MetroWorks provides access to scholarship, publications, and creative works created by the students of Metro State University. This includes culminating projects created to meet degree requirements, e.g. capstone projects, theses, and dissertations, and Student Research Conference papers and presentations.
Student work is added with approval by a Metro State University faculty member or department.
Submissions from 2025
Career Shock and its Effect on Workers and their Pursuit of Supplemental Education in a Post-Pandemic Environment, Tom Anderson
Social Media's Influence on First-Generation College Decisions: A Systematic Literature Review of Its Effects on College Selection, Richard Balderrama and Rosymar Hjermstad
Security and Reliability in Cache Systems, Eric Cortes
Health & Safety vs Sustainable Supply Chain Operations, Alan Delgado, Hamza Omar, Sumeya Yusuf, and Michelle Listrom
Implementation of a Patient Education Protocol to Reduce Hospital Length of Stay after Colon and Rectal Surgery, Megain Duellman
Unequal Coverage, Unequal Care: Overlapping Hotspots of Mental Distress and Uninsurance in Minnesota, Danae Goldsmith and James Hixon
Teach the Teacher: Implementing a Preceptor Development Program for Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Caitlyn Goodell
AI and Current Supply Chain Operations in Industry, Destiny Hajder, John McKee, and Tyler Savino
Personal Care Growth: Rebalancing Channels with Income and Age, Leah Her and Xuan M. Nguyen
Social Media’s Influence on First-Generation College Decisions - Part I, Rosymar Hjermstad
Challenges to Customer-Centered Operations in e-Retailing Operations, Ruth Knight, Ayan Mohamed, Ana Vasquez, and Yeng Houa Vang
The Effect of Audio Environment on Study Focus and Productivity, Maria Larson
Disparities in Homeownership Access, Nyema Manley, Khadija Elajmi, and Katherine Verzhbitska-Radzills
An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Stratified Sampling on the Performance and Robustness of Boosting Algorithms for Imbalanced Network Intrusion Detection, Lance McDonald, Jake Olson, and Dennis Campoverde-Lema
Tamper Resistance in Microelectronics: Physical and Logical Techniques, Mohamed Mohamed-Abdirahman
AI-Driven Prediction of Vulnerabilities in FPGA Designs, Osob Mohamed
Zero Trust from the Ground Up, Nabila Nur-Muse
SARA: Secure Allocation and Reallocation Architecture for Multi-Level Security FPGA Systems, Nabilah Nur-Muse and Ibrahim Ali
RISC-V Unleashed: Open. Fast. Yours., Caris Rungkittikhun, Matthew Walters, and Salah Robleh
Quantum-Safe Public Key Infrastructure (PKI): Evaluating Cache Side-Channel Threats Against CRYSTALS-Kyber, Stephanie Shinn
Phytochemical Investigation of Solidago altissima (Tall Goldenrod) and Verbena hastata (Blue Vervain), Gabriel Sullivan
A Comparative History of Casseroles and Hot Dishes in American Foodways, 1912-1952, Ulysses Swanson
Enhancing Communication and Feedback During Emergency Department Nurse Orientation Through a Structured Digital Model, Richard Tavarez
Structural Inequality in Minnesota’s Workforce: A Regression Analysis of Wage Determinants, Toni Topp
Supply Chain Disruptions vs. Resilience, Pamela Trinh, Lilliana Molloy Johnson, Aisha Ali, and Jared Hall
Defending Retail ATMs from Network Attacks via IP Packet Obfuscation, Brian Volkmuth
FPGAs: Reinforcement Learning For Attack Generation, Calvin Yang and Mohamed Mohamed Abdirahman