Soares is the faculty advisor. The Conference had 12 technical competitions, including Office Solutions, System Analysis and Design, PC Troubleshooting, Database Design, Mobile Applications, Enterprise Systems, Network Design, Java Development, Security, Web Applications, Business Analytics, and Visual Studio.NET. Here is a summary of the main activities for the team; the team competed in the Web Application contest. o   Peter Schorsch participated in the Systems Analysis and Design contest and presented

the Agile/Scrum methodology used for software development. o   Lee Cooper and Peter Schorsch competed in the Database Design contest. There was

record registration for this contest with 69 teams. o   Cody Lingle, Senior in Information Systems Technologies (IST) and President of the

Security Dawgs, finished in first place in the Security Competition. The Security

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Qualifications Exam had 86 participants. The top 10 students advanced to the Security Finals. Congratulations!

o   Lee Cooper, Ren Jing, and Peter Schorsch took and passed the exam for the Information Systems Analyst (ISA) Certification sponsored by the Institute for the Certification of Computer Professionals (ICCP).

o   The team presented a poster with results of their Web Application project (available at http://mwpolosociety.com). The application will support the activities of the Midwest Water Polo Society (MWWPS). The application will provide a way for teams to communicate and schedule competitions.

o   The web application was designed with Responsive Design to allow the application to run on desktop computers, tablets and smartphones.

The AITP National Collegiate Conference 2017 will be held in Saint Louis, MO at the hotel Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch. Dr. Andrey Soares is planning to reopen the SIU AITP Student Chapter. This way we can become a chapter host for the event.

Preparation Preparation

Preparation AITP 2016

AITP 2016 AITP 2016

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AITP 2016 AITP 2016

Ren Jing showing the website on a tablet.

AITP 2016 Award AITP 2016 Award

AITP 2016 Banquet After AITP 2016

ON THIS WEEK’S CALENDAR •   Friday, April 15, 2016

o   Visiting Shawnee Community College (SCC), Ullin, IL, 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM o   Joint Student Project with Carbondale Community High School, CASA 204B, 4:00 PM –

6:00 PM, •   Saturday, April 16, 2016

o   Joint Student Project with Carbondale High School, CASA 204B o   9:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Minority in Computing & SIU YG Chapter Web Project, ISAT

Conference Room, 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM •   Monday, April 18, 2016

o   SAP Meeting, Rehn Hall 215, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM •   Tuesday, April 19, 2016

o   SIU Cloud Meeting, ISAT Conference Room, ASA C014, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM •   Wednesday, April 20, 2016

o   CASA Ad/Staff Meeting, CASA Conference Room, 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM

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AND FINALLY … If you see something in this update that you want to comment on, please send me an email at my SIU email SamChung@siu.edu Also, if you know of somebody who might be interested in receiving the ISAT Director’s TMU, please ask them to send me an email and we will gladly add them to our mailing list. On the other hand, if you prefer not to receive the ISAT Director’s TMU, please let me know as well. Thank you.