Open · PD-26-1341 · CFDA 47.041 · Discretionary

Professional Formation of Engineers

Federal grant opportunity posted by U.S. National Science Foundation, cataloged on Grants.gov.

Varies
Award range
Open
Status
-
Close date
-
Expected awards

The verdict

Professional Formation of Engineers is an open discretionary opportunity from U.S. National Science Foundation, offering Varies by applicant. PlainGrants indexes 1,338 other opportunities from U.S. National Science Foundation.

Varies
award range
Open
application status
47.041
CFDA program
1,338
other opportunities from U.S. National Science Foundation

Open without a parsed close date

Professional Formation of Engineers shows as open in Grants.gov but PlainGrants could not parse a close date from the feed. First posted April 17, 2026. Award band Varies by applicant. Confirm deadline and eligibility on Grants.gov before preparing a package.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Open, no fixed deadline

Posted April 17, 2026 · check Grants.gov for amendments

Posted Apr 17 Open-ended

Instrument

Grant

Description

The Professional Formation of Engineers (PFE) initiative integrates engineering research and education to improve and expand the nation’s engineering workforce. PFE is defined as the formal and informal processes and value systems by which people become engineers. The goal of PFE is to create an ethical engineering workforce with a global outlook and the ability to adapt to the rapidly evolving technical environment. This will help build a future engineering workforce with the skills to compete in the global marketplace, support emerging technologies, and grow U.S. industry. PFE supports projects in the ENGINEER program relating to future and current engineers’ training and education in many contexts, including formal classrooms, informal maker spaces, clubs and co-curricular activities, and workplaces. Such training encompasses cooperative education and internships, community-based experiences, and research labs. It also involves many scales of analysis, from mentor/mentee relationships to large-scale online learning and professional development experiences. Engineers must develop and maintain these learning opportunities with clear pathways to and through the profession. Such pathways include formal and informal education, apprenticeships, credentialing, and licensure, and consider relationships with other professionals, technical workers, and community members. Finally, such opportunities include transitions across and within academia and industry. To understand and improve this system requires expertise in both engineering and the social sciences.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · PD-26-1341

Grants.gov marks Professional Formation of Engineers with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Unrestricted / see official listing). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Grant. Funding-activity code maps to Science and Technology / R&D (ST). This eligibility-code string dominates the U.S. National Science Foundation book (614 peers, 46% of 1,339).

Code 99
Unrestricted / see official listing

Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.

Official Listing on Grants.gov

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Parent Grant Program

CFDA 47.041

Engineering Grants

National Science Foundation

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Agency Contact

NSF grants.gov support grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov

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What to do next

Professional Formation of Engineers is open with Varies by applicant awards.

  • Submit through Grants.gov (PD-26-1341) - verify SAM.gov registration and the current NOFO before drafting. Official listing
  • Engineering Grants indexes 319 Grants.gov listings in this extract. Program profile
  • U.S. National Science Foundation lists 1,338 other indexed opportunities on PlainGrants. Agency catalog

Opportunity deadlines and eligibility change on Grants.gov; PlainGrants mirrors the extract and is not the submission system.

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