The National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded Northwestern University a $100,000 Project Grant under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) federal grant program. The grant will support an autonomous modular vehicle technology-based multifaceted mobility service paradigm proof-of-concept study from August 2021 through July 2023. The study aims to explore how autonomous modular vehicle technologies could enable new approaches to on-demand mobility...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $528,406 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2026. The grant funds a research study combining experimental and theoretical approaches to examine human interactions with automated vehicles. As part of its mission to improve engineering research and education, the NSF Engineering program supports innovation through grants like this that investigate...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation. The grant supports the collaborative research project "Economic Modeling and Control Methods for Next Generation Carpool Services" from May 1, 2021 to April 30, 2024. Under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering innovation, the University...
The University of Illinois received a $145,746 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation. The grant was awarded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support the project "EAGER: TURNING UNCERTAINTY INTO ADVANTAGE: NOVEL POLICIES THAT EXPLOIT RANDOMNESS OF LEAD TIMES IN SUPPLY CHAINS" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022. The grant funding will allow researchers at the University of Illinois to develop...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $244,610 Project Grant to the University of Michigan-Dearborn under the Integrative Activities federal grant program (CFDA 47.083). The grant will fund the acquisition of an autonomous plug-in hybrid vehicle platform and sensor suite to support multidisciplinary research and education at the University through August 2025. Specifically, the platform will enable research and training in critical areas like machine learning algorithms for autonomous...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $415,098 Project Grant to the University of Illinois under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will support research from February 2022 to January 2027 related to climate-driven risks to the urban environment through hybrid modeling and adaptation strategies. Specifically, the University of Illinois will utilize hybrid modeling approaches to better understand climate change impacts on urban areas and identify strategies for...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $392,408 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation to develop switching control techniques with minimal data from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024. The grant is part of NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering research and education. Specifically, the University will research switching control methods that...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $240,000 Project Grant under its Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), a minority-serving institution, for the project "Modeling and Learning Space-Time Structures for Real-Time Environment Perception." The 3-year project aims to address real-time environment perception in challenging settings where only 2D annotations are available during training, by modeling and learning the rich...
The University of Illinois received a three-year, $299,463 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The University will conduct research to develop optimized structurally heterogeneous wing designs for flapping-wing micro-air vehicles through high-fidelity fluid-structure interaction simulations and adjoint-based optimization. This work aims to determine wing...
This $149,994 National Science Foundation project grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) funds the "Convergent Innovations in Regional Circular Economies (CIRCULAR)" project being conducted by the University of Illinois from December 2021 through November 2022. The grant aims to improve regional circular economies through convergent innovations in engineering research. As the NSF Engineering directorate seeks to foster innovation and excellence in...