Update of Directorate Activities John A. Brighton Assistant Director for Engineering

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Update of Directorate ActivitiesJohn A.
BrightonAssistant Director for Engineering

• Advisory Committee for Engineering
• May 11, 2005

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Topics for My Overview

• Introductions Staff and AdCom
• Planning Process
• External Reports
• Internal Reports
• STG Report
• Proposals, Grants, Success Rates
• 2006 NSF and ENG Budgets
• Update on Programs and Projects
• Organizational Structure

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Introductions

• ENG Staff
• Advisory Committee

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Welcome New ENG Staff

• Adnan Akay
• Director, CMS Division
• (Starting July 2005)
• Lord Professor and Head, Mechanical Engineering,
  Carnegie Mellon University
• Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering North Carolina State
  University

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Welcome New ENG Staff

• Mario Rotea, Program Director, Control Systems
  Program-Intelligent (CMS)
• LaTanya Darby, Program Assistant, Environmental
  Engineering and Technology (BES)
• Kawthar Zaki, Expert for Integrative, Hybrid and
  Complex Systems (ECS)
• Leda Lunardi, IPA for Integrative, Hybrid and
  Complex Systems (ECS)

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Welcome New AdCom Members

• Ashok Agrawal
• (COESE Liaison)
• Professor and Chair of the Engineering and
  Technology Department at St. Louis Community
  College
• MS degree in Materials Science, and MS degree in
  Mining Engineering from the University of Kentucky

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Welcome New AdCom Members

• E. Jennings Taylor
• CEO IP Director, Faraday Technologies, Inc.
• Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering,
  University of Virginia

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Planning Process

• External Reports
• Internal Studies
• STG Report

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Planning Process for ENG

• External Reports (Engineer of 2020, Innovate
  America, Assessing the Capacity)
• Strategic Thinking Group Report Strategic
  Directions for Engineering Research, Innovation,
  and Education
• Division Strategic Planning (7 Plans)
• Task Force Reports (5 Special Study Reports)

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Overall Assessment - Planning

• July 2004 Task Groups/Committees within the ENG
  Directorate were formed
• Charged to study, assess, plan, and prepare
  actions for the Directorate for Engineering
• Awards and Solicitation (Michael Reischman,
  Chair)
• Awards Impact and Assessment (Bob Wellek, Chair)
• Making the Case for Engineering (Ken Chong,
  Chair)
• Engineering Education and Workforce (Sue
  Kemnitzer, Chair)
• Strategic Thinking Group (Kesh Narayanan, Chair)
• Organization and Structure (Warren DeVries, Chair)

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Additional Input for Planning

• Series of ENG All Hands Meetings to present
  Directorate and Task Force Reports
• Keeping Staff Informed
• Receiving Feedback on Planning Process
• April 19-20 ELT Retreat
• Discussed How All Reports Relate
• Organizational Structure Recommendation
• Input from ELT and EMT at regular meetings

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ELT Meeting with NSF Leadership

• April 6 Meeting between ENG and Bement and
  Bordogna
• Presented Summary of Reports and Plans
• Received Constructive Feedback on Status and
  Process

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Strategic Thinking Group

• Directorate for Engineering
• Strategic Directions for Engineering Research,
  Innovation, and Education  
• Developed by the
• ENG Strategic Thinking Group
• March 7, 2005 (Draft)

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ENG Mission

• To enable the engineering and scientific
  communities to advance the frontiers of
  engineering research, innovation and education,
  in service to society and the nation.

Source STG Report
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ENG Vision

• ENG will be the global leader in advancing the
  frontiers of fundamental engineering research,
  stimulating innovation, and substantially
  strengthening engineering education.

Source STG Report
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ENG Goals

• Overarching Frontier Research Goal Effectively
  invest in frontier engineering research that has
  potential for high impact in meeting national and
  societal needs.
• Overarching Engineering Innovation Goal
  Effectively invest in fundamental engineering
  innovation that has potential for high impact in
  meeting national and societal needs.
• Overarching Engineering Education and Workforce
  Goal Effectively invest in frontier engineering
  education and workforce advancement that has
  potential for high impact.
• Public Understanding of Engineering Goal
  Effectively invest in and seek partnerships to
  educate the public about the value of engineering
  research and education.

Source STG Report
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ENG Strategic Actions

• Overarching Frontier Research Goal Effectively
  invest in frontier engineering research that has
  potential for high impact in meeting national and
  societal needs.
• Identify and nurture 5-6 priority frontier
  engineering research areas.
• Identify 10-12 grand challenges for engineering
  research.
• Substantially increase the number of Small Grants
  for Exploratory Research.
• Double the number of small groups of
  investigators working on cutting-edge
  interdisciplinary research projects.

Source STG Report
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ENG Research Priorities

• Biology in Engineering
• New Frontiers in Nanotechnology
• Critical Infrastructure Systems
• Complexity in Engineered and Natural Systems
• Manufacturing Frontiers

Source STG Report
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Next Steps

• For each study, we have specific recommendations.
• The next step is to develop action plans to move
  forward.

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Proposals, Grants andSuccess Rates

• NSF and ENG

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All NSF Funding RateResearch Grants
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Directorate Research Proposal Comparison FY 2000
and FY 2004
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Directorate Research Grant Comparison FY 2000 and
FY 2004
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Directorate Funding Rate Comparison Research
Grants FY 00 04
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Solicited Proposal Rates by Directorate FY 00 -
04 Proposal Receipts
100
92
86
80
71
68
65
56
60
52
FY 2000
48
FY 2004
40
38
36
37
37
40
30
16
20
14
10
7
0
BIO
CSE
EHR
ENG
GEO
MPS
O/D
OPP
SBE
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ENG Number of Solicitations toSuccess Rate
Correlation
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NSF Solicitation Actions w/ ENG Involvement
(Data from ENG/ASTG Report)
90
Proposals Received FY 02 7650 FY 03 9939 FY
04 9847 FY 05 2500
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
FY 02
FY 03
FY 04
FY 05
17
20
10
3
New Solicitations
14
13
11
10
Rewritten Solicitations
36
49
59
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Total Continuing
68
82
80
65
Total Solicitation Actions
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Solicitation Actions - ENG Led
(Data from ENG/ASTG Report)
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Proposals Received FY 02 7650 FY 03 9939 FY
04 9847 FY 05 2500
50
40
30
20
10
0
FY 02
FY 03
FY 04
FY 05
11
13
4
1
New Solicitations
8
10
7
5
Rewritten Solicitations
25
30
43
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Total Continuing
44
53
54
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Total Solicitation Actions
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Factors Affecting Success Rates

• Number of Proposals
• Average Size and Duration of Awards
• Amount of Available Money
• Number of Awards

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Ways of Limiting Proposals - 1

• Number of Solicitations
• Scope of Solicitation
• Limits on number of proposals from institutions
  or individuals
• Number of Standard Grants vs. Continuing Grants
  (50 max for Continuing Grants within engineering)

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Ways of Limiting Proposals - 2

• Number of submission windows for proposals
• Number of Programs
• Limit investigators submitting proposals in any
  area at any time

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NSF and ENG Budget Review
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NSF Budget FY 2000-2006 (millions)
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NSF 06 Priority Areasand ENG Support

• Biocomplexity in the Environment - 84 million
• ENG Support 6.0 million
• Nanoscale Science Engineering -- 243 million
• ENG Support 127.77 million
• Mathematical Sciences--------------- 89
  million
• ENG Support 2.91 million
• Human and Social Dynamics---------- 39 million
• ENG Support 2.0 million

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ENG Funding (millions)
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ENG Funding History
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Update and Current Status

• ENG Programs and Projects

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NEES Current Status

• Operational as of October 1, 2004
• Infrastructure operated by NEES Consortium, Inc.
• Five-year, 106 million NSF cooperative agreement
• NEESinc is focal point for NEES
• NEES Research program initiated
• Competitions (FY 2004 10 awards for 10.2
  million) (FY 2005 underway)
• Partnerships
• NSF GEO/EAR EarthScope
• NSF CISE/SCI Cyberinfrastructure
• Japanese National Research Institute for Earth
  Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED) E-Defense
  Shake Table

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Cyberinfrastructure Current Status

• NSFs CI-TEAM
• Equip the SE workforce to create, augment and
  utilize cyberinfrastructure over the long term
• First solicitations seek to demonstrate projects
  that can be replicated and scaled to a national
  level
• Other CI-Related Investments for 05
• Multi-scale modeling for bioengineering
• CI and Operations Research for Enterprise-wide
  Applications
• Cyberinfrastructure Initial Implementation
  Working Group
• To define NSF role in CI Enterprise
• Will analyze current CI Portfolio, and evaluate
  CI work done by other sectors
• Will develop charter for a CI Management Panel

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Professional Societies AD Interactions

• Attended Meeting of Founder Societies in Feb.
  05 (ASME, AIChE, ASCE, IEEE, AIME)
• Participated in 2005 RD Symposium on Capitol
  Hill
• Participated in Engineers Week (Family Day in DC,
  NAE Award Ceremony)

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ImplementationOrganizational Structure
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Rationale for New Structure

• Optimize interdisciplinary collaboration
• Position ENG at the frontiers of engineering
• Organized to integrate across priority areas
• Organized to integrate research and education
• Lead engineering in new directions
• Enhance flexibility for disciplinary evolution
• Support the continuum from discovery through to
  innovation
• Develop career advancement opportunities for all
  staff

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ASTG Study Report

• Inventory of all ENG ongoing grant portfolio as
  of December 2004.
• Considered funding in each of about 30 topic
  areas for each divisions
• Selected a listing of topics within three-four
  thrust areas for each division.

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ASTG Division Thrust Areas

• Division Thrust Areas Obligation of Total
• BES
• Biochemical Engineering 51,000,000 3
• Biomedical Engineering 53,000,000 3
• Environmental Engineering 49,000,000 2
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• CMS
• Engineered Materials and Mechanics
  71,000,000 4
• Intelligent Civil and Mechanical Systems
  70,000,000 4
• Infra. Sys and Hazard Mitigation and
  Response 140,000,000 7
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• CTS
• Chemical Reaction Engineering 60,000,000 3
• Fluid Dynamics and Particle Processes
  57,000,000 3
• Interfacial Phenomena and Separations
  56,000,000 3
• Thermal Systems 49,000,000 2

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ASTG Division Thrust Areas(cont.)
Obligation of Total DMII Engineeri
ng Decision Systems 76,000,000 4 Manufacture
and Equipment Systems 90,000,000 5 Other
Investments, People, and Centers
24,000,000 1   ECS Electronics, Photonics, and
Device Technologies 150,000,000 8 Controls,
Networks, and Computational Intelligence
86,000,000 4 Integrative Systems
9,000,000 lt1 Centers, Infrastructure, and
Other 61,000,000 3   EEC Education
86,000,000 4 Centers 720,000,000 36 Non
Education and Centers 23,000,000 1
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Organizational Structure ReportFour Scenarios

• Scenario 1 Operational Effectiveness
• Scenario 2 Priority Led Matrix Structure
• Scenario 3 Cross-disciplinary Excellence on the
  Continuum from Discovery to Innovation
• Scenario 4 Aligning with Intellectually
  Stimulating National Priorities

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Organizational Structure Changes

• A hybrid of Scenarios 1 2 has been selected
• New structure will better position ENG to be more
  effective both inside NSF and externally
• New structure better aligns with STG Overarching
  Goals
• No job elimination or reduction in position
  classification is planned
• Likely to present more opportunities for
  advancement

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Organizational Structure Conceptual Framework
Current 06
Proposed 07
BES
BCTS Bioengineering Chemical Transport
Systems Plus Centers in Portfolio
CTS
CMS
CMMI Civil, Mechanical, Manufacturing
Innovation Plus Centers in Portfolio
DMI
ECCS Electrical, Communication Cyber
Systems Plus Centers in Portfolio
ECS
IIP Industrial Innovation and Partnerships Plus
Centers in Portfolio
OII
EECI Engineering Education, Centers, and
Infrastructure Crosscutting
EEC
EFRI Emerging Frontiers in Research and
Innovation (Crosscutting)
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Organizational Structure Sketch
OAD
EFRI
EECI
BCTS
CMMI
ECCS
IIP
BCTS Bioengineering, Chemical Transport
Systems CMMI Civil, Mechanical Manufacturing
Innovation ECCS Electrical, Communication
Cyber Systems IIP Industrial Innovation
Partnerships EECI Engineering Education,
Centers, and Infrastructure EFRI Emerging
Frontiers in Research Innovation
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Working Groups Reporting
ELT
OAD
BCTS
CMMI
ECCS
IIP
Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Nanotechnology
(Nano) Environmental Systems (Enviro
Sys) Engineering Education (EE) Engineering
Research Centers
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ENG CrosscuttingWorking Groups
EECI
EE
ERC
Enviro Sys
Nano
CI
BCTS
CMMI
ECCS
IIP
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Engineering Education and CentersLinkages to
Divisions
AdCom Subcommittee For K-12
EECI Division Gary Gabriele
EHR
Eng. Ed. Sue Kemnitzer
Eng. Res. Centers Lynn Preston
CMMI
BCTS
CMMI
BCTS
IIP
ECCS
ECCS
IIP
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Questions Answers

• General Discussion