Author: Eduardo Nieves

USDA AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH INITIATIVE.  “An Interdisciplinary Approach to Building the Bioproducts Workforce.” (applied but not awarded), July 2016. Four-year grant in the total amount of $2,653,854 for developing interdisciplinary online certificate programs in the area wood and timber design and engineering. The grant also targets K-12 outreach activities relating to sustainable wood structures. Co-Investigator w/ professors Pat Layton (PI), Tim Brown, Thomas Cousins, Dan Harding, Weichiang Pang, and Brandon Ross.

 SOFTWOOD LUMBER BOARD. “Expanding the Use of Wood Products in South Carolina.” , April 2015. 3-year $250,000 grant to research the factors limiting the use of wood in non-residential buildings in South Carolina, and to propose strategies for promoting the expanded use of wood as a structural material in publicly-funded buildings. Co-Investigator w/ professors Pat Layton (PI), Dan Harding, Weichiang Pang, and extension associate Susan Guynn.

USDA FOREST SERVICE. “Advanced Softwood Morphologies: Design Instruction for Emerging Wood and Timber Technologies.” (applied but not awarded), October 2014. $144,226 funding for a dedicated series of studio courses, supplemental instruction, and summer research on the topic of advanced wood design and massive timber systems. PI w/ contribution from professors Weichiang Pang, Carlos Barrios, and Pat Layton.

PRECAST CONCRETE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION “Precast Performative Morphologies.” September 2014. $100,000 awarded for a 4-year cycle of dedicated studio courses and supporting instruction on the topic of precast concrete design and construction. Co-Investigator w/ professors Carlos Barrios (PI), Ufuk Ersoy, Dan Harding, Ulrike Heine, Brandon Ross, and Scott Schiff.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY. “Clemson University Solar Decathlon 2015.” February 2014. $50,000 funding in support of Clemson’s 2015 Solar Decathlon entry. Co-Investigator w/ professor Vincent Blouin (PI) and fifteen others from a wide range of University departments.

USDA AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH INITIATIVE. “An Interdisciplinary Approach to Building the Bioproducts Workforce.” (applied but not awarded), July 2016. Four-year grant in the total amount of $2,653,854 for developing interdisciplinary online certificate programs in the area wood and timber design and engineering. The grant also targets K-12 outreach activities relating to sustainable wood structures. Co-Investigator w/ professors Pat Layton (PI), Tim Brown, Thomas Cousins, Dan Harding, Weichiang Pang, and Brandon Ross.

NSF-IUSE. “Strategies for Learning: Augmented Reality and Collaborative Problem-Solving for Building Science, Three-year grant for collaborative learning in the STEM areas using augmented and mixed reality technologies. This was a multi-university grant with three concurrent studies. Shahin Vassigh, PI; W. E. Newman, Ali Mostafavi, Amir Behzadan, $217,695.

US DOT. “University City Prosperity Project. This was a multi-year grant for infrastructure improvements, an urban planning and design study including traffic engineering, engineering, architecture and urban planning and design. Institutional Lead: SVP&CFO K. Jessell, PI: N. Rishe, Lead Facilitator: T. Gustafson, Co-PIs: S. S. Iyengar, M. Hadi (Eng), W. E Newman, N. Prabakar, P. Mozumder, C. Lisetti, R. Rovira, J. Acuna (Med), E. Murray, S. Graham, J-H. Kim, A. Azizinamini, N. Szeinblum, F. Alonso, $11,397,120.

MIAMI-DADE COUNT DISTRICT 11. “An economic and strategic development study for a populous county including strategic planning, traffic engineering, environmental impact and economic development DoR Award #: 800003393, PI/PD W. E. Newman, Co-PIs: X. Jin, E. Murray, R. Rovira, Sr. Investigators J. Chandler, T. Spiegelhalter, $95,678.

INSTITUTIONAL. “Computer Augmented Immersive Environment: A Dynamic Educational Instrument developed for research and education. PI/PD W.E. Newman, Scott Graham, Steve Luis, Eric Johnson, Mike Kirgen, Shu-Ching Chen, Nezih Pala, $502,365.

CALL SUMMARY – ONLINE EDUCATION Recent events have brought into full light the various agendas around online education and research. As universities, schools and colleges closed across the world in 2020, teachers and students adapted to new pedagogical tools. Some educational establishments survived, others thrived, while some struggled and have already gone ‘out of business’. For some disciplines, the transition was seamless. Other disciplines writhed at having to forego the peer-to-peer learning environment of the classroom or the dynamic interaction of the design studio. Despite the ‘shock of the new’ all this represented, the virtual classroom, online studio, remote seminar, and distance education more generally, are far from new. Universities like Purdue University Global in the US and the Open University in the UK have been operating this way for years. This conference brings together education professionals and theorists with teachers and researchers from other disciplines. It asks, what is the “new present” for education and how do we learn from each other’s expertise and recent experiences.  more »

CALL SUMMARY – TEACHING-LEARNING-RESEARCH The backdrop to the conference is the varied interpretations of teaching as it relates to research. Definitions of ‘academic research’ vary but often exclude analysis, experiment, knowledge transfer and critical debate stimulated in the classroom, studio or lab. However, this is challenged. Educationalists routinely define the classroom and laboratory and use it to monitor how space influences learning. In architecture, landscape and urban design, the idea of a ‘design studio’ as a vehicle for research in and of itself is gaining traction. Programs of sociology and human geography routinely collect data on people and communities as part of classroom exercises. Teachers of art and social history reconsider and critique the cultural and social movements of cities in the very act of explaining them. This conference seeks to engage education professionals in debate and best practice sharing with educators in the art, design and social science disciplines.  more »

TEACHING + RESEARCH Conferences This is an initiative coordinated by Routledge, AMPS, and PARADE. In collaboration from the Manchester School of Architecture (University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University).
TEACHING-LEARNING-RESEARCH: DESIGN AND ENVIRONMENTS
Place: Virtual / Manchester
Dates: 02-04 December, 2020 Round One Abstracts: 30th June, 2020
 https://architecturemps.com/teaching-research-conference/
ONLINE EDUCATION: TEACHING IN A TIME OF CHANGE
Place: Virtual / Manchester
Dates:21-23 April, 2021 Early Abstracts: 30th June 2020
 https://architecturemps.com/online-ed-conference/

Wilhelm-Keiffer Student Research Award The Wilhelm-Keiffer Student Research Award will provide current and recently graduated undergraduate students with the opportunity to compete for a research award in the field of material culture studies. This award includes a $250 reimbursement towards conference travel, a reimbursement of the student’s conference registration and awards banquet, a one-year ISLPMC student membership, and an engraved plaque..  more »

Public Art Building Communities (PABC) Grant Program The Public Art Building Communities (PABC) grant program supports individual artists and organizations in their effort to design, fabricate and install new temporary or permanent works of public art that connects artists and their artwork with communities.  more »

Historic Preservation and Wildlife Rehabilitation Grants The Kinsman Foundation provides grants for historic preservation and native wildlife rehabilitation and appreciation. Proposed activities must have a clear benefit to Oregon and southern Washington.  more »

Historic Structure Assessment Grants Historic Structure Assessment grants are awarded for the sole purpose of preparing a report on the physical condition of a historic building or structure in accordance with a mandatory State Historical Fund assessment scope of work.  more »

TETRAMAX 3rd call on Entrepreneurial Technology Transfer Experiments (TTX) The innovation action TETRAMAX aims to boost innovation by stimulating, organizing and evaluating different kinds of Technology Transfer Experiments (TTX). These co-funded “application experiments” connect SMEs and other for-profit companies (mid-caps, large industry, etc.) with international academics, resulting in low-risk industrial adoption of novel computing technologies. TETRAMAX provides innovative advanced digital technologies for novel electronic and non-electronic products in the area of Customized Low-Energy Computing (CLEC) for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and the Internet of Things (IoT).  more »

Jobs in AI and data science are booming, and the trend is showing no sign of abating. A new research report on the current state of the AI labor market in the UK found that close to 110,500 job opening were posted in the past year for roles related to AI and data science. That is more than double the number of vacancies registered in 2014, and a 16 percent increase from 2019, marking the highest year to date for AI jobs posted on the market. Every month for the past three years, between 8,000 and 10,000 roles were posted online, ranging from data analysts and software developers to research and development, as well as university positions such as lecturers and professors in AI and data science. Moreover, two-thirds of firms expect the demand for AI skills in their organization to increase in the next 12 months. More->>

The Community Engagement Award goes to Michael Carlos Barrios Kleiss, PhD, Assistant Professor from Clemson University’s School of Architecture. See more in PCI Foundation 2020 annual report. More->>

According to Chris Pastorius, chairman of the PCI Foundation board of trustees, “Carlos’ commitment to architecture education goes beyond the classroom. He has engaged major architectural firms, local precast producers as well as the US State Department in his quest to expand the possibilities for his students. Annually he takes a group of students to Washington D.C. to study the architecture of embassies and their inclusion of precast concrete.”

Spacecraft Design Competition The “SPACECRAFT DESIGN” is a design competition developed to explore the creative potential of architectural design through one of the most iconic architectural drawings: the axonometric projection. Participants are asked to design a vehicle that responds to the requirements of the brief and one axonometric projection to represent it, with absolute freedom of interpretation, technique, and level of abstraction. Even the concept of axonometric itself can be questioned in order to craft the most expressive way to represent the design. The submission requires only 1 image and 5 keywords. The submission deadline is 31 October 2021, 23:59 CET.  More->>

The Submission Portal Opens September 13, 2021

The Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) invites practitioners, researchers, and educators to join us at our 53rd annual conference to engage in a conversation around the role of the built environment in promoting health, equity, sustainability and resilience through environmental design research and practice.

The conference will provide a platform to explore issues of health in the environment in relation to equity, resilience and sustainability, supporting needs of diverse populations, promoting health and well-being in different physical settings, activism and advocacy for health in all design, transdisciplinary collaborations to address complex problems and pedagogies and methods to integrate health foci in environmental design education.

We invite submissions in one or more of the following topical areas/themes: More->>

• Health, equity, resilience and sustainability
• Designing for diverse populations
• Designing for health and well-being
• Activism and advocacy
• Transdisciplinary collaborations
• Pedagogies and methods