Information Assurance Student Group: How to Turn a Club into a Valuable Learning Experience for Students

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.