Author: bsv

ITShadow Day @ Timken

Post author By bsv
Post date February 17, 2013

When: Tue, February 19, 2013, 09:00 AM – 01:00 PM

The Timken Co. is sponsoring IT shadow day for UA undergraduate and graduate IS Students. The University is observing President’s Day on February 19th and classes will not be held.

Students will be divided into groups based on their interest (Database Management, Data Analytics, OS Administration, Information Security, Testing Services, etc) and will be put into one-on-one shadowing sessions with Timken’s employees. The day ends with a networking luncheon. This is a great opportunity for students to learn more about the local company, practice their networking skills, and potentially set up an interview for an internship or full-time position.

Address:

The Timken Company
1835 Dueber Ave. SW
Canton,OH 44706-0932
(P) (330) 438-3000
(F) (330) 458-6006

Directions:

Take ramp onto OH 8 South
merge on to I77S
take exit 103
Keep left at the fork
follow signs for Cleveland Ave/Timken Pl/Shepler Church Ave
Continue straight onto 891
891 turns right and becomes Dueber Ave Sw
Destination will be on the right.

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High School Networking Night

Post author By bsv
Post date November 2, 2011

The Center for IT & eBusiness (CITe) is hosting an informal networking event at The University of Akron for juniors and seniors from local high schools in Polsky room 567 on Monday, November 7th from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. The event will give high school students a chance to interact with IS students, IS faculty, and area IT executives to learn more about career opportunities, programs available at the university, and scholarship information. Food and door prizes will be provided.

ITEE

Going Rogue IT Style: The implications of rogue users inside and outside of the organization

Post author By bsv
Post date October 1, 2011

ITEE meeting – November 4, 2011; 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm; Murphy Room, CBA, The University of Akron

When a business unit head doesn’t get something in the IT budget, he circumvents policies and gets it somehow. Another user is not satisfied with the provided conferencing system, so sets up a meeting at home using Skype. With the exploding number of choices available to end users throughout the organization, are IT policies and their enforcement becoming a myth? Come to discuss the travails of rogue users and what your peers are doing about them.

Interested? – send email to cite_info@uakron.edu

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Area high school students participate in Information Technology Career Camp

Post author By bsv
Post date June 18, 2011

About 30 high school sophomores and juniors students from 15 different local high schools in Summit, Stark and Cuyahoga counties interested in pursuing a career in information technology will be on The University of Akron campus June 20-24, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., for the Second Annual Information Technology (IT) Career Camp.

Sponsored by the College of Business Administration’s Center for IT & eBusiness (CITe), the week-long event will feature 8 reality based hands-on activities sponsored by area companies such as Westfield Insurance, NASA Glen, J.M. Smucker Co, Revol Wireless, and Hyland software. Among the careers to be explored are IT Infrastructure, IT Forensics, Robotics, Data Mining/Business Analytics, Business Process Management, Software Development and more.

The camp also features presentations by local business executives, students and alumni panel, team and individual competitions with scholarships to The University of Akron awarded to the top participants and an end of the week Awards Ceremony/Banquet for the participants and their families.

ITEE

Virtualization: Performance and Prospects (ITEE Forum on June 3, 2011)

Post author By bsv
Post date May 12, 2011

Virtualization has given IT departments an unprecedented cost reducing tool through server consolidation, streamlined business continuity, and access to the cloud. But questions remain: can virtualized servers really scale? Has virtualization delivered the promised ROI? Can and should IT take the next step to virtualization on the desktop? How might virtualization facilitate business agility and repositioning IT as a service?

Come share your perspectives at the next ITEE meeting!

Location: CBA 258 (Murphy Room), CBA, The University of Akron

Date: June 3, 2011

Time: 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Tags http://www3.uakron.edu/cite/ITExecutiveExchange.htm

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Second Annual IT Career Camp

Post author By bsv
Post date March 12, 2011

This IT Career Camp is designed for rising high school juniors and seniors from NE Ohio to work together in groups and gain a better understanding of the Information Technology field and careers.

The camp will be a five day event held on The University of Akron campus from June 20-24th. Students interested in registering should fill out the available form.

For more information on the event, visit the ITCC home page, or email ua.itcc@gmail.com

CITe News

Assistant Director of Development Appointment

Post author By bsv
Post date February 11, 2011

Margaret Sell has joined The University of Akron as Assistant Director of Development for the College of Business Administration.

Margaret attended Ohio University and ultimately received her bachelor’s degree in Business and Organizational Communication from The University of Akron in 2005. Following graduation, Margaret joined the United Way of Summit County as a Resource Development Director, working with companies in Bath, Copley, Fairlawn and Richfield on their annual fundraising campaigns. In addition to her work as a campaign manager, Margaret also managed the United Way’s Young Leaders Society, an affinity group for donors 40 and younger. She is a member of the 2011 class of Torchbearers, as well as a member of the Greater Akron Chamber’s Knowledgeable Network of Women (KNOW) and Young Professional’s Network. Margaret currently lives in Barberton with her husband and two children.

Margaret can be reached by phone at 330-972-7259 or by e-mail at mg29@uakron.edu. Her office is located on the fourth floor of the CBA building, CBA 422.

Please join me in welcoming Margaret to the CBA!

Vijay

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Akron’s College of Business Administration ranked by Business Week as a Top Value

Post author By bsv
Post date April 10, 2010

Bloomberg Business Week has rated Akron’s CBA among the top business schools in the nation in several categories:
76th in the nation overall (up from 93 in 2009)
39th in the nation for return on investment among public schools
7th in the nation for recruiter satisfaction
1st in Ohio for return on investment

Tags http://www.uakron.edu/cba/news-and-events/news-details.dot?newsId=1033438

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Next ITEE Meeting – March 26, 2010

Post author By bsv
Post date December 6, 2009

Tip of the Hat. Wag of the finger: Learning from our Best and Worst IT Practices.

Every IT/IS organization has some IT process that they are particularly proud of, and others they would like to, (relatively speaking) sweep under the carpet. In this working session, ITEE members will share best and worst IT practices to enlighten, inform, assist, and amuze the participants.

CITe News

CIO of the Year Award goes to Jim Sage

Post author By bsv
Post date November 12, 2009

Congratulations to CITe advisory board member Jim Sage for winning the 2009 CIO of the Year Award for the non-profit organization category awarded by Northeast Ohio Software Association (NEOSA). Jim Sage has been Vice President for Information Technology at The University of Akron since December 2005. This is the second time Jim Sage has received the CIO of Year Award following the first one in 2007. Jim is a graduate of the University of Akron and holds a BS in MIS and Operations Management.