Biography
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
L Wittie, A Kurdia, M Huggard, KN Nguyen, Important and Difficult Topics in CS2: An Expert Consensus via Delphi Study, ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore, MD, June 25 - 28, 2023, 2023, pp1-15
IEEE Access - Educational Society Section, (2021), Meriel Huggard, John E. Mitchell, James Harland, Mark J. W. Lee, Rebecca Strachan, [eds.]
Materials Research Proceedings:Floating Offshore Energy Devices GREENER, 20, (2021), Ciarán Mc Goldrick, Meriel Huggard, Biswajit Basu, [eds.]
Lea Wittie, Anastasia Kurdia, Judy Peng, James Kelly, Meriel Huggard, Developing a Concept Inventory for Computer Science 2: What should it focus on and what makes it challenging?, IEEE Frontiers in Education, Uppsala, Sweden (moved online), 21-24th October 2020, IEEE, 2020
Ciaran McGoldrick, Meriel Huggard, Reconfigurable context reactive blended networking and communication courses, ACM SIGCOMMEDU Workshop, Online, August , 2020, pp1-4
Abeer Alsheaibi, Meriel Huggard, Glenn Strong, Teaching within the CoderDojo Movement: An Exploration of Mentors' Teaching Practices, IEEE Frontiers in Education, Uppsala, Sweden (moved online), 21-24th October 2020, IEEE, 2020, pp1-5
Lea Wittie; Anastasia Kurdia ; Meriel Huggard, Recruiting Experts: Toward a Concept Inventory for Computer Science 2, ACM SIGCSE, Baltimore, 21st - 24th Feb 2018, 2018, pp1
Pibiri, Gianluigi; Mc Goldrick, Ciaran; Huggard, Meriel, Ensuring quality services on WiFi networks for offloaded cellular traffic, 13th Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS), Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA, 21-24 Feb 2017, IEEE, 2017, pp136-143
Lea Wittie; Anastasia Kurdia ; Meriel Huggard, Developing a concept inventory for computer science 2, IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) , Indianapolis, 18-21 Oct. 2017 , IEEE, 2017, pp1-4
Meriel Huggard, Smita Shiviram, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Experiences of Integrating UAVs into the Curriculum through Multidisciplinary Engineering Projects, 123rd Annual Conference ASEE, New Orleans, LA, 26-29 June 2016, ASEE, 2016, pp1-14
Huggard Meriel; Vaccaro Alessandro; McGoldrick Ciaran, Evaluation of a Time Radio Signal as Wireless Sensor Synchronization Beacon , ICNC - International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications , Kauai, Hawaii, USA , 15-18 Feb, 2016, IEEE , 2016, pp1-5
Huggard Meriel, Mc Goldrick Ciaran, Droning On: Reflections on Integrating UAV Technology into a Computer Engineering Design Laboratory , SIGCSE 2016, ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education, Memphis, Tennessee , 2-5th March 2016, ACM , 2016, pp504-509
Meriel Huggard, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Enhancing Ethical Awareness though Practical Engagement with Mobile Media , International Conference on Engineering Education and Research , McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, 24-26 August 2014, McMaster University, 2014, ppTU3_5:1-TU3_5:6
Meriel Huggard, Frank Boland, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Using Cooperative Learning to Enhance Critical Reflection, IEEE Frontiers in Education, Madrid, Spain, 22-25 October 2014 , IEEE, 2014, pp1899 - 1906
Meriel Huggard, Learner Perceptions of Successful Engagement in Undergraduate Computer Science Education: A Grounded Theory, Trinity College, 2013
Meriel Huggard, Ciarán Mc Goldrick, Self-affirmation and Success in Undergraduate Computer Science, Frontiers in Education, Oklahoma, USA, 23 - 26 October 2013, IEEE, 2013, pp1806-1811
Meriel Huggard, Ciarán Mc Goldrick, Unlocking the laboratory: autonomous wireless sensor authentication in practice, Campus-Wide Information Systems, 30, (4), 2013, p308 - 316
Gianluigi Pibiri, Ciarán Mc Goldrick, Meriel Huggard, Expected Quality of Service (eQoS) A Network Metric for Capturing End-User Experience, IEEE IFIP WIRELESS DAYS, Dublin, 20-23 November 2012, IEEE, 2012, pp1 - 6
Gianluigi Pibiri, Ciarán McGoldrick, Meriel Huggard, Enhancing AQM Performance on Wireless Networks, IEEE IFIP Wireless Days, Dublin, Ireland, 20-23 November 2012, IEEE, 2012, pp1 - 3
Meriel Huggard, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Engaging with Ubiquity: Students, Sensors and Security, International Conference on Engineering Education, Belfast, 22nd-26th August, 2011, ppMO.A.SA 11.219-8
Meriel Huggard, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Lessons Learnt from a Decade of Structured Support for Novice Programmers, International Conference on Engineering Education , Belfast, 22nd-26th August, 2011, ppFR.A.SB 11.230-7
Ricardo Simon Carbajo, Brendan Cody-Kenny, Ciarán Mc Goldrick, Meriel Huggard , Practical Programming: Android Development in the Laboratory, International Conference on Engineering Education, Belfast, 22nd-26th August, 2011, ppMO.P.SC 11.297-8
Ricardo Simon Carbajo, Meriel Huggard, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Opportunistic Detection of Relative Mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks, IFIP Wireless Days 2010, Venice, Italy, 20-22 October 2010, IEEE, 2010, pp1 - 5
Waqas Ahmed, Meriel Huggard, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, An Application Adaptive Energy Model for Wireless Sensor Nodes, 6-th ACM Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks , Tenerife, Spain, 26-30th October 2009, 2009, pp147 - 150
Clay Stevens, Colin Lyons, Ronny Hendrych, Ricardo Simon-Carbajo, Meriel Huggard, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Simulating Mobility in Pervasive WSNs Bridging the gap between ns-2 and TOSSIM 2.x, The 13-th IEEE/ACM(*) International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications, Singapore, 25-28th October 2009, 2009, pp247 - 250
Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Michael Clear, Ricardo Simon Carbajo, Karsten Fritsche, Meriel Huggard, TinyTorrents - Integrating Peer-to-Peer and Wireless Sensor Networks, WONS2009 - Sixth International Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services, Snowbird, Utah, USA, 2-4 February, 2009, edited by Violet R. Syrotiuk, Anthony Ephremides, Claudio Casetti , 2009, pp119 - 126
Brendan Cody-Kenny, David Guerin, Desmond Ennis, Ricardo Simon Carbajo, Meriel Huggard, Ciaran Mc Goldrick , Performance Evaluation of the 6LoWPAN protocol on MICAz and TelosB motes, 4-th ACM Workshop on Performance Monitoring and Measurement of Heterogeneous Wireless and Wired Networks (PM²HW²N 2009), Tenerife, Spain, 26-30th October 2009, ACM, 2009, pp25 - 30
Gianluigi Pibiri, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Meriel Huggard, Using Active Queue Management to Enhance Performance in IEEE802.11, The 5th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Networking and Computing, Tenerife, Spain, 26-30th October 2009, 2009, pp70 - 77
Ritesh Shreevastav, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Meriel Huggard, Delivering Improved QoS and Cell Throughput in UMTS Based HSDPA Networks, 10th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, Kos, Greece, 15-19 June 2009, 2009, pp1-10
Enrico Perla, Art O'Cathain, Ricardo Simon Carbajo, Meriel Huggard, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, PowerTOSSIM z: Realistic Energy Modelling for Wireless Sensor Network Environments, 3rd ACM International Workshop on Performance Monitoring, Measurement, and Evaluation of Heterogeneous Wireless and Wired Networks (PM2HW2N 2008), Vancouver, Canada, 31 October 2008, 2008, pp35-42
Ricardo Simon Carbajo, Meriel Huggard, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, An End-to-End routing protocol for Peer-to-Peer communication in Wireless Sensor Networks, Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Middleware for Network Eccentric and Mobile Applications (MiNEMA), Glasgow, UK, 1-2nd April 2008, ACM, 2008, pp5 - 9
Ioanna Stamouli, Meriel Huggard, Phenomenography as a tool for understanding our students, International Symposium for Engineering Education, Dublin City University, 17-19 September 2007, 2007, pp181 - 186
Meriel Huggard, Supporting Novice programmers - the TCD experience, Computer Science CoP Technology Seminar, Trinity College, Dublin, 18 June 2007, 2007, CSCoP/NDLR
Meriel Huggard and Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Formalising Research Methods for Graduate Programs in Computer Science, IEEE Frontiers in Education, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, October 10-13 2007, 2007, ppS4G-16 - S4G-20
Arkaitz Bitorika, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Meriel Huggard, Rapid Aggregate Defence For Denial of Service Attacks, IEEE MonAM 2007, Toulouse, France, 5-6 November 2007, 2007, pp1-6
Meriel Huggard and Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Incentivising students to pursue Computer Science Programmes, Frontiers in Education 36th Annual Conference, San Diego, California, 28 - 31 October 2006, IEEE, 2006, ppS4C-3 - S4C-8
Meriel Huggard, Computer Experience and the Computer Science Student, ACM SIGCSE 2006, Houston, Texas, 1 -5 March 2006, 2006
Meriel Huggard and Ciaran McGoldrick, Computer Experience - Enhancing Engineering education, International Conference on Engineering Education, Puerto Rico, USA, 23 - 28 July 2006, 2006, ppT4C-21 - T4C-25
Ioanna Stamouli and Meriel Huggard, Object Oriented Programming and Program Correctness: The Students' Perspective, ICER, Kent, Sept 2006, ACM, 2006
Ioanna Stamouli and Meriel Huggard, Learning Object Oriented Programming from the Student's Perspective, EARI Jure 2006, Tartu, Estonia, 30 June-4 July 2006, 2006
Eileen Doyle, Ioanna Stamouli and Meriel Huggard, Computer anxiety, Self-efficacy, Computer Experience: An Investigation Throughout a Computer Science Degree, Frontiers in Education 35th Annual Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, 19-22 October 2005, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2005, ppS2H-3 - S2H-7
Meriel Huggard, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Practical Positioning Projects: Location Based Services in the Laboratory, Proceedings Frontiers in Education 35th Annual Conference, Frontiers in Education, Indianapolis, Indiana, 19 - 22 October 2005, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2005, ppS3F-1 - S3F-6
Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Meriel Huggard, Peer Learning with Lego Mindstorms, Proceedings Frontiers in Education 34th Annual Conference, Frontiers in Education, Savannah, Georgia, 20 - 23 October 2004, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2004, pp132 - 138
Huggard, M; Robin, M; Bitorika, A; Mc Goldrick, C, Performance evaluation of fairness-oriented active queue management schemes, Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems, 2004. (IEEE MASCOTS 2004), Vollendam, The Netherlands, 4 - 8 October 2004, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 2004, pp105 - 112
Meriel Huggard, Programming Trauma: Can it be avoided?, British Computer Society Grand Challenges in Computing:Education, Newcastle, England, March , 2004, pp50 - 51
Ioanna Stamouli, Eileen Doyle and Meriel Huggard, Establishing Structured Support for Programming Students, Frontiers in Education, Savannah Georgia, 20 - 23 October 2004, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2004, ppF2G-5 - F2G-9
Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Meriel Huggard, Building Blocks of Collaborative Learning, Irish Engineers Journal, 57, (12), 2003, p44 - 45
Arkaitz Bitorika, Mathieu Robin and Meriel Huggard, An Evaluation Framework for Active Queue Management Schemes, 11th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, Orlando, Florida, 12 - 15 October 2003, 2003
Meriel Huggard, A problem based learning approach to introductory logic, 2nd International Conference on the Teaching of Mathematics at the Undergraduate Level, Crete, 2002, 2002
S.Crosby, I.Leslie, M.Huggard, J.T.Lewis, B.McGurk, R.Russell, Measurement based Resource Allocation for Multimedia Applications, Proc. Multimedia Computing and Networking, San Jose, California, Jan 26-28, 1998
N.G.Duffield, M.Huggard, R.Russell, F.Toomey, C.Walsh, Predicting bandwidth requirements of ATM and Ethernet traffic, Proceedings IEEE 13th UK Teletraffic Symposium, Glasgow, March, 1996
M.Huggard, Bypassing Modelling: Further Investigations of Entropy as a Traffic Descriptor in the Fairisle ATM network, Proceedings of the First Workshop on ATM Traffic Management, Paris, 1995
S.Crosby, M.Huggard, I.Leslie, J.T.Lewis, F.Toomey and C.Walsh, Fast bounds for ATM Quality of Service parameters, Proceedings of the 12th IEE UK Teletraffic Symposium, Old Windsor, March 15-17th, 1995, pp1 - 9
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Sean Rowan, Michael Clear, Mario Gerla, Meriel Huggard, Ciarán Mc Goldrick, Securing vehicle to vehicle communications using blockchain through visible light and acoustic side-channels, 2017
Meriel Huggard, Sensor Research, US-Ireland F&D Partnership - Sensor Workshop, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Dublin, 20-21 February 2007, 2007
Meriel Huggard, Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Avoiding Technology Trauma: Interrelated Initiatives at TCD , Second Irish Universities Quality Board Conference, Galway, Ireland, 6 - 7 Feb. 2004, 2004
Meriel Huggard, The TCD Programming Support Centre, Improving Retention Rates on ICT Courses, Institute of Technology, Tallaght, 26 November 2004, 2004, Higher Education Authority and Instiute of Technology, Tallaght
Meriel Huggard and Maria Meehan, International Symposium on Undergraduate Mathematics Education 2 (ISUME2), 10-11 December 2004, 2004, University College, Dublin
Meriel Huggard and Maria Meehan, Best Practice in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, Inaugural conference of the Irish Universities Quality Board, Cork, 7 - 8 February 2003, 2003
Meriel Huggard, Proof and Pedagogy: the role of logic in undergraduate mathematics education, Dublin City University, November 2002, 2002
Meriel Huggard and Maria Meehan, International Symposium on Undergraduate Mathematics Education (ISUME), 6 - 7 December 2002, 2002, Trinity College, Dublin
Research Expertise
Projects
- Title
- Wireless Active Queue Management: A Robust, Scalable Approach using Control Theory.
- Summary
- Active Queue Management (AQM) techniques have been successfully incorporated into existing Internet routers to signal dynamically congestion to sources on fixed networks. The increasing proliferation of mobile devices has created a growing awareness of the need for wireless AQM schemes. However, wireless links have intrinsic characteristics that invalidate the underlying assumptions of fixed infrastructure AQM. This project proposes to advance the theoretical understanding of the fundamental issues involved in wireless AQM. This knowledge will then be used to design and implement new, highly efficient Active Queue Management schemes for the wireless environment.
- Funding Agency
- Science Foundation Ireland
- Date From
- 1/9/2006
- Date To
- 31/8/2009
- Title
- TinyTorrents - An efficient, scalable, robust, co-operative infrastructure providing global accessibility to local wireless sensornet information
- Summary
- Wireless sensor functionality is predominantly constrained by sensor size and battery life considerations. Existing sensornet frameworks e.g. Deluge, are designed for specific purposes, such as sensor code update. TinyTorrents proposes a unique architectural platform which makes sensor data promptly, transparently and globally available using trackerless, co-operative Peer to Peer concepts. A key element of TinyTorrents will be the modelling and integration of wireless Quality of Service Active Queue Management functionality together with accurate power consumption and transmission characterisation. Sensors will be able to request prioritisation for "important" data subject to prevailing framework constraints.
- Funding Agency
- Science Foundation Ireland
- Date From
- 01/09/2006
- Date To
- 31/8/2009
Recognition
Representations
Member-at-Large IEEE Education Society Board of Governors
Associate editor, IEEE Access (Education Society Section)
IEEE Education Society Publications Committee
External Examiner for Undergraduate Degree and Higher Diploma Programs, Maynooth University
Reviewer, Journal of Engineering Education
Reviewer, IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference
Reviewer, ACM SigCSE Conference
Session Chair, IEEE Wons
Grant Proposal Reviewer, Enterprise Ireland
Memberships
Senior Member: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Senior Member: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Member ACM
Member IEEE