PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (October 13, 2021) –The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $399,742 to Primary Investigator (PI) Jaejong Park, Ph.D., to enhance the engineering design curriculum and student manufacturing learning experience using Artificial Intelligence to complement hands-on lab experience.
Dr. Park and his Co-PIs Lai Jiang, Ph.D., and Xiaobo Peng, Ph.D., are all members of the Roy G. Perry College of Engineering and are mechanical engineer faculty.
Their award Targeted Infusion Project: Infuse Virtual Reality and Industry 4.0 into Design and Manufacturing Laboratory for Student-centered Learning Experience is funded through the NSF HBCU-Up Targeted Infusion Projects.
The research will incorporate virtual reality (VR) into the lab experience with VR headsets for students. They will explore potential ways of employing VR for numerous research problems while also providing traditional hands-on experience. The second phase of the grant will involve students 3-D manufacturing process where students begin building a project on a computer and send it immediately to the new 3-D printers for production.
Key Research Interests include computational mechanics and structural optimization.
– Karen B. Cotton