By: Bruce Adams
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science professor Abdussalam Alawini is the principal investigator for a new initiative under the Illinois Grainger College of Engineering Strategic Instructional Innovations Program (SIIP). SIIP is a competitive awards program designed to support innovation in education, similar to the research model at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign – “an engaged community, collaborative projects, faculty-led innovation, rigorous evaluation, and a scholarly approach to pedagogical methods.”
The project is dedicated to integrating AI into engineering education, primarily focusing on studying its potential impact and benefits. The cross-disciplinary team consists of Alawini with co-investigators Volodymyr Kindratenko (NCSA-CAII, ECE), Sotiria Koloutsou-Vakakis (CEE), Tomasz Kozlowski (NPRE), Christopher Tessum (CEE), Meredith Blumthal (ACES) with Maryalice Wu (CITL). Their proposal, “Exploring the impact and potential of Generative AI in Engineering Education,” aims to integrate generative AI into STEM education, ultimately enabling students to “examine problems, investigate solutions from different perspectives, and identify solutions that are not bound by traditional resources or methods. To help students make connections of the information they learned, we aim to integrate their personal discoveries with broader knowledge through the use of AI.”
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