Project Grant N000142112779

This is a $3,625,863 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (IA) program (CFDA #47.083) to New Mexico State University (NMSU) to establish the Center for Distributed Resilient and Emergent Intelligence-based Additive Manufacturing (DREAM). The project aims to develop the foundational networking, cybersecurity, and digital twin technologies to enable a distributed additive manufacturing (AM) ecosystem across New Mexico. Key objectives include:...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $100,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York. The award period is from June 15, 2022 to May 31, 2023 to support development of an Intelligent Re-Design Recommender System for Additive and Hybrid Manufacturing in Buffalo, New York. Specifically, the grant funds development of a novel, automated assessment and re-design...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) totaling $344,918 will establish a collaborative research program at Florida International University (FIU) to develop advanced data-driven approaches for additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing of materials with locally tunable electrical and mechanical properties. The research aims to create new polymer resin formulations for digital light processing (DLP) 3D printing that can...

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...

The National Science Foundation awarded North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University a $399,917 Project Grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a cyber-physical system framework for in-process quality assurance of inkjet-based additive manufacturing. The three-year project beginning July 1, 2021 will support research to create a quality assurance system that monitors the inkjet 3D printing process and ensures consistency and reliability of...

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...

This $240,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation supports research to develop a computational paradigm called "SMART-RECOVER" that will ensure part performance in digital manufacturing systems despite cyberphysical attacks. The research objectives include techniques for: (1) pre-fabrication reconstruction of attack-altered geometric models, (2) in-process remodification of process plans to disrupt...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $649,345 to Carnegie Mellon University to investigate an innovative power field control strategy to achieve prescribed thermal histories throughout parts produced via powder bed fusion additive manufacturing. The research aims to enable the design of novel processing pathways to tailor material properties, fully utilizing the processing capabilities of open-architecture...

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 $399,161 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Texas at Austin to develop new algorithms and simulations for co-designing the geometry and fabrication plans for direct-ink writing 3D printing. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), this three-year award will transform additive manufacturing design tools by allowing users to specify an object's desired mechanical behavior and automatically generate...