The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant of $113,069 to the University of Tennessee, operating as Univ Tennessee System Office, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070). This grant aims to develop effective and efficient methods for reconstructing city-scale traffic dynamics using mobile data. Specifically, the project will: Estimate travel times and other macroscopic traffic states (speed, flow, density) from...
The University of Tennessee was awarded a $404,784 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Engineering Education and Centers under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The REU SITE: GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN ENVIRONMENTS project will support research experiences for undergraduate students from Oct 2021 through Sep 2024 in Knoxville, TN. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through fostering innovation...
This $281,639 three-year federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site: Smart Cities - Advancing Mobility program hosted by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Over the award period from September 2024 to August 2027, the program will engage 10 undergraduate researchers annually to develop, engineer, and evaluate technologies for improving and advancing mobility in...
The Tennessee Technological University was awarded a $199,454 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The award will support the development of simulation and prediction tools to empower data-driven resource management for indoor 5G+ wireless networks between August 1, 2022 and July 31, 2024. Specifically, the University will create an efficient simulator to generate datasets...
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga received a five-year, $542,220 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The award funds research from September 2021 through August 2026 to control additive manufacturing geometries and conduct combustion analysis of solid rocket fuel grains. As part of NSF's mission to advance engineering research and education, this project...
The University of Tennessee received a $457,671 project grant award from the National Science Foundation to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CONTROLLING THE MICROSTRUCTURE FOR IMPROVED MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF LARGE-SCALE POLYMER COMPOSITE STRUCTURES MADE BY BIG AREA ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING." The award is part of the NSF Directorate for Engineering's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which aims to improve engineering research and education. Under this three-year project...
The University of Tennessee at Tullahoma was awarded a $383,621 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation to support research characterization and simulation of dispersive elastodynamic media in the time domain. This award, made on January 15, 2022 under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) federal grant program, will support research through December 31, 2025 focused on improving understanding of the behavior of materials that...
The University of Tennessee received a $285,243 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to conduct collaborative research on sloshing liquid decontamination of compliant surfaces. The primary objective is to provide a deep understanding of how surface motion impacts the movement and ejection of liquid contaminants, especially for flexible surfaces like those found on flapping-wing robots. This tightly integrated experimental,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) grant award under CFDA 47.041 "Engineering" will provide $599,989 to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga to develop advanced subsurface sensing systems. The project aims to create faster and more accurate infrastructure monitoring capabilities using teams of coordinated autonomous ground penetrating radars (GPRs) with cognitive slant sensing (CSS) features. The research will involve collaborative development of hardware, communication...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Aeronautics (CFDA 43.002) program provides $1,830,000.00 to New Mexico State University (NMSU) to develop a Mobility-Energy-Coordinated Platform for Infrastructure Planning to Support Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Aircraft Operations. The project aims to create models and tools to support planning for electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) and regional air mobility (RAM)...