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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 3

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Benin, United States Coast Guard Academy; William Randall; Angela G Jackson-Summers, United States Coast Guard Academy

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studentswith the necessary cybersecurity knowledge to understand and analyze cyber securityvulnerabilities and threats to assess the likelihood of an attack as well as begin to understand theimpact of such an attack.The first section of the course was designed to provide a general understanding of cyber riskmanagement. In this course this starts with the DODI 8500.01 (“Cybersecurity”) definition: “Cybersecurity Risk Management. Managing cybersecurity risks is a complex, multifaceted undertaking that requires the involvement of the entire organization, from senior leaders planning and managing DoD operations, to individuals developing, implementing, and operating the IT supporting those operations. Cybersecurity risk management is a subset of

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 6

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Byul Hur, Texas A&M University; Nathan Alexander; James Kyle McIlhaney; Christian Hurst; Leo Colom

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in Figure 7. The project was organized and managed by higher-level categories ofResearch, Design, Implementation, Testing, and Wrap up. There are proposed milestones for this project created by students. The selected milestones forthe second semester are shown in Table 1. The milestones include the completion of electronics,mechanical, and software implementations. These milestones were completed, and the tableshows the status of the milestones and the dates. This capstone project successfully delivered afunctional prototype as it was planned. Milestones Due Status Complete Mechanical and Electronics Implementation 9/15/22 Completed Complete

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 7

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Frank Kreimendahl, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Durga Suresh-Menon

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approach to develop a bold and ambitious strategicstudents helps each member reach their greatest potential. We plan. The completed plan was unanimously endorsed by theseek to maximize the value of our graduates’ contributions to Board of Trustees in February 2020.global society and their effectiveness as future leaders. [6] The plan established four strategic focus areas – Inclusive Excellence, High Value Learning, a Transformative StudentB. Size and Programs Experience, and Next Generation Partnerships. Within each Wentworth has approximately 4000 students who are pre- of these focus areas, the

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 8

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nimmi Arunachalam, Florida International University; Mark A. Weiss, Florida International University; Jason Liu, Florida International University; Alina Melissa Perez, Florida International University; Giri Narasimhan, Florida International University; Stephanie Jill Lunn, Florida International University

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in our study, including the data collection and analyses, are articulatedin Section 5. The results of our study and a discussion of our findings are described in Sections 6and 7. In Section 8, we address the limitations of our study. Finally, we present the key takeawaysfrom the Guild workshop and its implications for other researchers who would like to adopt orcontinue similar efforts in Section 9.2 BackgroundWomen have continued to be minoritized in computing fields in the U.S. over multiple decades[1]. Data from the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) Freshmen Survey revealedthat while the percentage of men planning to major in computing in post-secondary institutionsrose from 3.3% to 9.3% over a ten-year period ending in

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hashmath Fathima, Morgan State University; Kofi Nyarko, Morgan State University

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active sites create project concepts, which are completed byDecember. Prospective participants are given pre-projects to work on at the beginning of theyear, and graduate mentors and faculty advisers at the location conduct training and researchactivities before the start of the summer program.REU participants select one of the three active host institutions during the hiring process basedon the research activities offered, faculty engagement, and the site's location. Participants in the6-week RET program, drawn from nearby high schools, do not remain on campus. Participantswork on their research for 32 hours per week during the summer, with team-building exercisesand the creation of lesson plans (for RET participants) and weekly reports (for

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 7

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sagnik Nath, University of California, Santa Cruz; Jennifer Quynn, University of California, Santa Cruz; Jose Renau

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Figure 5 CSE12 pass rate data from Fall ‘17 - Spring ‘22 In preparation for the greater ITL effort, we have been focused on closing equity gaps in ourlarge, gateway CSE12 course, beginning fall of 2021. We used institutional data and developed a processfor improvement as detailed in the later section Training Development Plan. Through a series of meetings,members of the ITL Team during academic year 2021 - 2022, collaborated in meetings to review 1)teaching methods, 2) assessments, and 3) scalability in relation to student outcomes and course data, andspecifically looking at equity gaps between URM and non-URM student subgroups. Inquiry was thefoundation for all pre-ITL meetings with the guiding question “How can we teach differently to

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 3

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mahima Agumbe Suresh, San Jose State University

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leveraged these features extensively.Quizzes: Setting up the quizzes require careful planning and working with the learningmanagement system to set up question banks and formula questions. Compared to the traditionalgrading with no reattempts, this system requires the instructor to create significantly morequestions. However, once the quizzes are released, there is no need to grade them. Feedback canbe incorporated into the learning management system. Formula questions can be hard to create ifwe have follow-up questions, e.g., asking students to figure out the network prefix using a subnetmask and then asking for the number of hosts in the subnet as a follow-up. For such questions, theauthor set them up as fill-in-multiple-blank questions in a

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 7

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jungsoo Lim, California State University, Los Angeles; Yilin Feng, California State University, Los Angeles; Eun-Young Kang, California State University, Los Angeles

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. Thus, female students could have less time for schoolwork than malestudents.To confirm our belief, we plan to conduct another survey to better understand the impact ofgender roles and social implications on female students’ confidence in their academicperformance. Also, we plan to continue to collect the data in early programming courses as weapproach the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Then, we will compare them with the current data.In addition, we plan to organize a female CS student support group to share their experiences.ConclusionBased on the data and the survey result, we believe that the academic performance of femalestudents is comparable to that of male students’ performance. However, we believe that genderroles and their social

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Teresa Piliouras, Technical Consulting & Research, Inc. ; Mengqian Wu, Technical Consulting Research, Inc. ; Steffi N. Crasto, Center for Advanced and Emerging Technologies (CARET); Pui Lam (Raymond) Yu, Technical Consulting & Research, Inc.; Navarun Gupta, University of Bridgeport

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that technology should be used to [10], [11]:• Help teachers provide targeted interventions and tailored feedback based on learner data.• Evaluate efficacy of new teaching practices and technologies based on student outcomes.• Provide personalized, active learning experiences to all students.• Build research-supported teaching practices and foster professional development.• Improve measurement of student learning against clearly mapped competencies.• Initiate small pilot technology rollouts instead of poorly planned, large-scale rollouts that fail.• Develop Information Technology systems in accordance with NIST cybersecurity standards.Broad adoption of LMS and CRM technology requires a paradigm shift towards a student-centricmodel of education

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Debarati Basu, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University; Harini Ramaprasad, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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related to the effectiveness of the module and the students’experiences with it. A brief discussion on the results and limitations of our module is presented inSection 6. Finally, we end with our conclusions and planned future work in Section 7.2 Literature ReviewThe Computer Science discipline has the highest number of academic misconduct cases whencompared to any other discipline [6]. However, it is not certain whether this is due to 1) trulyhigher rates of dishonesty; 2) the existence / use of more detection tools in the field; or 3) thenature of solutions in this field, especially to programming problems (i.e., there may only be a fewefficient ways to solve a given problem) [6]. A recent study examined how academic integrity andteaching

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 6

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University

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Christian Poellabauer, “Fundamentals of Wireless Sensor Networks: Theory and Practice”, Wiley, 2010. 13. Akyildiz, Ian and Mehmet Can Vuran, “Wireless Sensor Networks”, Wiley, 2010. 14. Utah Code and Board of Regent’s Policy Statements Regarding UVU’s Mission and Role: Planning, Budget, and Human Resources, UVU Planning, Budget, and Human Resources, September 21, 2018. 15. 2. Information and statistics provided by the UVU Office of Institutional Research and Information – IRI. 16. Estrada, Kevin, and Devan Hone, “Efficient and Smarter Homes Through Presence-Based Control”, ECE 4800, Capstone Final Report, Spring 2021. 17. Froelich, Jason and Talmage Shumway, “Smart Homes of the Future”, ECE 4800, Capstone

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 8

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elena Filatova, CUNY, New York City College of Technology; Yu-Wen Chen, New York City College of Technology; Hong Li, New York City College of Technology

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for the CST majors the CS3 course is a mandatory one. Also, no recoveryafter the end of the pandemic (in Fall 2021) is recorded for the CS3 enrollment numbers.Figure 4 summarizes Table 3 and demonstrates that COVID-19 affected the enrollment numbersfor students across all ethnicities. However, it can be observed that different ethnicities havedifferent patterns of when students of those ethnicities were affected most. We cannot explain whythe timelines of the changes in the enrollment numbers for different ethnicities vary. However, thisis an interesting phenomenon that we plan to investigate in our future work.Figure 2. Enrollment For CS1, CS2, and CS3 Courses for Men and Women: Overall Enrollment for CST and non-CST

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 9

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shamima Mithun, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis; Rajagopal Sankaranarayanan, University of Texas at Austin

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CIT21400 course. In this study, we integrated the microlearning instructional approach into CIT 21400to help engage students and retain the knowledge gained through the introduction to datamanagement course. CIT 21400 is a required class for all CIT students and a prerequisite for allother courses in the data-management concentration. Figure 1 shows the current plan of study forthe CIT data-management concentration; we draw particular attention to CIT 21400’s position asa prerequisite course for all data-management courses. Approximately 140 students who enroll inCIT 21400 will directly benefit per academic year. We anticipate seeing learning and performancegains over time as students continue in their programs as an outcome of our research

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 8

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jia Zhu, Florida International University; Stephanie Jill Lunn, Florida International University; George D. Ricco, University of Indianapolis

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commitment based on need and lackof alternatives. Continuance commitment is akin to the theory of sunk cost.While the reasons for students to switch may vary and do impact retention in a chosen discipline,we aim to change the perspective on switching to an asset-based approach. Given the largeinfluence of contextual and institutional factors that can affect such decisions (e.g., quality ofinstruction, student supports) [23, 24], we suggest that rather than viewing changes as a “lack ofcommitment,” they are instead a way for students to take agency over their future plans. Manystudents in STEM fields do not follow a “traditional 4-year path” [24], yet this does not meanthese students will not excel. Researchers have described how, in engineering

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 3

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Catalina Aranzazu-Suescun, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Luis Felipe Zapata-Rivera

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outcomes is helpful in knowing what we need to understand but not as important as the content itself”Based on the comments, we can see that more junior/senior level students expressed how helpfuland important is a good definition of learning outcomes for establishing their goals for the courseand for defining their study plan for the course.Conclusions and Future WorkA correct definition of the learning outcomes is crucial for the students to make more effectiveuse of them during their learning process in the courses.Technological tools such as LMSs help substantially in the management of the learningoutcomes definition. They also help in its publication and evaluation week by week or lesson bylesson, making it easy for the students to have

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ashish Aggarwal, University of Florida; Griffin Pitts, University of Florida; Sage Bachus, University of Florida; Sarah Rajkumari Jayasekaran, University of Florida; Saira Anwar, Texas A&M University

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class sections was capped at 49 students, and most of thestudents that registered to be in-person still opted to attend the class virtually. Figure 1: Weekly plan of the CS1 flipped courseFigure 1 shows the standard weekly timeline for the course. Since the course used the flipped class-room model, students were expected to watch module lectures and complete the weekly gradedquiz before class. Class time was reserved for reviewing the content taught in the video lecturesand completing in-class programming problems with the instructor and peers. Students worked onthe module homework assignments outside of class, which were due at the end of the week.The key programming concepts covered in the modules included input/output

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laura Melissa Cruz Castro, University of Florida; Jenny Patricia Quintana-Cifuentes, University of Louisiana at Monroe; Akash Kumar

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most students in our sample verbalized SCH and SCL strategies,they were unable to go a step forward, such as generate a hypothesis or test a hypothesis, whichcharacterizes debugging for expert programmers [17]. In addition, all students in this study wereable to develop a plan involving more than one debugging strategy, which characterizes expertprogrammers [16].Finally, the importance of debugging for software development and the preparedness of ourstudents for the workplace is of foremost importance [4]–[6], [33]. While we explore ways tohelp students acquire expert programming levels as early as possible, acknowledging theimportance of debugging in teaching others, more complex programming skills are critical [15].Individual practice may

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 3

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chris Marriott; Menaka Abraham; Heather E. Dillon, University of Washington

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. LaFerriere, “Enabling Meaningful Labor: Narratives of Participation in a Grading Contract,” J. Writ. Assess., vol. 13, no. 2, p. 1, 2020, doi: 10.35360/njes.316.[12] A. M. Shubert, “Contracts for a Time of Crisis : What I Learned from Grading in a Pandemic,” vol. 1, no. 17, 2021.[13] T. S. Harding, M. J. Mayhew, C. J. Finelli, and D. D. Carpenter, “The Theory of Planned Behavior as a Model of Academic Dishonesty in Engineering and Humanities Undergraduates,” Ethics Behav., vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 255–279, Sep. 2007, doi: 10.1080/10508420701519239.[14] T. VanDeGrift, H. Dillon, and L. Camp, “Changing the Engineering Student Culture with Respect to Academic Integrity and Ethics,” Sci. Eng. Ethics, pp. 1–24, Nov. 2016, doi:10.1007

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 7

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nivedita Kumar, Florida International University; Bailey Bond-Trittipo, Florida International University; Maimuna Begum Kali, Florida International University; Stephen Secules, Florida International University; Angela Estacion, WestEd; Mark Allen Weiss, Florida International University; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida; Ken Christensen P.E., University of South Florida; Tiana Solis, Florida International University; Jacqueline Faith Sullivan, University of Central Florida

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is that lowerincome students have significantly different perceptions regarding the risks and opportunities oftheir career pathways [14], [15]. Kapoor & Gardener-McCune [11] found that computingstudents with lower socioeconomic backgrounds found it difficult to pursue industry internshipdue to family and other circumstances. Krenz et al. [16] indicated that lower-income computingstudents had difficulty pursuing graduate school full-time due to familial and economicresponsibilities. To better support lower-income students in computing to broaden theirparticipation in computing careers, it is critical to understand these students’ viewpoints on jobfactors associated with different career pathways for their post-graduation plans.3. Research

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 4

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fadhla Binti Junus, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Sean P. Brophy, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 5

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robin A.M. Hensel, West Virginia University; Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova, West Virginia University; Sadaf Amna Sarwari

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. Similarly, ACCESS students appear to haveincreased their confidence in being able to approach a faculty or staff member to get assistancewith academic problems between the 2021 and 2022 surveys. This result may be explained bythe changing population of ACCESS students. All 2021 survey respondents were in their firstyear of the ACCESS program, while among 2022 survey respondents some students were intheir first and other in their second year of the ACCESS program. The variation of time in theACCESS program, along with the natural maturity gained by completing another year of collegeand life, may explain some of the increase.Future work may include augmenting the survey with additional questions related to the sense ofbelonging. Furthermore, we plan

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 5

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hye Rin Lee, University of Delaware; Sotheara Veng, University of Delaware; Yiqin Cao, University of Delaware; Juliana Baer, University of Delaware; Teomara Rutherford, University of Delaware; Austin Cory Bart

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