Our students are active on Elon's campus through a student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The student club sponsors an annual video game night at Belk Library. In addition, students compete

yearly in the regional Mid-Atlantic programming contest, and this year one team placed in the top 15% of programming teams.

Most impressively, Computing Sciences students are successful beyond Elon. This summer seven students were awarded paid summer internships at Credit Suisse of

only thirty total positions. Recent graduates are employed at IBM, Credit Suisse, UNCG, Red Hat, Lockheed Martin, Clarkston Consulting, and

Verizon. Others are attending graduate school at Wake Forest, UNC-Charlotte, and Georgia Tech.

“The department is strong and benefits from well-qualified,

hardworking faculty, excellent leadership, a student-centered vision

for its educational programs, and good facilities... it provides an

atmosphere that fosters learning and success for its students.”

- Dr. Don Bailes, former president of the Computing Sciences

Accreditation Board

Computing Sciences majors have exclusive access to two labs, one for experimenting with networking architectures, and one with dual-booting Mac pro workstations with triple monitors: a 27" iMac sandwiched by two 21" displays. There are five department servers and a nine-machine Grid Computing Node. Software includes the latest operating systems, and software packages are upgraded twice annually.

Elon Computing Sciences students are excelling in undergraduate research. In the past year, student research projects have gained a "Best Poster" award for an augmented reality application for mobile smart phones and a summer research prize on using potential fields for path-planning for groups of unmanned aircraft. Three students had international conference publications, one on the collaborative use of large displays, one on open-source software code forges, and one on replication of empirical software engineering studies. In addition, a rising junior was awarded a prestigious Lumen Prize to conduct research on creating a serious game on the Android platform.

Our cutting-edge curriculum includes courses not yet taught at most institutions, including mobile programming, Xbox 360 game development, and building collaborative environments. Other courses central to computing are offered, such as Operating Systems, Database Management, Algorithm Analysis, and Web Development.

Computing Sciences boasts caring, innovative faculty. Computing Sciences professors have won two Elon College teaching awards, one Elon College research award, one university-wide service award, and one professional service award.

Our professors carry out world-class research. One faculty was awarded a senior faculty research fellowship for 2012- 2014. Two have received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Recently, faculty published in international journals, conferences, and books on topics such as teaching mobile computing, human-computer interaction, open-source projects, and financialtransactions through mobile devices.

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