Project Grant 2543492
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary This Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award, totaling $550,000 and administered by the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CFDA 47.041), supports fundamental research and knowledge development in advanced additive manufacturing technologies. The primary deliverable is scientific knowledge and technical capabilities for enabling scalable fabrication of nanostructured, high-performance...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded $550,000 under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, beginning April 1, 2026 and concluding March 31, 2031. This Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award funds fundamental research to enable high-resolution additive manufacturing of pure inorganic metal and other inorganic structures at the micro- and nano-scale....
- 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) 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 University of New Mexico 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 October 1, 2026, through September 30, 2031. This five-year project grant supports the development of an ultrafast laser-based manufacturing strategy for polymer-derived ceramics and ceramic matrix composites. The primary...
- 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...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Connecticut received a $549,994 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. The award supports research and development of 3D One-Step Heterogeneous Manufacturing for Integrated Circuits (3D OHMIC), a custom-built additive manufacturing platform that...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded $599,342 to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY), doing business as SUNY at Binghamton, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) on March 1, 2025. This Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award funds fundamental research and educational activities focused on developing a novel additive manufacturing (AM) approach for...
- 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 Grant Award Summary Arizona State University received a $549,994 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), effective August 1, 2026 through July 31, 2031. The award funds the development of a multi-physics computational framework designed to predict and prevent process-induced interfacial cracking in multi-metal additive manufacturing. The...
Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CFDA 47.041 – Engineering) awarded the University of Maryland, College Park a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program project grant of $550,000 effective September 1, 2026, with completion targeted for August 31, 2031. This award supports research to establish the scientific foundation for laser-triggered flash sintering (LTFS), an innovative single-step additive manufacturing (AM) process designed to enable rapid, defect-resistant fabrication of high-performance ceramic components. The research will develop an integrated experimental, computational, and data-driven framework to address fundamental knowledge gaps regarding how coupled laser heating and electric-field stimulation initiate flash sintering, govern densification kinetics, and influence microstructure evolution and defect formation. Primary deliverables include the design and construction of an LTFS-enabled AM testbed with in-situ monitoring capabilities, scientific artificial intelligence-based multiscale modeling tools, and foundational understanding of the coupled thermal and electromagnetic mechanisms governing the sintering process. These research outputs are intended to overcome current limitations in ceramic additive manufacturing—including slow multi-step processes prone to distortion and single-step methods generating severe cracking and poor material quality—thereby accelerating innovations applicable to aerospace, nuclear energy, electronics, and biomedical systems. By advancing reliable manufacturing of high-performance ceramics, the award is expected to strengthen U.S. technological leadership, economic competitiveness, and national security while supporting workforce development through integrated educational and outreach activities.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $550.0k | 3/16/26 |