Project Grant 2543637
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (Engineering program, CFDA 47.041) awarded Tufts College $179,471 on November 15, 2025, to develop computational frameworks for understanding and modeling active fluids—self-propelling particle suspensions with applications in advanced materials development. This CAREER award supports the creation of a hybrid computational framework combining theoretical...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Northwestern University received a $678,248 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering program) effective September 1, 2026, through August 31, 2031. The award funds fundamental research to establish principles connecting polymer network topology, hierarchical structure, and mechanical durability in soft materials. Research outputs will...
- 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...
- Federal Grant Award Summary North Carolina State University received a $649,274 CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), effective August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2030. The award supports research to characterize the structural, dynamic, and packaging parameters governing multiple fold propagation behaviors in deployable shell structures....
- Federal Grant Award Summary Georgia Tech Research Corporation has received a $662,045 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 August 1, 2026 through July 31, 2031. The award funds fundamental research to understand the deformation and failure mechanisms of interlocking granular materials—hard, interconnected particles assembled into soft,...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded the University of Pittsburgh a $649,684 CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development) grant effective May 1, 2026, through April 30, 2031, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The project, titled "Dynamics by Design: Bifurcation Engineering for Sensors and Structures," will establish mathematical and computational foundations for systematically designing...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded Georgia TECH Research Corp a CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development) grant totaling $599,972 on June 15, 2025, with a completion date of May 31, 2030. Under CFDA 47.041 (Engineering), this project grant supports the development of multifidelity scientific machine learning methods that integrate high- and low-fidelity simulation data to generate accurate predictive...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of New Mexico received a $517,390 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), effective October 1, 2025 through July 31, 2027. This project grant funds fundamental research to develop engineered adult heart tissue by investigating how multiscale biophysical signals—including material stiffness,...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded $642,143 to the University of Maine System under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, effective June 1, 2025 through May 31, 2030. This project generates research outputs and deliverables focused on understanding soil behavior during transitions from solid-like to fluid-like motion, with...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of New Hampshire has received a $507,706 CAREER (NSF Early Career Development Program) award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Biological Infrastructure under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2030. This project addresses critical gaps in ecological monitoring program design by developing research capacity, educational infrastructure, and analytical tools. The primary...
The National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded $635,061 to the University of New Hampshire on June 1, 2026, through its Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program to support fundamental research on the mechanics of fluid-saturated soft materials under externally applied stress fields. The award funds the development of a predictive theoretical and computational framework that captures the two-way coupling between mechanical deformation and fluid organization in soft materials containing internal fluids capable of redistribution, reorganization, and phase separation. Research deliverables will advance understanding of how embedded fluids influence material properties such as stiffness, stability, and failure resistance across hydrogels, solid-liquid composites, biological tissues, and geological media, with applications to next-generation soft composite materials, flexible biomedical implants, engineered tissue scaffolds, and energy storage systems. In addition to research outputs, the five-year project (completing May 31, 2031) includes an integrated educational program designed to strengthen the domestic science, technology, engineering, and mathematics pipeline through middle-school outreach activities, undergraduate research experiences in soft matter, and integration of research discoveries into undergraduate and graduate curricula. Educational deliverables encompass training in modern computational and theoretical tools for both undergraduate and graduate students, supporting the NSF Engineering program's emphasis on advancing innovation while fostering development of a skilled and diverse engineering workforce.Federal Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $635.1k | 4/30/26 |