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Core-collapse supernovae are the explosive deaths of massive stars powered by the gravitational collapse of their core. The result is a supernova remnant and neutron star whose properties can be measured with astrophysical observation. These explosions are multi-physics multi-scale problems that require bleeding edge computational science techniques to simulate. However, the exact explosion mechanism is still not known, and the scientific community is limited by constraints of computation and observation. We employ a study on three key explosion parameters and their effect on the explosive nucleosynthesis and final yields. Using a broad set of spherically symmetric core-collapse simulations, we examine the effects of stellar mass, explosion energy, and remnant mass to place constraints on the engine and nucleosynthetic uncertainty of core-collapse supernovae.