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June 2008: Kevin Z. Truman, Ph.D. has been appointed the next Dean of UMKC’s School of Computing and Engineering (SCE). Truman will bring to this position a wealth of experience gained from over 28 years of teaching and research while serving at Washington University in St. Louis, as well as from his work as a consultant with such organizations as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, GEI Consulting, Inc., and Washington University Technology Associates. His appointment as the Dean of SCE begins August 1, 2008.

February 2008: Ganesh Thiagarajan, Assistant Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering Department in the School of Computing and Engineering, has received the coveted NSF CAREER Award. His five-year $400,000 project is titled "Fracture Analyses in Concrete via Experimentation & Simulation (FRANCES): Examining Discrete Crack and Fracture Modeling of Concrete Under Blast and Impact Loading."

January 2008: Baek-Young Choi, Assistant Professor, CSEE Department, is awarded a $175,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant titled "On Optimization Issues in Supporting High Bandwidth Multimedia Applications." In this project, Professor Choi aims to design, implement, and evaluate network architecture for one-to-many high bandwidth applications through multiple layer perspectives toward achieving optimal resource usage, performance and reliability.

January 2008: We're pleased to announce that Ravi Chandra (MS-CS'93) is the recipient of 2007-2008 SCE Alumni Achievement Award at UMKC. He will accept his award at the Alumni Association's dinner and program, to be held on Thursday, April 17, 2008. Ravi is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Sonoa Systems. Prior to that, he was the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Redback Networks. Prior to Redback Networks, he was at Cisco Systems, Inc. and was a pioneer in developing routing protocols, especially BGP. He is co-author of six Internet RFCs on BGP.
On Friday, April 18th, 10:00AM (Room 557 Flarsheim Hall), he will be the seminar speaker in the CSEE Department in which he plans to talk about 'Application/Service Oriented Networking' and his involvement in networking products development in the past fifteen years.

November 2007: UMKC Ranked Among the TOP 10 in Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index In a report published in Chronicle of Higher Education for the category 'Computer & Information Sciences,' UMKC's program is ranked fifth in terms of faculty scholarly productivity. (read more ...)

September 2007: Yugi Lee, Associate Professor, CSEE Department, is the lead PI of the $200,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant titled "ARTISAN - Art Inspired Service Oriented Architecture Design", which was recently awarded. In this multi-disciplinary effort, Professor Lee teams up with colleagues, Dinakar Dinakarpandian, Assistant Professor/CSEE, Shannon Jackson, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Daven Gee, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, and Margaret Brommelsiek, Directory, Center for Creative Studies, to explore the applicability of paradigms from the art world to the science of software design.

July 2007: Computer Science Graduate program ranked among the best! The computer science graduate program at UMKC ranks 60th nationally and 2nd in the tri-state region of Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska, according to a scholarly publication-based ranking for research papers published in top ACM & IEEE peer-reviewed journals over a sustained period of time. The new methodology is developed by researchers at the University of California-Irvine. This methodology is discussed in an article in the June 2007 issue of Communication of the ACM. (read more ...)

March 2007: Yugi Lee, Associate Professor, CSEE Department, is partnering with Geoscientists at UMKC to build HIS-KC WATER (Hydrologic Information System for Kansas City metro WATERsheds), an automated realtime analysis and forecasting system for water quality in the watersheds covering the Kansas City metro area; this prototype system is based on Context-Aware Geospatial Data and Service Integration. Their research is presented at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Seoul, South Korea.

September 2006: Yijie Han, Associate Professor, CSEE Department, now holds the best time complexity record for solving the all pairs shortest paths problem. He presented his new result, a O(n³ (log log n/log n)^5/4) time algorithm for all pairs shortest paths, at the 14th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2006) in Zurich, Switzerland this month. This improves on previously known best result of O(n³ / log n) time. As part of this conference proceedings, his paper is published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences, volume 4168. His research has been supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

The CSEE Students Robotics Team was placed thirteenth out of thirty six teams at the recently held IEEE Robotics competition during the IEEE Region 5 Conference in San Antonio, Texas. Go to CSEE news for more details.

ABOUT CSEE

The mission of the Department of Computer Science Electrical Engineering (CSEE) is to provide competitive educational opportunities and focused research in the disciplines supported in the Department, generating the professional and technical work force and research needed for economic development. To accomplish this mission, the Department seeks to:

Perform research that advances our knowledge in these disciplines and their applications.
Educate and graduate students knowledgeable about these disciplines and able to learn and lead throughout their careers.
Engage in service and outreach to enrich the community, state, and profession.

The CSEE Department is housed in the School of Computing & Engineering (SCE). We offer the following degree programs:

Undergraduate level:

B.S./B.A. in Computer Science (with concentration/emphasis in Computer Networking, Software Engineering, and Bioinformatics),
B.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering,
Bachelors in Information Technology (B.I.T.)

Masters Level:

M.S. in Computer Science (with emphasis in Networking & Telecommunications, Software Engineering & Systems, and Bioinformatics),
M.S. in Electrical Engineering

Doctoral level: Three disciplines in UMKC's Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program:

Computer Science,
Electrical & Computer Engineering,
Telecommunications & Computer Networking.

Altogether, 575 students are currently pursuing the above degree programs: 330 are at the undergraduate level, 210 are at the Masters level, and 35 are at the doctoral level. Our student body is diverse. The Department is very committed to excellence in teaching and research. To stay at the top of the technology curve, we continually offer new courses in emerging/hot topics. Our graduates are sought after by regional as well as national companies. Our graduate emphasis in Networking & Telecommunications is internationally well-known. We are building new programs with emphasis in Bioinformatics, both at the undergraduate and the graduate level.

The Department has nineteen full-time regular faculty and five full-time teaching faculty members. Our faculty is very active in research with excellent publication records, and with recent and current funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) and industries. Our most recent funding accomplishments include nine NSF grants (including an NSF CAREER award). Most of our faculty have served as NSF review panelists at the invitation of NSF. Furthermore, our faculty include: one UM System Curators' Professor, two UMKC Faculty Fellow honorees, and two Fulbright Senior Specialists. In the life sciences area, we’re building new partnerships with life and health sciences schools at UMKC, and life sciences partners in the Kansas City area through the Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute (KCALSI).

The Greater Kansas City metro area has a population over 1.8 million, and is located in the heartland of United States. UMKC is a school with over 14,000 students. It’s located next to the beautiful Country Club Plaza and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Arts. Fodor’s guide reports that "The city has more boulevards than Paris and more working fountains (200) than any city but Rome."

UMKC's most famous alumnus (at least, in our opinion) is Juris Hartmanis, who shared the 1993 ACM Turing Award (often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Computing") with Richard E. Stearns "in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory." Hartmanis received his M.S. degree in Applied Mathematics at UMKC in the early 50's (at that time, UMKC was called the University of Kansas City). UMKC honored him with an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters in 1999.

And did you know that Wireshark (known, until recently, as Ethereal), the world's most popular Internet network protocol analyzer available in the public-domain, is the creation of our alum, Gerald Combs (BS-CS'93)? Gerald originally wrote the code in 1998 and is still the primary maintainer of its overall growth, extensions and functionalities. Gerald received School of Computing & Engineering's Alumni Achievement Award in 2003.
To learn more about our degree programs or the department, please contact us to set up an appointment:

Department of Computer Science Electrical Engineering
546 Flarsheim Hall
University of Missouri-Kansas City
5100 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, MO 64110 USA
Tel: 816-235-1193
Email: cseeumkc.edu