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Agora World and LogixCxt win 2021 Digital Innovation Awards

The Digital Innovation Foundry is pleased to announce that Agora World and LogixCxt are recipients of the inaugural 2021 Digital Innovation Award in partnership with Temple University’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute (IEI) Innovative Idea Competition.

Each awardee will receive $1,000, mentorship to develop their idea for the Be Your Own Boss Bowl (BYOBB) in Spring 2022, access to the DIF lab, and additional resources to develop their idea. The Digital Innovation Award is open to all Temple University students, alumni, faculty and staff.

Entries were selected by the DIF team based on the following criteria:

  • Digital – does the idea apply technology in an interesting and/or novel manner?
  • Problem – does the idea solve a real business or societal problem?
  • Practical – is the idea practically doable given current technology, context, and resources?

Sondra Barbour, Executive-in-Residence spends the day engaging with students

Sondra Barbour is Executive-in-Residence at the Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT) and was at Temple all day on November 11, 2021 engaging with students.

Barbour is also the inaugural recipient of the Information Technology award for Distinguished Alumni in 2005 and helped start the Executive-in-Residence program. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for AGCO Corporation and Perspecta and was selected by Fortune magazine as one of the “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” in 2014.

Sondra Barbour

Digital Innovation Award

The Digital Innovation Foundry is pleased to announce the new Digital Innovation Award in partnership with Temple University’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute (IEI) 24th Annual Innovative Idea Competition. The deadline to apply is Wednesday, October 20, 2021 at 11:59 PM. We look forward to seeing your idea! See details below.

Award

  • 2 x $1,000 awards
  • One award is guaranteed, the second award may be given out to a second highly deserving entry.
  • Each awardee will receive:
    • Mentorship and support to develop your idea for the Be Your Own Boss Bowl in Spring 2022
    • Access to the DIF lab.
    • Additional resources to develop the idea

Eligibility

The award is open to all Temple University students, alumni, faculty and staff.

Criteria

Entries will be judged by experienced digital innovators on the following criteria:

  1. Digital – does the idea apply technology in an interesting and/or novel manner?
  2. Problem – does the idea solve a real business or societal problem?
  3. Practical – is the idea practically doable given current technology, context, and resources?

Requirements

  1. Each recipient owns their idea following Temple University intellectual property policies, DIF only has a support role.
  2. Awardees will be expected to present their work in the DIF showcase.
  3. Apply by Wednesday, October 20, 2021 at 11:59 PM

How to apply

For the complete process and application form, click here. Make sure you complete section 30 in the entry form. 

9th annual IT career fair attracts major employers

The ninth annual IT career fair on September 22, 2021 featured 23 employers including IBIT partners Alexion, Scholastic, and AmerisourceBergen as well as others such as Accenture, Aramark, Comcast, JP Morgan, RSM, and TD Bank. More than 160 IT undergraduate and graduate majors participated in the career fair.

To manage the challenges of the pandemic, the career fair was held in hybrid format so that employers could also participate virtually. The career fair space was arranged with tables for each employer and all the students attended in-person. Some tables featured laptops allowing firms with travel restrictions to also engage with and recruit students virtually.

Lab-scale Testbed for Mixed Human-Autonomous Vehicle Traffic Research

Led by Dr. Philip Dames and students from Temple’s College of Engineering, the project developed a scaled robotic testbed for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs). The testbed can be used to study system-level flow characteristics of mixed human-CAV traffic, which, to date, has received very little attention compared to existing traffic flow or the safety of automated vehicles.

There are many simulation-based studies of traffic, however, there are few experimental results. This project bridges the divide by reducing the cost, effort, and risk. The project will enable the CAV community to (a) rapidly prototype and study levels of connectivity between CAVs and human-driven vehicles, and (b) evaluate coordinated CAVs algorithms to modulate traffic flows.

The DIF project laid the foundation for an NSF award, which is currently under review.