Engineering Quad

The conference, hosted by the Department of Computer Science, will convene in the new Siebel Center, located on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus at 201 N. Goodwin, Urbana, IL. Please go to Room 2405 on Monday morning.

Engineering I.T. Conference Schedule

Date Time Location
(unless otherwise noted all events occur in the Siebel Center)
Event
 
Sunday, October 8th 6:00pm - 9:00pm Jillian's (1201 S. Neil St., Champaign, 217-355-2800) Meet and greet with EITC attendees over food and drink. Food and non-alcoholic beverages provided.
 
Monday, October 9th 7:30am - 8:15am Room 2405 Breakfast provided by UIUC CoE
8:15am - 9:00am Room 2405 Welcome, Introductions, and Conference Logistics Overview
    Room 2405

Presentation: Virtual Server Implementation

    Presentations by:
  • University of Iowa - Dan Mentzer [ slides ]

  • [ webcast ]
9:00am - 10:30am Room 2405

Presentation: Course Management Systems - 2 or 3 presentations w/mediated discussions focused on Course Management Systems: centrally provided, college level, department level, implementation, pros and cons...

    Presentations by:
  • University of Illinois
  • University of Wisconsin - Paul Oliphant [ slides ]

  • [ webcast ]
10:30am - 10:45am *** Break
10:45am - 12:15pm Room 2405

Presentation: Engineering Portals - 2 or 3 presentations w/mediated discussions focused on portals being used or developed by represented schools for use within their Engineering colleges. Presentations will include examples overviews of portals that are currently in production.

    Presentations by:
  • University of Illinois - Josh Potts
  • Purdue University - Brian R. Brinegar
  • University of Illinois - Chuck Thompson

  • [ webcast - part 1 | webcast - part2 ]
12:15pm - 1:45pm *** Lunch
1:45pm - 2:45pm Room 0224 Birds of a Feather Session 1:
2:45pm - 3:00pm *** Break
3:00pm - 4:30pm Room 2405

Presentation: Preventing Unintended Release of Confidential Data - 2 or 3 presentations w/mediated discussions focused on what schools are doing to secure their data. Presentations will include examples and overviews of security approaches currently being used or where schools think they're headed.

    Presentations by:
  • University of Wisconsin - Dave DeCoster [ slides ]
  • University of Michigan - Mark Giuffrida [ slides ]
  • University of Illinois - Chuck Thompson & Joshua Stone [ slides ]

  • [ webcast ]
4:30pm - 5:00pm Room 2405 Wrap Up Session, Topics for Tomorrow, Dinner Logistics Overview
6:00pm Papa Del's Pizza Pizza and non-alcoholic beverages provided.
 
Tuesday, October 10th 7:30am - 8:15am Room 2405 Breakfast provided by UIUC CoE
8:15am - 9:45am Room 2405

Presentation: HPC/Grid Computing - 2 or 3 presentations w/mediated discussions focused on how HPC/Grid computing is being implemented and utilized by our schools.

9:45am - 10:45am Room 0224 Birds of a Feather Session 2
10:45am - 12:00pm n/a Tour of Facilities
12:00pm - 1:00pm ***

Box Lunches

1:00pm - 2:30pm n/a Tours
photo of Siebel Center, U of I Logo, CITES