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Tech MSU Team takes High Honors
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Ashley Horn – 2008
Murray State University
News Bureau
429 Sparks Hall
Murray, KY 42071
(270) 809-3156

MURRAY, Ky., April 1 — The success of Murray State
University’s master’s program in Telecommunication Systems Management
(TSM) Program of Distinction is proving that education in the age of
the Internet has no boundaries.
According to the Murray State website, the TSM master’s
program began in 1998 and is Kentucky’s only Program of Distinction
of its kind. The program is completely online and enrolls students
from all over the world — China, Japan and Saudi Arabia as well as
countries in Central America, Africa and Europe.
George Rice, visiting associate professor at Murray
State, has helped develop and teach both undergraduate and graduate
TSM courses. Rice explained how the program became such an
international success, saying, “The wonderful ‘World Wide Web’ makes
our website available to international students.” The fact that MSU
has had impressive international enrollment numbers has also impacted
awareness of the university and the program, Rice added.
The students interact in groups via email and
Blackboard. Each student has his or her own chat file and email
exchange which makes communication and completing tasks simple.
Students from the TSM master’s program competed in the
International Telecommunications Education and Research Association’s
(ITERA) student case competition in Louisville, Ky., last weekend.
Murray State’s students were awarded first place in the ITERA
National Student Case Study Competition.
This year’s case study, Cool U, gave students the
opportunity to create a state-of-the-art university based on cutting
edge communications technology. Graduate students Clarissa Hill and
John Shaudt presented the team’s solution for Cool U during the
conference. Master’s program student Jon Cargill attended the
conference via video conferencing software. He currently lives in
Scotland. The four-person team, including grad student Chris
Simonavice, won $1,500 to split among the team and a trophy for
Murray State. The students worked on their project together using the
same video conferencing technology.
This is the second consecutive year that the Murray
student team has won the competition. Last year a two-student team
won what was the first national competition, beating out larger
universities such as James Madison University and Ball State
University. The case study in 2007 was the development of a leading
communications crisis plan for a fictional town called Crisis, Fla.,
where communications breakdowns replicated many of the problems found
during Hurricane Katrina.
Telecommunications Systems Management is a growing field
and job expectancy is high. “TSM graduates have gone to work in the
U.S. and in some foreign countries for banks, insurance companies,
technology companies, governmental agencies and universities,” Rice
explained. The job descriptions for these fields vary and the demand
for TSM professionals continues to grow as technology and electronic
capabilities advance.




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