UW-Whitewater information technology chapter wins national awards
Released: May 9, 2003
The UW-Whitewater chapter of the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) won third place for best student portal with its Web site at the 2003 National Collegiate Conference held in West Lafayette, Ind. on March 27-29. Faculty advisors are Bob Horton and David Munro, both in Management Computer Systems.
UW-Whitewater AITP chapter president Chad Jones, a senior from Winneconne, Wis., and Tom Hanson, a junior from Germantown, Wis., the chapter Webmaster, presented the Web site at the conference and won $250. View the web site at mcs.www.edu/aitp. UW-Whitewater placed third behind Boise State University, which won first place, and the University of Anchorage-Alaska, which won second place.
Mike Wyatt, a junior from Elkhart Lake, Wis., received honorable mention in the C++ competition, which was a programming competition where students created high-performance applications for Microsoft Windows and the web. He designed an airport simulation to obtain information about the sizes of planes and cargo so as much cargo could be fit on the planes as efficiently as possible.
The team of Joe Rogers, a junior from Franklin, Wis., and Jason Rendel, a junior from Milwaukee, Wis., received honorable mention for the JAVA competition where they had to restructure an existing employee payroll. Rogers and Rendel ran the program in front of conference judges to show how effectively it would handle pay-type changes without losing information.
- N & P Staff,npa@uww.edu
