Dawn Laux, associate department head and clinical associate professor in the Department of Computer and Information Technology, has been named a recipient of Purdue’s 2019 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award.
Researching New Approaches to Improving Graphic Design Education
The creative and ill-structured nature of graphic design tasks creates difficulty in terms of assessment validity and reliability. Further, best practices in teaching and assessment are hampered by issues around scalability and efficiency. Finally, increasingly validated indications that good design(s) may be a function of a group consensus rather than the opinions of a few extensively trained individuals, have all led to an increased emphasis on researching new approaches to improving graphic design education.
Promoting Complex Learning in STEM Domains
HapTutor-Lab: Promoting Complex Learning in STEM Domains through Intelligent Tutors and Haptic Feedback.
There has been a breakthrough in recent years concerning artificial talking head agents that can have a conversation with the human learning in natural language in the form of intelligent tutoring systems. Faculty members are leading a project to integrate two lines of research.
Improving Data-Driven Decision-Making Instruction
Drs. Bartholomew & McGraw and Mr. Charlesworth hypothesize that some of the struggles with data-driven decision-making instruction stem from the lack of context and real-world application for students (Merrill, Custer, Daugherty, Westrick, & Zeng, 2009). Further, they believe that placing students in positions requiring data-driven decision approaches may increase the effectiveness of these experiences and foster student interest in pursuing related education and careers.
Purdue professional flight program launches "Degree in 3" option
Purdue Polytechnic’s School of Aviation and Transportation Technology announced a new “Degree in 3” initiative that would allow select professional flight students to start their degree early this summer and complete the traditional four-year program in three years.
School of Construction Management hosts healthcare construction conference
The School of Construction Management Technology hosted a joint meeting of the Indiana Society of Healthcare Engineering with the Purdue chapter of the American Society for Healthcare Engineering in January.
FileTSAR cyber toolkit helps detectives solve digital crimes
FileTSAR, an all-in-one cybersecurity toolkit developed by Purdue Polytechnic researchers and their colleagues, is helping detectives dust for digital fingerprints.
Polytechnic professor receives NSF CAREER award to advance human/robot synergy
Byung-Cheol “B.C.” Min, assistant professor of computer and information technology, was honored with the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award for his work related to human-robot interaction and multi-robot systems.
Student teams recognized for high-tech ideas to mitigate human trafficking
Two teams of Purdue students were honored for ground-breaking, socio-technical ideas to combat the criminal enterprise of human trafficking. They developed their solutions during Purdue Polytechnic’s “Design Innovation Challenge: Fight Human Trafficking in the Americas.”
FlyCam simplifies drone control, aerial photography
Bedrich Benes, Hao Kang and corporate researchers developed a touch-screen method to fly unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, and take pictures with drone-mounted cameras.