About the Department of Computer Science

We focus on students

We produce graduates who are highly capable problem solvers: intellectually agile, technically skilled, ethically responsible, and strongly creative. We collaborate with the sciences, mathematics, business, health care, humanities, media, journalism, and the arts. Small classes and an emphasis on teaching excellence are central to the quality education we provide.

Outside the classroom, our students participate in regional competions in programming and cyber defense. Many also work on projects for local companies as part of the on-campus Student Advanced Technology program run by the NKU Infrastructure Management Institute. Look here for an overview of extra-curricular activities.

We focus on community

The communities where we live and work should benefit directly from our faculty's expertise and our students' efforts.

Using a $250,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for 2006-2009, the department and its students ran workshops in Erlanger for Hispanic immigrant families, where they learned about computing by assembling and configuring PCs. At the end of each workshop, these families received a new computer to take home.

Throughout the year, the department hosts many other outreach activities, like the 2009 Summer Computing Workshop ("Java Camp") and a 2007 iSpace Robotics mentoring program for Hispanic middle school girls.

We focus on research

Our faculty conducts traditional research, providing technological innovation in hardware and software that contribute to the teaching of computer science and information technology world-wide.

We connect this work with student experience, sometimes by providing student research opportunities and sometimes by feeding scientific and real-world experience right back into the classroom.

Take a look at some of the exciting research projects currently conducted by faculty and students in our department.