Incorporating Generative Artificial Intelligence
into Engineering Writing Courses (IUSE: EDU)
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This project is designed to improve undergraduate teaching and learning for engineering students and enable them to be skillful writers and knowledgeable and ethical users of AI. It is based on the initial development of PapyrusAI, an innovative platform to promote academic writing and digital literacy, as well as associate professional development and instructional resources. The study is carried out in partnership between the UCI School of Education and the Samueli School of Engineering, and will implement PapyrusAI in instruction in Engineering 190W, an upper-division writing and communication course required for all engineering majors.
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Poster presented on the IUSE: EDU project at the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) National Summit, 2024.
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PapyrusAI: An Intelligent Writing Coach for K-12 Schools
(Beall Applied Innovation)
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This project will iteratively adapt PapyrusAI, an intelligent writing coach, to be suitable for middle school and high school students. The platform will help secondary students improve their writing and AI literacy by interacting with AI in a “walled garden” that provides access to generative AI in a supervised way. Students will receive personalized support by interacting with the embedded prompts in the platform to help them effectively plan and revise their writing. This project will leverage NSF-funded work underway on a version of the platform for undergraduates. We are partnering with El Sol Science & Arts Academy of Santa Ana to conduct a feasibility study and initial pilot.
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