Saman Nazami receives Outstanding Senator Award from GSA

The Graduate Student Association has established the Outstanding GSA Senator Award to honor an outstanding Senator who contributes in a meaningful way to the welfare and improvement of the graduate student body through service to GSA and the Graduate Senate. Senators are responsible for communicating with their constituents and advocating for the rights of their fellow students. This award honors a senator who consistently speaks up, advocates strongly, and who listens to others. 

Saman joined UMBC as a Mechanical Engineering PhD student in fall 2014. He is working on Energy Harvesting and Design Optimization field under Dr. Soobum Lee’s supervision as a PhD candidate.

In 2015, he started his first involvement with GSA (Graduate Student Association) as a member of the professional development committee. Later he joined the GSA senate as a senator for two GSOs (Graduate Student Organization).  

In 2016, he took leadership of and helped to reactivate IGSA (Iranian Graduate Student Association). He acted as the president of this association until 2018. In 2017, he was elected as the vice president of MEGSA (Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Association) and represents this GSO in the GSA senate.
Besides these, he has been serving as a member of the grant review panel of GSA since 2018.

Congratulations to Saman!

Our first Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) of DestinationsDIGITAL is to strengthen the federal IT workforce to support our mission priorities for Safety, Infrastructure and Innovation. Technology is a huge part of how deliver our mission and priorities. 

· DOT has a mountain of data we need help organizing, analyzing and visualizing

· DOT has help implementing intelligent software 

· DOT has to continue promoting cybersecurity

· DOT has Agile solution delivery

· DOT has smart people like you!

If you are interested in public service technology and DOT’s mission, we want to hear from you!

To go to HackerRanks website for the Code Challenge, use this link: 

https://www.hackerrank.com/tests/c4pon6i3f5d/796457449f609e2ed9a609bf73cfd082

The federal government must attract top IT talent to modernize federal IT systems and deliver the most secure and effective services to the American people. To recruit the best qualified IT talent, in the most timely and cost-effective manner, we need to transform the federal IT hiring process.

There are three seperate #CIOCode Challenges:

· first challenge for Front End launches May 6 

· second challenge for Core CS begins June 10 

· third challenge for Dev/Ops begins July 8.

Did you know?

DOT is hiring now for Cybersecurity and IT positions! Check out all DOT open opportunities on USAJOBS.GOV

Going home over the summer? Working a low-paying or unpaid internship and worried how you’ll pay for groceries? Just interested in a free bag of nonperishable food?

Retriever Essentials has an abundance of food available, and we want you to come shopping in our pantry!

Stop by during exam week and hand pack your own bag for the summer. Come once, twice, or as many times as you need. We want to make sure you’re well taken care of during the break.

Are you going to be on campus during the summer for classes? Fear not! Our normal Food Zones will be open and stocked full of bags to be picked up at your convenience.

Email retrieveressentials@umbc.edu or call 410-455-2765 to set up your shopping appointment, 8:30am-5pm Monday-Friday from May 15 - May 24. 

New for Fall 2019!

CMSC 291
Continued Computer Science for Non-Majors

This fall, Dr. Susan Mitchell will teach a special topics course designed for all non-computer science, non-computer engineering majors. The 3-credit course will be a continuation and extension of CMSC 201 Computer Science I and taught in the popular Python programming language. The catalog description is:

A continuation of problem solving and programming in the Python language. Emphasis is placed on the solution to more complex programming problems, expanding on the topics of modularity, abstraction, program design, testing, and debugging. The use of Python libraries relevant to non-CS major fields are presented.

Assignments and projects will emphasize topics applicable to many non-CS disciplines, such as data visualization, working with large data sets, and database usage.

The course will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11:30am to 12:30pm (Course catalog number 291-01).

Prerequisites:  Completed CMSC 201 with a C or better; completed MATH 150, 151 or 152 with a C or better, OR have MATH test placement into MATH 151, OR have completed MATH 155 with a C or better

This course is restricted to non-computer science, non-computer engineering majors. It does not satisfy any requirement for computer science or computer engineering majors and may not be substituted for CMSC 202 Computer Science II.

For questions, please email Dr. Susan Mitchell at *protected email*

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Fall 2019
CMSC 201 Computer Science I
Section for Non-Majors

This fall, Dr. Susan Mitchell will teach a special section of CMSC 201 Computer Science I designed for all non-computer science, non-computer engineering majors. The course will cover the same content and have the same rigor as all other CMSC 201 sections and prepare students to continue on to CMSC 202 if they wish.  As with other sections, it fulfills any major’s requirement for CMSC 201. The key difference will be that the assignments and projects will emphasize topics applicable to many non-CS disciplines, such as statistical analysis, working with large data sets, and data visualization. The course will be taught in the popular Python programming language. The catalog description is:

An introduction to computer science through problem solving and computer programming. Programming techniques covered by this course include modularity, abstraction, top-down design, specifications documentation, debugging and testing. The core material for this course includes control structures, functions, lists, strings, abstract data types, file I/O, and recursion.

The 4-credit course will include a lecture from 2:30pm to 3:45pm on Mondays and Wednesdays (Section 60-LEC) and a one-hour lab on either Monday (Section 61-DIS) or Wednesday (Section 62-DIS) from 11:00-11:50am.

No prior programming experience is required. The only prerequisite is that students must have completed MATH 150, 151 or 152 with a C or better; OR have MATH test placement into MATH 151; OR have completed MATH 155 with a C or better.

This course is restricted to non-computer science, non-computer engineering majors.

For questions, please email Dr. Susan Mitchell at *protected email*

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