This project engages undergraduate students in the scholarship of teaching and learning. Activities include development of evidence-based learning resources, development of online media (video, visuals, written content), and assessment data collection and analysis.

The project investigates the contributions of US philanthropic foundations to the growth of the field in the United States and beyond. The project aims to stimulate a reflection on how academia, the nonprofit sector, and philanthropy have worked together over the past three decades to increase the capacity and quality of the many and varied organizations committed to the public good.

Students will be tasks with bibliographical search, desk reviews of websites, and collecting background information.

Green clothing can be described as clothing that is designed for long lifetime use, produced in ethical production system, it causes little or no environmental impact, and it makes use of eco-labelled or recycled materials. Increasingly, many consumers have favorable attitude toward such products and are willing to buy them. However, there is a large discrepancy between their attitudes and actual buying and consumption behavior. This attitude-behavior gap is also known as 4/40 gap which indicates that 40% of consumers are open to the idea of buying sustainable products but only 4% act on it. The purpose of this project is to investigate various factors focusing on attitude-behavior gap in the apparel context.

E-healthcare decision tools (eHDTs) help consumers make informed healthcare decisions. However, barriers linked to cognitive aging exist in older adults’ use of eHDTs due to their low internet competency and decision making capacity, suggesting a critical need for on-screen, real-time cognitive assistance on eHDT interfaces to extend older users’ ability to make effective e-healthcare decisions. This project addresses this need by 1) identifying older adults’ e-healthcare decision challenges, 2) designing a user-adaptive, context-aware, goal-oriented artificially intelligent decision assistant (IDA) that can infer users’ decision strategies and provide an intervention to guide optimal decision strategy choice, and 3) evaluating IDA’s effectiveness.

The project focuses on when foundations adopt philanthropic innovations and how these innovations diffuse throughout the sector. It thus frames foundations as adopters of innovation and not (just) funders of it.

Students will be involved in research on program-related investments (PRIs) in the 1960s-1980s. PRIs (typically, equity investments and loans) are investments by foundations supporting programmatic goals rather than seeking financial return. Students will be tasked with collecting background information on organizations and individuals, as well as searching relevant literature.

The lab equips various cutting-edge design technologies, including 3D printer, portable 3D scanner, and digital textile printer. The research team explores the application of these technologies to the design, development, and prototyping of wearables. As a member of this team, students will enhance their knowledge on these technologies, their uses in wearables’ design and prototyping, and the evaluation of wearables. They will introduce to appropriate 3D prototyping software to build wearables. Students will also be able to network and builds relationships with peers and graduate students.

The large scope of this project is to improve PPE used in healthcare settings for infection control by introducing a novel design for isolation gowns, one type of PPE. This study examines the comfort, function, and movement provided by current isolation gowns to determine ways for improving these attributes of isolation gowns. As a member of the research team, you will enhance your knowledge of how to conduct the scientific research on product design and development including the product wear trials and evaluation and different types of design technologies used for prototyping and data analyses. You will also be able to network and build relationships with peers, graduate students, and faculty in various disciplines.