Fluid Power Teaching Grants

The NFPA Education and Technology Foundation previously awarded grants of up to $5,000 to 2-year technical schools and 4-year universities to facilitate the teaching hydraulics and pneumatics to their students. These grants were used to support teaching in multiple formats, including hands-on fluid power student competitions, formal fluid power courses and software, building fluid power systems and demonstrators, and in the design of student capstone projects.

The Foundation no longer awards Teaching Grants.

In total, 42 Teaching Grants were awarded to 24 different schools.

Past grant recipients include:

• Central Community College
• SHINE in Fluid Power - Professor Dan Davidchik

• Cleveland Community College
• Fluid Power in Automation - Professor Mark Gengler
• Fluid Power and Cloud System Interface - Professor Mark Gengler
• Fluid Power Institute - Professor Mark Gengler

• Georgia Institute of Technology
• ME6404 Pneumatics - Professor William Singhose
• Integrating Pneumatics Into Introductory Mechanical Design - Professor William Singhose
• Use of Pneumatic Systems in Introductory Mechanical Design Projects - Professor William Singhose
• Creative Decisions and Design Course 2012 Competition



• Creative Decisions and Design Course 2014 Competition

• Hennepin Technical College
• Hydro-cycle - Student Chase Korth
• Hydrostatic Service Truck - Student Garrett Wosmek

• Illinois Institute of Technology
• Multiple Configuration Hybrid Hydraulic Transmission Demonstrator - Professor Jose Garcia

• • Iowa State University
  • Distributed Sensing and Control of Hydraulic Circuits - Dr. Matt Darr

• • Ivy Tech Community College - Columbus
  • Fluid Power Trainer - Professor Joseph Otte

• • Kaskaskia College
  • Enhanced Hydraulics and Pneumatics Training Initiative - Professor George Evans

• Lawrence Technological University
• Senior Capstone Project: A Gantry Crane Utilizing Fluid Power - James Mynderse, Liping Liu and Selin Arslan
• PDF/Lawrence-Tech-University-2014-June.pdf

• Marquette University
• Fluid Power Workshop for Teachers - Professor Jack Samuelson
• Teaching Fluid Dynamics Utilizing Fluid Power Applications: A Workshop for Secondary Science Teachers - Professor Jack Samuelson
• Fluid Power System and Control Module Development - Professor Kevin Craig

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Introduction of Pneumatics into 2.007—Design and Manufacturing - Professor Daniel Frey
• PDF/MIT-Pneumatics-in-2.007-Design-and-Manufacturing-I-Advances-in-2011-v1.pdf.

• Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE)
• Educational Agile Pneumatic Robot - Professor Luis A. Rodriguez
• Compact Variable Displacement Motor for Human Powered Vehicles - Professor Tom Labus
• TRAXX, an Electro-Hydraulic Remote Controlled Robot - Professor Tom Labus
• Raiders 1/4 Scale Tractor Pull - Professor Tim Kerrigan

• Montana State University
• Automation Lab - Professor Keith Fisher
• Fluid Power System Efficiency Student Laboratory - Professor Keith Fisher
• Hydraulic Pump Efficiency Student Research Project - Continued - Professor Keith Fisher

• Purdue University
• Multi-Users Load-Sensing System Educational Test Station - Professor Andrea Vacca
• Test Bench for Energy Efficient Active Oscillation Damping on Mobile Hydraulic Machines - Professor Andrea Vacca
• Portable Pneumatic Trainer for Hands-On Demonstrations - Professor John Lumkes
• Water Hydraulic Test Rig for "Fluid Power in Fluid Mechanics" - Professor Andrea Vacca
• Continuously Variable Hydraulic Transmission for a Small Wind Power Drive Simulator - Professor Jose Garcia
• Fluid Power Mechatronics Demonstrator for Education and Outreach - Professor John Lumkes

• Rochester Institute of Technology
• Fluid Powered Prototype “Green” Vehicles - Professors Larry Villasmil and Robert Garrick

• Texas State Technical College at Waco
• Get Technical - Professor Michael Hubbard

• Triton College
• Student Activity Based Learning Project - Professor Antigone Sharris

• University of Illinois at Chicago
• Instruction Test Bench for Energy Efficient Electrohydraulic Systems with Independent Metering Valves

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Exploring Fluid Power Through Fluid-powered Bicycle Competition - Professor Elizabeth Hsiao-Wecksler

• Study of Influences of Control Methods on E/H System Responses and Performances - Professor Qin Zhang

• University of Minnesota
• Hydrostatic Wind Turbine - Professor James Van de Ven

• Vernon College
• Introduction to Fluid Power - Professor Mark Holcomb

• Western Michigan University
• Performance Analysis of Hydraulic System Components for Fluid Power Curriculum and Capstone Design Project - Professors Alamgir Choudhury and Jorge Rodriquez

• Western New England University
• Development of Servo-Pneumatic Experimental and Learning Platform - Professor Jose A Riofrio

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Hydraulic Dynamometer - Professor James Van de Ven