The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $119,696 Project Grant to Roger Williams University under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The three-year award beginning May 1, 2021 will support research into optimized design principles inspired by compliant natural propulsors. Leveraging insights from biology, the grantee aims to advance engineering design through collaborative study of propulsion in nature. By exploring natural propulsion mechanisms adapted over millennia of evolution, the research seeks principles applicable to engineered systems. The award location of Woods Hole, Massachusetts positions the grantee to conduct the research at the marine science research facilities available there.
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