On Tuesday, April 26th, Dr. Evren Koptur’s Computer Engineering Technology Capstone class presented their final capstone projects to College of Aeronautics students, faculty, and staff. Senior students, many preparing to graduate in May, worked in teams to create three separate projects, titled Drone-Based Water Sampling and Air Quality, Modular Smartphone-Controlled Electric Skateboard, and Retro Gaming Arcade Cabinet. The Drone-Based Water Sampling and Air Quality project aims to make air quality testing and water sample collection safer and more efficient. This is accomplished by a...
One of our favorite perks as the country's only podiatric medical school affiliated with a state university is research collaboration across programs - like this one with Jason Abounader, an undergraduate student in Computer Science! Jason's paper, An Initial Study of Ingrown Toenail Removal Simulation in Virtual Reality with Bimanual Haptic Feedback for Podiatric Surgical Training won first place in the Choose Ohio first poster competition at Youngstown State University! Drs. Bryan Caldwell and Mark Hardy served as advisors on Jason's poster and authors of the publication, which is pend...
Dear Kent State University Faculty and Staff, Our next edition of Talking With Todd is coming up today at 2:30 p.m., and I hope you can join me. Click Teams Live to join the session. I’ll be chatting live from my desk and answering your questions related to Ohio Senate Bill 83 and the proposed Ohio state budget for higher education. We’ll also talk about this week’s May 4 Commemoration activities. If you can spare a few minutes, I’d like to engage with you today for Talking With Todd. Sincerely, Todd Diacon President ...
This month, Kent State will graduate its first-ever group of nine doctoral students studying Interprofessional Leadership, a fully online, first-of-its-kind program offered through the College of Education, Health and Human Services. In 2019, a development team of faculty from interested EHHS programs spent two years discussing and designing the program before securing the necessary approvals from the Ohio Department of Education. Subsequently, the first cohort of students was admitted in the summer of 2020. "What led to the development of the Ed.D. degree in Int...