Welcome to our new and returning students! COET Advisors are excited to welcome you back to campus!

Spring semester courses will begin on Monday, January 30th.

COEIT Advisors are here to help COEIT students with schedule adjustments, general questions, or even late registration clearance.

We advise Pre-Computer Engineering, Pre- Computer Science, Pre-Chemical Engineering, Pre- Mechanical Engineering, and Pre- Engineering Undecided students. We are also happy to work with any COEIT full majors that have questions.

The best way to connect with an advisor is to sign up for an appointment here: https://calendly.com/coeit.

We are also offering limited Walk-In Advising times during drop/add. Please keep in mind that walk in advising is on a first come first serve basis and we cannot guarantee wait times.

A sign in sheet will be located on a table outside of ITE 204.

Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays 10:00 -12:00

Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:00 -3:00

You are also welcome to email us at coeitadvising@umbc.edu.

Good luck with the start of your semester!

$1200 Clean Title with Key in hand.

Known issues:

Rear Right Tire recommended to be replaced in the next 4 months

Sticking Front Right Brake Caliper

Tail light stays on while key off

Headliner must be re-glued

This car is a great beater daily-driver for someone that wants to tag it as historic.

Please email jzicha1@umbc.edu for more details/photos.

The Collective Bargaining Bill is just round the corner, and we - the Graduate Student Association (GSA), want to know your stance on the bill. This survey's purpose is to understand how graduate assistants (GAs) at UMBC are currently feeling about their financial situation, including things such as housing, routine expenses, and GA benefits in relation to the current bill that will allow USM GAs the right to unionize. If you are unaware of the Collective Bargaining Bill or need a refresher, please go through this resource pack, especially curated for your reference.

We are excited to offer VIRTUAL Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training sessions to the UMBC community!  

Information on upcoming sessions will be announced when confirmed.

Mental Health First Aid is a 1-day skills-based training course designed to teach members of the UMBC community how to recognize signs of a mental health or substance use disorders, identify community resources and link people in crisis to the proper resources. The evidence behind the program shows  that people feel more comfortable managing a crisis situation and that it builds mental health literacy - helping the UMBC community identify, understand and respond to signs of mental  health challenges. 

The course will consist of a 2-hour self-paced introduction course online (completed independently before the course), followed by a live 7-hour virtual skills session with Mental Health First Aid instructors. You will learn a 5-step action plan and practice applying it throughout the skills section of the course.

You must complete the self-paced portion of the training BEFORE your live, virtual session.  If this is not done ahead of time, you will not be able to attend the virtual session.  

PLEASE REMEMBER, if you register to participate, you are committing to complete the self-paced modules AND attend the FULL 7 hours of live skills practice. Participants will receive a certificate marking their certification in Mental Health First Aid once they have completed the course requirements. This certification is active for 3 years and can be a great addition to your resume.

You must register NO LATER than one week prior to the date of training.   

To register, complete the Mental Health First Aid Training form. 

For more information, email mentalhealthfirstaid@umbc.edu or contact Retriever Care in the Dean of Students office.

Joint work with Alan T. Sherman, Linda Oliva, Peter Peterson, Shan Huang, and Enis Golaszewski. This work earned the designation of one of the best papers in the Computing Education Research Track at the 2023 SIGCSE Technical Symposium.

Since 2015, the Cybersecurity Assessment Tools (CATS) project has been developing two research instruments to measure how well students learn cybersecurity concepts: the Cybersecurity Concept Inventory (CCI) and the Cybersecurity Curriculum Assessment (CCA). The CCI measures student conceptual knowledge after a first course in cybersecurity, whereas the CCA measures student knowledge after a full curriculum on cybersecurity. In this talk, we will discuss our development process of both assessment tools. We will discuss how we identified the critical subset of cybersecurity topics to include on the assessments and how we constructed the items on the assessment. We will then focus on our administration of the CCA to 193 students from seven colleges and universities across the United States. We present qualitative and statistical evidence for why the CCA can be validly used for measuring student knowledge of cybersecurity. In particular, we will show how items on the CCA identify common student misconceptions and how the CCA is the most informative assessment tool developed by computing education researchers.

Dr. Geoffrey L. Herman is the Severns Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was the 2020 recipient of the IEEE Education Society Mac Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award and the 2022 recipient of the Scott H. Fisher Computer Science Teaching Award. He helped found the Grainger College of Engineering's Strategic Instructional Innovations Program, which has been empowering faculty innovation in teaching for over ten years and has provided seed funding that has led to several millions of dollars in external grant funding and hundreds of research papers. His research focuses on how students learn engineering and computing concepts and studying processes for creating systemic change in how engineering and computer science are taught in college settings. His research on student misconceptions in programming was awarded the best paper in the first 50 years of the ACM Special Interest Group, Computer Science Education. Email: glherman@illinois.edu.

Host: Alan T. Sherman, sherman@umbc.edu. Support for this event was provided in part by the National Science Foundation under SFS grant DGE-1753681. The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab meets biweekly Fridays 12-1pm.  All meetings are open to the public. Upcoming CDL meetings: February 17, Andrea Ferketich (UMBC), Security of cyber-physical systems in UMBC's ILSB; March 3, Enis Goleszewski (UMBC), Channel binding in FIDO should not be optional. May 5, CSEE Research Day (Library 7th floor)