Come to the Butler Reception Room at 3pm on Tuesday April 3rd

to hear several SXU alums speak about their exciting careers!

Panelists are:

Alina Khouri Goebel – Senior Technical Analyst, Walgreens

Grace Kwak – Manager, Healthcare Business Solutions, Walgreens

Sue Harper – Manager of Technical Support, Panduit

Kurt Conway – Partner, TwistedPair Technology

We hope to see you there.

We teach two very different computer security courses in our undergraduate and graduate curricula.  The undergraduate course is basic -- principles of security, creating a security plan and a recovery/action plan, security concepts.  These are things someone just entering the field professionally should know.  The graduate course, however, takes an entirely different approach, a very aggressive approach.

Saint Xavier University has been designated by Cisco Systems as a networking academy to prepare students for the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) examination. The CCNA curriculum provides students with a sound foundation in the increasingly important areas of networking and internetworking. SXU has made the curriculum of the Cisco Academy program available for students in computer studies and computer science. The program is also available for qualified students from other majors who want to enhance their degree programs.

The curriculum of the Cisco Academy program is offered as four 3-credit hour courses. In addition to preparing students to take the CCNA exam for certification, the courses may be applied toward the computer science and computer studies majors, the computer science minor, or as free elective courses.

Cisco Academy Program Curriculum at SXU (12 credit hours):

In May 2011, Saint Xavier University hosted the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, a conference that drew presenters from the U.S., Europe and Australia.   The two-day event covered topics that ranged from providing hearing and sight-impaired students with technology and pedagogy in computing courses, the ethics of mobile computing, to efforts being made on the part of universities (including Saint Xavier) to recruit and retain more women in computing majors and courses.  Dr. Florence Appel chaired the event as site coordinator.

Check out the new camp page for the recent Lego Mindstorm camp. Three chicagoland high schools participated and we hope to get even more next time!!

Faculty Instructor: Jean Mehta

Student Instructors: Alex Lukasik & Tyler Ethridge

http://csmaster.sxu.edu/servicelearningprojects/BRlego11/index.html

CBS 2 News Reporter Mike Parker interviewed Saint Xavier University Associate Professor of Computer Science Jim Aman, Ph.D., for a CBS 2 News at 10 report on possible privacy violations by Google while gathering video for its "Street Views" program.

The Department of Computer Science at SXU is offering Summer Camp for Girls and Android Apps (for girls and boys) during summer 2011. This is the second summer camp for girls. See the website for the hugely successful Summer Camp 2010.

Careers in Information Technology

Meet alumni working in the field of Information Technology.

Saint Xavier University's Department of Computer Science recently hosted a computer camp for 20 Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School students at SXU's Chicago campus, 3700 W. 103rd St.

The students learned about Web 2.0 services, fundamental computer theory, computing careers, computer ethics and etiquette, and practiced programming in the Scratch environment at the week-long camp.

SXU professor quoted in CBS 2 News interview

CBS 2 News Reporter Mike Parker interviewed Saint Xavier University Associate Professor of Computer Science James Aman, Ph.D., for a CBS 2 News at 10 report on photo copier and computer network security.