Project Grant 2542480
- 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...
- 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)...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded a CAREER grant to San Diego State University Research Foundation on April 1, 2025, in the amount of $637,665 to support faculty early-career research through the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The award funds a five-year research initiative (completion date: March 31, 2030) focused on developing an innovative layered cooling crystallization additive...
- 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,...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Texas at Arlington received a $500,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CFDA 47.041) awarded May 1, 2025, with completion targeted for April 30, 2030. This grant supports research to develop a computational framework for property-centric monitoring and optimization of additive manufacturing (AM) processes to produce...
- 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...
- Grant Award Summary Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Project Grant of $551,703 from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (Engineering program, CFDA 47.041), effective July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2031. The award funds fundamental research to reimagine simulation optimization by coupling exploratory simulation analysis with optimization methods to enhance decision-making...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program grant of $569,573 to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF SUNY) at Binghamton, effective April 1, 2026 through March 31, 2031, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). This award supports research that develops a multiscale modeling framework and physics-informed machine...
- 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...
- 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...
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, high-performance polymeric materials through dual-wavelength sub-diffraction-limited digital-light-projection (DLP) processes. The project delivers research outputs addressing critical manufacturing challenges in the microelectronics and photonic integrated circuits industries, including novel photosensitive resins with advanced thermo-mechanical properties, fundamental understanding of photochemical reactions at nano-scale resolutions, and solutions to overcome the resolution-scalability trade-off in current lithographic approaches. In addition to core research deliverables, the award includes integrated educational and outreach components designed to advance workforce development in advanced manufacturing. Products and services include the development of artificial intelligence-driven models for material characterization, creation of educational video content on soft and hybrid materials characterization, and organization of industry career panels with regional manufacturing leaders. These complementary outputs align with the NSF Engineering program's emphasis on fostering innovation while building a diverse and skilled engineering workforce capable of addressing national manufacturing priorities.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $550.0k | 3/20/26 |