Outreach

• Summer 2006: Radhika Inaganti, joined our research group during her NSF funded RET experience at Drexel's College of Engineering, Summer 2006. Radhika, who teaches elementary computer science at Walter G. Smith Academics Plus School, in South Philadelphia, worked closely with Sukrit Dasgupta (PhD student) and Dr.de Oliveira developing a "Network Sniffer". The main goal of the 'Network Sniffer' project is to conduct a small investigation of the traffic preferences on the Drexel network by its students, staff, and faculty. The purpose of this study is to determine the amount of network traffic to specific classes of applications, including but not limited to web, email, file transfers, chat, etc. She designed a poster and a website with her own words explaining the project, which was used to bring the experience back to her high-school students. Her website and poster can be seen at:
  http://www.coe.drexel.edu/ret/personalsites/2006/Inaganti/about.html
• Summer 2004: Barbara Algeri, a teacher from Overbrook High School, joined our research group during her NSF funded RET experience at Drexel's College of Engineering, Summer 2004. Barbara learned about dynamic allocation of resources in networks, reading some of the related literature and running simple experiments with Cisco routers. She developed a website for the project and explained the process with her own words so that her students can gain knowledge from her experience.
• Summer 2004: Mentored Kevin Lynch, a freshman S.T.A.R. scholar at Drexel University. Kevin helped setting up a Next Generation Networks Testbed composed of Cisco Routers and also testing several networking protocols on the testbed. He visited Cisco Systems together with de Oliveira's Research Team and followed the research meetings. Students Tackling Advanced Research (S.T.A.R.) allows students to participate in research projects in their field as early as the freshman year. Students who take part in these research opportunities are eligible for stipends or academic credit for their work.
• Dr.de Oliveira has attended College of Engineering open-house events where high school students and their parents have an opportunity to visit the department, be exposed to small demos and interact with current students. Dr.de Oliveira and her students run small demos using a portable rack of Cisco routers that draws lots of excitement, interest and questions from the students.