This R&D functions as a core Research and Development engine dedicated to advancing AI adoption, focusing on strategic leadership, broad societal literacy, and future education design.
Fostering AI Literacy for Strategic Leaders: We develop programs and frameworks designed to instill AI literacy in senior societal leaders (e.g., in politics, economics, and philosophy). This critical engagement is necessary to guide ethical governance, inform policy-making, and ensure the responsible, beneficial adoption of AI across all sectors.
Empowering Educators as Designers of Future Education: We provide comprehensive, R&D-based training and professional development to equip educators with the skills to effectively integrate AI in the classroom. This ensures teachers become instructional leaders capable of adapting curriculum and designing AI-driven assessment tools, and ultimately act as designers of future education systems that overcome current chronic systemic issues.
Advancing AIED Research: We conduct cutting-edge, collaborative research to explore AI's potential to revolutionize teaching and learning sciences. Our research specifically focuses on the use of AI to inspire wonder and curiosity in both teaching methods and student engagement, ensuring technology enhances the human elements of discovery and learning.
AI Educational Leadership: Strategic R&D for the Future Education
Our mission is to bridge the skills gap by focusing on workforce readiness through dedicated knowledge transfer programs. We aim to build the foundational and advanced competencies necessary for individuals to thrive in the modern, AI-driven economy.
Community-Focused AI Training: We offer a diverse and tiered range of programs, spanning from basic digital literacy to advanced AI and prompt engineering workshops. This ensures that individuals across all skill levels gain the practical STEM knowledge required for success in AI-enhanced careers.
Digital Skills Alignment through Partnership: We actively establish industry and corporate partnerships to meticulously align our curriculum with current and emerging workforce needs. This guarantees our graduates and trainees are equipped to leverage AI tools effectively and strategically within specialized professional fields.
Ethical Posthuman Engagement and Citizenship: Our training emphasizes the responsible, critical use of technology, focusing on data privacy, algorithmic bias, and ethical digital citizenship. We prepare a workforce that can thoughtfully and posthumanly engage with complex AI systems, understanding the relationship between human decision-making and artificial intelligence outputs.
AI Workforce Preparation: Building Foundational & Ethical Competency
The unit also functions as an integrated facility, actively fusing Artificial Intelligence with additive manufacturing (3D printing) to accelerate innovation, push the boundaries of material science, and define the future of production.
AI-Enhanced Design and Prototyping: We lead R&D efforts in applying AI, such as generative design algorithms, to optimize complex 3D model creation and enhance material efficiency. This directly accelerates the entire product lifecycle, from rapid prototyping to advanced manufacturing.
Smart Manufacturing Education: We provide intensive, hands-on training using 3D printing, simulation, and virtual technologies to teach principles of advanced manufacturing, engineering, and digital fabrication. This focus prepares learners for highly skilled, in-demand careers within the AI-powered economy.
Developing Open-Source Design Libraries: We dedicate our R&D resources to building and rigorously testing open-source repositories for custom-designed educational and assistive technology devices. This ensures that critical innovations can be rapidly produced using 3D printing and are accessible to the public domain.
Smart 3D Printing: AI-Powered Manufacturing Education