The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $359,971 project grant to the University of Oklahoma to research methods for enhancing heat transfer across the interface between diamond substrates and gallium nitride (GaN) electronic devices. The project, funded under NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), aims to explore how evanescent electric fields can be leveraged to improve acoustic phonon transmission and thermal conductance at these critical interfaces. This work seeks to enable more...
Oklahoma State University was awarded a $580,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program to acquire a modern Physical Property Measurement System. The system will allow OSU researchers to characterize new materials being developed for applications in food science, biomedical engineering, and electronics. It incorporates several experimental techniques in an automated platform to provide high-quality data for exploring novel classes of...
The National Science Foundation awarded Oklahoma State University $425,279 under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for a Research Experiences in Information Centric Engineering for Emerging Process Domains project grant. The three-year award running from May 2021 through April 2024 will support the establishment of a Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site focused on information centric engineering approaches for emerging process domains. As part of the NSF Directorate for...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $439,603 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Dallas to support research under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The award will fund continued research through 2025 in collaboration with institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Specifically, the funding will support investigation of gallium oxide as a semiconductor material for power electronics applications. The research team will evaluate gallium oxide...
The University of Oklahoma received a $107,148 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems on July 1, 2021 with a completion date of June 30, 2023. The award falls under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which seeks to foster innovation and excellence in engineering research and education. Through this funding, the University of Oklahoma will investigate phonon scattering in superlattices to...
Oklahoma State University was awarded a $750,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation. The grant is part of NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support research and education improving quality of life and economic strength. The award will fund the research project "CAREER: HIERARCHICAL COMMIT OR DEFER PROBLEMS WITH LEARNING: METHODS AND APPLICATIONS" from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2026. The project...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Arizona State University Division - doing business as Orspa a $251,990 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to conduct collaborative research on electrically modulated near-field thermophotonics using metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) nanostructures. The project aims to achieve significant modulation of radiative heat transfer via electrical tuning, potentially leading to novel applications in tunable thermoelectric conversion,...
Oklahoma State University was awarded a two-year, $265,955 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084). The grant aims to enhance writing for publication using artificial intelligence and natural language processing technologies. Specifically, the university will develop AI and NLP tools to analyze scholarly writing and provide feedback to authors on structure, flow, clarity, and conformance with...
Oklahoma State University received a $241,726 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems. The award is supporting collaborative research on visible-light-augmented reverse water gas shift reaction on hybrid plasmonic photocatalysts from June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2024. This Project Grant is being funded through the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which aims to improve quality of life and...
Oklahoma State University was awarded a $402,772 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support a Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site focused on big data analytics from March 2021 through February 2024. As part of this program, Oklahoma State University will provide research experiences and training for undergraduate students in all areas of computing,...