The Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence and online education is excited to announce the recipients of the Kummer Ignition Grants for Sustainable Educational Transformation. Under the direction of the provost, these grants were created to fund new and innovative projects that will lead to strategic transformations in education at S&T. This year’s projects focus on creating online asynchronous programs.

Totaling $250,000, the seven grants and research teams are:

“Online Asynchronous Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) for Working Professionals and Military Service Members”

• Dr. Bih-Ru Lea, associate professor of business and information technology.
• Dr. Vincent Yu, associate professor of business and information technology.
• Dr. Yu-Hsien Chiu, teaching professor of business and information technology.

“Conversion of Graduate Certificate in Geophysics to Asynchronous Online Delivery”

• Dr. Kelly Liu, professor of earth sciences and engineering.

“Education Stackable Certificate Development Proposal”

• Julia Alexander, assistant teaching professor of education.
• Dr. Mary Gillis, assistant teaching professor of education.
• Dr. Katherine Sharp, assistant professor of education.
• Dr. Michelle Schwartze, associate teaching professor of education.
• Dr. Beth Kania-Gosche, professor of education.

“Creating an Asynchronous Management and Leadership Graduate Certificate – A Pilot”

• Dr. Cassie Elrod, chair and associate professor of business and information technology.
• Dr. David Wang, assistant professor of business and information technology.

“Outreach and Curriculum Design for Technical Communication Graduate Education”

• Dr. Carleigh Davis, assistant professor of English and technical communication.
• Dr. Ryan Cheek, assistant professor of English and technical communication.
• Dr. Rachel Schneider, associate professor of English and technical communication.

“AI-based Automated Tutoring System to Generate Question and Answer for Classroom Course Materials”

• Dr. Suman Kalyan Maity, assistant professor of computer science.
• Dr. Huiyuan Yang, assistant professor of computer science.
• Dr. Patrick Taylor, associate teaching professor of computer science.
• Jack Manhardt, assistant teaching professor of computer science.
• Dr. Seung-Jong Jay Park, Kummer Endowed Chair of Computer Science.

“Redesigning Molecular Genetics into a student-centered class with flipped Fridays”

• Dr. Andrea Scharf, assistant professor of biological sciences.