Research and Education Priorities in the Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems ECCS Division

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Research and Education Priorities in the
Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems
(ECCS) Division 2006 ASEE Engineering Research
Council Forum February 27-28, 2006 Dr. Vittal
Rao Program DirectorDr. Usha VarshneyDivision
DirectorElectrical and Communications Systems
DivisionDirectorate for EngineeringNational
Science Foundation
National Science Foundation
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Outline

• ECCS Division
• Mission
• Vision
• Programs
• Program Management
• Future Technologies
• Investments in Initiatives
• Infrastructure Network
• Graduate Research Supplements
• Conclusions

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Directorate for EngineeringFY06
Assistant Director, Acting Dr. Richard
Buckius Deputy Assistant Director Dr. Michael M.
Reischman 580.92M
Office of Industrial Innovation OII 100.36M
Senior Advisor Nanotechnology
Dr. Mike Roco
Dr. Kesh Narayanan, Acting
Chemical Transport Systems CTS 70.87
Civil Mechanical Systems CMS 85.35M
Bioengineering Environmental Systems BES
52.00M
Dr. Adnan Akay
Dr. Bruce Hamilton
Dr. Geoffrey Prentice, Acting
Design, Manufacture Innovation DMI 64.84M
Electrical Communications Systems ECS 77.27M
Engineering Education Centers EEC 129.43M
Dr. Usha Varshney
Dr. Warren DeVries
Dr. Gary Gabriel
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Mission

• Address fundamental research issues underlying
  component and device technologies, computation,
  networking, controls and systems principles at
  the nano, micro and macro scales
• Support the integration and networking of
  intelligent systems for a variety of application
  domains
• Ensure the education of a diverse workforce
  prepared to continue the rapid development of
  emerging technologies as drivers of the global
  economy

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Vision

• ECS envisions a research community
• - that will address major technological
  challenges in devices and systems due to the
  convergence of micro/nano/info/cogno/bio-
  electronics, controls, networks, computation and
  communications
• - that will prepare a future workforce to
  meet the emerging technological challenges of the
  21st Century

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ECCS Programs
Electronics, Photonics and Device
Technologies EPDT
Power, Controls and Adaptive Networks PCAN

• Microelectronics
• Nanoelectronics
• Molecular Electronics
• Silicon Nanoelectronics and Beyond
• Organic Electronics
• Spin Electronics
• Bioelectronics
• Micromagnetics
• Photonics and Optoelectronics
• Quantum Optics
• Ultrafast Sources
• Sensors and Actuators
• MEMS/NEMS
• Power Electronics
• Nonsilicon Electronics
• RF and Mixed Signals
• Electromagnetics

• Embedded, Distributed and Adaptive Control
• Robotics
• Power and Energy Networks
• Sensing and Imaging Networks
• Multi-scale Modeling
• Adaptive Dynamic Programming

Integrative, Hybrid and Complex Systems IHCS

• Nanosystems, Microsystems, Macrosystems
• System-on-a-chip
• System-in-a-package
• Organic and Silicon- based Hybrid Systems
• Machine Intelligent Systems
• Quantum Information Systems
• Optical and Wireless Communications Systems
• Cyberengineering Systems

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Unsolicited Proposals

• Submission Windows
• September 7 - October 7
• January 7 - February 7
• Award Size for Unsolicited
• 240 for three years
• Success Rates
• 15
• Reviewers
• Encourages reviewers from university, industry
  and government

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Program Management Dr. Usha Varshney, Division
Director
Dr. Lawrence Goldberg, Senior Engineering
Advisor National Nanofabrication Infrastructure
Network, ENG Major Research Instrumentation

Electronics, Photonics and Device Technologies
(EPDT) Vacancy Dr. Lawrence Goldberg (Interim)
Optoelectronics Photonics Ultrafast
Technologies EUV Nanophotonics Dr. Rajinder
Khosla Micro/Nanoelectronics NEMS/MEMS
Sensors Bioelectronics Vacancy  Dr. James Mink
(Expert) Micro/Nanoelectronics Molecular
Electronics Spin Electronics Organic
Electronics Power Electronics Micromagnetics
Power, Controls and Adaptive Networks (PCAN)
Dr. Radhakisan Baheti Embedded, Distributed and
Adaptive Control Robotics Sensor Networks Dr.
Kevin Tomsovic Power and Energy Networks
Renewable and Alternative Energy Sources
Economics of Power Grids Security and
Reliability of Critical Infrastructures  Dr. Paul
Werbos Learning and Self-organizing Computations
Adaptive Dynamic Programming
Integrative, Hybrid and Complex Systems
(IHCS) Dr. Leda Lunardi Wireless and Optical
Communications Mixed Signals Technologies Dr.
Vittal Rao Integrative Nano and Micro Systems
Complex Systems Vacancy Cybersystems
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Future Technologies

• Key Technologies
• Integrative and Complex Systems
• Communications Systems
• Cyberengineering Systems
•   Focused Areas
• Nanoelectronics, Nanophotonics and Nanomagnetics
• Interdependencies of Critical Infrastructure on
  Power and Communications
• Diagnostic and Implantable Devices
• Flexible Electronics
• Renewable and Alternative Energy Sources

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Cyberengineering Research

• Research activities in Cyberengineering will
  integrate physical devices with distributed
  sensing and actuation, communications, storage,
  computation and control of complex systems
• Cyberengineering will focus on design,
  integration and implementation of multi-scale and
  multi-level complex systems
• Cyberengineered systems will enable visualizing,
  analyzing and reconfiguring of complex systems to
  develop reliable and agile infrastructures for
  domain specific applications

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Cyberengineering Systems Examples

• Integrated hybrid optical and electronic systems
  for high-speed computation and communications
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• Multi-scale dynamic system integration for
  real-time monitoring and control of engineered
  complex and hybrid systems
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• Blackout-free electric power grid with integrated
  power, communication and self-organizing networks
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• Ambient intelligent systems networks for homes
  of the future
• Networked intelligent surveillance systems for
  security of critical infrastructures
• Computer integrated telemedicine and robotic
  surgical systems
• Globally interactive environment for engineering
  education

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ENG Research Priority Areas

• Biology in Engineering
• Diagnostic and Implantable Devices
• Biomedical Imaging
• Complexity in Engineered and Natural Systems
• Learning and Self-organizing Systems
• Cyberengineering Systems
• Critical Infrastructure Systems
• Power and Energy Networks
• Intelligent Power Grid
• Communications Systems
• Manufacturing Frontiers
• Robotics
• Controls and Signal Processing
• New Frontiers in Nanotechnology
• Silicon Nanoelectronics and Beyond

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ECS Investments for FY06

• NSF Priority Areas
• Nanoscale Science and Engineering
• Biocomplexity in the Environment
• Human and Social Dynamics
• Mathematical Sciences
• NSF Programs
• CAREER Faculty Early Career Development
• PECASE Presidential Early Career Award
• SGER Small Grants for Exploratory Research
• RET Research Experiences for Teachers
• REU Research Experiences for Undergraduates
• ADVANCE Increasing the Participation and
  Advancement of Women in Academic Science and
  Engineering Careers
• MRI Major Research Instrumentation
• GOALI Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison
  with Industry
• ENG Initiatives and Research Priorities
• Collaborative Materials Use Science,
  Engineering, and Society (MUSES)

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Small Grants for Exploratory Research (SGER)

• High-risk research in the fields of science,
  engineering and education
• Preliminary work on untested and novel ideas
• Ventures into emerging research areas
• Application of new expertise or new approaches to
  research topics
• Quick-response research on unanticipated events
• Efforts to catalyze rapid and innovative advances
• may be submitted to individual programs
• two-to-five pages the maximum award amount is
  100,000 for 1 year
• http//www.nsf.gov/pubs/1998/nsf982/gpg/ch2.htm
  2-49

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Katrina SGERs

• Hurricane Katrina Power Telecommunication
  System Failure Modes, U. of Louisiana at
  Lafayette
• Interdependencies Across Time, Space, and
  Subsystems Characterizing Bulk Energy
  Transportation, Iowa State U.
• Robotic Assessment of Incipient Faults in
  Underground Cable Systems, U. of Washington
• Damage Assessment of Power Infrastructure for
  Distribution, Telecommunications, and Back-Up,
• U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Data Collection for Estimating Disruption and its
  Causes of Power Quality by Hurricane Katrina, U.
  of Texas at Arlington
• Mapping the Coverage Islands of Wireless
  Base-stations, Ohio State U.
• Measurements and Learning for Network Damage
  Assessment, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with
Industry (GOALI)

• Effective mechanism for transfer of knowledge
  between academe and industry
• New research topics, intellectual contributions
  from industry, student education, culture change
• Aims to synergize industry-university
  partnerships by enabling linkages
• Faculty and students in industry (up to 1 year)
• Industry engineers and scientists in academe (up
  to 1 year)
• Industry-university collaborative projects (up to
  3 years)
• Supported by all NSF Directorates

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Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI)

• GOAL Program designed to increase access to
  scientific and engineering equipment for research
  and research training in our Nations
  organizations of higher education, research
  museums, and non-profit research organizations.
• Provides support for acquisition (up to 3 Yrs)
  or development (up to 5 Yrs) of major research
  instrumentation
• Awards for single instruments, large systems of
  instruments or multiple instruments that share a
  common or specific research focus
• Awards range in size from 100K to 2M
• Less than 100K for non-PhD granting
  organizations, disciplines of mathematical
  science or social, behavioral, and economic
  science at any eligible organization
• Full Proposal Submission Deadline January 26,
  2006
• Program Solicitation NSF 05-515 (90M)
• http//www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05515/nsf05515.htm

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Recent Emphasis in ECS Initiatives

• Spin Electronics for the 21st Century
• (NSF 02-036), with ENG (CMS, CTS, BES) and ONR
• Joint Investigation of Enabling Technologies for
  Space Solar Power
• (NSF 02-098), with ENG (BES, DMII), CISE (DIIS),
  EPRI and NASA
• Partnership in Electric Power Network Efficiency
  and Security I and II
• (NSF 02-041, NSF 02-188), with ENG (BES), SBE
  (INT), EHR (DUE), ONR and EPRI
• Ultra-High Capacity Optical Communications and
  Networking I and II
• (NSF 01-065, NSF 03-537), with ENG (BES), CISE
  (DIIS) and DARPA and
• ENG (CTS, DMII), MPS (DMS) and DARPA
• Silicon Nanoelectronics and Challenges to Current
  CMOS Technology
• (NSF 03-043), with SRC
• Technological Challenges in Organic Electronics,
  Photonics and
• Magnetics
• (NSF 04-554), with ENG (CMS, CTS, BES, DMII),
  DARPA and AFOSR

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Hybrid Communications Systems

• GOAL To promote integration of wireless optical
  and RF microwave communications systems for
  domain specific applications.
• Research Themes
• Interface Engineering for Hybrid Communications
  Systems
• Modeling and Simulation of Integrative and Hybrid
  Communications Systems
• Integration of Hybrid Communications Systems
• Systems Engineering and Networks Architectures
  for Hybrid Communications
• Modes of support
• One or Two Investigators, up to 300K for 3
  Years
• Three or More Investigators Interdisciplinary
  Groups, up to 450K, for 3 Years
• http//www.nsf.gov/eng/ecs/about.jsp

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Active Nanostructures and Nanosystems (ANN)

• GOAL The program is to support fundamental
  research and catalyze synergistic science and
  engineering research and education in several
  emerging areas of nanoscale science and
  technology.
• Research and Education Themes
• Fundamental Nanoscale Phenomena and Processes in
  Active Nanostructures
• Nanoscale Device and System Architecture
• Hierarchical Nanomanufacturing
• Societal and Educational Issues Associated with
  Long Term Nanoscale Science and Engineering
  Advances
• Modes of support
• Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams
  (NIRT), 250-400K per Yr for 4 Yrs
• Nanoscale Exploratory Research (NER), lt 130K
  for 1 Yr
• Full Proposal Deadline November 29, 2005
• Program Solicitation NSF 05-610 (42M)

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National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network
(NNIN)
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Resonance Force Microscopy, Rugar et al., Nature
430, July (2004)
Cornell U.Stanford U.U. of MichiganGeorgia
Institute of TechnologyU. of
WashingtonPennsylvania State U.U. of
California- Santa Barbara U. of
MinnesotaU. of New MexicoU. of Texas
AustinHarvard U.Howard U.North Carolina State
U.
NCSU
An integrated national network of user facilities
providing researchers open access to resources,
instrumentation andexpertise in all domains of
nanoscale science, engineering and
technology http//www.NNIN.org
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Graduate Research Supplements

• Graduate Research Supplements (GRS) to Current
  ECS and BES Awards to Broaden Participation of
  Underrepresented Students
• To increase numbers in academic/professional
  careers
• Supplements to existing ECS or BES grants
• Ph.D. Students Majoring in Electrical Engineering
  or Biomedical/ Biochemical/Environmental
  Engineering Disciplines
• Graduate student stipend and tuition consistent
  with university practices
• 25 Administrative Cost
• 12 months, renewable for two additional years
  during the grant period
• Nontransferable
• US Citizens or Nationals or Permanent Residents
• Supplement Submission Deadline May 1, 2006
• Program Solicitation NSF 06-532
• http//www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06532/nsf06532.jsp

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NSF Web Sites ASEE Engineering Research Council

• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• http//www.nsf.gov
• Electrical and Communications Systems (ECS)
  Division http//www.nsf.gov/eng/ecs/about.jsp
• Active Nanostructures and Nanosystems (ANN)
• http//www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05610/nsf05610.ht
  m
• Major Research Instrumentation (MRI)
• http//www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05515/nsf05515.ht
  m
• National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Networks
  (NNIN)
• http//www.NNIN.org
• Human and Social Dynamics
• http//www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06509/nsf06509.htm
  
• Mathematical Sciences
• http//www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05622/nsf05622.pd
  f
• Materials Use Science, Engineering, and Society
  (MUSES)
• http//www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06518/nsf06518.ht
  m
• Graduate Research Supplements
• http//www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?divECS
• Cross-cutting Programs (Undergraduate, Graduate,
  Post doctoral and K-12 Educators)
• http//www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?divECS

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• Electrical and Communications Systems
  DivisionDirectorate for EngineeringNational
  Science Foundation4201 Wilson BoulevardArlington
  , Virginia 22230http//www.nsf.gov/eng/ecs/about.
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Merging Divisions and Priorities
Current 06
Proposed 07
Office of Emerging Frontiers in Research
Innovation (EFRI)
BES
Bioengineering Environmental Systems
Division of Chemical, Biological,
Environmental Transport Systems (CBET)
CTS
Chemical Transport Systems
CMS
Civil Mechanical Systems
Division of Civil, Mechanical Manufacturing
Innovation (CMMI)
Design Manufacturing Innovation
DMI
Division of Electrical, Communications Cyber
Systems (ECCS)
Electrical Communications Systems
ECS
Cyber- Systems
Division of Engineering Education Centers (EEC)
Engineering Education Centers
EEC
I/UCRC GOALI Partnerships SBIR/STTR
Office of Industrial Innovation
Division of Industrial Innovation Partnerships
(IIP)
OII