Project Grant 0806803

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Program grant award of $562,752 will support Northeastern Technical College's "Technical Engineering for Advanced Manufacturing" (TEAM) project in Cheraw, South Carolina. The project aims to develop a technician-based engineering technology program to address the local manufacturing sector's need for skilled technicians. The key components of the TEAM project include: Collaborating with a Business and...

The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $275,000 Project Grant to Princeton University for collaborative research titled "META-OPTICAL COMPUTATIONAL IMAGE SENSORS." The three-year award, made on August 1, 2021 under the Engineering (47.041) program, will support the development of meta-optical computational image sensors through July 31, 2024. The Engineering program aims to improve quality of life and economic strength by...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded California Institute of Technology (Caltech) a $3.0 million Project Grant effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028, to develop electron-enhanced atomic layer processing (EE-ALP) technology for advanced semiconductor manufacturing. Under this Trailblazer initiative, Caltech will conduct fundamental research to enable atomic layer deposition and etching processes to operate at...

This $271,213 National Science Foundation award through the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program will support research at the Illinois Institute of Technology from September 2022 through August 2025. The project aims to advance understanding of boundary and interface issues in metamaterials through multi-disciplinary collaboration. Researchers will perform theoretical, computational, and experimental analysis of transition layers in acoustic and elastic metamaterials to develop devices that control...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $107,162 Project Grant to California State University Los Angeles Auxiliary Services Inc. to develop critically conscious aerospace engineers through macro-ethics curricula. Under the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education program (CFDA 47.076), the awardee will partner with faculty from four institutions to design and incorporate transformative one-day macro-ethics modules into aerospace engineering courses. The modules aim to...

This $392,098 National Science Foundation award under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program will fund research to establish new theoretical foundations for active metamaterial transmission lines (MTLs) that can control the amplitude and phase of electromagnetic waves. The goal is to develop transformative transmission line technology to address increasing demands for enhanced data capacity, higher spatial resolution, multi-functionality, and smaller circuit and system dimensions in microwave...

This $335,964 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) is funding a collaborative research project at Louisiana Tech University to study the stability and coke-resistance of platinum (Pt) nanolayer catalysts supported on molybdenum-titanium-carbon (MXene) materials. The goal is to advance the basic science of heterogeneous catalysis and provide insights to improve catalyst formulations and designs for the energy-intensive process of...

This $255,904 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships award to Mattiq Inc. supports the development of a high-throughput nanocatalyst synthesis and screening platform to accelerate the discovery of electrocatalysts for broad decarbonization. The platform aims to rapidly search vast materials spaces to identify higher performance electrocatalyst materials through proprietary megalibrary technology. This enables the rapid synthesis of tens of thousands of unique,...

The National Science Foundation Division of Engineering Education and Centers awarded a $405,000 Project Grant to Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (doing business as Tees) to support an interdisciplinary research experiences program titled "REU SITE: INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH EXPERIENCES IN METROLOGY & INSPECTION." The award period is from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. The grant supports the NSF Directorate for Engineering's goal of improving the quality...

This $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to support research that develops a novel approach to metamaterials engineering and manufacturing for emerging optoelectronics. The project at the University of Michigan will utilize a combination of advanced manufacturing tools and focused-ion-beam-assisted molecular-beam epitaxy to pattern and integrate high-purity non-precious metals with high-quality semiconductors. The...