Welcome to the Living Lab

The Living Lab is a revolutionary place where students can bridge the gap between classroom knowledge and real-world experience by working on projects that the lab receives from both internal and external clients. Living Lab is a 3-credit, semester-long course in the CIT department that offers students an alternative learning structure and resume-worthy IT experience.

Fake News DB

A University course has a new Fake News project, where a system is being developed to automatically identify fake news articles.  As a part of this project, a database server needs to be configured to store news articles that will be captured by a web scraper.  The solution is a machine running a database software…

Security Analyst – IDS/IPS

The university course’s campus network already has an Intrusion Detection System in place. The intrusion detection system’s current status is that it is not functioning properly in some regards. The system produces “false positives”, or alerts that are triggered by harmless sources on the network at an aggressive level.  The system could also be improved…

Living Lab Domain

The Domain Network Management is a project that involves using a local domain controller and implementing network wide configurations on network assets. The project scope involves 44 computer systems that obtained their computer configurations and user settings from the domain controller. The project required many hours of troubleshooting, problem-solving, documenting, and setting configuration that the network…