Archive for ‘College of Business Administration’

At ACU’s Annual Research Festival and at the 15th Annual North Texas Area Student Conference 2011, our faculty and students added great value to the program.  Below are listed some of their work.

Social Science Presentation Award:
A Student-Created Textbook Replacement – Courtney Richardson and Courtney Martin (Mark Phillips, Management Sciences)

Paper Presentations:
The Virtuous Entrepreneur – Jess Weeden (Orneita Burton, Management Sciences)

Charity Volunteer Motivations – Ellen Pfeiffer (Laura Phillips, Management Sciences)

A Student-Created Textbook Replacement – Courtney Richardson and Courtney Martin (Mark Phillips, Management Sciences)

Learning and Growing: The Economic Impact of Higher Education in Abilene – Joseph Austin (Monty Lynn, Management Sciences)

Mobile Textbook App – Brittany Rae and Ellen Kight (John Homer, SITC)

Improving an Existing Game System – Clement Ho (Brent Reeves, SITC)

Reinforcement Learning in Virtual and Physical Domains – Nigel Bosch and Emily Phenix (Ray Pettit, SITC)

E-Commerce Web Presence – Josh Dowdy, Oswald Ingraham, Tyler Nolan and Clay Selby (Brent Reeves, SITC)

Constraint Based Student Arrangements – Jason Mar, Andrew Kinnaman, Nathanael McConnel, and Thomas Prince (Brent Reeves, SITC)

Entertainment on Mobile Devices – Brittany Kight, Steven Peterson, and Seth Poplaski (Brent Reeves, SITC)

What is Your Number? – Joshua Evans, Laura Holt, Christiana Kotyk, and Aaron Parker (Brent Reeves, SITC)

Device Use on a Futuristic Campus – Morgan Davis, Dody Duncum, and Daniel Tomkins (Brent Reeves, SITC)
Poster Presentation:
Serious Games in Learning – Michelle Brothers (Brian Burton, SITC)

The faculty in the Management Sciences department works with students in research and/or creative efforts in several possible ways:

• The first is the annual Springboard business plan competition.  This competition involves students developing an original business plan for a business startup.  The development of these plans involves considerable research into the business environment of the proposed startup, and these plans involve faculty and our business entrepreneur-in-residence working with the students.  These plans are presented to a panel of judges, and in poster form at the dinner exhibition.
• Honors projects – Our faculty work on projects with honors students to research specific business related topics.
• Student organizations – Our faculty work with students in such organizations as Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), American Marketing Association.  These students perform research or other projects for outside organizations and report on their findings to those organizations.  The SIFE students develop a presentation for the regional competitions.