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Computing sciences professor teaches courses to Fidelity LEAP program

Dave Powell — Sun, 28 Aug 2016 16:30:00 +0000

Dave Powell, professor of computing sciences and business administration at 51��, served this summer as an instructor in the LEAP program conducted by Fidelity Investments in Research Triangle Park.

Dave Powell, professor of computing sciences and business administration

The program, taught at Fidelity’s major IT technical center in the central North Carolina park, provides five months of professional development training to the company’s more than 300 new information technology hires each year.

This summer Powell presented two courses to 26 LEAP associates in the Software Engineering track. The first, a seven-day course, was titled “Java for OO Programmers and XML.” The second, taught over nearly six days, was called “Mastering the Spring Framework.”

Along with providing training for new Fidelity hires, the technical center continues to provide Elon students majoring in computing sciences with exceptional opportunities for paid summer internships and full-time positions through the LEAP training program.

Dave Powell presents paper at FECS 2015 conference

Dave Powell — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 23:25:00 +0000

Online courses and Instruction from companies such as CodeSchool.com, Lynda.com, and Udacity.com provide high quality video instruction supplemented with interactive quizes, interactive coding assignments, forums and dashboards on a wide variety of computer science topics. In this paper, Joel and Dave discuss the wrapping of online course materials from Udacity.com to flip the class room for a spring 2015 Elon Computer Science 1 course. In the flipped Computer Science 1 classroom, lecture was replaced with active learning guided by faculty using hands on programming challenges, group problem solving exercises and individual assessment. In preparation for each in class period, students were assigned a set of video instruction with interactive assessments to provide computer concepts, theory and best practices.

Dave Powell presents paper at ICEIS 2013 conference

Dave Powell — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 14:15:00 +0000

The purpose of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners from throughout the world from the areas of databases and information systems integration, artificial intelligence and decision support systems, software agents and internet computing, human computer interaction and enterprise architecture who are interested in the advances and business applications of information sytesms. Papers were submitted from 48 countries in all continents. Joel and Dave’s paper discussed the use of the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise at Elon during the 2012-13 school year to teach and support enterprise programming.

Joel Hollingsworth and Dave Powell present at IBM Innovate2013 – The IBM Technical Summit

Dave Powell — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:45:00 +0000

Each year, IBM has a techical summit to discuss their vision of software development and the use of key software and practices for businesses to become more competive and profitable. Joel Hollingsworth and Dave Powell in the Department of Computing Sciences gave an hour presentation on the use of the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise in Elon Computer Science courses to teach Enterprise Programming to Computer Science majors.

At the IBM four-day Innovate2013 annual conference from June 2-6 in Orlando, Fla., 6,000 developers from major industries throughout the world gathered to hear IBM’s vice presidents and chief technical officers vision for the future and the key developments in mobile computing, cloud computing, data analytics, social networks and agile programming. The CTO presentations were followed by over 450 one hour presentations by developers and experts in these areas.

Hollingsworth and Powell presented one of these 450 one hour sessions. Their talk, “Seeding the Cloud With Students From Every Computer Science Undergraduate Program,” provided details on the use of the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise as a Platform as a Service (PAAS) at Elon during the 2012-2013 academic year to support cloud computing in CSC330 Computer Science III and CSC442 Mobile Computing.

David Powell presents at the 2012 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering

Dave Powell — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:53:00 +0000

The paper describes the use of the Google App Engine Cloud and the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise by Elon students in two Computer Science classes on Enterprise Computing.

Dave Powell presents at IBM Software Innovate2012

Dave Powell — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 01:47:00 +0000

IBM Software Innovate 2012 was a four day June 3-6 event in Orlando,Florida with over 400 technical sessions discussing the latest in IBM product releases, best practices in software development and key emerging technologies in agile development, mobile development, cloud computing and social computing. Dave Powell gave an invited presentation titled “IBM Academic Cloud Outshines Google App Engine”. In this presentation, Dave presented the use of the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise by Elon students in the Spring 2012 CSC430 Advanced Programming Course as the platform for all student development.

Eight Elon Grads Working at Credit Suisse

Dave Powell — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:38:00 +0000

Left to Right: Jamie Schatz, John Minshall, CeCe FitzGerald, Joel Blondy and Jonathan Citty discuss projects at Credit Suisse

During the visit, they had a chance to meet eight Elon Computing Sciences alumni and to hear them present the challenging, world wide projects that they are working on at Credit Suisse. The alumni were: Joel Blondy, Robert Bush, Jonathan Citty, Sarah Eibin, CeCe FitzGerald, Vic McGlaughlin, John Minshall and Sarah Eibin.

Right to Left: Sarah Eibin, Robert Bush, Vic McGlaughlin (partially hidden), Jenny Hofler and Jonathan Citty present technical details of their current projects.

Powell grades AP Computer Science A exam

Dave Powell — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:53:00 +0000

The College Board’s Advanced Placement Program (AP) gives more than 1.8 million capable high school students an opportunity to take rigorous college-level courses and examinations. Based on their exam performance, successful students can receive credit and/or advanced placement when they enter college.

This year, more than 3.2 million examinations from more than 30 AP Courses were evaluated. The AP Computer Science A Exam was taken by over 22,000 students. Dave Powell was one of 147 university and high school professors and teachers from the United States and Canada that graded the exam.

Michele Kleckner Awarded Sabbatical for Fall 2011

Dave Powell — Mon, 02 May 2011 13:28:00 +0000

Thomas Price awarded Lumen Prize

Dave Powell — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:13:00 +0000

Thomason will work with his mentor, Professor Joel Hollingsworth, over the next two years on his project titled “Engineering on the Go: Building a ‘Serious Game’ to Make Games on the Android Platform”. Thomason is the first student in the department of Computing Sciences to win this prestigious award.

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