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Engineering at NSF National Science Foundation Directorate for Engineering

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Presentation Outline  Directorate

for Engineering (ENG)

Overview  Funding Opportunities  Funding Success  Resources

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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.

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

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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 

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Cognitive Engineering 

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

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

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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 Directorate for Engineering

Nanoparticles compose a lightweight biocompatible material for bone implants. Groza, 0523063. 6

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 

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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 .

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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) 

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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. 8

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 

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Integrated circuits that are smaller and faster are possible with microfluidics systems built from or incorporating nanocomponents. Ferreira, 0328162. 9

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.

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Proposals must address NSF goals › Discovery › Learning › Research infrastructure › Stewardship

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Funding may be found in ENG and crosscutting/interdisciplinary programs

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Funding Opportunities 

Core programs › ENG divisions › Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) › Broadening Participation

Exploratory research  Collaborative/interdisciplinary areas  Crosscutting and NSF-wide programs 

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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

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ENG Divisions Office of the Assistant Director

Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) Sohi Rastegar

Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) Allen Soyster

TBD Deputy Assistant Director Michael Reischman Program Director for Diversity & Outreach Mary Juhas

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

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

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

Senior Advisor for Nanotechnology Mihail Roco

Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP) Kesh Narayanan

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Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) Deputy Division Director Bob Wellek

Chemical, Biochemical, and Biotechnology Systems

Acting Division Director Maria Burka

Transport and Thermal Fluids

Process and Reaction Engineering Maria Burka

Thermal Transport Processes Pat Phelan

Catalysis and Biocatalysis John Regalbuto

Interfacial Processes and Thermodynamics Bob Wellek

Biotechnology Fred Heineken

Particulate and Multiphase Processes Marc Ingber

Chemical and Biological Separations Rose Wesson

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Fluid Dynamics Bill Schultz Combustion, Fire, and Plasma Systems Phil Westmoreland

Senior Advisor Marshall Lih

Biomedical Engineering and Engineering Healthcare Research to Aid Persons with Disabilities Ted Conway Biomedical Engineering Semahat Demir Advanced Imaging and Sensing for Human Health Leon Esterowitz

Environmental Engineering and Sustainability Environmental Engineering Clark Liu Environmental Implications of Emerging Technologies Paul Bishop Energy for Sustainability Trung Van Nguyen Environmental Sustainability Bruce Hamilton 15

CBET Areas of Interest 

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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) Division Director Advanced Manufacturing Manufacturing and Construction Machines and Equipment George Hazelrigg

Systems Engineering and Design Innovation

Adnan Akay Deputy Director George Hazelrigg

Mechanics and Engineering Materials

Manufacturing Enterprise Systems Cerry Klein Material Processing and Manufacturing Jocelyn Harrison

NanoManufacturing Shaochen Chen

Structural Materials and Mechanics Lawrence Bank Directorate for Engineering

Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructures

Control Systems Suhada Jayasuriya

Geomechanics and Geotechnical Systems Richard Fragaszy

Civil Infrastructure Systems Dennis Wenger

Dynamical Systems Edward Misawa

Materials and Surface Engineering Clark Cooper

Engineering Simulation Research Joy Pauschke

Engineering Design and Innovation Judy Vance

Mechanics of Materials Ken Chong

Geotechnical Engineering Richard Fragaszy

Manufacturing Enterprise Systems Cerry Klein

Nano/Bio Mechanics Demitris Kouris

Hazard Mitigation and Structural Engineering M.P. Singh

Operations Research Stephen Nash

Infrastructure Mgmt. and Extreme Events Dennis Wenger

Sensors and Sensing Systems Shih Chi Liu

Service Enterprise Systems Cerry Klein 17

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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

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

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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 

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NEES Joy Pauschke

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Electrical, Communications, and Cyber Systems (ECCS) Senior Advisor

Lawrence Goldberg

Acting Division Director Lawrence Goldberg

Electronics, Photonics, and Device Technologies Optoelectronics; Nanophotonics; Ultrafast/Extreme Ultra-Violet Technologies Eric Johnson

Integrative, Hybrid, and Complex Systems

Micro/Nanoelectronics; NEMS/ MEMS; Bioelectronics; Sensors Rajinder Khosla

RF and Optical Wireless and Hybrid Communications Systems; Inter and Intra-chip Communications; Mixed Signals Andreas Weisshaar

Micro/Nanoelectronics; Molecular, Spin, and Organic Electronics; Micromagnetics; Power Electronics Pradeep Fulay

Micro and Nano Systems; Systems-on-a-chip; Systemin-a-Package; Diagnostic and Implantable Systems Yogesh Gianchandani

Microwave Photonics; MMIC; Millimeter, Sub-millimeter and Terahertz Frequency Devices and Components Directorate for Engineering Usha Varshney

Cyber Systems; Signal Processing Scott Midkiff

Power, Controls, and Adaptive Networks Embedded, Distributed and Adaptive Control; Sensing and Imaging Networks; Systems Theory; Telerobotics Radhakisan Baheti Power and Energy Systems and Networks and their Interdependencies; Power Drives; Renewable/Alternative Energy Sources Dagmar Niebur Adaptive Dynamic Programming; Quantum and Molecular Modeling and Simulations; Neuromorphic Engineering Paul Werbos 20

ECCS Areas of Interest Electronics, Photonics, and Device Technologies EPDT Bioelectronics Electromagnetics Flexible Electronics MEMS/NEMS Micro/Nanoelectronics Micro/Nanomagnetics Microwave Photonics Molecular Electronics Nanophotonics Optoelectronics Power Electronics Sensors and Actuators Spin Electronics

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Power, Controls, and Adaptive Networks PCAN

 Adaptive Dynamic Programming Integrative, Hybrid,  Alternate Energy Sources and Complex Systems  Embedded, Distributed and Adaptive Control IHCS  Neuromorphic Engineering  Power and Energy Systems and Nanosystems/Microsystems/ Networks Macrosystems  Quantum and Molecular Cyber Systems and Signal Processing Modeling and Simulation of Nano and Microsystems Devices and Systems System-on-a-chip  Sensing and Imaging Networks System-in-a-package  Telerobotics RF and Optical Wireless and Hybrid Communications Systems Inter- and Intra-chip Communications Mixed Signals 21

Multicore Chip Design and Architecture (MCDA) 

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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 MCDA Supported areas include: Lawrence Goldberg › Architectures for multicore systems › CAD for multicore systems › Interconnect and packaging technologies for

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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 underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities to apply  $80M invested each year for 425 new awards  ENG awards are ≥$400K for 5 years ENG Contacts  Deadlines vary by division; Ken Chong Sharon Middledorf ENG proposals due July 22, 2009 

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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 

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Broadening Participation Research Initiation Grants in Engineering (BRIGE) 

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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

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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 advancement 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 

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

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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

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Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) EFRI supports higher-risk, higher-payoff opportunities with potential for: › New research areas EFRI › New industries and/or capabilities Sohi Rastegar › 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 

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ENG Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Research  Engineering

Education and Centers  Industrial Innovation and Partnerships

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Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) Division Director Allen Soyster

Engineering Centers

Senior Staff Associate Win Aung

Lynn Preston

Bioengineering Vacant

ERC Diversity and Pre-College Education Mary Poats

Civil Infrastructure John Daniels

Microelectronics Systems and Information Deborah Jackson Barbara Kenny Nanoscale Science and Engineering Deborah Jackson Barbara Kenny

Earthquake Engineering Vilas Mujumdar Cross-Directorate Programs Sharon Middledorf

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Engineering Education

Sue Kemnitzer

Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education Mary Poats

Engineering Education Sue Kemnitzer John Daniels

International Research and Education in Engineering Win Aung

Research Experiences for Teachers Mary Poats

Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institutes Mary Poats

Research Experience for Undergrads Esther Bolding 33

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

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Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers › 6 of 10 are engineering › 2007 solicitation to establish a Center for the

Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology

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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

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New solicitation in Fall 2008

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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.

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Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12) › ~20 awards each year › Letters of Intent due in May, full proposals due in June

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Graduate Research Fellowships (GRF) › ~1000 fellowships awarded each year › Engineering proposals due Nov. 12, 2008; interdisciplinary

proposals due Nov. 3, 2008

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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 

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Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP) AAAS Fellow James Brown

Academic Partnerships

Division Director Kesh Narayanan

Joe Hennessey

Donald Senich Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry Donald Senich

Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers Rathindra DasGupta Glenn Larsen

Partnerships for Innovation Sara Nerlove

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Small Business Partnerships

• 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 38

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 

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

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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

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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 

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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 

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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)

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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 In ENG  ~$18M investment for 11–16 grants Clark Cooper  Solicitation ends Oct. 30, 2008 Scott Midkiff 

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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 In ENG › From Data to Knowledge Maria Burka Eduardo Misawa › Understanding Complexity in Natural, Built, and Social Systems  ~$26M investment in 2008 for up to 30 grants  Waiting for new solicitation 

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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 In ENG per award for up to five years Rajinder Khosla  Full proposals due April 1, 2009 

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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 

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Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program Goals of the program are to: › Support the acquisition or development of major state-ofthe-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 In ENG Lawrence Goldberg 225 awards  Letters of Intent due in Dec.; full proposals due in Jan. 

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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

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~$500K annual investment for 6–8 grants Full proposals due Jan. 15, 2009

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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 Office of International importance of international Science and collaborative research and education Engineering  Next competition planned for 2009 Edward Murdy 

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Funding Success

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What Do Reviewers Look For? 

Proposals that address one or more NSF goals: › Discovery › Learning › Research infrastructure › Stewardship

Intellectual merit  Broader impact 

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Getting Started 

Begin with › Dialog › White paper › Short biography

Get involved with NSF reviews  Spread your research wings  Deliver on your promises 

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