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Sarah works to create awareness and programs that encourage more women to enter a computing pathway and persist into computing majors and careers. In 2016, she was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Inclusion Across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science grant (NSF INCLUDES 1649312), through which she created the Mississippi Alliance for Women in Computing.

Sarah has served on numerous graduate student committees and as the major advisor for masters level graduate students. Her doctoral students are studying computer science and engineering education, with particular focus on artificial intelligence, cyber security, and parallel computing.

Sarah collaborated with researchers in the Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education department of the MSU College of Education in the study of approaches to bringing computing and cybersecurity into K-12 classrooms in Mississippi. This collaborative team, through pre-service and in-service teacher education, studied the most effective ways to teach computational thinking in ALL K-12 classrooms.

Sarah has worked to disseminate knowledge gained through her outreach/teaching/research activities, including the use of robotics to teach computational thinking and cybersecurity concepts, throughout the engineering and computer science education communities:

Peer Reviewed Magazines and Journals

Jessica Ivy, Sarah Lee, Dana Franz, Joseph Crumpton, “Seeding Cybersecurity Workforce Pathways with Secondary Education” March 2019: Curricular Foundations of Cybersecurity, Computer Magazine. DOI: 10.1109/MC.2018.2884671

Litany Lineberry, Sarah Lee, Jessica Ivy, and Heather Bostick. Bulldog Bytes: Engaging Elementary Girls with Computer Science and Cybersecurity.  Journal of Transactions on Techniques in STEM Education. 2018 (January-September); 3(2):76-81. ISSN: 2381-649X

Peer Reviewed Conference Publications

Jaiyeola, M.O., Lee, S.B., Rahimi, S., Parrish, A., and Taquino, M., (2022) “A Longitudinal Analysis of Pathways to Computing Careers: Defining Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Success with a Rearview Lens”, Paper presented at ASEE Annual Conference, Minneapolis MN.

Whitney Keith and Sarah B. Lee (2021) Where Have All the Women Gone? An Analysis of the Transformation of Gender Diversity in Computing. Poster. Mississippi Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, August 2021.

Monica McGill, Sarah Lee, Litany Lineberry (2021) Piloting the Air Force JROTC Cyber Academy for High School Students. 2021 SIGCSE Technical Symposium.

Litany Lineberry, Sarah Lee, Amrita Dhakal Ghimire (2020) Dance-A-Bit: Integrating Dance with Teaching Algorithmic Thinking. 2020 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition.

Amrita Dhakal Ghimire, Sarah Lee, Litany Lineberry (2020) Self-Efficacy Study in Computing Among College Freshmen. 2020 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition.

Sarah Lee, Richard Sun, Randy Lynn (2019). Mississippi Coding Academies: A non-traditional approach to computing education. 126th Annual Conference & Exposition of the American Society for Engineering Education, Tampa FL.

Sarah Lee, Jessica Ivy, Andrew Stamps (2019) Providing Equitable Access to Computing Education in Mississippi. Short Paper and Poster, 4th international conference on Research in Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology, Minneapolis, MN.

Vemitra White, Sarah Lee, Litany Lineberry, Danielle Grimes, Jessica Ivy (2018). Illuminating the Computing Pathway for Girls in Mississippi. ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, UT.

Meenakshi Das, Sarah Lee, Litany Lineberry, Chase Barr (2018). Why inclusion programs are beneficial to students with disabilities and how universities can help: perspectives of students with disabilities. 1st Annual Conference of CoNECD-Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity, Crystal City, VA.

Litany Lineberry, Sarah Lee, Jessica Ivy, Heather Bostick (2018). Bulldog Bytes: Engaging Elementary Girls with Computer Science and Cybersecurity. ASEE Southeastern Section Conference, Daytona Beach, FL.            

Jessica Ivy, Dana Franz, Shelly Hollis, Sarah Lee, and Donna Reese (2017). Exploring Pathways to Developing Self-Efficacy in New Computer Science Teachers. ASEE Zone II Conference Proceedings. San Juan Puerto Rico.

Sarah Lee and Hunter Lovvorn. (2016) Building Computational Thinking Skills Using Robots With First Year Engineering Students. ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans LA.

Stacy Kastner, Sarah Lee, and Tori Holifield. (2016) An Investigation of Pathways to Computing for Middle and High Schoolers in the U.S. South. ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Sarah Lee, Stacy Kastner, and Rian Walker. (2016) Engineering For The Future: Mississippi State University’s Cyber Summer Programs. Proceedings of the 2016 ASEE SE Annual Conference.

Sarah Lee, Chien Yu, and Kelly Brown. (2015) E-Mentoring and Informal Learning to Increase Student Awareness of Engineering. In Dominguez, N. & Gandert, Y. (Eds.). 8th Annual mentoring Conference Proceedings: A Quest for Leadership Excellence and Innovation. Albuquerque, NM: University of NM.

Sarah B. Lee, Stacy Kastner, and Rian Walker. (2015) Mending the Gap Growing the Pipeline: Increasing Female Representation in Computing, Proceedings of the 2015 ASEE SE Annual Conference.

Sarah B. Lee and Rian Walker. (2014) Engaging Middle School Girls in Computing with a Project-based Learning Approach, Proceedings of the 2014 ASEE SE Annual Conference.

Donna S. Reese, Sarah Lee, T.J. Jankun-Kelly and Lisa Henderson. (2014) Broadening Participation in Computing Through Curricular Changes, Proceedings of the 2014 ASEE SE Annual Conference.

Donna Reese, T.J. Jankun-Kelly, Lisa Henderson and Sarah Lee. (2013) Impact on Retention from a Change in Undergraduate Computing Curricula, Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Cookeville, TN, March 10-12, 2013.

Sarah B. Lee and Kenneth Steward, A Process-Based Approach to Improving Knowledge Sharing in Software Engineering, 24th Int. Conf. on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, pp. 700-705, San Francisco Bay, CA, July 2012.

Sarah B. Lee, K. S. Braunsdorf, and Sajjan G. Shiva, Knowledge Engineering to Visualize Complexity for Legacy Modernization Planning, 22nd Int. Conf. on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, pp. 331-334, San Francisco Bay, CA, July 2010.

Sarah B. Lee and Sajjan G. Shiva, A Novel Approach to Knowledge Sharing in Software Systems Engineering, 4th IEEE Int. Conf. on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE), pp. 376-381, Limerick, Ireland, July 2009.

Sarah B. Lee, Linda Sherrell, Hima Puppula, Sajjan Shiva,  Testing in the Early Phases of the Software Development Life Cycle, 1st International Research Workshop on Advances and Innovations in Software Testing, May 2007.

Sarah B. Lee and Sajjan G. Shiva, Comparing Agent Software Development Methodologies using the CMMI Engineering Process Model, America's Conf. on Information Systems, Omaha, NE, Aug. 2005.

Sarah B. Lee and Sajjan G. Shiva, Comparing Agent Software Development Methodologies using the Waterfall Model, America's Conf. on S, Omaha, NE, Aug. 2005.

Refereed Journals

Sajjan G. Shiva, Sarah B. Lee, Lubna A. Shala, and Christopher Simmons. (2008) Knowledge Management in Global Software Development, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks.

Other

Providing Equitable Access to Computing Education in Mississippi, in Proceedings of the AccessINCLUDES Capacity Building Institute, Feb 21-22 2019, Seattle WA.

Jessica Ivy and Sarah Lee, Innovation in STEM Education: Training Teachers to Integrate Cybersecurity, 2017 National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education K-12 Cybersecurity Education Conference, Nashville TN, December 2017.

Sarah Lee, Formation of Engineers: MSU’s Computer Science Summer Camp Programs, Birds of a Feather Discussion, Southeast Women in Computing, Atlanta, GA, November 2015.

Sarah Lee and Stacy Kastner, Growing the STEM Pipeline: A Cross-Curricular Approach, Facilitator of Roundtable Discussion: The Integration of STEM and the Liberal Arts, STEMTech, Phoenix, AZ, November 2015. 

Sajjan G. Shiva, J. R. Talburt, Linda Sherrell, and Sarah B. Lee, Computer Science Education – Are We on the Right Track? (Panelist), Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 60-61, 2006.

Sajjan G. Shiva, Linda Sherrell, Sarah B. Lee, and Andrew Olney, Engineering Agent-Based Software Systems (Panelist), Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 28, 2005.

Sarah B. Lee and Sajjan G. Shiva, CMMI and Agent-based Software Engineering (Poster), Midsouth College Computing Conference, University of Mississippi, Apr. 2005.

Related Professional Development:

National STEM Collaborative Forum (facilitated by Dr.Kim Scott from Arizona State), held at University of Alabama, 3/31/2017

Atlanta Collective Impact Backbone Design Workshop for CS/STEM Education Initiatives, NSF Sponsored Training, 3/2-3/3/2017.