Project Grant 2438886
Award Date
6/15/25
Completion Date
5/31/28
Dollars Obligated
$294K
Federal Agency
Division of Undergraduate Education
Federal Grant Program
47.076
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Richmond, VA 23284, USA
Similar Awards
This National Science Foundation (NSF) grant award under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $262,753 to the University of Alabama to develop an innovative, inquiry-based learning tool called "TD-Tutor" to help undergraduate students recognize, evaluate, and manage technical debt in software systems. The project aims to integrate technical debt concepts into computing curricula at multiple levels, from introductory programming to senior decision-making courses, in order...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $192,197 Project Grant under CFDA 47.076 (STEM Education) to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) to develop an innovative inquiry-based learning tool called "TD-Tutor" (Technical Debt Tutor). This project aims to improve undergraduate computing education by integrating technical debt concepts into curricula at multiple levels, from introductory programming to senior-level decision-making courses. The TD-Tutor tool will...
The Virginia Commonwealth University was awarded a $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) federal grant program. The three-year award will support the development of personalized secure programming learning projects motivated by real-world security vulnerabilities. Specifically, the university will map secure programming curriculum topics to categories of real vulnerabilities, build easy-to-use...
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) was awarded a $477,340 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education program (CFDA #47.076). The grant will support the collaborative research project "Improving Students' Computational Thinking Skills in Construction Engineering and Management" between June 1, 2021 and May 31, 2024. The project aims to develop new curriculum and teaching methods to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $399,592 Project Grant under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, doing business as Virginia Tech, to redesign, implement, and evaluate a training program for computer science teaching assistants (TAs) to help motivate student engagement in large CS courses. The project aims to use evidence-based practices to train about 80 CS TAs per semester on inclusive teaching...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) project grant award to Louisiana State University (LSU) in the amount of $138,601 aims to increase the use of project-based learning in undergraduate software engineering courses. The project will design, develop, and evaluate a reference software engineering course with a repository of 12 ready-to-use projects and associated active learning activities. These resources are intended to enable instructors to more easily...
This $1,997,177 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income computer science students with demonstrated financial need at Virginia Commonwealth University. Over the six-year award period, the project will provide scholarships to 54 full-time computer science transfer students and equip them with a holistic model of support, including a scholars retreat,...
The National Science Foundation awarded Tufts University $549,912 under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) federal grant program to support the project "IMPROVING STUDENTS? SOCIOTECHNICAL LITERACY IN ENGINEERING" from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2024. The funding will allow Tufts University to deliver a project aimed at improving engineering students' sociotechnical literacy through curricular and cocurricular interventions. The STEM Education program supports developing the Nation's...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $227,702 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to develop and evaluate a pedagogical approach for assessing individual student contributions to team software engineering projects. The goal is to create rigorous methods for evaluating the quality of software engineering artifacts produced by students working in teams. This will involve deriving desirable qualities of key...
This $200,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to enhance learning and motivation in introductory programming courses at Georgia Gwinnett College, a Hispanic-serving institution. The key products and services to be delivered include: Integrating research-supported pedagogies and automated tools to accommodate diverse learning styles, including hiring and mentoring a diverse group of peer tutors and producing a video library to...