SEED Grant Awards

2021-22 SEED Grant Awardees

 

John Chen (PI)

Professor
Mechanical Engineering
California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo

 

Hocheol Yang (Co-PI)

Graphic Communication
California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo

SEED Grant Funded Project: Turning Evidence-based Learning Competencies into Habits to Help Students Thrive

“The goal of our project is to transform a smartphone app from a research tool that we have developed over the past six years into a student-support tool that helps engineering students succeed, or even to thrive. By thrive, we mean that students are doing well academically and feeling good about themselves. We aim to do this by using the app to give students feedback on their study habits and patterns, and to help them adopt research-proven practices that lead to new competencies that are foundational to thriving."

 

Dr. Tammie Visintainer( PI)

Assistant Professor
Science Education |Teacher Education San José State University

SEED Grant Funded Project: Transforming Science Teaching and Learning in School: Empowering Teachers and Students as Justice-Centered Science Action Researchers and Change Agents

“My larger goal is to transform science teaching and learning in K-12 schools through the promotion of community-engaged justice-centered science experiences. This grant provides the opportunity to collect pilot data, a necessary first step, in order to ground the larger initiative in teacher and student needs, interests, and community priorities”.

 

Munjy, Huda ( PI)

Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
California State University, Fullerton

 

Mishra, Phoolendra (Co-PI)

Department Chair & Associate Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering
California State University, Fullerton

 

Kenneth John Faller (Co-PI)

Associate Professor
Undergraduate and Graduate Advisor
Computer Engineering Program
California State University, Fullerton

 

Yu Bai (Co-PI)

Assistant Professor
Computer Engineering Program
California State University, Fullerton

SEED Grant Funded Project: Improving STEM Teaching through Active-learning Tools that promote Inquiry-based Comprehension in Statics (iSTATICS)

“The goal of our research study is to decrease the historically high failure rates in fundamental engineering courses through the integration of Active Learning Pedagogies in the classroom. We will focus on integrating Team Based Learning and Virtual Reality with Artificial Intelligence Embedded Assessment in Statics, an introductory course in the Civil Engineering curriculum”.