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was a year of working together as the new Cyber Systems Department. The faculty worked hard to integrated all courses and programs from Computer Science and Information Technology (CSIT), Management Information Systems (MIS), Cyber Security Operations, and Information Networking and Telecommunications into our new department, making all courses “CYBR” courses. We updated programs for course efficiencies and curricular improvements, and revised MIS into a Business Intelligence program, as demand for business intelligence and analyt-ics professionals grows. These curricular changes empower us to reach our vision of empowering difference makers to solve cyber challenges through personalized, innovative learning and research opportunities.

We await the opening of the STEM building in spring 2020. We are excited to welcome new chair, Dr. Liaquat Hossain, and new faculty member, Dr. Basheer Qolomany.

The students and faculty participated in many fun activities including senior projects, camps and other outreach activities, business tours, and winning competitions such as the MICS robotics competition and placing third at the Datapalooza competition. As always, I hope you enjoy read-ing about our events and happenings.

Personally, I want to thank everyone for working with me during the 12 years I served as chair of the CSIS/CSIT/Cyber Systems Department. I look forward to stepping back into the role of a full-time faculty member.

Sherri Harms Professor, Cyber Systems As Ron and Carol Cope Professor and Inaugural Chair of the Department of Cyber Systems at UNK, it is my pleasure to welcome you all to the exciting journey that we will embark on in the new academic year building on to the foundation laid out by the Interim Chair Dr Sherri Harms and colleagues of the department. We will work towards integrating cognate areas such as com-puter science, IT, information networking, cyber security and business intelligence to develop a world class educational and research program under the newly created Department of Cyber Sys-tems at UNK.

Cyber Systems can be representative of large scale complex systems advocating that real-world systems are made up from a large number of interacting components leading to complex behav-ior, which is difficult to understand, predict and manage. Cyber Systems educational and research at UNK recognizes that in a highly interconnected and interdependent world comprising many layers of micro and macro interactions enabled by cyber technologies are important to functioning of our societal to business as well as physical, medical and learning systems. Cyber Systems at UNK therefore aspires to address the complex local, regional and global issues which relates to business, computing, climate, health, education, financial markets and security through a holistic educational and research delivery crossing the traditional boundaries of computational, business, social, economic, physical, life, environmental, engineering as well as health systems disciplines.

Liaquat Hossain Ron and Carol Cope Professor, Cyber Systems Chair

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New Cyber Systems Chair Hossain Envisions World-Class Program

There’s a reason Liaquat Hossain left the University of Hong Kong to settle in central Nebraska. He sees the potential at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, where the new cyber systems (CS) department fits his vision for the future. Hossain, started summer 2019 as a Ron and Carol Cope Professor and chair of the cyber systems department. He succeeded interim chair Sherri Harms, who will remain with the department as a professor. “I think it can be a world-class educational program,” Hossain said. “The university is ready for that.” UNK launched the CS department last summer, merging five existing programs into a single, cohesive unit and adding a cybersecurity major. The department’s goal is to increase collaboration among faculty and students across disciplines while addressing the critical need for workers in technology-related fields both locally and statewide. The CS department includes more than 150 major and minor students. Most will

complete an internship at UNK and many have a job lined up before graduation. UNK’s CS programs had a placement rate of 100% last year, with 75% of graduates staying in Nebraska.

Hossain, who called UNK’s CS initiative “very progressive,” plans to build upon the existing relationships the College of Business and Technology (CBT) has with businesses and organizations across the state, including the Economic Development Council of Buffalo County, which is committing $45,000 over the next three years to support the department chair position. “I want to see strong community-based partnerships,” Hossain said, noting these connections benefit students and provide value to the state by addressing current issues, whether it’s through workforce development or research projects. Hossain, who spent time at Lund University in Sweden, the University of Sydney in Australia, Syracuse University in New York and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) before joining the University of Hong Kong in December 2013, said UNK and Kearney are small enough to suit his lifestyle preferences, but large enough to make a global impact. “At UNK, I see the possibility and the opportunity to fully integrate a truly multidisciplinary program,” said Hossain, an Australian citizen who was born in Bangladesh. Hossain’s vision for a transformational CS department involves programs from all three academic colleges. “Although it sits in the College of Business and Technology, it could almost be like a central nervous system,” Hossain said of the department. “Technology impacts nearly every occupation, from cyberbullying and online education in K-12 schools to cybersecurity and social media marketing for businesses to GPS-guided machinery on Nebraska farms.” In addition to focusing on core CS concepts, Hossain sees the potential to add programs that combine technology with areas such as business, social science, economics and health sciences, making UNK graduates even more marketable. “I look forward to working with department chairs and university administrators representing business and economics, social sciences and health sciences, as well as arts and humanities, to promote a multidisciplinary educational focus and research that support the needs of Nebraska and the nation,” Hossain said. Summarized from UNK news release, April 22, 2019 by T. Ellyson. Position: Cyber systems department chair; Ron and Carol Cope Professor Education: Bachelor of Business Administration, business management, Assumption University (Bangkok, Thailand), 1994; Master of Science in Computer and Engineering Management, system management and operations research, Assumption University, 1996; Doctorate, telecom management, University of Wollongong School of Information Technology and Computer Science (New South Wales, Australia), 1998. Career: Postdoctoral fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development, 1998-99; Lecturer, information systems, University of Sydney Basser Department of Computer Science (Australia), 2000-01; Assistant professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies, 2001-04; Senior lecturer, University of Sydney School of Information Technologies, 2004-08; Director of postgraduate coursework, University of Sydney School of Information Technologies, 2005-08; Associate professor, engineering and information technology, University of Sydney, 2008-10; Director, project management graduate program, University of Sydney School of Civil Engineering, 2008-13; Professor, complex systems and project management program, University of Sydney School of Civil Engineering, 2010-13; Visiting professor, department of informatics, Lund University School of Economics and Management (Sweden), 2012-present; Professor, division of information and technology studies, University of Hong Kong, 2013-present; Head of the Division of Information and Technology Studies, University of Hong Kong, 2016-2018; Associate dean of research for the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, 2016-2019. Family: Two children, Liam, 12, and Lia, 19, who live in Sydney, Australia .

Liquat Hossain

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NEW FACULTY MEMBER JOINING CYBER SYSTEMS DEPARTMENT

Jonah Peterson graduated fall 2018 with a degree in Information Technology and minor in Computer Science. He works as an IT Support Specialist for Sandhills Publishing in Lincoln. Jared Graham graduated Summa Cum Laude with a CS Comprehensive major in spring 2019. Jared assisted with many Cyber Systems activities including Coder Dojos, and was on the MICS 2018 robotics winning team. Tyler Cretacci earned the Information Networking and Telecommunications degree in spring 2019. He works for USA Communications in Kearney. Kyle Glandt graduated Summa Cum Laude with a a double Math/CS Comprehensive major in spring 2019. Kyle will start graduate school at Kansas State University in fall 2019. Kyle assisted with many Cyber Systems activities including Coder Dojos, and was on the MICS 2018 robotics winning team.

Dr. Basheer Qolomany, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, joined UNK in 2019. Dr. Qolomany received the Ph.D. and second master's en-route to Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Western Michigan University (WMU), Kalamazoo, MI, in 2018. He also received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from University of Mosul, Mosul city, Iraq, in 2008 and 2011, respectively. His research interests include machine learning, deep learning, Internet of Things, smart services, cloud computing, and big data analytics. Previously, Dr. Qolomany served as a visiting Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Science, Kennesaw State University, Marietta, GA in 2018-2019; a Graduate Doctoral Assistant at Department of Computer Science, WMU, in 2016-2018; he also served as a lecturer at Department of Computer Science, University of Duhok, Kurdistan region of Iraq, in 2011-2013. Dr. Qolomany has served as a Technical Program Committee member and as reviewer of international conferences such as: IWCMC 2018, VTC 2018, MEDES 2016, and IC4 2016.

Welcome Dr. Qolomany to UNK!

Friends of the Department

The fall 2018 Friend of Cyber Systems was Paul Swenson, University of Nebraska App Development Coordinator. Paul taught web development courses for Cyber Systems from 2011-2018. He provided up-to-date content for these courses while working hard to make sure students could succeed in understanding the content.

The spring 2019 Friend of the Cyber Systems was Deb Schroeder, retired UNK Chief Information Officer (CIO). During her tenure as CIO, Deb led with a focus on UNK students and worked hard to improve IT services at UNK. She was an advocate

for women in IT, higher education, and the UNK community.

2018-2019 Honor Students

Dr. Sherri Harms, Jonah Peterson, Jared Graham,

Tyler Cretacci, Kyle Glandt

Basheer Qolomany

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Cyber Systems students competed in three programming competitions in 2018-2019: ACM North-Central North America Regional competition, Global Hack VII, and MICS (see next page). The ACM NCNA Regional Programming Competition as held in Lincoln, NE on 11/4/2018. Students Matt Laucomer, Kyle Glandt, Jared Graham, Brandon Ramos participated (faculty mentor: Dr. Matt Miller).

Global Hack VII was held in St. Louis, MO. In October 2018. Shown above are Jon Marvin, Zayne Kinkade and Kyle Glandt. Also participating but not shown were Jared Graham and Brandon Ramos. Their faculty mentor was Dr. Ross Taylor. The goal was to create an app that would reshape the experiences of foreign-born individuals and communities.

Mir Hasnat, Jennifer Pierce and Wesley Orr, with faculty mentor Dr. Ross Taylor, placed third in Visualization. Datapalooza is a data analytics competition in which teams work to find and share meaning from a large, rich and complex dataset. After analyzing provided data, teams present to a panel of judges. It was sponsored this year by Mutual of Omaha.

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2018-19 Cyber Systems Student participation in competitions

Cyber System students competed in three security competitions: ISEAGE Cyber Defense (CD), DakotaCon North Central Collegiate Defense Competition (CCDC) and MICS (see page 5). At ISEAGE CD, the team was tasked with providing a variety of services to their network, such as web sites, email, remote desktop, programming environments, and backup services. DakotaCon CCDC assessed students’ ability to manage and protect a business network infrastructure and information systems.

1st row: Kolten Morse, Dr. Angela Hollman, Dr. Matt Miller

2nd row: Angel Ruiz, Tyler Pierce-Panowicz, Matt Martin

3rd row: Bricyn Jameson, Wilfredo Martinez

4th row: Tyler Hinrichs, Trenton Chramosta

Datapalooza, Lincoln NE, April 2019

Mir Hasnat, Jennifer Pierce, and Wesley Orr

Clockwise: Dr. Matt Miller, Kolton Morse, Trevor Wood,

Trace Ockinga, Bricyn Jameson, Angel Ruiz, Tyler Hinrichs,

Matt Martin, Trenton Chramosta, Tyler Pierce-Panowicz

ISEAGE Cyber Defense Competition, Ames IA, February 2019

Global Hack VII, St. Louis MO, Oct 2018

Jon Marvin, Zayne Kinkade and Kyle Glandt

DakotaCon CCDC, Madison SD, March 2019

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MIDWEST INSTRUCTIONAL COMPUTING SYMPOSIUM (MICS) & 17TH ANNUAL UNK ROBOTICS COMPETITION

Cyber Systems students participated in several MICS 2019 events, held in Fargo, ND in April 2019. Dr. John Hastings served as the faculty mentor for all UNK teams.

UNK Cyber System students Christian Schleif, Matthew Laucomer and Trenton Chramosta participated in the pro-gramming competition.

The Red vs. Blue cybersecurity competition was new this year. Teams took turns attacking and defending com-puters, servers and networks. Angel Ruiz, Tyler Pierce-Panowicz, Andrew Oliver, Trenton Chramosta, Wilfredo Martinez, and Bricyn Jameson made up UNK’s team.

Three teams of UNK students participated in the MICS robotics competition. Winning the competition was UNK team Andrew Oliver and Timmy Corrado. Tanner Os-trander, Ryan Putera and Kyle Buss’ team placed second; and the team of Bricyn Jameson, Trenton Chramosta and Ashton Wasenius placed fourth. These teams also partici-pated in the UNK 17th Annual robotics competition, along with the other teams shown below.

Bricyn Jameson also presented his research poster, enti-tled Data Storage Architectures, mentored by Dr. Harms and Mr. Alavi. (He is shown with his poster on page 11.)

Javier Diaz de Leon,

2nd place UNK

Kali Wubben & Brandon Ripp, 1st place UNK 17th

annual robotics competition

Tanner Ostrander, Ryan Putera & Kyle Buss,

2nd place MICS 2019

Front row: Dr. John Hastings, Trenton Chramosta, Angel Ruiz, Bricyn Jameson, Back row: Tanner Ostrander, Ryan Putera, An-

drew Oliver, Wilfredo Martinez, Tyler Pierce-Panowicz, Matthew Laucomer, Christian Schleif (Not shown: Kyle Buss)

Timmy Corrado & Andrew Oliver

1st Place MICS 2019

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Shushant Khanal, Ayush Dhungel,

Baibhav Mathema

Trenton Chramosta, Ashton Wasenius,

Bricyn Jameson, 3rd place UNK; 4th place MICS

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Alex Hinkle researched and created a 2D Platformer game. He created his own original assets. He designed the game play and imple-mented and evaluated the game in Unity.

2018-2019 Cyber Systems Capstone Projects

Jared Graham and Kyle Glandt created FruitSnap, a web applica-tion for classifying images of fruit using deep learning using Tensorflow, Angular JS, and Python. The model trained known images of fruit and predicts the type of fruit for new images. The model is designed to be able to train on any type of image,

and is able to account for noisy data in the images.

Jerad Paup researched Project PoisonTap with a Raspberry Pi Zero to exploit a wide array of operating systems.

Hafils Akpovi implemented a large-scale bare metal virtual-ization setup using VMWare’s ESXi and pfSense with an ar-ray of backend user services secured in different vlans and user groupings.

Jonah Peterson and Matt Martin set up a network design with filtering on a fictious system named “JAMU” to allow wire-less access to devices as needed, but filter as needed in school situations.

Jonah completed a second research project where he studied

latin squares for security encryption.

Matt completed a second capstone where he used GNS3 to explore software-defined networking with cloud switching and routing.

Emma Reichle created a snake-like game in Java with difficul-ty levels, a help menu, a pause button, edited sound, and unique enemies, using various libraries.

Kylie Longwell researched and implemented a system using a Raspberry Pi Zero to config-ure and setup a health moni-toring system, written in Py-thon.

Preston Power created a stroke classification app, for hospitals to be able to quickly identify patients undergoing strokes and assess how well they did in treating the stroke, after the fact. This software can be used for hospitals to collect the data needed to become accredited as stroke certified.

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2018-2019 Cyber Systems (continued)

Matt Brunkhorst created an app called Study Buddies with the goal of providing a social media platform for connect-ing students and improve stu-dent study experiences. He used Android Studio and Fire-base for creating this app.

Tyler Hinrichs experimented with setting up a network with Cloud DNS, DHCP and other network services. His system used Ubiquity, and had a security gate and two switches.

Matt Laucomer and Brenden Sheridan created a business plan and a sample website, called LibertyLounge.com. The website provides useful information about free speech. They completely implemented the website system, from the hardware backend to the software front end.

Tyler Cretacci and Alex Eman extensively researched and config-ured different types of open access VPN protocols trying to find one that was purely open source, did not require additional li-censing fees and could connect to any end-user platform.

Steven Fairchild-Dees & Morgan Soucie created a custom-made self-monitoring growing sys-tem with a Raspberry Pi using Python and a web interface.

Jon Marvin created autonomous humanoid game AIs, using the ML-Agents toolkit in Unity. ML-Agents connects Unity to Ten-sorFlow and Python. Jon auto-matically generate and trained humanoid agents that could climb hills he created in Unity. The AIs then plug into any Unity game engine.

Jose Mendez researched and configured using a Rasp-berry Pi as a wireless access point.

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2018-2019 CYBER SYSTEMS SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS

Buckle Excellence: Zach Carattini, Jacob Wayman, Will Rosno, Drake Berry, Dr. Sherri Harms (Missing: Kaleb Buck)

Outstanding Junior: Adam Spanier, Nate Kiolbasa, Trevor Wood, Dr. Sherri Harms Friends and Alumni Scholarship In Honor of Dr. Marilyn Jussel: Trenton Chramosta, 20-

18 recipient, Dr. Sherri Harms (Missing: Keaton Cottrell, 2019 recipient)

Frontier Communications: Tyler Pierce-Panowicz, Trevor Wood, Dr. Sherri Harms (Missing: Jakob Kostman, Nathan

Seberger, Eric Wademan)

Northwestern Energy: Angel Ruiz,2018 recipient, Dr. Sherri Harms (Missing:

Connor Slagle, 2019 recipient)

Tax deductible contributions to Cyber Systems scholarships can be made at nufoundation.org

Robert Rathe: Uriel Anchondo, Ben Andres, Dr. Sherri Harms (Missing: Garrett Engel)

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Cyber Systems Advisory Council members are:

President Zac Deeds, Intellicom; Kelly Barnes, UST Global; Nick Colton, Allo Internet; Rob Harbols, Buckle; Lourdes Herling, NPPD; Dr. Mitch Neilsen, Kansas State University; Ali Oran, Farm Credit Services; Teresa Porter, ISYS Tech; Jay Powell, MathWorks; Cullen Robbins, NPSC; Ram S, Xpanxion; Matt Schneel NPPD; Travis Smith, Google; and Tom Wenzke, KRMC and Kevin Woolley, PGE. 2018-2019 student members were Mir Hasnat, MIS, Jerod Paup, INT, Angel Ruiz, IT, Chris Schaaf, CSO, and Christian Schleif, CS. The council held a web meeting in January 2019, a face-to-face/web meeting in February 2019, and a web meeting in August 2019. The April on-campus meeting was canceled due to weather, so the material was provided via email, with a plan to meet in fall 2019. The council also completed a survey regarding Program Educational Outcomes in May 2019.

UNK’s 4th Annual Cyber Security Camp organized by Dr. Millers and Harms was held in June for middle and high school students. Campers learned cyber security, App Inventor, Linux, robotics, programming, and more. They all received Raspberry Pi’s which they set up and programmed.

UNK’s Super GenCyber Girls Camp was a one-week, non-residential camp to serve rural females in 5th - 8th grade. The camp taught online, ethical behavior and cybersecurity concepts through unplugged and plugged, hands-on activities. Example activities included bristlebots, soldering, coding through micro:bits and learning about cyber careers.

Uintah’s Super GenCyber Girls Camp (Vernal, UT) had a similar mission and target audience as UNK’s GenCyber camp. Example activities included DNA cybercrime forensics through electrophoresis, bristlebots, coding through micro:bits and learning about cyber careers through field experts.

UNK’s CoderDojos are hosted by CS faculty and students, along with Kearney-area IT professionals. We met the third Monday evening in September, October, November,

February, March and April for grades 3-12.

Camps & Outreach

Campers & Councilors at the Cyber Security Camp in June 2019

Advisory Council

CYBER SYSTEMS SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS AND CREATIVE WORKS 2018-2019

Agrawal, Vipin, K., Agrawal, V. K, Taylor, A. R., Chau, N. (2018) “Trends of IT Human Resources & End-users In-volvement in IT Function: A Comparison of Manufacturing & Service Sector,” J Internat. Busi & Economics, V18, Issue 3.

Bice, M. R., Ball, J. W., Hollman, A. K., Adkins, M. M. (2018). Health Technology Use: Implications for Physical Activity behaviors among College Students. International Journal of Kinesiology in Higher Education, 2(4), 12.

Bice, M. R., Ball, J., Bickford, N. A., Bickford, S., Hollman, A. K., et al., (2018). Community Gardens: Interactions between communities, schools, & impact on students. The Health Educator, 50(1), 2-10.

Harms, S. K., Jones, W. (2018). UNK Social Media Plan Assistance. socialmedia.csit.unk.edu Hollman, A., et al. (2018). A comparison of scholarly productivity among current professors who obtained terminal de-

grees. American Journal of Distance Education, Taylor & Francis, 32(4), 267-282. Hollman, A. K., Hollman, T. J., Shimerdla, F., Bice, M. R., Adkins, M. M. (2019). Information technology pathways in edu-

cation: Interventions with middle school students. Computers & Education, 135 (July 2019), 49-60. Hollman, A. K., Lear, J. L., Bickford, S. (2018). Communication Processes of Information Technology Executives in High-er Education. Journal of End User Computing (JOEUC), 30(2). Miller, M. J., Stroschein, J., Slayden, S. (2019). Cracking the Off The Grid(OTG) password solution. ADFSL. Miller, M. J. (2018). Software: A system for bandwidth monitoring using a Raspberry Pi. (June 2018 - Present). Miller, M. J. (2019). Software: A graphical interface for a stress/strain machine.

2018-2019 Internships Matt Brunkhorst Fa 18-Sp19 Mutual of Omaha

Kyle Halsted Fa 18 Xpanxion, Kearney, NE

Zayne Kinkade Fa 18 Fast Enterprises

Jonah Peterson Fa 18 Cyber Analytics LLC

Hafils Akpovi Su 19 UNK

Ayush Dhungel Su 19 Orthman, Lexington, NE

Eric Ingebretsen Su 19 Five Nines, Kearney, NE

Nicholas Koch Su 19 Flatwater Wireless, Kearney

Wil Martinez Su 19 Bosselman’s, Grand Island

Jerad Paup Su 19 Turnkey Computer Systems

Grant Oberg Su 19 Buckle, Inc., Kearney, NE

Thomas Russell Su 19 Five Nines

Connor Slagle Su 19 Western Pharmaceuticals

Morgan Soucie Su 19 Buckle, Inc. Kearney, NE

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Kyle Halsted CS Comprehensive

Alex Hinkle Applied Computer Science (CS)

Armando Perez INT, IT

Jonah Peterson IT, CS minor

Preston Power Applied CS, Business Intelligence

Emma Reichle Applied CS, Creative Writing

Eduardo Salas CS Comprehensive

Brenden Sheridan IT, Business Admin

Matthew Brunkhorst Applied CS, Business Admin

Tyler Cretacci INT

Steven Dees INT

Alex Eman INT

Kyle Glandt CS Comprehensive/ Math Comp

Jared Graham CS Comprehensive

Tyler Hinrichs IT, Music

Matthew Huffman INT

Matthew Laucomer CS Comprehensive

Kylie Longwell INT

Wesley Orr Business Admin, MIS

Gerardo Quintero Applied CS, Japanese

Brandon Ripp Applied CS, Visual Comm & Design

Jerod Stutzman INT

2018-2019 CYBER SYSTEMS GRADUATES

Fall 2018 Graduation Reception. Back row: Adam Spanier, Trenton Chra-

mosta, Bricyn Jameson, Paul Swenson, Shahram Alavi, Sherri Harms,

Matt Miller, John Hastings. Front row: Iris Lee, Jiayao Han, Jingyan

Zhang, Emma Reichle, Kyle Halsted, Jonah Peterson, Preston Power

Note: Graduates not shown here are found elsewhere in the newsletter.

Spring 2019 Graduation Reception. Back row: John Hastings,

Shahram Alavi, Sherri Harms. Front Row: Tyler Hinrichs, Matt

Brunkhorst, Kyle Glandt, Jared Graham, Tyler Cretacci

Hafils Akpovi INT

Dalton Harvey Business Admin, MIS

Mir Hasnat Business Admin, MIS

Zayne Kinkade Applied CS, Bus Intelligence

Nicholas Koch INT

Kody Krantz INT Jerad Paup INT

Kyle Halsted Dalton Harvey

Jerod Stutzman Eduardo Salas

Matthew Huffman Kody Krantz

Armando Perez Gerardo Quintero

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MICS 2019 programming team: Matthew Lau-comer, Christian Schleif, Trenton Chramosta

Christian Schleif & Kali Wubben solve their chalk

Finite Automata Coderdojo kids and mentors enjoying drones and robots

Kyle Glandt and Jared Graham enjoy a monthly board game night

Rachel Phillips helping girl scouts at the GS Robotics

workshop November 2018

Bricyn Jameson with his research poster at MICS 2019

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Xpanxion Open House for Cyber Systems students and faculty held

April 24, 2019

Rachel Phillips, Kylie Longwell, Emelie Gage, Dr. Harms, Emma Reichle, and Heather Harrison enjoy the 2018

Rocky Mountain Celebration of Women in Computing

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This newsletter is produced and distributed by the Cyber Systems Department at UNK. Please report any errors to the department. Dr. Sherri Harms wrote and Carol Koch edited the newsletter. The front cover features Jon Marvin in VR goggles, with Kali Wubben, Matt Brunkhorst, Christian Schleif, and Justin Joyce at the top, and Kali Wubben at the bottom. Above left, Kyle Longwell, Dr. Harms, Emelie Gage, and Rachel Phillips enjoy 2018 Rocky Mountain Celebration of Women in Computing.

On July 23, 2019, Cyber System alumni and faculty gathered in Omaha to network and learn about the new department, pro-grams, and building. Back row: Hafils Akpovi, Pete Evans, Jeremy Siung, Tyler Neal, Scott Klausen, Liaqaut Hossain. Front row: Sherri Harms, Trevor Wood, Angel Ruiz, Brandon Ramos , Brian Britten.

NEXT program connects UNK students with local employers, 7/18/2019

Construction Video and Photos: STEM building continues to take shape at UNK, 6/6/2019

UNK, Hausmann celebrate milestone in STEM building construction, 4/24/19

University of Nebraska working to address urgent STEM workforce need, 4/15/19

Ayush Dhungel: Fake snakes and all, Kearney is ‘warm and welcoming’, 3/28/19

NU for NE: President Bounds on UNK meeting workforce needs, 3/18/19

Tech Edge Conference promotes innovative education, computer science literacy, 1/29/2019

Deb Schroeder saw many changes in her 41 years with UNK Information Technology

Cyber Systems In The News

ALUMNI GATHERING

Ayush Dhngel

Deb Schroeder

“When I was a college student, you could never say I aspired to be a chief information officer, because there really wasn’t such a thing at the time,” said Schroeder, who retired May 31

after working 41 years in UNK’s ITS. In addition to supporting administrative and academ-ic services through her work, Schroeder is a key player in cybersecurity, and she created the Technology Excellence Award, which recognizes exemplary performance of ITS staff mem-bers across the university system. T. Ellyson UNK News, 4/9/2019