2021 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)最新文献

{"title":"Supporting Inclusive Engineering Education using Global Virtual Teams","authors":"A. Ndubuisi, J. Slotta","doi":"10.1109/ISEC52395.2021.9763945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISEC52395.2021.9763945","url":null,"abstract":"Future engineers require global competencies to help them transition to the labor market in an increasingly complex, digitized, and evolving world economy. In response, an International Virtual Engineering Student Teams’ (InVEST) program was developed, in which multidisciplinary students were engaged in collaborative technical projects within a global virtual team learning environment. This study examines engineering students’ intercultural competencies and supports their development of those competencies within the context of a global engineering project where they work in culturally diverse teams. We report on two successive iterations of the engineering global virtual team (GVT) learning program. Each included a pre-survey to understand student’s initial knowledge and cultural orientation and a post-survey to assess students’ perceptions of their intercultural learning and experiences. We found that blending global virtual team learning with collaborative international projects was an effective strategy for helping engineering students gain international exposure in an inclusive manner while developing intercultural competencies, virtual team collaboration skills, and technical engineering knowledge.","PeriodicalId":329844,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130004379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"High School STEM Clubs in a Virtual World","authors":"Anastasia A Ibrahim, Sunrit Panda, Gunjan Adya","doi":"10.1109/ISEC52395.2021.9764126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISEC52395.2021.9764126","url":null,"abstract":"Transitioning To A Virtual School Year: Edison High School’s iSTEM Club faced numerous challenges in the summer leading up to the 2020-2021 school year. Club funding was cut due to school budget restructuring. All club recruitment events such as Freshman Orientation and the Club Fair had been canceled. Despite these challenges, club attendance increased during virtual meetings. This improvement can be attributed to changes in meeting style. Instead of appealing to students with opportunities and events, the officers used their large personalities to create a welcoming virtual community. Thus, the key to maintaining a virtual STEM club is energetic, personable meetings that keep students coming back for more. Club Events: iSTEM Club’s officers looked to the virtual outreach events of universities as inspiration. Events were brainstormed with a focus on mental health, career development, community outreach. The iSTEM club continued to offer mentorship to students applying to summer programs in STEM research as this process only became more difficult virtually. Additionally, the iSTEM club taught the basics of HTML and web design in a three-part seminar series. These seminars doubled as training for teaching aides who will participate in future HTML workshops for elementary schoolers, engaging both elementary and high school students during remote learning. Finally, iSTEM club created a College, Career, and Mental Health seminar series addressing topics such as creating a resume, finding research opportunities, exploring career fields, self-care, time management, applying to college, etc. These unique seminar topics allow club members to make use of free-time during online learning and further strengthens the welcoming community that attracts new members. For example, the HTML seminars may inspire a student to start a personal coding project. That student would then feel comfortable asking the officers for guidance. Furthermore, iSTEM Club officers decide which seminars to lead, developing valuable collaboration, public speaking and leadership skills. Finally, the pandemic allows the time to plan for in-person events after widespread vaccination. ISTEM club plans to create an Apple Institutional Developer Account to teach Swift and publish apps to the App store. Most excitingly, the club received a $$4,250$ grant from the IEEE-in-epics program to alleviate a water crisis in Rural India. A Model For The Future: Evidently, iSTEM Club has seen much success while adjusting to the online environment. This begs the question: Can high school STEM clubs go virtual or hybrid permanently? The evidence says yes. Savvy management of a virtual club yields lower costs, greater attendance, and a more impactful experience. Virtual seminars have greater reach and can be recorded for future use. Virtual community outreach teaches club members how to work efficiently and collaboratively in a virtual environment, an important skill moving forward. Finally, in-person ev","PeriodicalId":329844,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125310082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Wide band gap using periodic combined electromagnetic band gap cells","authors":"Mohammad E. El Ghabzouri, Abdenacer Es Salhi, P. Mendes","doi":"10.1109/ISEC52395.2021.9764072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISEC52395.2021.9764072","url":null,"abstract":"This work investigates the electromagnetic (EM) response toward two combinations of electromagnetic band gap (EBG) cells outlining our EBG structures under test. It has been talked about before that EBG structure identified as high impedance surface (HIS), act as background reflector as well as dropping EM wave surface, while the potential income of artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) is low profile devices. In this ongoing research paper, we used periodic combined cells, arranged in three manners (chessboard-like, intervallic-like, and mirror-like), in order to study the EM features of these original EBG structures. The motivation behind this work is to improve the band gap width (BGW) of our previous EBG circular slots meandered lines (EBGCSML). The result shows a very interesting behavior of the mirror EBG-CSML structure, which manifests in ultra-wide BGW equal to 1.63 GHz, the realized fractional BGW is 66.5%. The presented EBG structures are designed for our project in progress that would integrate these EBG structures with antennas, in order to make a new competitive compact and low profile multiband antenna, with the lowest specific absorption rate possible, especially around mobile’s lower bands working frequencies (700, 800, 900, and 1800 MHz).","PeriodicalId":329844,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125025816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Examination of Industry Standards of Success within Penetration Testing Groups","authors":"M. Ducoste, Rachel Bleiman, T. Nguyen, Aunshul Rege","doi":"10.1109/ISEC52395.2021.9764146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISEC52395.2021.9764146","url":null,"abstract":"Penetration testing groups can be used as an ethical proxy to study cybercrime groups, as both parties share the common goal of identifying and exploiting weaknesses in their targets’ systems. Pentesters often use existing industry standards to guide their performance and practices, but little research has investigated how these standards operate in simulated cybersecurity exercises. Using the experiences of college students in the 2018 and 2019 National Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC), a simulation of a professional real-world penetration test, this study seeks to further examine pentesting metrics. Metrics from industry standards of pentesting practices are compared to the metrics identified by the CPTC participants, revealed through semi-structured group interviews. Industry metrics include standards, such as methods, information gathering, attack generation, quantity of findings, quality of findings, and reporting of findings. Other additional metrics identified by the CPTC participants include skills of the team, the environment, expectations, and the relationships among group members. This study uses a qualitative methodological approach to examine the metrics of success identified by pentesters as they reflect on their decisions, actions, and performance.","PeriodicalId":329844,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126545991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Enhancing Chess Engine with a Personalized Quantitative Database","authors":"Jiasen Liu","doi":"10.1109/ISEC52395.2021.9763951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISEC52395.2021.9763951","url":null,"abstract":"Designing chess engines have become a popular topic of computer science studying since 1997, when Deep Blue, invented by the IBM company, defeat Gary Kasparov in a 6-game match. Nowadays, chess engine designers improve their engines with more efficient neural networks, enhanced self-learning methods, complete databases of past games, and so on. However, what these designers ignore is the human’s perspective of playing chess. Different human players have different styles and preferences, and even when their Elo ratings are near, they may choose various options in the same situation. This human’s way of thinking is what modern chess engines do not consider, and I assume that their performance when playing against human players could improve by considering these different styles. What this research is attempting is to set up a personalized quantitative system based on previous games. The author’s and some other chess players’ understanding of chess would be added to create more enhanced standards for this quantitative system. After that, the system will be implemented to Stockfish, the best open-source chess engine in the world, by modifying its source codes. If the modified engine knows the opponents they are facing, it adds those quantitative statistics into analysis with a specific weight. Instead of directly calculates the best moves for a position, the engine chooses the moves that bring the hugest challenge for the opponent, and the moves chosen vary when the opponents change. Then, the performance of Stockfish will be compared to its original version, and verify whether the engine gets better. If the research is done successfully, both the designs of the chess engine and the methods for training human players would get improved.","PeriodicalId":329844,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133729656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Smart Education Supply Preparedness","authors":"Adrik Ray","doi":"10.1109/ISEC52395.2021.9764055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISEC52395.2021.9764055","url":null,"abstract":"Education is evolving with remote online education coming to the forefront during the Covid-19 pandemic. This has also driven students to be more self-driven and prepared without the classroom help, they would have received from teachers. In this paper, we discuss how modern technologies like Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, smart intelligent speakers enabled with fast wireless connections like 5G, can enable students to be better prepared for their classes without unnecessarily worrying about their preparedness every day. We have lots of things to remember for school in addition to our studies. Every day, we have to remember to check our school supplies. If we forget, we may have to scramble for our school supplies or to get them ready for use during classes. The supplies may also be out of place for various other reasons. Sometimes parents, siblings or friends borrow our supplies and forget to return. Sometimes we go on a vacation and the night before school, we realize our supplies are not in place. We may have to put reminders for this repetitive and mundane task to check our supplies every day. The above problem made me think that there got to be some way in today’s day and age to take care of this repetitive but important task in a smarter way. I have contemplated a design consisting of a smart organized supply box which will store different types of supplies with slots designated for same. The box will provide personalization options with inputs such as age and other optional configurations about the user of the box, making it usable for students of different ages. The intelligent box will use IoT visual sensors placed inside with adequate lighting, to capture images of supplies. The sensors interface with a circuit, that takes inputs from the sensors and detects scenarios like inadequate shape of items (blunt pencil, broken pencil etc.), lack of items (missing erasers, specific colors etc.), misplaced items etc. Once detected, the circuit passes appropriate programmed commands to connected voice control devices like Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Apple Siri etc. These devices would take the commands and send voice alerts and/or send alerts on the smart phones for the students or parents to replenish and/or ready specific supply items, if needed. Additionally, the box can generate insights for parents to monitor and analyze consumption habits of the students over time; and the degree to which they are organized in their daily lives. This will enable parents to work with the students to achieve the habits, lifestyle and goals they desire. Finally, automating these regular tasks will improve productivity, save time and make our school life much easier and efficient - after all, time is something the smart people say, cannot be bought with money. Some of the changes in our lives necessitated by the Covid-19 pandemic will have lasting impacts. Living our daily lives smartly and efficiently for a better school-life balance certainly will be one of","PeriodicalId":329844,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)","volume":"157 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132382202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Water Footprint at Schools with Arduino Project: STEM and Sustainable Development Goals","authors":"O. A. Santana, Caina Ferraz e Silva, Mayara Lopes de Freitas Lima","doi":"10.1109/ISEC52395.2021.9764010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISEC52395.2021.9764010","url":null,"abstract":"- How can we measure the Water Footprint at Schools? The objective of this work was to apply an Arduino Project to measure water flow at School. The proposal aimed to reduce the Water Footprint and involve Sciences, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) with Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The work achieved its purpose, as it managed to apply an Arduino Project in school environments to assess the water footprint per capita. This project managed to reduce the water footprint compared to schools that did not carry out this action. The interdisciplinary and innovative project involved the whole school. This action creates a new way of using educational objects and devising strategies to reduce water consumption in some School environments. Students who reduced their water footprints obtained the highest marks in the National Exams. This highlight proves how important it is to promote engagement in contextual practices. Thus, joining STEM and SDG was a successful alternative in the students’ learning processes and for environmental purposes.","PeriodicalId":329844,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127322126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Developing a Novel Method for Disinfection and Sterilization Using a Charged Ozonated mist","authors":"H. He, Kenneth He","doi":"10.1109/ISEC52395.2021.9763987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISEC52395.2021.9763987","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 virus has caused a large-scale global outbreak and has become a major public health issue 1. Although there are several vaccines, herd immunity will likely take a long time to establish, and it is not clear whether the existing vaccines are completely effective against evolved versions of the virus. The COVID-19 virus as well as other respiratory viruses can be spread through coughing, sneezing, skin contact, etc., and can enter the human body from the eyes, nasal cavity, and oral cavity.","PeriodicalId":329844,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)","volume":"139 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116904315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A STEM Program Designed, Developed and Delivered for Upper Primary School Pupils in Singapore","authors":"Lee Kar Heng","doi":"10.1109/ISEC52395.2021.9764140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISEC52395.2021.9764140","url":null,"abstract":"In Singapore and many countries, it was observed and reported that students have avoid to take up STEM courses because it is more difficult to read such courses. In addition, the STEM jobs do not offer remuneration as attractive as other professions such as doctors, lawyers, accountants or auditors. The country is currently experiencing lack of good engineers, technologists and scientists. TBSS started an initiative to introduce STEM to students at young age in both fun and effective learning way from 2017. Team TBSS designed and developed a 6-hour STEM targeting upper primary school pupils aged between 10 and 12 years old who are reading from primary 4 to primary 6 in schools. The program has been conducted several times with Henry Park Primary School. The process, findings and experiences will be shared in this paper.","PeriodicalId":329844,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117094539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ISEC 2021 Committees","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/isec52395.2021.9763921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/isec52395.2021.9763921","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":329844,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133266295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}