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NSF Directorate for EngineeringMary Toney NSF Grants Conference November 2 3,‐ 2015

National Science FoundationNational Science

Board (NSB)Director

and Deputy DirectorOffice of Diversity andInclusion

Office of theInspector General (OIG)

Office of the GeneralCounsel

Office of International & Integrative Activities

Office of Legislative & Public Affairs

BiologicalSciences (BIO)

Computer &Information Science & Engineering (CISE)Engineering

(ENG)Geosciences

(GEO)

Mathematical& Physical Sciences (MPS)

Social,Behavioral

& Economic Sciences (SBE)Education

& Human Resources (EHR)Budget,

Finance & Award Management (BFA)Information& Resource Management (IRM)

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NSF – Budgets


FY16 Investments


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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 partnership with the engineering community, and in service to society and the nation.

Vision: ENG will be a global leader in identifying and catalyzing fundamental engineering research, innovation, and education.


Office of the Assistant Director Pramod Khargonekar, Assistant Director Grace Wang, Deputy Assistant Director

NSF Directorate for Engineering (ENG)Emerging Frontiers and

Multidisciplinary Activities (EFMA)Sohi Rastegar

Senior Advisor forScience and Engineering

Mihail Roco

Program Director forInnovation CorpsEvaluation & Assessment

Babu DasGuptaAlexandra Medina Borja‐

EngineeringEducation and Centers (EEC)

Mario Rotea

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

JoAnn Lighty

Civil,Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI)

Deborah Goodings

Electrical,Communications,Industrial and CyberInnovation andSystemsPartnerships (ECCS)(IIP)Samir El GhazalyBarry‐ Johnson


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ENG and SBIR/STTR R&RA Budgets ($M)$1,200

$1,000

$800

$600

$400

$200

$0

ENGSBIR/STTR

ENG ARRASBIR/STTR ARRA


ENG Funding Rate


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NSF ENG StrategyAttract, stimulate, catalyze and challenge research communities to think big, enable transformational advances, and expand national innovation capacityPortfolio balance between fundamental, applied and translational as well as small, medium and large projectsNew approaches to address engineering education challengesCollaborate and partner within and outside NSF to maximize opportunity for the engineering research and education community to address major national priorities


Disciplines in a Multidisciplinary WorldNSF ENG has a strong commitment to fundamental engineering research

How should we think about discipline based fundamental research in the contemporary research environment?

Think of disciplines as super nodes‐ in the knowledge network

Major opportunity: robust, effective linkages among nodes to solve tomorrow’s problems


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Funding Mechanisms

Core/UnsolicitedIndividual/small collaborative teamsSolicitationsSpecial research call – DMREF, NRI, SNMEarly Career – CAREERInstrumentation – MRICenters – ERC, STCSmall Business Innovation ‐ SBIR, STTRInternational CollaborationsWorkshops/Conferences


Proposal ReviewProposals must address NSF goalsTransform the frontiers of science and engineeringStimulate innovation and address societal needs through research and educationNSF merit review criteriaIntellectual meritBroader impacts


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Process Systems, Reaction

Engineering and Molecular

Catalysis and Biocataly

Chemical and Biological

Separations Carole

Thermal Transport Processes

Particulate and Multiphase

Processes William

Fluid DynamicsDimitrios

Combustion and Fire Systems

Ruey Chen

Environmental

Engineering

Nano Bio‐ Phenomena and Processes in the

Environment

Energy for Sustainability Greg

Environmental Sustainabilit

Deputy Division Director

Division DirectorJoAnn Lighty

Biotechnology and

Biochemical Engineering

Biomedical Engineering

BiophotonicsLeon Esterowitz

General and Age‐ Related

Disabilities Engineering

Nano Biosensing‐Raj Mutharasan

Transport, Thermal, and

Fluid

Chemical, Biochemical,

and Biotechnology

Biomedical Engineering

and Engineering

Environmental Engineering

Review TimelinePI communicates with Program Director to determine program fit Proposal is SubmittedProgram Director reads proposals, identifies reviewers, assembles panelsReviewers perform 6-8 proposal reviews

Panels convene to discuss and rank proposals

-1 0 1 2 3months

4 5 6

Program director recommends proposals for funding

Recommendation goes through the approval processPIs are notified


Particulate and Multiphase Processes William Olbricht

Thermal Transport Processes Ruey Chen (Acting)

Division DirectorJoAnn Lighty

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

Deputy Division Director Susan Kemnitzer

Chemical,Biochemical, and Biotechnology Systems

Catalysis and Biocatalysis Bob McCabe

BiomedicalEngineering and Engineering Healthcare

Biomedical Engineering Thanassis SambanisBiophotonics

Leon EsterowitzBiotechnology and Biochemical Engineering Friedrich Srienc

General and Age‐ Related Disabilities Engineering Alex LeonessaNano Biosensing‐Raj Mutharasan

EnvironmentalEngineering and Sustainability

Transport, Thermal,and Fluid Phenomena

Energy forSustainabilityGreg Rorrer

Combustion and FireSystems

Ruey Chen

Chemical andBiological Separations

Carole ReadProcess Systems, Reaction Engineering and Molecular Thermodynamics Maria Burka

EnvironmentalEngineering

William CooperNano Bio‐ Phenomena and Processes in the Environment Nora SavageEnvironmental Sustainability Bruce Hamilton

Fluid DynamicsDimitrios Papavassilou


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Division DirectorDeborah Goodings

Materials Engineering and Processing

Mary Toney, Alexis Lewis, TBD

Dynamics, Control and Systems

Diagnostics Massimo Ruzzene Jordan Berg

Engineering and Systems Design Chris

Service, Manufacturing and

Operations Research

Systems ScienceChris Paredis

Advanced Manufactur

Operations, Designand

Dynamical Biomechanics

and Mechanobiolo

Design of Engineering Material Systems

Chris Paredis, Mary Toney, Kara Peters

Mechanics of Materials

and Structures

Civil Infrastructure

Systems

Natural Hazards Engineering

Research Infrastructure

Geotechnical Engineering and

Materials Richard

Structural and Architectural

Engineering TBD

Senior Advisor

Manufacturing

Machines and


NanoManufacturing

Resilient and

Sustainable

Mechanics and Engineering

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Infrastructure Mgmt. and

Extreme Events

CBET Areas of InterestChemical, biochemical, and biotechnologyprocessing and manufacturing of products with chemical and renewable resources

Biomedical engineering and engineering healthcareintegration of engineering and life science to solve biomedical problems

Environmental engineering and sustainabilityreduction of adverse effects of solid, liquid, and gaseous discharges into land, waters, and air that result from human activity

Transport and thermal fluids phenomenathermal, mass, and momentum transport that enable new technological solutions (energy, environment, manufacturing, health care, ...)

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Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructures

Manufacturing Machines and Equipment ZJ PeiBiomechanics and Mechanobiology David FyhrieDynamics, Control and Systems Diagnostics Massimo Ruzzene Jordan BergCivil Infrastructure Systems Elise Miller Hooks‐

Mechanics of Materialsand Structures

Kara PetersMaterials Engineering and Processing Mary Toney, Alexis Lewis, TBD

Engineering and Systems Design Chris Paredis

Design of Engineering Material Systems Chris Paredis, Mary Toney, Kara Peters

Systems ScienceChris ParedisNanoManufacturing

Khershed Cooper

Service, Manufacturing and Operations Research Diwakar Gupta

Division DirectorDeborah Goodings

Advanced Manufacturing Mechanics and Engineering MaterialsOperations, Designand Dynamical Systems

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Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI)

Senior AdvisorBruce Kramer


George Hazelrigg


Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure

Joy PauschkeGeotechnical Engineering and Materials Richard

Fragaszy

Structural and Architectural Engineering

TBD

Infrastructure Mgmt. and Extreme Events

David Mendonca

George Haddad Hao Ling Mona

Eyad Abed Kishan


Division DirectorSamir El Ghazaly‐

Dominique Dagenais Nadia

El Masry‐ Mahmoud Fallahi Dimitris Pavlidis

Communications, Circuits, and

Sensing Systems

Electronics, Photonics, and

Magnetic Devices

Energy, Power, Control and

Networks (EPCN)

Senior Engineering

Advisor

George Haddad Hao Ling Mona ZaghloulDominique Dagenais Nadia El Masry Mahmoud‐ Fallahi Dimitris Pavlidis Usha Varshney

Eyad Abed Kishan Baheti

Division DirectorSamir El Ghazaly‐

Electrical, Communications, and CyberSystems (ECCS)

Deputy DivisionDirector

Dominique Dagenais (acting)

Senior EngineeringAdvisor

Larry Goldberg


CMMI Areas of InterestAdvanced Manufacturingtransformative advances in manufacturing and materials processing, with emphases on efficiency, economy, sustainability and scalability

Mechanics and Engineering Materialsunderstanding the properties and use of materials in engineered and natural systems

Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructuresinnovation to advance resilience and sustainability of civil infrastructure and distributed infrastructure networks

Operations, Design and Dynamic Systemsdecision making‐ aspects of engineering, including design, control, optimization and systems science

TWO submission deadlines : September 1 15,‐ February 1 17‐


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Communications, Circuits, and

Sensing Systems (CCSS)

Electronics, Photonics, and Magnetic Devices

(EPMD)

Energy, Power, Control and Networks

(EPCN)

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ECCS Areas of InterestFundamental research issues underlying device and component technologies, power, controls, computation, networking, communications and cyber technologies

The integration and networking of intelligent systems at the nano, micro and macro scalesfor healthcare, homeland security, disaster mitigation, energy, telecommunications, environment, transportation, manufacturing, and other systems related‐ areas

ONE submission deadline per year: Nov. 119Directorate for Engineering

Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI)Supports higher risk,‐ higher payoff‐ opportunities that:Are potentially transformativeAddress a national need or grand challengeRecent topic areas:Flexible Bioelectronics Systems (BioFlex)Origami Design for the Integration of Self assembling‐ Systems for Engineering Innovation (ODISSEI)Photosynthetic Biorefineries (PSBR)2 D‐ Atomic layer‐ Research and EngineeringNew topic announced in October 2015:Advancing Communication Quantum Information Research in Engineering (ACQUIRE)New Light and Acoustic Wave Propagation: Breaking Reciprocity and Time‐ Reversal Symmetry (NewLAW)4 year‐ awards at ~$500K per yearLOI due Nov 920Directorate for Engineering

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Directorate for Engineering

Division Director (Acting) Mario Rotea

Deputy Division Director Don Millard

Division Director (Acting) Mario Rotea Deputy Division Director Don Millard

Centers and Networks Engineering Workforce Development

Research Experiences for UndergraduatesMary Poats

Research Experiences for TeachersMary Poats

Nanoscale Science & Engineering Centers (NSEC)Keith Roper

Broadening Participation in Engineering

Engineering Centers and NetworksLarge scale‐ research investments in ENGSupports collaboration with industry and other stakeholders to promote innovative research and educationEngineering Research Centers (ERC)Three generations (50 centers total) since 1985New Nano Systems‐ ERCs (NERCs) in FY12Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers (NSEC)19 NSECs since 20013 graduated NSECs from FY01 classNetwork for Computational NanotechnologyCyber resource‐ for nanotechnology theory, modeling and simulationnanoHUB.org gateway for nanotechnology research and education> 180k users globally


Engineering Education and Centers

Engineering Research Centers (ERC) Keith Roper, Lead Deborah

Jackson Carmiña LondoñoMary Poats

Engineering Education

Research in Engineering Education (REE)

Research Initiation Grants in Engineering Education (RIGEE)Ethics Education in Science and

Engineering (EESE)

Elliot Douglas

Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN)

Keith Roper

Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) in Engineering

and Computer ScienceMary Poats

Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with

Industry (GOALI)

Division DirectorBarry Johnson

Partnerships for Innovation: Accelerating

Innovation Research (PFI AIR)‐ Barbara

Advanced Material &

Instrumentation

Partnerships for Innovation: Building

Innovation Capacity (PFI‐BIC)

SBIR/STTR ProgramJoe Hennessey


Industry/University

Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRC) Raffaella

Semiconductors (S) and Photonic (PH) Devices

and MaterialsSteven Konsek

Advanced Material & Nanotechnology

(MN) Rajesh

Information and Communi‐ cation

Technologies (IC) Peter

Electronic Hardware,

Robotics and Wireless

Chemical and Environ‐ mental Technologies (CT)

Biological Technologies (BC)Ruth Shuman

Smart Health (SH) and Biomedical

(BM) Technologies Jesus SorianoEducation

Applications and Technologies (EA) Experts/Special Topics

George Vermont

Division DirectorBarry Johnson

SBIR/STTR ProgramJoe Hennessey

Electronic Hardware, Robotics and Wireless Technologies (EW) Murali Nair

Industrial Innovation and Partnerships(IIP)Deputy Division Director Gracey Narcho

Advanced Material & Instrumentation (MI) Ben Schrag

Advanced Material &Nanotechnology (MN)

Rajesh Mehta

Biological Technologies (BC)Ruth Shuman

Chemical and Environ‐ mental Technologies (CT) Prakash Balan

Education Applications and Technologies (EA) Glenn Larsen

Information and Communi‐cation Technologies (IC)

Peter AthertonSemiconductors (S) and Photonic (PH) Devices and Materials

Steven KonsekSmart Health (SH) and Biomedical (BM) Technologies Jesus Soriano

Experts/Special TopicsGeorge Vermont 23

Industrial Innovation and Partnerships Division (IIP)

Fostering partnerships to advance technological innovationSmall business research proposals aimed at pursuing opportunities to commercialize products and servicesSolicitations only


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Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison

with Industry (GOALI) Babu Dasgupta

Industry/University Cooperative Research

Centers (I/UCRC) Raffaella Montelli Debasis

Majumdar

Partnerships for Innovation: Accelerating Innovation

Research (PFI AIR)‐ Barbara Kenny

Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI BIC)‐

Sara Nerlove

Research to Commercialization: Filling the Gap

Industry

Investors

“Ditch ofDeath” Valley of

Death FoundationsSmall Businesses

Universities

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ENG Investments andCrosscutting Programs

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Crosscutting and NSF wide‐ OpportunitiesFaculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)Critical Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering (BIGDATA)Cyber enabled ‐ Sustainability Science and Engineering (CyberSEES)Cyber Physical‐ Systems (CPS)Innovation Corps (I Corps)‐Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems (NSF NCS)‐National Robotics Initiative (NRI)Pan American‐ Advanced Studies Institutes (PASI)Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE)Research Coordination Networks (RCN)Scalable Nanomanufacturing (SNM)Sustainability Research Networks (SRN)Sustainable Chemistry, Engineering, and Materials (SusChEM)Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI)27Directorate for Engineering

CAREERFoundation wide‐ activity that offers NSF’s most prestigious awards for faculty members beginning their independent careersProvides stable support at a sufficient level and duration to enable awardees to develop careers as outstanding researchers and educators who effectively integrate teaching, learning, and discoveryHigh priority for EngineeringENG award size increased to $500,000Note: the CAREER award is not just a research award, it is a career development award


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Proposal SubmissionThe right program for a proposal depends on the research objectiveThe research goal is to obtain a fundamental understanding of…The research objective is to test the hypothesis…Winning proposals need both a research objective and a plan to accomplish the objective


NSF Supports Basic Research

Winning proposals focus on research, not developmentIf the focus of the proposal is an artifact (a device, system, product, process,…), it’s probably developmentIf the focus of the proposal is knowledge (the truth of a hypothesis), it’s probably research


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Steps towards Successful ProposalsBegin withWhite paperDialog with program officerShort biographyGet involved with NSF reviews


EthicsPersons submitting proposals to the Federal government are held to high standards of conductMisbehavior can be dealt with quite severelyPI barred from submission to NSF for up to 2 yearsPermanently barred from proposal reviewAt least two cases of jail time (Grimes case, 42 months in Federal prison)Maximum $250,000 fine, 5 years in prisonInstitutions must train and verify


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Major Forms of MisbehaviorPlagiarism—uncited reproduction of the work of othersFalsification—intentional misrepresentation of data or results (progress reports)Fabrication—making up dataDouble charges—billing the government twice for the same work


Closing ThoughtsNSF ENG is deeply committed to fundamental engineering research, education and people, and innovation for benefit to the nation

We invite the engineering community to help us in embracing current opportunities and lay the foundations for a prosperous future for engineering

This will require all of us to be creative, bold, collaborative, inclusive, and persistent


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Questions ?Image Credits (top, from left): Sijie Lin, Pu Chun‐ Ke, Clemson Univ.; Sumanta Acharya, Louisiana State Univ.; Gregory L. Rorrer, School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering, Oregon State Univ.; Tenio Popmintchev, JILA and Univ. of Colorado at Boulder; Barrett Technology, Inc. Image Credits (bottom, from left): Mark D. Huntington and Teri W. Odom, Northwestern Univ.; Tyler Andrew House and Daniel T. Schwartz (advisor), Univ. of Washington; Gerhard Klimeck, David Ebert, and Wei Qiao, Network for Computational Nanotechnology, Purdue Univ.; David Durlach, TechnoFrolics; Nano/Micro Photonics Laboratory, Electrical and Systems Engineering Dept., Washington Univ. in Saint Louis

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