This causes department personnel to verify College award postings vs. departmental award postings. The COE should create a centralized Research Proposal and Award database usable by all departments, COE, etc. to produce research statistical reports, etc. The database should be accessible to departments for retrieving and organizing individual department proposal and award data. One of the duties for the new position, Assistant to the Dean for Computing Services, will be to identify College-wide standards in software applications and hardware. This position should work with COE Research division to address the issue of a College-wide grant database.
Multidisciplinary research is the growing trend for federal funding.
It is recognized that the COE Research division, GCS and GCA is c onsistently improving and increasing the information used for grant and contract preparation and administration, but again, these efforts are neither coordinated nor advertised. The COE Research WEB page should be the core of information distribution for Engineering Departments. The COE should additionally provide centralized information and assistance to PIs for connection to other researchers for collaborative research projects. Training and Communication Training and Communication are important issues in the grant process. Personnel who prepare and administer research grants must sort through volumes of verbiage to attain the information to perform their job accurately.