Author: Caelin Bragg

Join MathWorks and the Advanced Virtual Engineering Laboratory at NIAR-WSU for a technical MATLAB and Simulink seminar for faculty, students, researchers and staff, co-presented by Dr. Gerardo Olivares and MathWorks engineers, at 9 a.m. Tuesday, March 28 in the NetApp building.

• Application of MATLAB and Simulink for digital engineering and digital twin aerospace applications: This technical talk highlights the use of MATLAB and Simulink in digital engineering and digital twin activities to simulate aerospace systems.
• Introduction to data analysis and machine learning with MATLAB: In this session, MathWorks engineers will show participants how MATLAB can be used to visualize and analyze complex data, perform numeric computations, and develop algorithms in the areas of data analytics and machine learning.

Admission is free, but seats are limited.

The School of Computing within the College of Engineering is hosting Yili Ren, a doctoral candidate from Florida State University, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Friday, March 24 in 260 Jabara Hall.

Ren will present “Intelligent Wireless Systems: From Human Sensing to Object Detection” to students, staff, faculty and industry partners.

Senior Saturdays provide an opportunity for Shockers to volunteer to work with local seniors at the Larksfield Place senior living community.

The spring 2023 dates and times are 9-11 a.m. Feb. 18, March 11 and April 1.

Join the Community Service Board to assist local seniors with various tasks, including yard work, playing games or reading. Everyone is welcome.

For questions, email csb@wichita.edu or call 316-978-7016.

• Wednesday:
  • Cheesepanzee 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
  • Bubl Works Boba Tea Truck 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
• Friday:
  • Wheat Street Dogs 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

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The Department of Aerospace Engineering within the College of Engineering will host Dr. Nadia Kianvashrad, a post-doctoral associate from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, from 10:15 to 11 a.m. Friday, March 24 in 209 Wallace Hall.

Students, staff, faculty and industry partners are invited to attend Kianvashrad’s talk, “Prediction of Aerothermodynamic Loading and Flight Control Using Energy.”

Join the Department of Math and Statistics for a public lecture by Dr. Qi Zhang, professor at the University of California, Riverside.

The lecture, titled “Log gradient estimates of the heat equation on manifolds,” will take place at 3 p.m. Friday, March 24 in room 372 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.

Leanne Caret — former president of Boeing Defense, Space & Security and the 2023 engineer in residence for the College of Engineering — is visiting Wichita State Monday, March 27. Caret will be featured at two speaking events that students, staff, faculty, alumni and industry partners are welcome to attend.

The first speaking event, “How To Navigate Your Way to the Top,” will be a Q&A session hosted by Dr. Anthony Muscat, the dean of the College of Engineering. The session will be from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in 301 Rhatigan Student Center. Donuts and coffee will be served.

The second speaking event, “A Conversation With Leanne Caret,” will be another Q&A session hosted by Grace Peterson, a junior mechanical engineering major and the president of the Society of Women Engineers student organization. The session will be from 4 to 5 p.m. in 128 Jabara Hall. Cookies and iced tea will be served.

Distinguished Professor of Psychology Dr. Virginia Valian — member of the doctoral faculties of psychology, linguistics and speech-language-hearing sciences and director of the Language Acquisition Research Center and the Gender Equity Project at Hunter College, CUNY — is visiting Wichita State. The National Science Foundation Advance Catalyst team on campus is sponsoring the visit, including Valian speaking on gender equity at two events.

Valian will deliver the talk, “The Advancement of Women: Better, but Still too Slow,” 10-11 a.m. Friday, March 31 in 265 Rhatigan Student Center. Faculty, staff and alumni are invited to attend the talk.

An open forum featuring Valian will be from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in 265 RSC. Undergraduate and graduate women in STEM fields are encouraged to attend the event.

The 2023-24 Wichita State undergraduate and graduate course catalogs are now live and online.

Be sure to check out everything that’s new at WSU. Look at the “Degrees and Academic Majors” page to browse through all of WSU’s undergraduate and graduate degrees, programs and certificates. Click on any of the column headers to sort the list, or click on the name of the program and go right to the program information.

Curious about admission, financial aid, advising or commencement ceremonies? The information is available in the catalog.

The catalogs are accessible from a desktop, tablet or smartphone.

Links to download PDFs of the full undergraduate and graduate catalogs or specific pages in the catalogs are located at the bottom right of every page.

Faculty and staff at Wichita State University are required to complete mandatory training on preventing harassment and discrimination. The deadline has been extended to Friday, April 7.

You can access the training two ways:

• Go to myWSU under the Faculty/Staff tab, scroll down to “Employee Required Training” and click on Preventing Harassment and Discrimination Training.
• Open the email with subject line Vector LMS, Higher Education Edition Online Training, which was sent to all faculty/staff email addresses. Note: The email might say April 27 is the deadline, but April 7 is the correct deadline.

If you have not completed the training, it is very important that you do so. If you have already taken the training this academic year and see your name on a list that says you haven’t completed it, please disregard.

This prevention training, which is led through WSU’s Office of Institutional Equity and Compliance, is not only important in making our campus a welcoming and equitable environment, but it’s also important for Title IX compliance. If you have completed your training, thank you for helping us make real progress in making our campus safe, inclusive and equitable.

University supervisors should follow up with their employees to ensure that they are completing the training by the deadline. Supervisors are expected to work with employees needing accommodations or extensions as necessary.