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Dr Sam Cunningham
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Electrical Engineering & Robotics
Biography
Sam Cunningham is a Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering at the Queensland University of Technology. His research areas are primarily in engineering education and natural language processing, where he focuses on computationally extracting information from student-written pieces of text. He is a Senior Fellow and Associate Fellow (Indigenous) of the Higher Education Academy.Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Personal details
Positions
- Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Electrical Engineering & Robotics
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)
- Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) (Queensland University of Technology)
Publications
- Cunningham-Nelson, S., Laundon, M. & Cathcart, A. (2021). Beyond satisfaction scores: Visualising student comments for whole-of-course evaluation. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 46(5), 685–700. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/203156
- Dart, S., Cunningham-Nelson, S. & Dawes, L. (2020). Understanding student perceptions of worked example videos through the technology acceptance model. Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 28(5), 1278–1290. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/202678
- Cunningham-Nelson, S., Baktashmotlagh, M. & Boles, W. (2019). Visualizing student opinion through text analysis. IEEE Transactions on Education, 62(4), 305–311. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/197186
- Cunningham-Nelson, S., Boles, W., Trouton, L. & Margerison, E. (2019). A review of chatbots in education: Practical steps forward. 30th Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE 2019): Educators Becoming Agents of Change: Innovate, Integrate, Motivate, 299–306. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/134323
- Cunningham-Nelson, S., Mukherjee, M., Goncher, A. & Boles, W. (2018). Text analysis in education: a review of selected software packages with an application for analysing students' conceptual understanding. Australasian Journal of Engineering Education, 23(1), 23–39. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/120394
- Cunningham-Nelson, S., Goncher, A. & Boles, W. (2018). Categorising student responses for feedback based on multiple choice and text responses. Proceedings of 2018 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE), 1179–1182. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/123872
- Cunningham-Nelson, S., Mukherjee, M., Goncher, A. & Boles, W. (2018). Regular and automatic feedback of concepts as formative assessment. Proceedings of the 29th Australasian Association of Engineering Education (AAEE 2018), 1–9. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/123871
- Cunningham - Nelson, S., Goncher, A., Mukherjee, M. & Boles, W. (2017). Pointers to conceptual understanding. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE 2017), 687–695. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/115063
- Cunningham - Nelson, S., Baktashmotlagh, M. & Boles, W. (2017). Visualising student satisfaction. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE 2017), 722–730. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/115064
- Cunningham - Nelson, S., Moghadam, P., Roberts, J. & Elfes, A. (2015). Coverage-based next best view selection. Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2015, 1–9. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/91030
QUT ePrints
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Awards
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2021
- Details
- Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student LearningFor innovatively using technology in large electrical engineering classes to improve learner engagement, enhance feedback and develop understanding of challenging concepts.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2021
- Details
- 2021 Citation for Outstanding Early Career Contribution to Engineering Education
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Vice-Chancellor's Performance Award