Featured EFRI achievements
Welcome to EFRI
The Office of Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) strives to keep the nation at the forefront of engineering discoveries. A part of the Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation (NSF), EFRI serves a critical role in pursuing timely investments in creative ideas that can push engineering research beyond its apparent limits.
Honors
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EFRI researcher Rakesh Agrawal of Purdue University was honored as a National Medal of Technology and Innovation laureate by President Obama.
In the Media
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"Origami engineering could be the next big thing in manufacturing,” says PRiSM, the magazine of the American Society for Engineering Education. A cover story in January 2013 featured researchers funded by EFRI under its Origami Design for Integration of Self-assembling Systems for Engineering Innovation (ODISSEI) program. Origami has moved from a hobby to scientific research with the potential to develop minimally invasive surgical aids, highly efficient solar energy panels and powerful space telescopes that fit into a small payload.
