Project Grant 2443338
Award Date
2/1/25
Completion Date
1/31/30
Dollars Obligated
$600K
Federal Agency
Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation
Federal Grant Program
47.041
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Washington, DC 20052, USA
Similar Awards
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $519,991 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Illinois. This 5-year project will develop new transportation system models that account for the discontinuous behavior of transportation services when pricing is introduced or removed, such as the impact on bus boarding times. The research will investigate optimal transportation system design and pricing policies,...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $806,380 Project Grant to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to support research titled "CAREER: Marketplace Design for Freight Transportation and Logistics Platforms" from January 15, 2022 through December 31, 2026. The grant is part of NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering research and education that enables innovation. Under this award, the Georgia Tech...
This Project Grant award of $400,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a study of "last mile" parcel delivery work in the United States. The research team, led by Cornell University, will survey a representative sample of last-mile delivery drivers across two comparable regions to accurately describe the nature of parcel delivery work, assess differences across delivery organizations, and evaluate the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER grant, awarded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support research to establish and analyze stochastic models of service interactions at the micro level. The $525,009 award to the University of Southern California aims to improve managerial decision-making and open new avenues of analysis for the service sector, which accounts for over 70% of the nation's GDP. The research objectives include developing interaction-level service...
The National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute a $341,000 project grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to conduct research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: URBAN GOODS MOVEMENTS, PRICING, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE" from May 1, 2021 to April 30, 2024. The grant will support research examining pricing strategies and their social impacts related to urban goods movement and delivery. The...
This $450,000 Research Initiation Award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports research at Florida A&M University (FAMU) to develop and evaluate innovative collaborative vehicle-and-robot delivery solutions for improving food access in underserved communities. The project aims to create a hybrid optimization method that integrates integer programming and machine learning to coordinate the scheduling and routing of traditional vehicles and...
The Pennsylvania State University received a three-year, $372,708 project grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research on urban goods movements, pricing, and social justice. Funded through the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which supports innovation and excellence in engineering research and education, this project will examine how goods delivery pricing structures impact urban communities. Working with researchers at Penn State, the grant will fund analysis of...
This $359,887 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to develop and assess problem-based learning materials for warehousing and order fulfillment education targeted at advanced undergraduate and master's level industrial engineering students. The principal investigator will work to develop place-based expertise through site visits with local warehousing and order fulfillment organizations, build technical expertise in relevant...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $532,585 Project Grant to The University of Texas at Arlington under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2026. The grant funds the CAREER: SYSTEM DESIGN OF CROWD LOGISTICS VIA PARTICIPATORY AGENT-BASED MODELING project. This project aims to improve crowd logistics through participatory agent-based modeling, allowing for the simulation and optimization of complex adaptive systems...
This $735,670 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program supports fundamental research to create strong, tough, and sustainable materials through new knowledge of small-scale fracture in architected materials. The research will involve developing bio-derived and/or biodegradable materials with precise microstructures using advanced manufacturing, testing their mechanical properties, and modeling crack growth and propagation in...