GRANTS AWARDED s Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Faculty Innovation Research in Science and Technology (FIRST) Grant s Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Innovative Teaching Grant from the Rothwell Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence (RCTLE) s Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Undergraduate Research Collaborative Grants Program s Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University — Worldwide — College of Arts & Sciences
Faculty Startup Funds Program s National Science Foundation
RESEARCH FACULTY HIGHLIGHT DR. EMILY DUX SPELTZ Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics and Technology in the Department of Humanities
practices. Drawing on these experiences, she now focuses on guiding educators in the responsible and effective integration of AI tools in teaching and learning. She has recently published two teaching cases on advanced GenAI prompting and human-in-the-loop workflows in the Writing Across the Curriculum Clearinghouse and the Teaching Repository for AI-Infused Learning, providing practical strategies for educators navigating the use of
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Dr. Emily Dux Speltz is an assistant professor of Applied Linguistics and Technology in the Department of Humanities & Communication. She earned her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and Technology from Iowa State University in 2023. Her research focuses on the writing process, generative AI in education and computer-assisted writing pedagogy. She recently completed work on ProWrite, an NSF-funded project (Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies Program) that made use of biometric technologies — including keystroke logging and eye tracking — to improve process-focused writing instruction. In collaboration with Iowa State University, Nottingham Trent University (UK) and Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands), the project explored real-time feedback for student writers, shifting focus from traditional product-based assessment to moment-by-moment writing-process support. Dr. Dux Speltz continues to publish findings from this project, with two papers under review and additional manuscripts
AI in classrooms.
She was awarded an Innovative Teaching Grant from the Rothwell Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence (RCTLE) at Embry-Riddle. This award supports Dr. Dux Speltz’s development and evaluation of an AI & Ethics course, which launched in March 2025 and funds a collaboration to evaluate and enhance project-based learning (PBL) approaches to AI education. The project aims to contribute to a broader curricular effort to establish a new minor in AI, Critical Thinking and Creativity, which she is leading alongside Department Chair, Dr.
David Higgins.
Moving forward, Dr. Dux Speltz is working to unite her two main areas of research — process-focused writing instruction and ethical AI integration — into a cohesive agenda. Her current focus is on investigating how to support students’ writing processes as they engage with AI tools. She has begun to explore additional cross- institutional collaborations to develop interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of writing, AI and process-
in progress.
Dr. Dux Speltz was also recently a co-principal investigator for an NSF-funded conference titled “Text Production and Comprehension by Human and Artificial Intelligence,” bringing together experts in cognitive science, linguistics and natural language processing to explore how generative AI is transforming educational and communicative
focused instruction.
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