Fall 2008 Academic Advising schedule has been UPDATED.
Average starting salary for Computer Science graduates is $60,416.00. Source: "University of Oklahoma Career Services".
Dr. Amy McGovern received a 5-year NSF CAREER award on Developing
Spatiotemporal Relational Models to Anticipate Tornado Formation.
Dr. Varahan and Dr. Atiquzzaman received the "Alumni Teaching Award" for Fall 2007. Dr. Varahan's award was for 'Scientific Computing I" and Dr. Atiquzzaman's was for "Computer Organization".
Dr.
Andrew Fagg and Adam Brown from School of Art, have been selected to teach a Presidential Dream Course in Spring 2009, entitled, "Sm[ART]
Spaces". This
course will bring together students from computer science, engineering,
and the arts to explore the technological, social, and artistic
implications of embedding throughout our environment small devices that
are capable of sensing, computing, communicating and acting.
Students
Christopher Utz, Mohammed Javed , and Shengguan Qian received $250 scholarships from the School of Computer Science Advisory Board at the spring meeting. The scholarships were presented by Advisory Board Chair Roger Rowe, and Director Le Gruenwald.
Kieu Oanh (Kelly) Tran received the Ronnie Irani International Student Leadership Scholarship for 2008-2009. This scholarship is recognizes an international student who has demonstrated leadership skills by initiating unique programs, leading others towards achievement in areas which benefit the entire university community, and any other innovative program established as a result of the applicant's initiative, creativity, and commitment.
OU graduate Anita Vallur was nominated for Rookie of the Year at National Instruments in 2007.
CS Minor David John Gagne II won OU's Rita H. Lottinville prize.
CS junior Susan Collins received
the AFCEA ROTC Scholarship. This
scholarship rewards both academic excellence and outstanding leadership.
Two
CS students have won awards in the IBM Accessibility
ODF Coding Challenge. Chase Pritchett won one of the two
grand prizes: a Lenovo ThinkPad and a trip to Los Angeles to attend the
"Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference", and Chris
Humphreys won one of the ten runner up prizes: an Apple iPod Nano.
CS
Seniors William Dabney and Charles de Granville received an honorable
mention in the 2007 CRA
Outstanding Undergraduate Award competition.
Faculty
Professor Andrew H. Fagg
was awarded a subcontract from Northwestern University's project on
"Developing a Bidirectional Central Nervous System Interface for
Robotic Control" (funded by the NIH). The ultimate goal of this work is
to develop prosthetic limb interfaces that connect directly into a
patient's neocortex.
Drs. Qi
Cheng and Dean
Hougen have been promoted to rank of Associate Professor.
The
University of Oklahoma's Instructional Innovation program has
awarded Dr.
Yifei Dong and Dr. Xun Ge (Department of Educational
Psychology)
funding for their ongoing project, "OpenSEED: Empower Software
Engineering Education Using Open Source Software Development Approach".
Contributing to the education of
degree candidates in related
fields, including mathematics, meteorology, computer
engineering, industrial engineering and electrical engineering;
Generating knowledge in theoretical
and applied topics within
and around our discipline and disseminating the results;
Contributing to professional
societies within and around our
discipline;
Producing graduates who are highly
sought by industry,
government and universities.
