Southwest Baptist
University News Release
Contact:
Sharina Smith, Office of Marketing & Communications
BOLIVAR, Mo. – Southwest Baptist
University’s Department of Computer and Information Sciences (CIS) recently
made details available regarding senior projects for the year. Fourteen seniors
will be working on five projects sponsored by several leading companies,
including Accenture-Duck Creek, the largest employer of SBU CIS Department
graduates.
“This
is a big year for us,” said Dr. Tim DeClue, chair of the CIS Department. “These
are ambitious projects, but we have an incredible group of seniors this year. I
am extremely excited about the experiences this group of seniors are going to
have this year. It is a blessing to get to work with them.”
Senior
projects are an annual event for students majoring in computer science,
computer information science or web systems and design. Over the course of
their senior year, students in the CIS Department will develop a
commercial-quality application for end-users working in faith-based companies,
not-for-profit charities, and leading American companies.
Projects
for the 2012-13 academic year include a mobile application for park directors
at Silver Dollar City (Branson, Mo.) who want to see real-time data related to
park operations; a meeting manager for employees of VML (Kansas City, Mo.), the
12th largest advertising company in North America; a communication
monitoring system for Global Media Outreach (San Jose, Calif.); a system for
BNSF (Topeka, Kan.) to manage the collection and maintenance of data pertaining
to environmental department assets positioned across the 28 states and two
Canadian provinces; and a .NET based testing tool for quality assurance at
Accenture-Duck Creek (Bolivar, Mo.).
SBU’s
Department of Computer and Information Sciences houses four full-time faculty
members, two faculty associates and close to ninety students majoring in the
computer or information sciences. Among
evangelically Christian institutions, SBU is one of the leading producers of
software engineers in the United States.
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Baptist University is a leader among private universities in truly integrating
Christ-centered academic pursuits with comprehensive professional programs at
an affordable price. At SBU, the faculty and staff create a caring, academic
community to prepare students to be servant leaders in a global society. For
more information, visit www.SBUniv.edu.
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Office of Marketing and Communications is available to news media 24 hours a
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