Conference Session

Engineering Education in the Middle East and Technology Exploration in Africa and Developing Countries

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Paul Farris, Grand Valley State University

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International

chlorine. The problem was compounded by thefact that there was no way to quickly assess the how well the filter was operating. No one couldtell the difference between a filter that was working well and one that was providing unsafedrinking water.A Conceptual ModelAfter returning from Ghana the authors were troubled by the experience and search for thecauses of these problems and how to prevent similar problems in the future. The authors Page 23.1361.4identified the lack of a useful conceptual model of the filter and usability issues with the filter asthe primary causes of the problem. A conceptual model is the way a user of a product believesthe

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2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Thomas McKean; Gary Bates; LaShall Bates; Ranil Wickramasinghe

the design of their experiments to maintain the researchelement of their projects and were able to do so well. They applied knowledge gained from thefirst two days of experiments within each project to choose parameters such as the volume andtime intervals over which to assess samples to ensure maximum accuracy, concentrations ofsolutions to make when appropriate, speed of the experiment (i.e., pump or syringe), and ideas totroubleshoot when results did not go as expected (particularly with the third experiment). Thestudents did also enjoy choosing the colors to mix and using the dyes they had previously studied. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Midwest Section

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2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Ian Popp; Claudia Smith; Heather Walker

engineering perspective,students determined that as sugar increased, gas production of carbon dioxide increased as well.After the presentation and activity, teachers were given a survey to assess the effectiveness of thepresentation and give the opportunity for feedback.ResultsDemographic information for the schools visited is shown in Table 1. Information in all but thefar-right column was provided by the schools [10] [11] [12] [13]. Surveys were collected fromVandergriff, Knapp, and Leverett elementary schools. Leverett only had one survey due to thepresentation being for a single classroom and teacher. For the yes or no questions, responseswere counted.Table 1. Demographic Information for the Schools Visited

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2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Preston Ward; Michael Hempel; Hamid Sharif

movement prediction to reduce thelatency impact of the IK solver and actuator movement delays, and GPU-accelerated IK solvers. Additionally, we will conduct user experience (UX) testing by having current electricaland computer engineering students at the University of Nebraska campuses conduct a series oftypical hands-on electrical engineering experiments through traditional lab setups and throughthe VR platform, for in-depth qualitative and quantitative assessments of the benefits andremaining challenges of this novel approach.References[1] C. Tüysüz, “The Effect of the Virtual Laboratory on Students’ Achievement and Attitude in Chemistry,” International Online Journal of Educational Sciences, vol. 2, January 2010.[2] H. Horner, “The

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2021 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Michael G. Schrlau

HeatTransfer course and those participating in individualized, food-themed projects in the onlineflipped Heat Transfer course. While not necessarily a measurable improvement in learningoutcomes, the evolution from team-based analytical projects to individualized projects involvingbuilding, testing, and analyzing supported student learning in an online environment. Theevolution avoided inevitable challenges that would have come about if the Heat Transfer coursewas to continue utilizing team-based projects in an online environment or, worse yet, to switch toutilizing online exams to assess student learning. Future work will focus on making the build-test-analyze projects robust for either in-person or online learning environments and either asindividual

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2025 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Abigail Rose

willbe asked to share their experiences of their institution’s dedication to fostering and maintainingPBA initiatives and their insights into institutional interest in investigating PBA’s effectiveness.A particular emphasis will be placed on how participants comprehend and assess PBA’spotential to enhance access and cater to a more diverse student population at their institutions. The interview data will be analyzed using thematic a priori coding within a structuredphenomenological qualitative framework to explore the lived experiences of administratorsdelivering PBA to their prospective students. Due to the study's in-progress nature, the thematica priori coding has been left out of this paper.Limitations The narrow, peer-reviewed

Conference Session

Materials Division (MATS) Technical Session 2: Activities with Impact! Special Session

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan R. Brown, The Ohio State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Materials Division (MATS)

experiment comparing methods in a controlledsetting.ConclusionAs shown in my examples above, the technique of hosting anonymous discussions requires verylittle preparation on the part of the instructor and a modest amount of class time, while itallows the instructor to get an up-to-date assessment about the thinking of many of thestudents. The anonymization lets students participate more freely without having to attach theirname/identity on something that they fear may be wrong. Popular software such as TopHat canfacilitate anonymous discussions while retaining the ability to later connect student names withresponses; using this approach, I have not experienced significant issues with inappropriatestudent responses. Overall, I have found anonymized

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND) Technical Session 3

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Micheal Oketunde Okegbola, Morgan State University; Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University; Pelumi Olaitan Abiodun, Morgan State University; Olushola V. Emiola-Owolabi, Morgan State University; Julius Ogaga Etuke, Morgan State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

composition influencesthe problem-solving process, team performance in innovation tasks, and the role of institutionalsupport in enhancing these outcomes. A mixed-methods approach was employed, combiningquantitative analysis of innovation outcomes with qualitative interviews focusing on teamdynamics and problem-solving strategies. For the quantitative analysis, Excel was used tocalculate descriptive statistics, correlations, and mean scores to examine relationships betweenteam diversity and innovation metrics. Specific tests, such as correlation analysis and t-tests,were used to assess the impact of diversity on performance outcomes.The qualitative data from interviews were analyzed thematically to identify common patterns andinsights related to team

Conference Session

ME Division 7: Making it Matter: Projects and Communication

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware; Alexander John De Rosa, University of Delaware

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

year are reinforced in middle years courses. In particular, we will focus on whetherstudents perceive specific technical communications skills, like generating graphs, to be relevantto courses taken one to three semesters later. We will also assess whether middle yearscoursework changes students’ self-confidence in technical communications tasks. The results ofthis study will be used to refine our first-year technical communications course and modify thestrategies that we are using in later lab and design courses to activate prior technicalcommunications knowledge (e.g., review exercises, exemplars, and common rubrics). Morebroadly, our approach to developing and reinforcing industry-aligned technical communicationsskills throughout our

Conference Session

Faculty Development: Lessons Learned Papers and Lightning Talks

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanos Matsumoto, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Zachary Riggins Del Rosario, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Jean Huang, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Caitrin Lynch, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Kenechukwu Churchill Mbanisi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Paul Ruvolo; Georgia D. Van de Zande, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Faculty Development Division (FDD)

careers, fromfirst-year assistant professors to associate and full professors with more than a decade of service,and our collective institutional service has spanned many areas including accessibility, assessment,curricular innovation, faculty development, faculty hiring, student life, and undergraduate research.2.2 Formal Training in New Research AreasThe lead author of this paper requested and received funding from the Provost’s office at OlinCollege of approximately $10,000. The majority of this amount was to support four authors totake part in the ProQual Institute, a workshop spanning around ten weeks that covers core topicsin interpretive research and research quality [8]. Two of the authors had already participated inProQual in the

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division (FPD) GIFTS Session 1: Human-Centered and Project-Based Innovation in First-Year Engineering Design

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill Davishahl, Western Washington University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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First-Year Programs Division (FPD)

. Andreae, and C. McComb, “Uncovering potential bias in engineering design: a comparative review of bias research in medicine,” Design Science, vol. 9, p. e17, 2023, doi: 10.1017/dsj.2023.17.[3] D. Riley, Engineering and Social Justice. Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2008.[4] A. Linder and M. Svensson, “Road Safety: The Average Male as a Norm in Occupant Crash Safety Assessment,” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 140–153, 2019.[5] L. C. Strauss and P. T. Terenzini, “Engineering Learning: Multiple Influences on the Development of Analytical and Group Skills,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 94, no. 1, pp. 61–75, 2005.[6] J. Davishahl, “Centering Social Justice in Engineering: A new course model for first

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division (ETD) Technical Session 4

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn Barger P.E., FLATE (Florida Advanced Technological Education Center of Excellence); Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida; Doug Laven, South Central College

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

2-year and 4-year degree programs to address this skilled employeeshortage.Bibliography 1. Li, L. “Reskilling and Upskilling the Future-ready Workforce for Industry 4.0 and Beyond”. Inf Syst Front (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-022-10308-y 2. Acerbi F, Rossi M and Terzi S (2022). Identifying and assessing the required I4.0 skills for manufacturing companies' workforce. Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology, (2):921445. Doi: 10.3389/fmtec.2022.921445 3. Barger, M, Gilbert, R; Centonze, P; Ajlani, Sam; What’s Next? The Future of Work for Manufacturing Technicians, 2021 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings (Virtual) (https://peer.asee.org/38053) 4. National Science Foundation Advanced Technological

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division (COED) Track 6.C

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yiqing Li, University of California, San Diego; Jiaen Yu, University of California, San Diego; U Lam Lou, University of California, San Diego; Dingyi Yu, University of California, San Diego; Michael Levin, Utah State University; Korena S Klimczak, Utah State University; Soohyun Nam Liao, University of California, San Diego

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

were transcribed and then analyzed usingthematic analysis.The results of this study provide insights into students’ perceptions on ClearMind with respect toTAM’s core constructs: perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and social influence. Theparticipants found ClearMind both useful and easy to use, and were willing to continue using itand recommending it to their peers. They also identified some opportunities for improvementsuch as fostering positive emotions and better organizing the content.Our user study results imply that ClearMind is an accessible yet helpful mental health resourcefor students. This highlights ClearMind’s potential for broader adoption. Future work involves alarge-scale quantitative study to assess ClearMind’s

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division (COED) Track 4.D

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James E. Lewis, University of Louisville; Nicholas Hawkins, University of Louisville; Brian Scott Robinson, University of Louisville; Angela Thompson P.E., University of Louisville

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

summersemester allows the authors to pilot possible new cornerstone project to a smaller cohort ofstudents, while being aware of improvements and necessary adjustments before using thecornerstone project in the larger semester. Thus, the purpose of this paper was to assess students’interest in the course due to the new Cornerstone project. Results could inform instructors ofstudent perceptions across engineering disciplines and provide directions for courseimprovements.Introduction and Course DescriptionFirst-year students, regardless of their major, at the J.B. Speed School of Engineering (SSoE) atthe University of Louisville are required to take a two-course sequence of introduction toengineering courses. These courses are titled Engineering Methods

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 4: Sociotechnical Integration

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lydia Wilkinson, University of Toronto; Alan Chong, University of Toronto

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

vaccine skepticism; they look at coverage of the super hadron colliderfrom its press conference at CERN, in CERN’s educational resources and in a popular podcast.This comparative approach to media analysis emphasizes the power of storytelling in popularscience communication. Comparison is also encouraged between the same genres and toolsdeployed in service of different stories. In this way students are encouraged to consider howmessages are constructed and conveyed through and across related texts and different media, andto critically assess these messages. Performance is used within this course both as a pedagogicaltool to frame the production of communicative objects in situated learning, and as a criticalparadigm to analyze science

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2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Jackson, University of New Mexico; Pil Kang, University of New Mexico

meant the KSA was needed, a 2represented that academia already do a good job of teaching the topic, and a 1 meant the KSA wasnot needed in industry.Out of 47 questions that were assessed the industry panel deemed 19 (40.4%) of them that needed tobe addressed to enhance job readiness. This means that the industry panel thought 59.6% of theKSA’s surveyed were either not critically important for the job or that universities already do asufficient job of teaching those KSA’s. The categories that the industry panel thought needed to beaddressed were Statistics and Testing, Technical skills, and Essential skills. The top individualKSA’s were statistical process control (SPC), process capability index (CP), and experience withindustrial culture each

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2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Bill D Carroll P.E., The University of Texas at Arlington; Kartikey Sharan, The University of Texas at Arlington

-on experience with FPGA programming, hardware interfacing,and IEEE 754 standards, preparing them for careers in digital design and hardware engineering.For instructors, the project serves as a versatile teaching tool, offering a comprehensiveframework to explain complex topics and assess student progress through tangible outcomes.Results and ObservationsThe processor’s implementation on the DE10-Lite board validated its functionality andeducational value. Observations include: 1. Student Engagement: The interactive nature of the project, particularly the use of the keypad and LCD display, significantly increased student interest and motivation. 2. Practical Learning: Students demonstrated improved comprehension of floating-point

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2025 ASEE North Central Section (NCS) Annual Conference

Authors

Jundong Liu, Ohio University; Trevor Joseph Bihl, Air Force Research Laboratory; Daniel Masami Nagura, Ohio University

time and assess the impact of human experienceon the training efficiency and final performance. running score = running score × 0.99 + epoch score × 0.01Figure 4: Comparison of the Moving Average Scores for RL alone (red line) and RL with humanexperience (blue line) in training the racing car.Initially, a model was trained from scratch (without any prior experience) for 2,000 epochs usingthe default hyperparameters, image stack size, and action repeat step size. Separately, a humanplayer interacted with the environment for 100 epochs to generate a human experience buffer, alsousing the default settings.The human experience buffer data was then integrated into the training process of a new model,which was subsequently trained

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

Authors

Terri A. Camesano; Elizabeth Wilson; Valerie Smedile Rifkin

on the expansion of and relevance in the engineering community. Draper and BAEskills training and delivering flexible just-in-time learning also subscribed to our courses for their employees. We alsoopportunities. allow direct open enrollment of students, as well. Industry feedback was incorporated into course development to ensure III. METHODOLOGY alignment with real-world SE practices.A. Program Development IV. IMPLEMENTATION1. Needs Assessment

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2025 ASEE North Central Section (NCS) Annual Conference

Authors

Mathew Allen, Marshall University; Ben Taylor, Marshall University; Pingping Zhu, Marshall University; Preston K Sellards, Marshall University

.2.4 Gesture Recognition Testing The gesture recognition system was tested using a variety of hand gestures under differentenvironmental conditions to evaluate its performance and robustness. These tests involved varyingthe hand’s distance from the camera, lighting conditions, and background complexity to assess thesystem’s ability to reliably recognize gestures. Adjustments were made to the angle and distancethresholds in the gesture defining functions based on experimental results to improve accuracyacross different settings.2.5 Video Processing and Feedback The entire system is designed to function in real-time, utilizing a camera to capture video andprocess gestures. The camera feeds are continuously analyzed to detect hand landmarks

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Steve Zilora

thrown in a Super Bowl game. Regardless, it is the context that makes the datausable. Informatics is about working with information—data in context.People are consumers of information. A famous riddle asks the question, “If a tree falls in aforest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” We can paraphrase that to, “Ifinformation is presented and no one can understand it, does it have any value?” Informaticsaddresses this issue that the point of developing or presenting information is so that people canunderstand and utilize it. A central concern to informatics is identifying key components andindicators within an information set so that the consumer can easily assess the information.In the world of informatics, it is technology

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Gautham Das; Rishi Cariappa

students to complete their senior designproject on this rapid road expansion project. This paper highlights the work conducted by thestudents from BU on the Outer Ring Road which lies in the southwest corridor of the city. Withthe assistance of senior field engineers, students helped in the initial site assessments whichincluded surveying the existing conditions of the roads, procuring soil samples from core cutters,conducting geotechnical field tests such as standard penetration tests (SPT) tests and laboratorytests such as tri-axial and consolidation tests and in areas where the roads existed studentsconducted Dynamic Cone penetrometer (DCP) tests. In addition to working with the engineersstudents were required to help the botanist move certain

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Ibrahim Alkore Alshalabi; Eman Abdelfattah

. Currently, sheworks as an adjunct instructor at the University of Bridgeport. Eman Abdelfattah has research interests in the areas of networking and communications. Herresearch results were published in prestigious international conferences in circuits and VLSIdesign. She actively participated as a committee member of the International Conferences onEngineering Education, Instructional Technology, Assessment, and E-learning EIAE 05, EIAE06, EIAE 07, EIAE 08 and EIAE 09. 7

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Vijay Kanabar; Virginia Greiman; Jim Cormier

online class. The Masters in Project Management programuses Vista as the Learning Management System (LMS) a product of Blackboard Corporation [12]. ThisLMS allows faculty, with the support of our distance education department to post content, design tests,hold online discussion and many other course-related functions. Key product features include: courseadministration, online content storage, assignment and assessments repository, tracking and reportingstudent performance. Figure 2: Vista learning management system. See Figure 2: Vista Learning Mangement system for a snap shot of the main panel that students can see.The students see the above view. Student teams and professors also have the ability to communicate

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

B. Samanta

well as engineering education are discussed. The experiences of presenting CI as acourse and summer projects are also presented. The importance of introducing the CI techniquesand their multidisciplinary applications as a senior level interdisciplinary engineering electivecourse and integrating these in research experiences for undergraduates (REU) and STEMeducation (GK-12) is discussed.I. IntroductionIn the digital generation, large volumes of data are collected in various forms in differentendeavors related to business, science, engineering and biomedicine, among others. There is aneed to make sense of the voluminous data for assessing the current status of the system anddetecting an early indication of any possible deterioration of the

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Kevin John McDonnell; Anne Joan Caraccio; Nithin Susan Abraham; Nicholas Alexander Ruffini; Susan Gallardo; James Patrick Abulencia

follow. Thebusiness plan will consist of a mission statement, fully addressing the needs of the communitythey are helping and detailing the service goals of the organization. Following the creation of thebusiness plan, students will generate the appropriate non-profit business components which willinclude creating Articles of Incorporation, filing for tax exemption status, and applying for anEmployer Identification Number (EIN) with the United States Internal Revenue Service. Once the business model has begun and the final design of filter prototype is set, finaltesting of the filters efficacy in removing contaminants will be assessed. Testing will take placeby students at both Manhattan College and De La Salle University. After final

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

David Cain; Brian Layng; Kyle McNulty; Ryan O'Connor; Tomas Estrada

offered by the College’s Engineer Department. The class wasbetween athletics and academics. The members’ personal interest mainly focused on research, development, and planning.in athletics helps to motivate the progress of the project. The Junior Project allowed us to refine our basic thoughts foreclectic team consists of engineers from different disciplines possible projects. We had one semester to cultivate our initialincluding mechanical, computer, and industrial. ideas and determine the feasibility of our project. In the class we assessed the marketability of our project and started our Keywords- robotics

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Hamoud Alshammari; Hassan Bajwa; Jeongkyu Lee

Hadoop Distributed File System (Fig 1 andefficiently queried. Since genomic and biological data Fig2) allows the distribution of the data set into manyis generated in large volume and is stored in machines across the network that can be logicallygeographically diverse locations, distributedcomputing on multiple clusters, our objective here is combed for processing.to assess the feasibility of using Cloud based platform Column Oriented Hbase Clusterto analyze genomic big data. In this paper we report

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Abdelrahman Elleithy; Alaa Abuzaghleh; Abdelshakour Abuzneid

systems. An effective IDSimplementation makes no assumptions about the effectiveness of other network security services. Allactivity is suspect and monitored to assess the perceived threat of the actions. Threatening behavior isresponded to via logging, reporting or some action on the part of the IDS or related systems.The value of an IDS system lies in its ability to accurately determine if an action is a result of an intrusionor normal behavior. Intrusion detection systems fall into two broad categories. The first approach isStatistical Anomaly Detection. The underlying premise of this approach is that an intruder’s activity willdiffer from that of a legitimate user. Legitimate user behavior is derived by analyzing past activity.Aberrations

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2011 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Tom Goulding; Durga Suresh

learning?, Highersolving a very complex systems problem. Education, (19), (1990). 307-322.Having a very challenging “real world” project is [9] Gupta, M. Enhancing student performanceenergizing and creates the work ethic and motivation through cooperative learning in physicalnecessary to lead to student success. sciences. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 29 (2004), 63-73. Retrieved onThe Socratic method captures the essence of the March 5, 2007 from the Academic Searchdevelopment culture found in industry and therefore Premier databasebecomes one of the most desirable pedagogicalmethods to use in the