{"id":125573,"date":"2022-01-26T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573//?p=125573"},"modified":"2025-06-25T14:44:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T18:44:25","slug":"1-million-grant-to-help-strengthen-ucfs-modeling-and-simulation-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573//1-million-grant-to-help-strengthen-ucfs-modeling-and-simulation-program/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573//","title":{"rendered":"$1 Million Grant to help Strengthen Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573/u2019s Modeling and Simulation Program"},"content":{"rendered":"
Many of tomorrow/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573/u2019s jobs haven/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573/u2019t been imagined yet, but those well versed in cutting-edge technologies, such as modeling and simulation will have the competitive edge./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573/n
Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573/u2019s School of Modeling, Simulation and Training (SMST) is already a national leader in modeling and simulation research and education. The Department of Defense employs many of our doctoral graduates as do a range of commercial companies. Now, thanks to a Department of Education $1 million grant, Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½ will strengthen its existing graduate program, create a new undergraduate modeling and simulation curriculum and launch outreach programs for high schools, all to create a pipeline of talent that will help lead the nation in this exploding area of innovation./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573/n /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573/u201cIt is essential to build a future workforce with the critical skills and competencies in modeling and simulation so that we retain our competitiveness in national security and space,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573/u201d says Grace Bochenek, the school/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573/u2019s director and a co-investigator on the grant. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573/u201cThe new skills are going to be necessary across many industries from security and space to education and healthcare./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573/n Congress declared modeling and simulation a National Critical Technology as early as 2007. It has only become more important since then as the technology has advanced. At Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½, modeling and simulation research has helped train firefighters, co-pilots, fighter pilots, law enforcement, teachers, clinicians and military medics, among others. There/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573/u2019s also ongoing research using simulation that focuses on teams that will travel together on long missions to other planets and asteroids./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573/n Even some of the most popular video games kids are playing are simulations /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573/u2014Fortnite, Halo, etc. One of the hottest holiday toys of 2021 was the Oculus, a virtual reality home system that transports users into a simulated world./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573/n /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573/u201cWe can/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573/u2019t lose sight of the human element in the design and use of intelligent machines for training and education,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573/u201d says SMST Professor Roger Azevedo, the lead investigator on the grant. He specializes in intelligent system design /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573/u2014 the intersection of intelligent machines and how humans use them./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125573/n