This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.084 - NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program) provides $299,946 to Texas Tech University System to execute the "Building Community-Driven Resilience and Empowerment through Adaptive Manufacturing Technologies" (CO-DREAM TECH) project. The project aims to address the gap in access to advanced building technologies and essential knowledge for their effective and responsible use in remote and mid-sized...
This $500,001 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA #47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) to conduct research on advancing autonomous, materials-on-demand manufacturing capabilities through the convergence of manufacturing, AI, and materials science.
The key objectives are to develop foundational principles for shape-constrained machine learning, effective handling of...
This Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Integrative Activities (IA) program (CFDA 47.083), aims to develop advanced techniques for constructing resilient lunar habitats using 3D printing technologies. The $243,974 award to New Mexico State University (NMSU) will quantify uncertainties in additively-constructed lunar structures operating under microgravity and extreme lunar conditions, and establish predictive models to enhance the reliability of these...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research on "digital alloying" - a manufacturing process that uses metal precursor inks and additive manufacturing to fabricate metal alloy parts with controlled composition and microstructure.
The $200,000 award to New Mexico State University (NMSU) aims to develop an understanding of how the digital printing of multi-metal precursor inks affects the...
This $499,999 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) is funding the development of a computational framework to accelerate the prediction and optimization of microstructures in additive manufacturing (AM) processes. The project aims to drastically reduce the time required to model material microstructures from days to minutes, enabling faster and more efficient design and...
This $1.02 million National Science Foundation Project Grant, funded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports the development of computation-informed deep learning approaches to enable real-time prognosis of melt pool dynamics for additive manufacturing. Over the three-year period from July 2022 to June 2025, the awardee, Rutgers University, will create an integrated model using computational fluid dynamics simulations and deep learning to predict melt pool overheating during...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) totaling $344,918 will establish a collaborative research program at Florida International University (FIU) to develop advanced data-driven approaches for additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing of materials with locally tunable electrical and mechanical properties.
The research aims to create new polymer resin formulations for digital light processing (DLP) 3D printing that can...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $992,439 Cooperative Agreement to Navajo Technical University (NTU) to develop a network of manufacturing micro-factories and technology centers in the Navajo Nation region of New Mexico and Arizona. The project, part of NSF's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, aims to enable tribal communities to participate in the growing space industry supply chain through the implementation of distributed digital manufacturing...
This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Congressionally-Identified Projects program (CFDA 11.617), aims to assist small and medium manufacturers (SMMs) in the El Paso region by enhancing their digital engineering capabilities. The $963,000 award will support the following key activities over the 1-year period from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025:
Conducting a digital transformation program assessment, including...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $197,874 to the University of Houston-Clear Lake to acquire a metal additive manufacturing (AM) system and integrate it into undergraduate engineering courses. The goals are to enrich student learning and experiences by incorporating hands-on metal AM experiential learning in mechanical engineering, engineering physics, and aerospace engineering. The new equipment will be used...
This is a $3,625,863 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (IA) program (CFDA #47.083) to New Mexico State University (NMSU) to establish the Center for Distributed Resilient and Emergent Intelligence-based Additive Manufacturing (DREAM). The project aims to develop the foundational networking, cybersecurity, and digital twin technologies to enable a distributed additive manufacturing (AM) ecosystem across New Mexico. Key objectives include:
Assessing architectural challenges and proposing a scalable cloud-edge infrastructure blueprint for distributed AM networking and security.
Addressing security and trust needs in distributed AM and developing verifiable frameworks.
Building a distributed testbed with digital twin capabilities to refine processes for distributed AM.
The award will support collaborative research between NMSU, the University of New Mexico, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, and Navajo Technical University. This project aligns with New Mexico's economic development and science/technology priorities, and seeks to build a diverse STEM workforce to strengthen the state's competitiveness in advanced manufacturing. The award period is from August 15, 2024 to July 31, 2028.