Project Grant 19111903223

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation will fund research from September 2022 through August 2025 totaling $499,269 to understand the adoption of novel design practices by organizations. The research will investigate barriers and catalysts to adopting new methods like biologically inspired design and patent mining in large industrial research and development settings. Researchers will conduct interviews and surveys to...

This $100,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will support the development of an intuitive design platform for sustainable multifamily residential buildings. The grant recipient, New Jersey Institute of Technology, will create a collaborative parametric design system allowing architects, engineers, developers and other users to quickly generate and modify schematic designs and dynamic 3D models through simple sketch-based...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070), provides $132,758 to The Colorado College to support research on distributed and fragmented software design meetings. The research will document issues encountered in remote software design meetings and their impact on projects, and will design, implement and evaluate new tools and practices to...

This $400,000 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), is funding the BRIDGE-TECH (Building Relationships in Innovation and Development for Growth in Emerging Technologies) project. BRIDGE-TECH brings together a cohort of five primarily undergraduate institutions to strengthen regional innovation ecosystems by removing barriers to research, workforce development, and technology...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to advance the field of engineering design. The project aims to develop a framework for accurately evaluating the novelty and quality of diverse design artifacts, such as CAD drawings, text, sketches, and prototypes, using a combination of human experts and machine...

This Project Grant award of $373,360 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the "SPARK" (Supporting Partnerships for Advancement, Research, and Knowledge) initiative. SPARK is a collaborative effort among four primarily undergraduate institutions to build their capacity for innovation and knowledge creation by developing partnerships with industry and regional innovation ecosystems. The key objectives...

This $350,959 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the Regents of the University of Michigan will establish a new strategy to integrate architectural design processes and human-derived designs with physics-guided machine learning and computational design optimization, focused on the application of origami-inspired responsive architecture. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: 1) developing a...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $400,000 over 3 years to Wilkes University for the BRIDGE-TECH (Building Relationships in Innovation and Development for Growth in Emerging Technologies) project. The goal of BRIDGE-TECH is to strengthen regional innovation ecosystems at 5 primarily undergraduate institutions by removing barriers to research, workforce development, and technology...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $275,000 Project Grant to Alchemie Solutions, Inc. under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop a system for generating alternative text descriptions of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) diagrams. The system will produce machine-readable configurations of diagram components and spatial relationships, and generate layered, text-based descriptions matched to a context-driven lexicon. The...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of a technology that helps individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) live independently by providing customized daily activity prompts. The $174,269 award to The Colorado College will fund a 2-year project to: Use contextual inquiry to identify gaps in existing applications for customizing prompts...