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Start It Grant, $1,200, Xuemao Zhang, Mathematics, Big Data Engineering for Analytics
Data science is an interdisciplinary field which is defined as the “science of planning
for, acquisition, management, analysis of, and inference from data” by NSF (2014).
Fast-growing big data and expansion of use of technology have driven Data Scientist
and Data Engineer to become two separate roles albeit but with some overlap. Thus,
data scientists are often expected to do the work of both a data scientist and a data
engineer. The Data Visualization Certificate and Data Science Certificate programs
offered at ESU lack of a data engineering course for students to understand data infrastructure.
Therefore, I plan to use the grant to receive the online Udacity’s Data Engineering
with AWS program to acquire the latest tools and methodologies used in data engineering
and develop an undergraduate data engineering course in the near future. The course
to be developed is expected to decrease the gap between our data science education
and the skills required by the industry.
Grow It Grant, $9,559, Artress White, English, Making Connections Between My Domestic Slave Narrative Told in Verse and the African
Origins of My Ancestors for Academic and At-Large Audiences
This project is based on inheriting an oral slave narrative documenting the North
Carolina planter family who enslaved members of my family for generations beginning
in the late 1700s. My goal is to produce a volume of poetry documenting this significant
generational history. While I have written and published many of the poems that will
comprise this historical volume, I am now interested in adding a group of poems centered
on Ghana, West Africa and the trans-Atlantic Middle Passage that my ancestors endured
in order to become newly rooted in America.
Finish It Grant, $1,000, Ahmed Yousof, Art+Media+Design, Virtual Reality for Empowering Teachers: A 360° Approach to Disability Inclusion
in Higher Education
The Media and Learning Association (MLA) Conference is an annual European event that
explores how to effectively incorporate various forms of media into the learning process.
It attracts researchers, educators, scholars, and practitioners from Europe and the
United States who share their experiences, challenges, and solutions for using technology
and media in education. This year, the conference accepted my proposal titled “Virtual
Reality for Empowering Teachers: A 360° Approach to Disability Inclusion in Higher
Education.” The paper presents an immersive VR experience that simulates the audiovisual
environment experienced by students with autism, giving teachers a new perspective
on how to prepare and deliver their classes. The presentation serves a dual purpose:
showcasing the potential of AR technology to promote inclusion in US classrooms and
allowing the author to seek a global perspective and network with European scholars
and practitioners. This presentation aligns with ESU's vision of innovation and technology
and opens the door to potential cooperation with European institutions that share
the same mission.
Finish It Grant, $1,000, Jey Chelladurai, Computer Science, Presenting Research Results at Conferences on the Topic of Maze Generation Using
L-Systems for Virtual Reality and Gaming Applications
The Principal Investigator (PI) has submitted two research articles, titled "Exploring
Complex Toroidal Mazes with L-systems" and "Escape the Castle: A Virtual Reality Game
Utilizing L-Systems for Dynamic Level Generation," to the International Conference
on Advanced Computing and Communication Systems (ICACCS 2023) and the International
Conference on Virtual Reality (ICVR 2023). The paper titled "Exploring Complex Toroidal
Mazes with L-systems" has been accepted for presentation at ICACCS 2023 in Coimbatore,
India, in March 2023. We expect to hear back about acceptance for ICVR 2023 in March
2023, which will take place in Xianyang, China, in May 2023. Attending these conferences
provides an excellent opportunity to share our research with a diverse community of
experts in the field.
