Oregon State University was awarded a $325,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The three-year award will support collaborative research to advance understanding of fracture response and transport behavior in additively manufactured layered concrete materials. Oregon State University will work with partners to engineer concrete composites using 3D printing...
The National Science Foundation awarded Oregon State University a $512,967 Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will fund collaborative research from January 2022 through December 2024 to parameterize the drivers and timing of post-earthquake landslides. As part of its mission to improve engineering innovation and education, the NSF Engineering program supports research like this project that aims to better understand landslide risks following seismic...
The University of Oregon received a $646,563 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The three-year award beginning September 1, 2021 will support research to develop a metamaterial design platform and dynamic building blocks for manipulating mechanical waves in non-equilibrium systems violating symmetry properties. The University will leverage the funding to advance...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $648,121 Project Grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to Michigan State University from July 2022 through July 2025. The grant aims to develop a national standard curriculum for mass timber design and construction technician education. Mass timber is an emerging building material with potential workforce demands of over 90,000 by 2029. The university will create modular curriculum on mass timber that can be integrated into associate's and...
Oregon State University was awarded a $530,078 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will fund research from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025 to better understand the physical and chemical processes controlling wildfire spread within heterogeneous mixtures of live and dead fuels. The university will conduct experiments and computational...
Oregon State University was awarded a $348,450 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of September 1, 2022 through January 31, 2023. The grant funds the CAREER project "ACCELERATING REAL-TIME HYBRID PHYSICAL-NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS IN NATURAL HAZARDS ENGINEERING WITH A GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT (GPU)-DRIVEN PARADIGM" which aims to advance hybrid physical-numerical simulation techniques in natural hazards engineering using...
This $119,902 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program, will fund rapid structural assessments and data collection at the historic Blue Heron Paper Mill site in Oregon City, Oregon. Oregon State University will collect perishable Lidar and other data from the mill's various structure types constructed over 150 years, including steel, concrete, timber, and masonry. This...
Oregon State University was awarded a $586,223 project grant from the National Science Foundation to develop manufacturing techniques for high strength nanocrystalline metal sheets using a cold angular rolling process. The goal of this three-year award, which runs from September 2021 through August 2024, is to enable the production of stronger, lighter metal materials for applications in engineering. This work supports the NSF Directorate for Engineering's mission to foster innovation in...
Oregon State University was awarded a $399,999 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) federal grant program (CFDA 47.076). The grant will fund a collaborative research project to facilitate engineering faculty's adoption of evidence-based instructional practices. The project aims to support the development of the Nation's science, technology, engineering and mathematics education...
The Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration awarded a $3.15 million Project Grant to Oregon State University under the Economic Adjustment Assistance program (CFDA 11.307). The grant funds the Oregon Mass Timber Coalition led by the Port of Portland to modernize and boost Oregon's forest products industry. Key initiatives include working with rural forest-dependent communities to increase access to wood fiber and facilitate a workforce development program for wood-based...