his spare time, Dr. Kump works to combine his research with his love of electronic music performance, teaching machines the craft of songwriting. With extensive course and curriculum design experience, Dr. Kump is continuously committed to developing engineering programs that best prepare students for the ever-changing demands of industry leaders. His teaching interests include online and HyFlex education, as well as classroom flipping and education research-based tasks. He created Maritime College’s ENGR 396 Machine Learning course and has been recognized by Open SUNY for excellence in online teaching, pioneering the School of Engineering’s online course offerings.Van-Hai Bui Dr. Van-Hai Bui received his B.S
our pre-treatment period to begin in 2019 andomitted the year 2020, which was the chaotic pandemic year that saw a mid-semester upheavalof pedagogy. Thus, for this study, the pre-treatment period was defined as 2019 and 2021—twoyears, symmetric with the post-treatment period 2022 and 2023.Other than the change to maritime-specific content, the machine learning course remained thesame pre- and post-treatment. The course’s instructor, syllabus, objectives, expectations,content, etc. did not change from 2019 to 2023, a timeframe we refer to as the study period(omitting 2020). A total of 132 students completed the course during the study period, 68 pre-treatment and 64 post-treatment.The DiD method can be understood as follows. If xpre and xpost
of studies thatshowed how innovation follows a similar cycle as the economy. Although it may still be acoincidence, already since the early 20th century, the economic cycle was also estimated tohave a similar period (Clark 1917) of 7-8 years. In this case, the perceived changes in theindustry as well as some issues in the curriculum led to the start of the revision which wasmade in late 2019.However, in February 2020 COVID-19 reached the Netherlands and switching to a remoteand online situation took precedence. With most of the restrictions behind us, the faculty usedthe moment to restart the revision of the maritime technology bachelor curriculum. Althoughthe delivery of courses was more diversified than before, the content had not received