The Hrabowski Fund for Innovation supports initiatives to enhance teaching and learning at UMBC, with specific emphasis on innovative approaches to increase student success. Faculty and staff in the College of Engineering and Information Technology (COEIT) have been awarded implementation and research funds and seed grants that support student success through a range of activities including service learning, active learning environments, and leveraging technologies that improve the advising experience. To find out more about the Hrabowski Fund for Innovation, including current information about the competition, the application process, and all of the past award recipients, visit the Faculty Development Center.
Read more about the Hrabowski Fund for Innovation, including recent awardees here.
See below for list of COEIT faculty and staff who have received recent Hrabowski Innovation Fund awards.
Fall 2023 and Spring 2024
Award Date: Spring 2024; Lost in Translation: A Computer Science Transfer Data Exploration (Seed Grant); Lead: Krista Wallace; Department: COEIT Undergraduate Student Services
Award Date: Fall 2023; Data-Driven Student-Centered Health Communication and Promotion: Interdisciplinary Collaborative Problem-Solving and Peer-Learning for a Thriving Campus (Implementation and Research Grant); Lead: Karen Chen; Department: Information Systems
Award Date: Fall 2023; Increasing Visual Literacy with Collaborative Foraging, Annotation, Curation, and Critique (Implementation and Research Grant); Lead: Rebecca Williams; Department: Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Award Date: Fall 2023; Ethical Applications of Generative AI to Teaching and Assessment in Science and Humanities Coursework; A Guide for Educators (Seed Grant); Lead: Muhammad Ali Yousuf; Department: Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Fall 2022 and Spring 2023
Award Date: Spring 2023; Development of an Inquiry-Based Bonus Module with Short Video to Enhance Conceptual Learning in Undergraduate Heat Transfer Course (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grant); Lead: Liang Zhu; Department: Mechanical Engineering
Award Date: Fall 2022; Multidisciplinary Internship Experiences at the Imaging Research Center (Adaptation Grant); Lead: Anita Komlodi; Department: Information Systems
Award Date: Fall 2022; Faculty Studio (Adaptation Grant); Lead: Shawn Lupoli; Department: Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Award Date: Fall 2022; Course Planning with Machine Learning (Seed Grant); Lead: Ergun Simsek; Department: Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Award Date: Fall 2022; Quantum Immersion for Information Systems Undergraduates: An Experiential Learning Approach (Seed Grant); Lead: Lei Zhang; Department: Information Systems
Fall 2021 and Spring 2022
Award Date: Spring 2022; Feasibility of Anonymous Grading for Reducing Performance Discrepancies across Student Demographics (Implementation and Research Grant); Lead: Neha Raikar; Department: Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering
Award Date: Spring 2022; Broadening Participation of Women Undergraduate Transfer Students in COEIT: Designing an Interactive Technology for Affective Skill Development (Seed Grant); Lead: Andrea Kleinsmith; Department: Information Systems
Award Date: Fall 2021; Predictive Modeling for Identifying At-Risk Students in Introductory Computer Science Classes (Seed Grant); Lead: Murat Guner; Department: Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Fall 2020 and Spring 2021
Award Date: Fall 2020; Identifying an Interdisciplinary Path to Social Responsibility Education across the COEIT Curriculum (Implementation and Research Grant); Lead: Helena Mentis; Department: Engineering and Information Technology
Fall 2012 – Spring 2020
Award Date: Spring 2020; Evaluation and Enhancement of a Learning Unit on Quantum Algorithms (Seed Grant); Lead: Alan Sherman; Department: Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Award Date: Spring 2019; Ethical considerations in data science curricula (Implementation and Research Grant); Lead: Vandana Janeja; Department: Information Systems
Award Date: Spring 2019; Text + Code = Better Machine Learning Education (Seed Grant); Lead: Tim Oates; Department: Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Award Date: Fall 2018; Competitive active learning games for inclusive computer science classrooms (Seed Grant); Lead: Benjamin Johnson; Department: Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Award Date: Spring 2017; Broadening Student Engagement with Virtual and Augmented Reality Technologies (Implementation and Research Grant); Lead: Anita Komlodi; Department: Information Systems
Award Date: Fall 2016; From Service to Study: Creating a Better Environment for UMBC’s Student Veterans (Seed Grant) — A multi-disciplinary team Co-Leads: Meredith Oyen (History) and Richard Forno (Cybersecurity); Department: Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Award Date: Spring 2016; Incorporating CNC Machining in a Machine Design Course (Implementation and Research Grant); Lead: Neil Rothman; Department: Mechanical Engineering
Award Date: Spring 2016; Improving Student Support to Reduce Academic Integrity Violations for Computer Science I and II (Seed Grant); Co-Leads: Katherine Gibson and Jeremy Dixon; Department: Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Award Date: Fall 2015; Virtual Reality Design for Science: Integrating Research, Communication, and Learning for Interdisciplinary Training (Implementation and Research Grant); Lead: Jian Chen; Department: Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Award Date: Fall 2015; Designing and Developing Effective Mobile Applications (Implementation and Research Grant); Co-Lead: Nilanjan Banerjee; Department: Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Award Date: Spring 2014; Replaying the Past: Building a Digital Game for the History Classroom (Implementation and Research Grant); Co-Leads: Anne Sarah Rubin, Associate Professor of History and Marc Olano; Department: Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Award Date: Fall 2013; Exploring Opportunities and Challenges for Wearable Computing in Classroom Settings (Implementation and Research Grant); Lead: Shaun Kane; Department: Information Systems
Award Date: Fall 2013; Leveraging Technology to Improve Small Group Advising in COEIT (Seed Grant); Lead: Emily Abrams-Stephens; Department: COEIT Undergraduate Student Services
Award Date: Spring 2013; Hands-On Problem Solving in Chemical Engineering (Implementation and Research Grant); Lead: Joshua Enszer; Department: Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering
Award Date: Spring 2013; Metacognitive Activity Promotions (MAPs) in Chemical Engineering Thinking (Seed Grant); Lead: Mariajosé Castellanos; Department: Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering
Award Date: Fall 2012; Active Computing Teaching and InnoVation Environment (Implementation and Research Grant); Lead: Marie desJardins; Department: Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Award Date: Fall 2012; Service-Learning in Statics (Seed Grant); Lead: Anne Spence; Department: Mechanical Engineering