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NSF Broader Impact

NSF Broader Impact. Bill Pugh NSF (Jan - Jun 2011) Univ. Of Maryland Google. Nothing official. Nothing has been decided or announced about how NSF will implement provisions of the America Competes Act I don't speak for NSF

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NSF Broader Impact

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  1. NSF Broader Impact • Bill Pugh • NSF (Jan - Jun 2011) • Univ. Of Maryland • Google

  2. Nothing official • Nothing has been decided or announced about how NSF will implement provisions of the America Competes Act • I don't speak for NSF • Lots of people have used this as an opportunity to encourage and discuss broader impact and outreach, and advocate for their vision of broader impact • Broader impact and outreach is a good thing

  3. Broader Impact at NSFcurrent status • Proposals are evaluated in terms of intellectual merit and broader impact • Proposals with weak intellectually merit, as evaluated by panel, don't get funded • Proposals get returned without review if they don't explicitly mention broader impact • Broader impact can make a difference in ranking competitive proposals near the funding cutoff

  4. How much of a difference? • Fund rate is perhaps 20-25% • In panel with 30 proposals, might fund 6-8 proposals • Might be 1-3 proposals nearly tied for intellectual merit • Strong broader impact might move you to the top of that group

  5. Broader Impact via research • Almost anyone publishing at ICSE can claim to have broader impact via their research • (1) Increased economic competitiveness of the United States • (8) Increased national security • Can improve impact by plans to make artifacts produced via research publicly available • software, data sets • Also helpful to discuss measures to ensure real world relevance

  6. Outreach broader impact • Lots of ways to have broader impact via outreach of many kinds • Many people assume that new NSF rules will allow for broader impact sidecars

  7. Broader impact side cars • Broader impact effort not connected to proposal research • Doesn't need to be original or innovative; being successful is also important • Can be participation in existing departmental or campus program • Can allocate funds for outreach activities and/or evaluation

  8. Broader impact side cars • I expect that if new rules allow for BI sidecars, most proposals in software engineering won't have them • But some PI's are very enthusiastic and motivated to do outreach activities • This will provide them with opportunities put that energy and ideas into their NSF proposals and be rewarded for it

  9. Volunteer to serve on an NSF panel • Program managers are always gets looking for people to serve on panels • Particularly need help identifying nand faculty and postdocs • Great way to serve the community, learn how the process works, and perhaps influence the work that gets funded • For software engineering, contact Sol Greenspan (sgreensp@nsf.gov) • I'll be gone by the end of June

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