By Joslyn DelSignore / The Jambar
Corey Brozina, associate professor and associate director of the Rayen School of Engineering, received a $320,000 grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation.
Brozina’s fourth grant officially began Oct. 1 of this year.
The foundation offers funding opportunities, such as fellowships, grants and cooperative agreements, to support research and education across science and engineering.
Brozina joined the Youngstown State University faculty in 2016.
Brozina’s first grant was in 2019, where he was awarded $65,930. The next year, he received a grant for $1 million — which was the largest NSF grant in YSU history. In 2021, he received a $300,000 grant.
His most recent achievement comes from a funding landscape where less than 12% of NSF applicants are approved nationwide.
Brozina’s project focuses on integrating artificial intelligence into engineering education by using it as a professional tool. The project will also address ethical and societal changes created by AI.
Brozina is collaborating with Aditya Johri, professor of information sciences and technology at George Mason University, to design the curriculum around case-based instruction.
Brozina and Johri will also collaborate with partners at universities around the country, including the University of Florida, The Ohio State University, Iowa State University, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Texas A&M University, Case Western Reserve University and Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State University.
After the case studies are refined at YSU, the project’s materials will be shared with first-year engineering programs nationwide.