The University of Utah will receive $388,445 in funding from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) federal grant program. This three-year Project Grant, awarded September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024, will support collaborative research on stakeholder interdependencies in post-disaster relocation under high uncertainty. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (47.041) Project Grant of $396,200 was awarded to The University of Texas at Arlington on November 1, 2021 to support research through October 31, 2023. The grant aims to leverage crowdsourced data to assess spatiotemporal patterns of resilience in diverse Gulf Coast communities impacted by natural hazards. Products and services will include analysis of how crowdsourced data can measure community resilience following disasters. A sub-award of...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $336,050 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of California, Riverside under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to study forced displacement and community resilience related to housing insecurity exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic in inland Southern California. The three-year award beginning July 1, 2022 will fund research into the demographic and socioeconomic profiles of renters experiencing eviction, the relocation processes and...
The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation on September 1, 2021 to support research and modeling under the agency's Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. Through this one-year award concluding on August 31, 2022, Tees will utilize rapid data-driven approaches to model and simulate the 2021 Texas power outage. The research aims to improve...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation provides $227,999 to the University of Utah from September 2021 through August 2024 for collaborative research titled "A Multiscale Thermo-Hygro-Mechanical Investigation of Fibrous Porous Materials." The research aims to improve understanding of the behavior of fibrous porous materials through a multiscale experimental and modeling approach. This award supports the NSF...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) provides $473,305 in funding to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028. The project aims to advance the understanding of the effectiveness of structural mitigation approaches in reducing damage to coastal households from hurricane wind, wave, and surge hazards. Key activities include: Developing and evaluating a multi-level interdisciplinary model to simulate...
The University of Texas at Austin was awarded a $528,708 project grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct collaborative research on adverse multiphase flow interactions in urban stormwater systems under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The three-year project beginning September 1, 2021 will fund research by the University of Texas at Austin, as the primary awardee, and its parent institution the University of Texas System to improve understanding of complex fluid flow...
The University of Texas at Austin received a $285,681 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: INFERRING THE IN SITU MICRO-MECHANICS OF EMBEDDED FIBER NETWORKS BY LEVERAGING LIMITED IMAGING DATA." The three-year award, issued on January 1, 2022 under the NSF Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, will fund research aimed at improving understanding of the...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to the University of Texas at El Paso under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) on January 15, 2022. The grant supports research on "Shared Destinies: Hydro-Social Infrastructures for Community Involvement and Sustainability in Fragmented Border Regions" through December 31, 2022. Under the award, the University of Texas at El Paso will conduct local surveys, interviews, and contribute to the full proposal development...
This Project Grant award of $528,090 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research on housing infrastructure adaptation in coastal communities exposed to natural hazards in a changing climate. The project, titled "CLIMA/COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: RIDERS ON THE STORM: CLIMATE ADAPTATION OF HOUSING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES IN COASTAL CITIES," aims to develop a mathematical framework to analyze the interactions between...