This $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will provide partial support for three Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) symposia to be held in 2024 and 2025. The FOE symposia, organized by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), bring together early career engineers from academia, industry, and government to share cutting-edge research, innovations, and emerging opportunities across various engineering disciplines. The award will...
This $150,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support four Frontiers of Engineering Symposia in 2023 organized by the National Academy of Sciences. The Symposia will bring together approximately 100 early career U.S. engineers and 30 engineers each from Germany, Japan, and EU countries to share research insights and foster collaborative networks. Specific events...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities awarded $110,000 to the National Academy of Sciences through the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) from March 1, 2022 to February 28, 2023. The funding will support three Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) symposia in 2022 organized by the National Academy of Engineering to facilitate knowledge transfer and foster collaborative networks among early career researchers. The symposia...
The National Science Foundation Office of Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities awarded a $110,000 Project Grant to the National Academy of Sciences to support the 2021 Frontiers of Engineering Symposia (US FOE and German-American FOE) from March 1, 2021 through February 28, 2022. Under the NSF Directorate for Engineering's Engineering (CFDA 47.041) federal grant program, which seeks to foster innovation and excellence in engineering research and education, the National Academy...
The National Science Foundation Office of Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities awarded $843,432 to the National Academy of Sciences under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for the project "EXTRAORDINARY ENGINEERING IMPACTS ON SOCIETY: SEVEN DECADES OF SUPPORT FROM THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION" from February 15, 2021 to June 30, 2022. The project will examine the impacts of seven decades of NSF engineering research funding on society and highlight...
This $189,811 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides support for the planning, organizing, and managing of the annual 2024 NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering (NSE) Grantees Conference. The conference, to be held on December 9-10, 2024 in Alexandria, Virginia, serves as a program review and research networking event that highlights ongoing research and educational activities in NSF's nanotechnology science and...
This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports a research alliance on enhancing the resilience of complex cyber-physical infrastructure systems in the era of AI. Specifically, the funding will be used to conduct two workshops focused on developing innovative "just-in-time" resilience solutions that can be flexibly implemented. The workshops will explore new concepts, models, and tools to improve the design,...
This $478,823 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports foundational research to create intelligent structures and materials with multi-faceted mechanical intelligence (mechano-intelligence). The objective is to leverage multi-functional origami as a mechanical neural network to develop self-aware, autonomous engineering systems capable of perceiving, memorizing, and making decisions about their environment....
The National Science Foundation awarded Georgetown University a $606,921 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025. The grant funds collaborative research on rheostructurally-informed neural networks to design geopolymer materials. The Engineering program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and excellence in engineering research. This award will support the development of artificial intelligence...
This $175,684 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides funding to organize and execute the 2025 NSF Foundational Research in Robotics (FRR) and National Robotics Initiative (NRI) Annual Meeting. The meeting will convene investigators with active NSF FRR and NRI program awards to promote dissemination of research ideas, collaboration, and community-building among robotics researchers. The agenda includes talks, poster...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) provides $150,000 in funding to the National Academy of Sciences to partially support three Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) symposia to be held in 2025. The FOE symposia convene approximately 100 early-career U.S. engineers and 30 engineers from partner countries to share cutting-edge research, foster collaboration, and facilitate interdisciplinary transfer of knowledge and methodologies. The 2025 symposia will cover topics such as resilience in fusion science, heterogeneous integration in semiconductors, neural engineering, quantum computing, and the circular economy of polymers. The award period runs from June 2025 through May 2026.