The University of California, Davis was awarded a $567,806 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will support research from July 2021 through June 2026 related to evaluating soil liquefaction at multiple scales through physics-guided data science approaches. The NSF Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and excellence in engineering research and...
The National Science Foundation awarded Duke University $358,095 under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The funding supports the "Dynamical Systems Diagnostics for Intelligent Machine Tools" project. This project aims to develop new diagnostic techniques for machine tool condition monitoring and fault detection using dynamical systems analysis. Machine tools are critical manufacturing equipment, and early fault detection can help...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation provides $417,921 to fund research at Duke University from September 2021 through August 2024 under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant supports collaborative research between Duke University and the NSF to develop a unified theory of crack nucleation and growth in materials subjected to repetitive surface acoustic waves and dynamic impacts. The research is...
Duke University was awarded a $160,944 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of September 15, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funds the REU Site: Collaborative Research: Nanoscale Detectives -- Elucidating the Structure and Dynamics of Hybrid Perovskite Systems project at Duke University. The project supports undergraduate students in conducting research to better understand the structure and dynamics of hybrid perovskite...
Clemson University was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2026. The grant funds the development of an adaptive stochastic look-ahead framework to improve disaster relief logistics under forecast uncertainty. As part of its mission to foster innovation in engineering research, the NSF Engineering program supports the creation of new approaches and tools like predictive models...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate awarded Brigham Young University a $397,875 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The three-year grant, from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026, supports the development of new techniques for modeling cyber-physical systems to address challenges with scale and complexity in modern engineering. The project aims to transform human interaction with critical infrastructure such as interconnected energy networks through a...
The National Science Foundation awarded Georgetown University a $606,921 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025. The grant funds collaborative research on rheostructurally-informed neural networks to design geopolymer materials. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and excellence in engineering research. This award will support the development of artificial intelligence...
The National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded North Carolina State University a $583,473 project grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will fund the development of MAARCO, a Multi-Terrain Amphibious Arctic Explorer, from September 2021 through August 2024. As part of its mission to foster innovation in engineering research and education, the Engineering program aims to improve quality of life and economic...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $218,998 to North Carolina State University from March 2023 through February 2026. The funding supports research to develop and test a new technique for forecasting geohazards such as landslides, submarine slides, ground fissures, and liquefaction. Specifically, the researchers aim to determine if measurements of the density of excited vibrational modes (DOM) in natural sediments can provide a...
This $347,172 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Northeastern University to develop integrated numerical modeling of hurricane impacts on natural and hybrid coastal infrastructure. The Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation award falls under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to foster innovation and excellence in engineering research. Researchers will leverage field data from Hurricanes Laura and Delta in 2020 to model wetland...