Project Grant 050604491

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) provides $137,800 to Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Inc. to conduct a study on the use of software engineering practices and tools (SEPTS) by undergraduate engineering students and industry practitioners. The key objectives of the project are to: (1) assess the SEPTS currently used by students and practitioners across mechanical, electrical, and civil engineering disciplines; (2)...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $200,867 to the University of Arizona aims to develop and assess an educational approach focused on "priming" to promote sustainable engineering design decision-making among students. The project seeks to: Scale up priming for sustainability as an engineering education intervention Examine the role of priming on sustainable engineering design Evaluate the impact of priming for sustainability...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant awarded to CAL Poly Corporation will chart the development of sociotechnical thinking in engineering students and professionals. The $171,088 award will run from June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2027. The project will use scenario-based design tasks and interviews to examine how engineers' reasoning about social, cultural, political, environmental and other contextual factors evolves as they gain education and professional...

This $346,929 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund collaborative research to build foundational knowledge about the spatial skills relevant to contemporary engineering practice. The award, effective January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2028, will focus on identifying the spatial problems embedded in the work of civil and mechanical engineers. The research will utilize ethnographic methods to understand how engineers...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $380,338 provides funding to the University of Michigan-Dearborn to acquire a hierarchical testing framework that will enable component-level and system-level validation of power and energy systems. This state-of-the-art instrumentation will significantly advance multidisciplinary research, education, and training in electrical, computer, robotics, mechanical, and industrial engineering at the...

This $250,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Southern California (USC) for the period of November 1, 2025 to October 31, 2028. The project will investigate a novel approach using nanosecond high-voltage pulse discharges to enhance electrostatic precipitation (PE-ESP) technologies for reducing diesel particulate emissions, which can negatively impact human health. The research will explore fundamental...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $200,000 was provided to Purdue University to conduct research on how undergraduate engineering technology students apply their knowledge of energy concepts to design energy-efficient houses. The research will utilize a mixed-methods approach to assess the students' design thinking strategies, economic decision-making, and conceptual learning of energy concepts as they engage in the challenge of...

This $394,302 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Purdue University to advance understanding and modeling of seismic cracking in earthen embankments and dams. Funded through the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the two-year Boosting Research Ideas for Transformative and Equitable Advances in Engineering Synergy project aims to validate assumptions around using static analyses to estimate earthquake-induced cracking location and size. Researchers will combine case...

The Economic Development Administration awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the Schuylkill Economic Development Corporation (SEDCO) on September 9, 2021 under the Economic Adjustment Assistance (CFDA 11.307) federal grant program. The grant funding will support a feasibility study to determine the potential to extend water service from the Schuylkill County Municipal Authority's Tremont system in Newtown and Reilly Townships, Pennsylvania to the I-81/SR 25 interchange. If feasible, the water...

This $411,496 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to understand and predict the evolution of backward erosion piping (BEP) - a type of internal erosion that can cause failures in geotechnical flood protection infrastructure. The research aims to develop novel computational modeling capabilities to mechanistically characterize the relationship between hydraulic conditions and the time-dependent evolution of BEP. Key...