The National Science Foundation awarded Oregon State University a $512,967 Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will fund collaborative research from January 2022 through December 2024 to parameterize the drivers and timing of post-earthquake landslides. As part of its mission to improve engineering innovation and education, the NSF Engineering program supports research like this project that aims to better understand landslide risks following seismic...
This five-year, $598,450 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support research accelerating hybrid physical-numerical simulations in natural hazards engineering using graphics processing units. The grantee, Stanford University, will develop advanced numerical methods harnessing graphics processors to overcome computational bottlenecks in structural simulations. In particular, the research will derive and demonstrate algorithms enabling...
Oregon State University was awarded a $350,376 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The three-year award will support research titled "TRANSPORT IN TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS OVER PERMEABLE BEDS: PORE-RESOLVED DIRECT SIMULATIONS AND MACROSCALE CONTINUUM MODELING" from June 2021 through May 2024. The research will involve pore-resolved direct simulations...
Oregon State University was awarded a $530,078 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will fund research from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025 to better understand the physical and chemical processes controlling wildfire spread within heterogeneous mixtures of live and dead fuels. The university will conduct experiments and computational...
Oregon State University was awarded a $499,971 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 research from October 2021 through September 2024 to advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure to enable and accelerate discovery and innovation in computing, communications, and information science and engineering. The funding will allow investigators at...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate awarded Brigham Young University a $397,875 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The three-year grant, from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026, supports the development of new techniques for modeling cyber-physical systems to address challenges with scale and complexity in modern engineering. The project aims to transform human interaction with critical infrastructure such as interconnected energy networks through a...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded Oregon State University a $233,100 Project Grant to support research understanding hybrid green-gray coastal infrastructure processes and performance uncertainties for flood hazard mitigation from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024. This award will fund collaborative research at Oregon State University under the NSF Directorate for Engineering's Engineering program (CFDA...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Utah State University under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) from February 1, 2022 to January 31, 2024. The grant funds research to develop constitutive equations of chemo-mechanics through atomistic simulations. As part of its mission to foster innovation and excellence in engineering research, the NSF Engineering program supports fundamental research that advances understanding of engineering systems and improves the...
Oregon State University was awarded a $399,999 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) federal grant program (CFDA 47.076). The grant will fund a collaborative research project to facilitate engineering faculty's adoption of evidence-based instructional practices. The project aims to support the development of the Nation's science, technology, engineering and mathematics education...
This $345,183 National Science Foundation project grant supports Oregon State University in developing a model of engineering design activity engagement and identity motives among students and professionals. Funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the three-year award beginning September 2022 aims to investigate how and why civil and mechanical engineering students and practicing engineers engage with engineering design. Key objectives include developing an engagement model,...
Oregon State University was awarded a $348,450 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of September 1, 2022 through January 31, 2023. The grant funds the CAREER project "ACCELERATING REAL-TIME HYBRID PHYSICAL-NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS IN NATURAL HAZARDS ENGINEERING WITH A GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT (GPU)-DRIVEN PARADIGM" which aims to advance hybrid physical-numerical simulation techniques in natural hazards engineering using graphics processing unit acceleration. The NSF Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and excellence in engineering research, and this project aligns with program goals to develop new engineering tools and methods.