Project Grant 2509232
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support research and activities related to the National Hazards Center's role as an information clearinghouse for understanding the societal dimensions of natural hazards and disasters. The $1,838,806 award will fund four key objectives: (1) advancing multidisciplinary hazards and disaster research to enhance societal resilience; (2) translating and sharing information across...
- This $140,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to revolutionize teleoperation technology for dexterous in-hand manipulation in human-robot collaboration. The primary research objectives are to: 1) develop a learning-based robot control policy to interpret human commands using end-effect-based task features, 2) create a safety-aware, multi-modal perception system to optimize sensory inputs for intuitive and safe operation, and...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $450,000 to Colorado State University (CSU) from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027. The project aims to develop a novel adaptive, fully anisotropic multiscale hp-element method to revolutionize simulation-based design in computational electromagnetics (CEM). The research will create exponentially convergent techniques to accurately and efficiently model multiscale, non-smooth behavior...
- This $100,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the acquisition of an all-in-one optical measurement workstation by Boise State University. The workstation will provide micro-scale vibration and topography characterization capabilities to enhance research and education capacity in materials science, biomedical engineering, additive manufacturing, and quantum physics. It will be integrated into course projects, research internships,...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $287,739 in funding to the University of Nevada, Reno to support research that will (1) establish a methodological and computational framework to leverage new knowledge from simulation data for extreme natural disaster scenarios, and (2) integrate this framework into probabilistic models for assessing infrastructure seismic risk and uncertainty. The research seeks to develop the next...
- This $300,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research on dynamic shape-morphing structures at Colorado State University (CSU). The project aims to develop a rigorous framework for modeling, planning, and controlling high-dimensional morphing structures composed of interconnected morphing rods. These morphing rods combine thermally driven artificial muscles with variable-stiffness shape memory...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $996,596 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to establish a framework for modeling the mechanical behavior of living building materials for structural applications from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2027. Specifically, the award will support research to develop a new multiscale cellular and granular material poroelastic formulation for a microbial precipitation-based living...
- The Colorado School of Mines received a $613,397 project grant award from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The award will support the COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: FRAMEWORKS: SEISMIC COMPUTATIONAL PLATFORM FOR EMPOWERING DISCOVERY project from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2025. Under this project, the Colorado School of Mines will develop a computational platform to advance seismic data analysis and...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $323,345 Project Grant under its Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program to the University of New Haven. The grant supports the acquisition of a legged robotic platform to conduct research and education on risk-aware automated exploration of unknown hazardous environments, with applications for automated search and rescue operations. The research will explore techniques such as real-time object dynamics estimation, natural language...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to develop simulation tools and control methods that enable robots to reliably navigate and manipulate complex environments. The $600,000 award, running from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2030, focuses on two key technical goals: 1) creating multi-physics simulation capabilities for emerging applications like space and underwater...
This award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $368,260 to the University of Colorado Denver to acquire a state-of-the-art motion simulation platform, the Human-Infrastructure Response Simulator (HIRS). The HIRS is designed to accurately replicate a wide range of motions and vibrations encountered in natural and human-made environments, enabling collaborative research across diverse scientific disciplines throughout the Rocky Mountains region and the broader United States. The HIRS platform will support numerous strategic research initiatives, including developing more efficient 3D-printing technologies, understanding human behavior in non-stationary or hazardous environments, improving the safety of autonomous vehicles, and enhancing multi-hazard resilience of infrastructure. The award period runs from September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $368.3k | 8/15/25 |