The National Science Foundation

1. The National Science Foundation Eisenhower Ave, Alexandria, VA Brigid Mullany bmullany@nsf.gov Advanced Manufacturing Program ENG/CMMI National Science Foundation

2. NSF Strategic Goals • Strategic Goal 1: Transform the Frontiers of Science and Engineering “to promote the progress of science” • Strategic Goal 2: Stimulate Innovation and Address Societal Needs through Research and Education “to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense; and for other purposes”

3. What NSF Does • Supports all fields of fundamental science and engineering, except for medical sciences. • Ensures that research is integrated with education so that today's revolutionary work will also be training tomorrow's top scientists and engineers.

4. NSF by the Numbers

5. NSF research landscape SBIR NSF overall GOALI STTR I/UCRC I-Corps STC Industry ERC Investors Valley of Death Foundations Small Businesses Universities Discovery Development Commercialization TRL levels: 1 9

6. NSF Organization Director and Deputy Director National Science Board (NSB) Office of Diversity and Inclusion Office of the General Counsel Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Office of International & Integrative Activities Office of Legislative & Public Affairs Biological Sciences (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)

7. NSF Organization Director and Deputy Director National Science Board (NSB) Office of Diversity and Inclusion Office of the General Counsel Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Office of International & Integrative Activities Office of Legislative & Public Affairs Biological Sciences (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)

8. Engineering Directorate Office of the Assistant Director Dawn Tilbury, Assistant Director Linda Blevins, Deputy Assistant Director Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities (EFMA) Sohi Rastegar Senior Advisor for Science and Engineering Mihail Roco Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) Don Millard (acting) Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) Richard Dickerson Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) Robert Stone Electrical, Communications, and Cyber Systems (ECCS) Fil Bartoli Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP) Barry Johnson

9. CMMI Organization Division Director Robert Stone Deputy Director Mary Toney Interdisciplinary and Cross-Divisional Activities Bruce Kramer Integrative Activities Jo Culbertson Operations and Design Cluster Dynamics, Control and Cognition cluster Advanced Manufacturing (AM) Khershed Cooper Bruce Kramer Brigid Mullany Steve Schmid (part time) ?? Engineering for Civil Infrastructure Joy Pauschke Richard Fragaszy ?? Mechanics and Engineering Materials Civil Infrastructure Systems (CIS) Cynthia Chen Dynamics, Control and System Diagnostics (DCSD) Irina Dolinskaya Robert Landers Atul Kelkar (part time) Biomechanics and Mechanobiology (BMMB) Michelle Grimm Human Disasters & the Built Environment Robin Dillion Merrill Mechanics of Materials and Structures (MOMS) NakhiahGoulbourne SiddiqQidwai Mind, Machine, Motor Nexus (M3X) Bob Scheidt Operation Engineering (OE) Georgia-Ann Klutke Engineering and Systems Design (ESD) ??

10. LEAP HI Leading Engineering for America’s Prosperity, Health and Infrastructure • Up to $2 million for 5 years • CMMI topic at core • Check solicitation for other requirements ENG EEC CBET ECCS IIP CMMI

11. LEAP HI- funded projects LEAP-HI/GOALI: Engineering Crops for Genetic Adaptation to Changing Environments Lizhi Wang, William Beavis, SotiriosArchontoulis, Guiping Hu, Jack Kloeber Iowa State, IA LEAP-HI: Embedding Regional Hurricane Risk Management in the Life of a Community: A Computational Framework Rachel Davidson, Joseph Trainor, Jamie Kruse, Linda Nozick University of Delaware

12. CMMI Organization Division Director Robert Stone Deputy Director Mary Toney Interdisciplinary and Cross-Divisional Activities Bruce Kramer Integrative Activities Jo Culbertson Operations and Design Cluster Dynamics, Control and Cognition cluster Advanced Manufacturing (AM) Khershed Cooper Bruce Kramer Brigid Mullany Steve Schmid (part time) ?? Engineering for Civil Infrastructure Joy Pauschke Richard Fragaszy ?? Mechanics and Engineering Materials Civil Infrastructure Systems (CIS) Cynthia Chen Dynamics, Control and System Diagnostics (DCSD) Irina Dolinskaya Robert Landers Atul Kelkar (part time) Biomechanics and Mechanobiology (BMMB) Michelle Grimm Human Disasters & the Built Environment Robin Dillion Merrill Mechanics of Materials and Structures (MOMS) NakhiahGoulbourne SiddiqQidwai Mind, Machine, Motor Nexus (M3X) Bob Scheidt Operation Engineering (OE) Georgia-Ann Klutke • No Deadlines: • Why we did it. • What you should consider. Engineering and Systems Design (ESD) ??

13. Advanced Manufacturing Program CyberManufacturing Systems (CM) Manufacturing Machines and Equipment (MME) NanoManufacturing (NM) Materials Engineering Processing (MEP) Program Directors: Khershed Cooper Bruce Kramer Brigid Mullany Steve Schmid (part time) ?? Advanced Manufacturing (AM) AdvancedManufacturing@nsf.gov Started in August 15th 2018

14. Advanced Manufacturing Program The Advanced Manufacturing (AM) program supports the fundamental research needed to revitalize American manufacturing to grow the national prosperity and workforce, and to reshape our strategic industries.  The AM program accelerates advances in manufacturing technologies with emphasis on multidisciplinary research that fundamentally alters and transforms manufacturing capabilities, methods and practices. Advanced manufacturing research proposals should address issues related to national prosperity and security, and advancing knowledge to sustain global leadership. Areas of research, for example, include manufacturing systems; materials processing; manufacturing machines; methodologies; and manufacturing across the length scales. Researchers working in the areas of cybermanufacturing systems, manufacturing machines and equipment, materials engineering and processing, and nanomanufacturing are encouraged to transcend and cross domain boundaries.  Interdisciplinary, convergent proposals are welcome that bring manufacturing to new application areas, and that incorporate challenges and approaches outside the customary manufacturing portfolio to broaden the impact of America’s advanced manufacturing research.

15. Any proposal has to address … • Intellectual Merit: The intellectual Merit criterion encompasses the potential to advance knowledge • Broader Impacts: The Broader Impacts criterion encompasses the potential to benefit society and contribute to the achievement of specific, desired societal outcomes.

16. AM and Intellectual Merit • Intellectual Merit: The Intellectual Merit criterion encompasses the potential to advance knowledge • Get to the fundamentals: • What mechanisms do you think are driving the outcomes? • Isolate the knowledge gaps – know your field Knowledge sought should be clearly articulated in your Research Objective

17. AM - Intellectual Merit • Intellectual Merit: The Intellectual Merit criterion encompasses the potential to advance knowledge • It is most definitely not … • Optimization • Development • Fabrication • Look and see … “If your proposal focuses on an artifact, its probably development” – G. Hazelrigg

18. Broader Impacts • Why is this research important? • Current bottle necks • Applications • Applications beyond immediate area • … • Opportunities for training the next leaders in STEM? • Grad and undergrad students • Outreach • Dissemination • …

19. If you have an active NSF award … • You can apply for supplements … • REU – Research Experience for Undergraduates • INTERN – for Graduate students (>1 year in Program)

20. Don’t forget about … • Of course the following are still welcome and encouraged • GOALI – Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry • International collaborations • GRFP – Graduate research fellowship programs

21. Understand the review process … For each group of proposals Reviewers are identified Proposals arrive on the PD’s desk after the window closes Panels meets at NSF to discuss proposals – Provide recommendations to PD Proposals are organized into groups Proposal Proposal Proposal Panel 1 Proposal PD considers outcomes from all panels – Makes recommend-ation to Division Director (DD) Proposal Proposal Proposal Proposal Proposal Proposal Proposal Proposal 6 to 9 reviewers per panel N groups/panels …. …. …. Proposal Proposal Proposal Proposal Proposal Proposal Proposal Panel N DD makes recommendations

22. How to increase your success rate … • Select your topic area carefully – is it fundamental science? • Discuss with senior colleagues • Talk to your Program Director(s) • Serve on a Panel • Attend proposal writing workshops, i.e. CAREER • Attend NSF workshops on emerging topics

23. 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.; TenioPopmintchev, JILA and Univ. of Colorado at Boulder; Barrett Technology,Inc. www.barrett.comImage 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 Brigid Mullany bmullany@nsf.gov