Project Grant 2134534
- The National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded a $354,392 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of California for collaborative research on learning and distributional feedback control for fabrication of advanced materials. The three-year award running from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024 is funded through the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to improve innovation, creativity and excellence in engineering research and education....
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $560,000 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from June 2021 through May 2026 under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant funds research to develop integrated design and digital fabrication methods using topology optimization and material extrusion 3D printing. Specifically, the award supports work to advance the use of topology optimization techniques to design lightweight structures that can be readily fabricated...
- This $296,555 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support the development of reduced basis enhancements for neural networks and their application to quantum materials simulation. Specifically, the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth will combine traditional reduced basis methods with deep learning techniques to build an analysis-driven computational emulator for parameterized partial differential equations....
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,350,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Office of Research. The award period runs from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2027. The project aims to develop "synthetic life-like materials and machines" by using light-responsive active fluids to control the dynamics and motions of rigid and deformable interfaces and inclusions. Key...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Florida Institute of Technology Inc. under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to investigate new approaches for concurrently considering manufacturing processes in the early stages of materials and product design. Specifically, the two-year award will support the development of a novel systems-based framework for the inverse co-design of materials, products, and manufacturing processes in terms of robust decisions made...
- This $200,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a collaborative research project led by the University of California, Berkeley to develop and harness quasi-one-dimensional topological materials for novel electronic, optoelectronic, and sensing functionalities. The project aims to overcome current limitations of topological insulators by focusing on quasi-1D materials, which have the potential to enable new...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded a $360,935 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports the development of accurate and efficient numerical methods for optimal chip layout and sensitivity analysis tools to improve the design and manufacturing of high-performance, power-efficient microprocessors. The project leverages the hierarchical and...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences and the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems awarded a $240,000 Project Grant to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) under the NSF Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The grant supports collaborative research to develop unnatural cofactors that can be deployed as stronger-than-nature thermodynamic driving forces in biomanufacturing processes. This is...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $599,999 project grant to the National Academy of Sciences to support research activities under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund the design of novel materials with the goal of advancing technologies through March 2022. Key deliverables include utilizing engineering principles to develop materials that can revolutionize future applications in accordance with the program's objective to strengthen the...
- This $400,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will support research at Northwestern University exploring distributed robotic manufacturing to achieve scalable patterning of micro-structured functional surfaces. The NSF's Division of Computer and Network Systems and Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation are providing funding through the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which aims to advance computing and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support the development of a bioinspired hierarchical manufacturing process. The two-year award running from November 2021 to October 2023 will fund research into developing stochastic optimization algorithms and software to accelerate the design and simulation of nature-inspired manufacturing techniques. As part of this effort, $50,000 in subaward funding was provided to Harvard University to extend covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategies to account for discrete-continuous design parameters, incorporate surrogate modeling, and develop associated software for stochastic optimization in engineering applications. The goals of the overarching NSF program include strengthening the nation's scientific enterprise through advances in mathematics and the physical sciences.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $500.0k | 8/10/21 |