News Update February 8 2005
CT News Update: An Online Newsletter from Campus Technology
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News for Tuesday,
February 8, 2005
* NASA Joins Seven Universities in Space Station Research
Exchange
* Utah Education Net Offers Common Storage Services to Affiliates
* Stanford Schedules Exclusive Online Masters Courses in Math Engineering
* Deals: ETS, eCollege, Consolidate Testing, Accreditation Services
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Deals: IBM Wiring S.F. State for Collaborative Computing
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NASA Joins Seven
Universities in Space Station Research Exchange
Students and faculty
studying human space flight will soon access
technical data from the
International Space Station in a research
exchange with NASA. The space
agency recently awarded
grants to seven universities to work with the
Johnson Space Center,
Houston, on projects designed to stimulate academic
interest in
space exploration.
“This partnership truly seeks to inspire the next
generation of explorers
as only NASA can,” said Dennis Stone,
ISS Engineering Outreach Project
manager. “The faculty and
students will get real experience with human space
flight research
and operations, and NASA will benefit from their creative
thinking and enthusiasm.”
Under the grant program, faculty and students will have access
to the
Space Station's technical data and expertise. In exchange,
NASA will tap
university studies and draw on the students and
faculty for assistance in
helping with space station projects.
The universities selected for grants are: Georgia Institute of
Technology, MIT, Montana State University, Purdue University,
University
of Alabama-Huntsville, University of Mississippi, and
University of Wyoming.
The grant is part of the 2004 Aerospace
Workforce Development Competition
Announcement distributed
to the National Space Grant College and Fellowship
Program
network of universities.
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Utah Education Net
Offers Common Storage Services to Affiliates
To cope with a growing
demand for greater data storage capacity for the
“exponential growth” of
data on campuses, the Utah Education Network,
a consortium of public
education providers, announced a common set
of storage services for
universities and other educational affiliates in the
state.
“Given
the diverse nature of the storage infrastructures deployed
throughout our
state as well as the exponential growth in data, voice,
and video within our
network, we needed a flexible and resilient
storage solution,' said Mike
Petersen, executive director for UEN.
'With increasing requirements for UEN
services, our storage needs
have doubled to tripled over the last year. It
became necessary to
look at a different way to address storage growth.'
The organization is deploying SANsympony, a storage area network
from
DataCore Inc., to serve 10 universities, as well as the Utah
Electronic
College, the Utah State Office of Education, local school
districts, and
online education, as well as the state's library systems.
For more information visit: http://www.uen.org
Stanford Schedules Exclusive Online Masters Courses in Math Engineering
Stanford University's Institute for Computational and Mathematical
Engineering (ICME) offers an online master of science in
computational
and mathematical engineering (CME) in its fall 2005
catalog.
Studying from home, students gain access to Stanford research using
computer simulation tools for designing jet engines, exploring surgical
strategies, understanding of protein folding in health and disease, and
optimizing Internet traffic. The Stanford professional development
center offers graduate degrees, credit courses, certificates and
professional development short courses for engineers, scientists,
technology professionals and managers.
Twenty-three Stanford master of science degree concentrations are
available online including:
* biomedical informatics
* computer
science
* computational mathematics and engineering
* electrical
engineering,
* management science and engineering
* mechanical
engineering.
The Stanford Center for Professional Development plans to deliver
the
courses online. Television broadcast is available in the San
Francisco Bay
area. All courses will be taught by Stanford faculty.
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Deals: ETS, eCollege,
Consolidate Testing, Accreditation Services
ETS, the nonprofit educational testing organization, and education
platform developer eCollege will jointly offer an online course
evaluation solution to help schools with accreditation benchmarking.
eCollege customers will be able to purchase access to ETS academic
assessment instruments, which include the Student Instructional
Report
II (SIR II) for on-campus learning and the e-SIR II for
distance learning,
according to a joint announcement.
The plan calls for online delivery through the eCollege platform.
In
addition to the current print version of SIR II, ETS customers
will be able
to purchase the new Web-based SIR II and e-SIR II
products delivered through
eCollege technology. This offers ETS
customers a fully hosted, scalable and
reliable online option.
Deals: IBM Wiring S.F. State for Collaborative Computing
IBM is
bringing its corporate Workplace product to campus.
Big Blue and San
Francisco State Univeristy signed a $2.3 million
agreement to upgrade campus
communication technologies,
providing unified e-mail, calendaring, group
collaboration and
Web conferencing to students, faculty and staff.
Under the deal, SFSU will purchase IBM's Workplace Collaboration
Services
running on IBM eServer pSeries hardware. SFSU plans
for Workplace include
setting up customized online portals and
collaborative
applications for its 29,000 students, and 3,000 faculty
and staff, as well
as 18,000 additional users, said
Jonathan
Rood, SFSU associate vice president
for information technology.
The majority of SFSU students are urban
commuters.
