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NSF program AM-Advanced Manufacturing (088Y00): 460 awards, $161.2M to 166 organizations
460 NSF awards ($161.2M) under the program element AM-Advanced Manufacturing (088Y00) to 166 organizations, fiscal years 2022 to 2026, read 2026-11-03.
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- 088Y00
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- Directorate for Engineering
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- Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation
Awards
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| Award | Agency | Institute or division | Fiscal year | Amount in window | Start | End | Principal investigator | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mcity 2: An Integrated Automated Testbed for Autonomous Transportation Research | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $5,118,625 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2027 | Henry X Liu | nsf.gov |
| FMRG: Cyber: Manufacturing USA: Material-on-demand manufacturing through convergence of manufacturing, AI and materials science | NSF | CSE - Core Programs | 2023 | $3,050,000 | January 1, 2024 | December 31, 2027 | Panganamala R Kumar | nsf.gov |
| FMRG: Manufacturing USA: Cyber: Data-Driven Methods for Future Cyber Manufacturing as a Service | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $3,000,000 | September 15, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Shreyes N Melkote | nsf.gov |
| AccelNet-Implementation: Broadening Carbon Ring | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $1,999,826 | August 1, 2023 | January 31, 2024 | Chunlei Wang | nsf.gov |
| AccelNet-Implementation: Broadening Carbon Ring | NSF | Office of International Science and Engineering | 2024 | $1,999,826 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Chunlei Wang | nsf.gov |
| MRI: Track 1 Acquisition of an Atomic-Layer Deposition System with Remote Plasma Activation of Surface Processes | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $944,000 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2026 | Qing Cao | nsf.gov |
| GOALI: Machine Learning Enabled Multiscale Modeling Platform and Virtual Sensing Digital Twin for Fatigue in Metals Additive Manufacturing (MAM) | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $900,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2030 | Somnath Ghosh | nsf.gov |
| UV-Activated Small Molecule Inhibitors for Patterned Area Selective Deposition | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $800,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Matthias J Young | nsf.gov |
| NSF-DFG: Multiscale Data-Physics Models for the Critical Role of Interfaces in Overmolded Thermoplastic Parts | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $777,782 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2026 | Jacob Fish | nsf.gov |
| MRI: Track 1 Acquisition of a Direct Write Laser to Advance Semiconductor Research and Education at Norfolk State University | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $769,800 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Renny E Fernandez | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding Joining Mechanisms in Dissimilar Metal Additive Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $755,668 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2029 | Somayeh Pasebani | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Selective Microstructure and Surface Engineering of Functional Polymer Composites through Laser-Induced Foaming | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $730,240 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2030 | Mohammad H Malakooti | nsf.gov |
| Data-Driven Leaning and Controlling Metallurgy Matters in Dissimilar Metal Joints | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $727,473 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2027 | Zi-Kui Liu | nsf.gov |
| CMMI-EPSRC: Predictive Models for Manufacturing Stronger, Lighter Polymer Composites for Bone-Repair Implants | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $700,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Steven M Kurtz | nsf.gov |
| Precise Manufacturing of Carbon Nanotube Arrays for Next-Generation Microelectronics Using Chemical and Topographical Patterning and Engineered Polymer Spacers | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $699,253 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Padma Gopalan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Manufacturing Rare Earth Permanent Magnets via Three-dimensional Printing and Decomposition of Hydrogels | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $697,264 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2030 | Wen Shen | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Extrusion-based Additive Manufacturing of Sustainable Thermoplastics via Enzyme Encapsulation and Microfluidic Structuring of Hierarchical Composites | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $697,158 | June 1, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Cecily A Ryan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Manufacturing of Solid Particle-Liquid Metal Mixtures for Soft Robotics and Stretchable Electronics | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $691,771 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2029 | Eric Markvicka | nsf.gov |
| GOALI: Fundamental Understanding of Metal-Nitride Thin Films using Plasma-Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $680,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Nick Strandwitz | nsf.gov |
| GOALI: Fundamental Investigation of Constrained Cutting for High Performance Machining of Difficult-to-Cut Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $678,481 | July 1, 2024 | October 31, 2027 | Burak Sencer | nsf.gov |
| Broadband Tunable Nano-Opto-Electro-Mechanical Resonators for Ultrasensitive Adaptive Sensing | NSF | Electrical, Communications, & Cyber Systems | 2024 | $674,999 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2027 | Jian Zhou | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Laser-Induced Graphene with On-Demand Morphology and Chemistry Control for Scalable Flexible Device Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $662,734 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2028 | Mostafa Bedewy | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Manufacturing of Continuous Network Graphene-Copper Composites for Ultrahigh Electrical Conductivity | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $660,150 | February 1, 2024 | January 31, 2029 | Wonmo Kang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Additively Manufactured Nanomaterial Layers with Submicron Structures | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $659,644 | November 1, 2023 | March 31, 2027 | Kenan Song | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Metal Additive Manufacturing of Reused and Recycled Feedstock | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $659,153 | May 1, 2025 | April 30, 2030 | Sarah J Wolff | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Toward RIPEST Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing (PAM): A Cyber-Physical System of Novel Dual-wavelength Photoinhibition aided PAM | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $657,610 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2028 | Xiayun Zhao | nsf.gov |
| GOALI: Manufacturing of Two-Dimensional MXene Nanosheets by Salt Solution Etching and Their Solution-based Layer-by-Layer Assembly into Heterostructures | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $654,514 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2026 | Jodie Lutkenhaus | nsf.gov |
| Fundamental Studies of Process-Material Interactions in Advanced Adhesion-Driven Manufacturing with Automated Placement of Uncured Thermoset Tows as Model Process | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $651,725 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2027 | Subramani Sockalingam | nsf.gov |
| GOALI: Understanding the Physical Mechanisms of Distortion and Controlling its Effects in Sintering-based Additive Manufacturing Processes | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $650,000 | June 1, 2024 | May 31, 2027 | Rahul Panat | nsf.gov |
| A Direct Numerical Simulation Approach for Understanding Process Drift in Aerosol Jet Printing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $650,000 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Mario F Trujillo | nsf.gov |
| MRI: Track 1 Development of Metal 3D Printing Research Instrument with In-situ Characterization and Closed-loop Control Capability | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $650,000 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2029 | Sen Liu | nsf.gov |
| Nanomanufacturing of Hybrid Nanocarriers and Understanding their Physicochemical Properties for Targeted Drug Delivery | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $649,999 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Michael J Wannemuehler | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Solvent-Free Synthesis of Polymeric Nanostructures with Targeted Properties | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $649,997 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2026 | Rong Yang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Power Field Control to Prescribe Full Temperature History in Powder Bed Fusion | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $649,345 | May 1, 2025 | April 30, 2030 | Sneha Prabha Narra | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding Bond Formation, Microstructural Development and Mechanical Properties in Cold Spray Additive Manufacturing – A Unified Experimental and Numerical Approach | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $648,748 | April 1, 2022 | March 31, 2027 | Mostafa Hassani | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A Novel Electrically-assisted Multimaterial Printing Approach for Scalable Additive Manufacturing of Bioinspired Heterogeneous Materials Architectures | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $648,734 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2029 | Xiangjia Li | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Additive Manufacturing of Polymer Composites via in-situ Polymerization | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $647,188 | November 1, 2024 | April 30, 2028 | Mostafa Yourdkhani | nsf.gov |
| GOALI: Novel Plug flow Continuous Crystallizer with Diaphragm-Driven Suspension Transfer | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $647,158 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Torsten Stelzer | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Liquid-Phase Processing of Fiber-Based Electronic and Photonic Materials and Devices | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $646,338 | April 1, 2022 | March 31, 2027 | Alexander Gumennik | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding Microstructure Evolution and Mechanical Properties of High-rate Additively Deposited Nickel-based Superalloy to Enable Future Clean-energy Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $641,328 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Jonah Klemm-Toole | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Manufacturing of Mesoporous Carbons by Direct Pyrolysis of Plastic Waste for Water Remediation | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $639,637 | March 1, 2023 | February 29, 2028 | Zhe Qiang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Layered Cooling Crystallization for Additive Manufacturing of Bioinspired Heterostructured Hybrid Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $637,665 | April 1, 2025 | March 31, 2030 | YANG YANG | nsf.gov |
| CLIMA/Collaborative Research: Discovery of Covalent Adaptable Networks for Sustainable Manufacturing and Recycling of Wind Turbine Blades | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $632,838 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2027 | Rong Long | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Fast-Rate Manufacturing of Thermoplastic Polymer Composites with Tailored Microstructure and Performance | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $623,128 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Amir Asadi | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Graded and Reliable Aerosol Deposition for Electronics (GRADE): Understanding Multi-Material Aerosol Jet Printing with In-Line Mixing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $621,008 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2029 | Ethan B Secor | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Additive Manufacturing of Structural Battery Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composites | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $620,013 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2029 | Xiangyang Dong | nsf.gov |
| NSF-MeitY: Metal Additive Manufacturing, Advanced Photon Source, In-Situ Monitoring, Rare-Earth Magnet, Materials Design | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $619,688 | August 15, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Jeffrey E Shield | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Advancing Laser Powder Bed Fusion with Non-Spherical Powder | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $618,137 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2029 | Amir Mostafaei | nsf.gov |
| ECLIPSE-CHIPS: Understanding Gas Phase Kinetics of Nanodiamond Nucleation and Growth for Manufacture of Single Crystal Diamond Wafers and Diamond Nanocrystals | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $615,400 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2028 | Sergey V Baryshev | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Manufacturing Cofacially Aligned Nanolayered Architectures through Electrostatic Levitation: Fundamental Research with Integrated Education | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $610,000 | March 15, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Ying Zhong | nsf.gov |
| Nanoscale Metamaterials Engineering and Manufacturing for Emerging Optoelectronics | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $610,000 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Rachel S Goldman | nsf.gov |
| GOALI: Uncertainty Aware Modeling and Control of the Microscale Selective Laser Sintering Process | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $609,991 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Michael Cullinan | nsf.gov |
| Incremental Sheet Forming of Continuous Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites with Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Process Modeling | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $607,204 | October 1, 2026 | September 30, 2029 | Kai Yu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Manufacturing Soft Functional Composites through Mechanically Induced Assembly of Liquid Microstructures in Elastic Films | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $606,600 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2027 | Michael D Bartlett | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Liquid Metal Processing of Magnesium Composites for Microstructure Refinement | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $606,413 | March 15, 2022 | February 29, 2028 | Mehdi Razavi | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Novel Powder-Bed Ceramic Additive Manufacturing Assisted with Water-Based Inks, Layerwise Uniaxial Compression and Temperate Heating for Selective Particle Fusion | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $603,512 | April 1, 2023 | March 31, 2028 | Xuan Song | nsf.gov |
| US-Ireland R&D Partnership: Scalable Low Temperature Ultrafast Laser Materials Manufacturing (STELLAR) | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $602,638 | February 1, 2025 | January 31, 2028 | Steve M Blair | nsf.gov |
| GOALI: Water-Based Assembly of Functional Nanomaterial Coatings for Smart Textiles | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $600,002 | November 15, 2024 | October 31, 2027 | Bo Li | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Towards a Fundamental Understanding of Interface Strain-Driven Pseudomorphic Phase Transformation in Multilayered Nanocomposites | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $600,000 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2029 | Siddhartha Pathak | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Data-Driven Extrusion-Based Robotic Three-Dimensional Printing of Reinforced Concrete | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $599,491 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2030 | Mania Aghaei Meibodi | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A Novel Approach for Tungsten Alloy Additive Manufacturing Enabled by Rolling-Assisted Extrusion, Binder Removal, and Hybrid-Phase Sintering | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $599,342 | March 1, 2025 | February 28, 2030 | Fuda Ning | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding Processing-Structure-Property Relationships in Co-Axial Wire-Feed, Powder-Feed Laser Directed Energy Deposition | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $598,650 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2029 | Amrita Basak | nsf.gov |
| BRITE Pivot: Manufacturing Next Generation Low-Cost High-Capacity Batteries | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $598,503 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Wei Li | nsf.gov |
| A PDE Framework for Sensing and Control of Metal Additive Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $598,148 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2027 | Mamadou L Diagne | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Phase Control in Synthetic Two-Dimensional Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $597,821 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2027 | Zakaria Y Al Balushi | nsf.gov |
| NSF-BSF: Computation-Guided Advanced Fabrication of Silicide Nanostructures with Novel Magnetic Properties | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $592,502 | February 1, 2023 | January 31, 2027 | Yongmei M Jin | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Multi-scale Manufacturing of Porous Carbon Nanostructures | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $589,755 | June 1, 2024 | May 31, 2029 | Pei Dong | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: In-situ Hybrid Layerwise Rolling and Sealing in Laser Powder-bed Fusion Manufacturing of Tungsten: Fundamental Processing Mechanisms and Transition Temperature Controls | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $582,358 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2028 | Nora S Ameri | nsf.gov |
| MRI: Track 1 Development of Machine-Learning Assisted Continuous Fiber Deposition for Multi-Material Additive Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $582,289 | October 1, 2025 | September 30, 2028 | Wenbo Liu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Probe-Based Hybrid Nanopatterning of Conductive Polymers | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $580,623 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2030 | Jia Deng | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: High-Resolution Hybrid Printing of Wearable Heaters with Shape-Changeable Structures | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $576,559 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2029 | Yiwei Han | nsf.gov |
| Laser Directed Energy Deposition Processing of Exchange-Biased Bulk Nanocomposite Permanent Magnets Using Tailored Ferromagnetic-Matrix Powder | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $575,292 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Radhika Barua | nsf.gov |
| Thermo-Mechanical Separation by Atomic Diffusion for Refinement and Recycling of Alloys | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $570,710 | January 1, 2024 | December 31, 2026 | Jan Schroers | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Integration and Tailoring of Thermal Energy Sources to Enable Defect-Free High Deposition Rate Metal Additive Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $570,160 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2030 | Farid Ahmed | nsf.gov |
| Harnessing Self-Assembly for Integrating Structural Color in Additive Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $570,001 | February 1, 2026 | January 31, 2029 | Jochen Mueller | nsf.gov |
| Mixed Applied Fields to Control Freeze Casting Microstructure and Properties | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $568,370 | January 1, 2025 | December 31, 2027 | STEVEN E NALEWAY | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Viscosity-tunable Photopolymers with Metal Powder Mixtures for Cost-effective, High-speed and Large-area Metal Additive Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $567,121 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2028 | Haseung Chung | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Scalable Lamination Printing of Near Atomically Thin Electronic Materials with Mechanical Stretchability | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $562,713 | January 15, 2022 | December 31, 2027 | Yeonwoong Jung | nsf.gov |
| FMSG:BIO: Integrating Artificial Intelligence with Bioprinting for Future Manufacturing of Organoids | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $554,983 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2025 | Ipsita Banerjee | nsf.gov |
| Ice Lithography – A Novel Nanomanufacturing Process | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $554,425 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Gavin M King | nsf.gov |
| Fundamentals of Heterogeneous Nucleation with Application to the Optimization of Horizontal Ribbon Growth | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $554,124 | November 1, 2023 | October 31, 2027 | Brian T Helenbrook | nsf.gov |
| Engineering and Evaluating the End-Group Assisted Electrodeposition of Conformal Polymer Electrolytes for Ultrathin-Film Batteries | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $551,296 | July 15, 2022 | June 30, 2025 | Joerg G Werner | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Data-Driven Metrology and Inspection Technology for Semiconductor Wafer-Level Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $550,792 | November 1, 2021 | May 31, 2026 | ChaBum Lee | nsf.gov |
| FMSG: Eco: Field Assisted Nano Assembly System (FANAS) for Next-Generation Photonics and Quantum Computing | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2023 | $550,000 | January 1, 2024 | December 31, 2026 | Hantang Qin | nsf.gov |
| Fast, Cost-Effective Manufacturing of Polymer Parts without a Mold using a Self-Propagating Polymerization Front Inspired by Natural Growth | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $550,000 | May 1, 2025 | April 30, 2028 | Sameh Tawfick | nsf.gov |
| Mechanistic Understanding and Control of Adhesion and Lubrication by Coacervate Hydrogels for Advanced Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $550,000 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Rosa M Espinosa-Marzal | nsf.gov |
| Manufacturing of Silicon Carbide Membranes via PECVD-Assisted Pre-ceramic Polymer Film Deposition and In Situ Pyrolysis: Fundamental Scientific and Engineering Aspects | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $550,000 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Malancha Gupta | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding Ultrasonic Vibration-Enhanced Anti-Gravity Electrohydrodynamic Printing for High-Precision Functional Structures | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $550,000 | April 1, 2026 | March 31, 2031 | Yi Wang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Laser-Assisted Hybrid Nanomanufacturing System to Scale up Qubit Array Fabrication for (i) Quantum Computing and (ii) In-space Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $550,000 | May 1, 2026 | April 30, 2031 | Hantang Qin | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Ultrafast Laser Manufacturing of Polymer-Derived Ceramics for High-Performance Ceramic Composite Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $550,000 | October 1, 2026 | September 30, 2031 | Heng Zuo | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Enabling High-resolution Selective Laser Printing with Nanoparticles | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $550,000 | April 1, 2026 | March 31, 2031 | Wan Shou | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Dual-Wavelength Sub-diffraction Limited Digital-light Projection (DLP) for High-Performance, Nano-Architected Polymers | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $550,000 | April 1, 2026 | March 31, 2031 | Kaiwen Hsiao | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Advancing the Printability of Aluminum Alloys via In-situ Alloying and Hybrid Processing Strategies | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $550,000 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2031 | Sougata Roy | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Enabling Single-Step Additive Manufacturing of Ceramics via Laser-Triggered Flash Sintering and Scientific Artificial Intelligence-based Multiscale Modeling | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $550,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2031 | Lin Cheng | nsf.gov |
| Revealing the Dynamic Changes in Thermal Radiative Behavior during Far-From-Equilibrium Processing in Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $550,000 | August 15, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | César A Terrazas-Nájera | nsf.gov |
| FMSG: Bio: Merging electrochemistry and metabolic engineering for carbon neutral ammonia production | NSF | BIO - Core Programs | 2023 | $549,995 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2026 | Ruggero Rossi | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Process-Induced Interfacial Crack Formation in Multi-Metal Additive Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $549,994 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2031 | Zhengtao Gan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: 3D One-step Heterogeneous Manufacturing for Integrated Circuits (3D OHMIC) | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $549,994 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2031 | SeungYeon Kang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: High-Resolution Liquid Metal Patterning for Stretchable Electronics Through Self-Assembly and Transfer Printing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $546,713 | April 1, 2025 | March 31, 2030 | Hangbo Zhao | nsf.gov |
| Manufacturing of Color Centers in Hexagonal Boron Nitride for Quantum Applications | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $546,398 | July 15, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Ritesh Sachan | nsf.gov |
| Mechanistic Understanding of Multi-scale Sintering Behavior Influenced by Anisotropic Particle and Pore Distributions in Extrusion-based Metal Additive Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $545,963 | January 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Fuda Ning | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Three-dimensional Nanoscale Device Fabrication via Molecular Programming and DNA-based Self-assembly | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $545,430 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2028 | Grigory Tikhomirov | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Microstructural Engineering of Solid Composite Electrolytes through Process Manipulation | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $544,743 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2028 | Jena M McCollum | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Curing-Induced Microcracking in Thermoset Composites | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $544,364 | October 1, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Marianna Maiaru | nsf.gov |
| Pore Formation and Polymer Thermal Debinding during Vapor-Induced Phase Separation-Enabled Metal Printing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $541,212 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Yong Huang | nsf.gov |
| Shape-Conformal, High-Resolution Aerosol Jet Printing of Electronics (SHAPE) | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $539,491 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2026 | Ethan B Secor | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Leading to Accelerated Discoveries in High-Throughput Ultrafast Laser-Driven Processing of High Entropy Alloy Nanoparticles | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $539,124 | April 1, 2023 | March 31, 2028 | Ritesh Sachan | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Fabrication of Columnar-Grained Microstructures and Single Crystals via Directional Recrystallization of Additively-Manufactured Nickel-based Alloys | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $538,225 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Ian Baker | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Manipulating the Interfacial Structures of Additively Manufactured Semiconductor Chalcogenides | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $534,821 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2031 | Minxiang Zeng | nsf.gov |
| ECLIPSE-CHIPS: Plasma-Produced Materials to Investigate Laser-Produced Plasmas for Microelectronics Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $532,000 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Lorenzo Mangolini | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Processing Intrinsically Conductive Polymers for Fibers via Side-by-Side Spinning | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $528,627 | March 15, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Hang Liu | nsf.gov |
| A Study of Electric Field-Assisted Direct Ink Writing with Conducting Polymers for Electronic Textiles (E-textiles) | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $528,366 | November 1, 2022 | October 31, 2026 | Yayue Pan | nsf.gov |
| Models for Material Damping of Powders in Additively Manufactured Metal Parts | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $527,076 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Matthew S Allen | nsf.gov |
| Patterning Mesoscale Chirality by Guided Crystal Twisting | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $524,480 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2027 | Stephanie S Lee | nsf.gov |
| SNAP-Chip: An All-on-a-Chip System for IC-Compatible, Additive Printing in the Deep-Nanometer Regime using Yoctoliter-to-Zeptoliter Scale Droplets | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $521,832 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Arunkumar Subramanian | nsf.gov |
| Wafer-Scale Ultrathin Layered Device Array Assembly through a Precision Soft-Robotic Stamp Transfer Process | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $520,934 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2027 | Lei Zhou | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Additive Manufacturing with Acoustically Assembled Multi-Scale Composite Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $518,834 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2028 | Tyler R Ray | nsf.gov |
| Artificial Intelligence-Guided Electrospray Deposition of Polymeric Films | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $517,969 | January 1, 2025 | December 31, 2027 | Paul Chiarot | nsf.gov |
| Scalable Manufacturing of Nanobubbles via Ultrasonic Shearing for Biomedicine | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $516,762 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2028 | Mehdi Razavi | nsf.gov |
| Engineering High Speed, High Resolution, Multi-Material Vat Polymerization | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $511,664 | November 15, 2024 | October 31, 2027 | Eric Stefan G Shaqfeh | nsf.gov |
| Manufacturing of High-Performance Tactile Sensors by High Resolution 3D Printing and Conformal Polymer Coating | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $510,542 | November 1, 2023 | October 31, 2027 | Huachao Mao | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Thermomechanical Response and Fatigue Performance of Surface Layers Engineered by Finish Machining: In-situ Characterization and Digital Process Twin | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $507,288 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2027 | Julius M Schoop | nsf.gov |
| Integrated Framework for Cooperative 3D Printing: Uncertainty Quantification, Decision Models, and Algorithms | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $505,789 | January 1, 2024 | December 31, 2027 | Yisha Xiang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding Dynamic Recrystallization Mechanisms in Hybrid In-situ Rolled Additive Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $503,613 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2028 | Shunyu Liu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Expanding the Photo-Manufacturing Toolbox to Enable Production of Bio-sourced Multi-scaled Biomimicking Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $500,076 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Kristan S Worthington | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Interfacial Engineering and Additive Printing of Flexible Thermoelectric Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $500,007 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2027 | Deepa Madan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Manufacturing Semiconducting Nanoparticles at the Aerosol/Vapor-Phase Interface | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $500,000 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Julio M D'Arcy | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Atmospheric-Pressure Manufacturing of Nanocrystalline Diamonds by Plasma-Assisted Flat Flame Vapor Deposition | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $500,000 | February 1, 2023 | January 31, 2028 | Lili Cai | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Fabrication of Sustainable Hemp Yarns and Textiles Using a Modified Fiber Spinning Process | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $500,000 | March 1, 2025 | February 28, 2030 | Rong Yin | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Additive Manufacturing of Adaptive Metal Origami | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $500,000 | April 1, 2025 | March 31, 2030 | Ala Qattawi | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Additive Manufacturing of Property-Certified Metamaterials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $500,000 | May 1, 2025 | April 30, 2030 | Chen Kan | nsf.gov |
| Scalable Manufacturing of Smart Sensors for Visual Detection of Hazardous Chemicals | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $500,000 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Peng Jiang | nsf.gov |
| An Integrated Approach to Designing and Fabricating Engineered Dielectric Metamaterials for Energy Harvesting Applications | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $498,661 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2025 | Mathieu Francoeur | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Towards Intelligent Scan Sequence Generation to Reduce Local Overheating, Distortion, and Residual Stress in LPBF Additive Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $496,138 | January 1, 2025 | December 31, 2027 | Chinedum Okwudire | nsf.gov |
| ECLIPSE: Ultrathin and Reliable Copper Diffusion Barriers for Advanced Copper Interconnects | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $486,461 | January 1, 2025 | December 31, 2027 | Seonhee Jang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Charge-Programmed Additive Microfabrication Process for Multi-Materials and Multi-Functionalities | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $481,998 | October 1, 2022 | October 31, 2026 | Xiaoyu Zheng | nsf.gov |
| Ultraviolet-light induced Frontal Polymerization in Additive Manufacturing and Repairing of Thermoset Polymer Composite - Understanding the Role of Fiber Reinforcement Phases | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $480,424 | November 1, 2022 | October 31, 2027 | Yeqing Wang | nsf.gov |
| Ultrathin Single-Crystal Gold as a High-Performance Device Platform | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $479,971 | April 1, 2026 | March 31, 2029 | Svetlana Neretina | nsf.gov |
| Fundamental Understanding of Amorphization Mechanism and Intermetallic Prevention in Friction-based Solid-state Additive Manufacturing of Aluminum-steel Bimetallic Components | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $478,154 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2024 | Pingsha Dong | nsf.gov |
| Three-Dimensional Printing of Compositionally Tunable and Hybrid Microarchitectures by Laser Nanoparticle Powder-Bed Fusion | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $475,399 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2027 | Masoud Mahjouri-Samani | nsf.gov |
| Scalable Nanomanufacturing of Organic Electronics Using Laser Patterning in a Continuous Solvent Flow Liquid Cell | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $470,298 | September 1, 2022 | July 31, 2026 | Adam J Moule | nsf.gov |
| Roll-to-Roll Assisted Polymerization (RRP) Process for Printing Large-scale Micropatterned Surfaces with Multifunctional Properties | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $469,995 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Ketki M Lichade | nsf.gov |
| Micro-Casting of Titanium Alloys Using 3D-Printed Self-Boiling Molds | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $469,421 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Kornel Ehmann | nsf.gov |
| ECLIPSE: GOALI: Electron Beam Induced Atomic Layer Etching for Atomic Scale Processing of Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $466,735 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Gottlieb S Oehrlein | nsf.gov |
| Enhanced Laser Micro-Machining of Tubular Ni-Ti Alloys: Unraveling Reactive Gas Effects on Cut Rate and Thermal Damage | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $458,067 | November 1, 2025 | October 31, 2028 | Keivan Davami | nsf.gov |
| NSF-DFG: Hierarchical Design and Additive Manufacturing of Metallic Programmable Metamaterials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $452,928 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2026 | Xinghang Zhang | nsf.gov |
| GOALI: Understanding Tribological Properties of Thermally-Synthesized Carbon | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $450,659 | February 1, 2024 | January 31, 2027 | Seong H Kim | nsf.gov |
| GOALI: Addressing Persistent Oxygen in Sulfide-based, Longwave IR Transparent Ceramics | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $450,000 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2029 | Parag Banerjee | nsf.gov |
| Scalable Manufacturing of Deterministically Positioned Quantum Emitters | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $450,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Lih Y Lin | nsf.gov |
| CMMI-EPSRC: Mechanistic Understanding on in-situ Formation and Dispersion of Oxide Particles During Friction-based Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $450,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Dalong Zhang | nsf.gov |
| Printed/Flexible Conductive Patterns Using Versatile Sintering Methods of Metal Nanoparticles | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $450,000 | August 15, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Seonhee Jang | nsf.gov |
| Reusable Salt Binders for Sustainable Ceramic Additive Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $449,971 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Ranajay Ghosh | nsf.gov |
| GOALI: Investigation of High-Speed Face Milling of Difficult-to-Cut Materials with Minimum Quantity Lubrication Using High Oleic Soybean Oil-Based Nanofluids | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $447,198 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Anthony C Okafor | nsf.gov |
| Manufacturing Multi-Material Nanostructures Using Supercritical CO2-Assisted Spray Deposition | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $444,710 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2026 | Dorrin Jarrahbashi | nsf.gov |
| GOALI: Manufacturing Large, Diamond Single Crystals via High-Pressure, High-Temperature Growth | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $442,800 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Jeffrey J Derby | nsf.gov |
| Ultrafine-grained Magnesium Alloys Manufactured by Multi-axial Forging: Elucidating Mechanisms of Achieving Both High Strength and High Ductility | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $442,403 | February 15, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Brian Schuster | nsf.gov |
| Two-component Robotic Extrusion Additive Manufacturing of Concrete Structures: Silicone-solution Phases and Fiber Distributions for Functionally Graded Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $439,237 | November 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Reza Moini | nsf.gov |
| Ferroalloys and Stainless Steels with Low Carbon Footprint via Hydrogen Reduction of Oxide Blends | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $438,690 | November 1, 2023 | October 31, 2026 | David C Dunand | nsf.gov |
| NSF-DFG: Nonequilibrium Thermal Processing of Nanoparticles via Laser Melting and Fragmentation in Liquid | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $432,487 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2027 | Leonid Zhigilei | nsf.gov |
| 2D Material Programming for 3D Manufacturing of Soft Conductive Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $432,461 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Kyungsuk Yum | nsf.gov |
| Manufacturing of High-Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells via Coupled Ion Source and Magnetron Discharges | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $432,196 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Qi H Fan | nsf.gov |
| Sustainable Wafer-Scale Manufacturing of Ultra-Thin Semiconductor Materials Enabled by Molten Interfaces | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $429,534 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | William J Scheideler | nsf.gov |
| High-Yield Core Luminescent Silicon-Carbide Nanocrystals from Mixed Liquid Precursors | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $427,935 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Erik K Hobbie | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Diffusion-Engineered Embedded Printing (DEEP) of High-Performance Biothermoplastics | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $420,441 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Yifei Jin | nsf.gov |
| Powder-decorated Laser Powder Bed Fusion: Understanding Spattering Suppression Towards Additive Manufacturing of High-performance Metallic Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $420,000 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Tuhin Mukherjee | nsf.gov |
| MCA: Precision Electrospinning Training to Enhance Electrokinetic Filtration and Spectroscopy | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $418,697 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2025 | Stuart J Williams | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Scalable Nanomanufacturing Platform for Area-Selective Atomic Layer Deposition of Components for Ultra-Efficient Functional Devices | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $415,804 | April 1, 2023 | March 31, 2026 | Andrew V Teplyakov | nsf.gov |
| Manufacturing of Super-Repellent Surfaces with High Mechanical Resilience | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $415,457 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Tingyi Liu | nsf.gov |
| MRI: Development of Multi-Material Printing and Multi-Modal Sensing Capabilities for Directed Energy Deposition | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $410,900 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2026 | Ping Guo | nsf.gov |
| GOALI: Closed-Loop Control for Precision Extrusion of High-Viscosity Fluids in Robotic Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $408,853 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Nima Fazeli | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Manufacturing USA: Deep Learning to Understand Fatigue Performance and Processing Relationship of Complex Parts by Additive Manufacturing for High-consequence Applications | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $403,296 | October 1, 2025 | April 30, 2028 | Jia Liu | nsf.gov |
| Taming Magnetohydrodynamic Instabilities to Manufacture Aluminum with Greater Efficiency and Lower Cost | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $402,749 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Douglas H Kelley | nsf.gov |
| Understanding How Carbon Fiber Structure Controls Mechano-Electrochemical Properties of Multifunctional Composites | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $402,096 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Ahmad Amiri | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Liquid Crystal-Templated Chemical Vapor Polymerization of Complex Nanofiber Networks | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $400,000 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2027 | Nicholas L Abbott | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Liquid Crystal-Templated Chemical Vapor Polymerization of Complex Nanofiber Networks | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $400,000 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2027 | Joerg Lahann | nsf.gov |
| ENG-AI: Harnessing Deformation in Nanocomposites via Artificial Intelligence-Assisted and Processing-Driven Far-from-Equilibrium Amorphous-Crystalline Interfaces | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $400,000 | January 1, 2026 | December 31, 2028 | Yue Fan | nsf.gov |
| Manufacturing Ductile Metallic Glasses Using Pattern-Seed-Spread Shear Band Engineering | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $400,000 | October 1, 2025 | September 30, 2028 | Donghua Xu | nsf.gov |
| ENG-EAM: Parallax Additive Manufacturing of Sustainable Electrical Interconnects | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $400,000 | May 1, 2026 | April 30, 2029 | Robert R McLeod | nsf.gov |
| Hot Powder Bed Compaction of Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastics via Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $400,000 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2029 | Oleksandr Kravchenko | nsf.gov |
| High-Throughput Manufacturing of Layered Dissimilar Metals for Extreme Conditions | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $399,997 | May 1, 2026 | April 30, 2029 | Hadi Noori | nsf.gov |
| Advanced Nanostructured Flame-Resistant Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $399,038 | January 1, 2025 | December 31, 2027 | Kuang-Ting Hsiao | nsf.gov |
| Fabrication and Understanding of Superconducting Damascene Structures for Quantum Devices | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $398,485 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Qiang Huang | nsf.gov |
| NSF-DFG: Understanding Rough-surface Humid Adhesion to Enable Precise Manipulation and Positioning of Wafers for Next-generation Semiconductor Device Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $398,274 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Tevis Jacobs | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Scalable Nanomanufacturing of Perovskite-Analogue Nanocrystals via Continuous Flow Reactors | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $392,931 | January 1, 2024 | December 31, 2027 | Milad Abolhasani | nsf.gov |
| Fabrication and Scalable Production of Nanobottles | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $391,507 | December 1, 2021 | September 30, 2025 | Younan Xia | nsf.gov |
| Lithography-Free Manufacturing of Metal Structures Separated by Nanogaps | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $389,620 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2025 | Svetlana Neretina | nsf.gov |
| Manufacturing of Metal Sulfides for Next Generation Batteries | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $387,765 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2025 | Colin A Wolden | nsf.gov |
| NSF-DFG: Solvent-Free Manufacturing of Perovskite Large-Scale Electronics | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $384,478 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Oana D Jurchescu | nsf.gov |
| Microfeature Fabrication in Brittle Materials Using Rotary Ultrasonic Micro-Machining | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $381,812 | November 1, 2021 | October 31, 2026 | Weilong Cong | nsf.gov |
| Fundamental Study on Nanotechnology Enabled Arc Welding of High Strength Aluminum Alloys | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $380,707 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2025 | Xiaochun Li | nsf.gov |
| GOALI: Modeling, Prediction and Mitigation of Chatter in Cold Rolling Mills | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $380,000 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Arif S Malik | nsf.gov |
| Atomic- and Nano-Layer Accelerated Femtosecond Ablation: A New Route to Laser Precision Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $379,999 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Tsing-Hua Her | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Probing Particle Impact onto Molten Metal Pool in Laser Directed Energy Deposition by Synchrotron Imaging and Process Modeling | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $376,843 | September 15, 2022 | August 31, 2026 | Sarah J Wolff | nsf.gov |
| Enabling Principles for Manufacturing van der Waals Heterostructures with Clean Interfaces | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $376,022 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Davood Shahrjerdi | nsf.gov |
| ECLIPSE: Collaborative Research: Understanding Material Removal in High-Resolution, High-throughput Magnetically Enhanced Laser Induced Plasma Micromachining | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $375,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Rajiv Malhotra | nsf.gov |
| CAS: Novel Principles of Fabricating High-Performance Sustainable Packaging Films from Hierarchically Reinforced Biopolymers | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $374,160 | December 1, 2023 | November 30, 2027 | Orlin D Velev | nsf.gov |
| CDS&E/Collaborative Research: In-Situ Monitoring-Enabled Multiscale Modeling and Optimization for Environmental and Mechanical Performance of Advanced Manufactured Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $369,202 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Yao Fu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Scalable Nanomanufacturing of Perovskite-Analogue Nanocrystals via Continuous Flow Reactors | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $360,000 | January 1, 2024 | December 31, 2026 | Ou Chen | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Solid-State Additive Manufacturing of Metal Matrix Composites via Cold Spray | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $360,000 | June 1, 2024 | May 31, 2028 | Mostafa Hassani | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Metal Additive Manufacturing, Fatigue Scattering, Physics-Informed Machine Learning, Material Characterization | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $359,990 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Yuebin Guo | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Inkjet Printing Framework by Droplet Impact-induced Ink Release from Liquid Crystal Receiving Substrate | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $358,360 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Xiaoguang Wang | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Scalable Nanomanufacturing Platform for Area-Selective Atomic Layer Deposition of Components for Ultra-Efficient Functional Devices | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $355,714 | April 1, 2023 | March 31, 2026 | Alexander Shestopalov | nsf.gov |
| Eco-friendly Additive Manufacturing of Ceramics via Electron-Stimulated Vacancy Diffusion | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $353,271 | October 1, 2024 | March 31, 2028 | Xuan Song | nsf.gov |
| ECLIPSE-PFAS: Sustainable Use of Etch Gases in Semiconductor Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $350,026 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2028 | Jane P Chang | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Control of Contact Friction of Van der Waals Heterostructures | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $350,000 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Rosa M Espinosa-Marzal | nsf.gov |
| Unraveling the Role of Annealing in Tailoring Structure and Performance of Additively Manufactured Metal Matrix Composites | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $350,000 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Minglei Qu | nsf.gov |
| NSF-DFG: Advances in Ion-Surface Interaction-Driven Manufacturing of One-Dimensional Metal Oxide Heterostructures | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $343,615 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Eva B Schubert | nsf.gov |
| CDS&E: Collaborative Research: Unlocking the Power of Quantum Computing for Topology Optimization | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $342,922 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Wenxiao Pan | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Electrotunable and Curvature-Dependent Friction at Nanoscale Contacts Lubricated by Ionic Liquids | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $341,895 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2026 | Rosa M Espinosa-Marzal | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Solid-State Additive Manufacturing of Metal Matrix Composites via Cold Spray | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $340,000 | June 1, 2024 | May 31, 2028 | Nikhilesh Chawla | nsf.gov |
| NSF-DFG/Collaborative Research: Integrated Computational Materials Engineering of Thermoplastic Composites | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $338,133 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2028 | Mehran Tehrani | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Probing Particle Impact onto Molten Metal Pool in Laser Directed Energy Deposition by Synchrotron Imaging and Process Modeling | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $337,679 | July 1, 2022 | October 31, 2022 | Sarah J Wolff | nsf.gov |
| MCA: Scalable Nanomanufacturing of Earth-Abundant Electrochromics | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $337,635 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2025 | Richard D Robinson | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: US-Ireland R&D Partnership: Processing-Driven Nucleation Mediated Control for Manufacturing of Phase-Pure Ferroelectric Hafnia | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $335,345 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2026 | Jon F Ihlefeld | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Control of Contact Friction of Van der Waals Heterostructures | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $326,975 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | SungWoo Nam | nsf.gov |
| A Microwave Plasma Approach for Manufacturing Refractory High Entropy Alloys | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $326,757 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Shane A Catledge | nsf.gov |
| Manufacture Biomimetic Spatially Varying Fiber Arrangement in Soft Fiber Reinforce Composites Using Aerodynamic Fiber Deposition | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $325,044 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Qihan Liu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Integrating Nanoparticle Self-assembly into Laser/Powder-based Additive Manufacturing of Multimodal Metallic Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $325,000 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Yiliang Liao | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Understanding the Deformation-Morphology-Conductivity Relationship in Multistage Forming-based Manufacturing of Conformal Electronics | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $325,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Rajiv Malhotra | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Unified Sensing and Control for Generalizable Real-Time Arc Welding | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $325,000 | October 1, 2026 | September 30, 2029 | YuMing Zhang | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Unified Sensing and Control for Generalizable Real-Time Arc Welding | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $325,000 | October 1, 2026 | September 30, 2029 | Hai Lin | nsf.gov |
| UV Radiation-assisted Electron Beam Lithography with in situ Singlet Oxygen Resist Development for Patterning sub-5 nm Features | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $320,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Faiz Rahman | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Additive Manufacturing of Optical Hybrid Materials under Extreme Gradients | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $313,716 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Shoufeng Lan | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Scalable Manufacturing of Large-Area Thin Films of Metal-Organic Frameworks for Separations Applications | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $312,197 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2027 | William Epling | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Scalable Manufacturing of Large-Area Thin Films of Metal-Organic Frameworks for Separations Applications | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $311,985 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2027 | Meenesh R Singh | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Sub-Voxel Molecular Patterning of Actuators and Photonic Structures in 3-Dimensional Free-Forms | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $309,569 | March 15, 2022 | August 31, 2026 | M Ravi Shankar | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: 3D Printing of Aligned Muscle Fibers for Thick Structured Meat Production | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $308,000 | September 15, 2022 | August 31, 2026 | Yong Huang | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: Interpretable and Generalizable AI for Smart Manufacturing | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $306,840 | August 15, 2022 | July 31, 2025 | Qi Zhao | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: Quantum Manufacturing: Building In-Operando Quantum Emitters and Simulators with Dynamically Tunable Moire Interfaces | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $306,000 | March 1, 2023 | October 31, 2026 | Arthur W Barnard | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Capillary-Incorporated Bioprinting of Biomimetic Soft Tissue Constructs | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $305,394 | January 1, 2025 | May 31, 2027 | George Z Tan | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Enabling Multi-Functional 3D Composite Responsive Separation (3D-CoReS) Membranes with Advanced Materials and Innovative Manufacturing | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $305,224 | November 1, 2021 | April 30, 2026 | Tequila Harris | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Data-Driven Metrology and Inspection Technology for Semiconductor Wafer-Level Manufacturing | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $300,000 | November 1, 2021 | October 31, 2024 | Martin Jun | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: CoFedAI: Cost-sensitive Federated AI for Smart Manufacturing Data-Sharing | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $300,000 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2024 | Ismini Lourentzou | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: CRYO: Sub-Kelvin Refrigerator using a Superfluid Helium Vortex Cooling Principle | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $300,000 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2024 | Hong Tang | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: CRYO: Development of a sub-Kelvin Refrigerator using Magnetic Field Activated Solid-State Thermal Switches based on Thermal Chiral Anomaly | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $300,000 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2024 | Joseph P Heremans | nsf.gov |
| CLIMA/Collaborative Research: Discovery of Covalent Adaptable Networks for Sustainable Manufacturing and Recycling of Wind Turbine Blades | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $300,000 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2027 | Ying Li | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: Dynamic Cell Patterning in Acoustic Array-Assisted 3D Bioprinting | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $300,000 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2027 | Changxue Xu | nsf.gov |
| Dynamically Reconfigurable Acoustic Manufacturing of Volumetric Tissues with Single-Cell Resolution | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $300,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Pei-Yu Chiou | nsf.gov |
| Low Fidelity Sensing for Scalable In-Process Defect Characterization in Metal Additive Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $300,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Satyajit Mojumder | nsf.gov |
| Holistic Manufacturing of 3D Architected Electrodes for High Volumetric Conversion | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $299,995 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Jennifer Lu | nsf.gov |
| Efficient, Scalable Manufacturing of Solid-State Lithium Battery Cathodes Enabled by Radical Induced Cationic Frontal Polymerization | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $299,943 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2029 | Wyatt E Tenhaeff | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: FINDFabs: Searching The Universe of Manufactured Parts Through Proxy Geometric Representations | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $299,761 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Horea T Ilies | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: CRYO: Continuous Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigeration Below 1K without Helium-3 | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $299,715 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2026 | Jian Huang | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Manufacturing of Complex Optical Elements for Advanced Imaging Systems | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $298,980 | May 1, 2022 | July 31, 2026 | Matthew A Davies | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: CRYO: Engineering Charge and Energy Transfer in Superconducting Tunnel Junctions to Achieve Solid-State Refrigeration to Sub-Kelvin Temperatures | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2022 | $298,856 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2025 | Pramod Reddy | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: IMPRESS-U: Gradient surface nanostructuring with short laser pulses | NSF | Office of International Science and Engineering | 2024 | $297,902 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2027 | Leonid Zhigilei | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Capillary-Incorporated Bioprinting of Biomimetic Soft Tissue Constructs | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $295,317 | June 1, 2022 | April 30, 2025 | George Z Tan | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: CRYO: Actively-Controlled Fast-Switching Thermal Switch for Sub-Kelvin Cooling with Low He3 Usage | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $293,675 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2026 | Stephen T Boyd | nsf.gov |
| New Data Science for Human Operational Analysis in Smart Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $292,121 | January 1, 2024 | October 31, 2027 | Chiwoo Park | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Manufacturing of Complex Optical Elements for Advanced Imaging Systems | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $291,668 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2026 | Don A Lucca | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Electrotunable and Curvature-Dependent Friction at Nanoscale Contacts Lubricated by Ionic Liquids | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $291,226 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2026 | Rui Qiao | nsf.gov |
| ENG-SEMICON: Manufacturing USA: Plasticity-Induced Cu-Cu Bonding for Scalable 3D Chip Integration in Advanced Semiconductor Packaging | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $290,000 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2028 | Junghyun Cho | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Self-Assembled Multilayer Microsphere Particle Arrays as Engineered Photonic Structures for Sustainable and Energy-Efficient Radiative Cooling | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $286,000 | March 1, 2025 | February 29, 2028 | Bo Li | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Transforming Machine Learning Models Developed in Labs to Manufacturing Plants for In-Process Quality Prediction | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $283,965 | October 1, 2024 | June 30, 2028 | Peng Wang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Transforming Machine Learning Models Developed in Labs to Manufacturing Plants for In-Process Quality Prediction | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $281,680 | May 1, 2023 | June 30, 2025 | Peng Wang | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Data Science-Enabled Learning, Prediction and Simulation of Nanoparticle Population Behavior for Advanced Nanomanufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $280,405 | March 1, 2025 | February 29, 2028 | Mostafa Bedewy | nsf.gov |
| Exploiting Heterogeneity in Metal Nanoparticle Populations for Analytical Applications | NSF | Chemistry Section | 2024 | $280,000 | August 15, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Shane C Street | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: Direct Ink Writing of Molecularly Patterned Polyionic Actuators | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $279,788 | January 1, 2024 | December 31, 2026 | M Ravi Shankar | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Machine Learning-assisted Ultrafast Physical Vapor Deposition of High Quality, Large-area Functional Thin Films | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $272,581 | March 1, 2023 | February 28, 2027 | Xiaofeng Qian | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Machine Learning-assisted Ultrafast Physical Vapor Deposition of High Quality, Large-area Functional Thin Films | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $271,320 | March 1, 2023 | February 28, 2027 | Feng Yan | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Data Science-Enabled Learning, Prediction and Simulation of Nanoparticle Population Behavior for Advanced Nanomanufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $269,542 | March 1, 2025 | February 29, 2028 | Ahmed Aziz Ezzat | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing of Molybdenum Alloys for High-temperature Applications: Residual Stresses and Porosity Considering Ductile-to-brittle Transition Temperature | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $267,969 | October 1, 2025 | February 28, 2027 | Duck Bong Kim | nsf.gov |
| NSF-DFG/Collaborative Research: Integrated Computational Materials Engineering of Thermoplastic Composites | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $267,524 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2028 | Gregory M Odegard | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Understanding Ultrasonic Effects in Laser Additive Manufacturing via in situ Synchrotron Imaging and Diffraction Analysis | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $267,000 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2028 | Xun Liu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Inkjet Printing Framework by Droplet Impact-induced Ink Release from Liquid Crystal Receiving Substrate | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $266,996 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Xiaoyu Tang | nsf.gov |
| CDS&E/Collaborative Research: In-Situ Monitoring-Enabled Multiscale Modeling and Optimization for Environmental and Mechanical Performance of Advanced Manufactured Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $262,929 | September 15, 2024 | September 30, 2027 | Lin Cheng | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing of Molybdenum Alloys for High-temperature Applications: Residual Stresses and Porosity Considering Ductile-to-brittle Transition Temperature | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $258,217 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2026 | Duck Bong Kim | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Thermal Drawing of Composite Fibers for Wearable Energy Storage Textiles | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $251,341 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2026 | Caiwei Shen | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Dynamic Process-Attribute-Data-Performance Modeling to Enable Smart Ultrasonic Metal Welding | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $250,982 | January 1, 2024 | January 31, 2026 | Chenhui Shao | nsf.gov |
| Electroforming 3D Metal Parts from Printed Conductors | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $250,166 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Nathan Lazarus | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Towards Intelligent Scan Sequence Generation to Reduce Local Overheating, Distortion, and Residual Stress in LPBF Additive Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $250,000 | January 1, 2025 | December 31, 2027 | Albert C To | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Integrated Design Optimization for Multifunctional Hydrogel Synthesis and Additive Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $250,000 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Andi Wang | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Integrated Design Optimization for Multifunctional Hydrogel Synthesis and Additive Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $250,000 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Xiangfan Chen | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Exploring Chemical Effects in Surface Plasticity to Enhance Material Removal Processes for Refractory Metals | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $250,000 | August 15, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Srinivasan Chandrasekar | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Metal Additive Manufacturing, Fatigue Scattering, Physics-Informed Machine Learning, Material Characterization | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $249,999 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Shiyu Zhou | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Enabling Multi-Functional 3D Composite Responsive Separation (3D-CoReS) Membranes with Advanced Materials and Innovative Manufacturing | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $248,157 | November 1, 2021 | April 30, 2026 | Isabel C Escobar | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Probing Particle Impact onto Molten Metal Pool in Laser Directed Energy Deposition by Synchrotron Imaging and Process Modeling | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $247,667 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Wenda Tan | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: Cut-and-Seam Manufacturing of Sensor Meshes for Perfusible Electronics | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $246,793 | February 1, 2023 | September 30, 2025 | Cindy K Harnett | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Self-Limiting Electrospray Deposition of Nanowire-Particle Composites for Advanced Coatings | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $245,155 | November 15, 2024 | October 31, 2027 | Jonathan Singer | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Thermal Drawing of Composite Fibers for Wearable Energy Storage Textiles | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $244,203 | September 1, 2022 | June 30, 2023 | Jingzhou Zhao | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Thermal Drawing of Composite Fibers for Wearable Energy Storage Textiles | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $244,203 | May 1, 2023 | August 31, 2026 | Jingzhou Zhao | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Integrating Nanoparticle Self-assembly into Laser/Powder-based Additive Manufacturing of Multimodal Metallic Materials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $240,900 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Victor R Vasquez | nsf.gov |
| Creep-Based Nanomanufacturing of Crystalline Metals and Alloys | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $240,353 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2026 | Golden Kumar | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Diffusion-Engineered Embedded Printing (DEEP) of High-Performance Biothermoplastics | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $238,738 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Yiliang Liao | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Understanding the Deformation-Morphology-Conductivity Relationship in Multistage Forming-based Manufacturing of Conformal Electronics | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $235,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2028 | Hongyi Xu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Sub-Voxel Molecular Patterning of Actuators and Photonic Structures in 3-Dimensional Free-Forms | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $225,000 | March 15, 2022 | February 28, 2026 | Taylor H Ware | nsf.gov |
| ECLIPSE: Collaborative Research: Advancing Subsea Welding through Foundational Investigations of Plasma-Liquid-Solid Interactions | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $225,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Xinyi Xiao | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Self-Limiting Electrospray Deposition of Nanowire-Particle Composites for Advanced Coatings | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $224,845 | November 15, 2024 | October 31, 2027 | Xin Yong | nsf.gov |
| ECLIPSE: Collaborative Research: Understanding Material Removal in High-Resolution, High-throughput Magnetically Enhanced Laser Induced Plasma Micromachining | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $224,493 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Prahalada Rao | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Manufacturing USA: Additive Manufacturing of Iron based Shape Memory Alloy | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $221,879 | August 1, 2023 | December 31, 2025 | Ala Qattawi | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Acoustic Holography Enabled Additive Manufacturing of High-resolution Multifunctional Composites | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $217,041 | August 1, 2022 | December 31, 2026 | Zhenhua Tian | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Additive Manufacturing of Polymer-Matrix Composites with High Concentration of Silicon-Carbide Particles by Novel Digital Light Projection | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $216,799 | June 1, 2023 | August 31, 2025 | Erina Baynojir Joyee | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Friction Stir Processing for Durability of Cobalt-Chromium-Molybdenum Biomaterials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $215,717 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2026 | Quentin S Allen | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Vibration-Assisted Laser Keyhole Welding to Improve Joint Properties | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $215,255 | December 1, 2021 | March 31, 2025 | Wenda Tan | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Self-Assembled Multilayer Microsphere Particle Arrays as Engineered Photonic Structures for Sustainable and Energy-Efficient Radiative Cooling | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $213,989 | March 1, 2025 | February 29, 2028 | Weilu Gao | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Controlling the Hierarchical Porosity and Surface-Functionalized Nanostructure of Polyethylene using Amphiphilic Additives | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $209,994 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2027 | Benjamin A Paren | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Study of Powder Spreading Behavior for Additive Manufacturing Applications in a Novel Test Bed Environment | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $209,800 | August 1, 2024 | December 31, 2027 | Jaime Berez | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Manufacturability of Novel High Temperature Aluminum Alloys Through Additive Manufacturing Cycle | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $207,950 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2025 | Le Zhou | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Unraveling Multi-Phase Ink Shear-Thinning Flow Mechanism in Direct Ink Writing Process: Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation and In-Situ Experimental Verification | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $207,815 | May 1, 2024 | September 30, 2026 | Zipeng Guo | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Additive Manufacturing of Optical Hybrid Materials under Extreme Gradients | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $200,609 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2028 | Minxiang Zeng | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: CRYO: Development of Novel Ce1-xLaxB6 Thermoelectric Nanocomposites for Cryogenic Cooling | NSF | Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, & Transport Systems | 2022 | $200,000 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2026 | Bao Yang | nsf.gov |
| ERI: High-Entropy Lithium-Garnet Ceramic Solid-State Electrolytes for Energy Storage | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $200,000 | June 1, 2024 | May 31, 2027 | Zhezhen Fu | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Development and Characterization of New Antimicrobial PEEK (Polyetheretherketone) Filaments for Material Extrusion-based Additive Manufacturing Technology | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $200,000 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Ola H Rashwan | nsf.gov |
| EAGER/Collaborative Research: An LLM-Powered Framework for G-Code Comprehension and Retrieval | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $200,000 | February 1, 2024 | January 31, 2026 | Adarsh Krishnamurthy | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Direct Ink Writing of Nanocomposites of High Viscosity Rubber with Fillers | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $200,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Anahita Emami | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Digital Alloying with Metal Precursor Inks | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $200,000 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2026 | Chaitanya G Mahajan | nsf.gov |
| 4D Bioprinting: The Next Generation of Living Biosystem Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $200,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Lijie Grace Zhang | nsf.gov |
| Modular Direct Writing Process for Multifunctional Continuous Fiber Composite Structures | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $200,000 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2028 | Sirish Namilae | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Mitigating Challenges in Machining Additively Manufactured Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites through Mechanics and Tribology | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $200,000 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2028 | Muhammad P Jahan | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Bridging Sensing, Learning, and Reasoning for Trustworthy Manufacturing Defect Inspection | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $200,000 | June 1, 2026 | July 31, 2026 | Jiaqiong Li | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Mechanistic Insights into Enhancing Uniform Dispersion of Micro-scale Ceramic Reinforcements in Directed Energy Deposition of Metal Matrix Composites | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $200,000 | May 1, 2026 | April 30, 2028 | Yue Zhou | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: Liquid Crystal Disclination as a New Design Paradigm for Nano-Architected Mechanical Metamaterials | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $200,000 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2028 | MONIROSADAT SADATI | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Bridging Sensing, Learning, and Reasoning for Trustworthy Manufacturing Defect Inspection | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $200,000 | September 1, 2026 | May 31, 2028 | Jiaqiong Li | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: Embedding Electrical Intelligence into Bioprinted Muscle for Autonomous Biomanufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $199,998 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2028 | Amir K Miri | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Robust and Scalable Manufacturing of Ultra-Sensitive and Selective Molecule Sensor Arrays | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $199,676 | February 1, 2024 | January 31, 2027 | Bo Li | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Understanding Porosity Formation in Ductile Iron Castings Induced by Graphite Precipitation and Casting Wall Movement | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $199,645 | August 1, 2024 | January 31, 2027 | Mingzhi Xu | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Fused Filament Fabrication of Thermoplastic-Composite Molds Embedded with Heating Wires for Energy-Efficient Production of Thermoset Composites | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $199,522 | June 1, 2023 | August 31, 2026 | Kazi Md Masum Billah | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Improving the Vat Photopolymerization 3D-Printing of Soft Elastomers Through a Deeper Understanding of Process Dynamics | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $198,932 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Daniel A Rau | nsf.gov |
| ERI: An Artificial Intelligence-based Computer Aided Manufacturing Framework for Hybrid Manufacturing | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $198,574 | August 1, 2023 | August 31, 2025 | Niechen Chen | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Fundamental Insights into Self-Repairing Mechanisms in Superhydrophobic Coatings | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $198,462 | January 1, 2026 | December 31, 2027 | Mohammadamin Ezazi | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Controlled Fast-charging Dynamics in Lithium Metal Batteries via Grid-structured Anodes | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $198,190 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2028 | Davi Marcelo Soares | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: Design and Processing of Anti-microbial Surfaces Using Polymer Extrusion Additive Manufacturing Embedding Silver Nanoparticles with Enhanced Ion Releasing Kinetics | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $196,920 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2025 | Damon Smith | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Investigation of Deformation Mechanism Interactions during Ultra-Precision Machining of Single Crystals | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $194,897 | March 1, 2025 | February 29, 2028 | Sangkee Min | nsf.gov |
| 2024 NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering (NSE) Grantees Conference; Alexandria, Virginia; 9-10 December 2024 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $189,811 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2025 | Tetyana Ignatova | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Modulating Powder Bed Cohesion to Reduce Defects in Binder Jetting | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $183,970 | December 1, 2021 | July 31, 2025 | Wenda Tan | nsf.gov |
| Understanding Manufacturing Process Dynamics and Machine Tool Anomaly Detection Through Process Sensing and Machine Learning | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $183,194 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2025 | Peng Wang | nsf.gov |
| ISS: Collaborative Research: Acoustic Wave Manipulation of Solder-Joint Defects in Reduced-Gravity Environments | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $178,474 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Zhenhua Tian | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Additive Manufacturing of Crack-Free Tungsten Using Ultrashort Pulsed Lasers | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $175,000 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2027 | Anming Hu | nsf.gov |
| ECLIPSE: Collaborative Research: Advancing Subsea Welding through Foundational Investigations of Plasma-Liquid-Solid Interactions | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $174,999 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Byeong-Min Roh | nsf.gov |
| CDS&E: Collaborative Research: Unlocking the Power of Quantum Computing for Topology Optimization | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $174,996 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Xiaozhe Hu | nsf.gov |
| Conducting Polymer Coated Cathode Nanoparticles for Improved Battery Performance | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $172,163 | July 1, 2022 | February 28, 2025 | Kenneth K Lau | nsf.gov |
| MRI: Acquisition of an Ultrasonic Atomization and Alloying Platform for Additive Manufacturing Research and Education | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $168,700 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2023 | Thomas Berfield | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Physical Mechanism of Melt Pool Oscillation and Spatter Formation in Laser Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $166,108 | December 1, 2021 | September 30, 2024 | Wenda Tan | nsf.gov |
| Conference: 2023 NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Grantees Conference | NSF | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems | 2023 | $162,843 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2024 | Eric A Josephs | nsf.gov |
| CDS&E: Collaborative Research: Unlocking the Power of Quantum Computing for Topology Optimization | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $161,990 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Zhiyan Ding | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: Additive Manufacturing of Stimuli-Responsive Implants | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $160,746 | February 1, 2026 | January 31, 2028 | Hossein Ravanbakhsh | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Investigation of Deformation Mechanism Interactions during Ultra-Precision Machining of Single Crystals | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $155,040 | March 1, 2025 | February 29, 2028 | Woo Kyun Kim | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: Safe Direct Sound Printing: De-risking Thermo-acoustic Phenomena in Non-invasive Deep Tissue Bioprinting | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $150,000 | March 1, 2026 | February 29, 2028 | Mohsen Habibi | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: Collaborative Research: In situ Thermal-mechanical Localization Metrology for Advanced 3D Packaging | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $150,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2028 | Lenan Zhang | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Mechanistic Quantification of Defect-Mediated Crack Initiation and Very High Cycle Fatigue Response in Additive Manufactured Aerospace-Grade Aluminum Nanocomposites | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $149,999 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2027 | Meysam Haghshenas | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Net-Shape and Scalable Additive Manufacturing for Thermoelectric Waste Heat Recovery Materials and Devices using Selective Laser Melting | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $135,113 | September 15, 2022 | July 31, 2024 | Lei Zuo | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Understanding Ultrasonic Effects in Laser Additive Manufacturing via in situ Synchrotron Imaging and Diffraction Analysis | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $133,000 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2028 | Zhenzhen Yu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Exploring Chemical Effects in Surface Plasticity to Enhance Material Removal Processes for Refractory Metals | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $130,000 | August 15, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | James B Mann | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Additive Manufacturing of Crack-Free Tungsten Using Ultrashort Pulsed Lasers | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $129,967 | September 1, 2025 | February 29, 2028 | Wenda Tan | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Additive Manufacturing of High-Temperature Medium-Entropy Alloy Metal Matrix Composites via a Laser Powder-Bed Fusion Process | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $128,000 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2027 | AMM Nazmul Ahsan | nsf.gov |
| MRI: Track 1 Acquisition of Spray Particle & Spray Droplet Size Analyzer for Precision Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $126,162 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2026 | Alex Povitsky | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: US-Ireland R&D Partnership: Processing-Driven Nucleation Mediated Control for Manufacturing of Phase-Pure Ferroelectric Hafnia | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $125,152 | September 15, 2023 | June 30, 2026 | Christina M Rost | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Hot Cracking and Porosity Detection in Metal Additive Manufacturing using Eddy Current Sensor | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $125,000 | October 1, 2025 | September 30, 2027 | Abdullah A Amin | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Benchmarking the Performance of Thermal Models for Fusion-Based Metal Additive Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $125,000 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2027 | Elizabeth Chang-Davidson | nsf.gov |
| ERI: Vibration Assisted Friction Stir Surfacing of Additively Manufactured High-Performance Metallic Alloys | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $124,948 | October 1, 2025 | September 30, 2027 | David P Yan | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Manufacturing of Low-cost Titanium Alloys by Tuning Highly-indexed Deformation Twinning | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $124,596 | November 1, 2024 | August 31, 2026 | Yufeng Zheng | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Fabrication of Columnar-Grained Microstructures and Single Crystals via Directional Recrystallization of Additively-Manufactured Nickel-based Alloys | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $122,531 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Wen Chen | nsf.gov |
| EAGER/Collaborative Research: CRYO: Engineering Atomically Thin Magnetic Materials for Efficient Solid-State Cooling at Cryogenic Temperatures | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $120,000 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2023 | Cheng Gong | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Additively Manufactured Nanomaterial Layers with Submicron Structures | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $105,356 | April 1, 2022 | January 31, 2024 | Kenan Song | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Curing-Induced Microcracking in Thermoset Composites | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $103,784 | April 1, 2022 | February 28, 2026 | Marianna Maiaru | nsf.gov |
| Workshops on Smart Manufacturing with Open and Scaled Data Sharing in Semiconductor and Microelectronics Manufacturing; Virtual and In-Person; Washington, DC; October/November 2023 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $100,000 | August 15, 2023 | June 30, 2025 | James Davis | nsf.gov |
| EAGER/Collaborative Research: An LLM-Powered Framework for G-Code Comprehension and Retrieval | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $100,000 | February 1, 2024 | January 31, 2026 | Chinmay Hegde | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: Ultrafast Laser-Based Synthesis of Nanoparticle-Doped Two-Dimensional Material Inks for Printed Electronics | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $100,000 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2026 | Nirmala Kandadai | nsf.gov |
| Conference: Workshop on Atomic Fabrication | NSF | Electrical, Communications, & Cyber Systems | 2025 | $100,000 | October 1, 2025 | September 30, 2026 | Sergei V Kalinin | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: Collaborative Research: In situ Thermal-mechanical Localization Metrology for Advanced 3D Packaging | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $100,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2028 | Tiwei Wei | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Hierarchical Structure Integrity of Magnesium Alloys via Asynchronous Laser and Additive Processing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $99,999 | October 1, 2022 | April 30, 2026 | Michael P Sealy | nsf.gov |
| NSF Future Manufacturing Grantees Conference; Washington, DC; 1-2 August 2024 | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $99,955 | July 1, 2024 | December 31, 2026 | Michael J Betenbaugh | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: In-Situ Continuous Filler Sintering via Intense Pulsed Light in DLP 3D Printing Toward Efficient Composite Electrodes | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $99,105 | May 1, 2025 | April 30, 2027 | Henry Oliver T Ware | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Manufacturing USA: Deep Learning to Understand Fatigue Performance and Processing Relationship of Complex Parts by Additive Manufacturing for High-consequence Applications | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $96,704 | April 1, 2023 | May 31, 2026 | Jia Liu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: A Digital Manufacturing Platform to Democratize Biological Tissue Access Using Smart Two-Photon Polymerization | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $96,286 | January 1, 2024 | April 30, 2025 | Chenhui Shao | nsf.gov |
| EAGER/Collaborative Research: CRYO: Engineering Atomically Thin Magnetic Materials for Efficient Solid-State Cooling at Cryogenic Temperatures | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $90,000 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2023 | Igor Zutic | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Surface Engineering by Predictive Laser Deposition of Multi-Principal Element Alloys | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $87,000 | July 1, 2024 | February 28, 2026 | Ganesh Balasubramanian | nsf.gov |
| New Data Science for Human Operational Analysis in Smart Manufacturing | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $83,304 | August 1, 2022 | May 31, 2024 | Chiwoo Park | nsf.gov |
| Conference: Support for the 2022 Ecosystem for Collaborative Leadership and Inclusive Innovation in Plasma Science and Engineering (ECLIPSE) Meeting | NSF | Division Of Physics | 2022 | $83,266 | February 15, 2022 | January 31, 2023 | Edward E Thomas | nsf.gov |
| CAS-Climate: Workshop on Advanced Manufacturing for Industrial Decarbonization; Arlington, Virginia; Summer 2023 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $59,800 | February 1, 2023 | January 31, 2024 | Zhijian Pei | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Localized Frontal Curing-Assisted 3D Printing of Thermosetting Polymers | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $59,147 | October 1, 2022 | November 30, 2023 | Jingjing Qiu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Smart Additive Manufacturing - Fundamental Research in Sensing, Data Science,and Modeling Toward Zero Part Defects. | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $57,703 | October 1, 2022 | February 28, 2026 | Prahalada Rao | nsf.gov |
| 2024 NSF Student Poster Competition and ME Rising Star Celebration at ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE); Portland, Oregon; 17-21 November 2024 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $55,144 | August 1, 2024 | August 31, 2025 | Wenbin Yu | nsf.gov |
| 2026 NSF Student Poster Competition & ME Rising Star Celebration at ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE); Vancouver, Canada; 8-12 November 2026 | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $53,000 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2027 | Linxia Gu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Additive Manufacturing of Polymer Composites via in-situ Polymerization | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $50,311 | May 1, 2023 | November 30, 2024 | Mostafa Yourdkhani | nsf.gov |
| MsRI-Planning Workshop: X-ray and Neutron Instrumentation | NSF | Division Of Chemistry | 2022 | $50,000 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2026 | Gerald J Schneider | nsf.gov |
| Travel Support for Broadening Participation of Researchers in the REMADE Institute Circular Economy Tech Summit and Conference; Washington, DC; 20-21 March 2023 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $50,000 | February 1, 2023 | January 31, 2024 | Nabil Z Nasr | nsf.gov |
| Student Poster Competition & Networking Breakfast at ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE); New Orleans, Louisiana; 29 October to 2 November 2023 | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $50,000 | August 1, 2023 | April 25, 2025 | Wenbin Yu | nsf.gov |
| Travel Support for Broadening Participation of Researchers in the 2024 REMADE Institute Circular Economy Tech Summit & Conference; Washington, DC; 10-11 April 2024 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $50,000 | March 15, 2024 | February 28, 2025 | Nabil Z Nasr | nsf.gov |
| Travel Support for 2025 IISE Annual Conference and Expo; Atlanta, Georgia; 31 May to 3 June 2025 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $50,000 | January 1, 2025 | December 31, 2025 | Feng Ju | nsf.gov |
| 2025 NSF Student Poster Competition & ME Rising Star Celebration at ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE); Memphis, Tennessee; 16-20 November 2025 | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $50,000 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2026 | Wenbin Yu | nsf.gov |
| EAGER: Collaborative Research: In situ Thermal-mechanical Localization Metrology for Advanced 3D Packaging | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $50,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2028 | Xiangyu Li | nsf.gov |
| Conference: IACM 2nd Mechanistic Machine Learning & Digital Engineering for Computational Science, Engineering & Technology (MMLDE-CSET); El Paso, Texas; 24-27 September 2023 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $49,885 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2024 | John F Chessa | nsf.gov |
| Conference: Student Support to attend the Thirty-Fourth Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF) Symposium; Austin, Texas; 14-16 August 2023 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $49,800 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2024 | Guhaprasanna Manogharan | nsf.gov |
| Travel Support for Early Career Faculty and Students to Attend the 2025 REMADE Institute Circular Economy Conference; Washington, DC; 10-11 April 2025 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $49,755 | March 1, 2025 | August 31, 2025 | Nabil Z Nasr | nsf.gov |
| Participant Support: 2023 Co-located International Advanced Manufacturing Conference (NAMRC/MSEC/LEM&P); New Brunswick, New Jersey; 12-16 June 2023 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $49,600 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2023 | Karl R Haapala | nsf.gov |
| Conference: 2024 Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference and 52nd North American Manufacturing Research Conference; Knoxville, Tennessee; 17-21 June 2024 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $49,600 | November 15, 2023 | October 31, 2024 | Yong Chen | nsf.gov |
| Student Support for the 2022 Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF) Symposium – An Additive Manufacturing Conference; Austin, Texas; 25-27 July 2022 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $49,500 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2023 | Guhaprasanna Manogharan | nsf.gov |
| Student Support: 2023 Powder Metallurgy & Particulate Materials Conference and Additive Manufacturing with Powder Metallurgy Conference; Las Vegas, Nevada; 18-21 June 2023 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $48,655 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2023 | Diran Apelian | nsf.gov |
| Student Support for International Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF 2024) Symposium; Austin, Texas; 11-14 August 2024 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $48,025 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2025 | Maryam Tilton | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Privacy-preserving Transfer Learning for Process-defect Modeling toward Accelerated Cross-system Certification for Metal Additive Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $48,000 | October 1, 2025 | April 30, 2027 | Wenmeng Tian | nsf.gov |
| Travel Support for Workshop on Best Practices in Modeling Across Scales from Materials Discovery to Manufacturing; Arlington, Virginia; Summer 2023 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $46,865 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2024 | Elif Ertekin | nsf.gov |
| Manufacturing Blue Sky Competition at the 2025 NAMRC/MSEC Conference; Greenville, South Carolina; 23-27 June 2025 | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $46,448 | April 1, 2025 | July 31, 2026 | Suzanne G Marzano | nsf.gov |
| Participant Support for the 2026 American Society for Composites 41st Annual Technical Conference; Madison, Wisconsin; 28-30 September 2026 | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $46,418 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2027 | Paulina Diaz-Montiel | nsf.gov |
| Student Support for 2024 American Society for Composites (ASC) 39th Annual Technical Conference; San Diego, California; 21-23 October 2024 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $46,000 | April 1, 2024 | January 31, 2025 | Paulina Diaz-Montiel | nsf.gov |
| Continuous, Large-scale Manufacturing of Functionalized Silver Nanowire Transparent Conducting Films | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $45,464 | January 1, 2024 | September 30, 2026 | Shohreh Hemmati | nsf.gov |
| Student Support for the 2025 American Society for Composites Annual Technical Conference; Dayton, Ohio; 6-8 October 2025 | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $43,000 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2026 | Paulina Diaz-Montiel | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Fundamental Investigation of Microscale Residual Stresses in Additively Manufactured Stainless Steel | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2025 | $41,519 | March 1, 2025 | July 31, 2025 | Wen Chen | nsf.gov |
| Participant Support for 7th International Conference on Advanced Nanoparticle Generation and Excitation by Lasers in Liquids (ANGEL); Charlottesville, Virginia; 26-31 May 2024 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $41,300 | December 1, 2023 | November 30, 2024 | Leonid Zhigilei | nsf.gov |
| Workshop: Developing Community in Engineered Living Materials; Bozeman, Montana; 13 July 2023 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $39,794 | June 1, 2023 | November 30, 2024 | Chelsea M Heveran | nsf.gov |
| Travel Support for Students to Participate at the Additive Manufacturing with Powder Metallurgy Conference (AMPM2024); Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 16-19 June 2024 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $36,000 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2025 | Yong-Jie Hu | nsf.gov |
| Student Support for International Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF 2024) Symposium; Austin, Texas; 10-13 August 2025 | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $33,618 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2026 | Maryam Tilton | nsf.gov |
| 2021 NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering (NSE) Grantees Conference - NNI Retrospective | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $32,665 | December 1, 2021 | July 31, 2022 | Daniel J Herr | nsf.gov |
| Student Travel for Powder Metallurgy & Particulate Materials and Additive Manufacturing with Powder Metallurgy Conference (PowderMet & AMPM 2025); Phoenix, Arizona; 15-18 June 2025 | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $31,706 | June 15, 2025 | May 31, 2026 | Pei Sun | nsf.gov |
| Conference Support: Participation of US Students and Junior Faculty to the 6th World Congress on Micro and Nano Manufacturing (WCMNM 2023); Evanston, Illinois; 18-21 September 2023 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $30,000 | September 1, 2023 | February 29, 2024 | Ping Guo | nsf.gov |
| Materials-Manufacturing-Machine Learning Nexus (M3X) Conference: Athens, Georgia; 18-20 May 2025 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $30,000 | October 1, 2024 | April 25, 2025 | Kenan Song | nsf.gov |
| Workshop on Future Trends in Research and Education in Computational Mechanics for Design and Manufacturing; College Station, Texas; 11-13 August 2025 | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $30,000 | April 1, 2025 | March 31, 2027 | Arun R Srinivasa | nsf.gov |
| Travel Support for 28th International European Scientific Association for Material FORMing - ESAFORM 2025 Conference; Paestum, Italy; 7-9 May 2025 | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $30,000 | March 1, 2025 | August 31, 2026 | Ihab Ragai | nsf.gov |
| Student Support for 2026 IISE Annual Conference and Expo; Arlington, Texas; 16-19 May 2026 | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $30,000 | March 1, 2026 | February 28, 2027 | Yisha Xiang | nsf.gov |
| Student Support to Attend the International Workshop on MXenes; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 1-3 August 2022 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $29,820 | June 1, 2022 | November 30, 2022 | Masoud Soroush | nsf.gov |
| Participant Support for Students to Attend the International Conference and Workshop on Mxenes; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 5-7 August 2024 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $29,700 | June 1, 2024 | April 25, 2025 | Masoud Soroush | nsf.gov |
| Student Travel Support for 2026 Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference and 54th North American Manufacturing Conference; State College, Pennsylvania; 14-18 June 2026 | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $29,600 | April 1, 2026 | December 31, 2026 | Chinedum Okwudire | nsf.gov |
| AFOSR-NSF Workshop on Prospects of 3D Bioprinting for Biophysics Design Platforms and Advanced Manufacturing; Washington, DC; September 2025 | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $29,301 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2027 | Zhijian Pei | nsf.gov |
| CDS&E/Collaborative Research: In-Situ Monitoring-Enabled Multiscale Modeling and Optimization for Environmental and Mechanical Performance of Advanced Manufactured Materials | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $27,487 | September 1, 2023 | October 31, 2024 | Lin Cheng | nsf.gov |
| Conference: CALPHAD 50 - 50th anniversary of CALPHAD meeting | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2023 | $27,000 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2024 | Gregory B Olson | nsf.gov |
| Student Travel Support for Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM) World Congress; Detroit, Michigan; 9-11 October 2024 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $26,306 | July 1, 2024 | April 25, 2025 | Ahad Ali | nsf.gov |
| Participant Support for Titans of the Tiny Symposium; Evanston, Illinois; 12-13 July 2024 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $25,000 | June 1, 2024 | November 30, 2024 | Chad A Mirkin | nsf.gov |
| Student Travel Support for 2025 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Expo; Montreal, Canada; 22-25 June 2025 | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $25,000 | December 15, 2024 | November 30, 2026 | Faisal Aqlan | nsf.gov |
| Travel Support for Student Participation at the 2023 ASME Energy Sustainability (ASME-ES) Conference; Washington, DC; 10-12 July 2023 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $24,000 | March 1, 2023 | February 29, 2024 | Pei Dong | nsf.gov |
| Conference: Student Support for the 2025 IEEE NANO Conference in Washington, DC | NSF | Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems | 2024 | $23,000 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2025 | Yong Zhu | nsf.gov |
| Hilton Head Workshop 2024 (HH2024): A Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems Workshop; Hilton Head, South Carolina; 2-6 June 2024 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $20,067 | June 1, 2024 | November 30, 2024 | Roozbeh Tabrizian | nsf.gov |
| 11th International Workshop on Modeling in Crystal growth (IWMCG-11) & 1st International School on Modeling in Crystal Growth (ISMCG-1); Timisoara, Romania; 22-25 September 2024 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $20,001 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2025 | Jeffrey J Derby | nsf.gov |
| 2023 Complex Active and Adaptive Materials Systems: Optimizing the Synergy Between Architecture, Non-Equilibrium Processes and Materials | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2023 | $20,000 | February 1, 2023 | July 31, 2023 | Nicholas L Abbott | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Powder Preparation and Compaction for Ceramic Binder Jet Additive Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $20,000 | October 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Chao Ma | nsf.gov |
| Understanding Transformation Superplasticity, High Temperature Deformation and Manufacturing of Entropy Stabilized Oxides | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $20,000 | December 1, 2023 | August 31, 2025 | Julie M Schoenung | nsf.gov |
| Conference: 10th International Conference on Spectroscopic Ellipsometry | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2024 | $20,000 | May 15, 2024 | April 25, 2025 | Eva B Schubert | nsf.gov |
| Student Support for International Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF 2026) Symposium; Austin, Texas; 2-5 August 2026 | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $20,000 | August 15, 2026 | July 31, 2027 | Maryam Tilton | nsf.gov |
| NSF Manufacturing Blue Sky Competition at the 2026 MSEC/NAMRC Conference; University Park, Pennsylvania; 14-18 June 2026 | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $19,852 | May 1, 2026 | April 30, 2027 | Suzanne G Marzano | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: US-Ireland R&D Partnership: Processing-Driven Nucleation Mediated Control for Manufacturing of Phase-Pure Ferroelectric Hafnia | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $18,044 | January 1, 2023 | October 31, 2023 | Christina M Rost | nsf.gov |
| Support for Student Participation at 65th International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology & Nanofabrication; New Orleans, Louisiana; May 31 - June 3, 2022 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $18,000 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2023 | Chih-Hao Chang | nsf.gov |
| Student Travel to International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication, 2023 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $18,000 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2024 | Chih-Hao Chang | nsf.gov |
| Support for Broadening Participation in the 28th AACG Western Section Conference on Crystal Growth & Epitaxy; Fallen Leaf Lake, California; 9-12 June 2024 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $17,250 | June 1, 2024 | November 30, 2024 | Moneesh Upmanyu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Bio-inspired Manufacturing of High Strength, High Toughness Metal-Graphene Composites | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $16,000 | October 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Dong Lin | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Mechanical Behavior of Graphene-Carbon Fiber Composites | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $16,000 | April 1, 2023 | June 30, 2025 | Mehran Tehrani | nsf.gov |
| Support for Participation in the Student Challenge at the 41st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Precision Engineering; Norfolk, Virginia; 26-30 October 2026 | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $15,600 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2027 | Lei Zhou | nsf.gov |
| Conference: Participant Support for The 7th World Congress on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME); Orlando, Florida; 21-25 May 2023 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $15,000 | March 15, 2023 | February 29, 2024 | Michael Rawlings | nsf.gov |
| Participant Support for 2024 Gordon Research Conference on Plasma Processing Science (GRC-PPS); Andover, New Hampshire; 21-26 July 2024 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $15,000 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2025 | Lorenzo Mangolini | nsf.gov |
| Travel: 2026 Hilton Head Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop | NSF | Electrical, Communications, & Cyber Systems | 2026 | $15,000 | May 15, 2026 | October 31, 2026 | Azadeh Ansari | nsf.gov |
| Travel Support: A Short Course on The Polymer Physics of Additive Manufacturing; 2024 American Physical Society (APS) Meeting; Minneapolis, Minnesota; 2-3 March 2024 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $12,500 | February 1, 2024 | October 31, 2024 | Emily C Davidson | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Conference: MateriAlZ Winter School 2024 | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2024 | $12,000 | January 1, 2024 | March 31, 2025 | Krishna Muralidharan | nsf.gov |
| Student Support for 68th International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technologies and Nanofabrication (EIPBN); Savannah, Georgia; 27-30 May 2025 | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $12,000 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2026 | Chih-Hao Chang | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Conference: MateriAlZ Winter School 2025 | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2025 | $11,251 | January 1, 2025 | December 31, 2025 | Christina S Birkel | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Conference: MateriAlZ Winter School 2025 | NSF | Materials Research Section | 2025 | $11,251 | January 1, 2025 | December 31, 2025 | Krishna Muralidharan | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Conference: MateriAlZ Winter School 2024 | NSF | Division Of Materials Research | 2024 | $11,000 | January 1, 2024 | December 31, 2025 | Christina S Birkel | nsf.gov |
| Student Support: 2022 Solid State Studies in Ceramics Gordon Research Conference: Coupled Phenomena in Ceramics Across Length Scales; South Hadley, Massachusetts; 7-12 August 2022 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $10,350 | May 1, 2022 | October 31, 2022 | Ivar E Reimanis | nsf.gov |
| Participant Support for 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Additive Manufacturing of Soft Materials; Ventura, California; 7-12 August 2022 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $10,000 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2023 | Ronald A Smaldone | nsf.gov |
| 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Tribology: Understanding Sliding Interfaces to Master Tribological Systems Across Length Scales; Lewiston, Maine; 25 June to 1 July 2022 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $10,000 | April 1, 2022 | September 30, 2022 | Seong H Kim | nsf.gov |
| 2024 Gordon Research Conference on Tribology: At the Nexus of Science, Engineering, and Sustainability; Lewiston, Maine; 22-28 June 2024 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $10,000 | April 1, 2024 | September 30, 2024 | Rosa M Espinosa-Marzal | nsf.gov |
| Participant Support for 2024 Gordon Research Conference on Additive Manufacturing of Soft Materials, Smithfield, Rhode Island; 11-16 August 2024 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2024 | $10,000 | June 1, 2024 | November 30, 2024 | Timothy E Long | nsf.gov |
| Participant Support for 2026 Additive Manufacturing of Soft Materials GRC; Manchester, New Hampshire; 18-26 July 2026 | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $10,000 | May 1, 2026 | October 31, 2026 | Alshakim Nelson | nsf.gov |
| Participant Support for Workshop on Advanced Manufacturing of Ceramic and Composite Materials for Extreme Environments; College Station, Texas; Fall 2026 | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $10,000 | May 1, 2026 | April 30, 2027 | Zhijian Pei | nsf.gov |
| 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Tribology: Transformative Impact Across Disciplines; Lewiston, Maine; 26 June to 3 July 2026 | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $9,998 | June 1, 2026 | November 30, 2026 | Rosa M Espinosa-Marzal | nsf.gov |
| Student Travel Support for the Industrial Engineering and Operations Management World Congress on AI and Digital Transformation; Windsor, Canada; 14-16 October 2025 | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $9,977 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2026 | Ahad Ali | nsf.gov |
| Participant Support for Symposium of Additive Manufacturing Modeling, Simulation, and Machine Learning (MS&T22); Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 9-13 October 2022 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $9,793 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2023 | Jing Zhang | nsf.gov |
| Early-career Participant Support for Additive Manufacturing Modeling, Simulation, and Machine Learning Symposium at MS&T 2023; Columbus, Ohio; October 1- 4, 2023 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $9,793 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2024 | Jing Zhang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Advanced Surface Coating of Metallic Powders by Vibration-Enhanced High-Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering for Sintering-Based Manufacturing | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2026 | $9,117 | December 1, 2025 | January 31, 2027 | Carlos Castano | nsf.gov |
| Low-cost Manufacturing of Bioinspired Damage-Tolerant Ceramic Composites | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2022 | $8,000 | October 1, 2021 | November 30, 2022 | Majid Minary-Jolandan | nsf.gov |
| Low-cost Manufacturing of Bioinspired Damage-Tolerant Ceramic Composites | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $8,000 | October 1, 2022 | November 30, 2024 | Majid Minary-Jolandan | nsf.gov |
| Participant Support for the 23rd American Conference on Crystal Growth and Epitaxy (ACCGE-23); Tucson, Arizona; 13-18 August 2023 | NSF | Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation | 2023 | $7,000 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2024 | Joan M Redwing | nsf.gov |
| Travel Support for the 24th American Conference on Crystal Growth and Epitaxy (ACCGE-24); Stevenson, Washington; 13-18 July 2025 | NSF | Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation | 2025 | $7,000 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2026 | Joan M Redwing | nsf.gov |
Organizations
Funding by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | NIH awards | NIH amount | NSF awards | NSF amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | $0 | 88 | $24,724,945 |
| 2025 | 0 | $0 | 100 | $26,752,116 |
| 2024 | 0 | $0 | 117 | $33,784,350 |
| 2023 | 0 | $0 | 113 | $38,950,297 |
| 2022 | 0 | $0 | 95 | $31,969,111 |
Open federal funding opportunities
From Grants.gov: notices that funded awards in this table, and open notices on the same agency and assistance listing.
| Open opportunity | Number | Agency | Listing | Closes | Award ceiling | Why it matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery (AI Datasets) | 26-512 | NSF | 47.041 | November 4, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 460 awards here |
| PFE: Research Initiation in Engineering Formation (PFE: RIEF) | 20-558 | NSF | 47.041 | November 10, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 460 awards here |
| National Science Foundation Translation to Practice (NSF TTP) | 25-540 | NSF | 47.041 | November 17, 2026 | $2 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 460 awards here |
| Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 23-520 | NSF | 47.041 | January 21, 2027 | $1 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 460 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (FEC) | 24-573 | NSF | 47.041 | January 26, 2027 | $1.5 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 460 awards here |
| GROWING CONVERGENCE RESEARCH (GCR) | 24-527 | NSF | 47.041 | February 8, 2027 | $3.6 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 460 awards here |
| Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 | 24-598 | NSF | 47.041 | February 8, 2027 | $20 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 460 awards here |
| EMERGING FRONTIERS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION (EFRI-2026/27): Wave-Based Computing ( EFRI-WBC) | 26-524 | NSF | 47.041 | February 11, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 460 awards here |
| Pathways to Enable Secure Open-Source Ecosystems (PESOSE) | 26-506 | NSF | 47.041 | March 2, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 460 awards here |
| NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL) | 24-586 | NSF | 47.041 | April 6, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 460 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII): EPSCoR Research Fellows | 24-528 | NSF | 47.041 | April 13, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 460 awards here |
| IUSE / Professional Formation of Engineers: Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (IUSE/PFE: RED) | 24-564 | NSF | 47.041 | April 13, 2027 | $2 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 460 awards here |
| Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science (FAIROS) | 25-533 | NSF | 47.041 | April 14, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 460 awards here |
| EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP) | 24-588 | NSF | 47.041 | June 1, 2027 | $3.2 million | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 460 awards here |
| Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) | 22-586 | NSF | 47.041 | July 28, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 460 awards here |
| Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) | 23-601 | NSF | 47.041 | August 18, 2027 | $500,000 | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 460 awards here |
| Engineering Research Initiation (ERI) | 24-590 | NSF | 47.041 | September 16, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 460 awards here |
| Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science | 24-503 | NSF | 47.041 | October 13, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 460 awards here |
| Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Excellence in Research (HBCU - EiR) | 23-598 | NSF | 47.041 | October 19, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 460 awards here |
| Transport Phenomena (TP) | PD-26-366Y | NSF | 47.041 | August 20, 2076 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.041 as 460 awards here |
Updated November 3, 2026. Read from NIH RePORTER ExPORTER and NSF Award Search. Published by NIH and NSF as U.S. government data. NIH awards are fiscal years 2021 to 2025 (NIH files published to 2026-07-09); NSF awards are fiscal years 2022 to 2026 (NSF files published to 2026-11-02). NIH amounts are the total cost of each fiscal year in the window; NSF amounts are the funds obligated in the window. Organizations are matched on the UEI. Open opportunities come from Grants.gov and match on agency and assistance listing number, and on the notice number NIH prints on an award. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.