This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (47.041) Project Grant of $396,200 was awarded to The University of Texas at Arlington on November 1, 2021 to support research through October 31, 2023. The grant aims to leverage crowdsourced data to assess spatiotemporal patterns of resilience in diverse Gulf Coast communities impacted by natural hazards. Products and services will include analysis of how crowdsourced data can measure community resilience following disasters. A sub-award of...
The University of Texas at Arlington received a $174,978 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant supports research titled "Sustaining Cognitive Flow in Physical Making" from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2023. The project aims to advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure to enable and accelerate discovery and innovation in computing, communications, and...
The University of Texas at Dallas was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will support research titled "CAREER: DATA-DRIVEN CONTROL OF DYNAMICAL NETWORKS: ROBUSTNESS, RISK, AND NETWORK ARCHITECTURES" from April 2021 through March 2026. The research aims to develop new data-driven control methods for dynamical networks to analyze...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $183,420 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) Office of Research Administration Division. The grant will fund a collaborative research project to develop an integrated materials-manufacturing-controls framework for enhancing the efficiency and resilience of manufacturing systems. Key objectives include: 1) quantifying the effects of raw ingredients on feedstock properties, 2)...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $590,469 project grant to the University of Texas at Austin on April 1, 2021 for research titled "CAREER: ROBUST PERCEPTION AND CUSTOMIZATION FOR LONG-TERM AUTONOMOUS MOBILE SERVICE ROBOTS." The grant is funded through the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering research and education. Under this five-year project grant, the University of Texas at Austin will...
The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) received a $499,968 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.076 STEM Education) to implement strategies that foster engineering identity and improve retention and graduation rates for mechanical and aerospace engineering students, especially those from Hispanic-serving institutions. The key products and services include: Implementing collaborative learning through in-class peer-led team learning and collaborative learning...
The University of Texas at Austin received a $473,913 project grant award from the National Science Foundation on June 1, 2021 to support the program "Empowering Engineering Scholar-Activists through Community-Driven Research Experiences." The funding will support this program through May 31, 2025 under the NSF Directorate for Engineering's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The project aims to foster innovation and excellence in engineering research and education by enabling...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Project Grant, awarded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports research on understanding how compound flood mechanisms influence decision-making about shoreline adaptation in multi-jurisdictional governance systems. The $555,778 award to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) will develop an integrated modeling framework to examine the interactions between local and regional decision-makers and...
The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) received a $299,632 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a reliable and efficient LIUTEX-based sub-grid model for Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of turbulent flows. The project aims to (1) create a new LIUTEX-based sub-grid model, (2) develop a dynamic LIUTEX-based sub-grid model, (3) test the new models in various computational fluid dynamics cases, and (4) evaluate the performance...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $295,000 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) on September 15, 2021. The grant supports research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CPS: SMALL: CO-DESIGN OF PREDICTION AND CONTROL ACROSS DATA BOUNDARIES: EFFICIENCY, PRIVACY, AND MARKETS" through August 31, 2024. The research aims to advance techniques for coordinating predictive algorithms and control systems across...