Day: May 14, 2021

Tech Dawgs Hosts Guest Speaker Event on Web Applications

On October 27th, the Tech Dawgs hosted SIU alum Adam Woodworth, an Associate Senior Software Engineer at Cerner Corporation, to talk about modern web development practices. Most recently working with NodeJS and React, Woodworth covered a variety of context for the development stack. Brief overviews of various methodologies such as the MVC (model-view-controller) model introduced the layers of technology used within a web development project.

Students learned about the different web development stacks such as MEAN (MySQL, Express, Angular, Node) and MERN (MySQL, Express, React, Node). Woodworth also discussed how popular languages and frameworks fit into each one of these stacks.

Students also had the chance to walk through a live demo of a simple React app which created a chat function between users. Woodworth explained some of the key methodologies to MVC in action and introduced students to a few design-oriented APIs for smooth UI development.

Students attended via Zoom and participated in a Q&A session held after the event.

A flyer for the guest speaker event including event details, topic, and the speaker name and bio.

Tech Dawgs Hosts Virtual Guest Speaker on Topic Cybersecurity

On October 6th, 2020, the Tech Dawgs invited Trenton Taylor to speak to students about some of the technology and concepts he uses for his job at the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City. A graduate of SIU from the Department of Information Systems Technology, Taylor currently works on high performance security, specifically relating to one of their computing clusters.

Students were introduced to key principles of cybersecurity on a network, relating to computing clusters, and were able to ask about some of the challenges of ensuring security on such a large infrastructure. Students also had a chance to learn about DevOps routines and walk through a network security analysis prepared by the guest speaker.

Other points discussed included service monitoring on a cluster and reverse engineering.

Students were able to join via Zoom and the event included a Q&A session after the 50-min event.

a flyer for the guest speaker event, including the topic and learning points as well as the speaker name and bio.