Computer Science and Engineering

NASA Tech Briefs has announced the "Create the Future" Design Contest, which rewards innovative thinking in solving science and technology based problems. The contest, co-sponsored by SolidWorks, HP, Comsol, and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, asks participants to submit new products or ideas that advance the specific areas of machinery, equipment, and component technology; consumer products; medical; safety and security; transportation; and sustainable technologies. The grand prize winner will take home US$20,000 and the top entry in each category will win a HP XW 4400 Workstation. The final submission deadline is 15 October 2007.

http://www.createthefuturecontest.com/

A $10,000 National Science Foundation planning grant will allow the University of North Texas, to expand its current partnerships in a Net Centric Software Consortium that also involves UTD, UTA and SMU. UTD and SMU also received $10,000 from NSF to collaborate with UNT as well as Arizona State University, University of California in Irvine and Southern Illinois to form an Industry/University Collaborative Research Center (I/UCRC).

The Echallenge Camp videos and pictures are available on the EChallenge Website. You will find photos and video footage from the camps, animated movies developed by students, and an article (PDF) and photo gallery with audio from coverage by Education Week magazine. Visit http://www.cse.unt.edu/echallenge2007 and click on the Photo Gallery.

In the modern global economy, employees increasingly find themselves working in teams with people in different time zones and countries. The National Science Foundation has awarded a nearly half-million dollar grant to Kathleen Swigger, professor of computer science and engineering in the College of Engineering, to study the performance of student work teams in four countries as the teams write software.

Dr. JungHwan Oh's research team's paper won the Governor's Award at the 2006 American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting. For more details, go here.

The CSE department one of eight finalists for the sixth annual Texas Higher Education Star Award. For more information, go here.