Category: News

  • CSEE Students Secure Undergraduate Research Awards (URA)

    Congratulations to our Computer Science and Electrical Engineering undergraduate students who have recently been selected as Undergraduate Research Award (URA) Scholars. The URA provides undergraduates with up to $1,500 to fund their original research projects. The work is done in conjunction with a faculty mentor, and is then presented at UMBC's  Undergraduate Research and Creative…

  • MS defense: Heart Disease Prediction: A Data Mining Approach

    Mon 4/23: Soma Das will defend her MS thesis on Heart Disease Prediction: A Data Mining Approach at 2:00pm Monday APril 23 in ITE 201b, UMBC. The public is welcome.

  • From Proton to Image: A Signal Processing Aspect of MRI

    1pm Fri 4/20: UMBC EE PhD student Albert Kir talks about his research on “From Proton to Image: A Signal Processing Aspect of MRI”, 11:30am-12:45pm Friday, 20 April 2012, in ITE 237, UMBC.

  • Alumnus Delali Dzirasa in The Retriever Weekly

    Photo courtesy www.retrieverweekly.com Left: Computer Engineering Alumnus Delali Dzirasa speaks with a student during the Raymond V. Haysbert, Sr. Entrepreneurship Lecture back in March. The Retriever Weekly talked to UMBC alumnus Delali Dzirasa (CE, '04) about what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. Dzirasa, the founder of Fearless Solutions, LLC–a team of software engineers…

  • Study CSEE this Summer

    Photo Courtesy UMBC.edu Whether you're running behind on credits, or just can't fathom three months without studying, it's always smart to take advantage of summer session courses. This May through August, the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (CSEE) Department is offering a selection of Undergraduate and Graduate courses in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, and Electrical Engineering.…

  • Computer Science Curriculum for 2013 and beyond

    The ACM and IEEE Computer Society jointly sponsor the development of a Computing Curricula volume on Computer Science. Their joint task force has just released a Strawman draft of the the CS2013 report.

  • Summer Internship Opportunities at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab

    Photo Courtesy jhu.edu Computer Science and Computer Engineering students interested in becoming part of the renowned Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab are in luck. The lab is currently seeking interns for this summer. Located in Laurel, Maryland, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory works on over 600 programs focused on protecting homeland security and…

  • CSEE Alumnus, Joshua Barczak, to Speak at URCAD

    Photo Courtesy g4tv.com Computer Science alumnus Joshua Barczak (B.S. ’03, M.S. ’06) will be a featured speaker at this year’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD). Now a Senior Graphics Engineer at the Maryland-based game development studio Firaxis Games, Joshua studied computer graphics at UMBC and carried out research under professors Dr. Marie desJardins…

  • Privacy Engineering

    We've starting to see advertisements for a new kind of position: privacy engineer. If you've seen the classic movie, The Graduate, you'll remember the conversation that recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock has with a friend of his father, who says "I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. … Are you…

  • CRA-W Distinguished Lecture Series: 4/16

    Mon 4/16: UMBC will host a panel discussion and two research talks (On Cloud Computing, and Computing for Good) as part of the CRA-W Distinguished Lecture Series on Monday, April 16.