Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Electr-Mech ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mueller

normalsenior project is demonstrated in the lab and then it is forgotten. However, the industry-basedproject is put into service after the demonstration. This brings other considerations to bear. Thefirst is that the product must be designed for easy maintenance after it is placed into operation. Italso makes it necessary to address product liability concerns. That is, the project must bedesigned in such a way so that it is not possible for the operator or maintenance personnel to beinjured by the project.ResultsThis project resulted in two successes: First, the project fulfilled the requirements of the courseand both the students and faculty advisors learned a lot. Secondly, the EOC was very pleasedwith the project; it meant all of their expectations

Conference Session

Online and Web-based Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito Enriquez, Canada College

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

2007. The study also reveals that among the eight major disciplineareas examined, engineering has much lower online representation compared to others. Therehave been many studies on the reasons why higher education faculty choose to adopt or refrainfrom adopting online teaching pedagogies2,3,4,5,6,7. Reasons for not participating in onlineinstruction include concerns about academic integrity, and a perception by some faculty andadministrators that online courses are not equivalent in content, rigor, and level of achievementof learning objectives when compared to the traditional, face-to-face courses7,8,9,10,11,12,13. Page 15.207.2There have been

Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Amelito Enriquez

higher education enrollments (12.9% vs. 1.2%), withover 3.9 million students (or over 20% of all U.S. higher education students) taking at least oneonline course in the fall of 2007. The study also reveals that among the eight major disciplineareas examined, engineering has much lower online representation compared to others. Therehave been many studies on the reasons why higher education faculty choose to adopt or refrainfrom adopting online teaching pedagogies2,3,4,5,6,7. Reasons for not participating in onlineinstruction include concerns about academic integrity, and perceptions by some faculty andadministrators that online courses are not equivalent in content, rigor, and level of achievementof learning objectives when compared to the

Conference Session

Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Soulsby

college, Tinto [5] provides alongitudinal model of institutional departure that has the following components: · Pre-Entry Attributes: those due to family and community background, intellectual and social skills, and prior schooling. · Goals/Commitments: individual commitment toward goal attainment, to the institution to which they gain entry, and external commitments. · Institutional Experiences: academic issues, involving performance and faculty/staff interaction, and social issues, involving extracurricular activities and peer group interactions. · Integration: the extent that success is achieved in both academic and social integration into the learning community

Conference Session

Perceptions of Women's Success in STEM

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Catherine Claiborne, University of Washington; Suzanne G. Brainard, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Technological Education program. Community College Research Center Brief. March, n.20.3). Berger, P. L. and T. Luckmann. (1967). The Social Construction of Reality New York, NY: Doubleday Anchor.4). Beutel, A. M. and D. Nelson. (2006). “The gender and race-ethnicity of faculty in top social science research departments.” The Social Science Journal, 43(1): 111-125.5) Bilimoria, D. and Valian, V. (2006). Leadership Development at ADVANCE Institutions. ADVANCE PI Meeting, NSF: Washington DC.6). Carroll, G. R. and M. T. Hannan. (1989). “Density Dependence in the Evolution of Populations of Newspaper Organizations.” American Sociological Review, 54, 524-548.7) Congressional Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities

Conference Session

Pre-college: Summer Experiences for Students and Teachers (2)

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Trina L. Fletcher, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Monique S Ross, Florida International University; Christopher Alexander Carr, National Society of Black Engineers; Brittany Boyd, National Society of Black Engineers

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division

of leadership is also necessary in the NSBE SEEK program, in that it takesthe leader-as-a-servant of others as a baseline. NSBE SEEK Site Leadership is not just adictatorial structure issuing edicts down to mentors, who then enforce that among the 3rd-5thgrade participants. It is a servant leader model, where the site leadership are there to make thejob of the SEEK Mentors easy and enjoyable. One that helps them see in themselves thecapabilities to lead classrooms and further employ the empowerment model down to help theyounger students believe and see themselves as engineers. This allows for a new approach to beutilized taken when taking a look at the issues of power and authority and helping people, “tolearn, however haltingly, to relate

Conference Session

Project-Based Service Learning

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University; Chris Swan, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

ownership of the project. This will help to ensure that they havereasonable expectations for the project outcomes and that an appropriate and sustainable solutionis achieved. This is particularly challenging for international projects due to cultural differencesthat can complicate communication and understanding, and lack of close and frequent contact.Evaluations of community partner satisfaction and long term project benefits should be assessed.Impacts on the faculty mentoring the projects are also important but outside the scope of thispaper.SummitThe National Science Foundation funded a Summit on PBSL that was held in February 2009.Participants included those that were invited due to their high profile in engineering PBSL andeducational

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Samuel Landsberger; Artin Davidian; Juan Garibay; Richard Valenzuela; Barbara Wheeler

participation and growthMore than 750 college students, primarily from minority and traditionally under-representedbackgrounds, have to date participated in the HERE Program, and over 500 middle and highschool students have been engaged in the HERO Outreach Program. Program staff andstudents, as well as faculty and staff from the Orthopedic Hospital, the UCEDD, and theUniversity, note that students have benefited greatly from active exposure to new areas of Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 195engineering endeavors. For

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP) Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kerrie Danielle Hooper, Florida International University; Trina L. Fletcher, Florida International University; Edward Collins, National Society of Black Engineers; Rochelle L Williams, Graduate Fellowships for STEM Diversity; Ahlam Alharbi, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP)

evaluate our progress and ensure that we are making headway in the appropriatedirection. Our roadmap integrated the theoretical principles of design thinking and systems thinking,while simultaneously grappling with the ethical challenges of collaboration, includingresponsibility, accountability, and authorship, and issues concerning community engagement. Byreviewing the available theoretical literature, the research team can reflect on other experiences togain valuable insights. Further, the research team hopes that sharing this roadmap will bolsterinterdisciplinary collaboration for future research based on the principles of the “open scienceframework”. The open science framework is a scientific movement spanning several disciplineswhich

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gang Zheng, University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute; Horst Hohberger, University of Michigan - Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute; Chengbin Ma, University of Michigan–Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute; Pradeep Ray, University of Michigan Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

interdisciplinary education into the very nature of the JI. The interactionsbetween faculty in different disciplines greatly promote an interdisciplinary environment andnourish students’ interests in multidisciplinary studies. Interdisciplinary education at the JI isreflected in the curricula of the engineering majors and non-engineering minors, in its creativedegree programs, and in the extra-curricular activities. This paper presents data as outcomes ofthe effort in interdisciplinary education. Some new initiatives such as the Global DegreePathways program, Center for Entrepreneurship and Center for Interdisciplinary Education areworks in progress. Thoughts and experiences with those initiatives are also shared.Background and IntroductionThe partnership

Conference Session

Transgression, Conflict, and Altruism

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenna Tonn, Boston College; Avneet Hira, Boston College

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

molasses, saw workers painting the tank brown tocover the seepage, heard the tank groan with the addition of new shipments, and had nightmaresabout its failure. Although he repeatedly raised concerns to his supervisor and to the treasurer ofthe company, they dismissed them, leading Gonzales to quit out of fear of what would happen ifthe tank failed (Puleo, 2003). Reframing the Molasses Flood through Gonzales’s perspectivedocuments the lived experience of the fear of engineering failure, the lack of autonomy Gonzaleshad in his position, and the social vulnerability of a non-union laborer of color.Second, several of the 2023 labor actions involved issues about the impact of emergenttechnologies on employment, from the WGA’s and SAG-AFTRA’s concerns

Conference Session

Technical Session 8 - Paper 5: Cultivating Inclusivity: A Systematic Literature Review on Developing Empathy for Students in STEM Fields

Collection

2022 CoNECD (Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity)

Authors

Stephanie Jill Lunn, Georgia Institute of Technology; Cristi L. Bell-Huff, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joseph M LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

Learning. Previously, Stephanie received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Neuroscience from the University of Miami, in addition to B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from FIU.Dr. Cristi L. Bell-Huff, Georgia Institute of Technology Cristi L. Bell-Huff, PhD is a Lecturer and Director of Faculty and Student Training in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. She is involved in teaching, engineering education innovation, and research. In addition to her PhD in Chemical Engineer- ing, she also has an MA in Educational Studies. She has industrial experience in pharmaceutical product and process development as well as teaching experience at the secondary and post

Conference Session

Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Louis Everett, University of Texas-El Paso; Arunkumar Pennathur, University of Texas-El Paso

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

detrimental to learning. Testing the activities will be performed in the nearfuture; first at another faculty workshop and second in the classroom.*IntroductionStudents come to the classroom with prior knowledge and misconceptions ofscientific and mathematical concepts 3. Their notions allow them to constructunderstanding and, because too often faculty members deliver instruction in adidactic manner, students with misconceptions are not allowed the opportunity tochallenge the misconceptions or to construct understanding of new concepts inengineering. Therefore students will often reinforce misconceptions by incorrectlyincorporating new information on an incorrect framework. It is also possible forstudents to reject new information when it contradicts

Conference Session

Collaborative Projects in Architectural Engineering Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James B Guthrie P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

theirability to collaborate with the structural consultants, better communicate with owners and helpmake effective structural decisions. Construction managers are often involved in developingconstruction costs. A clearer understanding of the implications of structural decisions can be ofgreat value.An additional benefit of these courses to students is that they encourage interdisciplinarycollaboration. This occurs between the ARCH and CM students in the classroom and also withthe ARCE faculty. Although informal, it is not uncommon for ARCH and CM students toconsult with their ARCE faculty regarding structural systems for their studio projects.Learning Outcomes & Outlines. The learning outcomes of the two culminating courses, SmallScale Structures

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Technical Session - Professional Practice 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Glavin, United States Military Academy; Robert Hume, United States Military Academy; Scott M. Katalenich, United States Military Academy; William Graves, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

withintraditional courses. Some universities employ upper-level electives, clubs, or even independentstudy experiences to teach sustainability principles to undergraduates. Many courses dedicatedto sustainable development are limited to graduate programs. In this paper, we present theresults of a faculty team’s efforts to design a new course on sustainable infrastructuredevelopment as a part of undergraduate civil engineering curricula. We conduct benchmarkingwith existing programs that teach infrastructure and sustainable development as explicit courseswithin civil engineering. We crosswalk the pedagogical framework within the American Societyof Civil Engineers (ASCE) Excellence in Civil Engineering Education (ExCEEd) Model to thedraft syllabus and

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luna Magpili, Washington State University; Alice F. Squires, Washington State University; Kim Bullington Sibson, Old Dominion University; Linda Vahala, Old Dominion University; Aysen K. Taylor, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

visa requirementsespecially from high enrollment source countries such as Saudi Arabia and China [17], [25].Many U.S. higher education institutions (76%) expressed concern about future enrollment fromthe Middle East and the impact on students’ willingness or ability to study in the U.S.[8]. Mode 1can be a viable option to this new norm of restricted mobility.(7) Institutional Partnership and Collaboration – Guri-Rosenbilt [4] stresses that “successfulinstitutional collaborations of educational providers have the potential to attract new students,reduce costs for course development, enhance flexibility, ensure high quality mechanisms,provide richer and better programs, and strengthen the financial basis” of TNE. Knight [13] andAlam et al. [14

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Yellin; Jennifer Turns

Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”However, few studies exist about the attitudes towards teaching of undergraduate instructors.Teaching is generally new for this group, and they often shared their struggles without promptingand seemed to want to hear from others experiencing similar issues and get advice. They alsoshared with the group approaches that they felt were effective. The four meetings became aforum in which the undergraduate instructors and tutors discussed how their work was going,explained their challenges and concerns, gave advice to each other, and shared their opinions andthoughts about the best way to help students understand the material and be successful

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Instructional Practices

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dorian Bobbett, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Grace Panther, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

of Nebraska - Lincoln Dr. Grace Panther is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln where she conducts discipline-based education research. Her research interests include faculty change, 3D spatial visualization, gender inclusive teamwork, and study- ing authentic engineering practice. Dr. Panther has experience conducting workshops at engineering education conferences both nationally and internationally, has been a guest editor for a special issue of European Journal of Engineering Education on inclusive learning environments, and serves on the Aus- tralasian Journal of Engineering Education advisory committee.Prof. Heidi A. Diefes-Dux

Conference Session

Best of DEED

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denny C. Davis, Washington State University; Ronald R Ulseth P. E., Iron Range Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

he teaches in the Itasca Community College engineering program in Grand Rapids, MN. He was instrumental in growing the Itasca program from 10 students in 1992 to 160 students in 2010. In 2009, he worked with a national development team of engineering educators to develop the 100% PBL curriculum used in the Iron Range model. He has successfully acquired and managed over $10 million in educational grants including as PI on 7 grants from NSF. He has been in the classroom, teaching more than 20 credits per year to engineering students for more than 20 years. His specific areas of expertise are in active learning, faculty development, and learning community development. He has been awarded the 2012 Progress Minnesota

Conference Session

Teaching Methods in Mechancial Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claire Y. Yan, University of British Columbia, Okanagan

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

internet-based system for generating and delivering homework problems. Presentation and Mini-course at the Joint Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America (New Orleans, LA, January 2001).9. Moodle https://moodle.org (accessed in January 2016)10. Hauk, S. and A. Segalla. 2005. Student perceptions of the web-based homework program WeBWork in moderate enrollment college algebra classes. Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching. 24(3): 229–253.11. Adak, M.F., Yumuşak, N. (2013). Hpcs: A Web based Homework & Project Control System, Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences (special issue: 4th International Conference on New Horizons in Education

Conference Session

International Division (INTL): Humanitarian Design and Sustainable Development

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kseniya Zaitseva, ENTER Network; Jose Carlos Quadrado, ISEL/IPL; ENTER; ISRC/ISEP/IPP, Portugal

Tagged Divisions

International Division (INTL)

, modernizing teaching practices, and creating new educational opportunities,EDUFUSION is poised to play a transformative role in higher education reform andsustainable economic development.Kazakhstan’s higher education sector has been undergoing significant changes, with anational emphasis on aligning academic outcomes with labor market demands. However,systemic challenges remain, including insufficient practical training for students, a lack ofcollaboration between universities and industries, and outdated teaching methodologies. TheEDUFUSION Project directly addresses these issues through a cohesive and innovativeframework designed to modernize education and support sustainable growth.The project focuses on three main components: the Academia

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Clark Colton; Bonnie D. Burrell

entrancequestionnaire concerning attitudes towards working on a team in the laboratory class; and (2) adocument in which the questionnaire responses are sorted and merged for each team, which werefer to as the “Initial Team Dialogues.” The dialogues foster introspection and immediatelyforce the students to deal with core behavioral issues, and they create an arena where themembers can examine the function of their team as a unit.I. IntroductionEffective communication between people has undoubtedly been an elusive goal ever sincehumans developed the ability for speech. The need for its attainment is especially critical in thedevelopment of high performing teams. Team building training is beginning to becomerecognized as an important element that

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

, the forcesthat are needed to change the motion of an object by observing the effect of a spring on an airtrack boat, and Newton’s Third Law of Motion (for every action there is an equal and opposite Page 26.1395.4reaction) through observation of the reaction of a hose to exhaust flow from a shop vacuum.These activities demonstrate and help the students understand the theory behind a rocket launchas well as the safety issues needed to successfully launch a rocket. The students finish the hourby covering the procedures to safely launch a model rocket and then do so under the supervisionof faculty and college students (Figure 4). As an

Conference Session

Topics Enhancing ET Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; Jennifer Grimsley Michaeli PE, Old Dominion University; Otilia Popescu, Old Dominion University; Moustafa R. Moustafa, Old Dominion University; Mileta Tomovic, Old Dominion University; Alok K. Verma P.E., Old Dominion University; Cheng Y. Lin P.E., Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

research assistant at Product Lifecycle Management Center of Excellence at Purdue University. She also served as instructor in STEM Academic Boot Camp, Diversity Program. Prior to joining Purdue, Dr. Jovanovic worked as a faculty at University of Novi Sad at departments of In- dustrial Engineering and Management. Dr. Jovanovic received M.Eng. (dipl.ing.) degree from University of Novi Sad, Serbia in Robotics, Mechatronics and Automation and M.Sc. (Magistar) degree in Produc- tion Systems Design, both at Department of Industrial Engineering. She received a PhD in Mechanical Engineering Technology from Purdue University. In addition, Dr. Jovanovic’s scholarly publications in- clude 50 journal articles and papers in

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

, ACL. And PBL pedagogical techniques as “students” in the workshop  Experience examples of entrepreneurial mindset course integration  Analyze unfamiliar situations and open-ended problems using various methods to define the “true” problem statements  Interact as part of an interdisciplinary team with members from multiple institutions and backgroundsThe workshop was made up of 23 faculty representing different engineering disciplines from 11different universities. While the author has over 28 years of experience in ABET accreditedengineering programs, there were many new pedagogical techniques that the workshopparticipants experienced in individual and group activities over the three

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert G. Batson P.E., University of Alabama

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

, 2015 An Approach to Teaching People Skills in Senior Design Project Courses Introduction The premise of this paper is that most engineering students are ill-prepared for the demands their careers will place on them to interact with other people one-on-one, within teams, and within organizations—organizations that are often global in character. The senior design project provides an opportunity (literally a last chance) for graduating seniors to recognize and develop people skills needed for success. Because the project is intended to simulate real engineering practice, the faculty member can observe each student’s people skill level in project context and at a minimum provide insights and coaching to each student in order to improve those

Conference Session

Educating Students for Professional Success

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane L. Peters P.E., LMS International; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

from data analysis:  To transition from their current career path into an academic career path;  To change the focus of their industrial career into a new specialty area;  To advance further along their current career path.In this paper, we discuss these categories and the students who chose those paths. We alsoaddress the implications for graduate schools regarding the recruitment and support ofreturning students.IntroductionReturners are those with undergraduate degrees who work outside of academia for at least fiveyears and come back to the academic setting to earn a graduate degree. However, little researchexists on this group, and in STEM fields especially, to shed light on the reasons why they makethe decision to return

Conference Session

The Best of First-Year Programs Division

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Darlee Gerrard, University of Toronto; Kirstin Newfield, University of Toronto; Narges Balouchestani Asli, University of Toronto; Chirag Variawa, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

university, the University of Toronto. In order to address theseconcerns, both the first-year engineering students’ and course coordinators’ perspectives must beunderstood. By considering both perspectives, this study provides insights that may informcourse scheduling, course curriculum development and integration of campus resources toimprove student experiences with the first-year engineering workload. Further, this informationwill help our faculty to better support students' transition to university. The result of thisresearch may also lead to improved recruitment efforts and better planning of engineeringprograms. We hope that by tackling the issue of workload we will enrich and further improve thestudents' experience. Numerous research studies

Conference Session

Research Methods and Studies on Engineering Education Research

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Andrew Katz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Matthew Norris, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Abdulrahman M. Alsharif, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Michelle D. Klopfer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; David B. Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jacob R. Grohs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

thisapproach for potential unintended biases that minimize or completely elide comments fromsmaller groups of students. While the approach seems to handle grammatical issues and atypicalsentence structures well, we plan to more systematically assess how it handles students for whomEnglish is a second language. There were minimal examples of this in the current dataset, so wewere not able to assess this aspect for the present study.6. ConclusionThis approach is surely not necessary for small collections of qualitative data; rather, at thispoint, it has the most to offer in scenarios where faculty, administrators, and researchers havethousands of responses to targeted questions from which they want to glean information. Whilecoding that quantity of data

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Jacobson, Iowa State University

.” Page 11.345.2In response to the national need to increase the number of graduates who are knowledgeableabout security issues, Iowa State University and its Information Assurance Center have createdseveral initiatives to increase the awareness in computer security and to increase the number ofstudents pursuing a degree with a focus on computer security. These programs include a summerworkshop for faculty, a cyber defense competition for college students and IT professionals. Wealso saw a need to reach out to high schools to try and increase the number of students interestedin computer security. To this end the ISU Information Assurance Center and the local chapterof InfraGard2 created the Computer Security Summer Camp. The camp was first