Wentworth Faculty Awarded Summer 2023 Bistline Grants for Innovative Projects

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A selection of Wentworth Institute of Technology faculty were recently awarded Summer 2023 Bistline Grants, which help fund work conducted by university professors. 

Submitted proposals are judged based on professionalism, completeness, purpose of grant, originality, objectives, outcomes, benefit to Wentworth, wider impact, and budget.  

This year’s recipients are: 

Carol Burns, Professor, School of Architecture and Design 

Project: To broaden a multi-year partnership with Boston Public Schools (BPS) that engages Wentworth Institute of Technology students in community-based research and design.  It will serve two purposes: a book publication consolidating studios about Brighton High School, and research/preparation for fall 2023 related to English High School. 

  

Mark Mixer, Associate Professor, School of Computing and Data Science 
Steven Morrow, Associate Professor, School of Computing and Data Science 

Project: To study the current methods for finding solutions to the exam scheduling problem at Wentworth Institute of Technology and to propose and test improvements to the current state-of-the-art algorithms.  The work should provide the Registrar’s Office with a useful scheduling tool and facilitate collaboration between faculty and students, resulting in published results highlighting Wentworth’s work in computing and data science. 

  

Jelena Nikolic, Assistant Professor, School of Sciences and Humanities 

Project: To develop a roadmap for instructors to deal with challenges, such as encouraging students’ creative thinking and active class participation by evaluating new pedagogical approaches that would lead to (1) enhanced quality and practicality of Gen Ed learning at Wentworth, (2) increased engagement and motivation and (3) increased students’ performance through independent and peer-to-peer learning. 

  

Yugu Yang- Keathley, Associate Professor, School of Engineering 

Project: A collaboration with an MIT research group developing nano-scale antennas to detect weak optical waveforms and design, implement, and test custom front-end analog electronics that holds the promise for single-shoe detection of field-controlled emission from the nano-antennas.