All STEP labs will be closed during the Winter Intercession except for the Agnes Edwards Lab and Dupre Library Lab.
Spring 2016 STEP Grants
Thu, 05/19/2016 - 8:57am
Spring 2016 STEP Awards announced.
For the Spring 2016 cycle, eighteen (18) awards totaling $524,601.64 were funded by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Student Technology Enhancement Program (STEP). Of the proposals funded, three (3) will have an annual sustainability fund impact of $24,105.00 (average $8,035/project). All three (3) "sustainable" projects were SMART Classrooms/TEC rooms. (view awarded grants)
The highest rated (by the STEP Council in rank order H-L) proposals for the cycle included: Upgrade of Software for Visually Impaired; Computer Lab Intensive English Program; A Smart Classroom in Chemistry; Economical Micro Scale Equipment in Chemistry Labs; and, Purchase of Spectrophotometers for Chemistry Laboratory Courses. Funded grant scores ranged from (H-L) 94.44 to 68.75 with an average score of 75.94. Other interesting awards included: Joint Injection and Arthrocentesis Simulators; Enrichment of Clinical Skills for Graduate Advance Practice Nursing Students; Technology Room for Mathematics and Statistics Instruction; Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) upgrade for Undergraduate Student: School of Computing and Informatics; Teaching Design, Engineering, Robotics; and, Cajun Village Wireless Connectivity.
The following table and graph illustrate this cycle's awards by College/Division and budget by category:
| College of Science | 7 |
| College of Liberal Arts | 2 |
| College of Business Administration | 1 |
| College of Education | 1 |
| College of Engineering | 1 |
| College of Nursing & Allied Health | 1 |
| Ecology Center | 1 |
| Information Technology | 1 |
| Office of Disability Services | 1 |
| Office of International Affairs | 1 |
