Project Grant N000142412151

This Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) under the Capacity Building Grants for Non-Land Grant Colleges of Agriculture (CFDA 10.326) program, will fund Texas State University to create and share a standardized welding curriculum across four-year institutions and secondary schools. The $150,000 award aims to: (A) develop a standardized welding curriculum; (B) improve post-secondary students' knowledge and...

This federal Project Grant award of $446,852.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will enhance the robotic welding education curriculum at Collin College in Fairview, Texas. The project aims to train students to earn a FANUC ARCTOOL certificate in robotic welding operations within one year of enrolling in the program. This will increase the number of qualified robotic welding technicians capable of high-quality automated welding for local...

This Project Grant award of $150,210.00 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to enhance undergraduate STEM learning by mitigating misalignment of augmented capability in assistive technology use for construction education. The project, conducted by Texas State University, will develop and evaluate experiential and scenario-based learning modules to help students recognize and manage risks associated with technologies like exoskeletons and...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program, formerly known as Education and Human Resources (CFDA 47.076), provides $552,031 to Mountwest Community and Technical College and the Robert C. Byrd Institute at Marshall University from August 2022 through July 2025. The award aims to revitalize the regional economy in Huntington, West Virginia by expanding the existing welding technician program at Mountwest Community and Technical College and the Robert C....

This $617,138 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to support the revitalization and growth of the welding program at Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC). The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Redesigning and resequencing the welding curriculum with input from industry partners to better align with regional workforce needs. Developing a new welding fabrication capstone course....

This $113,370 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to transform introductory engineering courses at a Hispanic-serving two-year college. The goal is to enhance student success and interest in pursuing STEM degrees through a project-based learning approach. The award will fund the development of quasi-independent, low-cost classroom materials and curricula that provide early-career engineering students with significant...

This $160,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of an immersive virtual reality-based learning environment at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University to advance construction robotics education. Funded under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), the three-year project aims to investigate how such an environment can cultivate students' experiential skills for safely interacting with robots in the construction industry. Specifically,...

This $667,156 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings will fund the development of a Data Sensing Learning Environment (DASLET) to advance middle school students' computational thinking skills and engagement with STEM careers in the construction industry. Under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA #47.076), which supports the development of the Nation's STEM education enterprise, Texas A&M University will...

This $298,351 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), will fund the development of a data sensing learning environment called DASLET to enhance middle school students' computational thinking skills. Over the four-year period from March 1, 2023 to February 28, 2027, the Rochester Institute of Technology will create an immersive virtual reality environment allowing...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) project grant award of $645,959 to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) aims to enhance situated cognition in product design and manufacturing education through visual experiential learning. The primary objective is to gain a fundamental understanding of situated and embodied cognition within manufacturing contexts, specifically product design and manufacturing (PD&M), to improve knowledge acquisition and workforce...