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COED: IOT and Cybersecurity

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Abul K. M. Azad, Northern Illinois University; Veysel Demir, Northern Illinois University; Hemanth Kumar Kachadimangalam Ramakrishnan, Northern Illinois University

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: Configuration 1 interface5. ConclusionsThis paper presents two remote laboratory experimental systems designed and developedusing the described strategy. One is a sensor actuator system the user can manipulate toperform certain laboratory experiments. The system also complements teaching Pythonprogramming for a Raspberry Pi over the web. Students can write their programs and uploadthem on the remote experimental system. The sensors and actuators are an array of lightemitting diodes, a temperature sensor, a liquid crystal display, a servo motor, and anultrasonic sensor. A suitable GUI was also developed so remote users can manipulate thecontrolled entities with little difficulty. The second experiment is a coupled tank system forperforming process

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COED: IOT and Cybersecurity

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alan Jones, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis; Michael Golub, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis

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capability to recreate virtual versions of themajority of teaching laboratories in STEM fields, including manipulating objects, interactingwith realistic virtual versions of real equipment, creating visual and audio feedback based on thetheoretical parameters and the student’s inputs as well as generating realistic data from theexperiment. Incorporating VR labs into a traditional lab sequence will allow students to interactwith equipment not available at the institution and allow students to shift into an inquiry-basedinvestigation experimental techniques and practices safely. This first study into the effectivenessof VR experiments as perceived by the participants (students) has shown that utilizing VR labs ina traditional STEM curriculum is

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COED: Online and Blended Learning Part 1

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zelin Zhu; Yuzhong Shen, Old Dominion University; Cheng Y. Lin P.E., Old Dominion University; Shuo Ren, Old Dominion University; Katherine Smith, Old Dominion University; Anthony W. Dean, Old Dominion University

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of laboratory exercises. Online educational resources often concentrateon teaching theoretical concepts, such as proving theorems or solving equations, and have verylittle or no coverage of practical laboratories. Laboratory experiments are an essentialcomponent of science and engineering education as they provide hands-on experiences forunderstanding theoretical concepts or directly addressing real world problems. Students oftenlearn more from lab exercises than purely theoretical problems. One approach to compensate forthis deficiency is to provide recorded videos of real lab experiments which familiarize studentswith the process of how a certain lab is conducted. However, this method alone does notadequately substitute for the physical

Conference Session

COED Modulus Topics

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deng Cao, Central State University; Zhiqiang Wu, Wright State University; Bin Wang, Wright State University; Chi-Hao Cheng, Miami University

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in GNU Radio that can create signal flowgraphs with signal processing blocks. When the blocks are connected correctly, a flowgraph will be created. The corresponding Python code will be automatically generated andcan be saved in a .py file. The students can change the properties of the blocks in GRC oredit the source code directly. This module is especially suitable for students with little tono Python programming background.III) SDR with Python Programming. The objective of this module is to teach studentshow to edit and run Python source code that calls the GRC blocks. Incomplete source codeis provided and the students need to finish and test the code by themselves. USRP front isnot required in these laboratories. They can be implemented

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Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert L. Avanzato, Pennsylvania State University, Abington; Culllen G. Wilcox, Penn State Great Valley

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engineering faculty to integrate ROS into the undergraduate curriculum. Undergraduateresearch projects using ROS and Turtlebot mobile robot platforms are described in Wilkerson[2]. ROS was used in the study of a robotic arm to introduce kinematics to undergraduatestudents and is presented in Yousuf [3, 4]. ROS control for a robotic arm for balancing a ball ona plate was developed for use as a teaching tool for laboratory courses in Khan [5]. Luo [6]discusses a multi-laboratory approach to teaching ROS to electrical engineering students in theundergraduate and graduate levels.As can be observed from the literature, the general emphasis at this time is to employ ROS forspecial topics or research topics in the undergraduate curriculum or to limit

Conference Session

COED: Mechanical Engineering-related Topics

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shuo Ren, Old Dominion University; Zelin Zhu, Old Dominion University; Rick McKenzie, Old Dominion University; Yuzhong Shen, Old Dominion University

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onlineeducation offers a variety of resources and focuses primarily on teaching the fundamentaltheories and concepts, one disadvantage is the lack of hands-on experience and direct interaction[1]. Particularly in engineering education, where abstract engineering concepts ideally can bebetter understood by doing the related hands-on activities such as laboratory experiments. Tosolve the issue of the practical training shortage and the lack of hands-on experience with onlineeducation, VR takes the learning experience to a next level in terms of interaction andengagement. VR refers to an artificial world that replicates the real world environment generatedby computers, and that simulates the physical presence of a user in the virtual environment [2].With the

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COED: EE Topics

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cheng Chih Liu, University of Wisconsin-Stout

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Term,” IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 48, no. 1, August 2005.5. Hiroyasu, et al., “Use of Student Experiments for Teaching Embedded Software Including HW/SW Co-Design,” IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 52, no. 3, August 2009.6. Akash Kumar, et al., “Project-Based Learning in Embedded Systems Education Using an FPGA Platform,” IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 56, no. 4, August 2013.7. Christos Ttofis, et al., “FPGA-Based Laboratory Assignments for NoC-Based Many Core Systems, “IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 55, no. 2, August 2012.8. “Pong game”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong9. “Crossy road game”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossy_Road10. “Frogger game”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frogger11. “Space

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COED: IOT and Cybersecurity

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Border, Bowling Green State University

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Paper ID #21623Single-board Computer Used for Network Streaming Audio Player TFT Touchscreen-based ApplicationDr. David Border, Bowling Green State University David A. Border, Ph.D., holds a principle research interest in electronic information systems. This field includes digital communication and networking and intelligent networked devices. His work includes wireless sensor networks. Prior research included work on signal bandwidth compression and signal specific data encoding techniques. His technology application interest includes networked systems. Typ- ical teaching duties include junior- and senior-level courses in

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COED Modulus Topics

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Afrin Naz, West Virginia University; Mingyu Lu, West Virginia University; Jordan Bowen, West Virginia University; Cody Ryan Zackoski

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received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Bei- jing, China, in 1995 and 1997 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Uni- versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002. From 1997 to 2002, he was a research assistant at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 2002 to 2005, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Electromagnetics Laboratory in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was an assistant professor with the Department of Elec- trical Engineering, the University of Texas at Arlington from 2005 to 2012. He joined the Department of Electrical and

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COED Modulus Topics

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mike Borowczak, University of Wyoming; Andrea Carneal Burrows Borowczak, University of Wyoming

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project proposals and the projects that they produce?Literature ReviewAs far back as 1998 researchers such as Edelson were conceptualizing authentic science practices2. Roughlyten years later, the researchers contend, “that laboratory-based school science teaching needs to becomplemented by … learning that draws on the actual world3.” This is authentic science practice3.Recently, researchers are showing that authentic STEM experiences4 include creating questions,investigating – which includes failure - and disseminating results to the community5. The majority of thetime at the university level, undergraduate research experiences are considered authentic scienceexperiences6. There is a large body of research on undergraduate research experiences7

Conference Session

COED: Mechanical Engineering-related Topics

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zhou Zhang, New York City College of Technology; Andy S. Zhang, New York City College of Technology; Mingshao Zhang, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Sven K. Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. He received a Diploma in Applied Mechanics in 1989 from Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, and was awarded M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The Ohio State University in 1994 and 1997, respectively. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses related to mechanisms and machine dynamics, integrated product development, solid mechanics and plasticity theory, structural design and analysis, engineering analysis and finite element methods and has interests in remote laboratories, project-based learning and student learning assessment. His research is in the areas of remote

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COED: Online and Blended Learning Part 2

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nebojsa I. Jaksic, Colorado State University, Pueblo

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Virtual Reality Simulations for the Teaching of Nanotechnology,”2012 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Proceedings, San Antonio, TX, June 10 – 13, 2012. AC 2012-3817[14] S. K. Chaturvedi, J. Yoon, and R. McKenzie, “Implementation and Assessment of a Virtual Reality Experiment in the Undergraduate Thermo-Fluids Laboratory,” 2012 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Proceedings, San Antonio, TX, June 10 – 13, 2012. AC 2012-3412[15] P. Ari-Gur, P. Ikonomov, R. Rabiej, P. Thannhauser, M. M. Hassan, D. M. Litynski, and R. Schwartz, “Transforming Undergraduate Engineering Education with 3D Virtual Reality Laboratory,” 2013 American

Conference Session

COED: IOT and Cybersecurity

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Curtis Cohenour P.E., Ohio University

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project in technology education focusing on networks. Abraham [2] uses ThingWorx[8] as the software platform, and Arduino, or RPi as the hardware. Mullett [9] uses Arduino, orRPi as the hardware. Finally, Keinde [10] uses Blynk [1] as the software platform. The existing class uses the Arduino as a platform to teach electronics, electrical components,power, and real-time programing. Each student has an Arduino and the components necessaryfor the laboratory activity, and every student has a smart phone. For our course the Arduino isthe preferred zero cost option for the hardware. Blynk is chosen for the software platformbecause of the student friendly application development environment.Lab Activity:The lab activity allows the student to connect

Conference Session

The Best of Computers in Education

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zhen Wei; Carlotta A. Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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the needs of a mobile robotics course for students from multiple disciplines. This robot systemcan be programmed in JAVA, Python, Lua or C. It can also be programmed with various devicessuch as smartphones, tablets, or the traditional laptop computer. This mobile robotics coursecurrently uses off the shelf or slightly modified off the shelf robots to teach robotics. The initialresults will indicate that it is possible to use this modular platform in its various modes to createsome of the basic behaviors required for the laboratory assignments.IntroductionThis paper will present the design of a modular educational robotics platform to handle thedivergent skill sets of a multidisciplinary population in an introductory mobile robotics course

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COED: Online and Blended Learning Part 2

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Luke S. Lee P.E., University of the Pacific; Hector Estrada, University of the Pacific; Mehdi Khazaeli, University of the Pacific

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. C. & Mayer, R. E., e-Learning and the Science of Instruction, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016.9. Mager, R., Preparing instructional objectives: A critical tool in the development of effective instruction, 3rd Edition, Atlanta, GA: Center for Effective Performance, 1997.10. Marzano, R., Designing and teaching learning goals and objectives: classroom strategies that work, Bloomington, IN: Marzano Research Laboratory, 2009.11. Davis, B.G., Tools for Teaching, 2nd Edition, San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons, 2009.12. Ressler, S.J., Welch R.W., and Meyer, K.F., “Teaching Lessons Learned: Organizing and Delivering Classroom Instruction,” ASCE J. Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 130

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Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Andrew Wilkerson P.E., York College of Pennsylvania; Stephen Andrew Gadsden, University of Guelph; Andrew Lee, University of Guelph; Robert Nicholas Vandemark; Elyse Hill; Amy Domenique Gadsden, University of Alberta

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. His team deployed a bomb finding robot named the LynchBot to Iraq late in 2004 and then again in 2006 deployed about a dozen more improved LynchBots to Iraq. His team also assisted in the deployment of 84 TACMAV systems in 2005. Around that time he volunteered as a science advisor and worked at the Rapid Equipping Force during the summer of 2005 where he was exposed to a number of unmanned systems technologies. His initial group composed of about 6 S&T grew to nearly 30 between 2003 and 2010 as he transitioned from a Branch head to an acting Division Chief. In 2010-2012 he again was selected to teach Mathematics at the United States Military Academy West Point. Upon returning to ARL’s Vehicle Technology

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COED: Autograding and Autoadvising

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen W. Crown, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley; Constantine Tarawneh, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley; Jazmín Ley, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley

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for the railroad industry under the mentorship of the faculty involved in the Railroad Research Team. She worked as a full-time Research Assistant at what is now known as the Railway Safety Center continuing her work on sensor technology for Amsted Rail and their subsidiaries. After her work with the Railroad Research Team, she worked in Texas State Technical College as Depart- ment Chair of the Associate of Science in Engineering Program. She currently works in The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and teaches introduction to engineering materials and engineering materials laboratory, engineering graphics, dynamics, numerical methods, and engineering vibrations. c American Society for

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Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wen Huang, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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are expected to serve as a practical reference for engineering faculties toapply new technologies in their instruction. Conversely, a well-designed learning activity willmotivate students to learn with higher interest and better master both engineering andprofessional skills. Lastly, an equal engineering class environment will contribute to the solutionof students’ retention in the engineering disciplines and promote a diversity of work force in theengineering field of the United States [8].Literature ReviewCollaborative learning “Collaborative learning” is an umbrella term for a variety of educational approaches (e.g.,discussion groups, peer teaching, learning community), which emphasize the joint effort of teammembers for a mutual

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The Best of Computers in Education

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Reeping, Virginia Tech; John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University

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Diversity

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maintenance. Unlike a commercial entity, students are transitory, thereby leaving theend user adrift if a problem occurs or if a modification is needed. Amongst those efforts reportedon regarding applying service learning in computer science [10, 11, 12, 13, 14], some haveinvolved experiences being conducted in the first year of study. Examples include creatinganimations for a community music outreach program [15], teaching basic computer skills toprison inmates [16], performing usability and accessibility audits of non-profit websites [9],conducting computing lessons in an after-school program at a local middle school [17], andapplying the entrepreneurial mindset to the service learning experience [18].Project DesignTo formalize the design of the

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COED: Mechanical Engineering-related Topics

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven F. Barrett, University of Wyoming; Tonia A. Dousay, University of Idaho; Tyler J. Kerr, University of Wyoming; Larry Schmidt, University of Wyoming; Brandon Seth Gellis, University of Wyoming; Jesse Ballard, University of Wyoming

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, University of Wyoming. He is a senior member of IEEE and chief faculty advisor of Tau Beta Pi. His research interests include digital and analog image processing, computer-assisted laser surgery, and embedded control systems. He is a registered professional engineer in Wyoming and Colorado. He authored/co-authored several textbooks on microcontrollers and embedded systems. His book, ”A Little Book on Teaching,” was published by Morgan and Claypool Publishers in 2012. In 2004, Barrett was named ”Wyoming Professor of the Year” by the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching and in 2008 was the recipient of the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) Professional Engineers in Higher Education, Engineering

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COED: Online and Blended Learning Part 2

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michelle E. Jarvie-Eggart, Michigan Technological University; Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University; Thomas M. Freeman M.Ed., Michigan Technological University

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programs are morepopular at the graduate level for a number of reasons. First, online graduate programs are moreaccessible and flexible for the needs of the audience.​10​ Secondly, graduate courses typically arenot as heavily laboratory-based as undergraduate programs, requiring less in-personeducation.​11-12​ Third, while undergraduate education is typically accredited by organizations suchas ABET, master’s programs are typically not accredited, allowing universities more flexibilityin offering some graduate courses online.​12Additionally, looking at online enrollment by degree program reveals some interesting trends. A2013 study by ​Pontes and Pontes indicated that students ​enrolled in engineering are significantlyless likely to be enrolled in

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Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fadi Castronovo, California State University, East Bay; Semih Yilmaz, California State University, East Bay; Akarsh Rao, Immersive and Interactive Research Group; Walter Condori Jr., California State University, East Bay; Karan Monga, STEM Educational Gaming Research Group; Hadiseh Gooranorimi, California State University, East Bay

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(CSUEB). The Visualization and Immersion Classroom(VIC) is suited for the delivery of large-scale educational interventions (see Figure 2). The VICis a computer laboratory equipped with 48 high-end computers capable of running the latestvisualization software. The VIC is also equipped with 10 Oculus Rift, capable of renderingvirtual environments in real-time. Based on the environment, the target audience of the game willbe undergraduate students. In particular, the game was designed for first-year undergraduatestudents and transfer students joining the CSUEB campus. The research team selected thisstudent population to maximize the transfer of the desired learning and behaviors to incomingstudents and have a long-lasting effect on their academic