2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

1. Dr. Julie Ann Rursch Iowa State University [biography]

   Julie A. Rursch is currently is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. She will graduate with a degree in computer engineering with a focus on secure computing. Her research includes a unique approach to critical infrastructure modeling which provides emergency planners and first responders with resilient and flexible critical infrastructure evaluation in the face of non-recurrent, disruptive events. Her approach creates a new paradigm for modeling critical infrastructure sectors, analyzing real-time physical data, and providing best fit mitigations to impending failures and responses. At Iowa State University, Rursch is very involved in the IT-Adventures high school outreach program, serving as the Assistant Director since the program’s inception in 2007.

2. Dr. Douglas W. Jacobson http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6835-4687 Iowa State University [biography]

   Doug Jacobson is a university P=professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. He is the Director the ISU Information Assurance Center, which has been recognized by the National Security Agency as a charter Center of Academic Excellence for Information Assurance Education. Jacobson teaches network security and information warfare and has written a textbook on network security and is completing a second book on computer security literacy. He is Director of the IT-Adventures program and oversees the cyber defense competitions hosted at ISU. His research is targeted at developing large scale attack simulation environments and is the Director of the Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment (ISEAGE) test bed project.

3. Matthew Edward Sullivan Iowa State University [biography]

   Matthew Sullivan received a B.S. degree in management information systems
   from Iowa State University. He is currently pursuing a M.S. degree in information assurance and computer engineering at Iowa State University. Sullivan focuses on improving security outreach and education programs through hands-on student interaction in lab and cloud-based network emulation environments.

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