Project Grant AKB29101623

This Project Grant award of $152,201 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research at the University of Iowa to contextualize engineering science courses by incorporating the history of the engineering profession and emphasizing the role of engineering judgment. The project aims to understand how these pedagogical approaches can improve undergraduate retention, particularly among underrepresented groups in engineering....

This $299,913 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) will support a collaborative research project between Penn State University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to investigate how graduate engineering students develop intercultural competencies in authentic academic research laboratory environments. The goal of the project is to provide the inaugural understanding of how intercultural competencies are fostered or...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development and testing of a practice-oriented learning experience to infuse undergraduate biomedical engineering education with global competencies. Over a two-year period starting September 2024, the $200,000 award will enable researchers at Clemson University to create a new global short course that integrates problem-based service-learning. Teams of American and Tanzanian...

This $299,653 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to investigate how graduate engineering students at research-intensive (R1) institutions in the United States develop intercultural competencies through their work in academic research laboratories. The award was made on August 15, 2024 to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, with an ultimate completion date of July 31, 2027. The project will employ a...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $149,500 Project Grant to the University of California Santa Cruz to develop a new certificate program in the humanities for engineering students. The grant funding will support the Humanizing Technology initiative under the NEH's Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). Through this three-year project ending in February 2025, UC Santa Cruz aims to establish a rigorous...

Federal Grant Award Summary Purdue University received a $395,300 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028. The award supports the development and delivery of Portable Intercultural Modules (PIMs)—short, self-paced online educational materials that integrate cultural intelligence (CQ) and humanity-centered design (HUMD) into engineering...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $400,000 project grant under the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Directorate for STEM Education (IUSE: EDU) program to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to incorporate generative artificial intelligence (AI) into engineering writing courses. The project aims to develop an engineering writing curriculum, an AI-enabled writing platform, and professional development to help instructors integrate AI writing tools into...

Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Engineering Education and Centers awarded $157,936 to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside on September 15, 2025, for a collaborative research initiation project titled "Using Stories from Traditional Culture as Case Studies to Teach Virtue-Based Engineering Ethics" under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The project, which extends through August 31, 2027, will develop and deliver innovative...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to Marquette University under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop a human-centered engineering education model. The project aims to provide professional development for engineering faculty focusing on affective domain teaching methods grounded in caring science principles. Over a three-year period ending February 2026, the university will examine the impact of this faculty development curriculum on promoting...

This two-year, $299,647 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Education and Centers division will fund the development of human-in-the-loop natural language processing systems to analyze engineering education program feedback and assessment data. The awardee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, will build models in phases to cluster similar texts from multiple datasets on themes like students' systems thinking and open-ended course surveys. Researchers...