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James J. Scire Jr., New York Institute of Technology

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2001.3 G. D. Kuh. Why integration and engagement are essential to effective educational practice in the twenty-first century. Peer Review, 10(4), 2008.4 J. J. Scire. Involving undergraduate students in research through the development of low-cost optical instrumentation. Proceedings of the 2016 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Conference, 2016.5 J. J. Scire, J. Furniss, J. Mauro, and K. O’Sullivan. Digital holography with a cell-phone camera module. 2017 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium, pages 1–6, 2017.6 D. Norfield. Practical Balancing of Rotating Machinery. Elsevier, 2006.7 R. B. McMillan. Rotating Machinery: Practical Solutions to Unbalance and Misalignment. Fairmont Press, 2004.Dr. James J. Scire, Jr.Dr. Scire is an Assistant Professor of

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Gonca Altuger-Genc, State University of New York, Farmingdale; Yue Hung, Farmingdale State College; Daniel Weinman, Farmingdale State College

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Drafting and Design course. TheCADD course was chosen to enhance freshman learning experience because it is a freshmancourse and engineering design is an integral part of mechanical engineering and mechanicalengineering technology programs2. Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 6-7 – Penn State BerksThe first approach is incorporation of eight hands-on exercises to the freshman level ComputerAided Drafting and Design course, where the order and the flow of the exercises are built basedon Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy3. The goal of these exercises is to provide students a continuousapplied learning experience throughout the semester while following the Revised Bloom’sTaxonomy3 for each exercise. The exercises contain various

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Te-shun Chou, East Carolina University

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simulators is not only able to help students understand abstract networkprinciples but can also improve students’ practical skills when learning about wirelesstechnologies7. Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 6-7 – Penn State BerksIn order to choose proper simulators for the class usage, two major factors have been taken intoconsideration, they are cost and popularity. Due to both Packet Tracer8 and Riverbed Modeler9are free of charge for educational use and are widely used as research and educational tools, weadopted these two simulators in a mixed lecture/lab undergraduate wireless communicationscourse to help the students learn concepts of wireless network technologies and protocols. Labswere developed based on the

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sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College; Raul Armendariz, Queensborough Community College; George Tremberger Jr, CUNY Queensborough Community College; Tak Cheung, CUNY Queensborough COmmunity College

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sequences in biology and astronomy is discussed. Inparticular the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory SDO and NIH Genbank RNA data are used asillustration.NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory SDO data analysisNASA has been posing solar eruption images in its Outreach program that attract students’attention. A student project would examine the data fluctuation after subtracting out the Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 6-7 – Penn State Berksdecreasing/increasing trend, hence a random series analysis, a novel approach in communitycollege student research project as far as we know. In the area of stock data, taking away the trendcould reveal correlated non-random fluctuation known as volatility in which further analysis

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Ethan Patrick Adams, Penn State University: Berks Campus; Patrick Joseph Scanlon; Joseph Torres, Penn State Berks GenCyber; Tricia Clark, Penn State Berks; Terence Laughlin, Blue Mountain High School; Abdullah Konak, Penn State Berks

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security climate. Additionally,business entities are reporting a significant lack of skills among their information securityemployees. The results of this shortage are data loss, privacy violations, service disruptions, andmore. One such business, Kaspersky Lab, reported that one of their managers “typically needs tointerview 40 people in order to hire one expert.”3 Additionally, a PWC survey of businesses statesthat 53% of respondents “were confident that they would have sufficient security skills to managetheir risks in the next year.”4 In this aspect, many of those seeking work in the industry are not as Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 6-7 – Penn State Berkseducated and specialized as they need to be in order to

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Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College

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for ease of assembly and water-proofing, location andorientation of the DC motor, capacitors, circuits, and GPS/Cell locator components, and type ofmotor rotation handles. The case was highly space constrained to fit into a 10cm cube volume!Figure 3(left): The Tent-Light product showing the challenge of fitting all components into the constrained productcase and Figure 4 (right): the open-view of the completed Tent-Light product Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, Oct 6-7 – Penn State BerksFor example, in one iteration, the motor was turned by using a freely rotating lower section ofthe case that was co-axial with the upper case. This design had the advantage that the entire tent-light function remained within the

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Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College

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business environment.A total of 78 student-made IllumiNUT products were sold as of April 2017, generating just over$1000 in revenue. The IllumiNUT profit was donated to a Local Food bank and, due to the FoodBank’s ability to purchase discounted food through government sources, the resulting IllumiNUTdonation resulted in $7,000 worth of equivalent food for local families in need. Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, Oct 6-7 - Penn State BerksInterdisciplinary GoalsThe interdisciplinary educational goals of the IllumiNUT project are to: 1) Expose students early in their careers to all aspects of a real manufacturing business environment using a real product and serving real customers. 2) Create an environment

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Kala Meah, York College of Pennsylvania

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, virtual laboratory experiments, and videos were used to teachelectromagnetic theories [4]. Some instructors use visualization tools such as MATLAB toimprove students’ learning in class and assigns software-based projects to enrich the interpretationof fundamentals of electromagnetics [5]. While simulations are helpful to explain theories, studiesshowed that students who can create and analyze simulations, already have a good understandingof the theory [6]. Thus, computer simulations do not help all students in core EMF courses to Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 6-7 – Penn State Berksdevelop a deeper interpretation of abstract theories. According to Dale [7], people learn and retain20% of what they hear, 30% of what

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Tak Cheung; sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College; Rex Taibu; Vazgen Shekoyan

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internal force problems in physics would promote the implementation ofdiscovery exercises using simulated data. The learning objectives include the understanding ofmethods involving regression in contrast to those based on covariance, the numeric computation Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 6-7 – Penn State Berksof the pertinent coefficients, the exclusion of proposed causative models with relatively lowloading values, and the understanding that the accepted causative model does not prove causality.Regression analysis, which requires an independent variable, has been an important data analysisprocedure in introductory physics lab for engineering students. The example presented here usesthe accelerations and weights of

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Tak Cheung, CUNY Queensborough Community College; Vazgen Shekoyan, Queensborough Community College; sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College; George Tremberger Jr, Queensborough Community College

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vectornotation system would teach students how to transform a set of steps into a skill, similar to the waythat practice in solving simultaneous equations in technology physics develops mastery of thatskill. Further assessment of a student’s progress in developing that skill could be conducted in thesecond semester when the student is asked to use integration to solve problems associated with theBiot-Savart law using i-j-k notation. Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 6-7 – Penn State BerksMaking JudgmentsThe decision to apply the i-j-k vector notation system is practical in that it avoids having to rotatethe coordinate system to achieve partial symmetry in the asymmetrical Biot-Savart case of astraight current-carrying wire

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Dugwon Seo, Queensborough Community College; Danny Mangra, Queensboro Community College

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elements, logic elements, timing elements,digital logic gates and so on. In this paper, a description of the interesting and innovative designinglogic circuit project is presented which can apply to community college students in Electrical andComputer Engineering Technology fields. Project-Based Learning (PBL) provides students theability to gain knowledge and skills by working to investigate and respond to a complex question,problem or challenge in real-world scenarios (www.bie.org). The goal of PBL is to develop andenhance student learning by encouraging critical thinking, problem solving, teamwork and self-management. It has been emphasized by previous study (Han et al.1) that student-driven, Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE

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Tak Cheung; sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College; Vazgen Shekoyan, Queensborough Community College; George Tremberger Jr, Queensborough Community College; Kimberly A Riegel, Queensborough Community College

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171, 16 January 2015, Pages 864-873. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187704281500232311 Language Mediated Concept Activation in Bilingual Memory Facilitates Cognitive Flexibility. Front Psychol. 2017 Jun 28;8: 1067. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2870198112 Todd Holden, Vazgen Shekoyan, Sunil Dehipawala, George Tremberger, Jr, David Lieberman & Tak Cheung. An Explorative Structural Equation Modeling of Grades for Engineering & Technology Educational Research. Spring 2012 ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Proceedings Archive Paper #3 (7 pages). http://www.asee.org/papers-and-publications/papers/section-proceedings/middle-atlantic/spring-2012 Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic

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Matthew Rhudy, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus

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assess learning within engineering courses5.For courses with a standard homework system in place, some effort has been done to determine ifcourse performance can be predicted from homework habits6. This has potential for helping todevelop early warning systems to help students with advising decisions or early corrective actionwithin the course to help with final course grades. Other work has considered non-traditionalgrading approaches such as allowing re-submissions of assignments7 or having students self-correct their work based on a provided solution8. Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 6-7 – Penn State BerksRather than looking at modified grading structure or direct homework habits or measures, thiswork

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Wyatt John Ritchie; Marietta Scanlon, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus

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Jason Lehrer; Marietta R. Scanlon, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus

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spool of plastic filament as the source material for the3D printing process. This consumable plastic filament must be replaced, much like the ink in astandard ink-jet printer, at a cost approaching $50 per spool. Currently printer filament istypically produced using a traditional extrusion process. While commercial printing filaments areusually polymers, such as polylactic acid (PLA) or acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), anumber of composites have been used to create objects from conducting, dielectric and magnetic Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 6-7, Penn State Berksmaterials [8,9,10,13]. There are a lot of advantages that 3D printing with plastics. Theseadvantages are particularly valuable for research

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Christian Enmanuel Lopez, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Conrad Tucker, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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andmotivation3,4. Moreover, studies show that training that does not promote active learning, doesnot have a significant impact on the learning gain of individuals5,6. In contrast, real-timeergonomic feedback has been shown to have a direct impact on reducing the risk of WMSDs, aswell as aid in knowledge transfer and long term behavioral change of individuals7,8. Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 6-7 – Penn State BerksEven though students are faced with multiple circumstances throughout engineering labenvironments that can serve as hands-on activities to apply HF&E principles, these events arenot exploited to teach and improve their understanding of HF&E. This is mainly due to time andresource constraints, as well as

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Bradley J. Sottile, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Alexa Kottmeyer

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for Spring2008, the first semester that the course was offered as a permanently numbered course, saw 50students enrolled in one section of the University Park course.Enrollments in CMPSC 200 have since skyrocketed; eight sections containing a total of roughly480 students are being offered in the Fall 2017 semester at University Park. The course is notoffered at every Penn State campus, so some students who begin their academic journey at anothercampus location wait to take the course until they have transitioned to University Park. Enrollmenthad increased to the point where the logistics in scheduling rooms for the course were rapidly Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 6-7 – Penn State Berksbecoming unmanageable

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Matthew Jason Bilsky, Lehigh University; Christian Thomas Davis; Kiana M Wright , Lehigh University; Kumar Swagat, Lehigh University

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in 3 sections. Only thefirst six rows (A-F) of the middle column of seats (1-13) were evaluated during the study due tothe camera’s limited field of view and maximum image resolution of 1280x720 pixels. Figure 1shows a snapshot from the camera during a regular lecture. The 78 seats in the front (A1-F13)comprise the region of study. The third section of seats is located to the left of those pictured.Teams were randomly seated with their teammates across the rows. This eliminates the self-selecting factor of student engagement in the front row of class. On average, 22.21% of the seatsin the region of study were empty during lecture. Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 6-7 – Penn State BerksThree different lecture

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Ivan E. Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; Abdullah Konak, Penn State Berks; Gül E. Kremer, Iowa State University; Kristen A Lee, Menlo College

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(INFORMS), the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) and American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). She is currently the chair of ASEE Mid Atlantic Section. She has been a principal investigator in sponsored projects from National Science Foundation (NSF) and Venture Well. sadan@psu.edu.Dr. Abdullah Konak, Penn State Berks Abdullah Konak is a Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity Berks. Dr. Konak received his degrees in Industrial Engineering, B.S. from Yildiz Technical University, Turkey, M.S. from Bradley University, and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to his current position, he taught at Auburn University. Dr. Konak also held

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Thuong N Nguyen, York College of Pennsylvania; Justin Reichner; James Moscola, York College of Pennsylvania; Kala Meah, York College of Pennsylvania

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completely electronically. The system is comprised of four Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 6-7 – Penn State Berksmajor components; bicycles, locking positions that keep the bicycles secure when they are not inuse, rental kiosks that interface with users and control the locks, and a backend server to storesystem information and authorize rentals. To rent a bicycle, a user needs to register on the backendserver via a website, generate a transaction code, and input that code at a rental kiosk. The code isthen passed from the rental kiosk to the backend server so the rental request can be validated. Oncevalidated, a bicycle is unlocked for the user.The system utilizes a backend server to store customer information, keep a

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Joseph Michael Mahoney, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus

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of video game creation as an instructional tool for non-CS engineers is less explored.These students need to use programming as part of their work. They, more than CS majors, often Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 6-7 – Penn State Berkssuffer a lack of motivation for learning programming. Students are traditionally presented with aprogramming method they do not understand to solve a problem that they do not care about intheir introduction to programming course8,13. One introductory engineering course gave studentsa video game shell for a racing game that they had to complete 14. Here, they applied differentnumerical methods as needed to get the game to function.Inspired by previous work in video game creation as

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Ashwin Satyanarayana, New York City College of Technology; Janusz Kusyk PhD, New York City College of Technology, CUNY.; Hong Li, New York City College of Technology

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stepsIn this paper, we focus on assessing two courses from two different tracks in our department. Wechose courses from the Networking and Database tracks, namely Networking Fundamentals andDatabase Fundamentals. Two tools that we used across both of the courses were commonassignment and common rubric for evaluation. We attempted to tackle problems associated with:(a) interpretation of scores assigned by different instructors in different but related courses and(b) how to improve mutual common assignment to be more immune to individual graders whilebetter preparing students for a real-life challenges. The detailed methodology of our approach isdescribed in the next section. Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 6-7 – Penn

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Tak Cheung; George Tremberger Jr, Queensborough Community College; sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College; Steven Barton, Benjamin N. Cardozo High School; Colin Denis, BASIS independent Brooklyn school

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. The scintillator plate absorbsthis energy and emits light of a known frequency. The plate is wrapped in reflective material, sothe light bounces around until it finds the photomultiplier tube, which absorbs it and emits a signal, Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 6-7 – Penn State Berksprocessed by a nearby computer. Data from each computer in the array will be automaticallyanalyzed at QCC. The arrays pursue serious scientific research, and high school studentsparticipate actively in this research. Student research begins with learning practical hands-onlaboratory skills in assembling the detector components. Fermilab has donated the scintillatorplates, pieces of old scintillator panels no longer in use. Fermilab

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Raul Armendariz, Queensborough Community College; Aiwu Zhang, Brookhaven National Laboratory; David Jose Buitrago, Queensborough Community College; Tak Cheung, CUNY Queensborough COmmunity College; Garrett Stoddard, Stonybrook University ; David E. Jaffe, Brookhaven National Laboratory

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aphotomultiplier,” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, section A, 339 (1994)468-476. Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 6-7 – Penn State Berks

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Mohsen Mosleh, Howard University; Khosro A. Shirvani, State University of New York, College of Technology at Farmingdale

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, some common sources of errors in themeasurement of displacement, load, and dimeter of the wire specimens in Project 1 were discussed.The adverse role of designs that may cause stress concentration which affects the load-displacement behavior of samples addressed.The results of the projects are discussed in this paper. Student surveys and the measuredmechanical properties of aluminum, steel and copper samples are presented as assessment tools.Student SurveysThe number of students who took two sections of the Solid Mechanics Lab were 31 students intheir Sophomore year. Approximately 22 and 28 students participated in surveys following Project1 and project 2, respectively. The surveys included four-choice and descriptive questions. Thequestions

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Laura Bayerle; Marietta R. Scanlon, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus

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higher GPA than men as a result of their self-doubt.8-11 Inaddition, between 5th and 9th grade, gifted girls, perceiving that smarts aren't sexy, hide theiraccomplishments, indicating a strong argument towards providing girls with a segregatedenvironment while pursuing STEM interests.12 Key findings with respect to increasing studentinterest in STEM indicate that the most important methodologies for high impact programs Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 6-7 – Penn State Berksinvolve exploring STEM long term,13 inspiring career exploration,14 and exposing participantsto role-models. Although hands-on activities generate an interest in STEM, it is the interactionwith role-models that is instrumental in generating a

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Emily Alexandra German, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology; Niki Taylor Taheri, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology; Shouling He, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology

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apply theseconcepts in the form of a working speaker. In order for Vaughn’s Society of Women Engineers tofocus on minority students, a Title 1 Elementary School, i.e. a school with high numbers or Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 6-7 – Penn State Berkspercentages of children from low-income families and therefore requiring assistance from thegovernment, was chosen.This paper will present the rationale behind the choice of building a speaker as an engineeringworkshop topic, which is arranged in the second section. Secondly, the content of the workshopand how it was introduced to the students shall be provided in the third section. The result of theworkshop and its conclusion shall follow in the last two sections

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Ge Jin, Purdue University Northwest; Michael Tu, Purdue University Northwest; Tae-Hoon Kim, Purdue University Northwest; Justin David Heffron, Purdue University Northwest; Jonathan Kakahiaka White

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)raise general awareness of cybersecurity and help all students understand appropriate and safeonline behavior, and 3) increase diversity in the US cybersecurity workforce. As described in theintroduction section, PNW GenCyber camp recruited 51.3% of underrepresented minority highschool students, and met the goal of increasing diversity of summer camp participants.To raise general awareness of cybersecurity and safe online behavior of high school students andincrease their interest in cyber security, we developed game based cyber security learning modulesto meet the GenCyber program goals.The topics of cybersecurity education games were selected in the following areas: Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 6-7 – Penn

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Erick Martinez P.E., United States Military Academy; Charles M Ouellette, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996; Luke Thomas Plante, United States Military Academy; Benjamin Michael Wallen P.E., United States Military Academy; Jeffrey A. Starke P.E., U.S. Military Academy

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/AfricanAmerican and White students (p=0.0002), and between male and female students (p=0.0016) werefound to be statistically significant. After taking an environmental science course at theundergraduate level, our results suggest that these differences are no longer significant.Keywordsenvironmental attitudes, environmental literacy, behavior Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 6-7 – Penn State BerksIntroductionThe need for environmental knowledge began with the origin of the human population. There wasa need to vent smoke from enclosed spaces (e.g., tents, caves, etc.) to improve air quality andreduce eye and lung irritation. The need for more informed environmental attitudes to guide policycame to the forefront based upon a