ISACA Awards
Top SIM students awarded by ISACA's Wellington Chapter on graduation day.
Top INFO 301 students from the School of Information Management (SIM) received prizes during May with presentations of the annual ISACA awards.
ISACA is a worldwide association of IS professionals dedicated to the audit, control, and security of information systems, and their Wellington Chapter has supported SIM with these awards for some years.
The 2014 awards were presented during a ceremony at the School in May by Bruce Edwards (Vice President, ISACA Wellington Chapter).
Award-winning students
Tiffany Frans (Top student award, $800 prize)
Tiffany's research project "3D Printing of Prosthesis at Alice Springs Hospital" looks at the effects an emerging IT concept can have on an organisation. The report evaluates how the proposed IT solution can be used to solve current or recurring issues within in a specific organisation.
Melanie Blood (Best Research Project-1, $200 prize)
Melanie's project "One Stop Government Shop" examined the potential for the New Zealand government to implement big data and predictive analytics systems to improve application processes for social services.
Sundus Alshemami (Best Research Project-2, $200 prize)
Sundus' project is "One Small Step to Vader, One Giant Leap for Mankind: 3D Biomedical Printing at Sunshine Hospital, Andhra Pradesh (Business Process and Value Chain Analysis)". She could not attend this ceremony as she had already returned to her home country, Saudi Arabia.