Workshop Topic:
USC Capstone IT Projects: Students develop leadership and project management skills while completing real IT projects for real clients.
Workshop Overview and Objective(s):
Every semester, University of South Carolina senior Integrated Information Technology (IIT) students initiate, plan, execute, monitor, and close real-world IT projects for real clients using the PMI PMBOK processes. At our April Lunch & Learn program, listen about the lessons USC’s latest project management students are learning as they deal with real clients to design or update company Websites, provide technology workshops to senior citizens and high school students, and develop mobile apps for larger corporations. Three student teams will present their experiences, while other student teams will exhibit posters about their projects.
Under the direction of Dr. Karen Patten, Assistant Professor, Integrated Information Technology, these students must complete a Capstone project prior to graduation as well as complete 400 hours in an IT-related internship. In the past, IIT student teams have also completed several projects for PMI-Midlands members as well.
Please join us in encouraging the next generation of project managers as they complete their college careers.
Speaker Biography:
. Karen P. Patten is an assistant professor in the Integrated Information Technology (IIT) Department at the University of South Carolina, Columbia SC. She teaches the senior IT capstone project management courses, hospitality and tourism IT issues and eCommerce courses, and the telecommunications and networking management courses. Her research interests include agile and flexible IT management, Enterprise 2.0 (social media) management, small business mobile telecommunications management, and IT curriculum development. Her dissertation researched how CIOs manage uncertainty in dynamic business environments.
Dr. Patten has a B.S. in Honors Economics from Purdue University, an M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Minnesota, and a Ph.D. in Information Systems from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She is the co-author of Information Technology for Small Business and the author of Data Networking Made Easy for small business owners. She has published articles in Information Management and Computer Security, The European Business Review, Journal of Information Systems Education, Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Cutter IT Journal, and the International Journal of Computers, Systems and Signals.
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