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2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

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Dustyn Roberts P.E., University of Pennsylvania; Robert W Carpick, University of Pennsylvania

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Diversity

student-led group that fosters community and engagement amongst female members of MEAM through social and academic events • Holding “community building dinners” every semester where students from underrepresented groups had an opportunity to socialize with each other and with selected faculty and staff to promote networking, communication, and support • Requiring faculty search committee chairs and strongly encouraging all faculty members, especially search committee members, to attend implicit bias training (this included working with SEAS to arrange for the training to be held in an engineering building to promote attendance) • Initiating a LGBTQ “Safe Space” training workshop, normally

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2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

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Ivan L Guzman P.E., New York City College of Technology; Sara Gómez Woolley, New York City College of Technology

soil mechanics course. The author estimates that when adoptedat the New York City College of Technology, the entire cost of publication of the textbook will berecovered through student savings within three semesters, by conservative estimates. 1. Background and ContextThe lack of affordable and accessible education is one of the major obstacles inhibiting upwardsocial mobility of New Yorkers from low to middle socioeconomic classes. Students from lowerincome, underrepresented and first-generation college households in an urban setting, areparticularly affected by the rise of higher education costs, which further marginalizes themembers of these communities. With a limited amount of family discretionary funds, students1 Assistant

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2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

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Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus

showcase their skills in a wide variety of areas. For example,hackathons nurture the approach that no idea is bad and give team members the confidence toexplore any idea, no matter how unlikely it seems, fostering innovation and creativity to developsupportive communities that allow outside-the-box solutions [15]. The learning opportunities ininnovation competitions are unique because these competitions enable students to work on theirinnovations “from conception through presentation—the whole process” [16].Furthermore, competitions encourage students to adopt innovative techniques and develop theirideas and skills throughout the process. Competitions and challenges can play an important roleas facilitators of start-ups in economically distressed

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2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

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Donna M. Schaeffer, Marymount University; Jillian Drake, Marymount University

ethicalconsiderations, as well as cybersecurity issues, regardless of their scope and scale. Theexploitation of cybersecurity vulnerabilities are often result from ethical omissions or oversights.Just as engineers respect engineering professional ethics, so must citizens who participate incrowdsourcing or open innovation endeavors which solicit, gather or process data.1.1 Crowdsourcing “Crowdsourcing”, a term first coined by Wired Magazine editors Howe and Robinson in2005, conceptualizes the concept of outsourcing a task or project from an internal source to alarge network of people who are engaged through an open call [12]. One of the first recordedexamples of crowdsourcing was when in 1714 the British Government offered €20,000 towhomever could

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2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

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Paige Janae Harvey, Morgan State University; Otily Toutsop, Morgan State University; Kevin Kornegay, Morgan State University

participants to acclimate to their research projects before the programstart.Throughout this work, participants were able to gain or further develop skills in some of thefollowing areas: Ethical Hacking, Data Science, Intrusion Detection Systems, Linux, MachineLearning, Networking, and Python, as well as interact with a designated smart device and testingenvironment. In the first summer, participants were assigned a smart glucose meter and taskedwith 1) exploiting the potential threats associated with installing smart devices onto unsecurednetwork configurations via address resolution protocol (ARP) poisoning, and 2) exploring socialengineering tactics through cloning the device user application. Additionally, in the followingsummer, participants

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2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

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Michael B. O'Connor PE P.E., New York University

strengths of quantitative and qualitative methods.Guetterman, 2015 noted that such integration could occur where quantitative and qualitative dataare merged in a convergent manner that … "involves quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis at similar times, followed by an integrated analysis." [31]The purpose is to present the data … "in the form of a table or figure, a joint display, that simultaneously arrays the quantitative and quantitative results. A joint display is defined as a way to "integrate the data by bringing the data together through a visual means to draw out new insights beyond the information gained from the separate quantitative and qualitative results. (Guetterman

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2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

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Alison Rose Kennicutt, York College of Pennsylvania

. was a particular challenge in laboratory settings. Similar to manyothers, our institution’s return to campus included a “HyFlex” modality for the Fall 2020 andSpring 2021 semesters, where students would rotate through in-person and remote learning (i.e.,via Zoom) for individual courses and/or lessons. The HyFlex schedule was set by the individualfaculty member, depending on course enrollment and the limitations on classroom capacity, asset by social distancing guidelines. There was also a small subset of our student body who wereapproved (e.g., due to medical exemptions) to be fully-remote for the semester and exclusivelyparticipated in synchronous sessions via Zoom.York College of Pennsylvania (York, PA) is a private, medium-sized liberal