W E L C O M E SECOND GRANTEE MEETING Office of Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation EFRI

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W E L C O M E SECOND GRANTEE MEETING
Office of Emerging Frontiers in Research and
Innovation(EFRI)
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SECOND GRANTEE MEETINGof Office of Emering
Frontiers in Research and Innovation(EFRI)

• Sohi Rastegar
• Director
• 5-6 March 2009

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W E L C O M E EFRI GRANTEE MEETING

• THURSDAY
• 830 WELCOME
• 900-1140 ORAL PRESENTATIONS (ARES, RESIN)
• 1140 LUNCH
• 1245-145 POSTER SESSION (ARES, RESIN)
• 145-405 ORAL PRESENTATIONS (COPN, CBE)
• 405-500 POSTER SESSION (COPN, CBE)
• 500-630 RECEPTION
• FRIDAY
• 815 OPENNING REMARKS
• 830-945 CONCURRENT I (ARES, RESIN, COPN, CBE)
• 1000-1115 CONCURRENT II (PIs, Students)
• 1115 GENERAL SESSION NEXT STEPS / WRAP UP
• NOON ADJORN

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NAE GRAND CHALLENGES
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EFRI Topics and Personnel
FY 2008
FY 2007
Auto-Reconfigurable Engineered Systems (ARES) Scot
t Midkiff, ECCS Kishan Baheti, ECCS Maria Burka,
CBET Abhi Deshmukh,CMMI Bruce Hamilton,
CBET Glen Larsen, IIP Stephen Nash, CMMI Mario
Rotea, CMMI
Cellular and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) Fred
Heineken, CBET Lenore Clesceri, CBET Jimmy
Hsia, CMMI Lynn Preston, EEC Robert Wellek, CBET
Cognitive Optimization (COPN) Semahat Demir, CBET
Paul Werbos, ECCS Fred Heineken, CBET Eduardo
Misawa, CMMI Scott Midkiff, ECCS Stephen Nash,
CMMI Lynn Preston, EEC Kenneth Whang, CISE
Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructures
(RESIN) Bruce Hamilton, CBET Joy Pauschke,
CMMI William Schultz, CBET Richard Fragaszy,
CMMI Barbara Kenny, EEC Dagmar Niebur,
ECCS Matthew Realff, CMMI Dennis Wenger, CMMI
Systems that Modify Themselves
How Cells Work Uniting Engineering Biology
Learning From The Brain
Building Resilient Sustainable Interdependent In
frastructures
FY 2009 (current competition)
Biosensing Bioactuation (BSBA) S. Chi Liu ,
CMMI Y. Gianchandani, ECCS R. Baheti, ECCS J.
Daniels, EEC L. Esterowitz, CBET S. Jayasuriya,
CMMI R. Khosla, ECCS B. Kramer, EEC S. Midkiff,
ECCS E. Misawa, CMMI L. Preston, EEC
Hydrocarbon from Biomass (HyBi) D. Niebur,
ECCS J. Regalbuto, CBET M. Burka, CBET C. Cooper,
CMMI B. Hamilton, CBET W. Schultz, CBET P.
Werbos, ECCS P. Westmoreland, CBET
Team Coordinators
Former PD/IPA
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Purpose/Mandate of EFRI

• EFRI will serve a critical role in helping the
  Directorate for Engineering focus on important
  emerging areas in a timely manner. EFRI will
  recommend annually a prioritization, fund, and
  monitor initiatives at the emerging frontier
  areas of engineering research and education.

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Key EFRI Criteria

• TRANSFORMATIVE- Significant leap or paradigm
  shift in fundamental engineering knowledge
• NATIONAL NEED/GRAND CHALLENGE- Strong potential
  for significant progress on a national need or
  grand challenge
• INTER-DISCIPLINARY- Three or more disciplines
• ENG LEADERSHIP- What partnerships are proposed
  and what is role of ENG

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NSF Definition of Transformative Research

• Transformative research involves ideas,
  discoveries, or tools that radically change our
  understanding of an important existing scientific
  or engineering concept or educational practice or
  leads to the creation of a new paradigm or field
  of science, engineering, or education.
• Transformative research results often do not fit
  within established models or theories and may
  initially be unexpected or difficult to
  interpret their transformative nature and
  utility might not be recognized until years
  later.
• Characteristics of transformative research are
  that it
• Challenges conventional wisdom
• Leads to unexpected insights that enable new
  techniques or methodologies, and/or
• Redefines the boundaries of science, engineering,
  or education.

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EFRI Process and Timeline

• Community Input (Continuous)
• Meetings
• Panels
• AdCom
• Societies
• Academies
• Proposals
• Publications
• COV

ENG AdCom INPUT
ENG AdCom ANNOUNCE TOPICS
For FY2010 Topics Research Community May
Submit Topic Ideas via Web
ENG Leadership Retreat
PD Retreat
Solicitation Release
PD Working Groups
PD Proposals
Current Year
Sep Oct Dec Feb Mar Apr
May Jun July Aug
Following Year
Sep Oct Dec Feb Mar Apr
May Jun July Aug Spring
Information Webcast
Grantees Meeting
Full Proposals Panels
Preproposal Panels
LOI Deadline
Invite Full Proposals
AWARDS
Full Proposals Deadline
Preproposals Deadline
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How to Submit
FY 2010 is already underway Be on the look out
for FY 2011

• Dear Colleague Letter guides you to
• www.nsf.gov/eng/efri/efri2010

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What to Submit

• What Not To Submit
• The descriptions should not provide a summary or
  justification of your own on-going research
  activities.
• What to Submit
• Instead, they should provide forward-looking
  views, and identify opportunities in emerging
  frontiers of research and innovation across the
  fields of engineering. Note that topics or areas
  of opportunity should be those that cannot be
  supported through existing programs at NSF.

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GOALS OF THE MEETING

• To share highlights of the 2007 and 2008
  grantees research
• To stimulate the grantees to think
  transformatively and continue to do "high risk"
  work
• To foster good interdisciplinary interaction
  within each program and encourage appropriate
  collaborations
• To provide an update on the NSF EFRI Program
• To provide an opportunity for attendees to meet
  each other and renew acquaintances

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EFRI
TRANSFORMATIVE NATIONAL NEED ENG
LEADERSHIP
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Post-EFRI SupportPossible Routes

• Possible routes
• ERC Program
• New Program in a Division
• Change/Restructure an existing Program
• New Program at interface of Divisions

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EFRI Office Topics
Steady State 10 Active Topics
50 Active Awards