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Computer Science Students Present Capture Dash Capstone Project
Rural Reimagined recognizes and congratulates Daniel Brown, Jacob Latham, Caleb Lichtenstrahl, and Richard Mitchell from the Computer Science Program on presenting their Capstone project at Tennessee Tech’s Engineering Expo. Their project was titled “Capture Dash,” and the main goal of this project was to design a better way to for SAIC examine and sort through federal requests for proposals. Their abstract explains “the capture dash system is an analysis and sorting system that analyses RFPs and tags it with certain attributes based on what kind of project it is.” Congrats to this team for their hard work, which directly impacts our rural areas, and successfully completing their Capstone. To read the whole story, visit https://www.tntech.edu/grand-challenge/news/articles/20220510-csstudents-research.php. Wings up!
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Computer Science Students Present Breadcrumb Fraud Protection Capstone Project
Rural Reimagined recognizes and congratulates Bentley Burgess, Mateo Gannod, Keadin Hull, Ryan MacGregor, Jordan Myers, and Carli Williams from the Computer Science Program on presenting their Capstone project at Tennessee Tech’s Engineering Expo. Their project was titled “Breadcrumb Fraud Protection,” and the main goal of this project was to create “a data pipeline that accepts a dataset from an API, formats the incoming data, passes the new request to the fraud detection model, and returns a verdict based on the model’s results.” This provides fraud detection as a service feature for the company’s data pipeline. Congrats to this team for their hard work, which directly impacts our rural areas, and successfully completing their Capstone. To read the whole story, visit https://www.tntech.edu/grand-challenge/news/articles/20220510-csstudents-research.php. Wings up!
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Computer Science Students Present Predicting Patient Issues Capstone Project
Rural Reimagined recognizes and congratulates Amanda McGuire, Jacob Hill, Jonas Fornehed, Joseph Doonis, Robert McKay, and Timothy Kelley from the Computer Science Program on presenting their Capstone project at Tennessee Tech’s Engineering Expo. Their project was titled “Predicting Potential Patient Issues,” and the main goal of this project was to create an application for NavSEA that “implements machine learning capabilities to predict critical patient events in the ICU.” The system would provide a patient’s medical data and predictions about their future status as well as assist trained medical personnel with decision making and resource allocation. Congrats to this team for their hard work, which directly impacts our rural areas, and successfully completing their Capstone. To read the whole story, visit https://www.tntech.edu/grand-challenge/news/articles/20220510-csstudents-research.php. Wings up!
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Computer Science Students Present Recommender System Capstone Project
Rural Reimagined recognizes and congratulates Alex Quarles, Ben Austin, Bryan Davis, Daniel Steinmeyer, and Nathaniel Hynek from the Computer Science Program on presenting their Capstone project at Tennessee Tech’s Engineering Expo. Their project was titled “How to Create a Recommender System,” and the main goal of this project was to create a Recommender System for Cru that targets ways to find what the reader will find most appealing. The system “considers their current interests based off what they have read and finds similar topics within the database.” Congrats to this team for their hard work, which directly impacts our rural areas, and successfully completing their Capstone. To read the whole story, visit https://www.tntech.edu/grand-challenge/news/articles/20220510-csstudents-research.php. Wings up!
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Computer Science Students Present Averitt Express Capstone Project
Rural Reimagined recognizes and congratulates Jacob Gable, Jim Moroney, Justin Presley, Johnathon Rich, and Jacob Sweeten from the Computer Science Program on presenting their Capstone project at Tennessee Tech’s Engineering Expo. Their project was titled “Logistics Visualization Map Suite,” and was under the direction of Dr. William Eberle with a valuable partnership with Averitt Express. The main goal of this project was to use Averitt’s software to “visualize logistics data to assist managers with diagnosing inefficiencies in routes” and “improve upon previous team’s work with two new map types and overall better code.” Congrats to this team for their hard work, which directly impacts our rural areas, and successfully completing their Capstone. To read the whole story, visit https://www.tntech.edu/grand-challenge/news/articles/20220510-csstudents-research.php. Wings up!
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Computer Science Students Present Tennessee State Parks Capstone Project
Rural Reimagined recognizes and congratulates Jamison Boyd, Thomas leisure, Evan Sells, Jarett Tice, and Simon Winters from the Computer Science Program on presenting their Capstone project at Tennessee Tech’s Engineering Expo. Their project was titled “Tennessee State Parks AR Integration,” with its main goal being to create an augmented reality application for the Tennessee State Parks. The app they designed “allows visitors of the Frozen Head State Park to view a Civilian Conservation Corps camp that once stood in the park” and features a park map, FAQ, and a gallery. Congrats to this team for their hard work, which directly impacts our rural areas, and completing their Capstone successfully. To read the whole story, visit tntech.edu/grand-challenge/news/articles/20220510-csstudents-research.php. Wings up!
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Computer Science Students Present Electronic Clinical Record Capstone Project
Rural Reimagined recognizes and congratulates Billy Carico, Elijah Cunnigham, Peyton Johnson, Colin Lafever, Carlos Medrano, and Nicholas Vlahakos from the Computer Science Program on presenting their Capstone project at Tennessee Tech’s Engineering Expo. Their project was titled “Electronic Clinical Record,” and the group was tasked with creating a new electronic clinical records system to replace a current paper recordkeeping system. To do this, they adapted their base software, Bahmni, with the needs of Predisan Health Ministries, a Honduran non-profit medical organization, in mind. Congrats to this team for their hard work, which directly impacts these rural areas, and successfully completing their Capstone. To read the whole story, visit tntech.edu/grand-challenge/news/articles/20220510-csstudents-research.php. Wings up!
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Computer Science Students Present EduNet Capstone Project
Rural Reimagined recognizes and congratulates Cameran Green, Conall Fisher, Andrew Al-Halawani, Lukas Motykowski, and Jacob Ford from the Computer Science Program on presenting their Capstone project at Tennessee Tech’s Engineering Expo. Their project titled “EduNet” was sponsored by Rural Reimagined’s Michael Aikens and Kinsey Simone. These students researched ways to directly transform rural education through the development of EduNet, a website that allows teachers in the Upper Cumberland area to post ideas, resources, and allow communication among educators about receiving said resources. This group of students partnered directly with Rural Reimagined and designed a great project. Congrats to all of them for completing their Capstone successfully. To read the whole story, visit https://www.tntech.edu/grand-challenge/news/articles/20220510-edunet.php. Wings up!
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Blacksmithing Fundamentals Workshop
Ever been interested in picking up blacksmithing or improving your skills? Our weekend workshop taught by John Medwedeff may be just the thing for you! Blacksmiths can forge objects with an infinite range of design and function. Learn or improve skill in the seven fundamental processes used by blacksmiths. Gain an understanding of basic skills and open the imagination while creating small objects. We have workshops not only in blacksmithing, but clay, fibers, wood, metals and glass.
Our campus is located in Smithville overlooking the beautiful Center Hill Lake. Reminder that Tech Employees and students get a 50% discount!
Click here for more info or to register!
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Main Food Pantry Closed for Renovations
The main food pantry on campus will be closed for renovations May 9 – June 19, 2022.
In the interim, the Auxiliary Pantry in the library will be stocked and open for clients to stop by once a week if they would like, any hours the library is open.
Another option for folks needing the assistance May 9 – June 19, is the First United Methodist Church Pantry over in downtown Cookeville. They serve our students anytime we are not able to be open | 165 E. Broad St., Cookeville, TN 38501 | 931.526.2177.
As long as renovations go as scheduled, we plan to be open June 20 – July 28, 2022 | Mondays and Thursdays | 9am – 5pm | with volunteers from the Food, Nutrition and Dietetics graduate and undergraduate programs.
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Celebrate Nurses Week
Celebrate Nurses Week
May 6 through May 12 is National Nurses Week! Celebrate this week by thanking our heroes – the faculty and staff of the Whitson-Hester School of Nursing and of the J.J. Oakley Health Services Center – for their roles as educators and care providers to the campus and community. Be sure to show your appreciation for their services and to thank a nurse!
More information about the history of National Nurses Week is available at: https://www.nursingworld.org/education-events/national-nurses-week/history/
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Attention Members of the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System (TCRS)
Beginning May 9, state and higher education employees who are members of the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System (TCRS) will have the opportunity to elect their representatives to the board that oversees their retirement benefits.
Every three years, TCRS administers an election, the election of state employee representatives is being conducted May 9 – 27, and state employees are encouraged to vote. The upcoming term for new state employee representatives on the TCRS Board of Trustees begins July 1, 2022.
On Monday, May 9, ElectionsOnline will email all state employee members on behalf of TCRS from the email address, vote@skypunch.tech. The email will provide a link for state employees to vote electronically.
Please note that the email from vote@skypunch.tech has been authorized by the Tennessee Department of Treasury and is not spam.
To be eligible to vote in this election, you must be a member of the TCRS. By casting your vote, you will certify your membership. You will cast your vote for two candidates and may only vote one time.
Thank you in advance for your participation in these important elections.
For any questions, please contact TCRS.BoardElections@tn.gov or the office of human resources at ttubenefits@tntech.edu
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Office of Communications & Marketing Moves to Crawford Hall
The Office of Communications & Marketing will be closed next week, May 9 to May 13, to allow staff to transition to their new workspaces in Crawford Hall. The office will be occupying the entire first floor of Crawford, and this is a permanent move. New projects requested during the week of May 9 will receive a response the following week. For questions, please contact 931-372-3214, marketing@tntech.edu, or a designated team here: https://www.tntech.edu/ocm/contact.php
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Student Success Story: Ethan Johnson Wins Rural Reimagined Award in Eagle Works
Rural Reimagined (RR) recognizes horticulture major Ethan Johnson for earning the Rural Reimagined award of $750, with an additional $500 in technical assistance from the Center for Rural Innovation at the 2022 Eagle Works competition for his idea of Johnson Farms. Johnson’s award-winning idea was an automated farm which could produce year-round produce for local markets. Johnson emphasized the potential impact of his idea: “This farming method helps solve the problem of feeding additional people. All organic and weekly picked produce will be able to give any plant the ability to be sold at the market year-round.” Regarding Eagle Works, Johnson states, “A professor showed me that anyone has the chance to win Eagle Works, and I hope that future competitors can also see that.” Congratulations, Ethan! For more information on how you can get involved with Eagle Works next year, contact Andrea Kruszka at akruszka@tntech.edu. Wings up!
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CITL Summer Intensive
Registration is now open for the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning 2022 Summer Intensive taking place May 16th and 17th from 8 AM – 12 PM. This event will include interactive sessions, group discussions, and time to work directly with the CITL staff on your course. Our Intensive will take place both in person in Volpe Library Room 112 and virtually via Microsoft Teams. Learn more and view the schedule and session descriptions here.






