SCUP
Report

Smart Building, Smart Campus

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This is a SCUP Fellow Research Project Final Report. The SCUP Fellows program is designed to strengthen higher education leaders who seek to carry out new research that contributes to SCUP’s knowledge base of integrated planning. Learn more.

“Will innovative environments like a smart building expand STEM education and reach more underrepresented groups? If technology can support remote work, then why haven’t the previous proofs of concept become fully adopted?” The author pursued these questions through her SCUP Fellows research, exploring the hypothesis that user-centered design would better address STEM student needs and could increase the likelihood of a broader adoption of remote labs. Although the COVID-19 pandemic required a hard pivot in her research plan, she was able to leverage the world's new focus on remote activities and work with students to design a prototype mobile application for a digital, interactive twin of a STEM building on campus.

Author:

Angela Foss


Development Manager, Autodesk
(formerly: Associate Dean of Operations and Innovation, College of Engineering, Technology, and Aeronautics at Southern New Hampshire University)
2019–2020 Fellow

Related resource: Watch the recording of Angela’s research presentation.

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