This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering, CFDA 47.079, provides $119,867 to support collaborative research between U.S. and Kenyan institutions. The funding enables U.S. undergraduate engineering students from underrepresented groups to conduct community-engaged engineering research abroad from September 2022 to August 2025. Specifically, students from Purdue University and San Francisco State University will work with faculty...
This $388,611 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support a research project at Purdue University to explore the impact of global undergraduate experiences on engineers' career pathways and approaches to engineering work in an increasingly globalized world. The project will conduct a multiple-case study of three long-running global engineering programs, surveying alumni to compare global career outcomes and identify...
This $299,653 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to investigate how graduate engineering students at research-intensive (R1) institutions in the United States develop intercultural competencies through their work in academic research laboratories. The award was made on August 15, 2024 to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, with an ultimate completion date of July 31, 2027. The project will employ a...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education, under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) federal grant program (CFDA 47.076), provides $369,600 to develop and evaluate new engineering design courses focused on contextual perspectives for second and third year students. The University of Illinois, as awardee, will work with the University of Texas-San Antonio to create an instructional framework and materials for the new...
Clemson University was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2026. The grant funds the development of an adaptive stochastic look-ahead framework to improve disaster relief logistics under forecast uncertainty. As part of its mission to foster innovation in engineering research, the NSF Engineering program supports the creation of new approaches and tools like predictive models...
This $180,126 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering will support collaborative research between Purdue University and institutions in Kenya to foster underrepresented students' capacity in community-based engineering education research. The award will enable U.S. underrepresented students to conduct research in Kenya on community-engaged engineering and localized engineering education design. Students will work with...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities provides $149,913 to Clemson University under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023. The funding supports a multidisciplinary team at Clemson University to understand attitudes and barriers regarding robotic-assisted surgical devices, integrate expert perspectives on challenges and opportunities for their adoption, validate a...
This $100,000 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Education and Centers division will fund research at Tufts University examining how virtual and physical laboratory modes differentially influence the development of engineering students' epistemic practices. The NSF Directorate for Engineering seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering innovation and excellence in research and education programs like the Engineering program...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research examining the contextual influences on faculty pedagogical decision-making and student learning in sociotechnical engineering design education. The $244,294 award to Trustees of Tufts College (Tufts University) will fund a multi-year research study with three key objectives: Convene faculty across institutions to facilitate knowledge sharing and pedagogical innovation...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $199,844 Project Grant under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program to Temple University-Of The Commonwealth System Of Higher Education. The award aims to enhance the transfer of design thinking strategies from undergraduate bioengineering coursework to students' capstone projects and engineering careers. The project involves a collaborative effort between a bioengineering professor, engineering doctoral student, and educational psychology professor...