Computing and Data Education (SU-CoDE)

Rayven Joubert

Jalen Brook

 Dante Davis

Tyler Hayes

SU-CoDE creates an undergraduate certificates (UC) to address specific educational competencies that meet a defined industry demand.  The certificate consist of 18 credit hours courses related to a specific topic or skill with the primary purpose of providing marketable skills in high demand fields, particularly in technology and data science. Under the umbrella of this new certification mechanism, we will create an interdisciplinary UC in Computational Data Engineering and Science, which will be an add-on certificate oriented primarily to Science and Engineering majors and graduates.  

Python and Scientific Computing, CMPS 312

SU-CoDE is establishing strong collaboration with the following women and minority societes:

Society of STEM Women of Color, please visit : https://www.sswoc.org

Women in Science, please visit https://www.awis.org

Women in ACM, Please visit  https://women.acm.org

The SoCS aims to outreach the middle and high schools to engage K-12 students with computational thinking and inspire them to enter the computing-related STEM disciplines.

 SU-CoDE Announcement at University Website www.subr.edu/page/sucode

Advisory Board Members:

Dr. Karen E. Crosby is currently a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Southern University. Dr. Crosby’s technical background is in the area of materials characterization and deformation and fracture of engineering materials. Most of her career has been dedicated to exploring STEM education and research. From 2014-2017, as a program officer in NSF’s Division of Undergraduate Education, she worked with various programs across NSF to advance undergraduate STEM education, evaluating projects and advising STEM professionals in developing educational research.

Dr. Ver Janis A. Peoples is an educational researcher at SU. She served as an NSF committee member for HBCU initiatives and led efforts to create new programs, reaffirm academic programs, and sustain the status of academic programs. Dr. Peoples is currently serving on Louisiana and National Board of Examiners for Educator Preparation, the Louisiana Council for Teacher Educators, the Louisiana Teacher Certification Appeal Council, and the Louisiana Educator Preparation Research Consortium.

Dr. Jianhua Chen is an associate professor of computer science at Louisiana State University. Dr. Chen’s technical background and teaching experience is in the area of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Mining. She has 15 years of experience in curriculum development, undergraduate and graduate student advisement, and research experience in computational and data science education.

Dr. Georgios Veronis is professor of computer science at Louisiana State University. Dr. Georgios Veronis received the B.S. degree from the National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece, in 1997, and the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1999 and 2002, respectively, all in electrical engineering. From 2003 to 2007, he was an Engineering Research Associate at Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University. Since 2008 he has been with the School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and the Center for Computation & Technology at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA, where he is currently a Professor with tenure. Dr. Veronis received the National Science Foundation Career Award in 2013. To date, he has published 74 articles in refereed journals. According to Google Scholar, his publications have been cited more than 5,500 times (h-index: 32).

Institutional Research Consultants, Ltd. (IRC), directed by Dr. Jan Upton, will be the external evaluator. Dr. Upton is a member of the American Evaluation Association and adheres to their Guiding Principles for Evaluators and is currently evaluating seven NSF-funded grants, which includes a Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) grant at The Ohio State University in which 10 institutions statewide are collaborating and facilitating activities promoting retention and graduation of underrepresented minority students in STEM fields. Established in 2000, IRC works closely with higher education faculty and other education service providers, helping them design evaluation plans, collect data, write reports, and communicate effectively with funding agencies. Dr. Upton received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has over 25 years of experience evaluating federal grants that focus on increasing the participation of underrepresented groups and their academic success in STEM fields. Dr. Upton is also a member of the Ohio Program Evaluators’ Group (OPEG).In addition to serving on the OPEG Board for four years, she has been recognized for her contributions to the field of evaluation(OPEG’s 2005 Evaluation Recognition and 2010 Roberta O’Keefe Service Awards).

 For further information please vist the website: http://irc-evaluation.com/

University newsroom website: https://www.subr.edu/news/computer-science-receives-400k

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