Brian Maeng, Ph.D., Associate Professor/Program Director
Welcome to a new academic year and the second week of the Summer Quarter. I want to share the new communication mechanism the School of Technology and Computing (STC) has adopted this quarter. To enhance communication with students in class, STC has implemented the use of MS Teams Private Channel for nearly all sections of our courses. The members in each channel include students, the teaching assistant (TA), the instructor, the program manager, and the program director.
STC took the idea from one best practice of an associate faculty who actively utilized MS Teams Private Channel for communication with students in his small class during the Winter 2022 Quarter. At the time, STC was testing various ideas to improve the student experience in class. As a commitment to continuous improvement and better communication, STC used MS Teams actively in select courses as a pilot in the Spring of 2022. Now in the Summer of 2022, the MS Teams Private Channel is used in nearly all classes.
For the best outcome, I recommend that students use this platform to ask questions related to technical issues and hands-on practice (HOP), hands-on skill (HOS), or technology tool (TT) assignments related to the class. If you post your questions, they can be seen by the class TA or students who may have already done it. When compared to an email inquiry to a TA, a post in the Private Channel is more likely to get promptly answered. Due to transparency, it is less likely to lose communication. Furthermore, students have an opportunity to interact and collaborate with other each other and help one another by using their technical knowledge and skills. In each MS Teams Private Channel, you can find different modules where you can post relevant questions and navigate through the contents.
Instructors will host their weekly office hours with MS Teams Private Channel. You can view their office hours schedule and the link in your Outlook calendar. I recommend utilizing office hours to ask questions about your class, course contents, and the field in which they specialize.
I hope you will find the new STC approach across all programs valuable and helpful in each class. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to your academic advisor or program manager. Thank you, and I hope you have a great new academic year.
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This survey is open to current CAE students as well as those who have graduated within the past 5 years. The survey will take no more than 15 minutes to complete and is being conducted on behalf of the Florida Center for Cybersecurity (Cyber Florida) at the University of South Florida (USF). Your participation in this survey is voluntary and anonymous.
The NSA works jointly with North Carolina State University (NCSU) and issues a call for white papers soliciting potential collaborators for the following calendar year. This year’s technical areas of interest include operationalizing artificial intelligence and machine learning; humanmachine teaming; and content triage. The Lab for Analytic Sciences will host office hours throughout July to address questions that potential collaborators may have. This year, white papers are due by Friday, 29 July. To learn more: Read the 2023 Call for White Papers (PDF). For details and to register for Collaborators Day, click here.
Presenter: Leon Yen – Technical Program Manager at Google
When: July 14th, 2022 at 4:30 PM PDT
Where: MS Teams
Presenter: Vivek Pottam – Data Engineer at AWS
When: July 20th, 2022 at 4:00 PM PDT
Where: MS Teams
Check out the C4CYI YouTube Channel for STC recorded Invited Talks and events. Explore ACM Tech Talks and the ACM website to watch their free informative Tech Talks. ACM, the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession
Anyone curious or interested in Cybersecurity is welcome to join! Meetings are held on Thursdays at 5:30 PDT via MS Teams.
Cybersecurity Club Announcements
Cybersecurity Club is recruiting officers for the upcoming quarter. Please reach out to Tyler Thomas or Will Forde if interested or with any questions.
STC Tech Club meets every Thursday from 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM (PDT) via Teams to provide tech-related learning opportunities, skill development, and networking. Students or faculty who would like to share their expertise or project, please contact Adrian Parker.
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STC Tech Club Announcements
Career Center Resources
Resume Building
Virtual Workshops/Conferences/Learning
AWS Skill Builder – Free sources
AWS Free courses – Free sources
Atlassians Developer Day
Web App Testing
Puppeteer (Google Product) Node library
Playwright (Microsoft Product) end-to-end web app testing
GitLab CI/CD recorded webcast
STC TA Documentation for Setting up Environments
STC Tech Club Private Cloud Lab
Now HIRING! Please contact Adrian Parker if interested.
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