ITEST Projects

Envisioning STEM Education for the Green and Blue Economies

2023 - 2024

Climate change is one of the most formidable challenges of our time. Countries are experiencing record heat, wildfires, drought, and powerful monsoons. These natural disasters have created an urgent need for a workforce that can build stronger green and blue economies. Green economies emit low

Responsible, Ethical, and Effective Acceptable Use Policies for the Integration of Generative AI in US School Districts and Beyond

2023 - 2024

The rapidly evolving space of artificial intelligence (AI) is requiring school and district leaders to make sense of how emerging technology applications, including those that use generative AI (GenAI), are being integrated in schools and districts across the United States. Much uncertainty exists

FuSe-TG: Electronic-Photonic Systems-on-Chip for Computation, Communication and Sensing

2023 - 2024

The research vision is to create a breakthrough in the capability of future semiconductor technologies - to develop devices, circuits, systems, process, design flow and tools, and train students, in a novel platform for electronic-photonic systems-on-chip (EPSoCs) in advanced CMOS foundry processes

Integrating Culturally Relevant Project-based AI Learning into High School STEM Education

2023 - 2024

The exponential expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) has created a significant demand on future AI workforce development. Several key challenges exist hindering the widespread incorporation of AI into K-12 curricula, including the lack of teacher development in AI and a comprehensive

Unlocking the Potential of Generative AI for Equity and Access in Robotics Education

2023 - 2024

In the context of educational robotics, this RAPID project examines the educational equity potential of a task-oriented generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool to assist with creative productivity tasks in engineering design. This time-sensitive project will investigate how to support lower

A Career-Driven AI Educational Program in Smart Manufacturing for Underserved High-school Students in the Alabama Black Belt Region

2023 - 2024

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into advanced manufacturing has promising potential to revolutionize productivity and generate new jobs in smart manufacturing. There is an urgent need to investigate "what to teach" and "how to teach" AI in order to prepare future workforce with the

Scaffolding Automated Feedback for Teachers

2023 - 2024

While Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to improve both science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) teaching practice and students' overall classroom experiences, it is critical to better understand how teachers can more easily adapt it within their classrooms. In particular

Non-digital Hands-on AI Learning Resources for Middle-School Students

2023 - 2024

Young learners need opportunities to build critical awareness surrounding AI. To rapidly expand inclusive access to AI education, K-12 educators need activities that (a) are low-cost, (b) do not require specialized technology, (c) can be led with little prior knowledge of AI and used in settings

Understanding and Supporting K-12 School Leaders' AI-related Decision-making

2023 - 2024

The 2022 launch of ChatGPT has accelerated the need for school leaders (at both the district and building level) to make important and time-sensitive decisions related to the use of artificial intelligence in their schools. Given the rapid development of artificial intelligence, there are few

Empowering Teachers to Collaborate with Generative AI for Developing High-Quality STEM Learning Resources

2023 - 2024

The rapid advances in large language models (LLMs) have presented tremendous opportunities to create interactive, personalized learning resources on a large scale. To fully harness the educational potential of these technologies, it is crucial that teachers - who are at the forefront of daily

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