NSF Awards $250k to BYU
July 24, 2015
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Professors John Hedengren (BYU PRISM Group, Chemical Engineering) and Sean Warnick (BYU IDeA Labs, Computer Science) received $235,869 from the National Science Foundation for an Early Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) entitled “Cyber Manufacturing with Multi-echelon Control and Scheduling.” The project is a two year effort aimed at improving the performance of complex manufacturing systems by integrating new intelligent cyber tools into core automation systems.