The National Science Foundation awarded a $469,799 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University on January 1, 2022 for collaborative research titled "Nonlinear Balancing: Reduced Models and Control." The research is being conducted under the NSF Directorate for Engineering's CFDA 47.041 Engineering program, which seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through innovative engineering research and education. Specifically, the grant supports...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $191,434 project grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant is part of NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support research on non-academic career paths of master's and PhD engineers. Under the award, Virginia Tech will conduct collaborative research examining career outcomes and pathways outside of academic settings for individuals holding master's and doctoral...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems Project Grant, under the Engineering (47.041) program, provides $354,541 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) from August 15, 2023 to July 31, 2026. The funding supports research into using multi-frequency ultrasound wave fields to organize and orient particles dispersed in a fluid medium into specific, non-periodic patterns. The research aims to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $649,888 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, doing business as Virginia Tech, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The 5-year project aims to develop "acoustic vortex robots" that can achieve contactless, high-resolution, 6-degrees-of-freedom manipulation of nano-to-millimeter-sized objects. Key objectives include establishing theoretical and numerical models to...
The National Science Foundation Division of Engineering Education and Centers awarded a $251,864 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University for collaborative research titled "Extreme Thermal Transport Events in Supersonic and Hypersonic Shock Wave-Turbulence Interactions." The award period runs from May 1, 2021 through April 30, 2024. The research is being conducted under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which seeks to improve quality of life and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering grant (CFDA 47.041) provides $337,865 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027 to conduct foundational research on creating transformative structures and materials with multi-faceted "mechano-intelligence." The project aims to harness the physical reservoir computing power of multi-functional origami as a mechanical neural network, in order to enable essential...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $107,665 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University on August 1, 2021 with a completion date of November 30, 2022. The grant falls under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support research titled "CAREER: FAVORABLE OPTIMIZATION UNDER DISTRIBUTIONAL DISTORTIONS: FRAMEWORKS, ALGORITHMS, AND APPLICATIONS." The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and...
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems on February 1, 2022 to support research titled "CAREER: LOW-LOSS SPINTRONIC DEVICES WITH VERTICALLY ENGINEERED MAGNETS" through January 31, 2027. The award is being used to fund research under the NSF Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) to develop low-loss spintronic devices...
This $418,136 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to investigate integrating nonlinear acoustics with advanced wavefront shaping to surpass the diffraction limit in acoustic imaging, therapeutic ultrasound, multizone sound field reproduction, and active noise control. The three-year project at the Pennsylvania State University starting September 1, 2024 will develop numerical models and experimental demonstrations of nonlinear...
This $217,041 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University to develop acoustic holography-enabled additive manufacturing of high-resolution multifunctional composites. The two-year award under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program will conduct fundamental research to integrate acoustic holography and digital light processing for photo polymerization printing. This will allow for precise spatial control of embedded...