Research Involving Students

I spend a great deal of time with students. Here are a number of my more notable accomplishments:

• National recognition in the Washington Post for Tony Britt's Spotter Charts, software that I helped write in collaboration with two students, Adam Maas and Jason Farber, as their capstone project in 2012.

• Mentored 75 students in 40 capstones, with several award-winning projects and a refereed publication

  • Radziwill, N. M., Benton, M. C., & Moellers, C. 2015: From STEM to STEAM: Reframing What it Means to Learn. The STEAM Journal (Claremont, CA), July.
  • Rapp, B., Ramsey, D. & Benton, M. C. (2010). NextStep: A Web-based site feasibility analysis tool for behind-the-meter wind power systems. Meeting of the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), Los Angeles CA, May 22.

• Published three papers resulting from class projects in my CS 330 course:

  • Benton, M. C., Radziwill, N. M., Purritano, A. W., & Gerhart, C. J. (2018). Blockchain for Supply Chain: Improving Transparency and Efficiency Simultaneously. Software Quality Professional, 20(3), p28-38.
  • Radziwill, N. M., Benton, M. C., Boadu, K., & Perdomo, W., 2015: A Case-Based Look at Integrating Social Context into Software Quality. Software Quality Professional, December.
  • Radziwill, N. M., Romano, J., Shorter, D., & Benton, M.C., 2015: The Ethics of Hacking - Should it be Taught? Software Quality Professional, December.
• Mentored student work presented at NCUR
  • Keith, Cameron. (2008) Student Attitudes and Behavior on File Sharing, paper published at published at NCUR as a result of class project in ISAT 440 from spring 2007
• Mentored 1st Place team at the 2016 Caring for the Caregiver Hack-a-Thon organized by the Lindsay Institute for Innovations in Caregiving. This team won $5,000 at the hack-a-thon, and then went on to win $10,000 in a second round. I continue to work with them to build and launch their app and their website: https://mytime4caregivers.com