The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $368,886 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant under the Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) to Purdue University to conduct fundamental research on using snapping instabilities for designing shape-reconfigurable structures. The 4-year project, starting on March 15, 2024, aims to develop theoretical models, experimental data, simulation tools, and new design methods to enable structures that can extensively vary their shapes while...
The National Science Foundation awarded Purdue University a $320,000 project grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for work on "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLEXIBLE BIOSENSOR ENABLING LABEL-FREE SPATIAL MAPPING OF INTRA-ORGANOID FUNCTIONS" from February 15, 2021 to January 31, 2024. This funding supports Purdue University's development of a three-dimensional flexible biosensor to enable label-free spatial mapping of functions within organoids. The...
Purdue University was awarded a three-year Project Grant totaling $386,562 by the National Science Foundation under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The award will support the development of multiscale computational modeling methods for simulating flow-induced mechanical deformation using nonlocal continuum formulations. Purdue researchers will construct tractable one-dimensional models coupling nonlocal mechanical response to fluid flow, and develop three-dimensional solvers...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation provides $511,901 to Purdue University from September 2021 through July 2025. The award supports research titled "CAREER: REGULATION OF HYALURONAN PRODUCTION AND FUNCTION BY BIOMECHANICAL SIGNALS" under the NSF Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041). The NSF Directorate for Engineering seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and...
The National Science Foundation awarded Purdue University a $523,750 Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of May 15, 2021 through April 30, 2024. The grant funds an undergraduate research program titled "REU SITE: GROWING ENTREPRENEURIALLY-MINDED UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS WITH NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT IN APPLIED ENERGY." The program will support Purdue University in developing undergraduate researchers' entrepreneurial mindsets through...
Purdue University received a $223,819 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to conduct research from September 2021 through August 2024. The grant funds collaborative research between Purdue University researchers and their partners to advance understanding of formation and removal mechanisms of micron-sized non-metallic inclusions in steel refining through computational and experimental studies. The Engineering program seeks to...
Purdue University received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on May 1, 2021 to support research titled "CAREER: SCALABLE NANOMANUFACTURING OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL TOPOLOGICAL MATERIALS FOR QUANTUM DEVICE APPLICATIONS." The award has a completion date of April 30, 2026. The funding is provided through the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering research and education. Under...
This $398,098 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Purdue University focused on understanding the interplay between electronic, ionic, and mechanical responses in organic conductors. Funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the three-year award beginning September 1, 2022 will investigate the concurrent ionic-electronic transport and chemo-mechanical responses in polymeric conductors. Specifically, the university will formulate a theoretical framework and...
This $450,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Purdue University will support research to characterize the motion and orientation of non-spherical particles in viscoelastic fluids. The research will involve microfluidic experiments, simulations, and theoretical modeling to quantify the interplay between lift forces and particle orientation for different flow rates, particle geometries, fluid properties, and channel confinement....
This $506,494 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) program will support research at Purdue University developing novel methods for data-driven engineering of service systems. The research aims to leverage large operational data sets and machine learning technologies to facilitate model identification for complex stochastic network models representing service industries. Methods will be extended for model calibration in random and nonstationary environments....
The National Science Foundation awarded Purdue University $509,958 under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program for a project titled "CAREER: INVERSE MECHANICS IN SELF-SENSING MATERIALS: BASIC KNOWLEDGE, EDUCATION, AND SERVICE." Purdue will conduct research from August 15, 2023 to July 31, 2028 to advance the understanding of inverting electro-mechanical coupling in self-sensing materials. This work intends to enable quantitative full-field mechanics imaging through simple electrical measurements, with potential applications in robotics, infrastructure monitoring, healthcare and more. Additionally, Purdue will establish an education and outreach program focused on mechanical self-sensing to integrate these topics into activities serving local students. A vertically integrated research program will provide undergraduate research opportunities and mentoring.