NSF kickoff: Resilient engineering

CORD Director Julia Melkers is excited to kick off a new project examining how academic engineering transforms to create public value in times of crisis, threat, and disruption.

With co-PIs Molly Ott and Kurt Paterson, the project “Resilient Engineering to Advance Public Value and Innovation in Research Periphery Countries” will bring together an interdisciplinary team from the U.S., Ukraine, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to provide actionable findings for organizational and programmatic design strategies in engineering schools.

Funding for the $1M two-year project comes from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) (EAGER IMPRESS-U) and The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Polish NCN National Science Centre; ETAG - Estonian Research Council; Latvian Rīga Stradiņš University and Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte (Riga Technical University); and the Research Council of Lithuania.