Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
2326 The University of Texas at San Antonio (144214)
Principal Investigator: Cao, Yongcan
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 461,730
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): Yes
Start and End Dates: 5/1/23 - 4/30/26
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: Engineering and Integrated Design
Department, Center, School, or Institute: Ctr Excel Engr Research & Educ
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: An Active Learning Approach for Inclusive and Diverse Workforce in Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
Office of Naval Research - Science and Technology
CFDA: 12.33
Program Title: none
Note:
SAMs 1.3.2 and 1.1.4; ONR Research Maintaining and cultivating a diverse, world-class Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) workforce is critical for maintaining the superiority of the United States Navy and beyond. One key challenge is the development of appropriate platforms to train/educate students with rich hands-on STEM topics in autonomy and AI. Another key challenge is to expose students with different and real-world human teaming dynamics/effectiveness experiences. The goals of the project are to overcome the two challenges via developing a new active learning STEM education approach that promotes self-motivated and self-managed active technical skill and teaming skill development through learning from internships, lab projects, and competitions. Specifically, the project will focus on three essential thrusts: (1) Diverse Hands-on STEM Topics: build students rich hands-on skills to improve their technology awareness; (2) Human Teaming Effectiveness/Interaction topics: create an active learning environment for students to learn, apply, adapt, and optimize their teaming skills towards teaming awareness; (3) Testing, Evaluation, and Board Impacts: Test, evaluate, and improve the active learning STEM education approach for broader impacts via participation in competitions and students internships/jobs in national labs and industrial companies. In short term, the project seeks to create a more efficient active learning STEM education approach that balances the needs for technical skill development and human teaming effectiveness development. In long term, the proposed STEM activities aim to provide some fundamental guidelines and principles for a sustainable and scalable engineering workforce pipeline, which are critical for future Navy and DoD missions.
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