Author: Leah Lamunyon

The Society of Women Engineers student organization is hosting a Mother Daughter Day event for local middle school girls and their adult female role models. The event will run from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 25 in the John Bardo Center lobby.

Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in four STEM activities designed to introduce different types of engineering, including aerospace, mechanical, electrical and biomedical engineering. Attendees will also meet and interact with female students from the college, which will help middle school girls envision themselves in the field.

In addition to mothers and daughters, other adult female role models of middle school girls, such as grandmothers, aunts, sisters and mentors, are welcome to attend the event.

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.”

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.

The Department of Aerospace Engineering in the College of Engineering is hosting Dr. Smriti Nandan Paul, a post-doctoral research fellow from West Virginia University, from 10:15 to 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 14 in 209 Wallace Hall.

Paul will present “Reliable Uncertainty Characterization for Space Sustainability and Safety” to students, staff, faculty and industry partners.

A team of ten students from the School of Computing within the College of Engineering competed virtually and won third place in the Midwest qualifiers of the NCAE Cyber Games on Feb. 18.

As part of the competition, the team was tasked with setting up and defending a small network against cyber attacks. Additionally, a “capture the flag” component required solving challenges, such as password cracking, network traffic analysis, reverse engineering and threat hunting.

Team members, all of whom belong to the Wichita State University Linux User Group student organization, included Marcos Vera Bareiro, Carlos Renato Soverina Figueroa, Michael Foster, Jason Kurtz, Philip Lindholm, Ivan Macias, Nikilesh Samba Murthy, Mirza Shahid, Olivia Robl and Khang Tran. From the group, Macias received an award for Most Valuable Player, and Tran received an award for Most Improved Player. The competition was the first NCAE Cyber Games that included WSU student participants.

The Project Management Institute Wichita Chapter and WSU Strategic Initiatives are hosting Lee R. Lambert, the co-creator of the Project Management Professional credential, from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 8 in EE 264 John Bardo Center.

Lambert will present “The Value Proposition of Skillset Match,” which will explore how project management estimates can vary widely from actual performance data, the impact of what has become known as “bait and switch.” and how to calculate the impact on time and cost associated with “bait and switch.”

Students, staff and faculty are welcome to attend the talk, but registration is encouraged. Donuts and coffee will be available for attendees.

The Department of Aerospace Engineering is hosting Mustafa Engin Danis, a doctoral candidate from Iowa State University, from 10:15 to 11 a.m. Friday, March 10 in 209 Wallace Hall.

Danis will present “High-Order Numerical Methods and Hybrid Turbulence Modeling for High-Speed Compressible Flows.” Students, faculty, staff and industry partners are invited to attend.

The CyberCorps Scholarships for Service are now available to some College of Engineering students, including computer science, computer engineering and cybersecurity students. The scholarships provide a full-ride (tuition plus $24,000/year for undergraduate students and $35,000/year for graduate students) for two years. In return, scholarship recipients will work for the U.S. federal government for two years after graduation in a cybersecurity position.

All interested students are invited to attend an informational session by Sergio Salinas Monroy, an associate professor within the School of Computing, at 5:30 p.m. Friday, March 3 in 231 Beggs Hall. Pizza will be served.

The Biomedical Engineering Department is hosting Dr. Arwa Fraiwan, a senior research associate from Case Western Reserve University, at 11 a.m. Monday, Feb. 27 in 134 Woolsey Hall.

Dr. Fraiwan will present “Biobatteries and Diagnostic Platforms for Point-of-Care Testing Needs.” Students, staff and faculty are welcome to attend the talk.

The School of Computing is hosting Mengfei (Angela) Ren, a Ph.D candidate from the University of Texas, at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 24 in 260 Jabara Hall.

Ren will present “Fuzz testing of Zigbee protocol implementation.” Students, staff and faculty are welcome to attend the talk.