Dr. Pavlo “Pasha” Antonenko, an associate professor of educational technology and director of the NeurAL Lab, was recently awarded a $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to design gamified curriculum to teach computing hardware fundamentals.
This collaborative grant, which includes Dr. Mary Jo Koroly, Research Associate Professor, and Dr. Swarup Bhunia, Semmoto Endowed Professor, at the University of Florida, along with Dr. Tamzidul Hoque, Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas, will create modules that provide a system-level perspective of modern electronic systems. Antonenko believes this will address the skill gap in the current electronics industry that is contributing to the current computer chip shortage.