Engineering at the National Science Foundation

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Engineering at the National Science Foundation
Rajinder P. Khosla Program Director Electrical,
Communication and Cyber Systems
Division Directorate for Engineering E-mailrkhosl
a_at_nsf.gov Phone [phone]
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Presentation Outline

• Directorate For Engineering
• Vision and Mission
• Organization
• Themes and Programs
• Intellectual Merit and Broader Impact
• Funding and Success Rates
• Become a Reviewer

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Engineering Directorate Mission/Vision

• Vision The Directorate for Engineering will be
  the global leader in advancing the frontiers of
  fundamental engineering research, stimulating
  innovation, and substantially strengthening
  engineering education.
• Mission To enable the engineering and scientific
  communities to advance the frontiers of
  engineering research, innovation and education,
  in service to society and the nation.

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Directorate for EngineeringFY 2007
Office of the Assistant Director Deputy Assistant
Director (OAD)
Emerging Frontiers in Research and
Innovation (EFRI)
Senior Advisor Nanotechnology
Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, And
Transport Systems (CBET)
Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation
(CMMI)
Electrical, Communications and Cyber
Systems (ECCS)
Engineering Education and Centers (EEC)
Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP)
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Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and
Transport Systems
Division Director
Deputy Division Director
Senior Advisor
Chemical, Biochemical, and Biotechnology
Systems
Biomedical Engineering and Engineering Healthcare
Transport and Thermal Fluid Systems
Environmental Engineering and Sustainability
Process and Reaction Engineering
Thermal Transport Processes
Research to Aid Persons With Disabilities
Environmental Engineering
Catalysis and Biocatalysis
Interfacial Processes and Thermodynamics
Biomedical Engineering
Environmental Technology
Biochemical Engineering
Particulate and Multiphase Processes
Biophotonics
Energy for Sustainability
Biotechnology
Fluid Dynamics
Environmental Sustainability
Chemical and Biological Separations
Combustion, Fire, and Plasma Systems
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Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation
Division Director
Engineering Infrastructure Systems
Innovation Sciences and Decision Engineering
Materials Transformation and Mechanics
Geoenvironmental and Geohazard Mitigation
Control Systems
Dynamic Systems
Information Technology And Infrastructure Systems
Geomechanics and Geotechnical Systems
Engineering Design
Infrastructure Systems Management and Hazard
Response
Infrastructure Material And Structural Mechanics
Manufacturing Enterprise Systems
Materials Processing and Manufacturing
Manufacturing Machines And Equipment
Operations Research
Mechanics and Structures of Materials
Service Enterprise Engineering
Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation
Research
Nano/Bio Mechanics
Sensor Innovation and Systems
Structural Systems and Hazard Mitigation of
Structures
NanoManufacturing
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Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems
Division Director
Electronics, Photonics and Device Technologies
Power, Controls and Adaptive Networks
Integrative, Hybrid and Complex Systems

• Topics
• Micro / Nanoelectronics
• Molecular Electronics
• Flexible Electronics
• Spin Electronics
• Bioelectronics
• Micromagnetics
• Optoelectronics
• Sensors and Actuators
• MEMS/NEMS
• Power Electronics
• Microwave Photonics

• Topics
• Micro and Nanosystems
• System-on-a-chip
• System-in-a-package
• RF and Optical Wireless and
• Hybrid Communications
• Systems
• Inter and Intra-chip
• Communications
• Cyber Systems
• Signal Processing

• Topics
• Alternate Energy Sources
• Embedded, Distributed
• and Adaptive Control
• Telerobotics
• Power and Energy
• Systems Networks
• Sensing and Imaging
• Networks
• Quantum Modeling and
• Simulation of Devices
• and Systems
• Neuromorphic Engineering
• Adaptive Dynamic
• Programming

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Engineering Education and Centers
Division Director
Engineering Centers
Engineering Education
Bioengineering (6)
Engineering Education Program
Manufacturing and Processing (5)
Research Experience For Teachers
Earthquake Engineering (3)
Research Experience for Undergraduates
Microelectronics Systems and Information Technolo
gy (8)
Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education
Nanoscale Science and Engineering (7)
International Research and Education in
Engineering
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Industrial Innovation and Partnerships
Division Director
Industry University Cooperative Research Centers
Office of Industrial Innovation
Grants Opportunities for Academic Liaison
With Industry
Small Business Innovation Research

• Advanced Electronics (4)
• Advanced Manufacturing (3)
• Advanced Materials (7)
• Biotechnology (4)
• Civil Infrastructure Systems (3)
• Energy and the Environment (5)
• Fabrication and Processing
• Technology (7)
• Health and Safety (4)
• Information and Communications (6)
• Quality, Reliability and
• Maintenance (2)
• System Design and Simulation (1)

Partnerships for Innovation
Small Business Technology Transfer

• Advanced Materials and
• Manufacturing
• Biotechnology
• Chemical Technology
• Electronics
• Information Technology
• Special Topics

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Emerging Frontiers in Research and
Innovation(EFRI)

• EFRI will support higher risk, higher payoff
  opportunities leading to
• new research areas for NSF, ENG, and other
  agencies
• new industries or capabilities that result in a
  leadership position
• significant progress on advancing the cutting
  edge or a grand challenge
• Successful topics would likely require
• small- to medium-sized interdisciplinary teams
  with significant funding
• the necessary time to demonstrate substantial
  progress and evidence for follow-on funding
  through other established mechanisms
• The current investment for EFRI totals 25
  million for 4-year awards at 500k per year.

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EFRI Criteria

• TRANSFORMATIVE- Does the proposed topic represent
  an opportunity for a significant leap or paradigm
  shift in a research area, or have the potential
  to create a new research area?
• NATIONAL NEED/GRAND CHALLENGE- Is there potential
  for making significant progress on a current
  national need or grand challenge?
• BEYOND ONE DIVISION- Is the financial and
  research scope beyond the capabilities of one
  division?
• COMMUNITY RESPONSE- Is the community able to
  organize and effectively respond (but not in very
  large numbers i.e., it is an "emerging" area)?
• ENG LEADERSHIP- Are partnerships proposed, and if
  so, does NSF/ENG have a lead role?

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Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation
Office Director Sohi Rastegar (Acting)
FY 07 Auto-Reconfigurable Engineered
Systems (ARES)
FY 07 Cellular and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE)
ENG Programs and Divisions Define Topics Teams
COORDINATOR Jimmy Hsia, CMMI TEAM MEMBERS Fred
Heineken, CBET Lenore Clesceri, CBET Lynn
Preston, EEC Robert Wellek, CBET
COORDINATOR Abhi Deshmukh, CMMI- TEAM
MEMBERS Mario Rotea, CMMI Maria Burka,
CBET Bruce Hamilton, CBET Usha Varshney, CBET
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Each Divisions Webpage
http//nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?orgENG

• Program descriptions
• Timing of submissions
• List of previous awards
• Meeting notices
• Pointers to related programs
• Program managers
• Division director

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Engineering Research Themes

• Energy and the Environment
• Complexity in Engineered and Natural Systems
• Innovation
• The Next Phase in Manufacturing
• New Frontiers in Nanotechnology

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Engineering Themes Energy and the Environment

• Environmentally and economically sustainable
  energy is among the most pressing concerns for
  this nation and the world.
• A new ENG program on Energy for Sustainability is
  initiated in FY 2007.

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Engineering ThemesComplex Engineered and Natural
Systems

• Addresses unifying principles that enable
  modeling, prediction, and control of emergent
  behavior in complex systems ranging from critical
  infrastructure to the intersection of the life
  sciences and bioengineering.

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Engineering ThemesInnovation

• What are the basic theories of innovation? Can
  innovation be taught? What are the elements that
  need to be integrated into engineering education
  to drive the nations innovation engine?

• Innovation is a principal objective of
  engineering research and pervasive in ENG
  investments.

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Engineering ThemesManufacturing Frontiers

• Multiscale manufacturing
• Innovation through manufacturing especially
  nanomanufacturing

• ENGs investments in manufacturing frontiers will
  directly impact
• World-class capability in nanofabrication and
  nanomanufacturing and
• Improved sensor and detection capabilities
  resulting in world-leading automation and control
  technologies.

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Engineering Themes Nanotechnology

• NSF is the lead agency in efforts to develop
  nanotechnology from a nascent field to a truly
  path-breaking innovation.
• Capabilities in nanotechnology are leading to
  active and complex nanosystems and integration
  with biology, neurosciences, energy, and water
  resources.
• Fundamental need for tools to move into the 3rd
  dimension, and into time resolutions of chemical
  reactions.

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Unsolicited Proposals

• Submission Timing
• Differs by Division Check on website
• Award Size for Unsolicited
• 240-300K for three years
• Success Rates
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• Reviewers
• Each proposal receives at least three reviews

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Small Grants for Exploratory Research (SGER)

• High-risk research in the fields of science,
  engineering and education
• Preliminary work on untested and novel ideas
• Ventures into emerging research areas
• Application of new expertise or new approaches to
  research topics
• Quick-response research on unanticipated events
• Efforts to catalyze rapid and innovative advances
• submit to individual programs
• two-to-five pages the maximum award amount is
  200,000 for 2 year

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CAREER
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER)
Program a Foundation-wide activity that offers
the NSFs most prestigious awards for new faculty
members. Recognizes and supports the early
career-development activities of those
teacher-scholars who are most likely to become
the academic leaders of the 21st
century. Awardees selected on the basis of
creative, career-development plans that integrate
research and education. Full Proposal Deadline
Date July 17/18/19, 2007
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Intellectual Merit

• The Intellectual Merit is the contribution that
  your research makes to the knowledge base
• Questions
• What is already known?
• What will your research add?
• Is it innovative?
• Is your team strong in the necessary skills?
• Is your project well planned and organized
• What will this do to enhance or enable research
  in your or other fields?

http//nsf.gov/pubs/gpg/nsf04_23/
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Broader Impact

• The Broader Impact focuses on the benefit to
  society as a result of your research
• Means to benefit society include
• Economic or environmental progress
• Education enhancement
• Opportunities for underrepresented groups
• Improved research and education infrastructure

http//nsf.gov/pubs/gpg/nsf04_23/
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ENG Budget HistoryDollars in Millions
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Research CollaborationsPercent of Single PI vs.
Multiple Investigator Awards
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ENG and NSF Funding RatesResearch Grants
Proposals and Awards
Funding Rate Percent
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Annual Reports

• Annual reports are required for ALL grants
  (standard or continuing)
• This includes unsolicited, CAREER, MRI, special
  initiatives,
• This includes grants that are beyond their
  initial active period, i.e., grants that are in a
  no-cost extension period
• Annual reports must be submitted via FastLane 90
  days PRIOR to anniversary (or by May 1st,
  whichever is sooner, for continuing grants)
• Annual reports MUST be submitted in the order in
  which they are due as they build upon previous
  report(s)

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Final Reports

• All grants require a final report
• All final reports must be filed using FastLane
• Final reports are due not later than 90 days
  after the expiration date of the grant
• You must use the FastLane format
• PENALTY!!! You cannot get another grant or a
  supplement if you or a co-PI have an overdue
  final report

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Be A Reviewer

• Proposal review is an important service to your
  community
• Theres no better way to see how the system works
• Theres no better way to understand what makes a
  winning proposal
• Contact the program officer for the area in which
  you would like to review
• Requires about 40 hours of work to read proposals
  and write comments plus a 2-3 day trip to NSF
• NSF pays for your travel (within government
  limits)