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Research Experience For Undergraduates During Covid-19, Mustafa Akbas Oct 2020

Research Experience For Undergraduates During Covid-19, Mustafa Akbas

Florida Statewide Symposium: Best Practices in Undergraduate Research

This presentation provides the student team interaction and mentorship experience at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s “National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site: Cybersecurity Research of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles” from the summer semester of 2020. The Site had been planned for a face-of-face research experience under several mentors for an eight-week period. However, due to Covid-19, the teams had to meet, discuss, present and work online, which was both a challenge and an opportunity. Both students and mentors had lessons from this online experience that they will remember and use in the upcoming years. In this presentation, we present …