Conference Session

Retention

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Marino Nader, University of Central Florida; Harrison N Oonge, University of Central Florida; Shawn A Putnam, University of Central Florida

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mostrecent six academic years, namely 2016-2017 till 2021-2022 (see Table 1 below)Table 1: Total Number of Students Based on Target Course Completed at the University with a Pre-requisiteCompleted at Either the University or Transfer Institution PHY2048 to EGN3310 PHY2029 to EGN3373 (N) (N) Pre-requisite Completed at the University 2016-17 921 465 2017-18 910 619 2018-19 754

Conference Session

Thermodynamics

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Brett Austin McCandless, North Carolina State University; Nancy Moore PhD, North Carolina State University

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

coding was done to automatically check andgrade students’ design parameters and corresponding calculations. Students were then permittedto optimize their design and resubmit their work, where they were competitively awarded pointsbased on the financial and social metrics of their designs. Student adopted a variety of strategiesfor optimizing, with some groups choosing to optimize monetary cost, some groups optimizingsocial considerations, and some groups trying to address both.KeywordsThermodynamics, Projects, Large-ScaleIntroductionWhen students are able to utilize their knowledge for real-world scenarios, rather than ploddingthrough more typical, textbook problems, the quality and robustness of their educationincreases.1-3 Some students

Conference Session

First Year and Cross-Disciplinary

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

George Prpich, University of Virginia; Natasha Smith, University of Virginia

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

. petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, aeronautical). In the lab, studentsreceive training to ensure the safe operation of equipment, appropriate use of personal protectiveequipment (PPE), and the correct method for managing hazards. Though accidents in researchand teaching laboratories are rare, they do occur and recent research suggests that safetyprocedures in academic labs lag behind the standards set by industry.1 The American ChemicalSociety and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers have called for improvements to bemade to the safety cultures of academic institutions.2 Changes to safety cultures require safetyeducation, focused effort, and repetition. In practice, this means replacing single instances ofsafety training (e.g. seminar) prior to

Conference Session

Retention

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Marino Nader, University of Central Florida; Ronald F. DeMara P.E., University of Central Florida; Harrison N Oonge, University of Central Florida

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Diversity, Professional Engineering Education Papers

fair testing approach. The best mark out of the three attempts was retained. The studentsparticipated in a survey whose results are shown in Appendix A of Nader et DeMara 17. More than90% agreed that it is an effective method with the hope it be applied in other courses as well.ResultsTwo groups of students were considered in the analysis, the FTIC and TS. The number of studentssucceeding in an attempt are those who obtained greater than 70% in each attempt. The percentagesuccess for each for each attempt is represented below in Table 1. It can be easily seen that allstudents, be it FTIC or TS were constantly improving in each attempt for every test (T1, T2 & T3).Notice that more FTIC students succeeded in comparison to the TS for every

Conference Session

DEI and Other

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Niloofar Kalantari, George Mason university; Sarah Wittman, George Mason University; Vivian Genaro Motti, George Mason University

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Diversity, Professional Engineering Education Papers

courses.Keywords.Neurodiversity, Social media analysis, Reddit, Workplace.1. IntroductionSocial media analytics and digital ethnography studies are promising to characterize humanbehavior [1], [2] since the analysis of users' posts enables researchers to understand individualperceptions without explicitly and directly intervening with end users in their daily lives. Amongnumerous social media channels, Reddit stands out as an online discussion forum that is popularfor community members to discuss online sensitive topics of interest, such as mental healthconcerns. The advantages of online discussion forums are that the platform is free, is continuouslyavailable for users to access it, and the members' posts are anonymous, which reduces the fear ofsocial stigma and peer

Conference Session

DEI and Other

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Bryn Elizabeth Seabrook, University of Virginia

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Diversity, Professional Engineering Education Papers

terms34 in university statements. Common themes emerged through an analysis of five of these35 institutions: the University of Virginia (UVA), Duke University, Cornell University, Stanford36 University, and the University of Michigan. These universities typically characterize diversity as37 the ways in which people differ, including the characteristics such as age, religion, disability,38 sexual orientation, education, etc. that differentiate one individual from another. Equity is © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 1 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section Conference39 broadly defined as fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering 2

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Edwin Lim, University of Georgia

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

Lim1 and Katie Gulliford2 1 Lecturer, School of Environmental, Civil, Agricultural and Mechanical Engineering, University of Georgia 2 Executive Director, Strategic Initiatives, Tacoma Community CollegeAbstractMany colleges decided to go online for the Spring 2020 following the restriction from thegovernment to have in-person classes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This study investigates theeffectiveness of online teaching for a Statics course compared to blended teaching methods usingresults of a concept inventory (Concept Assessment Tool for Statics, CATS) test. These resultswere taken from students (11 – 20 students on each observed group) attending Tacoma CommunityCollege before and

Conference Session

Gamification

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Nahid Vesali, The Citadel; Mostafa Batouli, The Citadel

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

material forlearning the impacts of the span of control of managers, and level of specialization of workers oneffectiveness and efficiency of organizational structures.Additionally, this study examined effectiveness of gamification on improving cognitive learningof the students.Description of the GameIn this activity student groups were asked to produce USA flags with the provided material. Thegoal was to produce as many qualified flags as possible within 15 minutes. There were twogroups in this game:Group 1: Each student worked independently to prepare the flags which included drawing thestripes and the stars. One student served as the team leader who was responsible to control thework process and validate the quality of the flags. The team

Conference Session

Gamification

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Leigh S McCue, George Mason University

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

understand what quantum technologies are? Me neither, at least not until I had this conversation with Profs. Pilgyu Kang and Patrick Vora, both members of the leadership team for Mason's Quantum Science and Engineering Center, QSEC. In this episode they give examples of quantum science and engineering applied to materials, sensors, and computing, explain what quantum researchers do, and discuss how to prepare for a career developing quantum technologies.MetricsThe podcast itself has a small following. Table 1 provides a list of the previously described eightepisodes released as of this writing, including episode release date, length, and number of plays.Episodes were promoted via the

Conference Session

Graduate School

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Jill K Nelson, George Mason University; Jessica Rosenberg; Mark Huntington Snyder, George Mason University

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

Development Workshop for New Teaching Assistants Jill K. Nelson, Jessica Rosenberg, Mark Snyder, and Robert Sachs George Mason University, Fairfax, VAAbstractThis paper considers a training workshop for new graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) at a publicResearch-1 institution. It describes the workshop structure and discusses the perceptions of GTAswho participated in the workshop. The workshop is part of a larger effort to encourage evidence-based practices in gateway courses and was designed to give GTAs a basic understanding ofactive learning, student engagement, and related topics. Workshop participants were asked tocomplete a survey that asked them to rate each of the workshop sessions, indicate how

Conference Session

Computer Science

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Ashish Hingle, George Mason University; Aditya Johri, George Mason University

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

imagination fordecades before we had the tools or technology to enact it in real-world settings. AI has appearedin popular culture through books, television shows, and music, “illuminating human'scomplicated fears and yearnings towards technologie”"1. However, over the past decade,technology has advanced to a point where artificial intelligence can realistically do some of theactions book authors wrote and movie producers directed. The advancement of AI technologieshas rapidly introduced changing levels of complexity, making it challenging to describe to theordinary person. In addition, there is a level of obscurity that AI sits behind: does AI refer to thedecision-making process, the algorithm, or the system as a whole? Perhaps AI refers to all

Conference Session

First Year and Cross-Disciplinary

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Gregory J. Mazzaro, The Citadel; Kevin Skenes, The Citadel; Timothy Aaron Wood P.E., The Citadel

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

Multi-Disciplinary Introduction-to-Engineering Courses and Unified-First-Year Engineering Programs Gregory J. Mazzaro1, Kevin L. Skenes2, and Timothy A. Wood3 1 Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering 3 Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina 171 Moultrie St.; Charleston, SC 29409AbstractTo better align the expectations of incoming freshmen with their choice-of-major, the authors

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering 2

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Aaron Smith, Mississippi State University; Alta Knizley, Mississippi State University; Morgan Green, Mississippi State University

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

with design andmanufacturing activities. Too much focus on these “hands-on” activities, however, can also leadstudents to be unprepared for traditional engineering roles. This study will present thedevelopment of a survey to gather perspectives from industry representatives on the importanceof engineering science and analysis in undergraduate ME education.KeywordsCurriculum development, mechanical engineering, industry perspectiveIntroductionThe role of engineering science and analysis in engineering education has been debated for manydecades. In a review of the history of engineering education, Seely 1 states that there was a shiftaway from apprenticeship training to formal university training soon after the civil war. He goeson to list how

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering 2

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Whitehurst, Mississippi State University; Nathaniel Hyams, Clemson University; Morgan Green, Mississippi State University; Matthew William Priddy, Mississippi State University

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

community. He also has an interest in engineering education research, particularly in student motivation and future faculty development. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section Conference 1 An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Group Work in a Mechanical 2 Engineering Program 3 Elizabeth N. Whitehurst1, Nathaniel A. Hyams2, Morgan K. Green1, and Matthew W. Priddy1 4 5 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762 6 2 Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762 7 Abstract 8 Group work has

Conference Session

Retention

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Mihai Boicu, George Mason University; Jay Lalwani, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology; Aditya Daga, Edison Academy Magnet School

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

students toensure a good representation of their procrastination behavior (e.g., when an assignment was sentwith respect to the due date of the assignment). However, if the workload increases, theprocrastination behavior will likely change because of the additional work. Therefore, we used thefollowing criteria to select the procrastination features: © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 (1) does not require extra work for the student (i.e., it is extracted as part of the normal student learning experience and does not require an additional survey or data entry by the student) (2) can be relatively easily extracted from a learning management system (e.g., Blackboard) (3) it is objective, factual and

Conference Session

Mathematics and Material Science

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Dorina Marta Mihut; Stephen Hill, Mercer University

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

, Technical University of Cluj – Napoca, RomaniaDr. Stephen Hill, Mercer University Stephen Hill earned his BS in General Sciences from Morehouse College and his BSME, MSME, and Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently an associate dean and associate professor in the School of Engineering at Mercer University. He worked for the oilfield services giant Schlumberger for 14 years before. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section Conference Assessing Correlation between Erosion, Wear and Hardness Behavior for Polymers, Metals and Ceramic Coated Metallic Surfaces Dr. Dorina Mihut 1, 2, Dr. Stephen

Conference Session

Retention

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Colin J. Reagle P.E., George Mason University; Oscar Barton Jr, Morgan State University

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

student matriculation.ME Elective Offerings and EnrollmentOne of the initial concerns was how this would impact the ability of the department to offer MEelectives. Figure 1 attempts to show the impact of this policy. Seniors are defined as studentswho have earned more than 90 credits at the start of the semester. Many of the ME electives arerestricted to senior standing, though some exceptions are made, and the electives are shown inthe 4th year of the sample schedule. The number of electives offered indicates how many distinctsections were offered that semester. The number of electives is mostly dictated by enrollment assections with fewer than 12 were typically cancelled and students encourage to register for otherelectives. Total elective

Conference Session

Thermodynamics

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Gafar Abbas Elamin P.E., The Citadel

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

study via a survey distributed to seventy-one students who tookthe two-course sequence. The survey consisted of the following questions:Question 1: I think thermodynamics and fluid mechanics are not related and they should betaught as separate coursesQuestion 2: I think thermodynamics and fluid mechanics are related but they should be taught asseparate coursesQuestion 3: I think thermodynamics and fluid mechanics are related and they can be taught in ablended courseQuestion 4: The two subjects can be taught in a blended course, but the professor should coverthe topics of each subject separately rather than alternating between them over the semester Question 5: In a blended course, I think the thermodynamics topics have to be covered before the

Conference Session

Capstones and Economics

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Gang Liu, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

). Engineering Education and Training. Ronald Cox edition, Engineering Ireland, Cork. Collins Press, p.366 Downey, G.L. (2005). Keynote address: Are engineers losing control of technology: From “problem-solving” to “problem definition and solution” in engineering education. Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 83(A8), 1-127 Froyd, J., Wankat, P., and Smith, K. (2012). Five Majors Shifts in 100 Years of Engineering Education. Proceedings of the IEEE. Vol.100, May 13, 1344-13608 Grayson, L.P. (1980). A brief history of engineering education in the United States. IEEE Transactions on aerospace and electronic systems, AES-16(3), 373-392 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section Conference9

Conference Session

Using Research in Engineering Ed

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Pedro E. Arce, Tennessee Technological University; Sahera Yasmin Abumariam, Tennessee Tech University

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

following: a-blood circulation,within the body and within the tumor; b-transport across the vessel walls and into the surroundingtissues; and c- transport through the interstitial space of the solid tumor.1 Therefore, a drugtreatment molecule may face either or both diffusion and convection when travelling from onedelivery site towards the location of the tumor1. Due to the microcirculation of blood in the arteriesof the human body, convective transport is present in such conduits because of the “bulk” bloodmotion and any solute will undergo its movement. Diffusion is present since the drugs moleculesare not uniform across either the arteries and/or he tissue surrounding the tumor.2 Therefore, © American Society for

Conference Session

Graduate School

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Ioulia Rytikova, George Mason University; Mihai Boicu, George Mason University; Harry J Foxwell, George Mason University; Duoduo Liao, George Mason University; Larisa Olesova, University of Florida

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, Duoduo Liao1, Larisa Olesova2, Mihai Boicu1, Harry Foxwell1 1 George Mason University, 2University of FloridaAbstractGraduate Engineering students must apply concepts and methods of research when they enter theengineering workforce. This study developed research learning modules to guide students inapplied research. The modules were implemented in the Master of Science program and exploredengineering students' perceived cognitive presence as they completed them. Additionally, itexamined whether students perceived that the modules helped them apply research concepts andmethods at the end of the course. A post-course self-assessment survey about perceived

Conference Session

Civil, Electrical, and Eng Tech

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Eve Klopf, High Point University; Hilda Goins, High Point University, Webb School of Engineering; Matthew Featherston Eaton, High Point University

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

wouldphysically separate a student laptop from the device under test and also has the potential tosimplify software debugging by shifting at least some software onto a standard computingplatform.KeywordsRaspberry Pi, RTL-SDR, intermediate computing devices, mini PCHeadingsThis work in progress evaluates two possibilities for potential use as an intermediate computingdevice for undergraduate labs in electrical and computer engineering: (1) a Raspberry Pi 4 B and(2) an inexpensive Celeron-based mini PC. The specific lab activity being evaluated in this paperis a software-defined radio (SDR) activity of the type that might seen in an undergraduateelectrical engineering communication systems course1,2. MATLAB is one of the typical programsthat is used to

Conference Session

Communications and Ethics

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

George D Ford, Mississippi State University; Saeed Rokooei, Mississippi State University; Mohsen Garshasby, Mississippi State University

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

format and also in providing collaborative projects with theSchool of Architecture. For future work, the authors hope to produce empirical data to supportthe results of curriculum containing critique components to justify the additional contact times inthe studio generally needed and to show more in-depth understanding of the curriculum. Theeventual results could provide superior skilled program graduates, ready for industry in theUnited States and the World.References 1. American Council for Construction Education (ACCE) website, (2022). Document 103. Downloaded on October 14, 2022, from https://www.acce-hq.org/file-share . 2. Anderson, L., Krathwohl, D., Airasian, P., Cruikshank, K., Mayer, R., Pintrich, P., Raths, J., &

Conference Session

Curriculum Development 2

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Andrea Arce-Trigatti, Tallahassee Community College; Pedro E. Arce, Tennessee Technological University; Sabrina H. Buer, Tennessee Technological University; Carlos Roberto Galindo, Oakley STEM Center at Tennessee Tech University

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the 2022 STEM Innovator award from the TN STEM Innovation Network. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section Conference Curriculum Development and the Holistic Engineer: Foundry Guided ApproachesAndrea Arce-Trigatti1, Sabrina Buer2, Carlos R. Galindo3, Pedro E. Arce2, and J. Robby Sanders2 1 Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN 2 Department of Chemical Engineering, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN 2 Millard Oakley STEM Center, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TNAbstractThe Renaissance Foundry Model (herein the Foundry

Conference Session

Classroom Skills

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Jason Yao, East Carolina University; Ricky T Castles, East Carolina University; Joshua Edison Pitzer, College of Engineering and Technology, East Carolina University; Qin Ding, East Carolina University; Max Rohrman; Yilei Huang, East Carolina University

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campus, transitto the college environment, advise academic work, develop career and leadership skills, etc.Staff and faculty in the college have witnessed the rising skepticism of the public about the valueof college education during the past years [1]. We recognized that interested individuals mayhave many more resources where they can receive knowledge that traditionally has beenobtained from colleges. To improve college experience of our students, CET takes acollaborative approach among faculty and staff. For example, in spring 2021, a faculty advisoryboard for the SSC were appointed to conduct literature review and identify best practices in fourservice areas: (a) Marketing and Recruiting, (b) First year-programs [2, 3], (c

Conference Session

Gamification

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Chang Ren, Auburn University; Cheryl Seals, Auburn University; Dongji Feng, Auburn University

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Diversity, Professional Engineering Education Papers

)dataset were found to be the potential dataset for training and testing in this study. The corpuscontains words and sentences used for clinical assessment and research of speech disorders, withmore than 16,000 speech samples from adults and children with and without speech disorders12.ASR modelWe propose a phone-level ASR model applied with high-resolution Mel-frequency cepstralcoefficients (MFCCs) as features, and bidirectional long short-term memory as the modelarchitecture for the system. Figure 1 displays the high-level overview of the ASR system. The firststep in any ASR system is to extract features. In short, it identifies the components of the audiosignal that are good for recognizing the linguistic content and discarding all the other

Conference Session

First Year and Cross-Disciplinary

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Patrick J Martin, Virginia Commonwealth University; Joseph Adams Shelton, Virginia State University

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Diversity, Professional Engineering Education Papers

. Dr. Shelton is the lead on the ongoing workshops with local underprivileged youth to partake in this challenge and expose them to computer science professional while working on fun and engaging problems. His life’s goal is to expand the horizons of his research area to educate as well as educate future researchers and practitioners of the computer sciences. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section Conference A Prototype for Cross-Institution, Interdisciplinary Experiential Learning in Cybersecure Autonomy Patrick J. Martin1 and Joseph Shelton2 1

Conference Session

Capstones and Economics

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

David S Greenburg, The Citadel; Dimitra Michalaka P.E., The Citadel; Tyler Miner; Susan Kahn Huntington

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

teams have a naturalmechanism for responding to change quickly.Figure 1. Comparison of Agile to Waterfall Project Methodologies. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section ConferenceThe project discussed in this paper involved a business that recognized it needed to produceshorter delivery times and improve its value. After being exposed to Agile processes it becameapparent to the student that employing an Agile methodology could help shorten the systemimplementation process his organization was experiencing while preserving the integrity of thedelivered solution. Employing Agile methodology to reduce the time to delivery and therealization of benefits is

Conference Session

K-12 and Outreach

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Marjorie Letitia Hubbard, North Carolina School of Science and Math

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Diversity, Professional Engineering Education Papers

Conference Session

Computer Science

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Donald U Ekong P.E., Mercer University; Stephen Hill, Mercer University

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Professional Engineering Education Papers

six credit hours of research.The program has three tracks, namely Cybersecurity for Business track, Cyber-physical andSecure Software Systems track, and General track. Each track has four foundation courses (12hours). The foundation courses are the same for all the tracks. The Business track and the Cyber-physical and Secure Software Systems track, each have two core courses (6 hours), and fourelective courses (12 hours). The General track has six elective courses (18 hours). Table 1 liststhe foundation courses, Table 2 lists the Business track core courses, and Table 3 lists the corecourses in the Cyber-physical and Secure Software Systems track.Table 1. Foundation Courses CYS 601 Information Security and Assurance CYS 602