Gurpreet Singh, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, and the Harold O. and Jane C. Massey Neff Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Kansas State University and former Kansas NSF EPSCoR First Award recipient, has been selected to receive a National Science Foundation Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) five year, $4,694,233 award. His project is titled "High-Temperature Ceramic Fibers: Polymer-Based Manufacturing, Nanostructure and Performance," and he has partnered with collaborators from five other U.S. universities, two national labs and two industries, as well as 10 foreign partners. PIRE is an NSF-wide program that supports research endeavors across all NSF disciplines. The goal of the program is to support research and education advances that could not occur without international collaboration and seeks to engage the U.S. science and engineering community.
This award will leverage relationships with France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and Japan. The U.S collaborators will bring expertise in in the area of structure and thermo-chemo-mechanical property characterization of glass ceramics and the international partners offer expertise in the area of non-oxide fibers. This collaboration will generate a diverse and engaged U.S. science and engineering workforce in precursor-derived ceramic fibers. Singh explained "The project’s aim is to encourage and increase student opportunities for learning abroad."
To read more about this award, go to K-State News: Advanced materials manufacturing and international study opportunities focus of new NSF gran Monday, Sept. 25, 2017
