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IOT Platform to Facilitate Student Innovation

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Conference

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Location

Arlington, Virginia

Publication Date

March 12, 2023

Start Date

March 12, 2023

End Date

March 14, 2023

Conference Session

Curriculum Development 1

Tagged Topic

Professional Engineering Education Papers

Page Count

13

DOI

10.18260/1-2--45022

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https://peer.asee.org/45022

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202

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Ciprian Popoviciu East Carolina University Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0003-2084-2240

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Dr. Ciprian Popoviciu has over 26 years of experience working in various technical and leadership roles in the IT industry. He founded and led Nephos6, the first company to enable OpenStack for IPv6 and deploy it in production. Prior to starting Nephos6 he worked for CIsco and he is an industry recognized IPv6 subject matter expert. Currently he is an assistant professor in the college of engineering at East Carolina University and his research is focused on IoT and cybersecurity.

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Colby Lee Sawyer East Carolina University

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Current Software Engineering MS Student at East Carolina University

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Joshua Edison Pitzer ECU College of Engineering and Technology

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Abstract

The Internet of Things holds the promise of enabling truly transformational increases in productivity similar to those enabled by the steam power and electricity. IOT can enable significant optimizations of workflows and processes across a wide range of domains and activities. Educators face the challenge of providing students with both the knowledge to understand the capabilities of IOT but also with providing students with practical, hand-on experiences with IOT that would reinforce theoretical knowledge and facilitate innovation. The later dimension of technical education requires access to an IOT infrastructure and the mentoring and resources that can support students in validating new ideas. At East Carolina University, we architected and implemented a multi-campus IOT platform that makes it easy to deploy and manage most types of sensors. The platform makes it easy to analyze collected data and implement automation of workflows based on insights extracted from the data. We view this platform as a means to transform the campus into a lab and enlisted the Isley Innovation Hub to mentor students to innovate on this IOT platform. The Isley Innovation Hub is run by the Miller School of Entrepreneurship and provides the space, the tools and the guidance students need to test their ideas. This paper describes the results of this collaboration and the benefits of combining innovation mentorship with campus wide IOT platform facilitating experimentation and education. This collaboration includes awareness activities, IOT training and management of ideation and prototyping.

Popoviciu, C., & Sawyer, C. L., & Pitzer, J. E. (2023, March), IOT Platform to Facilitate Student Innovation Paper presented at ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia. 10.18260/1-2--45022

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