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John Y Oliver, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Cassidy Elwell

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. NIST’s National Initiativefor Cybersecurity Education (NICE) working group has made it strategic plan objective toincrease participation by women, minorities and veterans in cybersecurity1.Cybersecurity competitions have been promoted as a way to increase participation incybersecurity-related fields amongst high school students. Typical cybersecurity competitions atthe secondary school level currently focus on a very narrow set of computer-technical relatedactivities. These competitions are rewarding to students who have traditionally been attracted tocomputer-related fields. However, these participants of the competitions are not typically diversein gender or race2. The lack of diversity in cybersecurity competitions is a large problem if

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Kattia Chang, Cañada College; Karina Abad, Cañada College; Ricardo Jesus Colin, Canada College; Charles Tolentino, University of California, Merced; Cameron Malloy, University of California, Berkeley; Alex David, San Francisco State University; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Kwok Siong Teh, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University

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PowerPoint presentation onthe research project to all the interns, followed by questions and answers. In the afternoon, eachgroup met in individual research labs to discuss the content and plan of the project with theirfaculty advisor and the student mentor.The computer engineering project group consisted of one full-time intern and four half-timeinterns. The 10-week project activities were divided into two-week project preparation andliterature study, seven-week project design and implementation, and one-week report writing andpresentation preparation. Each intern was assigned to work on a specific part of the project basedon their background and interest. The interns also need to work in small groups or as a wholegroup to integrate their work

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Ryan Yedinak, Cañada College; Oskar Granados, Canada College; Vincent Vu Thanh Tran, San Jose State University; Moises Arturo Vieyra, Canada College; Alec William Maxwell, San Francisco State University; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Kwok Siong Teh, San Francisco State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University

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education to communities who lack access to higher education.Vincent Vu Thanh Tran, San Jose State University Vincent Tran is currently a junior at San Jose State University pursuing a Bachelors in Mechanical Engi- neering. His research interest include mechatronics and biomedical technology.Mr. Moises Arturo Vieyra, Canada College I am an undergraduate student at Canada College ready to transfer to a 4 year University. My future plan is to get my bachelors degree in civil engineering and work my way to creating my own company.Mr. Alec William Maxwell, San Francisco State University Alec Maxwell is currently a graduate student in the School of Engineering at San Francisco State Uni- versity (SFSU). Besides actively

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Zsuzsa Balogh, Metropolitan State University of Denver; Akbarali Thobhani, Metropolitan State University of Denver

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specifically tailored to their professional needs in theSummer of 2013. The professors represented a full academic program and their expertisecovered most areas of architecture. They were also interested in learning about the structure andoperation of a higher education institution in the US, in particular, at MSU Denver. Therefore, itwas straightforward to develop the architecture minor program for MSU Denver jointly. The UP professors and their MSU Denver civil engineering professor colleagues formed acommittee to work on the project lead by the CET Program Coordinator. Working in subgroupsby subject areas, each subgroup provided recommendations in their specific field of expertise onthe content and structure of the corresponding planned course

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Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado, Boulder

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). “Cultivating diversity and competency inSTEM: Challenges and remedies for removing virtual barriers to constructing diverse highereducation communities of success,” Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education, vol. 11no. 1, p. A44. [Online] Oct. 15, 2012.[10] B. L. Yoder, “Engineering by the numbers,” Amer. Assoc. Engr. Ed., 2016.[11] A. Kezar and C. Sam, “Special issue: Understanding the new majority of non-tenure-trackfaculty in higher eudcation--demographics, experiences, and plan of action,” ASHE Higher Ed.Report, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 1-133, 2010.[12] National Education Association, “Update: Full-time non-tenure-track faculty,” (September1996). Available: National Education Association, http://www.nea.org/assets/docs/HE/v2no5.pdf[13] P. M

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Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Kwok Siong Teh, San Francisco State University; Hamid Shahnasser, San Francisco State University; Jun Jian Liang, San Francisco State University; Christopher Alexander Amaro, Cañada College; Adam Albert Davies, ASPIRES ; Priscila Joy Silva Chaix, Cañada College; Jesus Caballero, Canada College; Juvenal Marin Sanchez, San Jose State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University

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by the Department of Education (DoE) through the MinorityScience and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP). This program aims to strengthencommunity college students’ foundation in the academic fields of science, technology,engineering and mathematics. Five community college students participated in this program in2017 and performed research in the earthquake-engineering field. The internship experienceenabled the interns to realize how trained civil engineers in the field will have to collaborate withother members on their team. Trained civil engineers will need to make weekly meetings withtheir supervisor to discuss their progress on their design and provide feedback on what they canimprove. They will need to make a detailed plan that

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Jayson Paul Mercurio, Canada College; Kevin Yamada; Jose L. Guzman, Canada College; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Kwok Siong Teh, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Alexander Choi, Canada College; Ayesha R Iqbal

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research andacademic success. The survey shown in Table 1 summarizes the results for pre-and post-internship based on student motivation, expectations, and purpose for participating in theinternship. Table 1 results indicate that the largest motivation for participating in the ASPIRESengineering internship was to gain hands-on experience in research, be challenged intellectually,and clarify whether graduate school would be a good choice for them. The interns found theprogram to be most helpful in learning how to work with others to plan and conduct scientificexperiments, followed by talking to professors about science. The largest difference between pre-and post-internship survey was observed for gaining hands-on experience in research.Table 2