Project Grant 2531898
- The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) has awarded a Project Grant of $259,991 to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) to conduct research on "Collaborative Research: Human-Centered AI for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Operation and Design Synthesis (HARMONY)". This award supports the development of human-centric artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to help harmonize human workers with increasingly autonomous manufacturing resources, such...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Early-concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, to conduct research on expanding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in manufacturing. The project focuses on developing deep clustering and generative modeling techniques to identify geometric similarities between new part designs and existing designs to improve...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $679,973 Project Grant on May 1, 2025 to the University of Oklahoma (OU) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop an Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Product Design and Production Planning (AI-PDPP) system. The research aims to integrate deep learning into product functional analysis, component design integration, and constraint-aware production planning to help small manufacturers leverage intelligent automation for scalable and...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to revolutionize the design and manufacturing of advanced nanocomposite materials using Artificial Intelligence (AI). The $400,000 award, with a performance period from January 1, 2026 to December 31, 2028, focuses on understanding and controlling the amorphous-crystalline interfaces within these materials to enhance their strength, durability, and reliability. The research tasks involve...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to develop an intelligent system that leverages existing engineering knowledge embedded in texts and images to detect new and unforeseen manufacturing anomalies. The goal is to establish a scalable and automated approach that combines technical documents with machine learning to detect manufacturing anomalies in zero-shot settings, without relying solely on expensive or...
- This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), is supporting a collaborative research effort titled "EAGER: AGENCY AND LEARNING THROUGH INDUSTRY-INFORMED GENAI NAVIGATION - FROM DESIGNING PROCESSES TO WRITING REPORTS AND MODELING COMPLEX SYSTEMS". The $182,981 award, effective from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2027, will investigate how generative AI (GenAI) is used across different levels of chemical engineering...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to transform the way artificial intelligence (AI) transfers learned knowledge from simulated environments to real-world applications. The $249,999 project, awarded on June 1, 2025, with a completion date of May 31, 2028, will develop a novel neuro-symbolic framework that integrates advanced hyperdimensional computing and symbolic reasoning. This approach will enable transparent and...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $200,000 to support the development and implementation of a novel approach to AI education called Human-Centered Algorithm Design (HCAD). The project, led by Trustees of Boston College, will design, test, and study teaching strategies that help engineering students engage with the ethical, social, and human dimensions of AI. By integrating technical, ethical, and social considerations...
- This $150,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support the development of a conceptual framework and physical testbed to advance human-robot collaboration across distributed manufacturing environments. Specifically, the Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University will generate knowledge around how to optimize mixed teams of on-site human and robot workers...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) totaling $596,920 aims to develop a mechanism-informed AI platform for optimizing biomanufacturing processes. The project at Northeastern University seeks to address challenges in biopharmaceutical manufacturing, where complex and variable biological, physical, and chemical factors make current systems inflexible. By integrating emerging sensing technologies, the AI platform will efficiently...
This Project Grant award of $260,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research focused on developing human-centered artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for reconfigurable manufacturing operations and design synthesis. The project, titled "Collaborative Research: Human-Centered AI for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Operation and Design Synthesis (HARMONY)", aims to create preference-aligned decision options that human workers can explore, select, and refine through low-barrier, multimodal interfaces. The research will leverage generative AI, digital twins, and data cultivation strategies to translate the autonomy of individual manufacturing resources into system-level performance gains while maintaining human supervision. The award has an ultimate completion date of September 30, 2028 and is being conducted by Purdue University, a prominent 1862 Land Grant College and not-for-profit educational institution with extensive experience in executing federal contracts and grants.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $260.0k | 9/8/25 |