Project Outcomes
AI-Driven Learning for Construction Challenges in Civil Engineering Design
Asif Ahmed
SUNY Polytechnic Institute (formerly SUNY IT)
2025
Type of GrantIITG
Amount of Award:$21,320.00
This project aims to develop an interactive AI-powered tool that helps civil engineering students understand real-world construction challenges, such as sequencing and site constraints, to better prepare them for industry demands.
AI-Driven Robotics for Solar Energy Maintenance: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Education and Sustainability
Maryam Nasri
Buffalo State College
2025
Type of GrantIITG
Amount of Award:$30,000.00
This project empowers students to design and deploy AI-driven drones and robotic rovers for solar panel maintenance, combining hands-on learning with cutting-edge technology to advance clean energy, robotics, and workforce readiness in an interdisciplinary educational setting.
https://peer.asee.org/58781 — ASEE PEER, published paper || https://youtu.be/Y_Sjr8lMd_8 || Demo in conferences https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKER9OETg7U || the website link for AI server is only accessable from Buffaso State campus
AI-Enhanced Creative Problem-Solving Tools for Higher Education and the Workforce
William Yates
Buffalo State College
2025
Type of GrantIITG
Amount of Award:$49,266.00
This project develops AI-powered creative problem-solving tools, combining SUNY Buffalo State’s expertise in creativity training with discipline-specific expertise from other SUNY schools to create customized OER large language model bots that facilitate students' creative thinking and AI literacy across multiple disciplines and multiple SUNY institutions.
AI-RA: an AI Powered Research Assistant to Optimize Generative AI Tools for Research
Isabelle Bichindaritz
Oswego
2025
Type of GrantIITG
Amount of Award:$40,700.00
We are proposing to build and evaluate an artificial intelligence enabled Research Assistant (AI-RA) to help researchers and students leverage AI resources in a responsible, ethical, and beneficial manner with the goal of enhancing research skills and productivity.
Between Assistance and Dependency: Evaluating AI's Role in Architectural Design Education
Anahita Khodadadi
Buffalo (UB)
2025
Type of GrantOER
Amount of Award:$50,000.00
- Open Educational Resources (OER)
This project develops AI-integrated design courses to enhance architecture students’ computational proficiency, critical thinking, and ethical awareness, equipping them with the skills to navigate AI-driven workflows in design, optimization, and sustainability while producing open educational resources (OERs) and research insights to support AI literacy across SUNY campuses and beyond.
Link to the OER: https://aiforarchprograms.pressbooks.sunycreate.cloud/ , Link to the ASEE paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/407460249_Between_Assistance_and_Autonomy_Evaluating_Generative_AI's_Pedagogical_Role_in_Architectural_Design_Education ,