Ronald E. McNair Internship Experience By: Lemonteh’ Horne

Overview  Program History  Program Information  Research Project  Professional Growth  Questions

Program History  Created in the Higher Education Amendments of  A memorial to Dr. Ronald E. McNair  Established to increase numbers of underreprested students in graduate school.

Program Information  Geared toward exposing scholars to graduate school environment.  Scholars selected mentors -Content Experts  Scholars Attended Classes: a. Analytical and Communication Skills b. Statistics c. Educational Technology  Graduate School Sessions: a. Graduate School Environment b. GRE Test Preparation c. Presentation Skills

Research Project Biometrics Security -Examined area of behavioral characteristic. a. Keystroke Dynamics 1. Latency -Research sought to strengthen user verification a. Examined user profile. b.Analyzed data to detected possible intrusion.

Research Project (cont’d.) Biometric Security  Project Purpose: help network administrators examine each login profile and verify legitimate users from non-legitimate users  Primary Method: to identify the abnormal typing pattern from the normal ones.  Tools: C program, PC, SPSS (statistical software) utilizing 65 and 90 percent confidence intervals.

Program Design  Program used in the research was in the C programming language. a. calculated timing of every character typed in password  Program created a log file a. contained all user information during execution

Project Deliverables  Mentor/Mentee Biography  Project Abstract  Introduction/Hypothesis/Methodology  Results/References  Discussion  Charts/Tables/Graphs

Project Timeline  Program lasted from May 8 th to June 12 th.  Last week in July dedicated to revisions of journal article.  SAEOPP/UTK McNair Scholars National Conference a. July 6 th – July 9 th b. Location: Knoxville, TN

Professional Growth  Knowledge in development of Biometric security applications.  Strengthen Writing Skills  Knowledge in research depth  Overcoming technical shortcoming.

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