Project Grant 2518290
- This Project Grant award of $249,790 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to enhance undergraduate construction education by mitigating the risks associated with misalignment between human users and emerging assistive technologies like exoskeletons and virtual/augmented reality tools. The project will develop two educational modules - one focused on physical/cognitive misalignment and another on spatial reasoning misalignment - to help students...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $145,598 to Texas A&M University to develop an interactive virtual reality learning environment called VIRLE. The project aims to equip construction engineering and management students with the skills needed to effectively implement wearable robot solutions to address ergonomic risks in the construction industry. Key products and services to be delivered include: Identifying the required...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $749,972 to Texas A&M University from October 2024 to September 2027. The project aims to transform undergraduate education in construction science by developing and evaluating serious simulation game-driven educational modules for face-to-face, online, and virtual reality learning environments. The research will investigate how these game-based modules can improve students' adaptive...
- 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...
- 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 $667,156 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings will fund the development of a Data Sensing Learning Environment (DASLET) to advance middle school students' computational thinking skills and engagement with STEM careers in the construction industry. Under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA #47.076), which supports the development of the Nation's STEM education enterprise, Texas A&M University will...
- 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 $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,...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $170,000 Project Grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to Cast Inc., a nonprofit educational technology research organization, to develop an enterprise-level platform that integrates immersive extended reality (XR) technologies with traditional learning management systems. The 3-year project, titled "IMMERSIVE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES: EXPANDING ACCESS THROUGH OPEN-SOURCE INNOVATION," aims to enhance technician education by...
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 and manage the risks posed by capability mismatches when using these advanced technologies. The project includes outreach to K-12 students and industry partnerships to promote responsible technology adoption in the construction workforce. By creating scalable educational tools, the initiative seeks to advance the theoretical foundation for human-technology interaction in STEM education and address evolving workforce needs.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $150.2k | 8/21/25 |