Faculty election results for 2011-12
The following SPSU faculty members have been elected to faculty governance positions for the 2011-12 academic year.

Faculty Moderator:
• Pamela Frinzi, Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology

Faculty Council:
• Carol Barnum, English, Technical Communication and Media Arts
• Lance Crimm, Division of Engineering
• Herb Smith, English, Technical Communication and Media Arts

Undergraduate Student Status Committee:
• Bob Harbort, Computer and Software Engineering
• Mark Stevens, English, Technical Communication and Media Arts

Student Life Committee:
• Tom Fallon, Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology
• Michelle Nichols, English, Technical Communication and Media Arts

Have you registered for the Polytechnic Summit?
It’s not too late to sign up for the Polytechnic Summit, which SPSU will host June 8-10. More than 80 people have registered to date.

The summit is an annual event that brings together faculty members, administrators and students from polytechnic institutions worldwide. The theme for 2011 is Polytechnic Opportunity, focusing on the key role that polytechnic institutions play in supporting all aspects of society.

The keynote speaker at dinner on Thurs., June 9, will be architect Richard Graves, senior vice president of community for the U.S. Green Building Council.

A number of SPSU faculty members have submitted abstracts for papers, posters and presentations.

To view the summit schedule, session descriptions and abstracts as well as to register for the event, please visit http://polytechnicsummit.org.

Aerospace engineering courses to be offered starting this fall
A variety of aerospace engineering courses are being added to the SPSU curriculum. The courses, Aerodynamics; Propulsion; Aircraft Design and Performance; Helicopter Theory; and Senior Design Project will be offered periodically, beginning with Aerodynamics in fall 2011.

The courses will be offered through the Systems Engineering program but will be open to all majors. The prerequisite for the Aerodynamics course is Calculus III.

For more information about these upcoming course offerings, contact Dr. Adeel Khalid, assistant professor in Systems Engineering, at akhalid2@spsu.edu.

Baseball team to play in NAIA National Tournament
Congratulations to the Hornets baseball team, which has won an at-large bid to the opening round of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Baseball National Championship. SPSU has been placed in a five-team pairing that will conduct a double-elimination tournament in Paducah, Ky., this Thursday through Sunday.

SPSU is the No. 2 seed in this pairing and is currently ranked 19th in the country. The Hornets’ first Opening Round appearance will be Thurs., May 12, at 3 p.m. EST. www.NAIA.org will carry it live.

Continuing Education to hold Open House
The Continuing Education Center will host an Open House 12- 8 p.m. on May 19 in the American Business Center at 1395 S. Marietta Pkwy. (Building 200, Suite 234).

Information sessions on summer course offerings and registration will be offered at 12 p.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. Tours, food and prizes will be available to all attendees, including a chance to win a $500 credit toward any SPSU Continuing Education Center class.

RSVP to open_house@spsu.edu. For more information, please call 678-915-7240.

IET Simulation Team among finalists in global competition
The SPSU Industrial Engineering Technology (IET) Simulation Competition Team is one of three finalists in the IIE/Rockwell Student Simulation Competition Global Finals at the IIE Annual Conference and Expo in Reno, Nev., May 21-25.

The competition required teams to solve a real-world situational case study using a simulation package from sponsor Rockwell Automation. The students had eight weeks to develop their solution.

CPSI donates hospital information system
Computer Programs and Systems Inc. (CPSI) in Mobile, Ala., has donated a hospital information system valued at nearly $850,000 to the School of Computing and Software Engineering. This single-source electronic medical record system will give students enrolled in the school’s new health information technology (HIT) programs hands-on experience.

According to Dean Han Reichgelt, the CPSI hospital information system encompasses the full spectrum of financial and clinical applications. The company has installed the system, either partially or fully, in about 50 percent of the rural hospitals in Georgia.

Dean Reichgelt noted that having staged a pilot program successfully, the school will offer “a new and improved” version of its accelerated training program in HIT starting May 14. The program will be offered Saturdays both on-campus and online.

Dean Reichgelt credited Dr. Mahmoud Ghavi, the new director of SPSU’s Center for Nuclear Power Generation, with making the initial contact with CPSI. Ghavi founded Consort Technologies, Inc., a company that was heavily involved with the computerized healthcare informatics industry in the 1990s.

SPSU alumnus appointed to state licensing board
Gov. Nathan Deal recently appointed Brian Daniel (’00, M.S., Construction Management) to the State Licensing Board for Residential and General Contractors.

Daniel is president of Carroll Daniel Construction Co. and holds numerous leadership positions within the community, including director of the Chattahoochee Bank of Georgia and a member of the boards of the Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce and the Georgia branch of Associated General Contractors.

Have news to share?
If your department has an upcoming event or other news to share with the campus community, please send an e-mail with all the pertinent information to Diane Payne (dpayne@spsu.edu). To be considered for use in a specific issue of the SPSU Hornet’s Nest, a news item must be submitted no less than four weeks before the date of the issue.

Volume 4, Issue 17
May 11, 2011