Eureka Labs is a collection of inquiry-based hands-on lab activities that guide learners through a variety of authentic scenarios, each of which highlights key cybersecurity concepts and principles. Our goal is to provide learners and educators with free, easy-to-use, and high quality security education materials. Eureka Labs is inspired by inquiry-based learning and enabled by recent advances in wireless and virtualization technology. The inquiry-based labs, which address wireless, network, or system security, include hands-on activities with affordable, scalable, extensible, and low-maintenance wireless and container-based virtualization platforms.

The development of these labs is supported in part by the National Science Foundation of the US.

MISSION

Security through Education

The field of cybersecurity includes a treasure-trove of elegant concepts and clever techniques. Eureka Labs targets students at different levels, taking them on an interactive journey where they observe facts, ask questions, gather information, investigate clues, research answers, and ultimately implement appropriate measures.

We call these laboratory projects Eureka Experiences in reference to the “aha!” moment of understanding a previously incomprehensible concept. We seek to create illuminating learning experience by incorporating inquiry-based learning activities to hands-on laboratories.

Principal Investigators

Liran Ma

Professor Computer Science Miami University

Curby Alexander

Professor College of Education Texas Christian University

Zhipeng Cai

Professor Computer Science Georgia State University

Wei Cheng

Associate Professor Computer Science University of Washington

Research Assistants