IBIT
Engages with industry to develop digital knowledge and talent
Mike Marzano, mobile solutions analyst and Emily Rattner, business solutions analyst, at Cencora, led a workshop on Exploring Virtual Reality and Bots on April 3, 2024.
The 15 workshop attendees consisted of graduate and undergraduate students from three different schools at Temple.
The participants learned how Cencora is creating immersive spaces and how they build RPA bots.
Amrut Patil and Parijat Naik, both architects at Cencora, led a workshop on Implementing Generative AI Applications on February 23, 2024.
The 22 workshop attendees consisted of graduate and undergraduate students from three different schools at Temple and faculty members.
The participants learned about the mechanics of Generative AI, understanding its ability to employ algorithms and machine learning techniques to create original content.
Mitchel Zilbershteyn received the Persson-Barbour Endowed Scholarship in fall 2023 to explore digital innovation.
Mitchel is currently working on a Generative AI prototype using ChatGPT to create a guide for MIS students. The guide focuses on the Temple Association for Information Systems (AIS) and the Temple MIS PRO points program. It enables students to ask relevant questions such as how to earn PRO points and how to maximize their PRO point earning activities.
Previously Mitchel worked on a DIF project to envision use-cases for no-code metaverse development platform.
The Institute for Business and Information Technology’s Fall 2023 mentoring program engaged 17 students and 15 mentors. IBIT matches Temple University students with senior executive IT mentors based on students’ interests and career goals using a structured process that ensures regular engagement. The mentoring program runs each semester and has, to-date, served 173 students from three different schools at Temple since spring 2020. One measure of the program’s success is that mentees stay connected to their mentors long after the end of the mentoring assignment. Sondra Barbour, Board Member, AGCO & Perspecta is the chair of the Mentoring Program.
The fall semester’s mentors were:
The fall semester’s mentees were:
An analysis of over 5,300 job market entrants shows that race and gender influence job market success. Our results reveal a systematic pattern of disadvantages using the theory of intersectionality, which looks at combinations of race and gender.
Learn more in a guest post for Technical.ly by Michael Dinger and executive director Munir Mandviwalla. The results are based on data from IBIT’s Information Systems Job Index.
