Presentation
Planning and Assessment of a Workshop on Undergraduate Education in Biometric Systems
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
(2016)
Abstract
Biometrics is the science of recognizing and authenticating people using their physiological features. Border and immigration control, restricted access to facilities and information systems, cybersecurity, crime investigations and forensic analysis are just a few of the primary application areas of biometrics used by commercial, government and law enforcement agencies. The global biometrics market has a compound annual growth rate of 21.3 percent. There is much research interest in different biometric systems and this has led to increasing efforts in ensuring that biometrics is taught at the undergraduate level. The authors are in the final year of an NSF TUES Type 2 grant that is based on the theme of vertically integrating biometrics experiments throughout the undergraduate curriculum. Three universities have joined together in this effort.
This paper is about the planning and assessment of a 3 day workshop that is based on the NSF funded effort. Fifteen faculty from across the country participated in this workshop. Undergraduate and graduate students also attended. The key points of the workshop included invited lectures and hands-on laboratory activities. The invited lectures included a tutorial on biometrics, detailed lectures on speaker recognition and a lecture on how to assess an educational intervention. The hands-on activities were presented such that the attending faculty could take them back to their respective universities. They were based on the following learning outcomes: • Enhanced application of math skills • Enhanced software implementation skills • Enhanced interest in biometrics • Enhanced ability to analyze experimental results • Enhanced communication skills • Comprehension of the importance of vertical integration, in that students realize that their experiences are part of a flow that contributes to a unified knowledge base.
The workshop assessment results are very positive with respect to organization, quality of the invited lectures, quality of the hands-on activities and the social program.
Disciplines
Publication Date
June 26, 2016
Location
New Orleans, Louisiana
DOI
10.18260/p.25908
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Citation Information
Ramachandran, R. P., & Chin, S. H., & Dahm, K. D., & Hong, L., & Shetty, S., & Nickel, R. M., & Kozick, R. J., & Tang, Y., & Polikar, R. (2016, June), Planning and Assessment of a Workshop on Undergraduate Education in Biometric Systems. Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana. 10.18260/p.25908.