This $342,108 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports a research project at Arizona State University (ASU) titled "VIVIFICANDO VALORES INCLUYENTES RADICALMENTE EN LA EDUCACION DE INGENIERIA (VIVIR): INSPIRING RADICALLY INCLUSIVE VALUES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION." The project aims to empower Hispanic, Latinx/e/a/o, and Xicanx/e/a/o undergraduate students in engineering to recognize and disrupt hegemonic...
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 $165,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program supports the development of a novel adaptive data collection framework for automated post-disaster rapid damage assessment. The project at Arizona State University's Orspa division will create a Bayesian-based system that analyzes recent observations to dynamically update the trajectories of data collector agents toward areas with the greatest potential for information gain. This will...
This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Cornell University on March 15, 2025 totals $100,789 and will run through July 31, 2028. The goal of this project is to develop and disseminate visible examples of alternative approaches to curricular transformation and co-design interventions (e.g., workshops, activities, resources) that will be led and shared by engineering educators within their own departmental, institutional, and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $184,727 to the University of Connecticut to evaluate the effectiveness of integrating human rights education into engineering curricula. The project aims to develop, deploy, and assess the efficacy of human rights training modules for incorporation into engineering courses, with the goal of positively impacting engineering students' attitudes towards human rights and their awareness of the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $653,397 project grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The goal of this 3-year project, starting October 2025, is to create a framework for immersive, place-based engineering intensives that build interdisciplinary problem-solving, stakeholder collaboration, and professional networking skills to prepare the next generation of energy engineers. The project will deliver four week-long...
Arizona State University was awarded a $131,961 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering program to conduct research assessing the role of social innovation for resilience in global collaborative research from May 2021 through April 2023. Through this award from the NSF's Office of International Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.079), which aims to strengthen international partnerships to advance scientific discovery and...
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...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $200,867 to the University of Arizona aims to develop and assess an educational approach focused on "priming" to promote sustainable engineering design decision-making among students. The project seeks to: Scale up priming for sustainability as an engineering education intervention Examine the role of priming on sustainable engineering design Evaluate the impact of priming for sustainability...
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 $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support the "IMPRESS-U: RESILIENT ENGINEERING TO ADVANCE PUBLIC VALUE AND INNOVATION IN RESEARCH PERIPHERY COUNTRIES" project. The project examines how uncertainty and crisis drive innovation and change in engineering education, particularly in academic departments operating in challenging environments. Led by Arizona State University, this multi-country, mixed-methods case study research will identify successful models and failed attempts at crisis-responsive reforms in engineering programs across research periphery countries. The goal is to provide actionable findings to guide organizational and programmatic design strategies that can build more resilient, socially responsive academic engineering systems in challenging contexts. The project will run from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2027 and involves a multilateral international partnership with universities in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine.