Shocker Blast: Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Applied Learning

Karaline Scott gives a WSU Shocker hand sign to the camera

From classroom to career: WSU engineering student powers up her career through paid internship

Electrical engineering major Karaline Scott is getting an early start on her career path. The Wichita State sophomore is spending her summer at Professional Engineering Consultants, where she’s getting paid to work alongside industry professionals and experiencing how engineering concepts translate to real-world impact.

Scott, a sophomore electrical engineering major at Wichita State University, is part of PEC’s Power Engineering Team. Her days are filled with hands-on learning — from assisting in the design and revision of electrical wiring systems to gaining experience in AutoCAD and reading complex schematics.

Applied Learning Highlight: Janis Hwang

As a fourth-year graphic design major at Wichita State, Janis Hwang has found her applied learning experience to be both creatively fulfilling and professionally transformative. Through her role designing for No Choice but Action, a project that aims to preserve and highlight Kansas’ often-overlooked role in American independent and post-punk music, she has been able to develop a deeper understanding of what it means to work as a designer in a real-world context.

Her primary responsibilities have included creating apparel designs and motion graphics for the organization’s social media presence. Janis said, “it’s been a great affirmation to work in a real client-designer setting.”

News

OneStop’s new self help portal is here

OneStop Student Services has launched streamlined services for students, faculty and staff to get quick answers to questions about Admissions, Financial Aid, Records and Registration, Student Accounts and more. All services can still be accessed at wichita.edu/onestop or clicking the “OneStop” link at the top of Wichita State’s website.

Chat experience:
- Students can use the new chat tool to get quick answers.
- If the chatbot can’t resolve the issue, users will be seamlessly connected to a live agent.
- Every interaction will generate a ticket.
Phone support:
- Calls to the new OneStop number, 316-978-3909, will be routed through an AI-powered phone tree to the appropriate live agent.
Self-help portal:
- Huge kudos to the cross-campus teams who stood this up in under three months
- The new knowledge base is hosted on TeamDynamix, offering a fresh layout and improved search functionality.

Liberal Arts and Sciences Advising Center is moving to Lindquist Hall

The Liberal Arts and Sciences Advising Center is leaving Grace Wilkie Hall and moving to the second floor of Lindquist Hall. Offices will be closed the week of July 7 to facilitate the move.

Read the June 2025 edition of the myShockerhealth newsletter

The next issue of the myShockerhealth newsletter has been released. Finding accurate and relevant health education information is vital in today’s society. A trusted source like WSU Student Health Services will cover it all. For content requests, email student.health@wichita.edu.

Topics in this month’s edition include:

Babesiosis
Tick removal: What is the right way to remove a tick?
SPF 30 or 50 sunscreen: Which is better?
Employee Corner:
- Bridge the slang gap and learn your student’s language!
- Outside healthy events
- PSA: Zepbound coverage
- Weight loss journey wrap up

Read the June issue

WSU’s College of Engineering ranks 12th in National Cyber League power rankings, student team cracks top 10 in competition

Wichita State's College of Engineering is ranked 12th in the country out of over 500 universities in the Cyber Power Rankings, which were created by Cyber Skyline in partnership with the National Cyber League (NCL). The rankings represent the ability of students to perform real-world cybersecurity tasks on the Cyber Skyline platform.

Wichita State’s College of Engineering is ranked 12th in the country out of over 500 universities in the Cyber Power Rankings, which were created by Cyber Skyline in partnership with the National Cyber League (NCL). The rankings represent the ability of students to perform real-world cybersecurity tasks on the Cyber Skyline platform.

Students from across the College of Engineering, primarily cybersecurity and computer science majors in the School of Computing, competed in various team and individual competitions. The new ranking for Wichita State is up from 20th place in the fall.

In addition to the overall ranking, the student team Sky-Shoc-2025 — headed by Charles Hill and made up of students Joe Rehhop, Daniel Halbleib, Juan Barrientos, Harsh Subnani, Carlos RSF and Alexander Pickett — placed eighth out of nearly 5,000 teams. Other WSU teams include:

41th place: Club Penguin – Aidan McGillivray, Sophia Hunt, Koral Richardson, Divy Patel, Hyacinthe Howell, Jack Delmar, Morgan Stewart
106th place: Beggs Badgers – Brynn Potter, Ashe Pate, Andrew Sauls, Jessica Methman, Bryden Young, Jason Kurtz, Andrew G.
156th place: Wuber Drivers – John Sanburn, John Dugan, Agustin, Andrew Lisenby, Juan Herrera, Preston Elliott, Klayton Carroll
174th place: Apun – Sophie Clarke, Sean Dugan, Liam Moore, Remington Derksen, Hannah Nikkel, Kyra Rolen, Reilly Waller
220th place: WuRu? – Adrien Banuelos, Adrian Ceballos, Ike Wells, Tyler Crabtree, Alex Caldwell, Joseph Damato, Sheikh Mohamed Ragib Ahsan
229th place: WULUGNUTS – Arpan Dey, Clementine Maldonado, Chelsia MathewJudin, Brett Blasi, EnmaAisha User
230th place: Noble – Joshua Penka, Matthew Larsen, Mason Lang, Luke Stenzel, Juan Banales, Luke Stenzel, Cece Marquez
244th place: CVE 316 – Benjamin Gerstenkorn, Set Htut, Spencer Russell, Hon Luu, Fabian Gracia, Ryan Buck-Carlson, Dylan Busby
314th place: WuGotThis – Braden McCaig, Jacob Rutt, Vicky Li, Lena Moore, Marshal Underwood, Tyler Scholl, Conner Schinkus
415th place: Wubynumbers – Waleed Qaki, Eduardo Rodriguez, Chukwuemeka Iweha, Zac Reichuber, Austin Hall, Dylan Insixiengmay

Individuals were also recognized, with seven Wichita State students breaking the top 500 of over 8,500 individuals:

West Campus to host police training July 23-24, 30-31

WSU West will host police training classes July 23-24 and July 30-31. All classes and operations in the building will proceed as currently scheduled July 23 and 30.

All classes and operations will be remote starting at 1 p.m. July 24 and 31. Anyone not participating in the police training will not be allowed to enter the building during this time.

If you have questions, contact WSU West at 316-978-6777 or email augustine.iacopelli@wichita.edu.

Shocker Athletics

A Shocker-branded golf bag is propped up on the pitch filled with different golf clubs and different towels

Three Shockers earn WGCA All-American Scholar honors

Wichita State’s Brooklyn Benn, Mackenzie Wilson and Kayla Van de Ven were each named as Women’s Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) All-American Scholars June 30.

Selection to the All-American Scholar Team is a tremendous honor, as the WGCA has some of the most stringent criteria in all of college athletics.

In order to be selected, a student-athlete must:

Have an overall cumulative grade point average of 3.50 or higher.
Be an amateur and on the team’s roster through the conclusion of the team’s season.
Have played in 50% of the college’s regularly scheduled competitive rounds during the year nominated through the team’s conference championship.

Parking and Traffic

Parking garage by RSC to temporarily close for maintenance

The parking garage south of the Rhatigan Student Center will close intermittently between July 1 and July 11 for maintenance and cleaning. Red stall owners will be contacted to let them know when they will need to park elsewhere during this time.

Wichita Transit bus routes will be closed July 4 for Independence Day

Wichita Transit bus routes will be closed Friday, July 4 for Independence Day. Bus routes will resume normal operations Monday, July 7.

Parking garage add-on ePermits for fall on sale July 1

The parking garage add-on ePermit for fall 2025 will go on sale at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 1. Any current ePermit holder is eligible to purchase this add-on for $50. The add-on will allow ePermit holders to park on floor two, the ramp to three, floor three and the ramp to four without having to pay the hourly rate through Dec. 31.

This ePermit is for sale in person at the Parking Services building lobby or in the drive thru on the north side of the building. Payment is to be with cash or check only and a limited amount of these ePermits will be made available. You must have a current ePermit on file or you will be required to buy one at the time of the add-on purchase.

For questions on the add-on or parking in general, email wsuparking@wichita.edu or call 316-978-5526.

Resources

Evelyn Hendren Cassat Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic WSU General Dentistry Delta Dental of Kansas Dental Clinic College of Health Professions’ Patient-Serving Clinics

Speech-Language-Hearing and dental clinics open this summer

The Cassat Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic and WSU General Dentistry Practice at Wichita State are open throughout the summer, providing high-quality, affordable services to both the public and WSU community.

The Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic provides services to people across the lifespan who have communication difficulties, including speaking, hearing, swallowing and spoken and written language impairments. The clinic offers free hearing evaluations to faculty and staff. The Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic is located in the Hughes Metropolitan Complex at the intersection of 29th and Oliver. Call 316-978-3289 to schedule an appointment. Learn more at wichita.edu/SLHclinic.

WSU General Dentistry provides a full range of services including cleanings, fillings, teeth whitening and dental implants, along with in-house specialists for periodontics, endodontics, oral surgery, and prosthodontics. Most major insurances are accepted. WSU students and their spouses and children receive a discounted rate. The dental clinic is located in the School of Oral Health at the intersection of 29th and Oliver. Call 316-978-8350 to schedule an appointment. Learn more at wichita.edu/WSUdentalclinic.