More details are included

later in the newsletter.

To all of those CIS alumni

who have contributed to a

fund or scholarship for de-

serving students, I send out a

shout of ―Thank you‖. It is

through your contributions

that deserving faculty and

students are recognized and

rewarded for their hard work.

My congratulations also to

the 2010 graduating class!

We are so very proud of the

men and women who have

graduated from our program.

Way to go graduates!

I hope everyone’s summer is

going well. This has been a

very busy spring and summer

for the CIS department with

many exciting events as

noted in our newsletter.

We are very

proud to

announce

that the first Board of

Advisors CIS scholarship has

been awarded to Ms. Kelly

Linn Chang. Ms. Chang will

receive $1,000.00 towards

her tuition costs for this up-

coming year.

During the fall semester we

will begin a speaker’s series

called ASCIT (Appalachian

Supply Chain and Informa-

tion Technology). The event

will focus on a current supply

chain and technology topic

and will be held on Black

Saturday. There will also be

an evening social on the Fri-

day before. The series is

open to the public. We hope

you will be able to join us.

A Message from Dr. Dawn Medlin, the Department Chairperson

CIS FACULTY KUDOS

Appalachian State University

COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS NEWS

Volume 2, Issue 2

A bi-yearly electronic publication July 2010

Inside this issue:

Message from the

Chair

1

CIS Faculty Kudos 1

Announcing ASCIT

Inaugural Seminar

Series

1

Project Mgmt

Club News

2

AITP News

3

ALUMNI Corner

4

WE

INVITE

YOU TO

JOIN OUR

APPSTATE

CIS ALUMNI

AND

STUDENTS

GROUP ON

FACEBOOK

Joseph Cazier—Received Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor.

Dick Crandall—Received Beroth Oil-Four Brothers Professorship for a 2nd consecutive

term.

Dinesh Dave—Appointed as the Director of the Supply Chain Management Program.

Scott Hunsinger—Received Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor.

Dawn Medlin—Served as Co-Chair of the 2010 International Global Information

Technology Management Association Conference (GITMA).

Sandra Vannoy—Accepted an invitation to serve as Co-Editor in Chief of the

International Journal of Trustworthy Computing

ASCIT

Date: October 29 – 30, 2010

Topic: ERP Implementation

Roundtable sessions

Exhibition booths

Sponsorships available for the event – Contact Dinesh Dave at daveds@appstate.edu for

additional information

Amanda

Johnson donates

to the CIS

Board of

Advisors

Scholarship

Page 2 Appalachian State University

Project Management Club News

Thanks to excellent leadership by Stacey Miller and Nathan Bost, the Project Management Club

has grown its membership list from 3 returning students to a current 23 active members!

PMC’s main fundraiser this semester has been to raise money for the Haiti relief efforts. To

date, a penny drive has raised $30 of spare change and the students are making a final push to

raise $100. The first guest speaker of the Spring Semester was Jim Banks, VP of Product As-

surance for ECR Software Corporation who spoke on the Tools, Tips and Trip-ups of Project

Management. The club has held two social events. The first was at Boone Bowling Center and

our second was at Char for Trivia Night where we won second place. Next on the club’s agenda

is a visit to our parent organization, Project Management Institute, in Charlotte on April 13th.

The club’s final formal meeting of the semester will be held at 6:30pm in the 4th Floor Faculty

Lounge, Raley Hall on April 21st with Jim Rufo as its guest speaker. Jim is Executive Director

of Advanced Green Energy Services (AGES) Company and has over three decades of related

experience and formal education in the energy construction industry.

Two teams of PMC members generously sponsored by the Metrolina Chapter of the Project

Management Institute and the Walker College of Business recently competed in the Inaugural

Intercollegiate Project Management Triathlon hosted by Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA

on March 26-28. The teams took 4th place in the Team events and Ryan Morton placed 4th in

the Individual Quiz Bowl. Well done!

AITP News

Volume 2, Issue 2 Page 3 CIS CLUB NEWS

For the FOURTH consecutive year, our Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) student chapter won multi-

ple awards at the AITP National Collegiate Conference (NCC) in St. Louis! There were 678 attendees at this year’s conference,

including twelve students from ASU. Our students competed March 25 - March 28 at the AITP NCC against 68 other schools

from across the nation including Purdue, Iowa, Brigham Young, Ole Miss, Texas Tech, and Texas State.

Our chapter and members received the following awards at this year’s conference:

Student Papers Competition: FIRST PLACE (and $200 prize) - Susie Fransen Susie's topic - "What Influences College Students to Use Linux?"

Student Papers Competition: THIRD PLACE (and $50 prize) - Myles McConkey Myles' topic - "Intrusion Detection Systems, Alert Analysis, and Future Impacts of HIPAA"

AITP National Faculty Advisor of the Year Award - Dr. Scott Hunsinger

Outstanding Student Chapter of the Year One of only four out of over 250 student chapters selected for this honor/TOP CHAPTER IN OUR REGION

Best Tech / Geek Video Contest: FIRST PLACE (and $100 Office Depot gift card) - Eric Herman

Best Tech / Geek Video Contest: FOURTH PLACE - Andrew Crenshaw

The ASU AITP student chapter received support from the Office of Student Research, Walker College of Business, the Computer

Information Systems Department, several alumni, and the local community (through our 4th Annual Silent Auction fundraiser,

which raised about $3,000), as the trip cost exceeded $11,000 this year. Grants, funding, and donations from these groups made

it possible for students to travel to the conference for a reasonable price.

AITP has set up multiple trips this academic year to companies such as Red Hat and Cisco Systems, and has brought companies

such as Google, TIAA-CREF, and Duke Energy on-campus to speak to our students. Other club activities have included a num-

ber of social events, philanthropy projects, career workshops, and an end-of semester ―Seniors’ Night‖ to honor our graduates.

Several ―big‖ upcoming trips are planned for AITP members and alumni:

July 29 – August 1, 2010 – DEFCON security conference – Las Vegas, NV

January 6 – 9, 2011 – International Consumer Electronics Show – Las Vegas, NV

March 24 – 27, 2011 – AITP National Collegiate Conference – Orlando, FL

If you would like more information about any of these trips or would be willing to serve as a guest speaker or set up a company

tour for our members, please contact Dr. Scott Hunsinger (faculty advisor) at hunsingerds@appstate.edu.

Walker College of Business

Dr. B. Dawn Medlin

Chair and Associate Professor

Computer Information Systems Department

Director, Center for Advanced Research in

Emerging Technologies

Office :2103 Raley Hall

Boone, NC 28608

medlinbd@appstate.edu

Phone: 828.262.2411

Fax: 828.262.6190

Appalachian State

University

The mission of the CIS Department is to:

Maintain a high level of effectiveness in instruction, intellectual

contribution and professional service

Collaborate with the business community to provide career

opportunities for students in a dynamic global environment

Provide an environment conducive to attracting and developing

professional faculty

Department Mission

http://www.business.appstate.edu/cis/

―What I Am Up To‖

by Bryce Robinson, Fall 2007 Computer Information

Systems Graduate

I moved to Knoxville, TN in January and currently work

in Oak Ridge, TN for the Department of Energy. I am

working as a Contract Specialist for their Environmental

Acquisitions branch. Currently, I am working on a tempo-

rary assignment for the Energy Efficiency and Conserva-

tion Block Grant (EECBG) program that was created

under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

(ARRA). I am responsible for 110 grantees, who are cit-

ies, towns, or counties. I mostly help administer and

counsel these recipients. My office is responsible for over

850 of these type grants, whose awards range

between $250k and $2 million.