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IT Graduate and Undergraduate Students Win Best Paper Award at SE DSI
The paper titled “Predicting IMDB Score: An Application of Decision Trees” by Geanna Torres, Kennitha Cochrum, Jonathan Covington and Tiffany Carpenter took first place in the undergraduate student paper award competition at the 2017 meeting of Southeast Decision Sciences Institute (SE DSI). The 47thannual conference was held in Charleston, SC on February 22 – 24, 2017. Kennitha Cochrum and […]
Data Science Capstone Project Featured in Georgia Southern Magazine Online
Want to know who’s going to win an election? A Georgia Southern study suggests you might find the answer on Twitter. Information Technology data science graduates Garrett Neidlinger, Chris Bergin and Jacob Dahlberg created a capstone senior project that analyzed the political opinions of Twitter users against Democrat and Republican Primary results. They captured almost […]
Georgia Environmental Conference Research Award
A team of Mechanical Engineering students, under the supervision of Dr. Valentin Soloiu, were awarded the “Outstanding Graduate Student Research Scholarship and Poster Award” at the 11th Annual Georgia Environmental Conference. Martin Muinos, a graduate student in the MSAE program, presented the student research on Combustion of Biofuels and was awarded a scholarship check of $1,000 […]
Intelligent Vehicles Research Presented at 2015 GURC Conference
Electrical Engineering undergraduate students, Imani Augusma and Mary Thomas, presented their research findings on Intelligent Vehicles at the 2015 GURC conference on Nov. 2015. Their research consists in the design and development of an autonomous navigation vehicle that has capabilities to drive independently and cooperatively on roads. The vehicle was built using differential drive mode, […]
IT Students Win 1st Place & Best in Show in Mobile App Competition
IT students in the IT 4131 – IT Capstone course won first place in the Charleston Defense Contractors Association (CDCA) Student Mobile App Competition. The team consists of Andre Coleman, Ryan Callahan, Shayne Moore, James Riley and Leslie Dykes. The app they created — “Allerg-Ease” — allows people with food sensitivities to quickly and easily […]