This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) in integrating sustainability, particularly environmental and social sustainability, into its Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) curriculum. The $350,000 award will be used to: (1) Integrate sustainability into 10 critical ISE courses from freshman to senior year, (2) Prepare course materials for...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program is supporting the development and assessment of an educational approach using "priming" to promote sustainable design decision-making among engineering students at the University of Michigan and the University of Arizona.
The $197,710 award, which runs from September 2024 to August 2027, aims to create adaptable priming interventions that can be integrated into existing engineering...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $866,879 to Arizona State University, Kennesaw State University, and Villanova University to transform engineering education by deeply integrating sustainability concepts into their curricula.
The key products and services to be delivered under this two-year award include:
Establishing a collaborative network among the three universities to explore and refine how sustainability is...
The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) was awarded a $199,776 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Engineering Education and Centers under the NSF Engineering (47.041) federal grant program.
The grant will fund a research project titled "RESEARCH INITIATION: UNDERSTANDING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN GENDER, SELF-EFFICACY, AND EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES IN THE PROFESSIONAL FORMATION OF ENGINEERS" being conducted from September 1, 2021 through August...
This $100,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will fund research at the Rochester Institute of Technology towards developing a methodology for designing sustainable software systems. Over the one-year period from September 2022 to August 2023, the researchers will conduct an empirical study of software applications in sustainability-relevant...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $200,867 to the University of Arizona to develop and assess educational interventions focused on priming engineering students to consider social and environmental sustainability in their design decisions. The project aims to create scalable sustainability priming tools that can be integrated into existing engineering design courses to promote more sustainable engineering practices....
This $244,294 federal Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041), will support research examining the contextual factors that influence faculty pedagogical decisions in engineering design education, and how those decisions impact student learning of sociotechnical design thinking competencies.
The project aims to develop communities of practice to share knowledge and foster pedagogical innovation among engineering design faculty across...
This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support research conducted by Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to examine how engineering students' mental models of social-ecological systems shape their design decisions and the long-term impacts of their work.
The $332,655 award, effective October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2027, will integrate cognitive and behavioral science,...
This federal Project Grant award for $349,410 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support the design, development, implementation, and assessment of a systems thinking framework to incorporate environmental, social, and ethical considerations into an interdisciplinary engineering curriculum at Harvey Mudd College. The goal is to equip undergraduate engineering students with the ability to evaluate the implications of their technical decisions and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Engineering Education and Centers awarded Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) a $499,425 Project Grant under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program. The 4-year grant, awarded on August 1, 2023, will support the integration of interdisciplinary curriculum and collaborative teaching methods across RPI's Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering (MANE) department. Key objectives include transforming the department's teaching culture,...
This $349,893 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to investigate how sustainability-focused course interventions can help engineering students develop a sustainability-conscious engineering identity.
The project aims to integrate sustainability principles into approximately 10 engineering courses at RIT through the development of innovative course interventions guided by the Engineering for One Planet (EOP) framework. Over a 3-year period, the research team will collect and analyze qualitative data, including student reflections and interviews, to explore the influence of these course interventions on students' knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors related to the social, environmental, and economic dimensions of sustainability. The insights gained will inform the design of future curricular interventions and contribute to developing an engineering workforce prepared to address the sustainability needs of the modern world.