This $399,978 National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) project grant awarded to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) aims to advance the understanding of the impact of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) on architectural engineering students' visual ideation and collaborative learning. The project will develop two GenAI-powered augmented reality (GenAI-AR) modules for integration into existing architectural engineering design studio curricula. Through an interventional study, the project will investigate how GenAI-AR combined with multi-user AR affects student engagement, self-efficacy, and teamwork skills in collaborative design processes. The project seeks to generate lessons that can inform design education in other engineering fields and plans comprehensive open-source dissemination of the resulting GenAI-AR tools to facilitate widespread adaptation.
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