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Summit Program

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All sessions will be held in the Lincoln 4 Room unless otherwise noted.

9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. Tuesday

Welcome and Keynote Address

How Big-Web and DevOps Changes Academic Programs in System Administration

Charles Border, Rochester Institute of Technology

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10:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Tuesday

Talk I

An Undergraduate Major Emphasizing System Administration

Charlie Wiseman, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. Tuesday

Break with Refreshments

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Tuesday

Talks II

Alternative Approaches for Teaching and Learning System Administration Principles

Todd Valentine, VMware

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An Experiment in Defining the Academic Discipline of System Administration

Andrew Seely, University of Maryland University College

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Washington State's Center of Excellence on Information and Computing Technology

Ski Kacoroski, LOPSA

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12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m. Tuesday

Lunch and Poster Session

Posters will be displayed during the lunch hour.

1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Tuesday

Talks III

Limp Noodles vs. Dry Pasta, Getting to Al Dente: Creating System Administrators That are Flexible While Allowing Them to Maintain Procedural Stability

James Schweitzer, IBM

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ITSEED: Development of Instructional Laboratories for IT Security Education

Xinli Wang, Michigan Technological University

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The UH Manoa College of Education Technology Management Certificate—Description of a Pilot

Stefan Fabel, University of Hawaii at Manoa 

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3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Tuesday

Mini Workshops

Virtual and Physical Student Labs

Niels Sijm, Universiteit van Amsterdam

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Collaborating with Industry

Guy Hembroff, Michigan Technological University

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Accreditation

Charles Border, Rochester Institute of Technology

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DevOps-ready Education

Kyrre Begnum, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences

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Developing a Game/Competition for Students to Try Their Sysadmin Skills

Dumitru Gherman, Mozilla

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7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. Tuesday

SESA Birds-of-a-Feather Session

This session will take place in the Harding room.

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