Kansas City’s research university is known for being innovative and future-forward. As artificial intelligence engrains itself into our everyday lives, many faculty have been on the leading edge of using this technology in the classroom and in their respective fields. Here’s what professors campuswide are doing to keep up with AI.
科学与工程学院
陈志强，博士.D. is one of the founding chair members of a new American Society of Civil Engineers national committee looking at AI in the classroom. The committee is working to answer the global pressing needs of adopting generative AI into civil engineering classrooms.
2023年秋天, he developed the first civil engineering AI course offered at UMKC titled “Intro to AI for Natural and Built Environment Applications.”
医学院
萨拉·加德纳，M.D., FAAP, FACP, is looking at how to incorporate appropriate use of AI in patient care and education.
“临床, as our faculty and institutions have adapted and learned more, we understand the utility of AI to recognize small, incremental changes in our patients that could lead to better treatment strategies that ultimately improve patient outcomes,加德纳说. “Our graduates will likely encounter this technology very early in their post-graduate training, so we are looking for opportunities for them to be exposed to, 并学会回应, 这是关于临床职员的数据. Our students also need to understand and become adept at querying these databases, whether that is generating clinical documentation to a complex interpretation of test results specific to the personal characteristics of your patient, to better understand how to interpret these results for their individual patients.”
护理与健康科学学院
吉姆•斯宾塞, DNP, MPA-HSA, RN, interim associate dean for academic affairs, has presented at nursing conferences on AI in nursing education.
Spence is also encouraging both faculty and students to utilize AI in the classroom, whether that is for developing test questions or patient case studies. 患者病例研究, AI is able to generate details of the patient’s social history such as name, 性别, 年龄, occupation and physical history from lab tests such as neurological assessments and cardiac testing.
人文社会科学学院
安东尼奥·伯德博士.D., serves on the Modern Langu年龄 Association and Conference on College Composition and Communication Joint Task on Artificial Intelligence and Writing, a 国家工作队 that discusses humanities interventions in AI and higher education. One such example is creating guidelines for AI policies to honor students' linguist diversity and autonomy.
School of Education, Social Work and Psychological Sciences
杰克·马萨莱克博士.D., interim associate dean and professor of psychology, is investigating the potential outcomes of using AI for learning and education.
Marszalek is a co-investigator on a multidisciplinary grant from Unanimous AI to investigate educational outcomes for a software that enables peer-to-peer collaboration while protecting data privacy and security.
亨利·W. 布洛赫管理学院
拉里·维格博士.D., is currently exploring humanity’s role in increasingly automated workplaces due to AI. With AI automation threatening to displace the lowest-skilled workers, 考虑到他们主要的日常任务, tomorrow’s workforce needs a better way to gain the critical experience to man年龄 and lead. Wigger’s research focuses on how future workers should be equipped with critical thinking skills to employ AI ethically, 尽量减少负面影响.
法学院
法学院教授Ryan Copus, J.D., encour年龄s students to use large langu年龄 models when writing papers, exploring ideas or completing any other assignments. Copus教授一门名为“数据”的课程, 判决与正义,” where he introduces the idea of technically and ethically responsible ways to apply the power of AI to regulate legal decision-making. 在本课程中, students get to code and build their own machine learning model as well as eng年龄 in AI research literature.