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Research and Collaboration

Collaboration and research activities are continually ongoing throughout the Department. Collaboration with students is now a special emphasis at Bradley, and the Department is seeking more ways to work more closely with students on focused research activities. Individual research by professors is listed under their respective faculty pages.

The University holds a Student Scholarship initiative with awards for top students that the Department has participated in. Additionally, special emphasis grants for collaborative faculty-student projects is available through the University to cover lab costs and some minor travel expenses.

Faculty-student collaboration also takes place within the Department's BEAR student organization. Another avenue is for students to choose a topic and a faculty member to work on a select piece of research. An example of this current research is below.

Integrating .Net Technology in Enterprise Computing Dr. Jiang-Bo Liu, Andrew Flick (Student)

This research project explores .Net in an attempt to show its validity in the enterprise computing; validity meaning enhancements to what we can implement it and how it compares with other enterprise computing technologies such as Java J2EE. Furthermore, validity is already given to the process by introducing technologies to Bradley students that can be directly accepted in industry today. Midwest companies, Caterpillar, State Farm, Accenture, and more have already embraced this technology. One of the purposes of this research is to make sure that Bradley students become involved with this technology that will increase their probability of success in industry. The goal of this research project is tri-fold, but stresses professor/student cooperation. The first goal explores .Net server technologies and integrates them into the enterprise computing. The second investigates the technological advancements in .Net programming and their applications in the new web-based programming paradigm. The third explores student/faculty collaboration enhancements provided by the .Net tools. Furthermore, it must be noted that research in security issues will be held as top priority across the three goals.