Dr. David W. Letcher

Information Systems Management Area Coordinator

School of Business

The College of New Jersey

My Professional Activities for 1999.

  1. Contracted by the Center for Training and Development at Mercer County Community College to do a one-day training session on report writing using Microsoft Access to employees in the financial area of Educational Testing Service, January, 15, 1999. This workshop involved creating reports from 'scratch' and from the report wizard. Creating sub-reports was included too.
  2. Submitted a Paper for peer review to the International Business Schools Computer Association Annual meeting to be held this July, 1999. This paper is entitled, "Laptop Computing - Initial Faculty Responses to a New Phenomenon" and is co-authored by two information systems management majors. This paper has been accepted by the reviewers.
  3. Participated in a one-day "Technology Connection '99 sponsored by Irwin/McGraw-Hill on March 12, 1999, at Montgomery County Community College, Pennsylvania. This program includes Skills Assessment Testing, Microsoft Office 2000, Self-Directed Course Management, and Online Course Delivery Options.
  4. Attended the Second Annual University Alliance Curriculum Congress sponsored by SAP America, Inc. March 17 - 19, 1999, in Chicago, Ill. SAP America, Inc. enters into alliances with colleges and universities in order to enable them to fully integrate its SAP enterprise-wide software into the curriculum.
  5. Participated in TCNJ's Annual Spring Day by showing high school students and their parents how to surf the web.
  6. Presented a speech entitled, "The Year-2000 Problem" to the Men's Breakfast Meeting of the Pennington, NJ, United Methodist Church on April 17, 1999.
  7. Co-Presented a level-1 SAP workshop to my faculty colleagues in TCNJ's School of Business on May 20th. Topics included the R/3 Reference Model and its modeling techniques as well as an overview of the HR module.
  8. Presented a speech on "The Year 2000 Problem" to the Trenton chapter of Zonta International, a service group of professional women on June 3, 1999, at the Trenton Country Club.
  9. Lead two training sessons in Visual Basic v. 6.0 for two groups of programmers from the State of New Jersey. Each session was one-week in length. The first session was the week of June 7th; the second was the week of June 14th. These sessions are being offered by the Center for Training and Development at Mercer County Community College.
  10. Attended and Participated in the SAP Faculty Workshop at the College of Business Administration of Central Michigan University held from June 23rd to June 25th, 1999. Topics included Introduction to SAP, SAP R/3 training fundamentals and functional modules, System Issues, and business curriculum issues. A comprehensive case study capped off the workshop.
  11. Presented a paper entitled, "Laptop Computing-Faculty Responses to a New Phenomenon" to the 27th annual meeting of the International Business Schools Computer Association (IBSCA) on Monday, July 19th in Atlanta, Georgia. Two students, Elizabeth Luebeck and Ivan Kyatkin were co-authors with me.
  12. Completed SAP50 R/3 Basis Technology a two-day training course offered by SAP-ag of Germany. This course was be held from September 9th to September 10th in Parsippany, NJ. It covered R/3 Infrastructure, Client/Server approach, Architecture, Database services, Application services, Communication principles, Presentation services, Software development technology, and systems management.
  13. Attended the two-day "University Alliance Session" which is part of SAPPHIRE '99 from September 15th to September 16th in Philadelphia, PA. This Alliance session included concurrent sessions for new SAP Alliance members and for established SAP Alliance members.
  14. Completed a short-course in Digital Photography and Scanning offered by User Support Services of TCNJ on October 14, 1999. This course included an overview of image types used on the Web, the use of a scanner, and the taking of pictures using a digital camera. Images taken with the camera were incorporated in our respective web pages.
  15. Completed a Certificate Course entitled CIS 111-413, Web Author an online course offered by New Jersey Institute of Technology. This 30-hour course started on October 25th and ended on November 26th. I was awarded 3.0 CEUs. Topics included basic and advanced HTML, an introduction to Javascript, FrontPage 2000, Multimedia, and web page design. Full financial support for this course's tuition was received from TCNJ's Career Development Committee.
  16. Will take BC 360, UNIX/Oracle , a five-day training course offered by SAP America, Inc. in Waltham, Mass. in January, 2000.

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