Students

The Department of Information Systems Club (DISC) offers their Secret Code of Business workshop for the second year in a row.

As the semester draws to a close, KnowIT salutes the students who have gone the extra mile to excel this year. As well, we congratulate Clinical Assistant Professor Kathleen Moser, who was honored by the university as the most outstanding student organization advisor of the year.

As a kid, Manoj Panikkar used to tinker with electronics. He’d take them apart and put them back together just to see how they worked. That curiosity turned into a passion for learning, so much so that he couldn’t settle on just one major.

The love and support of a spouse has seen Erik and Natalie Lowell through college and now to graduation. Whether it was reminding each other of upcoming deadlines or keeping each other on task while working on a project, the couple has worked hard together and will now graduate together.

As the academic year draws down, I am sure many of our students are scrambling to complete their course projects, capstone projects, final assignments and, of course, to prepare for the final exams.

The leadership of the top-10 ranked Department of Information Systems takes many forms. Professor Ajay Vinze, in his role as ASU’s associate vice provost for graduate education, was instrumental in creating a program that will help an African nation build its economy.

Doctoral students invest five years in study and research after years spent earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees. The program is demanding, but fortunately it is also satisfying, and for two Department of Information Systems Ph.D. candidates, the end is in sight.

U. S. News & World Report recently announced the 2017 ranking of Graduate Information Systems Programs. I am delighted to report that our graduate IS program ranked number 10 in the latest rankings. This is an improvement of two places over the previous rankings announced in 2015.

New research by a team of information systems and supply chain experts from the W. P. Carey School of Business shows that adding business analytics to the supply chain toolbox can make the process of evaluating supply chains easier, faster and more targeted.

Researchers from nine top universities gathered in Tempe this weekend for our first annual Information Systems Research Workshop.