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Dennis Frezzo
Senior Lecturer; Faculty Co-Director, Campus Computation Centerdfrezzo@umd.edu
Dr. Frezzo has a BSEE, MSEE, MA in Education, and PhD in Educational Psychology. He has taught at the university, community college, and high school levels. Before coming to the College of Information, he worked for 23 years at Cisco, leading teams that applied the learning sciences to rapid prototyping for the global Cisco Networking Academy program.
Dr. Frezzo teaches courses such as:
- INST 346 Technologies, Infrastructure, and Architecture (networking)
- INST 347 Cloud Computing for Information Science (AWS and Arduino IoT)
- INST 330 Designing Tools for Tinkering and Learning
- INST 362 User-Centered Design
- INST 154 Apollo@50
- INST 388F Electronics for Makers (physical computing)
- INST 388G “Seeing” the Internet (Maker visualizations)
- INST 388I The Internet of Things (IoT)
- INST 371 Teaching and Learning for Information Science
- INST 309 Independent Study in Information Science
- HACS 479 Undergraduate Research in Cybersecurity
Dr. Frezzo is available to sponsor a limited number of independent study and cybersecurity projects and to serve on committees. He enjoys the opportunity to influence student journeys of lifelong learning. He hopes to create a variety of technology spaces with the spirits of inventive basements, barns, kitchen tables, and garages.