This $320,899 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support the 2022 Underwater Ideas Lab conference organized by the American Society for Engineering Education. The conference aims to foster transformative ideas and interdisciplinary teams to advance sensing, communication, and data transmission technologies for diverse underwater environments, including marine, freshwater,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, funded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports the establishment of the Center for Growing Ocean Energy Technologies and the Blue Economy (GO BLUE) at the University of Michigan, in partnership with the Stevens Institute of Technology and Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi. The $120,000 award, effective November 1, 2024 through October 31, 2029, will enable faculty-driven, industry-relevant, basic research...
This $420,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will fund the development of a novel AI surrogate cyberinfrastructure for large-scale spatiotemporal simulations of coastal circulation. The project aims to create AI-driven models that can generate these coastal circulation simulations much faster and more efficiently than traditional numerical models, which are both time-consuming and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $238,855 to the Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology will fund the "Center for Growing Ocean Energy Technologies and the Blue Economy (GO BLUE)". This multi-university collaboration across the University of Michigan, Stevens Institute of Technology, and Texas A&M University will conduct faculty-driven, industry-relevant basic and use-inspired research to create new knowledge...
This $239,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the "Center for Growing Ocean Energy Technologies and the Blue Economy (GO BLUE)" at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC). The multi-university collaboration between TAMU-CC, the University of Michigan, and the Stevens Institute of Technology conducts faculty-driven, industry-relevant research to create new knowledge and innovations in marine energy...
This $499,543 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the development of novel, high-fidelity computational tools for simulating the interaction between extreme hydrodynamic conditions and coastal structures. The research, conducted by The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Stony Brook University), aims to advance mathematical methods, algorithms, and software to enable more...
This $290,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research and development to advance offshore wind energy technologies. The key products and services to be delivered include: Development of rare-earth-free magnets to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers for critical materials in offshore wind turbines. Design of an AI-driven control system to improve the stability and reliability of individual permanent magnet synchronous...
This $533,718 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of new analytical methods and algorithms to improve the management of partially observable supply chain systems, with a focus on sustainable seafood operations. The project aims to: Develop new structural estimation and optimization techniques to learn the preferences and behaviors of fishermen and fishing adversaries from imperfect data, and identify...
This $599,262 National Science Foundation award under the Engineering (47.041) program will fund research at Princeton University from June 2023 to May 2026 to advance knowledge in water-shell structure interaction and enable innovative coastal resilience approaches. The research aims to discover efficient hydrodynamic thin-shell structural forms through integrative modeling, experiments, and machine learning. Specific objectives are to determine forms suited for coastal structures like seawalls...
This $634,514 National Science Foundation Engineering grant funds research at Florida Atlantic University from February 2022 to January 2027. The university will develop physics-reinforced data-driven prognostics and co-design tools to advance monitoring and design of marine hydrokinetic energy systems such as marine current turbines and wave energy converters. Researchers will address data scarcity, quality, and concept drift challenges through knowledge transfer and graph learning models...