University of Minnesota's Student Steven Hawkins Presents Practical Solutions to Security Dilemmas

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MINNEAPOLIS, MN (08/25/2011)(readMedia)--   MINNEAPOLIS, Mn -- University of Minnesota's Security Technologies student, Steven Hawkins from Minneapolis, MN, presented his capstone research project on Securing Wireless Internet Traffic in Insecure Settings, to a panel of graduate faculty. Hawkins received excellent marks on his capstone project and will be celebrating the completion of the Security Technologies master's program tomorrow evening at the University of Minnesota's West Bank Office Building.

The Security Technologies Capstone A includes a variety of fields, from food safety, medicine, science and engineering to emergency management, law and public policy. Employing variations of the case-study method for teaching and learning. Students review three of the most widely used case-study method, problem-based method and tabletop exercises as well as identify the strengths and weaknesses of each as reported in the professional literature. Students then research and prepare an original problem-based case that incorporates the best qualities of these three approaches while minimizing their limitations.

Next the students prepare a complete report along with a set of teaching notes for the original problem-based case prepared in Capstone A and use these to teach the problem-based case to a group of classmates. Students then modify the draft case and teaching notes based on feedback and submit a final report, presentation and an oral examination before the members of the Capstone Committee.

The University of Minnesota's Technological Leadership Institute (TLI) was established in 1987 with an endowment from the Honeywell Foundation. This interdisciplinary center within the University of Minnesota's College of Science and Engineering brings together senior faculty from across the University with experts from the public and private sectors in offering exceptional graduate programs.

TLI's expertise is in technological leadership and management at the interface of business, strategy, science, technology, innovation, security, and policy. TLI's mission is to be a world-class leader in education, collaborative research, and consulting. We deliver industry- responsive programs focused on knowledge creation and transfer.