National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Centers (ERC) Program

1. National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Centers (ERC) Program Lynn Preston Leader of the Engineering Research Centers (ERC) Program Deputy Division Director Division of Engineering Education and Centers lpreston@nsf.gov 703-292-5358

2. Engineering Research Centers ProgramGuiding Goals - 20+ Years • Create and sustain an integrated, interdisciplinary research environment to advance fundamental engineering knowledge and engineered systems • Educate a globally competitive and diverse engineering workforce from K-12 on, and • Join academe and industry in partnership to achieve these goals

3. Core Key Features of an ERC • Guiding strategic vision for transforming engineered systems and the development of a globally competitive and diverse engineering workforce • Strategic plans for research, education, and diversity to realize the vision • Complex, integrated, interdisciplinary research program -- fundamental to systems research and proof-of-concept test beds • Integrating research and education from precollege to practitioners (courses, course modules, new degree programs) • Partnership with industry/practitioners to formulate and evolve the strategic plan, strengthen research and education, speed technology transfer • Leadership, cohesive and diverse interdisciplinary team, effective management • Cross-institutional commitment to facilitate and foster the interdisciplinary culture and diversity of the ERC

4. FY 2007 Engineering Research Centers

5. ERC Class of 2006 • Quality of Life Technology ERC, Carnegie Mellon and the U. of Pittsburgh, 2006 • Rutgers University with Purdue, New Jersey Institute of Technology and UPRM, ERC for Structured Organic Composites for Pharmaceutical, Nutraceutical, and Agrochemical Applications, 2006 • Princeton U. with the City University of New York, John Hopkins, Texas A & M, U. Maryland – Baltimore County, and Rice, Engineering Research Center for Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment, 2006 • University of California, Berkeley with Harvard U., the MIT, Prairie View A&M, and the UC, San Francisco - Synthetic Biology ERC, 2006 • U. Of Minnesota with GA Tech, Purdue, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Vanderbilt, Engineering Research Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power, 2006

6. NSF Engineering Research CentersFY 2007 BioEngineering • U. of Washington - - Bioengineered Materials, 1996 • Georgia Tech with Emory University School of Medicine- - Engineering of Living Tissue, 1998 • Johns Hopkins with CMU and MIT, Brigham Women’s Hospital and Johns Hopkins University Hospital - - Computer Integrated Surgical Systems, 1998 • Vanderbilt University with Harvard-MIT, Northwestern Univ. and U. of Texas-Austin - - VaNTH ERC for Bioengineering Educational Technologies,1999 • U. of Southern California with Caltech and UC-Santa Cruz –Biomimetic Microelectronic Systems, 2003 • University of California, Berkeley with Harvard U., the MIT, Prairie View A&M, and theUC, San Francisco - Synthetic Biology ERC, 2006

7. NSF Engineering Research CentersFY 2007 Microelectronics, Optics, and Information Technology Systems • U. of Southern California - - Integrated Media Systems, 1996 • VPI with NC A&T, and U. of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, Rensselaer, and Wisconsin - - Power Electronic Systems, 1998 • U. of Michigan with Mich. St., & Mich. Technological Univ. - - Wireless Integrated Microsytems, 2000 • Northeastern U. with Boston U., U. of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez (UPRM), & Rensselaer - - Subsurface Sensing & Imaging Systems, 2000 • Colorado State (CSU) with CU-Boulder and UC Berkeley -- Extreme Ultraviolet S&T, 2003 • UMass-Amherst with CSU, U. of Oklahoma, and U. of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez– Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere, 2003 • Princeton U. with the City University of New York, John Hopkins, Texas A & M, U. Maryland – Baltimore County, and Rice, Engineering Research Center for Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment,2006 • Quality of Life ERC, Carnegie Mellon and the U. of Pittsburgh, 2006

8. NSF Engineering Research CentersFY 2007 Manufacturing and Processing • U. of Michigan - - Reconfigurable Machining Systems, 1996 • Clemson with MIT- -Advanced Engineering of Fibers and Films, 1998 • U. of Kansas-Lawrence with U. of Iowa and Washington U at St. Louis – Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis, 2003 • Rutgers University with Purdue, New Jersey Institute of Technology and UPRM, ERC for Structured Organic Composites for Pharmaceutical, Nutraceutical, and Agrochemical Applications, 2006 • U. Of Minnesota with GA Tech, Purdue, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Vanderbilt, Engineering Research Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power, 2006

9. NSF Earthquake Engineering Research CentersFY 2007 • University of California at Berkeley - - Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, 1997 • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - - Mid-America Earthquake Center, 1997 • State University of New York at Buffalo - - Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, 1997

10. Engineering Research Centers Program Generation 3 ERCs Partnerships in Transforming Research, Education and Technology NSF 07-

11. New Key Features of Gen 3 ERCs • Build a culture of discovery and innovation in academe • Link scientific discovery to technological innovation by directly engaging small innovative firms in the ERC’s research teams, using core funds to carry out translational research to speed innovation • Build partnerships with at least one academic, state and local government, and other program designed to stimulate entrepreneurship, with start-up firms, and otherwise speed the translation of academic knowledge into technological innovation • Engage ERC students in all phases of the innovation process so they understand what is required to translate fundamental knowledge discoveries into innovations • Strategically designed education programs to produce creative, innovative engineers • Provide faculty and students with cross-cultural, global research experiences through partnerships with foreign universities or other means • Build long-term sustained partnerships with a few pre-college institutions to increase the enrollment of domestic students in engineering and science degree programs

12. Eligibility • Lead Organization - US academic institutions with undergraduate, masters, and doctoral engineering programs with sufficient depth and breadth to support the vision • PI - Tenured faculty member at lead institution with a full or joint appointment in an engineering department. Engineer or scientist with substantial career experience in engineering • No limit on proposals per lead organization or per partner institution

13. Configuration & Eligibility Requirements (ER) • Configuration Eligibility Requirements: 1. Multi-university configuration (ER), no specific number but must be manageable, 2. At least one university/college partner serves groups underrepresented in engineering (women, racial & ethic minorities, & disabled) ER 3. Long-term partnerships with a few middle and high schools to involve teacher & students in ERC (ER) 4. Partnership with an organization ( state or local gov. or academic) devoted to speeding innovation & entrepreneurship - New Feature (ER) 5. Full proposal will include letters from firms/agencies indicating commitment to participation in the ERC’s industrial/practitioner partnership program (ER) 6. Preliminary and full proposal will include commitment from the lead institution for headquarters space for the ERC (ER) • Proposal may include a foreign university partner - New Feature but US funds cannot pay for foreign partnership, foreign funds will be in place during year 1 if awarded. Not an eligibility requirement.

14. Research • Systems vision for an emerging and potentially revolutionary or transforming engineered system at the cusp of emerging discoveries in science and engineering • Factor in societal and/or natural systems in which the system will function • Strategic plan using ERC 3-Plane Chart identifying critical paths (erc-assoc.org) • Challenging barriers at fundamental, enabling technology, and systems level • Leading edge role in bridging the gap between discovery and innovation, build culture that links discovery to innovation through: • Proof-of-concept test beds • Involvement of small firms as members of the research team to carry out translational research with teams of students - New Feature • Collaboration with industrial/practitioner members • Involvement of undergraduate and graduate students in research in academic year plus a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program within the core effort

15. Systems Research Systems Research Technology Elements System Requirements Testbed Fundamental Insights Fundamental Research Fundamental Research Fundamental Research ERC Strategic Framework It’s not an ERC if it doesn’t do all three Societal/Natural System Interface Graduates & Technology Deliverables Identify Societal/Market Needs, Define System & System Requirements Systems Architecture Testbed Testbed Testbed Technology Integration Integrate Fundamental Knowledge into Enabling Technology Enabling Tech. Research Deliverables Enabling Tech. Research Technology Base Develop Useful Insights from Fundamental Knowledge Deliverables Knowledge Base

16. University Education - Newly Designed • Strategically nurture and develop graduates who are adaptive, creative innovators with the capacity to advance fundamental knowledge and exploit it to create innovations - New Feature • Structure to develop graduates who have the knowledge, skills, and experiences needed to be successful in a globally connected, innovation-driven world- New Feature • Include development of new course materials derived from ERC’s interdisciplinary and systems research, and if suitable, degree programs and options • Strategic plan specifies desired characteristics, proposes how education program will impart these to students, and how it will measure and assess progress and impacts through longitudinal data - New Feature

17. Pre-College Education • Long-term partnerships with a small number of pre-college institutions (middle and high school) that are committed to - New Feature: • Including engineering concepts in pre-college education; • Increasing the enrollment of pre-college students in college-level engineering degree program; • Increasing the diversity of students interested in engineering • Involve pre-college teachers in ERC’s research to enable them to develop course modules to bring engineering concepts to the pre-college classroom (an ERC RET Program within the core effort) • Offer promising high school students a “Young Scholars” research opportunity in the ERC’s laboratories - New Feature • ERC’s faculty and students will participate in pre-college activities as mentors and their efforts will be recognized and rewarded by their administrations - New Feature

18. Partnerships for Innovation • Strategically designed to optimize innovation and speed commercialization/utilization of ERC’s findings/technology • Partnership with an organization devoted to speeding innovation & entrepreneurship (state or local government, university or other organization) - New Feature • Include small innovative domestic firms in research programs to translate ERC research into innovation through collaboration with ERC’s students - New Feature • Partnership program comprised of industrial firms and, if appropriate practitioner organizations, to provide guidance on strategic planning, research opportunities, education, the role of innovation in the ERC and to speed the translation of research into new processes and products • No requirements for industrial support in cash or in kind because this support is considered cost sharing by NSF - New Feature • Governed by a center-wide membership agreement and IP policy • Industrial/Practitioner Advisory Board

19. Infrastructure Team: • Center Director and Deputy Director • Thrust Leaders • Investigators (faculty, post docs, staff, undergraduate and graduate students) • Education Program Director (faculty), supported by staff as needed • Pre-College Education Program Director (faculty or staff), supported by staff • Industrial Collaboration and Innovation Director • Administrative Director • Student Leadership Council • Scientific and Industrial Advisory Boards • Internal Academic Policy Board • Council of Deans, led by Dean of Engineering of lead institution Team Diversity - Team will be diverse in gender, race, and ethnicity and include persons with disabilities at levels that exceed national engineering-wide averages, governed by a diversity strategic plan developed in collaboration with participating institutions and the departments providing faculty and students to the ERC

20. Infrastructure Organization and Management Systems • ERC reports to the Dean of Engineering who leads a Council of Deans • Effective organizational and financial management systems • Assessment systems including input from scientific and industrial advisory boards Facilities, Equipment, and Headquarters • Appropriate facilities and equipment to achieve goals • Headquarters large enough to support the leadership, management, and collaboration functions of the ERC • Supported by cyberinfrastructure with appropriate software and staff to enable effective cross-campus collaboration - New Feature Institutional Commitment • Facilitate partnership across institutional lines in research and education • Promotion and tenure policies reward interdisciplinary research, research on education, research to advance technology, and mentoring faculty and students at the university and pre-college levels - New Feature • Pre-college partners are committed to long-term partnerships involving teachers and students and including engineering information in curricula - New Feature

21. Proposal Information Letter of Intent - Required • Vision, and key participants Preliminary Proposals - Submitted through FastLane & Grants.gov • List of Participants and separately submitted on Excel spreadsheet via ercintent@nsf.gov • Slides of Vision and strategic plan separately submitted via ercintent@nsf.gov • 25 pages extended by length of list of participants • Letters from required institutional partners (university and pre-college administrators & innovation partners) & up to 10 from firms/practitioners committed to membership Full Proposals - Submitted through FastLane & Grants.gov • List of Participants and separately submitted on Excel spreadsheet via ercintent@nsf.gov • Slides of Vision and strategic plan separately submitted via ercintent@nsf.gov • 40 pages extended by length of list of participants • Letters from required institutional partners (university and pre-college administrators & innovation partners) & all firms/practitioners committed to membership

22. Due Dates & Funding • February 02, 2007 - Letters of Intent - Required • May 3, 2007 - Preliminary Proposals Due • August 1, 2007 - Invitations • October 30, 2007 - Invited Full Proposals Due • January - February 2008 - Site Visits • August 2008 - Awards Five Awards Planned, funded under cooperative agreements with potential for ten years of funding Base funding levels flat for first five years at $3.25 M per year Growth possible each year through supplemental funding, limited to a total of 20% over five years Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) and Teachers (RET)Programs required to be supported by base funds but additional funds may be available through submission to the REU & RET solicitations No requirements for academic cost sharing or other third-party support, such as industrial support- New Feature

23. Cognizant NSF Staff ERC Program - Lynn Preston, Leader of the ERC Program, lpreston@nsf.gov and Bruce Kramer, bkramer@nsf.gov University Education - Win Aung, waung@nsf.gov Pre-College Education - Mary Poats, mpoats@nsf.gov Bioengineering: Leon Esterowitz, Bioengineering and Photonics, lesterow@nsf.gov, Bruce Hamilton, Bioprocess Engineering bhamilto@nsf.gov, Fred Heineken, Bioengineering, fheineke@nsf.gov, Sohi Rastegar, ERC PD, srastega@nsf.gov Chemical Engineering: Judy Raper, jraper@nsf.gov Infrastructure: Vilas Mujumdar, ERC PD, vmujumda@nsf.gov, Joy Pauschke, ERC PD, jpauschk@nsf.gov Manufacturing and Processing: Bruce Kramer, ERC PD, bkramer@nsf.gov, George Hazelrigg, ghazelrig@nsf.gov Microelectronics and Optics: Deborah Jackson, ERC PD, djackson@nsf.gov, Larry Goldberg, lgoldber@nsf.gov, Barbara Kenny, ERC PD, bkenny@nsf.gov, Rajinder Khosla, rkhosla@nsf.gov Small Business: Murali Nair, mnair@nsf.gov, Deborah Jackson, Barbara Kenny