Project Grant N000142612279

This $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program aims to establish an open-source ecosystem for educational computer-aided design (CAD) models. The University of Virginia will develop a clearinghouse and peer-reviewed journal to curate and validate CAD models for use in K-12 maker spaces. Over the one-year period, the International Technology and Engineering Education Association will integrate curated CAD models into its...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program provides $250,000 to Northwestern University to develop novel foundation models and learning methods for automating the manufacturing design process. The project aims to leverage large language models like GPT-4 and multi-modal machine learning to enable the generation of CAD models and optimized manufacturing process instructions from natural language inputs...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $240,000 for the University of Connecticut to develop a new product design platform that enables concurrent consideration of product design and remanufacturing processes. The 3-year research effort aims to: (1) quantify and allocate remanufacturing resilience, (2) formulate remanufacturing co-design methodologies for improved reparability, and (3) develop new design approaches...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Florida Institute of Technology Inc. under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to investigate new approaches for concurrently considering manufacturing processes in the early stages of materials and product design. Specifically, the two-year award will support the development of a novel systems-based framework for the inverse co-design of materials, products, and manufacturing processes in terms of robust decisions made...

This three-year $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support research at Stanford University to develop techniques for end-user programming of computer-aided design (CAD) systems. The researchers will create a domain-specific language to describe CAD models in a way that maintains design integrity through parameter changes. They will...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (CFDA #47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering) supports research to explore automatically converting freehand design drawings into parametric CAD models. The $599,999 award to Brown University will develop a system to translate from the visual language of drawing to the formal language of computer-aided design (CAD) software. This technology aims to increase the...

Federal Grant Award Summary BAE Systems Maritime Solutions Norfolk Inc. (operating as Norshipco) received a $909,186 Project Grant from the Naval Sea Systems Command under the Improvement of Navy Ship Repair or Alterations Capability Program (CFDA 12.031) on September 30, 2025. The award funds the acquisition and installation of an MPC2000 Precision Cutting System at the company's Norfolk, Virginia facility, with a completion date of May 12, 2026. The MPC2000 is a capital improvement designed to...

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...

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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to advance the field of engineering design. The project aims to develop a framework for accurately evaluating the novelty and quality of diverse design artifacts, such as CAD drawings, text, sketches, and prototypes, using a combination of human experts and machine...