The National Science Foundation awarded Jackson State University a $539,710 project grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to conduct research titled "CAREER: CLIMATE RESILIENT LANDSLIDE REPAIR ON EXPANSIVE SOIL USING VETIVER GRASS" from May 1, 2021 to April 30, 2026. The grant will support Jackson State University's research into using vetiver grass to strengthen expansive soils and enable more resilient repair of landslides. The NSF Directorate for...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $399,449 awarded on August 15, 2022 will support research at Rice University to develop self-healing polymers for use in complex water environments through July 31, 2025. The research aligns with the NSF Engineering Directorate's CFDA 47.041 program to foster innovation in engineering research. Specifically, the grant will fund examination of how common water ions impact the self-healing process of polymers. Model polymers will be synthesized and...
This $103,242 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into the self-healing mechanics of nanocomposite hydrogels at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023. The grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The project will integrate molecular dynamics simulations, analytical theories, and experimental validation to...
This $525,181 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research at North Carolina State University to explore harnessing soil microbes to improve soil supporting civil infrastructure. The university will identify active microbial communities in relevant soil microcosms and manipulate microcosm geochemistry to induce byproducts like mineral precipitation or gas generation. An integrated meta-omics approach will characterize microbial...
This Project Grant award of $499,999.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of 3D-printed, self-healing sustainable concrete using industrial and household waste materials such as spent foundry sand, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic, and marine organisms like algae. The key objectives are to: 1) Fabricate the 3D-printed self-healing concrete and assess its durability, using numerical simulations and experimental validation...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $510,436 provides funding from June 1, 2023 through May 31, 2028 to San Francisco State University under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The award will support research and educational efforts to advance understanding of green infrastructure systems' influences on structural performance during natural hazard events. Specifically, the university will conduct sensitivity analyses and nonlinear time history analyses to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program provides $960,830 to Jackson State University (JSU) from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2028. The grant establishes the Mississippi Nano-Bio and Immunoengineering Consortium (NIEC), a collaborative research network among seven institutions in Mississippi focused on developing novel biomaterials, evaluating their interactions with biological systems, and assessing their effectiveness in...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Initiation (ERI) award, under CFDA Program 47.041 - Engineering, supports research at New Mexico State University (NMSU) with the primary goal of developing a first-of-its-kind, sustainable, and multifunctional civil infrastructure system called self-recognizing composite structural elements (SR-CSES). The $199,999 project aims to transform fiber-reinforced polymer composite structural elements into sensing and energy harvesting systems...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $559,998 awarded under the Engineering (47.041) program will fund research at the New Jersey Institute of Technology to understand and quantify seismic performance for the design of reinforced concrete structures using highly ductile fiber-reinforced cementitious composites (HPFRCCs). Beginning August 1, 2022 through July 31, 2027, the awardee will integrate physical experimentation, computational modeling, and risk assessment to develop new...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $400,001 awarded to Mississippi State University on August 15, 2022 will fund research and development of degradation-aware self-healing control technologies for power electronics systems through July 31, 2025. Under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the university will develop data-driven models using generative adversarial networks to more accurately predict the remaining useful lifetime of wide bandgap power switches under diverse...