Project Grant 1801096

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education, under the STEM Education (47.076) federal grant program, provides $444,348 to Virginia Commonwealth University to develop a digital platform and classroom strategies for improving undergraduate STEM students' professional skills. The three-year award beginning in March 2023 will support creating a digital platform pre-loaded with customizable rubrics from the prior NSF-funded Enhancing Learning by...

Chesapeake College will use $317,035 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program to prepare career-ready information technology technicians through its Computer Science Technology program. The three-year Project Grant will embed career readiness skills including teamwork, customer service, communication and professionalism into six core courses. Students will receive vouchers for two industry certification exams to further develop IT skills. A help desk simulation lab will...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), provides $158,342 to New York University to develop new training content for existing manufacturing technician education courses. The university will introduce virtual and hands-on experiential learning exercises as well as tutorials on advanced manufacturing technologies including computer-aided design, additive manufacturing, and engineering...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant, funded under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), aims to accelerate the integration of extended reality (XR) technologies, including 360° video, augmented reality, mixed reality, and virtual reality, into technician education programs. The $383,081 award to the Kentucky Community & Technical College System will: Assess XR technology adoption and attitudes within the NSF's Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program domains and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Cooperative Agreement award under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $400,000 to Purdue University to develop an experiential learning curriculum and pipeline to upskill existing automotive technicians for maintaining and repairing electric vehicles (EVs). The project will: (1) understand existing EV training needs through co-design and surveys, (2) develop a multi-stage experiential learning approach using...

This $249,565 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support Trident Technical College in Charleston, South Carolina in developing an enterprise-level platform to integrate augmented and virtual reality (XR) technologies into technician education programs. The key goals of the project, named "KONNECTXR", are to: 1) Integrate single sign-on and FERPA-compliant encryption to enable seamless interoperability between the...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) will support research and development of an experiential learning curriculum to upskill existing automotive technicians for electric vehicle (EV) maintenance and repair. The $299,909 award to the Colorado School of Mines will fund a project that aims to: (1) understand current EV training needs through co-design and surveys, (2) develop...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $562,752 to Northeastern Technical College (NTC) in Cheraw, South Carolina. The "Technical Engineering for Advanced Manufacturing (TEAM)" project aims to address the local manufacturing sector's need for skilled technicians by developing a new Mechanical Engineering Technician associate's degree program at NTC. Key project activities include: Designing and implementing a...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to integrate cross-disciplinary skills and professional dispositions into Tuskegee University's Computer Science degree program. The $273,295 award will fund activities to: 1) define behavioral indicators and assessment approaches for cross-disciplinary skills and dispositions, 2) incorporate these competencies across the Tuskegee CS curriculum, and 3) develop teaching strategies and...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education federal grant program (CFDA 47.076) provides $1,139,270 to develop new training programs for manufacturing technicians. The Research Foundation of the City University of New York, on behalf of New York City College of Technology, will introduce new content into existing design, manufacturing, and materials science courses focused on advanced manufacturing technologies. This...