Umair Shakir

PhD graduate

Umair defended his PhD in Engineering Education in Fall 2024, focusing on developing ML models for engineering education.

Research areas

Pushing Ethics Assessment Forward in Engineering: NLP-Assisted Qualitative Coding of Student Responses

Umair Shakir, J. Hess, M. James et al., Proceedings of the 130th Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education, 2023.
The Utility of Large Language Models and Generative AI for Education Research

Andrew Katz, Umair Shakir and B. Chambers, arXiv preprint, 2023.
Using Natural Language Processing to Explore Undergraduate Students’ Perspectives of Social Class, Gender, and Race

Umair Shakir, S. Ovink and Andrew Katz, 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2022.
Engineering ethics in engineering design courses: A preliminary investigation

Andrew Katz, Umair Shakir, Isil Anakok et al., American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2021.
An Investigation of When and Where Ethics Appears in Undergraduate Engineering Curricula

Andrew Katz and Umair Shakir, 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference, 2020.