Major NSF & TSCS undergraduate scholarship

We have just received a new grant and are now accepting applications for the Fall semester of 2007! For most cases, the scholarship amount for the Fall 2007 semester will be from $2,600 to $5,000. The Scholar program is funded at least to 2010.

December 3, 2006 Miscellaneous news

• Dr. Gary Boetticher was the co-chair of the Predictive Model in Software Engineering (PROMISE) workshop of the 27th International Conference of Software Engineering (ICSE) in September 2006.
• The computer science department is sponsoring the International Conference of Software Engineering and Data Engineering (SEDE): http://sede07.cs.uh.edu/. Dr. Hisham Al-Mubaid is the co-chair of the conference.
• Dr. Hisham Al-Mubaid has published his paper, A New Text Categorization Technique Using Distributional Clustering and Learning Logic in the September 2006 issue of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE).
• Ms. Wei Ding's paper, A Framework for Regional Association Rule Mining in Spatial Datasets, has been accepted to be published in the 2006 International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM).
• Ms. Wei Ding is a finalist of the prestigious UHCL Piper teaching award.
• Dr. Dan Kim will publish and present two papers in the International Conference of Information Systems in December 2006.
• Dr. Bun Yue, the chairperson of the Computer Science program, is now also acting as the interim chair of the Division of Computing and Mathematics. The division chair, Dr. Sadegh Davari, is now the Interim Dean of the School of Science and Computer Engineering.

Bun Yue
Sharon Hall
Drs. Kwok-Bun Yue and Sharon Hall, both Computer Science faculty members, have received a four-year $477,200 scholarship award from the National Science Foundation. Under the Scholarship program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Scholarship (S-STEM), the grant funds up to 22 academically able and financial needy undergraduate students annually. Qualified UHCL undergraduate students in Computer Science (CS), Computer Information Systems (CIS), Computer Systems Engineering (CSEN) and Mathematics (MATH) may receive up to $10,000 scholarship award per year.

This is the second time UHCL has received a major scholarship award from NSF. The first $400,000 award has already benefited about 50 students in the last four years. Besides financial support, these awards have created the UHCL NSF Scholar Organization. The Scholars have organized many highly successful career advancing activities in the past, including field trips to surrounding high technology companies, seminars and workshops by Chief Executive Officers, Chief Technology Officers, Ethics officers, technical directors, motivational speakers, human resource specialists and career specialists.

For further information about the scholarship, please refer to the URL: http://sce.uhcl.edu/nsfcsems.

The press release for the CIS ABET accreditation can be found here.

Dr. Feagin
In August, 2006, Dr. Terry Feagin, one of our professors of Computer Science, solved the 7,813 nonlinear equations of condition (in 325 unknowns) for a twelfth-order explicit Runge-Kutta method with 25 stages.  The method is the highest order Runge-Kutta method ever developed (with a reasonable number of stages).  The previous highest order attained was ten (Hairer, 1978).  The method is currently being refined and tested to determine how it performs on real-world problems in science and engineering.

Our sister program, the Computer Information Systems program, is now accredited by the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) under the Information Systems curriculum. ABET is the accreditation body for engineering and computing program in the United States.

Before this accreditation cycle, there were only 16 programs in the United States accredited by ABET under the IS curriculum, none of them in Texas. Thus, UHCL is the first Texas university accredited by ABET under the IS curriculum. Furthermore, before this accreditation cycle, there were only three US universities with programs accredited under the three ABET curricula guidelines of Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Information Systems respectively: Drexel University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and University of South Alabama. Thus, UHCL is the first Texas University and the fourth U.S. University to achieve this feat.

Dan Kim
The department is very pleased to successfully recruit Dr. Dan Kim as an associate professor of computer information systems and computer science. Dr. Kim was an assistant professor in Michigan State University. He is a very active researcher who has published more than 40 technical papers in leading IS and CS journals and conferences, including the Communications of the ACM, Decision Support Systems and IEEE IT Professional. His main research interests are in E-Commerce, Information Security and Trust. Please join us in welcoming Dr. Kim.

February 1, 2006  CS NSF CSEMS Scholars

The following undergraduate computer science students received the UHCL National Science Foundation Scholarship in the Spring semester of 2006:

• Umar Kudrath
• Israel Mendez

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