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Designing Spacecraft with AI in the Loop

As part of the Fall 2026 CET Faculty Showcase, Jim Chase from the Viterbi School of Engineering’s Department of Astronautical Engineering shared how ASTE 331 integrates AI to prepare students for its use in spacecraft engineering. Three examples highlighted a communications assignment requiring students to identify AI errors, a simulated spacecraft fault for students to diagnose, and a grading process in which AI advocates for the student’s work before a human grader makes the final decision.

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Experiential Learning Curricula in the Age of AI

As part of the Fall 2026 CET Faculty Showcase, Tanvi Patel from the Dornsife Writing Program explored how experiential learning can strengthen humanistic skills and reduce students’ reliance on generative AI. Sample writing assignments illustrated learning objectives, evaluation methods, and strategies for success.

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Leveraging AI to Improve Student Learning Outcomes

As part of the Fall 2026 CET Faculty Showcase, Kaali Dass from USC Bovard College shared a practical framework for using AI-generated case studies, structured prompts, and interactive breakout sessions in graduate courses. This approach helped students connect theory with real-world application, practice decision-making, receive timely feedback, and translate knowledge into action.

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Critical Making with AI for the Human-Centered Classroom

As part of the Fall 2026 CET Faculty Showcase, Dana Milstein from the Dornsife Writing Program and Keck School of Medicine explored how hands-on DIY practices and AI can come together to teach ethical stewardship of AI-assisted workflows. Drawing on course activities that paired AI with woodworking, weaving, board games, music, and mocktails, Milstein highlighted how learners practice supervising AI while integrating human judgment, material knowledge, and embodied experience.

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AI and Accommodations: Office of Student Accessibility Services

For this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on Accessibility and AI, Crystal Velasco, USC Office of Student Accessibility Services, along with Jason Dove and Sakib Shariar from the USC Brightspace Team, explore how AI technology intersects with student accommodations, highlighting how tools like speech-to-text, captioning, screen readers, and note-taking tools are already part of many students’ learning. They also demonstrate how Brightspace’s Panorama tool supports accessible course design by identifying barriers, flagging issues, and generating alternative formats that help ensure course materials work effectively with assistive technologies.

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Accessible AI, Authentic Learning: Centering the Learning Process in the AI Era

In this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on Accessibility and AI, Kendra Walther, USC Viterbi School of Engineering, argues for centering the learning process rather than polished AI-generated outputs. Drawing on examples from active learning and computer science, she shows how instructors can redesign assessments to reveal student thinking through reflection, explanation, and low-stakes checkpoints that support accessibility and accountability.

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AI From Day One: Supporting Accessibility and Student Self-Regulation

For this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on Accessibility and AI, Helena Seli, USC Rossier School of Education, and Julie Loppacher, Kortschak Center for Learning and Creativity, explore how faculty can embed AI from day one to support accessibility and student self-regulation through evidence-based strategies focused on goal setting, organizing learning, and time management. They show how AI can help students create SMART goals, turn dense course material into visual study aids, clarify assignment instructions, and build weekly calendars that highlight busy periods and reduce procrastination.

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Accesso-Bot: Scaling Accessible Course Materials Across USC Marshall with AI-Assisted Remediation

In this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on Accessibility and AI, David Melone, USC Marshall School of Business, demonstrates how “Accesso-Bot,” a custom GPT, helps rapidly remediate course materials into accessible formats for students, including transcripts, readable documents, and detailed image descriptions. He shows how the tool cuts turnaround time from days to hours while preserving instructional intent and supporting students who rely on screen readers and other assistive technologies.

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Teaching Research Judgment Through Annotated Bibliography

In this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Deborah Natoli and Minh Trinh, USC Price School of Public Policy, share how they redesigned an annotated bibliography assignment using AI tools like NotebookLM, including a structured guide for students to log AI use and verify sources while building AI literacy and critical evaluation skills.

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