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• Cultivating Dispositions Towards Social Responsibility: Students’ Perceptions of the Social Responsibilities of Engineers 

  Lin, Athena (Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017-05)

  Engineering social responsibility is the responsibility of engineers to evaluate the broader impacts of their work on public welfare. Despite the central role of social responsibility to the engineering profession, social ...

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• A Hierarchy of Models for Inverter-Based Microgrids 

  Ajala, Olaoluwapo; Domínguez-García, Alejandro D.; Sauer, Peter W. (Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017-05-04)

  This chapter develops and presents a time resolution based hierarchy of microgrid models for analysis and control design purposes. The focus is on microgrids with distributed generation interfaced via grid-forming inverters. ...

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• Software-Defined Networking for Smart Grid Resilience: Opportunities and Challenges 

  Dong, Xinshu; Lin, Hui; Tan, Rui; Iyer, Ravishankar K.; Kalbarczyk, Zbigniew (Coordinated Science Laboratory, 2015-02)

  Software-defined networking (SDN) is an emerging networking paradigm that provides unprecedented flexibility in dynamically reconfiguring an IP network. It enables various applications, such as network management, quality ...

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• An Analysis of Graphical Authentication Techniques for Mobile Platforms as Alternatives to Passwords 

  Hannah, Robert J. (Coordinated Science Laboratory, 2015-02)

  Authentication is a basic access control concern for applications and services in the technological landscape that usernames and passwords have commonly addressed. Alongside the likes of certificate-based authentication, ...

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• Bounded Verification with On-the-Fly Discrepancy Computation 

  Fan, Chuchu; Mitra, Sayan (Coordinated Science Laboratory, 2015-02)

  Simulation-based verification algorithms can provide formal safety guarantees for nonlinear and hybrid systems. The previous algorithms rely on user-provided model annotations called “discrepancy functions,” which are ...

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