Student Organizations

Cyber Defense Club

The purpose of the UNCW Cyber Defense Club is twofold. First, it aims to provide an educational venue in which students can learn critical knowledge and skills needed to administer and defend computer networks and systems, and gives the opportunity to apply the theory and skills that students acquired in their information systems and computer science course work. Second, UNCW Cyber Defense Club will be joining the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC), which challenges students to defend network services against attacks by professional penetration testers. UNCW Cyber Defense Club will use the Regional and National Collegiate Cyber Security Competition (CCSC) competition as a metric of University of North Carolina Wilmington expertise maturation.

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jeffrey Cummings

President - David Ruddell (dr1236)
Vice President - Henry Sar (hls7597)
Treasurer - Zach Tuman (zjt4025)
Secretary - Parker Musler (pem6266)
Event Coordinator - Ryan Wooley (rcw1468)
Social Events Coordinator / Vice President - Jennifer Wescott (jar2569)

Student Analytics & Supply Chain Association (SASCA)

The mission of the Student Analytics & Supply Chain Association is to enhance student development through value added activities focused on manufacturing and transportation operations, analytical decision making processes and technology. The organization seeks to provide its members with opportunities to interact with colleagues and professionals in their chosen field of study. To foster these exchanges, SASCA is affiliated with national professional organization, the Association for Supply Chain Management (APICS). The club is open to all students.

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Stephen Hill

2017-2018 Board Members:

President: Amber Taylor
Vice President: Zachary Stallings
Treasurer: Jacob Thompson
Co-Secretary: Charles Hayward
Co-Secretary: Nicole Leitz
Event Coordinator: Anna Phan
Marketing Coordinator: Ke Wang

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Information Systems Association (ISA)

ISA is a student organization that represents students who have an interest in today's information technology trends. We hold meetings roughly every two weeks on Wednesday nights. Our purpose is to facilitate student to student networking as well as with fundraisers, facility tours and social events.

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Christopher Sibona [ sibonac AT uncw DOT edu ], 910.962.3678

President – Jason Hymanson (jh3834@uncw.edu)
VP – Lindsey Blakenship (lb2504@uncw.edu)
Treasurer – Matt Ford (mbf5209@uncw.edu)
Secretary – Daniel Lard (sdl9343@uncw.edu)
Webmaster – Zach Stallings (zts2554@uncw.edu)

Photo: SECCDC 2015 UNCW Cyber Defense Team

2014 UNCW Cyber Defense Team earns 4th place out of 24 participants!

UNCW Cyber Defense Team (CDC) successfully represented UNCW at the Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (SECCDC). The team members relentlessly prepared for this competition since the beginning of Fall 2014. As a part of the preparation, all of the team members along with some other Cyber Defense Club members participated at the National Cyber League, which is a national capture the flag competition, and ranked in the top 10% individually and as a team. In early March, at the virtual qualifiers the UNCW CDC team competed against teams from 24 universities from the southeast region and was among the top 8 teams invited to participate in the regional competition.

MIS, CIT, CS and MS CSIS students successfully represented UNCW, and won 4th place in the two day competition that took place at Kennesaw State University on April 7-8, 2015. SECCDC focuses on the operational aspect of managing and protecting (defending) an existing network infrastructure. Teams are assessed based on their ability to detect and respond to outside threats, maintain availability of existing services such as mail servers and web servers, respond to business requests such as the addition or removal of additional services, and balance security needs against business needs.

Team Members included: