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IS Students Take Top Prize in Pomona Competition
A Cal State Northridge Information Systems student team took first place in the systems analysis and design category of the 2004 annual Information Technology Competition held at Cal Poly Pomona in April. CSUN also placed second in the networking category.
Sponsored by Cal Poly Pomona’s Management Information Systems Student Association and the Computer Information Systems Department, the competition was launched in 1996. It brings together West Coast information technology/information systems students who apply their classroom expertise to assigned cases in a simulated “real world” business environment.
Each team worked against a deadline to conduct systems analysis and modeling, cost-benefit analysis, and specifications for implementation. Team members were required to present and defend their resulting detailed package before a panel of industry professionals.
CSUN’s two teams were coached by Dat-Dao Nguyen and Richard Ye, both information systems faculty in the College of Business and Economics’ Accounting and Information Systems Departments.
First place winners in systems analysis and design included students Atul Rao, Nadia Meskova, Don Irwin and Curtis Brown. The networking team included students Dan Carmi, Mark Cayabyab and Vladimir Ignatenko.
“Each case involved a complex problem of information systems design,” said Ye. “Because all competition participants must be fulltime students, they basically sacrificed their entire spring break week to work on the project.”
The competition gave students invaluable experience in situations they will undoubtedly encounter in the workplace after graduation, Nguyen added. “The students had to virtually work around the clock in the lab to meet the deadline. They enjoyed it.”
Northridge students have won consistently during the last five years of the competition, placing first place in the 2003 networking category, tying for first in the e-business slot and winning second place in systems design and analysis. CSUN’s team took the top award in the 2002 systems analysis and design division.
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