Project Grant 2226553
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $171,743 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts Lowell under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will support research collaborating between UMass Lowell and Tufts University researchers to develop machine learning tools for analyzing student-written justifications for challenging concept questions in engineering statics courses. Over a three-year period from April 2023 through March 2026, researchers will collect student...
- This two-year, $299,647 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Education and Centers division will fund the development of human-in-the-loop natural language processing systems to analyze engineering education program feedback and assessment data. The awardee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, will build models in phases to cluster similar texts from multiple datasets on themes like students' systems thinking and open-ended course surveys. Researchers...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) Project Grant award of $399,724 to the University of Massachusetts Lowell will develop AI-driven educational technology tools to support student learning in undergraduate computer science courses. The project will explore how large language models can be customized to enable personalized, interactive, and reflective learning experiences for STEM students. Key goals include examining how language models can provide...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $500,000.00, with a period of performance from August 15, 2025 to July 31, 2030, will support a collaborative research project between the University of Connecticut and the University of Missouri. The project aims to reimagine engineering education by creating innovative tools and strategies that support the success of all students, particularly in the critical first two years of the undergraduate...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research examining the contextual influences on faculty pedagogical decision-making and student learning in sociotechnical engineering design education. The $244,294 award to Trustees of Tufts College (Tufts University) will fund a multi-year research study with three key objectives: Convene faculty across institutions to facilitate knowledge sharing and pedagogical innovation...
- This $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support the development, implementation, and study of a novel approach to AI education at Boston College. The project, titled "Research Initiation: Human-Centered AI Algorithm Design for Engineering Students' Professional Formation," aims to help engineering students engage with the ethical, social, and human dimensions of AI. The project will design and test teaching...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 4-year, $252,007 Project Grant under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program to Northeastern University. The grant supports the development and testing of AI-based programming tools to assist social and natural scientists with computer programming tasks. The research team is developing large language models and associated tools to support programming languages commonly used in the sciences, such as MATLAB and R, in order to make programming easier...
- This $841,392 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. The project aims to develop and evaluate a scalable, explainable, teacher-in-the-loop adaptive learning system built on large language models. Key components include an assessment module to assist instructors in generating aligned and explainable assessment tasks, a recommendation module to create personalized learning pathways...
- This $100,000 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Education and Centers division will fund research at Tufts University examining how virtual and physical laboratory modes differentially influence the development of engineering students' epistemic practices. The NSF Directorate for Engineering seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering innovation and excellence in research and education programs like the Engineering program...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $362,957 to the Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology to develop an AI-enhanced mobile learning system for construction engineering students. The system aims to help students learn from their everyday observations of construction components and operations by directing their attention, providing explanations, and linking observations to formal course materials. Key innovations...
This $178,250 National Science Foundation Project Grant will support the development of machine learning tools to analyze student-written justifications for challenging concept questions in engineering statics. Awarded to Tufts University under the NSF Engineering grant program (CFDA 47.041), this three-year collaborative project between Tufts and the University of Massachusetts Lowell aims to leverage advances in natural language processing to automate the coding of student responses. Specifically, researchers will collect written explanations from students at multiple institutions, manually code a subset, and develop machine learning models to replicate human coding of concepts and reasoning patterns. This will help characterize variations in student thinking across questions and support investigations into how reasoning relates to instructional practices. Outcomes include determining the accuracy and generalizability of different machine learning approaches, as well as minimum data requirements. The generated data and insights are intended to provide instructors with real-time information on student reasoning to support learning of challenging concepts in statics and other STEM fields.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $178.3k | 3/21/23 |