# Presentation: 527264

## Directorate for Engineering Advisory Committee MeetingNovember 16-17, 2006

**National Science Foundation**
**Directorate for Engineering**
**Assistant Director for Engineering**
**Richard O. Buckius**

**Directorate for Engineering Advisory Committee Meeting****November 16-17, 2006**

**Notes:**
Credit: Professor Eric Heller, Harvard Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center
A fusion of research and artistic creation, this image depicts the flow patterns of electrons traveling over a bumpy landscape in a bacterium-sized device. Launched from the upper left, electrons fan out and then form branches, a phenomenon with implications for the development of ultra-small electronic devices.

## Topics

**New Staff Introductions **
**ENG Reorganization Update**
**ACI and Trends**
**ENG Education **
**Research and Education Themes **
**EFRI**

## New Staff Introductions

**New Staff Introductions**

## New Staff Introductions – CBET

**Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems**
**Cindy Lee**
**Program Director, Environmental Sustainability, Clemson University**
**Bob Jaeger**
**Program Director, Research to Aid Persons with Disabilities, NIT **
**Pat Phelan **
**Program Director, Thermal Transport Processes, Arizona State University **
**John Regalbuto**
**Program Director, Catalysis and Biocatalysis, University of Illinois, Chicago**

## New Staff Introductions – CBET

**Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (continued)**** **
**Bill Schultz**
**Program Director, Fluid Dynamics and Hydraulics, University of Michigan**
**Phil Westmoreland**
**Program Director, Combustion and Plasma Processes, University of Massachusetts, Amherst**
**Elizabeth Dow**
**Science Assistant, Air Force Academy**
**Evanson Boodoo**
**Student, College of South Maryland**

## New Staff Introductions – CMMI

**Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation**
**Haris Doumanidis**
**Program Director, NanoManufacturing**
**Judy Vance**
**Program Director, Engineering Design**
**Geri Farves**
**Information Technology Specialist **
**Matthew Carnavos**
**Science Assistant **
**Jaasad Hayer**
**STEP Student**

## New Staff Introductions – ECCS

**Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems**
**Rongqing Hui**
**Program Director; Electronics, Photonics and Device Technologies, University of Kansas**
**Scott F. Midkiff**
**Program Director; Integrative, Hybrid and Complex Systems, Virginia Polytechnic Institute**
**Olofemi Olowolafe **
**Program Director; Electronics, Photonics and Device Technologies, University of Delaware**
**Schedir Illoldi **
**Science Assistant**

## New Staff Introductions – EEC

**Engineering Education and Centers**
**Allen Soyster**
**Division Director**
**Deborah Jackson**
**Program Director, Engineering Research Centers**
**Barbara Kenny**
**Program Director, Engineering Research Centers**
**Tammie Jennings**
**Acting Administrative Officer**

## New Staff Introductions – IIP

**Industrial Innovation and Partnerships**
**Ali Andalibi**
**SBIR/STTR Program Manager, BioTech, House Ear Institute**
**Deepak Bhat**
**SBIR/STTR Program Manager, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing, University of Arkansas**
**Rathindra DasGupta**
**SBIR/STTR Program Manager, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing, SPX Corporation**

## New Staff Introductions – OAD

**Office of the Director**
**Mary Juhas**
**Program Director, Diversity and Outreach**
**Marcia Rawlings**
**Information Technology Specialist**
**Donna Webb**
**Secretary to the Deputy Assistant Director**

##  ENG Reorganization Update

** ****ENG Reorganization Update**

## Directorate for EngineeringPrevious

**Office of the Assistant Director**
**Deputy Assistant Director**

**Senior Advisor**
**Nanotechnology**

**Office of **
**Industrial**
**Innovation**
**OII (SBIR/STTR)**

**Bioengineering and**
**Environmental **
**Systems**
**BES**

**Civil and**
**Mechanical **
**Systems**
**CMS**

**Chemical and****Transport**
**Systems**
**CTS**

**Engineering**
**Education and**
**Centers**
**EEC**

**Electrical and****Communications**
**Systems**
**ECS**

**Design and**
**Manufacturing**
**Innovation**
**DMI**

## Directorate for EngineeringFY 2007

**Research and Innovation**
**(EFRI)**

**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)**

**Directorate for Engineering****FY 2007**

**Office of the Assistant Director**
**Deputy Assistant Director**
**(OAD)**

**Senior Advisor**
**Nanotechnology**

## Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems

**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

**Biochemical **
**Engineering**
- Bruce Hamilton

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

**Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, ****and Transport Systems**

**Biotechnology**
- Fred Heineken

**Chemical and**
**Biological Separations**
- Geoff Prentice

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

**Interfacial Processes **
**And Thermodynamics**
- Bob Wellek

**Particulate and**
**Multiphase Processes**
- Vacant

**Fluid Dynamics**
- Bill Schultz

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

**Research to Aid **
**Persons **
**With Disabilities**
- Bob Jaeger

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

**Biophotonics**
- Leon Esterowitz

**Environmental**
**Engineering**
- Pat Brezonik

**Environmental**
**Technology**
- Cindy Ekstein

**Energy for**
**Sustainability**
- Vacant

**Environmental**
**Sustainability**
** **Cindy Lee

**Division Director**
- Judy Raper

**Deputy Division Director**
- Bob Wellek

**Senior Advisor**
- Marshall Lih

## Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation

**Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation**

**Engineering**
**Infrastructure**
**Systems**

**Innovation Sciences**
**and Decision**
**Engineering**

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

**Information Technology **
**And Infrastructure Systems**
- Edward Jaselskis

**Geoenvironmental and **
**Geohazard Mitigation**
- Richard Fragaszy

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

**Structural Systems **
**and Hazard Mitigation **
**of Structures**
- Douglas Foutch

**Infrastructure **
**Systems Management **
**and Hazard Response**
- Thomas Birkland

**Network for Earthquake **
**  ****Engineering Simulation **
**  ****Research**
- Joy Pauschke

**Control Systems**
- Mario Rotea

**Dynamic Systems**
- Edward Misawa

**Engineering Design**
- Judy Vance

**Manufacturing **
**Enterprise Systems**
- Abhi Deshmukh

**Operations Research**
- Stephen Nash

**Service Enterprise**
**Engineering**
- Matthew Realff

**Sensor Innovation**
**and Systems**
- Shih Chi Liu

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

**Infrastructure Material **
**And Structural Mechanics**
- Perumalsamy Balaguru

**Materials Processing **
**and Manufacturing**
- Mary L. Realff

**Mechanics and **
**Structures of Materials**
- Ken Chong

**Nano/Bio Mechanics**
- Jimmy Hsia

**Materials **
**Transformation **
**and Mechanics**

**NanoManufacturing**
- Haris Doumanidis

## Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems

**Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems**

**Division Director**
- Usha Varshney

**Senior Advisor**
- Lawrence Goldberg

**Electronics, Photonics and Device Technologies**

**Power, Controls and Adaptive Networks**

**Integrative, Hybrid and Complex Systems **

**Optoelectronics; Nanophotonics; Ultrafast and Extreme Ultra-Violet Technologies**
- Rongqing Hui
**Micro/Nanoelectronics; Bioelectronics; NEMS/MEMS; Sensors**
- Rajinder Khosla
**Micro/Nanoelectronics; Molecular Electronics; Spin Electronics; Organic Electronics; Micromagnetics; Power Electronics **
- Olofemi Olowolafe

**Embedded, Distributed and Adaptive Control; Sensing and Imaging Networks; Systems Theory; Telerobotics**
- Radhakisan Baheti
**Power and Energy Systems and Networks; Interdependencies of Power and Energy on Critical Infrastructures; Power Drives; Renewable and Alternative Energy Sources**
- Vacant
**Adaptive Dynamic Programming; Neuromorphic Engineering; Quantum and Molecular Modeling and Simulations of  Devices and Systems**
- Paul Werbos

**RF and Optical Wireless and Hybrid Communications Systems; Inter and Intra-chip Communications ; Mixed Signals **
- Leda Lunardi
**Nano, Micro and Complex Systems; Systems-on-a-chip; System-in-a-Package; Diagnostic and  Implantable Systems **
- Vittal Rao** **
**Cybersystems; Signal Processing**
- Scott Midkiff

## Engineering Education and Centers

**Deputy Director for**
**Engineering**
**Centers**
- Lynn Preston

**Deputy Director for**
**Engineering **
**Education**
- Sue Kemnitzer

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

**Research **
**Experience for**
**Undergraduates**
- Esther Bolding

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

**Bioengineering **
- Sohi Rastegar
- Dawn Applegate
- Barbara Kenny

**Manufacturing **
**and Processing **
- Bruce Kramer

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

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

**Engineering**
**Education**
- Sue Kemnitzer
- Stephanie Adams
- Bob Norwood

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

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

**ERC Education **
- Win Aung
- Stephanie Adams

**ERC Assessment **
- Linda Parker
- Barbara Kenny
- Bob Norwood

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

**Senior Advisor**
**for Engineering**
- Bruce Kramer

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

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

## Industrial Innovation and Partnerships

**Industry University**
**Cooperative**
**Research Centers**
- Alex Schwarzkopf
- Edward Clancy
- Glenn Larsen

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

**Grants Opportunities**
**for Academic**
**Liaison With**
**Industry**
- Donald Senich

**Office of **
**Industrial**
**Innovation**
**SBIR/STTR**

**Industrial Innovation and Partnerships**

**Division Director**
- Kesh Narayanan

** ****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)**

** ****Advanced Materials and**
**  ****Manufacturing**
-   Deepak Bhat, Rathindra DasGupta,
-   Joseph Raksis, Rosemarie Wesson
** ****Biotechnology**
-   Thomas Allnutt, Ali Andalibi,
-   George Vermont
** ****Chemical Technology**
-   Rosemarie Wesson
** ****Electronics**
-   Juan Figueroa, Murali Nair,
-   T. James Rudd
** ****Information Technology**
-   Errol Arkilic, Ian Bennett
** ****Special Topics**

**Senior Advisor**
- Joe Hennessey

## Diversity and OutreachBackground

**New position 10/1/06 - Program Director for Diversity and Outreach**
**Dr. Mary Juhas – Ohio State University**
**Senior Assistant Dean for Diversity and Outreach, College of Engineering**
**Advocacy for women and all underrepresented ethnic minorities from K-20, post-doc and faculty; and oversight of:**
**Minority Engineering Program (MEP)**
**Women in Engineering Program (WiE)**
**College of Engineer Diversity Council**
**Goal: Develop a culture in which creating, fostering and sustaining diversity in the CoE is an ongoing priority. **
**Thus, the College must establish coordinated and systemic efforts at all level.  *****Diversity is everybody’s job.***

## Diversity and OutreachGoals for ENG

**Excellence and innovation *****through***** diversity**
**To enable the integration and success of a diverse STEM workforce, both inside and outside NSF**
**To make the demographics in STEM disciplines representative of the general population and to prepare for the demographics of the future.**
**Tools to develop a roadmap for sustaining the programs and preserving the culture**
**ENG Diversity Working Group**
**Build and sustain relationships with NSF individuals/groups outside ENG**
**“****Investing in America’s Future”, NSF Strategic Plan (9/06)**
**Stewardship: partnerships, broadening participation, diversify our community, mentoring, Human Capital Management Plan, continuing education, promote flexibility**

## ACI and Trends

**ACI and Trends**

## American Competitiveness Initiative

**The centerpiece of the *****American Competitiveness Initiative***** (ACI) is the commitment to double investment over 10 years in key Federal agencies that support basic research programs in the physical sciences and engineering (NSF, DOE Science, and NIST).**
**NSF expected to support**
**More than 500 additional research grants in 2007**
**Opportunities for upward of 6,400 additional scientists, engineers, students, post-doctoral fellow, and technicians**
**Enhanced STEM education and workforce programs**

## American Competitiveness InitiativeFY 2007 – FY 2016

- Source: OSTP, Feb. 2006

## ACI-Driven NSF Budget Projections

**Dollars in Billions**

**FY 2006 through FY 2016 budgets are estimates based on White House data.**

## NSF Research and Related ActivitiesFY 2007 Request by Directorate (Dollars in Millions)

**Totals may not add due to rounding.**

## Solicitation Actions with ENG InvolvementProposal Generating Documents

**Number of Solicitations Per Fiscal Year**

## Institution SubmissionsNon-SBIR

**Number of Institutions Submitting**

**Notes:**
Below is a summary of the number of distinct institutions in the top 100 and not in the top 100 for FY 2003-FY 2005.  

FY	Inst Type	
Number of Distinct Institutions	
2003	Non-Top 100	333	
2003	Top 100	98	
2004	Non-Top 100	335	
2004	Top 100	96	
2005	Non-Top 100	302	
2005	Top 100	97	
2005	Top 100	97	

## PI and Co-PI SubmissionsENG Research Grants

**Number of PIs and Co-PIs Submitting**

**Average Number of Proposals per PI and Co-PI**

**Notes:**
FY 2006 Data Pending

## ENG Proposals and AwardsResearch Grants

**ENG Proposals and Awards****Research Grants**

## ENG and NSF Funding RatesResearch Grants

**ENG Proposals and Awards**

**Funding Rate Percent**

## Annual Award SizeAverages for ENG Research Grants

**Annual Award Size****Averages for ENG Research Grants**

**Average Annual Award Size**

- Award size data annualized.

_**$110,000 Ave +**_
** ****MRI**
** ****NIRT**
** ****PFI**
** ****NEES Research**
** ****HSD**

_**$101,000 Ave +**_
** ****BE**
** ****NSF/Sandia**
** ****BBSI**
** ****NER**
_**$94,600 Ave**_
** ****Unsolicited**
** ****CAREER**

**Notes:**
Award size does not include ERCs, etc.  Note trends. 

## Average Award Duration in YearsENG Research Grants

**Average Duration in Years**

## Research CollaborationsPercent of Single PI vs. Multiple Investigator Awards

## ENG Education

**ENG Education**

## NSF Investment Timeline

** ****President eliminates**
**   ****education programs at NSF**

**** **National Science Board**
**    ****Homer Neal Report**
**** **Presidential Young**
**    ****Investigators**
**** **Engineering Research Centers**
**** **Calculus Reform**
**** **Instructional Labs**
** ****Research Experience **
**   ****for Undergraduates**

**** **Coalitions**
**** **ABET**
**** **Graduate Engineering **
**    ****Fellowships & Traineeships**
**** **Course & Curriculum**
**    ****Development**
****** ****Instrumentation &**
**    ****Laboratory Improvement**
****** ****UG Faculty Enhancement**

**** **Model Institutions**
**    ****for Excellence**
**** **ADVANCE**
**** **Louis Stokes Alliances **
**    ****for Minority Participation**
**** **Alliances for Graduate **
**    ****Education and the **
**    ****Professoriate**
**** **Advanced Technological **
**    ****Education**

**** **NAE Center for Advancement **
**    ****of Scholarship in Engineering Education**
**** **Science, Technology, Engineering &**
**    ****Mathematics Talent Expansion Program**
**** **Department Level Reform**
**** **Research Experience for Teachers**
** ****Centers for Teaching and Learning**

**1980         1985        ****  ****1990         **** ****1995         **** ****2000         ****  ****2005**

**** **American Competitiveness**
**    ****Initiative**
**** **NA Rising Above the  **
**   ****Gathering Storm**
** ****NAE Engineer of 2020 **
**   ****and Educating the**
**   ****Engineer of 2020**
**** **Engineering Education **
**    ****Departments**
**** **Research Agenda for **
**    ****Engineering Education**

## Research Experiences for Undergraduates REU Background

**To encourage U.S. citizens to pursue doctoral studies by engaging them in research as undergraduates**
**Includes both REU sites and supplements **

**ENG REU Investment (In Millions)**

**ENG REU Investment **
**(% of total NSF REU)**

## Research Experiences for Undergraduates Findings

**SRI evaluated the NSF-wide program in 2006**
**Included almost 15,000 respondents**
**Engineering-specific results were not obtained **
**In general, there is significantly higher graduate school attendance, increased understanding of research processes, and increased awareness and interest of academic and research careers**
**For example, **
**6 in 10 participants indicated that REUs were important in their decision to apply to graduate school**
**Half to two-thirds of the respondents reported that their REUs increased their interest in STEM careers and research**
**Recommendations include REUs and inquiry-based activities earlier in student’s programs**

## Research Experiences for TeachersRET Background

**Supports the active involvement of K-12 teachers and community college faculty in engineering research **
**Brings knowledge of engineering and technological innovation into pre-college classrooms**** **

**ENG RET Investment (In Millions)**

**ENG RET Investment **
**(% of total NSF RET)**

## Research Experiences for TeachersFindings

**SRI completed an assessment of RET in selected fields of engineering in 2006 finding:**
**Teachers add engineering content and process to their pre-college courses.  94 percent of teachers reported increased motivation to find ways to improve student learning, and 89 percent of teachers reported increased confidence in teaching science and math. **
**Teachers report dramatic increase in understanding of engineering.  They are much better prepared to counsel students to pursue engineering.**
**Need to provide continuing opportunities for teachers and faculty interactions.**

## Engineering Education Research

**To increase our basic understanding of how students learn engineering so that our undergraduate and graduate engineering education can be transformed to meet the needs of the changing economy and society **
**Started in 2005 and the key topics are: **
**engineering education learning systems **
**engaging engineers in diversity**
**engineering assessment methodologies**
**engineering thinking and knowledge within social contexts**
**ENG invest approximately $12 million per year (in addition to REU and RET support noted above)**

## Research and Education ThemesFY 2007 – FY 2008

**Research and Education Themes****FY 2007 – FY 2008**

## Directorate for Engineering Research and Education Themes FY 2007 – FY 2008

**To more effectively support fundamental research and education, the Directorate for Engineering (ENG) has identified five Research and Education Themes for FY 2007 – FY 2008.**
**The themes represent a convergence of fields, disciplines, and frontier opportunities that crosscut solicitations and divisions, and give general guidance on the potential future directions of engineering research. **
**Theme designations will evolve over time, reflecting the maturation of certain fields, the emergence of new fields, and the shift in demand from society for significant progress on grand challenges.**

***Engineering spans the frontiers – from nanotechnology to alternative energy and complex systems.***

## Directorate for Engineering Research and Education Themes FY 2007 – FY 2008

_**Complex Engineered and Natural Systems**_**: Addresses unifying principles that enable modeling, prediction, and control of emergent behavior in complex systems.**
**This research also directly impacts a number of specific ACI research goals, including materials for improving structural performances during natural disasters, overcoming barriers to quantum information processing, and world-leading automation and control technologies.**

***Algorithm simulates complex tornado behavior.***

**This research enhances our ability to understand**
**natural systems (e.g., ocean/atmosphere interactions, protein folding),**
**engineered systems (e.g., critical infrastructure, nanoscale self-assembly), and**
**interface of natural and engineered systems (e.g., brain/machine interface, DNA-based computers).**
** **

**Notes:**
Image: A simulated large helium-air plume is compared to experimental data taken at Sandia National Laboratories as part of an ongoing collaboration.
An advanced modeling and simulation framework for predicting the suppression of large-scale fires using water mists and sprays was developed.

## Directorate for Engineering Research and Education Themes FY 2007 – FY 2008

_**Energy and the Environment**_**: Frontier research to improve the cost, sustainability, and security of our nation’s energy system.  Topics may include biofuels, hydrogen production, and solar and fuel cells.  This research closely aligns with the ACI goals of hydrogen and solar energy, and research critical to alternative energy.**
**This research includes:**

***Bacterial fuel cell that produces electricity as it cleanses wastewater.***

**performing fundamental research to discover new methods of energy conversion and distribution,**
**understanding reaction pathways for energy systems,**
**developing quantitative understanding of energy/environment interactions – including water – at the impact of these systems on society, and**
**evaluating energy workforce needs, and stimulating evolution of education programs.**

**Notes:**
Image: By harnessing the power of billions of bacteria, microbial fuel cells are able to produce energy from the organic material in ordinary wastewater.  As the bacteria consume the biomass, they transfer electrons to an anode – the familiar negative electrode of a battery.  The bacteria also release protons, hydrogen atoms stripped of their electrons, which go into solution. The electrons on the anode migrate via a wire, becoming a source of electricity.  The impact of this innovation is its potential to treat wastewater in an energy-efficient manner.  (Image: NSF) 

Image:  The development of MP3 technologies illustrates the unexpected benefits of basic research.  In 1965, a hand-sized storage and playback device that would hold 15,000 recorded songs was the stuff of science fiction.  Research funded by the DoD, NSF, NIH, DoE, and NIST contributed to the breakthrough technologies of magnetic storage drives, LCDs, and lithium-ion batteries.  The device itself is innovative, but it built upon a broad platform of component technologies, each derived from fundamental studies in physical science, mathematics, and engineering.  
(U.S. OSTP)

## Directorate for Engineering Research and Education Themes FY 2007 – FY 2008

_**Innovation**_**: Enables national competitiveness and**** the ability to foster and catalyze innovation, and the research needed to move from fundamental knowledge to societal benefit.  Activities in this area will ****integrate research, education, and innovation – especially through existing programs such as SBIR/STTR, GOALI, I/UCRC, and PFI.**

***MP3 innovation based on broad, integrated platform.***

**This theme includes three thrusts:**
**Research in the fundamentals of innovation: What do we know about the steps needed to move from knowledge to societal benefit?**
**Partnership opportunities: How can we provide new opportunities for advancing this knowledge toward society benefit?**
**Education for innovation: Educating a technology-enabled workforce with skills to excel in innovation.**

## Directorate for Engineering Research and Education Themes FY 2007 – FY 2008

_**Manufacturing Frontiers**_**: Research that catalyzes multiscale manufacturing, from fundamental metrology through atomic-scale control of raw materials.  This supports ACI-related focus on nanofabrication and nanomanufacturing, automation and control technologies, and manufacturing innovations for more efficient production practices.**

***“******Craftsman-like” nanoparticle assembly module. ***

**These opportunities manifest most clearly in the emerging field of nanotechnology and in the promise of nanomanufacturing. **
**Create quality-engineered nanomaterials in necessary quantities.**
**Perfect manufacturing on atomic and molecular scale.**
**Enable the design and assembly of systems and sub-systems that incorporate nanoscale elements and exploit functionality at the macroscale.**
**Facilitate the transfer of nanoscience discoveries to practical applications.**

**Notes:**

Image 2: The above plasma system nanoparticle assembly module is a product of the current “craftsman” style of nanofabrication.  A completely new body of manufacturing knowledge is needed to support the advances in nano and nano-bio science and engineering.  This body includes knowledge necessary for design, fabrication, and assembly tools, as well as nanosystems.   Easy manipulation and large-scale economic production of new products is required for rapid transfer of research results from the laboratory to marketplace.  (Cambell, et al., Univ. Minnesota)

## Directorate for Engineering Research and Education Themes FY 2007 – FY 2008

_**Nanotechnology**_**: NSF, through the National Nanotechnology Initiative, drives our nation’s efforts to lead the world in fundamental nanotechnology research.  Topics span both active and complex nanosystems, which are critical for frontier technologies that harness the integration of biology, neurology, energy, and water resources.**

***Self-assembling materials align to enable hydrogen storage.  ***

**Systematic control and manufacture at the nanoscale are envisioned to evolve into four overlapping generations of nanotechnology products: **
**passive nanostructures, **
**active nanostructures, **
**systems of nanosystems with three-dimensional features, and **
**heterogeneous molecular nanosystems.**** **

**Notes:**

Image 2: The above plasma system nanoparticle assembly module is a product of the current “craftsman” style of nanofabrication.  A completely new body of manufacturing knowledge is needed to support the advances in nano and nano-bio science and engineering.  This body includes knowledge necessary for design, fabrication, and assembly tools, as well as nanosystems.   Easy manipulation and large-scale economic production of new products is required for rapid transfer of research results from the laboratory to marketplace.  (Cambell, et al., Univ. Minnesota)

## EFRI

**EFRI**

## EFRI Office

**EFRI will support higher risk, higher payoff opportunities leading to: **
**new research areas for NSF, ENG, and other agencies **
**new industries/capabilities resulting in a leadership position**
**significant progress on advancing a “grand challenge” **
**Successful topics would likely require:**
**small- to medium-sized interdisciplinary teams**
**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. **

## 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?**

## EFRI Annual Process

## EFRI Timeline

**EFRI Timeline**

**FY 2007- 2008**

**FY 2006- 2007**

**Full**
**Proposals due**

**Solicitation**
**Release**

**Preproposal**
**Panels**

**Preproposals  due**

**Awards**

**Grantees**
**meeting**

**Full**
**proposals panels**

**PD **
**Retreat**

**Solicitation**
**Release**

**PD**
**Proposals**

**ENG**
**Advisory**
**Committee**

**ENG**
**Leadership**
**Retreat**

**PD**
**Working**
**Groups**

**	****Aug 06  Oct 06****	****Dec 06****	****Feb 07****	****Apr 07****	****Jun 07****	****Aug 07****	****Oct 07**

**ENG**
**Advisory**
**Committee**

## Emerging Frontiers in Research and InnovationFY07

**Office Director**
**Sohi Rastegar (Acting)**

_**COORDINATOR**_**:**
**Abhi Deshmukh, CMMI **
_**TEAM MEMBERS**_**:**
**Mario Rotea, CMMI**
**Maria Burka, CBET**
**Bruce Hamilton, CBET**
**Usha Varshney, ECCS**

_**COORDINATOR**_**:**
**Jimmy Hsia, CMMI**
_**TEAM MEMBERS**_**:**
**Fred Heineken, CBET**
**Lenore Clesceri, CBET**
**Lynn Preston, EEC**
**Robert Wellek, CBET**

**FY 07:**
**Auto-Reconfigurable**
**Engineered Systems**
**(ARES)**

**FY 07:**
**Cellular and Biomolecular**
**Engineering**
**(CBE)**

**ENG**
**Programs**
**and**
**Divisions**
**Define**
**Topics &**
**Teams**

## Summary

**ENG will have significant impact on NSF’s ACI activities.**
**ENG’s efforts are having the intended impact on funding rates. **
**ENG has a new organization and EFRI process has been initiated. **
**With these increasing opportunities, there are also increasing responsibilities. **
**Clearly defined priorities will be essential for the future of ENG, particularly where ENG can take a leadership role.**
**ENG Advisory Committee input sought on the frontiers of engineering.**

## Questions

**Questions**