Announcements and updates from the Information Systems night on March 30, 2016

1. I.S. Nerd Night
March 30, 2016

2. Compliments of Ed Weber
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4. MU Performance Consulting
• Practice your I.S. skills in the real-world
• Sustain I.S. Performance Learning projects
• Learn about the up and coming student-run consulting
firm.
• MUPC will be presenting at Celebrations of Scholarhip.

5. Interested in Pi?
• Know a little Linux?
• Want to cluster computers together?
• Be part of a team to build a Raspberry Pi
cluster for physics and the Maker Space in
the new University Commons
• Research Publication Opportunity
• Contact RJ if interested

6. State Farm Visit Day
• Friday, April 8
• 7:30 am – 4:00 pm
• Visit with Millikin alumni
• Tour a ginormous data center
• Have lunch
• See what’s like to work at State Farm
• RSVP to RJ and Ed by Monday, April 4

7. Midwest Digital Media Conference
• Speakers from Pandora, Adobe, Linkedin,
Yahoo, Oracle, Google, Pinterest, and
others
• Email or talk to RJ if interested

8. Free Resources
• Download VMware virtualization software
for free from myMILLIKIN
• Download several Microsoft titles for free
from Dreamspark through myMILLIKIN
such as:
•Windows 10
•Visual Studio
•Visio, Access, and Project
•SQL Server
•Several others

9. AITP NCC Conference April 7-10
• Association of Information Technology
Professional
• Competitions, Break-out Sessions, Key-note
speakers
• Court Tulak and Taylor Wilson will be
competing and part of the poster session

10. Fall I.S. Class Offerings
• IS130: Spreadsheet Applications
• IS240: Foundations of Information Systems
• IS270: Database Fundamentals (1 cr)
• IS321: System Analysis and Design
• IS322: Web/Mobile App Development
• IS362: IT Security and Risk Management
• IS470: Business Intelligence & Big Data
• Eligible for Disney Travel Couse in January

11. #MK365 – “The Disney Class”
• Information Session for next Disney Trip
• April 6, 4:30 – 6:30 – SCO 208
• MK365 1 credit travel course
• Meets from Oct – Dec with travel in January
• Paired with IS470 or MK363
• Pre/co-req = MK200
• IS270 pre-req for IS470

12. Academic Certificates
• Not an I.S. major?
• Want to add technical skills to your
degree?
• Talk to RJ or Ed about our new Academic
Certificates in Information Systems:
• Study in 1 of 3 areas:
• Application Development
• Data Management
• Security & Compliance

13. Wish the Ball State Teams Good Luck!
• Dove Team
• Peyton Munch
• Brock Trader
• Alex Tueth
• Court Tulak
• Mari-Mann Team
• Joe Barker
• Eric Johnson
• Billy Neumann
• Wish them luck as the present at the
Project and Case Competition April 15-17
• You could be on a team next year!