Our Projects

The Center for Program Evaluation (CPE) team is currently providing either evaluation or research services for the following projects:

• Collaborative Research: Cool Science: Art as a Vehicle for Intergenerational Learning
• Collaborative Research: Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC): Creating Windows Advanced Memory Corruption Attack and Defense Teaching Modules
• Commercial Fishing Vessel Stability and Primary Prevention Policy
• Lowell Public Schools Full Service Community Schools Initiative
• The Leading, Engaging, and Advising Fellows (LEAF) Program: A Strategy for Improving Student Engagement and Faculty Pedagogy
• Plastics Adaptable for Circular Economy (PACE)
• Reducing Domestic Servitude through Capacity Building in Tunis, Tunisia
• Smart and Connected Communities (SCC) for Clean Water Program
• Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM): Fostering Future Engineering Faculty Diversity by Building a Pipeline to Graduate Programs
• Town of Tewksbury Community Needs Assessment on Opioid Use Disorder Care
• UMass Lowell in Interdisciplinary Personnel Prep (LIPP): Collaborative Opportunities in Applied Behavior Analysis and Special Education Targeting (COAST) Autism and High-Intensity Needs
• UMass Lowell Innovative Fellows Training (LIFT)
• UMass Lowell Research Education Program (R25)

Past Projects

• ADVANCE-IT – Making WAVES (Women Academics Valued and Engaged in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM))
• Advancement of Mentoring Practice Program (AMPP)
• Analysis of the PK-12 Latina/o/x Student Experience at Lowell Public Schools (LPS)
• Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Tribal Justice Program
• Boys & Girls Club of Lowell Anti-Discrimination and Racial Equity Program
• National Science Foundation CAREER Grant: A System of Pleas: Using a Role-Playing Simulation to Test Plea-Decision Models
• National Science Foundation CAREER Grant: Novel Mechanism for Generation and Receiving of Ultrasound on a Single Fiber Using Nanoparticles
• Collaborative Research: Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) in Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering
• Elevate Preparation Impact Children (EPIC) Program
• Formative Research in Support of a Child Protection Compact in Cote d'Ivoire
• Getting Heads Out of the Sand (GHOOTS)
• Greenhouse Gas Reduction Strategy Analysis for Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT)
• Increasing the Underrepresented Talent Pipeline for Engineering and the Navy: Summer Bridge Mentoring Program
• Innovative Engagement: A Mass Transit Model for Informal Science Learning (Sciencetogo.org)
• Lowell Public School's Family Leadership Institute
• A Middle School After-School Pilot Program Integrating Computer Programming and Music Education
• MindRight’s Innovative Mental Health Coaching Mode
• Public School English Learner Programs
• Planning for Healthy Futures: A feasibility study for health, wellness, and substance prevention
• Preparing Excellent Teachers of All Language Learners (PETALLs)
• National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site: Advanced Materials and Manufacturing
• National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site: HCISec - Enhancing Undergraduate Research in Modern Human Computer Interaction Security and Privacy
• National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site: Inclusion and Innovation in Medical Devices
• RoboXploration Summer Camp
• Sustainability Literacy Assessment
• Tsongas Industrial History Center
• UMass Lowell's Learning Force
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Program