Project Grant 60NANB19D019

The National Science Foundation (NSF) provided a $438,627 Project Grant (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) to Wayne State University to host a three-year "REU Site: Summer Academy in Sustainable Manufacturing". The award period runs from April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2027. The project aims to educate 10 undergraduate students per year on sustainable advanced manufacturing topics, providing them with research, learning, and communication skills under the supervision of faculty mentors. The...

The Pennsylvania State University received a five-year, $556,586 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation. The award funds a research project titled "CAREER: Consideration of Manufacturability in Early Stage Design for Additive Manufacturing" under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA #47.041). The project aims to develop new design methodologies and tools to incorporate manufacturability considerations earlier in...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $481,998 to support research at the University of California, Berkeley on developing a new additive manufacturing process for multi-material and multi-functional part fabrication. The principal investigator will conduct fundamental research into a charge-programmed additive microfabrication technique to rapidly pattern...

Marquette University received a two-year, $207,950 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will support research into improving the manufacturability of novel high-temperature aluminum alloys through additive manufacturing processes. Marquette University's Office of the Comptroller and Office of the Bursar will oversee delivery of research services...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 3-year, $289,495 Project Grant to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop an integrated materials-manufacturing-controls framework for improving the efficiency and resilience of manufacturing systems. The research will focus on enhancing the understanding of the interactions between raw material properties, manufacturing processes, and process control to enable more integrated and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to investigate an innovative power field control strategy for achieving prescribed thermal histories throughout parts produced by powder bed fusion additive manufacturing. The $649,345 award, effective May 1, 2025 through April 30, 2030, aims to (1) understand the effects of power field control on porosity and microstructure, including...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award to Northeastern University totaling $531,056 will fund research to advance the fundamental mechanics of frictional mechanical metamaterials (FMMs). The objective is to develop new concepts, methodologies, and tools to leverage FMMs for applications in areas such as protective materials, energy materials, soft robotics, and seismic engineering. The project will make contributions across theoretical,...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports research to develop methodologies for monitoring and improving personalized manufacturing processes, particularly for one-of-a-kind parts produced using additive manufacturing. The award, totaling $129,624 and spanning from June 1, 2024, to May 31, 2027, will enable researchers at the University of Oklahoma to establish a novel latent space monitoring approach based on...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation aims to develop data-driven methodologies for efficient monitoring and operation of multistage manufacturing systems. The $300,442 award to the University of Wisconsin System will establish an integrated mathematical framework to model the spatial interactions between machines and the temporal degradation of each machine in a multistage manufacturing process. The...

The Regents of the University of Minnesota received a three-year, $306,746 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation. Titled "ADAPTIVE ROBUST OPTIMIZATION WITH ENDOGENOUS UNCERTAINTY AND ACTIVE LEARNING IN SMART MANUFACTURING," the grant will support research under the NSF Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041). Specifically, the University will conduct research on adaptive robust optimization methods with endogenous...