An Interdisciplinary Collaboration Enhances Education in Both Disciplines and Generates Future Opportunities

Information technology (IT) is an application-oriented discipline. In this paper, we report a successful interdisciplinary collaboration that resulted in improved efficiency of the learning assessment of a chemistry class and helped the participating IT students grow professionally. The success encouraged us to seek more collaborations in the future. During the time when new technologies, such as AI and data mining, become more widely used in businesses and industry, the IT discipline is uniquely positioned to help solve problems that might arise in teaching and learning. The project provides a model based on which we will continue our collaboration through undergraduate research.