Sponsored Research

Tyree Mitchell, Ph.D. - Associate Professor

$855,760 - Empowering & Enhancing Offshore Workers' SWA, UWA, Reporting Unsafe Conditions, & Employee Participation

Tyree Mitchell, PhD, Associate Professor at SHLRD, and Changwon Son, PhD, CSP, Assistant Professor of Industrial, Manufacturing & Systems Engineering at Texas Tech University, will serve as co-principal investigators on a grant totaling $855,760 to conduct groundbreaking research titled "Empowering and Enhancing Offshore Workers’ SWA, UWA, Reporting Unsafe Conditions, and Employee Participation." The project seeks to address challenges faced by offshore workers in implementing critical safety protocols by investigating the effects of leadership and organizational factors that contribute to offshore energy workers’ perceptions that they are empowered to and safe to stop work when they notice conditions are unsafe.

Funded by the Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM)

$2,000,000 - International Research Experience & Professional Development in Built Environment Sustainability

Drs. Tracey Rizzuto & Tyree Mitchell are currently co-principal investigators on a 5-year National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant for a Center of Leadership Development in Built Environment Sustainability (cldbes.org). Specifically, graduate students in STEM disciplines (e.g., engineering, architecture) complete a 9-month program that involves completing a research project focused on built environment sustainability in a different country (i.e., Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan).

Students complete a self-paced leadership training program prior to traveling to the destination, then spend 4 weeks working on their research project and with a mentor from their host country during their visit, and then present their research at an academic conference after their visit. Throughout the 9 months, students learn and develop leadership and teamwork skills as well as cultural intelligence.

Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF)

 

 

Tracey Rizzuto, Ph.D. - Professor

$4,500,000 - Identifying & Eliminating Systematic Racism in Promotion & Tenure Processes

This grant aims to examine how, when, and why promotion and tenure decision-making processes disadvantage underrepresented minority URM faculty and to create interventions to address systemic inequities that currently impact promotion and tenure decision-making for URM faculty.

Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Division Of Graduate Education

$720,000 - Collaborative Research: Wearable Safety Sensing & Assistive Worker-Robot Collaboration for an Augmented Workforce

The objective of this FW-HTF research project is to develop wearable safety sensing and assistive robot-worker collaboration for an augmented workforce, thereby improving worker retention and attracting women and young workers to construction careers. The researchers will also develop a number of integrated research and education programs to attract students from underrepresented groups into engineering and involve undergraduate students in research.

Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF)

$2,671,471 - External Review Letters in Promotion and Tenure Decision Making

The academic community is not representative of the society it serves. In the USA, of the 840,000 full-time faculty at degree-granting postsecondary institutions, academics are disproportionately white or Asian (82%) relative to the US population (66%). This overrepresentation corresponds to a staggering underrepresentation of Black and Hispanic individuals, who make up 31% of the US population but only a tenth of faculty appointments at institutions of higher education. The goal of this research is to identify the barriers and challenges underrepresented minority (URM) faculty face in the many domains of academia, from university admissions to grant applications, and also examine whether this translates to promotion and tenure (P&T) decisions. 

To read the results of this research project: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01977-7

$177,000 Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

$2,494,471 Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF)

$818,156 - Learning from Social Network Systems to Predict Performance Behavior

The goal of this research is to understand how inter-personal relationships within social and organizational systems can be used to strengthen the development of new skills, healthful mindsets and pro-social behaviors, and how those same social network systems can be used to disrupt and dismantle harmful behaviors that affect community wellbeing and safety.

Funded by the Department of Justice and the National Science Foundation (NSF)

$1,540,000 - Learning from Technological Systems to Predict Performance Behavior

The goal of this line of research is to explore innovative ways technological systems (e.g., immersive virtual technologies; wearable technologies; enterprise resource systems) within workplace environments can improve occupational health outcomes, performance outcomes, and sustainable design for build occupant environments.

Funded by the National Science Foundation of China and the National Science Foundation (NSF)

$5,171,470 - Learning from Social Network and Technical Systems to Improve DEI Outcomes

The goal of this line of research is to understand how the intersection of social and technical systems can be employed to strengthen and improve professional development and advancement outcomes for traditionally marginalized groups in the STEM workforce and in higher education.

Funded by Alfred P. Sloan and the National Science Foundation (NSF)