Enhancing Finite Element Analysis Skills for Engineering Students

This grant will enable faculty members and student assistants to educate students in both undergraduate and graduate courses on the use of ANSYS engineering simulation software. These courses are offered by the departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Civil Engineering & Construction Management. The faculty members will incorporate the software packages into their curricula, while student assistants will support them by...

CSU, Northridge Student Support Services Program

California State University, Northridge (CSUN) is one of 23 campuses in the California State University (CSU) system. With an enrollment exceeding 40,000 students, CSUN is among the largest single campus universities in the United States. Most CSUN students (86.8%) graduated from high schools in Los Angeles County, where 16.1% of families live below the poverty line, and fewer than half (45.9%) speak English at home. In this context, the campus enr...

Improving the Safety of Operations in the Offshore Energy Industry by Reducing its Systemic Risk

Offshore drilling is a substantial source of the world?s oil supply. According to the International Energy Agency, about 30% of the world?s oil production comes from offshore projects, and the global fossil fuel industry will continue to rely on offshore resources and deepwater drilling. In addition to the growing deepwater (and ultra-deepwater) drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and possibly the Atlantic...

Community Navigator Program

The Community Navigator program funds family resource centers (FRCs) to administer Community Navigator programs with reporting requirements and recommended activities to address disparities ? Community Navigators will provide training on services, resources and agencies that assist families/individuals ? For individuals and families receiving regional center services ? To the extent possible, navigators shall share a culture or ethnicity, or both, community, and lan...

Project PRISM-Ed (Preparing a Pipeline for Recruitment and Retention of Social Justice and Equity-Minded Deaf Educators)

There is a critical need for highly-qualified educators of deaf students, including those from linguistically, ethnically, and racially minoritized groups. The purpose of Project PRISM-Ed is to implement a pipeline through Deaf Studies into the Deaf Education Preliminary Credential Program at California State University, Northridge. Project PRISM-Ed will recruit, retain, and pr...

Studying solar irradiance variations using full-disk indices from continuum, UV, magnetic field and spectrographic data from ground and space-based images

This work addresses at least two components needed to support development of space-based TSI and SSI data sets as specified in Amendment No. 31 of program element A.49. The San Fernando Observatory?s (SFO) precision photometric processing on both SFO and Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) images creates irradiance proxies that 1) help determine r...

Stand in the wind: Market power reformation during uncertain periods

Economic policy uncertainty affects firm dynamics and profitability, and thus imposes an impact on firm markups and market power. Using quarterly data of the U.S. publicly listed firms over 1985Q1 to 2020Q3, this paper empirically shows a decline of firm markups under an uncertain environment. However, the decrease in average markup does not necessarily imply an increase in market competition due to the heterogeneous effects amo...

Tank Bottom Corrosion Control Monitoring for Materials Technology & Energy Section

SRNL has an ongoing a project funded by Pipeline Research Council International, Inc. The project involves understanding role of various monitoring methods in integrity management of Aboveground Storage Tank (AST). ASTs are widely used in the oil and gas transmission industry for storing crude oil and related products. The tanks are constructed using A36 grade carbon steel, and tank foundation are made of sand pads...

Sustaining and Expanding the Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System (SCCOOS)

The Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System (SCCOOS) Automated Shore Stations (SASS) Program is a network of sensors deployed from four piers within southern California, Stearn's Wharf Pier, Santa Barbara; Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica; Newport Beach Pier, Newport; and Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) Pier, La Jolla. These sensor packages measure continuous, high frequency, real-time tem...

Student Animation Showcase

The Student Animation Showcase highlights final projects from animation graduates all over the country. Our focus is to create a venue for celebration and exposure of the accomplishments of college graduating animators. We invite industry recruiters to screen graduating college student work, from colleges and universities, to enhance recruitment opportunities.

Understanding production and attraction on artificial reefs to improve the science of mitigation

THIS IS DRAFT TEXT TAKEN FROM AN LOI When artificial reefs are implemented for mitigation, ideally they are monitored and assessed to see if they achieve mitigation targets, such as a certain amount of fish biomass or production. It is well documented that artificial reefs attract fish, however, it is less clear how much they boost production of fish biomass (i.e., is there a net increase in fish p...

CSUN MLK Community Justice Days of Service

CSUN?s Office of Community Engagement is requesting $5,000 to support four community-based events that will take place across mid- to late-January, entitled CSUN?s Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Justice Days of Service. This funding will provide support for transportation, parking, materials/supplies (food, arts and crafts, seeds, and books), along with modest stipends for site facilitators/guest speakers. Our focus for these events is broadly o...