Social Engineering Course Projects for Undergrads

### Experiential Social Engineering in Higher Education At 00:00, Dr. Aunshul Rege (Temple University) presents an innovative academic curriculum that integrates hands-on social engineering and red-teaming projects into undergraduate cybersecurity education.

### Navigating Institutional Review Boards (IRB) and Ethics At 10:01, Dr. Rege details the process of obtaining university Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval for human-subjects research. She explains how faculty established strict safety boundaries, non-punitive rules of engagement, and mandatory supervision to ensure student projects remained ethical and lawful.

### Scoping Tactical Campus Red-Team Assessments At 20:00, the presentation examines course project assignments. Students were tasked with executing controlled social engineering assessments across university facilities—including physical tailgating into secure campus buildings, phone vishing tests, and in-person pretexting.

### Student Debriefings and Cognitive Realizations At 30:02, Dr. Rege reviews student debriefings. Working through the discomfort of in-person deception provided students with firsthand insight into how social politeness, perceived authority, and institutional confusion are exploited during social engineering attacks.

### Collaboration with University IT and Enterprise Defense Concluding between 40:02 and 50:02, Dr. Rege showcases collaborative debriefings between students and campus IT security personnel. The experiential model bridges academic theory and operational security, demonstrating how structured gamification cultivates deep defensive empathy and practical problem-solving in future cybersecurity professionals.

(AI summary — Gemini Flash)