Project Grant 2016183

This $800,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Engineering Education and Centers (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) aims to increase diversity of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) faculty by supporting women and underrepresented minorities throughout their career exploration and early academic appointment. The "Extending the Impact: Redefining Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty through Inclusive Mentoring Hubs (iREDEFINE I2MHUBS)"...

This Project Grant award of $442,853 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the "REU SITE: APPLIED RESEARCH EXPERIENCE IN ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING (APREECE)" program at Oakland University. The three-year program will provide 10 undergraduate students per year the opportunity to investigate cutting-edge research areas in electrical and computer engineering, with a focus on projects in bioengineering, GPU computing, embedded...

This $100,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041) will fund planning activities at Florida A&M University to develop a research program on brain-inspired intelligence for high-efficiency RF/analog signal processing circuits. Over the one-year period from April 2022 to March 2023, the university will organize workshops with internal and external speakers from diverse fields, provide mentoring to form a multidisciplinary research team,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) provides $550,000 over 5 years to Florida A&M University (FAMU) to develop a reconfigurable real-time radio frequency (RF) analog co-processor in a compact, low-cost form factor. The project aims to: Design an RF analog co-processor that can perform configurable mathematical operations directly on electromagnetic waveforms, reducing computational load in digital signal processing. Develop a film with tunable...

The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees received a $323,500 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ALL-OPTICAL FABRICATION OF LOW-LOSS, HIGH-INDEX-CONTRAST, SILICON-IN-SILICON WAVEGUIDES." The award period is from September 15, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funds collaborative research at the University of Central Florida's campus in...

This $595,227 National Science Foundation project grant supports the University Enterprises, Inc. dba Sacramento State Sponsored Research to implement the PROJECT-ACE program. PROJECT-ACE aims to enhance engineering students' identity, self-efficacy and sense of belonging through active learning pedagogy in six core electrical, electronic and computer engineering courses along critical paths. This supports the NSF STEM Education program's goal of improving STEM education effectiveness for all...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $188,901 to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. to examine how electrical and computer engineering (ECE) students view their family backgrounds and life experiences as contributing to their success in engineering. The research team will conduct 25-30 interviews with ECE students, faculty, staff, and administrators to compare their perspectives on the value of...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $299,503 Project Grant to The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to support research titled "PFI-TT: Acousto-Electric Semiconductor Amplifiers to Expand Wireless Connectivity to a Larger Population of End-Users." The award period runs from August 1, 2021 through January 31, 2024. Under this award, the University of Central Florida will...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education awarded University of California, Merced $500,000 through the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) on July 15, 2025, to implement design-thinking-based professional development and curriculum redesign initiatives within the Electrical Engineering (EE) department. The project, which extends through June 30, 2030, will adapt evidence-based practices from prior NSF Revolutionizing Engineering...

The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees was awarded a $407,181 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund a Research Experience for Undergraduates program in computer vision from May 2021 through April 2024. The program will support investigator-initiated research and education in computer vision and related areas of computing, communications, and information...