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MAE research teams receive College of Engineering Strategic Research Initiative Grants | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering MAE research teams receive College of Engineering Strategic Research Initiative Grants The Ohio State University College of Engineering recently awarded 10 research teams one-year Strategic Research Initiative Grants of $100,000 each to advance research in priority areas that could lead to future major funding or commercialization of technologies.
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) faculty are a part of six of the teams. The 2026 grants further the college’s investment in key research areas, including medicine, advanced manufacturing and materials discovery, artificial intelligence, robotics and quantum information science and engineering. A faculty panel, led by Associate Dean for Research Seth Weinberg, reviewed the submitted proposals.
The College of Engineering has invested $3 million in 28 teams of investigators through Strategic Research Initiative Grants since the program launched in 2024 . The MAE-related teams awarded are listed below.
Integrated Microsystem Platforms for Programmable DNA Origami Actuation and Sensing Principal investigator: Assistant Professor Lin Du (Biomedical Engineering) Co-principal investigators: Professor Carlos Castro (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), Professor Jessica Winter (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Biomedical Engineering) and Associate Professor Hanna Cho (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) This project develops integrated microsystem platforms that combine microfabrication, microfluidics and electronics to precisely control and sense the motion of DNA origami nanostructures.
Using localized microheaters and high-sensitivity micromechanical resonators, the team enables programmable actuation, sorting and real-time readout of DNA origami assemblies on chip, laying the foundation for next-generation bio-hybrid systems for biosensing, diagnostics, nanorobotics and biomanufacturing.
Paradigm Shift in Short-Duration Hypersonic Wind Tunnel Testing Principal investigator: Professor Jesse Little (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) Co-principal investigators: Associate Professor Randall Mathison and Research Assistant Professor Nathan Webb (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) Hypersonic technology development is a top national priority and an important aspect of the advancement of ground test facilities.
The Ohio State University Aerospace Research Center operates the largest hypersonic tunnel at any U.S. university. This project aims to develop a new technique to increase both the operational cadence and run time of this facility and others like it, resulting in a paradigm shift in short-duration hypersonic wind tunnel testing.
Quantum-in-Aviation: Creating a Quantum Network with Airborne Platforms Principal investigator: Professor Ron Reano (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Co-principal investigators: Zak Kassas (Electrical and Computer Engineering) and Assistant Professor Matthew McCrink (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) The team proposes to create an airborne platform capable of functioning as a quantum network node.
The mobile quantum network node will establish an optical free-space quantum link to the recently established terrestrial fiber optic quantum network on The Ohio State University campus. Researchers will create interoperability between mobile free-space nodes and terrestrial-fiber-based nodes for cybersecurity based on quantum information science and engineering.
Computationally Guided Design and Fabrication of High-Performance Structural Batteries Principal investigator: Professor Soheil Soghrati (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) Co-principal investigators: Research Associate Professor Jay Sayre (Materials Science and Engineering) and Associate Professor Jung-Hyun Kim (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) Unfunded Collaborator: Paul Gilmore (Toyota North America) This project will develop a computationally guided manufacturing framework for high-performance structural batteries that integrate load-bearing capability with energy storage.
By coupling microscale multiphysics simulations with experimental validation, the team will optimize fabrication parameters to improve interfacial integrity, mechanical robustness and electrochemical performance. The work aims to accelerate reliable manufacturing of next-generation structural batteries for electric vehicle and aerospace applications.
Compositionally Complex Metal Oxide as Stable Tritium Permeation Barrier for Nuclear Fusion Principal investigator: Assistant Professor Shang Zhai (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) Co-principal investigators: Research Assistant Professor Praneeth Kandlakunta and Professor Raymond Cao (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) The team is developing stable tritium permeation barrier materials for nuclear fusion systems.
Tritium, a radioactive hydrogen isotope, can permeate through structural materials, posing safety, regulatory and operational challenges. Specifically, this research will focus on mitigating neutron irradiation damage on tritium permeation barriers, leveraging the irradiation capabilities offered by The Ohio State University Research Reactor.
Next-Generation Mobile Computing and Communication for Robotic Systems Principal investigator: Associate Professor Ting Zhu (Computer Science and Engineering) Co-principal investigators: Assistant Professor Ayonga Hereid (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) and Assistant Professor Tawfiq Musah (Electrical and Computer Engineering) This research advances next-generation robotic autonomy by tightly integrating embedded computing, wireless communication and real-time motion control, rather than treating them as separate system layers.
Through communication-aware perception scheduling, resource- and uncertainty-aware learning, and radar-augmented sensing, this research enables mobile robots to operate safely and reliably in health care and manufacturing environments with unreliable networks, occlusions and dynamic conditions.
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Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education & Human Resources (IUSE: EHR) Program is sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF). This program promotes novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. It supports projects that bring recent advances in STEM knowledge into undergraduate education, adapt, improve, and incorporate evidence-based practices, and lay the groundwork for institutional improvement in STEM education. Professional development for instructors to ensure adoption of new and effective pedagogical techniques is a potential topic of interest.
The National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program (NLG-L) supports projects that address critical needs of the library and archives fields and have the potential to advance practice and strengthen library and archival services for the American public. Successful proposals will generate results such as new models, tools, research findings, services, practices, and/or alliances that can be widely used, adapted, scaled, or replicated to extend and leverage the benefits of federal investment. Applications to IMLS should both advance knowledge and understanding and ensure that the federal investment made generates benefits to society. Specifically, the goals for this program are to generate projects of far-reaching impact that: • Build the workforce and institutional capacity for managing the national information infrastructure and serving the information and education needs of the public. • Build the capacity of libraries and archives to lead and contribute to efforts that improve community well-being and strengthen civic engagement. • Improve the ability of libraries and archives to provide broad access to and use of information and collections with emphasis on collaboration to avoid duplication and maximize reach. • Strengthen the ability of libraries to provide services to affected communities in the event of an emergency or disaster. • Strengthen the ability of libraries, archives, and museums to work collaboratively for the benefit of the communities they serve. Throughout its work, IMLS places importance on diversity, equity, and inclusion. This may be reflected in an IMLS-funded project in a wide range of ways, including efforts to serve individuals of diverse geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds; individuals with disabilities; individuals with limited functional literacy or information skills; individuals having difficulty using a library or museum; and underserved urban and rural communities, including children from families with incomes below the poverty line. Application Process: The application process for the NLG-L program has two phases; applicants must begin by applying for Phase I. For Phase I, all applicants must submit Preliminary Proposals by the September 20th deadline listed for this Notice of Funding Opportunity. For Phase II, only selected applicants will be invited to submit Full Proposals, and only those Invited Full Proposals will be considered for funding. Invited Full Proposals will be due March 20, 2024. Funding Opportunity Number: NLG-LIBRARIES-FY24. Assistance Listing: 45.312. Funding Instrument: G. Category: AR,HU. Award Amount: $50K – $1M per award.
The California Department of Education (CDE) Early Education Division is making approximately .7 million available to expand California State Preschool Program (CSPP) services statewide, appropriated under the 2021 Budget Act. Eligible applicants are local educational agencies (LEAs), including school districts, county offices of education, community college districts, and direct-funded charter schools—both current CSPP contractors and new applicants. Funding supports full-day/full-year or part-day/part-year preschool services for income-eligible children beginning in FY 2024–25. Awards are allocated by county based on Local Planning Council priority areas and application scores, with redistribution provisions if county allocations are underutilized.