Project Grant 2507004
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund the development of a virtual reality and artificial intelligence-based personalized learning environment (VRAPS) for sustainable construction education. The $500,000 project, awarded to Georgia Tech Research Corporation and running from October 2025 to September 2028, aims to close the competency gap between industry and construction education by training a workforce capable of...
- This $160,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of an immersive virtual reality-based learning environment at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University to advance construction robotics education. Funded under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), the three-year project aims to investigate how such an environment can cultivate students' experiential skills for safely interacting with robots in the construction industry. Specifically,...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $199,974 to San Francisco State University (SFSU) to acquire virtual reality (VR) equipment and resources. The project, titled "VRMAS: VR Maker Space," aims to strengthen undergraduate learning in STEM education, particularly in computer science and engineering courses at SFSU and across the 23-campus California State University system. The award will fund 10 VR workstations...
- This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, aims to develop an innovative "VirtualAI-Story" tool that integrates virtual reality (VR) and large language models (LLMs) to provide personalized, situated learning through adaptive storytelling. The $399,995 award to the University of Florida will be used to create this VR-based learning environment focused on construction engineering education, with the goal of...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under CFDA 47.076 STEM Education aims to enhance undergraduate learning in construction education by addressing the misalignment of augmented capabilities from assistive technologies like exoskeletons and virtual/augmented reality tools. The USD 150,210 project, running from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2028, will develop and evaluate experiential, scenario-based learning modules to help students at Texas State University recognize...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $425,818 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to the University of Illinois to investigate the development of an immersive virtual reality (VR)-based learning environment for improving construction engineering and management (CEM) students' skills in human-robot collaboration. The project aims to identify key competencies required for CEM students to safely interact with construction robots, develop the VR-based learning...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) Project Grant award of $604,333 aims to develop an interactive virtual reality learning environment called VIRLE to train construction engineering and management (CEM) students on implementing wearable robot solutions to address ergonomic risks in the construction industry. The project will first identify the required skills, knowledge, and abilities for deploying wearable robot solutions by interviewing industry...
- This $399,978 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to promote collaborative learning in architectural engineering design using generative artificial intelligence-powered augmented reality. The project, awarded to Worcester Polytechnic Institute, will develop two generative AI-AR modules to integrate into existing architectural engineering design studio curricula. Over the 3-year period from October 2024 to September 2027, the...
- This $298,351 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), will fund the development of a data sensing learning environment called DASLET to enhance middle school students' computational thinking skills. Over the four-year period from March 1, 2023 to February 28, 2027, the Rochester Institute of Technology will create an immersive virtual reality environment allowing...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $399,994 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to the University of Hawaii at Manoa. This 3-year project, beginning on September 1, 2025, aims to develop and test immersive group learning activities that utilize spatial augmented reality, tangible user interfaces, and natural language processing to help architecture and civil engineering students better comprehend fundamental engineering concepts and visualize solutions to...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund a collaborative research effort to develop a virtual reality and artificial intelligence-powered environment (VRAPS) for personalized learning in sustainable construction education. The $259,613 award, which runs from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2028, aims to investigate competencies required for advancing sustainable construction practices using sensing technologies, and how an embodied virtual reality environment can facilitate personalized learning in this domain. The project will be carried out by the Fresno Foundation California State University, a Hispanic-Serving Institution, to help close the competency gap between industry and construction education by developing a workforce capable of driving sustainable practices in the construction sector.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $259.6k | 7/28/25 |