# Presentation: 359811

## Engineering at NSF

**National Science Foundation**
**Directorate for Engineering**

***Engineering at NSF***

## Presentation Outline

- Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Overview
- Funding Opportunities
- Funding Success
- Resources

- Directorate for Engineering

## ENG Mission and Vision

- 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.
- Vision:  ENG will be the global leader in advancing the frontiers of fundamental engineering research, stimulating innovation, and substantially strengthening engineering education.

- Directorate for Engineering

**Notes:**
Engineering makes important contributions to almost all disciplines.
Engineering discovery and innovation are crucial for addressing increasingly complex challenges touching every sector of society: health, quality of life, security, and sustainability.

## ENG Research and Education Themes

- Cognitive engineering:  Intersection of engineering and cognitive sciences
- Competitive manufacturing and service enterprises
- Complexity in engineered and natural systems
- Energy, water, and the environment
- Systems nanotechnology

- Directorate for Engineering

**Notes:**
Research and education are integrated to develop the future workforce.	
The themes relate to national research goals set forth in the America COMPETES Act and American Competitiveness Initiative.

## Cognitive Engineering

- Invests in improving understanding of the brain and nervous system to enable the engineering of novel systems and machines

**Combining EEG with functional MRI data (left image is EEG, right image shows both) enables precise mapping of brain activity. *****He, 0411898.***

- Examples include:
- Devices that augment the senses
- Intelligent machines that analyze and adapt

- Directorate for Engineering

## Competitive Manufacturing and Service Enterprises

- Enables research to catalyze multiscale manufacturing, from fundamental metrology through atomic-scale control of raw materials
- Examples include:
- Developing quality-engineered nanomaterials in necessary quantities
- Achieving perfect atomic- and molecular-scale manufacturing

**Nanoparticles compose a lightweight biocompatible material for bone implants. *****Groza, 0523063.***

- Directorate for Engineering

**Notes:**
Other examples: design and assemble systems that incorporate nanoscale elements and exploit functionality at the macroscale, facilitate the transfer of nanoscience discoveries to practical applications.

## Complexity in Engineered and Natural Systems

- Addresses unifying principles that enable modeling, prediction, and control of emergent behavior in complex systems
- Examples include:
- Improving structural performance during disasters through advanced materials
- Advancing quantum information processing

**Combining maps (gray square) and density of cell-phone usage (shown as red and yellow 3-D peaks) can yield information about how a complex system responds to unplanned events. *****Dahleh, 0735956*** .

- Directorate for Engineering

**Notes:**
This research enhances our ability to understand natural systems, engineered systems, and the interface of natural and engineered systems.  Examples include: 
Infrastructure systems (energy, communications, health care, air transportation)
Economic systems
Bioengineering systems (molecular biomachines and biomimetic devices, biophotonic imaging, brain-computer interface)

## Energy, Water, and the Environment

- Supports breakthroughs essential to the provision of energy and water in an environmentally sustainable and secure manner.
- Examples include:
- Increasing the use of alternative energy sources through research in materials
- Developing quantitative understanding of energy–environment interactions (including water)

**Advanced water purification and desalinization begins with understanding of how ions in water interact with purification membranes.  This dynamic computer simulation shows sodium (pink) and chlorine (green) ions inside a polyamide membrane.  *****Shannon, 0120978.***

- Directorate for Engineering

**Notes:**
Look for other wording on this that relates more to water and environment.  
Other examples: performing fundamental research to discover new methods of energy conversion and distribution, understanding reaction pathways for energy systems, and evaluating energy workforce needs.

## Systems Nanotechnology

- Supports fundamental research that leads to the development of active and complex nanosystems and their integration with biology, energy, and other fields
- Examples include:
- Developing high-specificity sensors for national security
- Developing tools to move into the 3rd dimension and into time resolutions of chemical reactions

**Integrated circuits that are smaller and faster are possible with microfluidics systems built from or incorporating nanocomponents. *****Ferreira, 0328162.***

- Directorate for Engineering

**Notes:**
NSF leads U.S. nanotechnology efforts through the National Nanotechnology Initiative.  
Other examples: applications include new materials, petascale computing, organ regeneration, biological sensors for health monitoring, efficient and economic use of energy, etc.

## Funding Opportunities

- Credit*: *Top Row: John C. Phillips photo/ASU Research Magazine; Microsoft; Microsoft; Microsoft; Microsoft; Microsoft; Microsoft.  Middle Row: Microsoft; Microsoft; Kellar Autumn, Lewis and Clark College; Microsoft; NASA.  Bottom Row: Raymond A. Adomaitis, University of Maryland - College Park; Microsoft; Kalinichev, A.G. and Kirkpatrick, R.J., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Microsoft; Microsoft.

## Funding

- Proposals must address NSF goals
- Discovery
- Learning
- Research infrastructure
- Stewardship
- Funding may be found in ENG and crosscutting/interdisciplinary programs

- Directorate for Engineering

**Notes:**
Note the difference between discovery and development

## Funding Opportunities

- Core programs
- ENG divisions
- Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER)
- Broadening Participation
- Exploratory research
- Collaborative/interdisciplinary areas
- Crosscutting and NSF-wide programs

- Directorate for Engineering

## ENG Core Programs

- Proposals may be unsolicited or in response to a solicitations
- Submission windows and processes vary by division
- Awards are typically $240-300K for three years

- Directorate for Engineering

## ENG Divisions

**Emerging Frontiers in **
**Research and Innovation**
**(EFRI)**
- Sohi Rastegar

**Chemical, **
**Bioengineering,**
**Environmental, **
**and Transport **
**Systems**
**(CBET)**
- John McGrath

**Civil, **
**Mechanical, and **
**Manufacturing**
**Innovation**
**(CMMI)**
- Adnan Akay

**Electrical, **
**Communications, **
**and Cyber **
**Systems**
**(ECCS)**
- Lawrence
- Goldberg

**Engineering**
**Education and**
**Centers**
**(EEC)**
- Allen Soyster

**Industrial**
**Innovation and**
**Partnerships**
**(IIP)**
- Kesh Narayanan

**Office of the Assistant Director**
- TBD
**Deputy Assistant Director**
- Michael Reischman
**Program Director for Diversity & Outreach**
- Mary** **Juhas

**Senior Advisor for**
**Nanotechnology**
- Mihail Roco

- Directorate for Engineering

## Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET)

**Chemical, **
**Biochemical, and **
**Biotechnology **
**Systems**

**Biomedical **
**Engineering and**
**Engineering**
**Healthcare**

**Transport and**
**Thermal Fluids**

**Process and **
**Reaction Engineering**
- Maria Burka

**Catalysis and**
**Biocatalysis**
- John Regalbuto

**Biotechnology**
- Fred Heineken

**Environmental**
**Engineering and**
**Sustainability**

**Chemical and**
**Biological Separations**
- Rose Wesson

**Thermal **
**Transport Processes**
- Pat Phelan

**Interfacial Processes **
**and Thermodynamics**
- Bob Wellek

**Particulate and**
**Multiphase Processes**
- Marc Ingber

**Fluid Dynamics**
- Bill Schultz

**Combustion, Fire, and**
**Plasma Systems**
- Phil Westmoreland

**Research to Aid **
**Persons **
**with Disabilities**
- Ted Conway

**Biomedical **
**Engineering**
- Semahat Demir

**Advanced Imaging**
**and Sensing**
**for Human Health**
- Leon Esterowitz

**Environmental**
**Engineering**
- Clark Liu

**Environmental **
**Implications**
**of Emerging **
**Technologies**
- Paul Bishop

**Energy for**
**Sustainability**
- Trung Van Nguyen

**Environmental**
**Sustainability**
- Bruce Hamilton

**Deputy Division Director**
- Bob Wellek

**Senior Advisor**
- Marshall Lih

**Acting Division Director**
- Maria Burka

- Directorate for Engineering

## CBET Areas of Interest

**Chemical, biochemical, and biotechnology: **research on the processing and manufacture of products by effectively utilizing chemical and renewable resources, often with the aid of bioinformatics from genomic and proteomic information
**Biomedical engineering and engineering healthcare: **research to develop novel projects that integrate engineering and life science to solve biomedical problems that serve humanity
**Environmental engineering and sustainability: **research that aims to reduce adverse effects of solid, liquid, and gaseous discharges into land, water, and air that result from human activity and impair the ecological value of those resources
**Transport and thermal fluids phenomena: **research on thermal, mass, and momentum transport that enable new technological solutions to understand pressing issues in energy, the environment, manufacturing, health care, and other fields
- Two submission deadlines per year:  Sept. 15 and Mar. 1

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## Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI)

**Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI)**

**Division Director**
- Adnan Akay
**Deputy Director**
- George Hazelrigg

**Manufacturing Enterprise**
**Systems**
- Cerry Klein

**Manufacturing and **
**Construction Machines**
**and Equipment**
- George Hazelrigg

**NanoManufacturing**
- Shaochen Chen

**Material Processing**
**and Manufacturing**
- Jocelyn Harrison

**Control Systems**
- Suhada Jayasuriya

**Dynamical Systems**
- Edward Misawa

**Engineering Design **
**and Innovation**
- Judy Vance

**Manufacturing **
**Enterprise Systems**
- Cerry Klein

**Operations Research**
- Stephen Nash

**Service Enterprise**
**Systems**
-  Cerry Klein

**Sensors and **
**Sensing Systems**
- Shih Chi Liu

**Mechanics and **
**Engineering Materials**

**Resilient and **
**Sustainable**
**Infrastructures**

**Advanced **
**Manufacturing**

**Systems Engineering **
**and Design **
**Innovation**

**Geomechanics and **
**Geotechnical Systems**
- Richard Fragaszy

**Materials and Surface **
**Engineering**
- Clark Cooper

**Mechanics of Materials**
- Ken Chong

**Nano/Bio Mechanics**
- Demitris Kouris

**Structural Materials and**
**Mechanics**
- Lawrence Bank

**Civil Infrastructure**
**Systems**
- Dennis Wenger

**Engineering Simulation**
**Research**
- Joy Pauschke

**Geotechnical Engineering**
- Richard Fragaszy

**Hazard Mitigation and**
**Structural Engineering**
- M.P. Singh

**Infrastructure Mgmt.**
**and Extreme Events**
- Dennis Wenger

- Directorate for Engineering

## CMMI Areas of Interest

**Advanced manufacturing: **research leading to transformative advances in manufacturing and building technologies, with emphases on efficiency, economy, and sustainability
**Mechanics and engineering materials: **research aimed at advances in the transformation and use of engineering materials efficiently, economically, and sustainably
**Resilient and sustainable infrastructures: **research to advance fundamental knowledge and innovation for resilient and sustainable civil infrastructure and distributed infrastructure networks
**Systems engineering and design: **research on the decision-making aspects of engineering, including design, control, and optimization
- Two submission deadlines each year:  Oct. 1 and Feb. 15

- Directorate for Engineering

## George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Research 

- NEES is a network of 15 earthquake engineering experimental equipment sites available for experimentation on-site or in the field
- Advance knowledge discovery and innovation for:
- Earthquake and tsunami loss reduction of our nation's civil infrastructure
- New experimental simulation techniques and instrumentation for NEES
- Submission deadline in March each year
- ~$9M investment for 8–12 awards

**NEES**
- Joy Pauschke
** **

- Directorate for Engineering

## Electrical, Communications, and Cyber Systems (ECCS)

**Electrical, Communications, and Cyber Systems (ECCS)**

**Senior Advisor**
- Lawrence Goldberg

**Electronics, Photonics, and Device Technologies**

**Power, Controls, and Adaptive Networks**

**Integrative, Hybrid, and Complex Systems **

**Optoelectronics; Nano-photonics; Ultrafast/Extreme Ultra-Violet Technologies**
- Eric Johnson
**Micro/Nanoelectronics; NEMS/ MEMS; Bioelectronics; Sensors**
- Rajinder Khosla
**Micro/Nanoelectronics; Molecular, Spin, and Organic Electronics; Micromagnetics; Power Electronics **
- Pradeep Fulay
**Microwave Photonics; MMIC; Millimeter, Sub-millimeter and Terahertz Frequency Devices and Components **
- Usha Varshney

**Embedded, Distributed and Adaptive Control; Sensing and Imaging Networks; Systems Theory; Telerobotics**
- Radhakisan Baheti
**Power and Energy Systems and Networks and their Inter-dependencies; Power Drives; Renewable/Alternative Energy Sources**
- Dagmar Niebur
**Adaptive Dynamic Programming; Quantum and Molecular Modeling and Simulations; Neuromorphic Engineering **
- Paul Werbos

**RF and Optical Wireless and Hybrid Communications Systems; Inter and Intra-chip Communications; Mixed Signals **
- Andreas Weisshaar
**Micro and Nano Systems; Systems-on-a-chip; System-in-a-Package; Diagnostic and Implantable Systems **
- Yogesh Gianchandani
**Cyber Systems; Signal Processing**
- Scott Midkiff

**Acting Division Director**
- Lawrence Goldberg

- Directorate for Engineering

## ECCS Areas of Interest

**Bioelectronics**
**Electromagnetics**
**Flexible Electronics**
**MEMS/NEMS**
**Micro/Nanoelectronics**
**Micro/Nanomagnetics**
**Microwave Photonics**
**Molecular Electronics**
**Nanophotonics**
**Optoelectronics**
**Power Electronics**
**Sensors and Actuators**
**Spin Electronics **

**Electronics, Photonics, and Device Technologies**
**EPDT**

**Integrative, Hybrid, and Complex Systems**
**IHCS**

**Power, Controls, and **
**Adaptive Networks**
**PCAN**

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

**ECCS Areas of Interest**

**Nanosystems/Microsystems/ Macrosystems **
**Cyber Systems and Signal Processing**
**Nano and Microsystems**
**System-on-a-chip**
**System-in-a-package**
**RF and Optical  Wireless and Hybrid Communications Systems**
**Inter- and Intra-chip Communications**
**Mixed Signals**

- Directorate for Engineering

**Notes:**
Submission deadlines in October and February.

## Multicore Chip Design and Architecture (MCDA)

- Initiates research that leads to significant advances in state-of-the-art multicore chip design and architecture
- Joint initiative between NSF and Semiconductor Research Corp.
- Solicitation ends Oct. 17, 2008
- Supported areas include:
- Architectures for multicore systems
- CAD for multicore systems
- Interconnect and packaging technologies for multicores
- Circuit techniques for multicore design

**MCDA**
- Lawrence Goldberg
** **

- Directorate for Engineering

## Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program

- Offers the NSF’s most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through
- outstanding research
- excellent education
- integration of education and research
- Encourages women, members of under-represented minority groups, and persons with disabilities to apply
- $80M invested each year for 425 new awards
- ENG awards are ≥$400K for 5 years
- Deadlines vary by division;
- 	ENG proposals due July 22, 2009

**ENG Contacts**
- Ken Chong
- Sharon Middledorf

- Directorate for Engineering

**Notes:**
There are additional contacts for ENG divisions and for the CAREER Program overall on their webpages.
PECASE: Each year NSF selects nominees for the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from among the most meritorious new CAREER awardees. 
PECASE awardees are selected based on two criteria:  1) innovative research at the frontiers of science and technology that is relevant to the mission of the sponsoring organization or agency, and 2) community service demonstrated through scientific leadership, education or community outreach.

## ENG and NSF CAREER Proposals and Awards

**Funding Rate Percent**

**ENG and NSF CAREER Proposals and Awards**

- Directorate for Engineering

**Notes:**
ENG provides approximately 1/4 of all NSF CAREER awards.

## Funding Rates for Research Proposals among All ENG, Women, and Minorities

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**Actions for ENG**

**Actions for Women**

**Actions for Minorities**

**ENG Funding Rate**

**Women Funding Rate**

**Minority Funding Rate**

**Funding Rates for Research Proposals among All ENG, Women, and Minorities**

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## Broadening Participation

- Broadening Participation Research Initiation Grants in Engineering (BRIGE)
- ADVANCE:  Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers

- Directorate for Engineering

**Notes:**
Mention how review process considers broadening participation and coming from EPSCoR states.

## Broadening Participation Research Initiation Grants in Engineering (BRIGE)

- Funding opportunity intended to increase the diversity of researchers through research program support early in their careers
- Encourages support of under-represented groups, engineers at minority serving institutions, and persons with disabilities
- Up to $175,000 over two years
- Solicitation announced in September with a submission deadline in February

- Directorate for Engineering

## ADVANCE:  Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers

- ADVANCE supports three types of activities:
**Institutional Transformation (IT) **— for academic institutional transformation to promote participation and advance-ment of women scientists and engineers in academe
**Institutional Transformation Planning Grants (IT-Start)** — for basic data collection and analysis functions necessary to understand the status of women faculty in academic science and engineering at institutions seeking institutional transformation
**Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination (PAID)** — for analysis, adaptation, dissemination and use of existing innovative materials and practices that have been demonstrated to be effective in increasing representation and participation of women in academic science and engineering careers
- New solicitation in Fall 2008

- Directorate for Engineering

**Notes:**
For last solicitation, $13M to support approximately 30 to 38 awards:  
- up to 10 IT-Start awards, with durations of up to two years and total budgets of approximately $200,000 each, for a total of approximately $2,000,000 for the IT-Start portfolio. 
- up to 20 PAID awards at various award sizes totaling up to $5,000,000 for the PAID portfolio of awards. 
- approximately 8 Institutional Transformation awards, at various award sizes, totaling up to $6,000,000 per year for the Institutional Transformation portfolio of awards. 

## Exploratory Research

- Small Grants for Exploratory Research (SGER)
- Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI)

- Directorate for Engineering

## Small Grants for Exploratory Research (SGER)

- SGER funds high-risk research in the fields of science, engineering, and education:
- Preliminary work on novel, untested 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

- Directorate for Engineering

## Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI)

- EFRI supports higher-risk, higher-payoff opportunities with potential for:
- New research areas
- New industries and/or capabilities
- Significant progress on a “grand challenge”
- Successful topics usually require:
- Small- to medium-sized interdisciplinary teams
- Enough time to demonstrate substantial progress and evidence to obtain follow-on funding through other mechanisms
- Current investment is $25 million for 4-year awards at $500K per year
- Updates are available on the EFRI Web site:  www.nsf.gov/eng/efri

**EFRI**
- Sohi Rastegar

- Directorate for Engineering

## ENG Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Research

- Engineering Education and Centers
- Industrial Innovation and Partnerships

- Directorate for Engineering

## Engineering Education and Centers (EEC)

**Engineering Education and Centers (EEC)**

**Engineering**
**Centers**
- Lynn Preston

**Engineering **
**Education**
- Sue Kemnitzer

**Bioengineering **
- Vacant

**Microelectronics **
**Systems and**
**Information**
- Deborah Jackson
- Barbara Kenny

**Nanoscale Science**
**and Engineering**
- Deborah Jackson
- Barbara Kenny

**Civil**
**Infrastructure**
- John Daniels

**Senior Staff**
**Associate**
- Win Aung

**ERC Diversity**
**and Pre-College**
**Education**
- Mary Poats

**Research**
**Experiences for**
**Teachers **
- Mary Poats

**Research **
**Experience for**
**Undergrads **
- Esther Bolding

**Engineering**
**Education**
- Sue Kemnitzer
- John Daniels

**Nanotechnology**
**Undergraduate**
**Education **
- Mary Poats

**Bioengineering and**
**Bioinformatics**
**Summer Institutes**
- Mary Poats

**International**
**Research and **
**Education in**
**Engineering**
- Win Aung

**Cross-Directorate**
**Programs**
- Sharon Middledorf

**Earthquake**
**Engineering**
- Vilas Mujumdar

** ****Division Director**
- Allen Soyster

- Directorate for Engineering

## Engineering Centers

- Supports collaboration with industry to promote innovative research and education
- Engineering Research Centers
- 15 in operation, including 5 new for 2008
- Funding for 10 years
- 2-year process from solicitation to funding
- New solicitation in Fall 2008
- Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers
- 6 of 10 are engineering
- 2007 solicitation to establish a Center for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology

- Directorate for Engineering

**Notes:**
Last ERC solicitation: received 150 pre-proposals, 35 were invited to submit proposals, 10 got a site visit, 5 were funded.

## Engineering Education Research

- Addresses educational goals of the engineering community
- Supports focused efforts that integrate research into advances in undergraduate and PhD engineering education, and partner with K-12 pipeline innovators
- Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education
- Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institutes
- New solicitation in Fall 2008

- Directorate for Engineering

**Notes:**
Last year’s solicitation received ~130 proposals

## NSF-wide Education Programs

- Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT)
- ~20 awards each year
- Pre-proposals due in April, full proposals due in Oct.
- Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12)
- ~20 awards each year
- Letters of Intent due in May, full proposals due in June
- Graduate Research Fellowships (GRF)
- ~1000 fellowships awarded each year
- Engineering proposals due Nov. 12, 2008; interdisciplinary proposals due Nov. 3, 2008

- Directorate for Engineering

**Notes:**
For IGERT, 6 of the 20 awards last year were in engineering.
For GRF, ~10,000 applications were received each year.

## Human Resource Development

- Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
- Supports the involvement undergraduates in meaningful ways in ongoing research programs or in research projects specifically-designed for the REU program
- $10M/year available for engineering
- Deadlines in Sept. and Aug. each year
- Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering
- Supports the active involvement of K-12 teachers and community college faculty in engineering research in order to bring knowledge of engineering and technological innovation into their classrooms
- $4M/year available
- Deadlines in June and Nov. each year

- Directorate for Engineering

## Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP)

**Industry/University**
**Cooperative**
**Research Centers**
- Rathindra DasGupta
- Glenn Larsen

**Partnerships **
**for Innovation**
- Sara Nerlove

**Grant Opportunities**
**for Academic**
**Liaison with**
**Industry**
- Donald Senich

**Small Business Partnerships**
- Joe Hennessey

**AAAS Fellow**
- James Brown

**Academic Partnerships**
- Donald Senich

** ****Advanced Electronics**
** ****Advanced Manufacturing**
** ****Advanced Materials**
** ****Biotechnology**
** ****Civil Infrastructure Systems**
** ****Energy and the Environment**
** ****Fabrication and Processing Technology**
** ****Health and Safety**
** ****Information and Communications**
** ****Quality, Reliability and Maintenance**
** ****System Design and Simulation**

**Advanced Materials and Manufacturing**
- Cheryl Albus

**Biotechnology and Chemical Technology**
- Thomas Allnutt, Vacant, Cynthia Znati

**Electronics**
- Juan Figueroa, Murali Nair, William Haines

**Information Technology**
- Errol Arkilic, Ian Bennett

**Special Topics**
- James Rudd, George Vermont** **

**Division Director**
- Kesh Narayanan

- Directorate for Engineering

## Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI)

- Effectively promotes the transfer of knowledge between academe and industry, student education, and the exchange of culture
- Supports:
- Faculty and students in industry (≤ 1 year)
- Industry engineers/scientists in academe (≤ 1 year)
- Industry-university collaborative projects (≤ 3 years)
- $5M total funding by all NSF Directorates
- Proposals accepted anytime; ~70 awards each year

- Directorate for Engineering

## Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) Program 

- I/UCRC promotes long-term partnerships among industry, academe, and government
- Centers are catalyzed by a small investment from NSF and are primarily supported by industry center members during their development and evolution
- 2 to 8 full center awards and 4-12 planning grant awards annually for $6-9M
- Letters of Intent deadlines in Jan. and June each year

- Directorate for Engineering

## Partnerships for Innovation (PFI)

- Catalyzes partnerships among colleges and universities, the private sector, and governments
- Supports one or more of the following activities:
- research, knowledge transfer, and/or commercialization
- workforce education and training
- establishing the infrastructure for innovation
- $9.5M to fund 12–15 awards each year; grants are up to $600,000 for 2–3 years
- Letters of Intent due Oct. 31; full proposals due Dec. 31

- Directorate for Engineering

## Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs

- SBIR and STTR encourage small firms to undertake cutting-edge research with the potential for significant economic and public benefits
- STTR enables university researchers to spin off commercially promising ideas while remaining primarily employed by the research institution while playing a significant role in the project
- Solicitations in areas such as
- Advanced materials and manufacturing
- Biotechnology
- Electronics

- Directorate for Engineering

## Crosscutting and NSF-wide Opportunities

- Accelerating Discovery in Science and Engineering through Petascale Simulations and Analysis
- Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)
- Domestic Nuclear Detection Office/NSF Academic Research Initiative (ARI)
- High-Performance Computing System Acquisition:  Towards a Petascale Computing Environment for Science and Engineering
- Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program
- Pan-American Advanced Studies Institutes Program (PASI)
- Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE)

- Directorate for Engineering

## Accelerating Discovery in Science and Engineering through Petascale Simulations and Analysis (PetaApps)

- Aims to develop the future simulation and analysis tools that can use petascale computing to advance the frontiers of scientific and engineering research
- Seeks proposals that:
- Capitalize on emerging petascale computing architectures
- Emphasize implementation and exploitation of forefront techniques
- Demonstrate that they have a research problem that requires and can exploit petascale computing capabilities
- Are from or include junior researchers
- ~$18M investment for 11–16 grants
- Solicitation ends Oct. 30, 2008

**In ENG**
- Clark Cooper
- Scott Midkiff
- Phillip Westmoreland

- Directorate for Engineering

## Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)

- CDI is a five-year initiative to create revolutionary science and engineering research outcomes made possible by innovations and advances in computational thinking
- Seeks proposals within or across the following three thematic areas:
- Building Virtual Organizations
- From Data to Knowledge
- Understanding Complexity in
- Natural, Built, and Social Systems
- ~$26M investment in 2008 for up to 30 grants
- Waiting for new solicitation

**In ENG**
- Maria Burka
- Eduardo Misawa
** **

- Directorate for Engineering

## Domestic Nuclear Detection Office/NSF Academic Research Initiative (ARI) 

- Focused on detection systems, individual sensors or other research that is potentially relevant to the detection of nuclear weapons, special nuclear material, radiation dispersal devices, and related threats
- Possible topics include:
- Detector materials, concepts and designs for new sensors and sensing systems
- Non-intrusive active interrogation systems; particle generators and accelerators, associated detectors, and algorithms for improved data analysis
- Nuclear forensics and attribution
- 7–8 awards for up to $400K annually
- 	per award for up to five years
- Full proposals due April 1, 2009

**In ENG**
- Rajinder Khosla
** **

- Directorate for Engineering

## High Performance Computing System Acquisition: Towards a Petascale Computing Environment

- Seeks organizations willing to serve as High-Performance Computing (HPC) Resource Providers, and who propose to acquire and deploy a new, innovative HPC system
- Competitive HPC systems will:
- Expand the range of computationally-challenging science and engineering applications that can be tackled with the TeraGrid HPC portfolio
- Incorporate reliable, robust system software essential to optimal sustained performance
- Provide a high degree of stability and usability
- $20M investment for up to 4 awards
- Full proposals due Nov. 28, 2008

**In ENG**
- Scott Midkiff

- Directorate for Engineering

**Notes:**
This is the final year for this solicitation

## Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program 

- Goals of the program are to:
- Support the acquisition or development of major state-of-the-art instrumentation
- Improve access to and increase use of modern research and research training instrumentation
- Enable the creation of well-equipped learning environments that integrate research with education
- Foster the development of the next generation of instrumentation
- Promote partnerships
- ~$110M investment for approximately
- 	225 awards
- Letters of Intent due in Dec.; full
- 	proposals due in Jan.

**In ENG**
- Lawrence Goldberg

- Directorate for Engineering

**Notes:**
This is the final year for this solicitation

## Pan-American Advanced Studies Institutes (PASI) Program

- Aims to disseminate advanced scientific and engineering knowledge and stimulate training and cooperation among researchers of the Americas
- Supports courses that
- Ranging in length from ten days to one month duration,
- Involve lectures, demonstrations, research seminars and discussions
- Are taught at the advanced graduate and post-doctoral level
- ~$500K annual investment for 6–8 grants
- Full proposals due Jan. 15, 2009

**Office of International **
**Science and **
**Engineering**
- Harold Stolberg

- Directorate for Engineering

## Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE)

- Seeks to catalyze a cultural change in U.S. institutions by establishing innovative models for international collaborative research and education
- Other objectives include to:
- Provide international research experiences for U.S. students and faculty
- Build strong international partnerships
- Develop new replicable models for international collaborative research and education
- Raise the profile and increase the
- 	importance of international
- 	collaborative research and education
- Next competition planned for 2009

**Office of International **
**Science and **
**Engineering**
- Edward Murdy

- Directorate for Engineering

## Funding Success

- Credit*: *Top Row:* * University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library and Information Science; © 2004 Hybrid Medical Animation; Daniel Cardenas from Wikipedia Commons; Chris Jacobs, Rolf Mohr, and Dean Fowler; NASA.  Middle Row: Latika Menon and Donald O'Malley, Northeastern University; Hatsukari715 from Wikipedia Commons; Vika from Wikipedia Commons; NASA.  Bottom Row: NASA; DOE; Cohesion from Wikipedia Commons; NASA/MSFC; © 2005 UCLA Healthcare

- Directorate for Engineering

## What Do Reviewers Look For?

- Proposals that address one or more NSF goals:
- Discovery
- Learning
- Research infrastructure
- Stewardship
- Intellectual merit
- Broader impact

- Directorate for Engineering

## Getting Started

- Begin with
- Dialog
- White paper
- Short biography
- Get involved with NSF reviews
- Spread your research wings
- Deliver on your promises

- Directorate for Engineering

**Notes:**
Stress importance of talking with the program director(s).  Briefly explain how to join a review panel.  Note: CBET has an online form to applications to become a reviewer. 

## ENG and SBIR/STTR Budgets ($M)

**ENG and SBIR/STTR ****Budgets ($M)**

- Directorate for Engineering

## Funding Rates of Research Grants

**Funding Rate Percent**

**Funding Rates ****of Research Grants**

- Directorate for Engineering

## ENG Funding Rates for Prior and New PIs

- Directorate for Engineering

## Proposal Submissions to ENG by Women

- * Source: ASEE, 2007, *Engineering By the Numbers*

- Directorate for Engineering

## Proposal Submissions to ENG by Under-Represented Minorities

- * Source: ASEE, 2007, *Engineering By the Numbers*

- Directorate for Engineering

## Comparison of Research Proposal Funding Rates among All ENG, Women, and Minorities

**Comparison of Research Proposal Funding Rates among All ENG, Women, and Minorities**

- Directorate for Engineering

## Single vs. Multiple Investigator Awards

**ENG**

- Directorate for Engineering

**Notes:**
Why form research teams?  Gain experience by starting as a co-PI.  Where fields merge, there are opportunities to cutting-edge discoveries.  Don’t be afraid of teams! 
For the past decade, a majority of ENG awards are provided to multiple-investigator projects, and ENG has typically been 10-15% above the rest of NSF in such awards.

## Resources

- Directorate for Engineering:
- [insert name and contact info here]
- http://www.nsf.gov/eng
- Funding Opportunities: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/

- Directorate for Engineering