Iowa State University (ISU) is setting up a product-security test and evaluation lab where university students will be assessing network security products’ strengths and weaknesses in a formal program supervised by faculty and a newly named lab director. “We have a large pool of students interested in cybersecurity,” says Dr. Doug Jacobson, director of ISU’s [...]
Students will be doing vulnerability tests on security products at Iowa State University’s new lab
October 1, 2012 By
ECpE engineers featured in EEWeb
June 27, 2012 By
Manimaran Govindarasu, Professor and Associate Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doug Jacobson, University Professor, and Koray Celik, ECpE graduate assistant, were featured this week in EEWeb, one of the premier online communities for electrical engineering hardware designers. Govindarsu discusses how he first became interested in the engineering field and what is on his book shelf. [...]
Engineering professor and student bond over shared interests
May 30, 2012 By
Traditionally, graduate students and their major professors become very well acquainted. They spend hours together furthering research and exploring new theories. Every now and again, a passion outside of academics crops up, just as it has for Doug Jacobson and Joseph Idziorek, who formed a unique bond over foot races that have had them doing [...]
Jacobson notes increase in demand for online lectures
February 27, 2012 By
ECpE professor Doug Jacobson talks about the rising trend in on-demand videos for entertainment and in the classroom in the the Des Moines Register article “VCRs’ days are numbered in Des Moines area.”
Cyber test lab at Iowa State University will simulate threats on national grid
October 26, 2011 By
Academics and researchers at Iowa State University have developed a cyber test bed that can simulate all sorts of Internet-based attacks on computer networks, and will soon begin using this test bed to simulate attacks on portions of the national electricity grid. With the help of $500,000 in seed money from the U.S. Department of [...]
Engineering expert reflects on Steve Jobs’ contributions to computer engineering
October 7, 2011 By
Iowa State University was home to the first computer which was completed back in 1942. But professors there say it wasSteve Jobs’ vision many years later that turned the computer from a novelty into a product the general public found useful. “Apple has really had a major role in that evolution,” said Dr. Doug Jacobson, [...]
Jacobson adds information security insight to Viewpoints interview
March 30, 2011 By
During a recent Viewpoints segment about Google, Doug Jacobson, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Information Assurance Center, discussed how Google can seemingly know where you are located during searches by evaluating the address your computer uses when it connects to the Internet. He also discussed how companies can’t tie your [...]
Jacobson named IEEE Fellow
December 21, 2010 By
Doug Jacobson, director of the Iowa State University Information Assurance Center and a university professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Fellow is the highest grade of membership in IEEE. “It is an honor to be recognized among many other individuals who [...]
Idziorek uses IBM PhD Fellowship to research cloud computing security
April 5, 2010 By
Joseph Idziorek has found his place in cloud computing, and IBM has noticed. A doctoral student in electrical and computer engineering (ECpE) at Iowa State University, Idziorek was recently awarded an IBM PhD Fellowship. The award comes with a $20,000 stipend and $10,000 education allowance, and marks the fourth time in the past six years [...]
Information security takes center stage
June 23, 2009 By
Doug Jacobson, University Professor, stages a cyberdefense competition in the Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment, a virtual Internet developed to study and teach computer security. Watch the video from ISU CoE
