Dr. David W. Letcher

Profesor of Information Systems Management

My Professional Activities during 2001

  1. Nominated and Inducted as an Honorary Member into Golden Key, a national honorary society. This ceremony took place on the campus of The College of New Jersey on March 4, 2001.
  2. Introduced SAP R/3 into my sections of INFO 110 and INFO 210, the Information Management Practicum courses. My students did practical exercises in displaying sales summaries, using the human resources information system, and creating, displaying, and changing a purchase requisition.
  3. Completed SAP 101, R/3 Overview,a three-day training course offered by SAP, America in Newtown Square, PA on May 21 - 23, 2001.
  4. Presented a three-hour seminar/workshop on database modeling, planning, design, and Implementation to TCNJ's Seminar Series for directors of Non-Profit organizations. This workshop occurred on Tuesday, June 19, 2001.
  5. Presented a workshop on SAP R/3, along with Dr. Al Quinton, to faculty members of our School of Business on Thursday, June 21, 2001. Other attendees included the Dean, an adjunct faculty member and the business liaison from the library. This workshop covered navigating the SAP menu, a viewing of a video of a speech at SAPPHIRE, 2001, illustrations of a number of SAP-related web sites, generating reports in SAP, and some of the new-dimension products from SAP.
  6. Taught Visual Basic Programming to tenth and eleventh grader students who are attending the 2001 College-Bound program at The College of New Jersey. We are using Visual Basic 6.0, Professional Edition. This program started on June 25th ended on July 26th.
  7. Completed BC400, ABAP Workbench and Concepts a five-day SAP training course that introduced the ABAP programming language that is used in developing applications for the SAP R/3 Enterprise Resource Planning software system. August 20th to August 24th, 2001. This course was held at the SAP training center in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.
  8. Presented a statistics workshop to senior finance majors that dealt different approaches to hypothesis testing. Each finance major is required to write a thesis during their senior year. Many of these theses involve analysis of variance and of regression and correlation. This workshop reviewed basic concepts of these statistical procedures.

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