Research
DRACO explores the resilience and security of computing systems. With a team of over a dozen student researchers, our focus is on automating the design, development, and assessment of attacks, resilience, robustness, and ultimately security in electronic devices and systems.
Learn more about some of our side channel analysis work in the following video.
 
Please note that the citations on this page were generated automatically from just identifiers using the Manubot cite utility please reference the published version of the publications to obtain accurate citation information.
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2025
      
      
      
        Building Successful STEM Partnerships in Education: Strategies for Enhancing Collaboration
      
      
      
  
        Education Sciences
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        12 Jul 2025
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        doi:10.3390/educsci15070893
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Integrating Generative AI into Microelectronics Education
      
      
      
  
        Proceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2025
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        29 Jun 2025
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        doi:10.1145/3716368.3735255
      
      
        
        
        
      
    2024
      
      
      
        Hardware Trojan Key-Corruption Detection with Automated Neural Architecture Search
      
      
      
  
        IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
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        29 Dec 2024
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        doi:10.1007/978-3-031-81900-1_11
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Strict Avalanche Criterion of SHA-256 and Sub-Function-Removed Variants
      
      
      
  
        Cryptography
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        08 Sep 2024
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        doi:10.3390/cryptography8030040
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES WITH SMALL SAMPLE SIZES: AN EDUCATIONAL SUMMER CAMP EXAMPLE
      
      
      
  
        Problems of Education in the 21st Century
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        12 Aug 2024
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        doi:10.33225/pec/24.82.507
      
      
        
        
        
      
    2023
      
      
      
        Challenging Assumptions of Normality in AES s-Box Configurations under Side-Channel Analysis
      
      
      
  
        Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy
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        29 Nov 2023
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        doi:10.3390/jcp3040038
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Power-Based Side-Channel Attacks on Program Control Flow with Machine Learning Models
      
      
      
  
        Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy
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        07 Jul 2023
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        doi:10.3390/jcp3030018
      
      
        
        
        
      
    2022
      
      
      
        TP-NET: Training Privacy-Preserving Deep Neural Networks under Side-Channel Power Attacks
      
      
      
  
        2022 IEEE International Symposium on Smart Electronic Systems (iSES)
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        01 Dec 2022
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        doi:10.1109/iSES54909.2022.00095
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Transition Recovery Attack on Embedded State Machines Using Power Analysis
      
      
      
  
        2022 IEEE 40th International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD)
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        01 Oct 2022
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        doi:10.1109/ICCD56317.2022.00090
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Learning Privacy-Preserving Graph Convolutional Network with Partially Observed Sensitive Attributes
      
      
      
  
        Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022
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        25 Apr 2022
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        doi:10.1145/3485447.3511975
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Confusion Over Models: Exploring Discourse in a STEM Professional Development
      
      
      
  
        Sage Open
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        01 Apr 2022
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        doi:10.1177/21582440221097916
      
      
        
        
        
      
    2021
      
      
      
        Computer Science beyond Coding: Partnering to Create Teacher Cybersecurity Microcredentials
      
      
      
  
        Education Sciences
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        22 Dec 2021
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        doi:10.3390/educsci12010004
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Comparing Ransomware using TLSH and @DisCo Analysis Frameworks
      
      
      
  
        2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)
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        15 Dec 2021
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        doi:10.1109/BigData52589.2021.9671573
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Data-Driven Suitability Analysis to Enable Machine Learning Explainability and Security
      
      
      
  
        2021 Resilience Week (RWS)
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        18 Oct 2021
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        doi:10.1109/RWS52686.2021.9611792
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Jangseung: A Guardian for Machine Learning Algorithms to Protect Against Poisoning Attacks
      
      
      
  
        2021 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)
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        07 Sep 2021
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        doi:10.1109/ISC253183.2021.9562816
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Privacy-Preserving Fair Machine Learning Without Collecting Sensitive Demographic Data
      
      
      
  
        2021 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
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        18 Jul 2021
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        doi:10.1109/IJCNN52387.2021.9534017
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Stealing Machine Learning Parameters via Side Channel Power Attacks
      
      
      
  
        2021 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI)
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        01 Jul 2021
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        doi:10.1109/ISVLSI51109.2021.00052
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Side-channel Leakage Assessment Metrics: A Case Study of GIFT Block Ciphers
      
      
      
  
        2021 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI)
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        01 Jul 2021
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        doi:10.1109/ISVLSI51109.2021.00051
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        S*FSMs for Reduced Information Leakage: Power Side Channel Protection Through Secure Encoding
      
      
      
  
        Behavioral Synthesis for Hardware Security
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        28 May 2021
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        doi:10.1007/978-3-030-78841-4_14
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Integrated STEM for Teacher Professional Learning and Development: “I Need Time for Practice”
      
      
      
  
        Education Sciences
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        05 Jan 2021
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        doi:10.3390/educsci11010021
      
      
        
        
        
      
    2020
      
      
      
        Integrated Outreach: Increasing Engagement in Computer Science and Cybersecurity
      
      
      
  
        Education Sciences
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        26 Nov 2020
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        doi:10.3390/educsci10120353
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Detecting DDoS Attacks Near The Edge with Router Canaries
      
      
      
  
        2020 IEEE 10th International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE-Berlin)
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        09 Nov 2020
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        doi:10.1109/ICCE-Berlin50680.2020.9352164
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Defensive Strategies for Autonomous Decentralized Lightweight Swarms
      
      
      
  
        2020 IEEE 10th International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE-Berlin)
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        09 Nov 2020
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        doi:10.1109/ICCE-Berlin50680.2020.9352161
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Secure and Resilient Swarms: Autonomous Decentralized Lightweight UAVs to the Rescue
      
      
      
  
        IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine
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        01 Jul 2020
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        doi:10.1109/MCE.2020.2969174
      
      
        
        
        
      
    2019
      
      
      
        One-Class Classification to Continuously Authenticate Users Based on Keystroke Timing Dynamics
      
      
      
  
        2019 18th IEEE International Conference On Machine Learning And Applications (ICMLA)
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        01 Dec 2019
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        doi:10.1109/ICMLA.2019.00207
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Adversarial Impacts on Autonomous Decentralized Lightweight Swarms
      
      
      
  
        2019 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)
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        01 Oct 2019
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        doi:10.1109/ISC246665.2019.9071763
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        A State Machine Encoding Methodology Against Power Analysis Attacks
      
      
      
  
        Journal of Electronic Testing
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        09 Sep 2019
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        doi:10.1007/s10836-019-05821-z
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Ants Go Marching—Integrating Computer Science into Teacher Professional Development with NetLogo
      
      
      
  
        Education Sciences
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        26 Mar 2019
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        doi:10.3390/educsci9010066
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Mitigating information leakage during critical communication using S*FSM
      
      
      
  
        IET Computers & Digital Techniques
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        20 Mar 2019
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        doi:10.1049/iet-cdt.2018.5186
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Computer science and engineering: utilizing action research and lesson study
      
      
      
  
        Educational Action Research
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        16 Jan 2019
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        doi:10.1080/09650792.2019.1566082
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        CyberSecurity and Technology: How Do They Fit into a Science Classroom?
      
      
      
  
        Center for Open Science
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        04 Jan 2019
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        doi:10.31235/osf.io/jre5k
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        S-CHIRP: Securing Communications in Lightweight Peer-to-Peer Networks in the IoT
      
      
      
  
        IEEE Potentials
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        01 Jan 2019
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        doi:10.1109/MPOT.2018.2850600
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        A State Encoding Methodology for Side-Channel Security vs. Power Trade-off Exploration
      
      
      
  
        2019 32nd International Conference on VLSI Design and 2019 18th International Conference on Embedded Systems (VLSID)
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        01 Jan 2019
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        doi:10.1109/vlsid.2019.00031
      
      
        
        
        
      
    2018
      
      
      
        Secure and Decentralized Swarm Behavior with Autonomous Agents for Smart Cities
      
      
      
  
        2018 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)
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        01 Sep 2018
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        doi:10.1109/isc2.2018.8656939
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        EVO-SCHIRP: Evolved Secure Swarm Communications
      
      
      
  
        2018 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)
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        01 Sep 2018
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        doi:10.1109/isc2.2018.8656982
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Blockchain-Based Election Infrastructures
      
      
      
  
        2018 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)
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        01 Sep 2018
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        doi:10.1109/isc2.2018.8656988
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Designing for Security Within and Between IoT Devices
      
      
      
  
        2018 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI)
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        01 Jul 2018
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        doi:10.1109/ISVLSI.2018.00129
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Predictive liability models and visualizations of high dimensional retail employee data
      
      
      
  
        Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Innovation in Artificial Intelligence
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        09 Mar 2018
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        doi:10.1145/3194206.3195587
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        S-CHIRP: Secure communication for heterogeneous IoTs with round-robin protection
      
      
      
  
        2018 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)
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        01 Jan 2018
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        doi:10.1109/icce.2018.8326301
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Portable tor router: Easily enabling web privacy for consumers
      
      
      
  
        2018 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)
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        01 Jan 2018
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        doi:10.1109/icce.2018.8326333
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Integrated STEM: Focus on Informal Education and Community Collaboration through Engineering
      
      
      
  
        Education Sciences
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        01 Jan 2018
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        doi:10.3390/educsci8010004
      
      
        
        
        
      
    2015
      
      
      
        CressInt : A user-friendly web resource for genome-scale exploration of gene regulation in Arabidopsis thaliana
      
      
      
  
        Current Plant Biology
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        01 Sep 2015
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        doi:10.1016/j.cpb.2015.09.001
      
      
        
        
        
      
    2014
      
      
      
        Enabling Side Channel Secure FSMs in the Presence of Low Power Requirements
      
      
      
  
        2014 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI
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        01 Jul 2014
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        doi:10.1109/ISVLSI.2014.78
      
      
        
        
        
      
    2013
      
      
      
        Secure controllers: Requirements of S*FSM
      
      
      
  
        2013 IEEE 56th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS)
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        01 Aug 2013
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        doi:10.1109/MWSCAS.2013.6674708
      
      
        
        
        
      
    2012
      
      
      
        S*FSM: A Paradigm Shift for Attack Resistant FSM Designs and Encodings
      
      
      
  
        2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on BioMedical Computing (BioMedCom)
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        01 Dec 2012
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        doi:10.1109/BioMedCom.2012.22
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        SDMLp: On the use of complementary Pass transistor Logic for design of DPA resistant circuits
      
      
      
  
        2012 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust
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        01 Jun 2012
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        doi:10.1109/HST.2012.6224315
      
      
        
        
        
      
    2008
      
      
      
        Safety-Centric Design of Distributed Embedded Avionics
      
      
      
  
        2008 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference
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        01 Jul 2008
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        doi:10.1109/NAECON.2008.4806561
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        The Use of Device Simulation in Development of USB Storage Devices
      
      
      
  
        41st Annual Simulation Symposium (anss-41 2008)
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        01 Apr 2008
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        doi:10.1109/ANSS-41.2008.34
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Improving Future Faculty With Graduate Engineering Education
      
      
      
  
        2010 Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
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        [no date info]
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        doi:10.18260/1-2--16917
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Go With The Flow: Describing Storm Water Runoff Rates Using The Derivative
      
      
      
  
        2010 Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
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        [no date info]
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        doi:10.18260/1-2--16900
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Engineering Education Collaboration: Innovative Pedagogical Methods For  High School And University Environmentalists
      
      
      
  
        2010 Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
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        [no date info]
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        doi:10.18260/1-2--16896
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
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        Developing a Creative K-12 Manipulative: An ECECS Capstone
      
      
      
  
        2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
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        [no date info]
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        doi:10.18260/p.26718
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Arduinos and Games: K-12 Teachers Explore Computer Science (Evaluation)
      
      
      
  
        2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
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        [no date info]
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        doi:10.18260/p.26275
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
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        wosuid:PPRN:19311083
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Teaching Teachers to Think Like Engineers Using NetLogo
      
      
      
  
        2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
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        [no date info]
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        doi:10.18260/1-2--28926
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Interactive Web Notebooks Using the Cloud to Enable CS in K-16+ Classrooms and PDs
      
      
      
  
        2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
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        [no date info]
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        doi:10.18260/1-2--28571
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Hardening Freshman Engineering Student Soft Skills
      
      
      
  
        2017 FYEE Conference Proceedings
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        [no date info]
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        doi:10.18260/1-2--29416
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Enabling Advanced Topics in Computing and Engineering Through Authentic Inquiry: A Cybersecurity Case Study
      
      
      
  
        2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition  Proceedings
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        [no date info]
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        doi:10.18260/1-2--30370
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Novel STEM Research Programs Could Minimize Attrition in Undergraduate Engineering
      
      
      
  
        2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition  Proceedings
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        [no date info]
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        doi:10.18260/1-2--33136
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Building Collaboration and Securing Interest in Computer Science Education through Outreach Opportunities
      
      
      
  
        2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition  Proceedings
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        [no date info]
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        doi:10.18260/1-2--32484
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Constructing and Refining Computer Science Outreach Focused on Student Engagement
      
      
      
  
        2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings
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        [no date info]
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        doi:10.18260/1-2--34327
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
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        WySLICE - Integrating Computer Science throughout Existing K-12 Core Disciplinary Areas
      
      
      
  
        2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings
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        [no date info]
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        doi:10.18260/1-2--38225
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Designing a Creative Cybersecurity Microcredential for Educators: Challenges and Successes of K-12 Teacher Professional Development
      
      
      
  
        2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings
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        [no date info]
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        doi:10.18260/1-2--36927
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        The Artful Craft of Improving Virtual Summer Camps in the Midst of COVID-19 (Work in Progress)
      
      
      
  
        2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
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        [no date info]
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        doi:10.18260/1-2--41204
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        On the Development of Cybersecurity and Computing Centric Professional Developments and the Subsequent Implementation of Topics in K12 Lesson Plans (RTP)
      
      
      
  
        2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
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        [no date info]
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        doi:10.18260/1-2--41203
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Board 319: Integrating Computing Throughout K-12 While Bridging the Digital Divide
      
      
      
  
        2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
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        [no date info]
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        doi:10.18260/1-2--46898
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Flexible Learning Cycles: Introducing Agile Constructivist Pedagogy
      
      
      
  
        2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition  Proceedings
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        [no date info]
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        doi:10.18260/1-2--56579