Steven H. McKnight

George A. HazelriggCivil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation

Directorate for Engineering

CMMI Organization

Division DirectorSteven McKnight

Deputy Director

George Hazelrigg

Manufacturing

Enterprise Systems

Russell Barton

NanoManufacturing

Bruce Kramer (acting)

Material Processing

and Manufacturing

Mary Toney

Control Systems

George Chiu

Dynamical Systems

Eduardo Misawa

Engineering Design

and Innovation

Christina Bloebaum

Operations Research

Michael Fu

Service Enterprise

Systems

Russell Barton

Sensors and

Sensing Systems

George Hazelrigg

Mechanics and

Engineering Materials

Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructures

Advanced Manufacturing

Systems Engineering and

Design

Geomechanics and

Geomaterials

Rick Fragaszy

Materials and Surface

Engineering

Clark Cooper

Mechanics of Materials

Martin Dunn

Biomechanics &

Mechanobiology

Dennis Carter

Structural Materials and

Mechanics

Grace Hsuan

Civil Infrastructure

Systems

Kostas Triantis

NEES

Joy Pauschke

Geotechnical

Engineering

Rick Fragaszy

Hazard Mitigation and

Structural Engineering

Kishor Mehta

Infrastructure Mgmt.

and Extreme Events

Dennis Wenger

Manufacturing and

Construction Machines

and Equipment

George Hazelrigg

Interdisciplinary and

Cross-Divisional Activities

Bruce Kramer

Program Support Mgt.

Betty Person

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CMMI Research ClustersAdvanced Manufacturing

• Research leading to transformative advances in manufacturing and building technologies, with emphases on efficiency, economy, and sustainability

• Supporting programs

– Manufacturing Machines and Equipment

– Manufacturing Enterprise Systems

– Materials Processing and Engineering

– Nanomanufacturing

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CMMI Research ClustersMechanics and Engineering Materials

• Research aimed at advances in the transformation and use of engineering materials efficiently, economically, and sustainably

• Supporting programs

– Geomechanics and Geomaterials

– Materials and Surface Engineering

– Mechanics of Materials

– Biomechanics and Mechanobiology

– Structural Materials and Mechanics

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PI: Chiara DaraioCal Tech

• Research on the decision-making aspects of engineering, including design, control, and optimization

• Supporting programs

– Control Systems

– Dynamical Systems

– Engineering Design and Innovation

– Operations Research

– Sensors and Sensing Systems

– Service Enterprise Systems

CMMI Research ClustersSystems Engineering and Design

EDI/GOALI: New Visualization Technologies Allow for Faster

Virtual Prototyping

Manocha, UNC

SSS/EFRI: Learning from Plants (Wang, Mayer,

Nielson (Michigan) Bakis, Rahn (PSU))

TwistingMotion

BendingMotion

Multiple FMC cells

O.R. - Methods for optimized

ambulance deployment

Henderson, Cornell

• Research to advance fundamental knowledge and innovation for resilient and sustainable civil infrastructure and distributed infrastructure networks

• Supporting programs

– Civil Infrastructure Systems

– NEES – Ops and Research

– Geotechnical Engineering

– Hazard Mitigation and Structural Engineering

– Infrastructure Mgt. andExtreme Events

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CMMI Research ClustersResilient and Sustainable Infrastructures

NEES: New Concepts for Damage-Tolerant,

Self-Righting Steel-Framed

Buildings

CIS/GOALI: Mitigating Accidents via Advanced Active Safety Systems

• Advanced manufacturing• Communications and Cyberinfrastructure• Education and Workforce• Sustainability and Clean Energy• Innovation Ecosystem• Interdisciplinary Research

Characteristics of an Successful CMMI Proposal

1. Well defined and articulated research topic

2. Evidence of thorough groundwork

3. Appropriately placed – has found a “home” at CMMI

4. Crisply written and free of errors

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