Project Grant 2542359
- This $550,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (Engineering program, CFDA 47.041) and effective April 1, 2026 through March 31, 2031, supports fundamental research and development in advanced additive manufacturing technologies. Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station will establish scientific knowledge for enabling scalable fabrication of nanostructured,...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program grant, awarded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports fundamental research at Iowa State University to understand and control multi-material aerosol jet printing. This $621,008 grant, active from July 2024 to June 2029, aims to establish mechanistic knowledge and digital control of this printing technique to fabricate custom gradients in material composition and properties for applications...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award to the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) provides $618,137 to fund research aimed at advancing laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing by addressing the limitations of current practices that primarily use expensive, energy-intensive spherical metal powders. The key objectives are to: 1) enhance powder-spreading dynamics through multimodal particle sizes and a hybrid powder dispenser, and 2)...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 5-year, $463,417 CAREER grant to the University of Nebraska (UNL) under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to establish a scalable manufacturing approach for incorporating diverse solid particle additives into room temperature liquid metals. This work will lead to the creation of a novel class of multiphase conductive pastes with customizable physical, rheological, and chemical properties. The enhanced properties will increase the...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER grant for $755,668, awarded on April 1, 2024, supports research at Oregon State University (OSU) to understand joining mechanisms in dissimilar metal additive manufacturing. The 5-year project focuses on investigating how laser-based additive manufacturing processes like wire-feed and powder-feed directed energy deposition affect the microstructure and joining of different metal alloys. The research aims to enable the fabrication of defect-free,...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $453,682 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant to Arizona State University (ASU) to conduct fundamental research on ceramic binder jet additive manufacturing. The project, titled "CAREER: Powder Preparation and Compaction for Ceramic Binder Jet Additive Manufacturing," aims to generate new knowledge about how powder granule characteristics and compaction affect the density of ceramic parts produced through this advanced...
- The Pennsylvania State University received a $534,324 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on June 1, 2021 to support research titled "CAREER: LASER-INDUCED SOLVOTHERMAL SYNTHESIS FOR THE DIRECT-WRITE, MICROSCALE ADDITIVE PROCESSING OF METALS AND OXIDES." The research is being conducted under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which aims to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering innovation and excellence. Specifically, the...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Connecticut received a $549,994 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (Engineering program, CFDA 47.041), effective September 1, 2026 through August 31, 2031. This project grant supports the development of 3D One-Step Heterogeneous Manufacturing for Integrated Circuits (3D OHMIC), a novel additive manufacturing platform that integrates...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Maryland, College Park received a $550,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (Engineering program, CFDA 47.041), effective September 1, 2026 through August 31, 2031. This award supports research and development of a transformative single-step additive manufacturing (AM) process for high-performance ceramics based on laser-triggered...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded $580,623 under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (SUNY at Binghamton) on August 1, 2025, for a CAREER project focused on probe-based hybrid nanopatterning of conductive polymers. The award supports fundamental research to develop and validate a novel nanomanufacturing process that...
CAREER: Enabling High-Resolution Selective Laser Printing with Nanoparticles The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville received a $550,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (Engineering program, CFDA 47.041) awarded April 1, 2026, with completion targeted for March 31, 2031. This award funds fundamental research to advance high-resolution additive manufacturing of inorganic metal structures and components at the micro- and nano-scale. The primary research deliverable involves generating foundational knowledge regarding interactions between short-wavelength lasers and inorganic nanoparticles to overcome current manufacturing limitations (structures smaller than 100 micrometers). The resulting research outputs will establish technological pathways for affordable, scalable manufacturing systems applicable to sensing, robotics, energy, communications, and national security applications. In addition to research outputs, the award supports integrated educational and workforce development products. These include cross-disciplinary educational programs at the intersection of materials, manufacturing, and devices designed to prepare the future workforce in micro- and nano-manufacturing and functional electronic and robotic systems. The award also funds outreach initiatives targeting K-12 students to foster awareness and interest in engineering careers, along with industry partnerships to ensure technological viability and facilitate technology translation to U.S. manufacturing and high-technology sectors.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $550.0k | 3/19/26 |