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Session 3: Proposal Writing and Funding

Department of Mechanical Engineering. Session 3: Proposal Writing and Funding. Four Perspectives. Chad O’Neal, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Louisiana Tech University Jonathan Wickert, Professor and Chair, Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University

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Session 3: Proposal Writing and Funding

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering Session 3: Proposal Writing and Funding

  2. Four Perspectives • Chad O’Neal, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Louisiana Tech University • Jonathan Wickert, Professor and Chair, Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University • Dick Benson, Professor and Dean, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech • AdnanAkay, Division Director, Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI), National Science Foundation

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering Proposal Writing and Funding Jonathan Wickert Larry and Pam Pithan Professor Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering

  4. Research Funding • An important input to the research enterprise, at a level necessary for it to thrive (control theorist or bio/nanotech experimentalist?) • An enabler of the outputs • Make a lasting impact at the highest level in a chosen area of research. • Findings disseminated and recognized externally. • Mentor and develop a group of undergraduates, graduate students, and post-docs. • An indication that an external entity judges the research to be valuable • An expectation for advancement

  5. Research Funding • Part good idea, part entrepreneurship • An opportunity to collaborate across campus and externally • About sustained relationships • One of the most challenging aspects of the job for a newly-hired professor

  6. Proposal Writing Best Practices • Network to meet your new colleagues within and outside your department • Ask your mentors to help open doors and critically review your early proposals • Meet with the directors of research centers and institutes on your campus and look for seed funding • Explore varied programs, agencies, and foundations • Seek multidimensional relationships with industrial sponsors • Focus on fundamental research, avoid short-term product matters • Student internships • Educational components • Tangible deliverables • In-kind support and letters • Put yourself in the place of the proposal’s reviewer or sponsor • Be persistent

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