Schedule (2020)

Tentative Schedule (subject to change)

DATE MAJOR ACTIVITIES
June 1 Welcome remarks. Program overview. Meeting with Program Assessor & Mentors @ 10:15 am – 12:30 pm CDT

Title IX training @ 2 pm. Literature search session with the librarian (Dianna Morganti) @ 3:30 pm

June 2 Research processes and research ethics @ 11 am. Training tutorials on basic research tools @ 2 pm.
June 5 Meeting with mentors @ 2 pm
June 8 Research presentation skills workshop (part 1) @ 11 am
June 11 Virtual visit IBM @ 1 pm
June 15 First student project presentation @ 11 am
June 18 Virtual visit Google @ 12 pm CDT
June 30 Virtual visit SWRI @ 1 pm
July 6 Second student project presentation @ 11 am
July 16 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship @ 11 am
July 22 Research presentation skills workshop (part 2) @ 11 am
July 24 Invited Seminar: “AR/VR technologies that save lives. How to improve training of first responders” – Geroge Koutitas (Cofounder of Augmented Training Systems Inc. | Cofounder of Gridmates Inc. | School of Engineering, Texas State Univ.) @ 11 am
July 27 Third student project presentation @ 11 am
July 29 Invited Seminar: “COVID-19 and mobile apps” – Christine Julien (Professor in the Center for Advanced Research in Software Engineering (ARiSE) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin | Director of the Mobile and Pervasive Computing Laboratory) @ 3 pm
July 31 Virtual Poster presentation, post-program assessment, and award ceremony
Aug 3 – Aug 7 Finalize technical report and project deliverables
August 7 Program concluding remarks