What's the buzz at NSF?

William W. SchultzPD, NSF/ENG/CBET/FD

IPA, UM, ME

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Federal R&D for FY 2005$103 Billion Total (Dollars in Billions)

DOD $4847%

NIH $2827%

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf06313/pdf/tables.pdf Table 4

NASA$88%

DOE $8

8%

NucSec $4 4%

NSF $4 4%

Other $44%

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Federal Academic S&E SupportFY 2005 $22.4 Billion Total (Dollars in Billions)

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf06313/pdf/tables.pdf Table 59

NSF

NIH $1671%

NSF $314%

DOD $1 4%

NASA $1 4%

DOE $1 4%

Other$13%

National Research Funding

NSF funds 25% of US GovUniversity Research

American Competitiveness Initiative ACI doubles federal investment in key

agencies that support basic research in physical sciences and engineering.

Over the next 10 years, the Federal

agencies impacted are NSF, DOE Science, and NIST.

ACI includes three broad components: Research in physical sciences and engineering

(including 12 specific goals with 7 related to NSF) Research and Development tax incentives Education and workforce

External Reports

Engineering Research and America’s Future (NAE, 2005): Committee to Assess the Capacity of the U.S. Engineering Research Enterprise

The Engineer of 2020 (NAE, 2004) and Educating the Engineer of 2020 (NAE, 2005)

Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future (NRC/COSEPUP, 2005)

Innovate American: National Innovation Initiative Final Report (Council on Competitiveness, 2005)

Measuring Up: R & D Counts for the Chemical Industry (CCR Report, 2006)

               

Macroeconomic Implications

$40 BGNP**

0.6 MJobs**

$10 BChemicalIndustry

OperatingIncome*

$8 BTaxes**

$5 BChemicalIndustry

R&DFunding

$1 BFederal

R&DFunding

In ChemicalSciences

Basis:

*estimated from CCR study **extrapolated from LANL study by Thayer, et al., April 2005 using REMI economic model

ENG and NSF Funding RatesResearch Grants

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ENG Proposals ENG Awards ENG Funding Rate NSF Funding Rate

Yes, FD is Even lower!

DirectorateFY 2006

ActualFY 2007Request

FY 2008Request

FY 2008 Request

Change over FY 2006 Actual

Change overFY 2007 Request

Amt % Amt %

  BIO $580.90 $607.85 $633.00 $52.10 9.0% $25.15 4.1%

  CISE $496.35 526.69 574.00 77.65 15.6% 47.31 9.0%

  ENG (less SBIR/STTR) $486.01 519.67 566.89 80.50 16.6% 47.22 9.1%

  SBIR/STTR $99.45 108.88 116.41 17.34 17.5% 7.53 6.9%

  GEO $703.95 744.85 792.00 88.05 12.5% 47.15 6.3%

  MPS $1,086.61 1,150.30 1,253.00 166.39 15.3% 102.70 8.9%

  SBE $201.23 213.76 222.00 20.78 10.3% 8.24 3.9%

  OCI $127.14 182.42 200.00 72.86 57.3% 17.58 9.6%

  OISE $42.61 40.61 45.00 2.39 5.6% 4.39 10.8%

  OPP $390.54 438.10 464.90 74.37 19.0% 26.80 6.1%

  IA $233.30 231.37 263.00 29.70 12.7% 31.63 13.7%

 U.S. Arctic Research

Commission $1.17 $1.45 $1.49 0.32 27.4% 0.04 2.8%

Research & Related Activities $4,449.25 $4,765.95 $5,131.69 $682.44 15.3% $365.74 7.7%

NSF Budget by Research DirectorateDollars in Millions

Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation

(EFRI)

Chemical, Bioengineering,Environmental, and Transport

Systems(CBET)

Civil, Mechanical, and

ManufacturingInnovation

(CMMI)

Electrical, Communications

and Cyber Systems(ECCS)

EngineeringEducation and

Centers(EEC)

IndustrialInnovation andPartnerships

(IIP)

Directorate for EngineeringFY 2007

Office of the Assistant DirectorDeputy Assistant Director

Program Director for Diversity &Outreach

Office of the Assistant DirectorDeputy Assistant Director

Program Director for Diversity &Outreach

Senior AdvisorNanotechnologySenior Advisor

Nanotechnology

Engineering FY 2008 Budget RequestDollars in Millions

        Change over

FY 2006 FY 2007 FY 2008 FY 2007 Request

  Actual Request Request Amount Percent

CBET $125 $124 $145 203 16.5%

CMMI 149 152 174 22 14.4%

ECCS 78 81 94 13 16.1%

IIP 109 120 128 8 6.9%

Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) 99 109 116 8 6.9%

EEC 123 126 117 -9 -7.2%

EFRI

- 25 25 - -

Total, ENG $585 $628.55 $683.30 $54.75 8.7%

Totals may not add due to rounding.

CBET Organizational Chart

Chemical, Biochemical, and Biotechnology

Systems

Chemical, Biochemical, and Biotechnology

Systems

Biomedical Engineering and

EngineeringHealthcare

Biomedical Engineering and

EngineeringHealthcare

Process and Reaction Engineering

Maria Burka

Process and Reaction Engineering

Maria Burka

Catalysis andBiocatalysis

John Regalbuto

Catalysis andBiocatalysis

John Regalbuto

Biochemical Engineering

Bruce Hamilton

Biochemical Engineering

Bruce Hamilton

EnvironmentalEngineering and

Sustainability

EnvironmentalEngineering and

Sustainability

BiotechnologyFred HeinekenBiotechnology

Fred Heineken

Chemical andBiological Separations

Rose Wesson

Chemical andBiological Separations

Rose Wesson

Research to Aid Persons With Disabilities

Ted

Research to Aid Persons With Disabilities

Ted

Biomedical Engineering

Semahat Demir

Biomedical Engineering

Semahat Demir

BiophotonicsLeon Esterowitz

BiophotonicsLeon Esterowitz

EnvironmentalEngineeringClark Liu

EnvironmentalEngineeringClark Liu

EnvironmentalTechnology

Paul

EnvironmentalTechnology

Paul

Energy forSustainability

Trung van Nguyen

Energy forSustainability

Trung van Nguyen

EnvironmentalSustainability

Bruce Hamilton

EnvironmentalSustainability

Bruce Hamilton

Division DirectorJohn McGrath

Division DirectorJohn McGrath

Deputy Division DirectorBob Wellek

Deputy Division DirectorBob Wellek

Senior AdvisorMarshall LihSenior AdvisorMarshall Lih

Transport andThermal FluidsTransport andThermal Fluids

Thermal Transport Processes

Ted Bergman

Thermal Transport Processes

Ted Bergman

Interfacial Processes And Thermodynamics

Bob Wellek

Interfacial Processes And Thermodynamics

Bob Wellek

Particulate andMultiphase Processes

Marc Ingber

Particulate andMultiphase Processes

Marc Ingber

Fluid Dynamics Bill Schultz

Fluid Dynamics Bill Schultz

Combustion, Fire, andPlasma Systems

Phil Westmoreland

Combustion, Fire, andPlasma Systems

Phil Westmoreland

FD: Funding Distribution

TURBULENCE, STABILITY & FLOW CONTROL 25%

RHEOLOGY - Complex fluids and polymer processing 15%

WAVES, HYDRAULICS & ENVIRONMENTAL FLUID MECHANICS 15%

GENERAL FLUID MECHANICS & COMPRESSIBLE FLOWS15%

MICRO / NANO FLUIDICS15%

INSTRUMENTATION 5%

BIO FLUID DYNAMICS 10%trends

Recent History of FM Funding(a personal view)

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DNS

Bio Nano

Micro

Cond avg

Turb struct

Energy

Materials

Dyn sys

Enviro

Catastrophetheory

RANS

MDS

Transportation

Energy?

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LBM

BEM

FEM

Electroniccooling

Sustainability (& Resiliency)

Cyber-infrastructure

HPC

Complexity Social aspects

Education

NSF Funding Opportunities

EVO CDI Peta-AppsEFRIWorkshopsCAREERNERS/NIRTGOALIMUSES / WATERS

MRIIGERTSupplements

REU RET IREE GRS

EPSCoR / ADVANCEHi-Fi?

… and unsolicited

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Ask colleagues for their proposals & reviews

Ask colleagues to critique your proposal

Suggest reviewers for your proposal

Anticipate your audience

Get help with ‘boiler plate’ Current and Pending, Facilities, … IP Agreement (mostly for SBIR, GOALI…) IRB Approval (post recommendation OK)

Don’t promise too much, too little

Unsubmitted proposals are not funded

Submit early

Proposal Tips

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Tell a Good Story!

• It should be written for a wide audience• Well written• Mix in…

– A good part mystery (we should not know early that the butler did it)

– A tad autobiographical (get your chair to “help”)

– Healthy amounts of history and reference book– A good journalistic style– Two parts coffee table book– A smidgeon of science fiction

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Other Useful Websites

Examples of the “broader impacts criterion”: 

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2002/nsf022/bicexamples.pdf  

www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=gpg

http://www-personal.umich/~schultz/CAREER including “NSF CAREER Proposal Writing Tips” by G. Hazelrigg & Friends

FAQ (05-027) www.nsf.gov/eng/cbet/presentations/ (T. Anderson minority_faculty_workshop_31jul06.ppt and G. Prentice)

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How to Contact your PD •Email

•Phone call– Prepare questions in advance… listen too!

– Be professional, but be yourself

•Personal Visit– By appointment (one stop shopping) – During related activity (panel, workshop)– Show presentation slides on laptop, emphasize Q&A

• White paper / pre-proposal (2 pg max)• Meet at workshops, conferences• Invite for campus seminar• Volunteer to be panel reviewer For CBET: www.nsf.gov/eng/cbet/reviewer/

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The most important things I’ve learned from panelists this year

• Proposals should be hypothesis-driven

• Broader impacts, fonts, etc. are taken seriously

• Need modeling/experiment connection

• Make life easier for panelists (they are not journal reviewers)

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Is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for tenure…

Although it can seem like it is necessary …at least a badge of honor.

Instead, NSF and your University hope it is a good jump start to your career.

Hence, since you only have three chances, the answer to the question…

The CAREER Award

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Should I wait to “establish myself” before submitting a CAREER Proposal?

NO!!

Should I ask the PD, for a SGER or two first, to get more preliminary results?

NO!!Get in as soon as you can so you can get that “jump start” when it is needed.

The CAREER Award

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Success Rate Statistics

Unsolicited proposals about 10%

CAREER about 15%

Initiatives about 10% (varies widely)

Lower by at least 5% in ENG Directorate

Dropped in half since 2000

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Cyber-Enabled Discovery & Innovation (CDI)

“Broaden the Nation’s capability for innovation by developing a new generation of computationally based

discovery concepts and tools to deal with complex, data-rich, and interacting systems.”

CDI investments areas include: Interacting elements – improve the understanding of complex

systems Computational experimentation – allows insight into

complex, real-world systems Knowledge extraction – data mining, visualization, utilization

of basic concepts from computation, geometry and topology Virtual environments – permit collaboration among diverse

populations Education in computational discovery – integrate

techniques into the basic education of all scientists and engineers

CBET Workshops

Engineering approaches to obesity

Cyber- based Combustion Science

Minority Faculty Workshop

Business Engineering Sustainability

Research Frontiers for Combustion in the Hydrogen Economy

Cyberinfrastructure in Chemical & Biological Systems

Grand Challenges of the Future for Environmental Modeling

Integrating Social Sciences Research in the WATERS Network

Frontiers in Environmental Engineering Education

Sustainable Nanomanufacturing (US/Aus/Singapore)

Cyber-Fluid Dynamics

Six (not so little) words

Cyber

Complexity

Sustainability

Nano

Interdisciplinary

IncrementalTransformative

NSF Important Message 130

The term “transformative research” is being used to describe a range of endeavors which promise extraordinary outcomes, such as revolutionizing entire disciplines; creating entirely new fields; or disrupting accepted theories and perspectives – in other words [those] with potential to change the way we address challenges in science, engineering, and innovation. -- NSB

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NSF Buzz Word SearchI N T E R D E P E N D E N T E R C T E B R I C F FN E R T Y R O A D M A P Q W E R Y Y M E T R I C OF U N C T I O N A L I T Y F T E B R D E F W S E LR A D A P T I V E G T B R O A D E R I M P A C T SA W D T H E S T Y G H E W Q C E R H N E W E G H ES C F O U O U T R E A C H C R O S S T R Y R N X LT O F T Y F S T F E S R M U T O T Y E G A F O Y FR U E R T H T E S T B E D T U R R L R I S M N T OU P E D U C A T I O N T R T I R U T D N S U I N RC L T Y O B I O F U E L X I O I C I I G E I N I GT I H U M A N F A C T O R N N M T T S F S B C B AU N I O N T A B G Y T F E G T R U I C R M F R G NR G C I H F B O R O B U S T F D R T I O E H E T IE U S Q W E L I F E C Y C L E F E Y P N N E M Y ZT R R T Y P E T A F L O P R M M X W L T T Q E Q IH O U T C O M E S R E S I L I E N T I I I T N S NE E U I O C O M P L E X I T Y R P L N E L R T Y GG T Y U I E X T E R N A L I T I E S A R E Y A U EH T R A N S F O R M A T I V E T Y S R O T L L I XP A R A D I G M R E L I A B I L I T Y T Y R U O N

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Distribution of Average Reviewer RatingsFY 2005

Number of Proposals: 41,758 ( 31,966 Declines & 9,792 Awards )

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Advice on SOTL(Scholarship on Teaching & Learning)

Decide your level of activity, but do some

CAREER panels impressed with existing activities with something new

Sound authentic and realistic

Ensure chair is aware of your plans (post-tenure?)

Focus on an area you enjoyLearning styles, tech communications, experiential

learning, multidisciplinary design, K-12 outreach, . . .

IRB approval probably necessary for assessment

Get help from Pros and your students

Publish in ASEE J, Wikis, Conferences, …

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ENG NSF-wide InvestmentsDollars in Millions

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ENG Research Priorities FY07

Nanotechnology

Energy and Environment

Innovation

Complexity in Engineered and Natural Systems

Manufacturing Frontiers

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Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI)

EFRI focuses support on important emerging areas in a timely manner Typically, the annual budget for EFRI will be 3-to-5 percent of the Directorate budget (~$15-to-$30 million)

It is expected that the investment in any topic will range from $3 million to the total annual ERFI budget

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Major Initiatives with Impact on CBET

in FY 2007

NNI

$43 million

Sensors/Explosives

$5 million

EFRI (FY07: Auto-reconfigurable Engineered Systems; Cellular and

Biomolecular Engineering) $25 million total ENG

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What to Ask

Key Advice Priority of topic

Project plan

Special initiatives

Equipment needs

Success rates

Timing of submission

Award size

Review process and criteria

Often on Website

Deadlines

Application process

Currently funded work New faculty programs

Typical award size

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More important than you think

Present in clear, concise, meaningful manner

Avoid jargon and overstatement

Be careful with buzzwords (some folks are annoyed)

Avoid cute and too informal titles

Reconsider ?s and :s --s

Proposal Title

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Most important section (initial impressions,particularly for panel reviews, used for

reviewer selection)

Contains goals and scope, brief description of method, hypotheses and expected results, technical merit, and broader impacts

Clear, concise, accurate, exciting

Published abstracts are revised summaries

1 page

Conventions vary by field – seek samples

Project Summary