STEPPING STONE PROJECT designing a new engineering discipline

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STEPPING STONE PROJECT designing a new
engineering discipline

• presented by
• team 1

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Overview

• Introduction
• Top 3 Designs
• Survey
• Chosen Major

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Project Definition Goal

• New Project Definition
• Design a collection of knowledge to meet a
  rising demand for new technologies, ideologies,
  fields, and needs
• Goals
• Train students analytical thinking
• Prepare student with strong technical
  scientific background
• Useful for society

Introduction
Top 3 Designs
Survey
Chosen Major
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Potential Users
Introduction

• Students
• Faculty
• Companies/Prospective market
• Public

Top 3 Designs
Survey
Chosen Major
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Constraints
Introduction

• Hard to be accepted by public
• Limited resources due to lack of history in this
  new field
• Lack of support from faculty and low student
  enrollment

Top 3 Designs
Survey
Chosen Major
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Design Process

• Define
• Redefine the problem
• Identify constraints and goals
• Characterize user types
• Research
• Online research based on their interests
• Think why (and how) all engineering majors were
  created at the first place?
• Brainstorm
• Generate 100 great ideas

Introduction
Top 3 Designs
Survey
Chosen Major
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Design Process

• Vote
• Eliminate crazy ideas
• Vote top 10 ideas
• Focus
• Refine our major based on Professor Goldbergs
  feedback
• Delegate
• Divide into 3 subgroups based on their personal
  interest/knowledge
• Each subgroup refines one major

Introduction
Top 3 Designs
Survey
Chosen Major
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Design Process

• Prototype
• Detailed description of each major
• Test
• Survey
• Refine
• Update and choose our best design
• Present

Introduction
Top 3 Designs
Survey
Chosen Major
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Designing a New Major

• Conservative Design
• Energy Management Engineering
• Intermediate Design
• Aviation Technology Engineering
• Radical Design
• Security Engineering

Introduction
Top 3 Designs
Survey
Chosen Major
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ENERGY MANAGEMENT ENGINEERING
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Energy Management Engineering
Introduction

• Methods of conserving energy
• Increasing our nations energy supplies
  security
• Use of mathematical finance models

Top 3 Designs
Survey
Chosen Major
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• Pros
• Maintain healthy economy environment
• Existing courses faculties

• Cons
• Scope of topics is too broad

Introduction
Top 3 Designs
Survey
Chosen Major
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Evaluation

• Competition within U.S.A. worldwide
• New York Institute of Technology
• University of Missouri Columbia
• Impossible to make it a 4-year degree program

Introduction
Top 3 Designs
Survey
Chosen Major
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AVIATION TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING
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Aviation Technology Engineering
Introduction

• Aeronautical Technology
• Aircraft Science
• Electrical System
• Aviation Administration Technology
• Airport Airline Management

Top 3 Designs
Survey
Chosen Major
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• Pros
• Diverse employment opportunities
• Various graduates programs

• Cons
• Limited facilities
• Lack of core classes in UCB
• Expensive technical lab
• Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval
  needed

Introduction
Top 3 Designs
Survey
Chosen Major
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Evaluation

• Competition
• Stanford University
• UCLA
• Purdue University
• Creates many opportunities
• Require a great amount of funding

Introduction
Top 3 Designs
Survey
Chosen Major
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SECURITY ENGINEERING
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Security Engineering
Introduction

• Building dependable system in the face of malice
• Cross disciplinary with
• Cryptography
• Physical technology security
• Computer security
• Applied psychology
• Societal processes

Top 3 Designs
Survey
Chosen Major
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Fields of Application
Introduction

• Computer Security
• Design secured computer system through software
  and hardware
• Physical Security
• Analyze design a facility system

Top 3 Designs
Survey
Chosen Major
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• Cons
• High risk investment

• Pros
• High chance of government funding
• UCB has enough resources

Introduction
Top 3 Designs
Survey
Chosen Major
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Evaluation
Introduction

• No direct competition within U.S.A. worldwide
• Needs time to develop
• Increasing job opportunities

Top 3 Designs
Survey
Chosen Major
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SURVEY ANALYSIS
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Purpose
Introduction

• To provide quantitative information regarding
• the main factor that the target group consider
  when choosing their major
• the targets interests towards each of our three
  designed majors

Top 3 Designs
Survey
Chosen Major
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Procedure

• Random Sampling
• Distributed questionnaires to students at
• College Park High School (12 out of 20)
• Diablo Valley College (20 out of 40)
• UC- Berkeley (21 out of 25)
• 8 (38) were from students with undeclared major
• 13 (62) were from students with a major

Introduction
Top 3 Designs
Survey
Chosen Major
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Questionnaire

• Questions regarding students background
• Level of education
• Age
• Gender
• Intended or current major
• Choose the main factor that influences them when
  deciding on a major

Introduction
Top 3 Designs
Survey
Chosen Major
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Questionnaire

• Rate their interests toward (Given the
  definition)
• Energy Management Engineering
• Aviation and Technology Engineering
• Security Engineering

Introduction
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Survey Results Analysis
Introduction
Top 3 Designs
Survey
Chosen Major
Fig 1. The distribution of the samples
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Survey Results Analysis
Introduction
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Chosen Major
Fig 2. The students main concern when they were
choosing a major
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Survey Results Analysis
Introduction
Top 3 Designs
Survey
Chosen Major
Fig 3. Average Interest Level of each major by
each target group
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Survey Results Analysis
Introduction
Top 3 Designs
Survey
Fig 4. Average interest level of each major by
different age ranges
Chosen Major
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Survey Results Analysis
Introduction
Top 3 Designs
Survey
Chosen Major
Fig 5. Average interest level of each major by
genders
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Survey Results Analysis

• Average interest level of each major by different
  majors
• Technical majors
• Biological Sciences
• Physical Sciences
• Engineering etc.
• Non-technical majors
• Business
• Arts and Humanities
• Social Sciences
• Law
• Other majors

Introduction
Top 3 Designs
Survey
Chosen Major
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Survey Results Analysis
Introduction
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Chosen Major
Fig 6. Average interest level of each majors by
students with different majors
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Survey Results Analysis
Introduction
Top 3 Designs
Survey
Fig 7. Average interest level of each majors in
general
Chosen Major
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Conclusion

• According to our survey results and analysis
• Students choose their major according to
• job opportunity of the major
• personal interest towards the major
• Security Engineering chosen as our top design
  because
• highest overall interest level rated by the
  sampled students
• high job demand for security related field in the
  recent market

Introduction
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Security Engineering Requirement
Introduction

• All basic Physics
• Math requirements
• Computer Science Electrical Engineering
  department
• Additional
• Psychology
• Senior Project in Security Engineering

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Security Engineering Focus
Introduction

• Computer Security
• CS classes
• Additional
• Privacy, Security, and Cryptography
• Security in Computer System
• Independent Study

• Physical Security
• Electrical E. classes
• Civil E. classes
• Architecture classes
• Additional
• Independent Study

Top 3 Designs
Survey
Chosen Major
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Timeline
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Thank You!