Funding Opportunities and Challenges at NSF

1. Funding Opportunities and Challenges at NSF Jesús M. de la Garza, Ph.D. Program Director Division of Civil and Mechanical Systems Directorate for Engineering jgarza@nsf.gov, 703.292.7791

2. NSF Vision Enabling the nation’s future through discovery, learningand innovation.

3. Office of the Inspector General National Science Board Director - Dr. Arden L. Bement, Jr. Polar and Antarctic Programs Directorate for Biological Sciences Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate for Education and Human Resources Integrative Activities (MRE, STC) Directorate for Engineering Directorate for Geosciences Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences National Science Foundation

4. Directorate for ENG Directorate for Engineering Bioengineering & Environmental Systems Civil & Mechanical Systems Chemical & Transport Systems Design, Manufacture, & Industrial Innovation Electrical & Communications Systems Engineering Education & Centers

5. CMS Division Civil & Mechanical Systems $82M in FY 05 Engineered Materials and Mechanics (EMM Cluster) Intelligent Civil and Mechanical Systems (ICMS Cluster) Infrastructure Systems and Hazards Mitigation (ISHM Cluster) 1631, Info. Tech. & Infrastructure Systems 1630, Mechanics of Materials 1634, 1636, Geotechnical & Geohazards Systems 1639, Sensors for CMS 1633, Materials Design & Surface Engineering 1637, Structural Systems 1632, Control Systems 1635, Infrastructure Materials 1638, Hazard Response 7478, Dynamical Systems 7479, Nano & Bio Mechanics 7396, 7470, NEES Research & Operations

6. Funding Rates • Proposal read in the plane • Finish it a month earlier • Review it as a Reviewer

7. NSF Merit Review Criteria • Intellectual Merit • Broader Impacts

8. Ideas Ideas PI Credentials PI Credentials Contribution to BOK Contribution to BOK Organization Organization Fosters S&E studies AEC Industry Infrastructure for research and education Promotes teaching and learning Significance Point of Departure Methods & Tasks Intellectual Merit Original Ideas Objectives, Scope Broad Impacts Others ?? Advancing Knowledge and Understanding Prior NSF Support Publications Underrepresented groups Broad Dissemination Transportation Industry Broader Impacts

9. Project Summary • Broad Impacts • Intellectual Merit • Broader Impacts

10. Grant Reports • Annual • Final • CAREER

11. 1631: Information Technology and Infrastructure Systems • This program creates scientific and engineering knowledge: • For the intelligent renewal of civil infrastructure systems, such as transportation, water supply, sanitation, power generation, and the built environment, by promoting broad application of advanced information technologies to condition assessment, deterioration, and asset management sciences. • For the intelligent design, construction, maintenance, operation and decommissioning of the built environment.

12. 1631: Information Technology and Infrastructure Systems • Important areas of inquiry are: • intra-and inter-dependencies in infrastructure systems • health monitoring of infrastructure elements and systems • civil infrastructure protection • hydrogen fuel vehicles and transportation systems • infrastructure for hydrogen fuel storage and distribution • intelligent transportation systems • crash causation and crash avoidance measures in ground transportation • mobility in ground transportation through reduction of crash-caused delays and increases in the amount of vehicle throughput • fully automated and integrated project management processes across all life-cycle phases of the built environment • lean construction • engineering and management of job-site field operations through advanced information technologies

13. Deadlines • Unsolicited Proposals • March 1 • October 1 • Solicitations • PATH, NSF 05-547, April 19, 2005 • CAREER, NSF 05-579, July 20, 2005