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Thursday, April 25
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Registration
      Snack Provided
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Opening Session
      Welcome
            Dr. Terry Holmes, Conference Coordinator

      "Vision of the Initiative"
            Dr. Gary Brockway, Provost

      "Development of a Program in Telecommunications"
            Dr. Phillip Sparks, CTSM
                  Integrating a Center into the Program
            Dr. Danny Claiborne, CSET
                  Curriculum & Facilities Development
            Dr. James McCoy, CBPA
                  Faculty Recruitment & Staff Development
 Curd Auditorium
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM "Connected Kentucky:
      An Infrastructure Model For a State New Economy Plan"
            Dr. Linda Johnson,
            Kentucky Commission for the New Economy

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM "Program Administration: Starting a Telecommunications Accreditation Organization"
            Dr. Roger Clery,
            Roosevelt University

3:00 PM - 3:15 PM Break
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM Concurrent Sessions
  1. Teaching Innovations/Academic Research
    2.     Mr. George Rice, Chair             Mr. John Hart, Discussant

       "eXroads.com, The Electronic Crossroads"
             Michael Ramage, Murray State University

       "Introducing a Computer-Based Manufacturing
        Technology Course for I & E Tech Students"
             Djassemi Manocher, Murray State University

       "State of Wireless and Unification Services"
             Steve Creason, Accenture

  2. Student Projects
    3.     Mr. Tony Cantraella, Chair             Dr. William Lyle, Discussant

       "Impact and Future of Educational Technology on
       Teachers and Students"
             Spencer Anderson, Texas A & M University

       "Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs),
        The Telecommunications Act of 1996 - 5 Years Later"
             Adam Mabrouk, Waseem Akram, Arthur Cripps, Ed Donner,Donna Keller, and Bruce Watkins
             Murray State University

       "The AOL-Time Warner Merger"
             Ed Herdon, Sara Karuchit, Fredrik Lanner, Sugit Sumethasorn,
             Varintra Vajrathon, and Shelley Yates
             Murray State University

Classroom 229












Classroom 242
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Tours of Murray State University's TSM Facilities Curd Auditorium
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Dinner
 Terrace
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Keynote Address
   "Current State and Future of Wireless Technology"
         Michael Hegeman, Director of Wireless
         Electronic Data Systems, Plano, Texas
 Curd Auditorium


Friday, April 26
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Late Registration
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Concurrent Sessions
  1. Teaching Innovations/Academic Research
    2.     Mr. James Weatherly, Chair             Mr. John McLaren, Discussant

       "The Next Generation of Networks"
             Steve Creason, Accenture

       "Incorporating Networking and Systems Administration into the
        Computer Science Curriculum"
             Dr. Ted Mims, University of Illinois - Springfield

       "Introducing Satellite Communications in an
       Engineering Technology Program"
             Dr. Albert Lozano-Nieto, Penn Sate University at Wilkes-Barre

  2. Student Projects
    3.     Mr. George Rice, Chair             Dr. Margie Boldt, Discussant

       "On-line Community and a New Revenue-Generating Paradigm:
       The Socio-Spatial Anchoring of Yahoo! Clubs"
             Johnathan Sabella, David Williams, and Sorin Matei
             University of Kentucky

       "24-7 Network Solutions"
             Yuhong Chen, Murray State University

       "Desktop Clock"
             Sharaf Alkibsi, Murray State University

Curd Auditorium













Classroom 237
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM Break
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Concurrent Sessions
  1. Teaching Innovations/Academic Research
    2.     Dr. Danny Claiborne, Chair             Mr. William Call, Discussant

       "A Multi-Institutional Interdisciplinary Distance Controls Experiment:
        Bringing Engineering and Engineering Technology Students Together"
             Jim Benson, Murray State University

       "Using a Weblog to Teach E-Commerce Marketing"
             Dr. Tim Johnston, University of Tennessee - Martin

       "NetTool: A Utility for the Collection of Ping and Traceroute Data"
             Christopher Everett, Mississippi State University

       "Creating and Using PBX SMDR/CDR Data for Student Projects in
       Telecommunications Analysis Classes"
             Dr. Roger Clery, Roosevelt University

Curd Auditorium
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM Closing Remarks
      Dr. Terry Holmes, Conference Coordinator		 Curd Auditorium
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Departure or Lunch on your own
1:30 PM Golf Outing Murray State University's
Miller Golf Course

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