Upsilon Pi Epsilon
April 28th, 2012:
Last Tuesday,we used our prototype name display for the CSE Awards Ceremony and it was a huge success.
Today is our fifth induction as the Alpha Chapter of Nebraska. We again held the ceremony in the Schorr center at 6:30pm. We inducted nine new members this year.
March 2nd, 2012:
Jason Gaare and Dr. Riedesel represented the UNL chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon at the UPE Annual Convention, held in conjunction with ACM's SIGCSE 2012 this year in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Our chapter of UPE this year is creating a project to assist with the graduation commencement. The goal is to display each student's name next on the screen as the student crosses the stage. A prototype of this project has been build, with the hopes to be used in-house by the CSE graduation event, and hope to expand it University-wide in the coming year.
The technology used to display the name is a QR-code reader that encodes each students name, which is read by a web-cam and Java program to decode the QR-code and display the name on the screen.
March 18th, 2011:
Our chapter once again drove to the UPE Annual Convention which was held in conjunction with ACM's SIGCSE 2011 Technical Symposium on Education in Computing Sciences in Dallas, TX.
This year, the Upsilon Pi Epsilon project has once again been for University of Nebraska-Lincoln advising. The project this year consists of creating an online note-taking system for advisors. This system's goal is to replace the existing paper files of students, giving students a new digital file.
April 20th, 2010:
Photos from the past induction have been uploaded onto our website. See the photo's section!
April 1st, 2010:
Our next initiation is schedule to be held at 5pm on April 16th in the Schorr Center. If you were invited to join, please respond by Tuesday, April 6th, 2010.
March 12th, 2010:
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon drove to the UPE Annual Convention which was held in conjunction with ACM's SIGCSE 2010 Technical Symposium on Education in Computing Sciences in Milwaukee, WI.
Since attending last year, the chapter has been working on transfering the New Student Enrollment Paper Notebook into an online-wiki format. The new notebook will be used coming this summer, and initial reactions are positive.
April 13th, 2009:
Our next initiation is schedule to be held at 7pm on May 1st in the Schorr Center. If you were invited to join, please respond by Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009.
March 8th, 2009:
Students from the UNL chapter of the Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) Computer Science honor society drove to the UPE Annual Convention which was held in conjunction with ACM's SIGCSE 2009 Technical Symposium on Education in Computing Sciences in Chattanooga, TN. Attendees from UNL included all but one of the charter members of the chapter as well as professors Dr. Charles Riedesel and Dr. Leen- Kiat Soh.
Dr. Riedesel and Dr. Soh gave presentations related to their research, and the UPE members gave a brief presentation on the chapter's activities since its re-activation last November. This included a preview of their first project: construction of a novel interactive real-time map of classes in session in Avery Hall and the new Shorr Center, which is being designed for display on projectors in the Shorr Center. Also at SIGCSE were many exhibits by Microsoft Research, Google, Intel, and others; keynote addresses; panels; workshops; and much more.
While in Chattanooga, the group was able to enjoy some of the city's attractions, including some well-known local restaurants such as Porker's BBQ, a favorite of President George W. Bush, and Cheeburger Cheeburger where UPE president Robert Woodward, a junior Computer Science major, won The Famous Pounder Challenge, earning himself a picture on the restaurant's "Wall of Fame".
October 17th, 2008:
Website launched! Welcome to the Alpha Chapter of Nebraska Upsilon Pi Epsilon website!
