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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 5

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Bin Cong, California State University at Fullerton; Christopher Ryu, California State University at Fullerton; Raman Menon Unnikrishnan, California State University at Fullerton

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process to beperformed in the organization for the institutionalization of a process:1. Establish an Organizational Policy 7. Identify and Involve Relevant Stakeholders2. Plan the Process 8. Monitor and Control the Process3. Provide Resources 9. Objectively Evaluate Adherence4. Assign Responsibility 10. Review Status with Higher Level Management5. Train People 11. Establish a Defined Process6. Control Work Products 12. Collect Process Related ExperiencesInstitutionalization of ABET Metrics at California State University, FullertonData plays a key role in any improvement effort since it shows the areas that

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 7

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Radana Dvorak, University of Portland; Heather Dillon, University of Portland; Nicole Ralston, University of Portland; Jeffrey Matthew Welch, University of Portland

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security issues in their software engineering careers.Students were asked to rank the learning objectives on a Likert scale of 1 to 5 where 1 was theworst ranking and 5 was the best ranking Generally, the results of the survey demonstratedstudents ranked the objectives well, with the lowest score for the objective about developing anaction plan for ethics indicating ways to improve the module in future course offering. Thehighest values were given to considering multiple viewpoints, indicating the mindset aspects ofthe project may have been successful.Based on the outcome and student feedback recommendations for future implementation of themodule in the curriculum is discussed.IntroductionThis paper describes a classroom module designed to develop

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 1

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Mia Minnes, University of California, San Diego; Sheena Ghanbari Serslev, University of California, San Diego ; Madison Edwards

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spoke to specific actions and behaviors they plan to take after the internship experience, reflecting their heightened maturity and sense of direction. Additionally, the internship illuminated the importance of building interpersonal skills, exhibiting personal growth, and developing attributes of lifelong learning. In contrast to these conclusions, pre- and post-survey analysis for the MSLQ with the same group of students reveals specific areas where student motivation decreased after the internship experience. These findings point to the important formative role internships can play in an undergraduate Computer Science and Engineering program and shed light on the lessons universities can learn about leveraging

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 4

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Stephany Coffman-Wolph, Ohio Northern University; Kimberlyn Gray, West Virginia University Institute of Technology

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data for a planned multiple semester longer term project.This paper contains (1) motivation and goals for this work, (2) outcomes and learning objectives,(3) instructions on how to design this kind of assignment, (4) the video assignment write up, (5)the rubric for the video, (6) the rubric for peer feedback, and (7) the rubric for reflection. Thispaper focuses on the structure and instruments used during the course.About the CourseArtificial Intelligence (AI) is being used to tackle more and more of the real-world problemsaround us. EECS 4901 Special Topics: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence will introducestudents to the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (AI). During this course students will lookat various problems being solved

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 9

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Wendi M. Kappers, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Martha Nanette Harrell, Arkansas Tech University

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administration and industry mentorship planning used to increase enrollments of woman and minorities with declared majors in the areas of Computer Sci- ence (CS), Engineering (E), Mathematics (M), and Science (S). Currently, Dr. Kappers is an Assistant Professor within the M.S. in Information Security & Assurance (MISA) within Embry-Riddle Aeronau- tical University’s (ERAU) College of Business, Worldwide Campus, and teaches within the College of Engineering for the Daytona Beach Campus of ERAU. Teaching responsibilities include: RSCH 202 – Introduction to Research, CS120 – Introduction to Computing in Aviation, and the entire collection of MISA-related program courses as needed. Both positions allow her to stay focused

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 3

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Daqing Hou, Clarkson University; Yu Liu, Clarkson University

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accommodate per year ten high-achieving undergraduate students recruited from across the USA and their faculty mentors on the theme of HPC applications in engineering research. In this experience report, we describe our first offering of the site in summer 2019, including the processes of students recruitment and selection, training and engagement, research mentoring, and professional development for the students. Best practices and lessons learned are identified and summarized based on our own observations and the evaluation conducted by an independent evaluator. In particular, improvements are being planned so as to deliver a more holistic and rigorous research experience for future cohorts

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 7

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Stephen Michael MacNeil, University of California, San Diego; Mohsen M. Dorodchi, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Erfan Al-Hossami, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Aileen Benedict, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Devansh Desai, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Mohammad Javad Mahzoon, Core Compete Inc.

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heat andflavor, Curri balances students’ actual pathways through the curriculum with the intendedcurricular dependencies. We present a series of case studies and focus groups from our college toillustrate the benefits afforded by a balanced view of the curriculum. For instance, multipleconcentrations can be compared based on how spread they are across the curriculum and howmany inter-concentration dependencies they have. Mismatches between curriculum designers’expectations and students’ pathways through the curriculum can also be identified, such ascurricular violations, where a course is taken very close to or before its own prerequisites. Weconclude with a discussion about the effectiveness of our approach and our plan for

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 8

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Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University; Janis P. Raje

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responsiblefor conducting selection of scholarship recipients, ensuring that recipients understood theirobligations to the program, assigning mentors, meeting with students regularly, and monitoringtheir progress. LEAP Scholar Selection CriteriaStudents were selected based on the following criteria: 1) U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident. 2) Must be admitted in a four-year Computer Science program at UVU or a two-year Pre- Engineering program at UVU with the plan to transfer into an Engineering four-year program. 3) Demonstration of financial need in accordance with the U.S. Department of Education rules for Federal financial aid. 4) Full-time student majoring in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 3

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Margaret Ellis, Virginia Tech; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech; Stephen H. Edwards, Virginia Tech; Clifford A. Shaffer, Virginia Tech

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more comfortable participating in computing activities beyond the classroom. Thetechnical practice was immediately useful for some students as described below: It has shown me how to use python and wireshark and even do some web dev. I plan to make my own website using some of this knowledge. I also appreciate learning so much material that I never even knew, now CS is not as intimidating Learned python and got experience using libraries that are crazy, and it helped refamiliarize me with git & git bash. I actually contributed to a GitHub repository because I felt somewhat confident. Been a few weeks now and there aren’t any comments bashing it! :D I have joined more CS activities like the Web

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 2

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Tamer Omar, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Abdelfattah Amamra, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Kristina Rigden, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Thomas Ketseoglou, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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threats and defend against attacks without assemblingteams and qualified team members with skills in all the aforementioned disciplines. This paperaims at presenting the plan and procedures required for creating an project based interdisciplinarycourse at cybersecurity of frontier technologies between the College of Engineering, College ofScience, and College of Business Administration. The course objective is to bring students fromthe three disciplines into a multidisciplinary experience that aids students at replicating real lifeprojects. Instructors from all three disciplines guide the students during the course work andsupervise the project activities. The fifteen-week course can adopt different types of cybersecuritysystems and provide a

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 8

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Simeon Ntafos, University of Texas at Dallas

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to meetwith an academic advisor to prepare a degree plan for the new major.Around 2014, multiple schools including the School of Engineering and Computer Science andthe School of Management enforced the 2.0 GPA threshold more and more strictly. By 2016,approvals for change of majors to these Schools for students that did not meet the thresholdwere very rare. This extended to change of major requests from one major to another withinthe School of Engineering and Computer Science as well. In the 2017 catalog multiple Schoolssought more control over the process for a variety of reasons, mostly over concerns about theability of the School to accommodate demand for its majors and allocation of resources tomatch growth. The 2017 academic catalog

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 5

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Alireza Kavianpour, DeVry University, Pomona

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biomasspower 5. A bachelor's degree with a specialization in renewable energy offers focusedengineering technology coursework, preparing students with technology skills that can put towork future in green technologies across three areas: Engineering Technology, InformationTechnology, and Software and Information Systems.As student pursue a bachelor’s degree with a specialization in renewable energy, will learn aboutalternative energy generation and the complex factors behind green technology. This includeshow economics, sociology and environmental science are connected, and the design processesused in today’s leading renewable energy initiatives. From planning and project management toenergy production and storage.In the following, courses for this

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 1

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James K. Nelson Jr. P.E., Texas A&M University; Brent L. Donham, Texas A&M University-Commerce

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notification, and potentiallyinfluence the decision.Initial Planned OfferingsInitially three certificate and professional development courses are planned to be offered. Theseprograms are those indicated in the brown shaded box on Figure 5. The programs, which arecontained in the white paper entitled “Public-Private Training for Cybersecurity Professionals”[9] are:  Cybersecurity Specialist/Technician Upon successful completion of this program, the student will have demonstrated skills necessary to immediately enter the workplace and perform in an entry level cybersecurity specialist/technician position. During the program students will earn appropriate national certifications. This program is anticipated to be a one

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 1

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Franz J. Kurfess, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Maria Pantoja, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Irene Humer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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. This exposed our students tocollaborators among different fields, with their own terminology, goals, work methods andpractical approaches. Our paper reports on the initial experiment during the Fall 2019 term,involving two sections of an Artificial Intelligence class and one section of a Deep Learningclass. We are planning to continue this collaboration in the future.Keywords: Collaborative Learning, Interdisciplinary, Inter-Class teamwork 1. IntroductionStudents at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) are exposed topractical, hands-on educational activities throughout their course of studies, reflected by theuniversity’s “Learn by Doing” motto. In the Computer Science, Software Engineering andComputer

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 6

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Ciprian Popoviciu, East Carolina University; Philip J. Lunsford II, East Carolina University; John Pickard, East Carolina University; Colby Lee Sawyer, East Carolina University; Jarvis Woodburn; Zachary Ryan Zynda, East Carolina University; Dale Drummond, East Carolina University

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service self-management and joint managementby the stakeholders in this conferencing service.2. Problem DefinitionDepartment of Technology Systems at East Carolina University (ECU) received a grant from USDepartment of Agriculture (USDA) [3] to purchase Cisco WebEx boards [4] and deploy them to 12colleges and high schools across Eastern North Carolina to facilitate distance education (Figure 1).Figure 1. Footprint of the Planned Distance Education ServiceThis new service enables a more engaging, collaborative instructional experience involving students inmultiple classrooms across Eastern North Carolina and ECU instructors. The potential positive impact ofthis service is significant. The USDA grant covers the cost of the hardware and the WebEx

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 4

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Awatif Amin, Johnson C. Smith University

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applied to the student retention problem. A data mining approach could be a mostworthwhile strategy for other practitioners and researchers planning to include many variablesalong with all levels of STEM students in the data set. Hendrix [19] found only one out of every2,352 dissertation abstracts included the search words “data mining” in a search of dissertationswith the key words “higher education” and “retention.”In this review, the relevant retention factors, organized in groups, concern students’ academicbackground, commitment behavior, and family background. Multiple variables within thesethree groups of factors are also part of the discussions.Method & ModelThe data mining method of analysis was a predictive classification process

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 9

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Yuzhong Shen, Old Dominion University; Anthony W. Dean, Old Dominion University; Rafael Landaeta, Old Dominion University

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the real vehicles to be used in this project, e.g., a Ford SUV. Although many 3D vehicle models are available for purchase, they usually only contain the exterior of the vehicle and don’t have any internal parts of the vehicle. We plan to use 3D scanning to generate partial 3D models of some typical internal parts, e.g., engine and pump. c. Develop the Standalone Mode of the AR application that contains interactive visualizations and animations that illustrate a variety of vehicle maintenance and repair procedures. Interactive visualization guides the user through the troubleshooting or maintenance process, showing one step of instruction at a time with 3D animations that greatly improve user’s

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 4

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

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. The dream of an autonomous vehicle has been there for almost acentury. It can be said that the first “autonomous” vehicle was Stanford Cart which was built in1961. The automated car concept was evolved truly in 1980s with Carnegie Melon University’sNavLab and ALV projects which resulted in ALVINN which used a neural network to drive [8].The automotive industries are conducting significant research and development efforts in thearea of autonomous vehicles. The major automotive companies like Toyota, Ford, MercedesBenz, BMW, Volvo have announced their plans for creating an autonomous car. In the racetowards autonomous vehicles, Tesla and Waymo (from Google) are two of the most advancedcompanies. In 2014, Google introduced Google car with camera

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 6

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Peng Li, East Carolina University

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complicated virtual environments. It is uncertain that the grant program will continue to offerfree credits in the future. Third, students create their own accounts and therefore usermanagement is a problem.In the future, we plan to develop more labs on commercial, public cloud systems and use VirtualPrivate Network (VPN) to connect students’ virtual machines with a central server to providebetter support and monitoring when needed. We are also considering integrating automaticassessment scripts through the central server on the public cloud to provide immediate feedback,which has been done successfully in some labs on our in-house, cloud-based systems.REFERENCES[1] D. Puthal, B. P. S. Sahoo, S. Mishra and S. Swain, "Cloud Computing Features, Issues

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 6

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Natasha Smith P.E., University of Virginia

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homework, with quickfeedback. A final hurdle was that this was the author’s first time teaching Vibrations. Therefore,it was necessary to prioritize lesson plan preparation over delivery logistics. This precluded timeintensive efforts such as learning complicated software or prerecording lectures in an instructionallab environment.Mastery learning (or learner-centric) techniques introduced by Bloom in the 1970s and expandedby researchers over the last half century have an established track record for enhancing studentlearning.1–3 In particular, periodic formative assignments are necessary and should be designed sothat students reflect on mistakes and adjust their learning efforts as needed. Within the Vibrationscourse, the mechanisms for formative

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 9

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Mudasser Fraz Wyne, National University; Catrina Ann Shanas; Ashley Pratt, National University; Sophie Nguyen, County of Los Angeles

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enhance the overall user experience. The future releases of the I-Tracker application shallinclude warranty tracking for customizable time frame settings for the timeframe widgets, a mobileapplication, and the professional appraisal/resale feature for the electronic devices under warranty.The final two features that we plan to add in a future release is the addition of a mobile applicationand the resale feature. The mobile application will allow the users to have access to all theinformation on the web application in the form of a mobile app, this will help the user enter newwarranties easier and allow the user to get notifications sent directly to their phone rather than justthe email. Lastly, the addition of the appraisal/resale feature allows

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Jeong Yang, Texas A&M University-San Antonio; Brandon Earwood, Texas A&M University-San Antonio; Young Rae Kim, Texas A&M University-San Antonio; Akhtar Lodgher, Texas A&M University - San Antonio

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 3

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Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; Murat Kuzlu, Old Dominion University; Otilia Popescu, Old Dominion University; Abdul Rahman Badawi, Old Dominion University; Deborah Kay Marshall, Norfolk Public Schools; Salih Sarp, Old Dominion University; Spyridoula Tsouganatou, Old Dominion University; Petros J. Katsioloudis, Old Dominion University; Linda Vahala, Old Dominion University; Hongyi Michael Wu, Old Dominion University

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. Department of Commerce (see Figure 1a). All high schoolsin the Norfolk Public School system have students who reside in qualified opportunity zones (theirattendance zones are given in Figure 1b). Figure 1: Qualified Opportunity Zones in Norfolk, VA [15]Norfolk Public Schools Activities in Career and Technical EducationThe work plan will develop, assess, and improve the course curriculum and hands-on activities inthe area of computer science principles with Norfolk High Schools, Old Dominion University, andindustry partners for the Career and Technical Education (CTE) program. Figure 2 illustrates theComputer Science and Cybersecurity Pathway for the CTE Logical Model. One of the ways toengage more underrepresented students in STEM

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 3

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Caleb James O'Malley, University of Florida; Ashish Aggarwal, University of Florida

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the lab course or have prior experience in orderto have a better chance of succeeding. Both prior programming experience and lab enrollmentprovide additional practice to students, which in turn increases ability in programming andperformance in the course overall.7. RecommendationsThe student’s ability to choose to take their programming course with or without lab grants thestudent more options when planning their college experience, allowing for a more effectivecourse load. For example, we find that students with prior programming experience who alsoenrolled in the lab did not perform much better than those with experience who did not enroll inlab. Therefore, if a student has prior knowledge in programming, they can be advised that the

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 8

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Jorge Crichigno, University of South Carolina; Elias Bou-Harb, University of Texas at San Antonio; Elie Kfoury, University of South Carolina; Jose Gomez, University of South Carolina; Antonio Mangino, University of Texas at San Antonio

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) • Reservations attended: 3,589 (actual use of the platform) • Hours attended: 12,146.53Fig. 12. Use of the private cloud at the University of South Carolina between October 1, 2018 to September28, 2019. The platform was used to support academic classes, workshops, and research at the University ofSouth Carolina.The impact of this project is beyond cyberinfrastructure. While resources were placed forcyberinfrastructure courses, training workshops, and research, the Department of IntegratedInformation Technology (IIT) at the University of South Carolina is planning to extend the use ofthe platform to other areas, such as databases, programming, web systems, and others.Comparison between the private cloud and public clouds. Table 6 compares

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Abul K. M. Azad, Northern Illinois University

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,” International Journal of Online Engineering, vol. 12, no. 9, pp. 14-21, 2016.[10] T. Tsiatsos, S. Douka, A. Mavridis, S. Tegos, A. Naddami, T. Zimmer and D. Geoffroy, “Evaluation Plan and Preliminary Evaluation of a Network of Remote Labs in the Maghrebian Countries,” International Journal of Online Engineering, vol. 10, no. 5. pp. 15-20, 2014.[11] I. Santana, M. Ferre, E. Izaguirre, R. Aracil and L. Hernandez, “Remote Laboratories for Education and Research Purposes in Automatic Control Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 9, no. 1, pp.547 – 556, 2013.[12] R. Heradio, L. Torre and S. Dormido, “Virtual and remote labs in control education: A survey,” Annual Reviews in Control, vol

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 6

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Vigyan Jackson Chandra, Eastern Kentucky University

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portions of thebook itself. This multi-dimensional way of reading can be immensely helpful as we try toencourage students to create technological solutions for systems that may not even currentlyexist.AcknowledgementsThis paper features the work of undergraduate students Thomas Lopresto, Joshua Quire, andJohn Booker from Spring 2020 and Dakota Fannin from the Fall 2019 Network Switches &Routers course. Partial support for the educational resources related to the project was providedthrough the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) Leadership Grant funding at Eastern KentuckyUniversity and is kindly acknowledged. Thanks to the reviewers for their careful review of thedraft and suggestions for improvement.References[1] Ryan, R. M., & Deci, E. L