Dr. Dunsmore's research areas include the Internet, the World-Wide Web, Web browsers, Website design and implementation, software engineering, C, C++, and Java programming, cgi software, object-oriented design and programming, and information systems.

He was a member of the program committee for the Second Annual SEI Conference on Software Engineering Education, April, 1988, and a member of the program committee for the Fourth International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Stuttgart, Germany, September, 1991.

Dr. Dunsmore is the Information Systems Convenor for the Global Studies Program in the Office of International Programs. He coordinates research concerning international issues related to the development and the use of Information Systems.

He is a 1996 recipient of the Charles B. Murphy Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award at Purdue University. He was nominated in 1997 by Purdue University for the Carnegie Foundation U.S. Professor of the Year program. He was selected one of the Top Ten Teachers in the School of Science in both 1994 and 1995. Dr. Dunsmore was selected Outstanding Teacher in the School of Science at Purdue University in 1980. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Upsilon Pi Epsilon (honor society for the computing sciences).

Dr. Dunsmore is co-author (with S.D. Conte and V.Y. Shen) of Software Engineering Metrics and Models, Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Co., (1986).