The National Science Foundation awarded a $199,998 Project Grant to The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop new teaching methods and tools to facilitate knowledge transfer within engineering curricula. Specifically, the awardee will first seek to understand barriers engineering students face in applying knowledge across courses. They will then design and test in-class activities to promote knowledge transfer, assessing student...
The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology received a $199,997 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The funding supports research to develop a novel system representation framework for complex engineering systems using technology recursion and the renormalization group transformation method. The research aims to establish a rigorous mathematical...
The Trustees of Stevens Institute of Technology received a $102,100 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The award will fund research from July 2023 through June 2026 to develop diverse fairness measures and optimization models to evaluate fairness in emerging infrastructure systems with high operational dynamics. Specific objectives include creating a novel framework using multi-level utility functions and a social...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,499,955 Project Grant to The Trustees Of The Stevens Institute Of Technology under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) federal grant program (CFDA 47.076). The grant will support the FOSTERING ADAPTIVE EXPERTISE TO INCREASE RETENTION AND GRADUATION OF LOW-INCOME STEM STUDENTS project from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2028. Under this project, The Trustees Of The Stevens Institute Of Technology will develop and deliver programs and...
The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology received a $374,971 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on March 1, 2021 to establish an interdisciplinary research experience site through February 29, 2024. The site will focus on sustainable energy and bioengineering research experiences for undergraduates and recent graduates under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). This program aims to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $244,294 to Trustees of Tufts College (Tufts University) to examine the contextual influences on faculty pedagogical decision-making related to sociotechnical design thinking, teaching, and learning in engineering education. The project aims to develop communities of practice to understand how faculty have responded to context-sensitive barriers and leveraged supports to implement...
This $100,000 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Education and Centers division will fund research at Tufts University examining how virtual and physical laboratory modes differentially influence the development of engineering students' epistemic practices. The NSF Directorate for Engineering seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering innovation and excellence in research and education programs like the Engineering program...
This $362,957 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of an AI-enhanced mobile learning system to help civil and construction engineering students learn from their everyday observations of construction components and operations. The award recipient, the Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology, will design, develop, and test this transformative learning system that uses artificial intelligence to...
The National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education awarded a $199,999 Project Grant to the New Jersey Institute of Technology under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076). The grant will support the New Jersey Institute of Technology's collaborative research project "Facilitating Engineering Faculty's Adoption of Evidence-Based Instructional Practices" from June 2021 through May 2024. The project aims to provide leadership and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. The award will fund research to characterize the nanoscale interactions between biomass-derived carboxylic acids and a platinum catalyst in aqueous reforming processes. This work aims to provide insights on how to design deactivation-resistant catalysts for converting biomass waste streams into renewable hydrogen...