Shaking the Money Tree at NSF

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Shaking the Money Tree at NSF

• Cerry M. Klein
• Program Director
• cklein_at_nsf.gov

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Preview

• Intro to NSF
• Intro to Engr and CMMI
• New at NSF for 2009
• NSF Statistics
• NSF and the Stimulus Bill

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• The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an
  independent federal agency created by Congress
  in 1950
• The Charge was and is "to promote the progress
  
• of science to advance the national health,
• prosperity, and welfare to secure
• the national defense
• Has an annual budget of approximately 6
  billion
• NSF is the funding source for approximately 20
  percent of all federally supported basic
  research conducted by America's colleges and
  universities
• In many fields such as mathematics, computer
  science and the social sciences, NSF is the
  major source of federal backing

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NSF Budget 2002-2008(Dollars in Millions)
Engineering Directorate FY 2008 budget 660
Million (10.4 of NSF budget) Decrease of almost
3 from 2007
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NSF Budget by Research DirectorateDollars in
Millions
Estimate included a 10 anticipated cut Looks
now like a 10-12 increase
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Directorate for EngineeringFY 2009
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Engineering FY 2009 Budget RequestDollars in
Millions
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Civil, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Innovation CMMI
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Budget in CMMI

• CMMI has 20 programs plus set asides for nano,
  cyberinfrastructure, and others
• Some programs are bigger than others
• Budget based on quality of proposals, number of
  submissions, relevance
• Bottom line most programs are in the range of
  4-6 million
• True for virtually all divisions in Engineering

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National Priorities NSF
Administration RD Priorities
NSF Investment Areas
ENG Themes
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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.
• 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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Directorate for Engineering Trends

• Engineering discovery and innovation are crucial
  for addressing increasingly complex challenges
  touching every sector of society
• Health,
• Quality of life,
• Sustainability,
• Energy
• Security
• Engineering makes important contributions to
  almost all disciplines
• NSF Engineering discovery, innovation and
  education are critical elements of the national
  agenda (e.g., America COMPETES Act and the
  American Competitiveness Initiative).

Engineering contributes at all scales. Examples
are nanotechnology, computational simulation,
health, and alternative energy.
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Cognitive Engineering
Directorate for Engineering Research Topics

• 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

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Directorate for Engineering Research Topics
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
• Scale up production processes (yield)
• Quality and Reliability Issues at the nano/micro
  scale

Nanoparticles compose a lightweight biocompatible
material for bone implants. Groza, 0523063.
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Competitive Manufacturing and Service Enterprises

• ENG enables research to model, analyze, and
  optimize large complex service systems based on
  fundamental properties
• Examples include
• Humanitarian logistics
• Unexpected large scale system disruptions
• Health Care Delivery
• Understanding optimizing decision-making in
  service industries

The time needed for vaccine design, production,
and administration must all be balanced.
Directorate for Engineering
Credit James Gathany, courtesy of CDC.
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Directorate for Engineering Research Topics
Complexity in Engineered and Natural Systems

• Addresses unifying principles that enable
  modeling, prediction, and control of emergent
  behavior in complex systems
• This research enhances our ability to understand
  natural systems, engineered systems, and
  interface of natural and engineered systems.

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
Directorate for Engineering Research Topics

• 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
  energyenvironment 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.
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Systems Nanotechnology
Directorate for Engineering Research Topics

• 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.
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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

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CMMI Areas of Interest

• 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, systems, and optimization
• Two submission deadlines each year Oct. 1 and
  Feb. 15

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Civil, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Innovation CMMI
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NSF Wide Programs
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ENG Broadening Participation

• Broadening Participation Research Initiation
  Grants in Engineering (BRIGE)
• Research initiation grant funding opportunity
  intended to increase the diversity of researchers
  through research program support early in their
  careers, including under-represented groups,
  engineers at minority serving institutions, and
  persons with disabilities.
• Up to 175,000 over two years.
• Early career faculty (fewer than three years).
• Less than 50,000 in federal funding
• US citizen or permanent resident
• Announced in September 2007 with submission date
  of second Friday of February.
• NSF 07-58 at http//www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07589
  /nsf07589.htm

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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 available for co-funding with all NSF
  Directorates
• Proposals accepted anytime in accordance with
  program submission 70 awards each year

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New for NSF

• EAGER Grants Replaces SGER
• No longer submit GOALIs to GOALI program
• submit to program of interest instead
• First word in title must be GOALI
• All senior project personnel are restricted to
  two months of regular salary in any one year from
  all NSF funded grants

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Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research
(EAGER)

• Supports high-risk, exploratory, and potentially
  transformative research
• Begins Jan. 1, 2009
• Up to 300K over two years
• May be submitted any time contact program
  officer prior to proposal submission

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Grants for Rapid Response Research (RAPID)

• Supports research of great urgency with regard to
  data, facilities, or equipment, such as research
  on disasters
• Up to 200K over one year
• May be submitted any time contact program
  officer prior to proposal submission

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Crosscutting and NSF-wide Opportunities

• Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)
• Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
• Deep Underground Science and Engineering
  Laboratory (DUSEL S4)
• Domestic Nuclear Detection Office/NSF Academic
  Research Initiative (ARI)
• Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program
• Pan-American Advanced Studies Institutes Program
  (PASI)
• Partnerships for International Research and
  Education (PIRE)

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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
• From Data to Knowledge
• Understanding Complexity in
• Natural, Built, and Social Systems
• 26M investment in 2008 for up to 30 grants
• Preliminary proposals due Dec. 8/9, 2008 full
  proposals due May 20, 2009

In ENG Maria Burka Eduardo Misawa
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NSF Statistics
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Single vs. Multiple Investigator ENG Awards

• A majority of ENG awards are provided to
  multiple-investigator projects.
• For the past decade, ENG is typically 10-15
  above the rest of NSF in such awards.

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ENG and NSF Funding RatesResearch Grants
ENG Proposals and Awards
Funding Rate Percent
Directorate for Engineering
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ENG Funding Rates for Prior and New PIs
Number of Awards
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Annual Award SizeAverages for ENG Research Grants
Award size data annualized.
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Average Award Duration in YearsENG Research
Grants in Comparison to NSF
Average Duration in Years
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Transformative Research

• Research driven by ideas that have the potential
  to radically change our understanding of an
  important existing scientific or engineering
  concept or leading to the creation of a new
  paradigm or field of science or engineering. Such
  research also is characterized by its challenge
  to current understanding or its pathway to new
  frontiers.

NSB Report, March 2007
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Peer Review Process

• Program director identifies reviewers
• Reviewers perform 6-9 proposal reviews
• Panelists come to NSF for 1-2 days to discuss and
  rank proposals
• Program director recommends proposals for funding
• Recommendation goes through the approval process
• PIs are notified

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Merit Review Criteria

• Intellectual Merit
• How important is the proposed activity to
  advancing knowledge and understanding within its
  own field or across different fields?
• How well qualified is the proposer to conduct the
  project?
• To what extent does the proposed activity suggest
  and explore creative and original concepts?
• How well conceived and organized is the proposed
  activity?
• Is there sufficient access to resources?
• Is it transformative?

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Merit Review Criteria

• Broader Impacts
• How well does the activity advance discovery
  while promoting teaching, training and learning?
• How well does the proposed activity broaden the
  participation of underrepresented groups?
• To what extent will it enhance the infrastructure
  for research and education?
• Will the results be disseminated broadly?
• What may be the benefits of the proposed activity
  to society?

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A Few Proposal Hints

• Be concise
• Make sure proposal is well written and easy to
  follow consider using a grant writer
• Write as much to non-expert as expert (balance)
• Follow the rules!! Compliance is becoming a key
• Dont use boilerplate for broader impact
• Show research is transformative and exciting
  never incremental That is the death knell

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Stimulus and NSF
What Happened

• House Version
• 3 billion for NSF
• 10.9 billion NIH
• 2 billion DOE Office of Science
• 602 million NASA
• 500 million NIST

• Senate Version
• 1.6 billion for NSF
• 16.4 billion NIH
• 330 million DOE Office of Science
• 1.2 billion NASA
• 575 million NIST

• Final Version
• 3 billion for NSF
• 10 billion NIH
• 2 billion DOE Office of Science
• 1 billion NASA
• 580 million NIST

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Stimulus and NSF

• Even if it is in the bill it does not mean it
  gets appropriated!
• America Competes Act Double NSF money
• We do not even have our base budget for FY2009

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Stimulus and NSF

• Best Case adds approximately 2 million to each
  program budget
• Worst Case budgets stay flat
• What may happen
• Initiatives
• Special Calls
• NSF wide collaborations
• Probable Case - 1.2 million to each of my
  programs

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Stimulus and NSF

• Bad News
• 2 million is not much (5-6 proposals). 1.2
  million is 4 proposals at best. Could already
  spend that on proposals that normally do not get
  funded because of lack of money
• Everyone knows - We had a 32 increase in
  submissions for Feb 15 which will result in a hit
  rate of still 10-12 if not less
• Still must have submitted a very good and
  competitive proposal to be funded
• This is only a one time shot

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Stimulus and NSF

• NOTE
• Business as usual will not fund a bad proposal.
  If yours from October was declined it still is
  and will be
• Will not give supplements to existing awards
• Not sure how it will impact next year
• A lot of misinformation is out there

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Resources

• Directorate for Engineering
• http//www.nsf.gov/eng
• Funding Opportunities http//www.nsf.gov/funding/
  
• NSF Email Updates www.nsf.gov

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http//www.nsf.gov Thank You!! Cerry
Klein cklein_at_nsf.gov 703-292-5365
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Manufacturing Enterprise Systems
VISION
To transform manufacturing enterprises through
the development of fundamental knowledge and
science and by its application so that
manufacturing enterprises will continue to become
more global, information intensive, efficient,
reactive, and environmentally friendly
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Program Objectives

• Design, planning and control of manufacturing
  enterprises, from shop floors to associated
  procurement and distribution supply chains
• Mathematically rigorous modeling and analysis
  tools
• Computational approaches for large scale systems
• Focus on fundamental research on modeling and
  analysis of complex engineered systems
• Looking for impact across different venues

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Importance of Fundamental Research

• The demarcation between manufacturing and service
  will become less obvious integration will be
  necessary
• New processes and materials will fundamentally
  change enterprise design and operations
• Enterprise level competitiveness will be an
  essential element for the economic prosperity of
  our country
• Many functions are moving back on shore
  (re-shoring) with a clean slate Opportunity to
  do it right

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Future

• Would like your help in determining manufacturing
  enterprises future directions
• Input and information
• Global perspective
• Competitiveness
• Impact

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MES at NSF

• Base budget of 4.7M/year
• 100 proposals per year, plus dozens more from
  special solicitations, 13 funded
• Steady state, with average grants of 320K, this
  is about 10 grants per year
• Regular due dates February 15 and October 1
• CAREER - July

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Some Currently Funded Subjects

• Supply Risk Management
• Uncertainty in Process and Product Robustness
• Statistical methods, quality control and
  model-based diagnosis
• Consumer oriented Supply Chains
• Transients of Production Systems
• Nano process optimization

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Some Currently Funded Subjects

• Understanding and Controlling Variation
  Propagation
• Sensor Information and Integration
• Sustainable Manufacturing
• Enterprise Design
• Foundations of Bio-production
• Cyber Enabled Manufacturing
• Process Control Fundamentals

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The Future?

• Complex biological systems and bio-manufacturing
• Nano-manufacturing systems and processes
• Integrated nano-micro-macro production systems
• Mass customization and its impact system wide
• Multi-scale modeling approaches
• Sensor integrated real-time control of
  enterprises
• Human-in-the-loop decision systems
• Sustainable enterprises
• Critical infrastructure design, modeling and
  protection
• Cyber-infrastructure for next generation
  manufacturing enterprises

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Service Enterprise Engineering
VISION
To revolutionize the delivery of services through
the discovery of fundamental knowledge and
science and the use of innovative modeling and
analysis
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Program Objectives

• Foster research in the discovery of
  fundamental knowledge and on modeling and
  analysis issues arising in service systems
• Build collaborations within NSF and in other
  agencies to incorporate realistic models of
  human behaviors and their impact on a system
• Lead engineering academia to focus on
  unfamiliar sectors related to services such as
  health care, public policy, energy, logistics,
  security
• Promote research in networks of hybrid systems
  involving service and other systems such as
  manufacturing, transportation, energy, and
  public works systems

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Program Budget
SES at NSF

• Base budget of 3.7M/year
• 100 proposals per year, plus dozens more from
  special solicitations,10 funded
• Steady state, with average grants of 320K, this
  is about 10 grants per year
• Regular due dates February 15 and October 1
• CAREER - July

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Some Currently Funded Subjects

• Failure Prediction and Maintenance for Service
  Systems
• Workforce Management in Labor Intensive Service
  Operations
• Emergency Services and Error Mitigation
• Integrated Operations Planning and Enterprise
  Systems Models
• Health Care Delivery
• Revenue Management under Competition and
  Uncertainty

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Some Currently Funded Subjects

• Logistics in Service Enterprises
• Service Quality
• Cyber Enabled Service Enterprises
• Financial Engineering and Revenue Management
• Service Enterprise Supply Chains
• Security as a Service
• Resource Flexibility
• Drug Safety Risk-Benefits
• Optimized Medical Treatment Decisions

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Future of Service?

• What is service and what does a service system
  entail?
• Is there a fundamental science of service?
• What is the effect of the integration of
  service and production/manufacturing?
• What are the metrics for a service system?
• Are all systems a service system in some sense?

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Future of Service

• Service Objectives - not just cost
• Security
• Equity
• Flexibility
• Robustness
• Service Design Scope
• New areas of application and integration
• Enhanced Models to include risk, uncertainty
  and user behavior
• Repeated interactions with customers
• Driver behavior
• Patient choice

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Looking For

• Impact across different environments
• Systems wide integration and application
• Health Care
• Help
• Would like to have a discussion with the research
  community
• Would like your input on setting direction and
  content

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Manufacturing
Future Directions
Manufacturing
Enterprise Level
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Other Ideas/Comments
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Service Enterprise Engineering
Service and Manufacturing Alike
Different
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Service Enterprise Engineering
Key Research Areas?
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Other Ideas/Comments