A middle-aged man with glasses, short brown hair, a mustache, and goatee, wearing a blue checkered shirt, smiling against a plain gray background.
Karl R. Wurst
Professor
508-929-8728 kwurst@worcester.edu
Faculty Member's Office
ST-110E
Office Hours:
See my web page for office hours: http://karl.w-sts.com/#schedule
Areas of Expertise
Humanitarian Free and Open Source SoftwareOpen Source SoftwareSoftware DevelopmentComputer Science Education
Education
2004
University of Connecticut
Computer Science & Engineering
Ph.D.
1992
University of Connecticut
Computer Science
M.S.
1987
Central Connecticut State University
Computer Science
B.S.

Courses

Grants

Grant

2020 Dr. Imoigele Aisiku Undergraduate Research Summer Fellowship, "An Investigation of Tools and Platforms to Support Deployment of an Open Source Project to Support Campus Food Pantries"

(supporting joint faculty/student summer research work)
Grant

2019 Dr. Imoigele Aisiku Undergraduate Research Summer Fellowship, "An Investigation of Tools and Workflows to Support Participation of Undergraduate Classes in Open Source Projects"

(supporting joint faculty/student summer research work)

Awards

Award

2014 George I. Alden Excellence in Teaching Award

Awarded by ·¬ÇÑÊÓƵ to professors who have made a difference in student's lives through their teaching excellence. Recipients have demonstrated excellence through use of effective instructional strategies, accomodation of multiple learning styles, fostering higher-order thinking among students, commitment to student success, commitment to continuously improving his/her classroom teaching, willingness to innovate or take pedagogical risks, particpation in service activities related to the improvement of education at WSU.
Award

1995 NSF Engineering Education Scholar

Named one of the initial group of thirty-one National Science Foundation Engineering Education Scholars nationally. Participated in a week-long workshop on engineering education and its future supervised by NSF administrators and led by nationally recognized educators.
Award

1994 Taylor L. Booth Teaching Fellow

Awarded by a UConn CSE faculty committee to the applicant with the greatest future teaching potential based on letters of support from teaching supervisors and the student's research advisor.

Scholarship

Affiliations