Opportunities in (Materials) Engineering at the National Science Foundation

Alexis C Lewis, PhD

Program Director, Materials Engineering and Processing Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation

Directorate for Engineering National Science Foundation

Arlington VA

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VacantDeputy Director

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Directorate for Engineering: Division of Civil, Mechanical & Manufacturing Innovation

Emerging  Frontiers  in    Research  and  Innovation  

(EFRI)  Sohi  Rastegar

Directorate  for  Engineering  (ENG)  Office  of  the  Assistant  Director  

Pramod  Khargonekar,  Assistant  Director  Grace  Wang,  Deputy  Assistant  Director  

Senior  Advisor  for  Nanotechnology  

Mihail  Roco

Chemical,    Bioengineering,  

Environmental,  and  Transport    Systems  (CBET)  

JoAnn  Lighty

Civil,    Mechanical,  and    Manufacturing  Innovation  (CMMI)  

Deborah  Goodings

Electrical,    Communications,    

and  Cyber    Systems  (ECCS)  

Samir  El-­‐Ghazaly

Engineering  Education  and  

Centers  (EEC)  

Don  Millard

Industrial  Innovation  and  Partnerships  

(IIP)  Barry  Johnson

Innovation  Corps  Babu  DasGupta

Program  Director  for   Evaluation  &  Assessment  Alexandra  Medina-­‐Borja

NSF Funding

Source: NSF FY17 Budget Request

2009 ARRA

FY Appropriation, $B

CMMI Budget

* $8M carryover

FY Appropriation, $M

Materials-Related OpportunitiesCore Programs:

- Submit during an open window - “Unsolicited” - any research topic that fits the program

Special Solicitations: - Separate submission window

- Targeted research areas - Often cross-cutting: multiple NSF programs, divisions or

directorates

Other Opportunities: - Broad-themed Solicitations, supplements, etc.

Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI)

Core Programs Unsolicited Proposal Windows:

February 1-15 and September 1-15 Annually

Materials Engineering and Processing (MEP)

Program Directors: Thomas Kuech, Alexis Lewis, Mary Toney

The Materials Engineering and Processing (MEP) program supports fundamental research addressing the processing and/or mechanical performance of

engineering materials by investigating the interrelationship of materials processing, structure,

properties and/or lifecycle performance for targeted applications

Materials Engineering and Processing (MEP)

Effective September 1, 2013

Materials Engineering

and Processing

(MEP)

Structural Materials and

Mechanics (SMM)

Materials Processing and Manufacturing

(MPM) Materials and

Surface Engineering

(MSE)

Materials Engineering and Processing (MEP)Processing • Proposed research should focus on manufacturing processes that convert material into useful form as either intermediate or final composition

• All material systems

Performance• Proposed research should be driven by a targeted application(s) • Mechanical or multifunctional (not electronic) performance • Structural, functional and responsive materials • Surface engineering, tribology • Corrosion and degradation • Length scales from molecular to macro

Mechanics of Materials and Structures (MoMS)Program Director: Kara Peters

Search Underway for second PD

Advances in theory, experimental, and/or computational methods in mechanics

Using contemporary mechanics to address challenges in materials and structures

Deformation, fatigue, fracture, contact and friction

Integration of materials and structure: metamaterials, hierarchical, microarchitected and low-dimensional materials

Design of Engineering Materials Systems (DEMS)Program Directors: Kara Peters (Mechanics of Materials and

Structures), TBD (Engineering & Systems Design, Systems Science), Mary Toney (Materials Engineering and Processing)

The Design of Engineering Material Systems (DEMS) program supports fundamental research intended to lead to new

paradigms of design, development, and insertion of advanced engineering material systems. 

Fundamental research that develops and creatively integrates theory, processing/manufacturing, data/informatics, experimental,

and/or computational approaches with rigorous engineering design principles, approaches, and tools to enable the

accelerated design and development of materials is welcome.  

Nanomanufacturing

Program Director: Khershed Cooper

Nanoscale process scalability, throughput, reliability and affordability

Integration of top-down, bottom-up processes

Incorporation of nanomaterials and nanostructures into higher order structures

Other CMMI ProgramsAdvanced

Manufacturing Cluster

Materials Engineering & Processing

Manufacturing Machines & Equipment

Nanomanufacturing

Mechanics & Engineering Materials

ClusterMechanics of Materials

& Structures Design of Engineering

Materials Systems Biomechanics and Mechanobiology

Systems Engineering & Design Cluster

Engineering & Systems Design

Systems Science Service, Manufacturing &

Operations Research Dynamics, Controls &

Diagnostics

Resilient & Sustainable Infrastructures Cluster

Civil Infrastructure Systems Geotechnical Engineering Structural & Architectural Engineering & Materials Engineering for Natural

Hazards Infrastructure Management

& Extreme Events

Division of Materials Research

Biomaterials Ceramics

Condensed Matter and Materials Theory Condensed Matter Physics

Electronic and Photonic Materials Metals and Metallic Nanostructures

Polymers Solid State and Materials Chemistry

Directorate for Mathematics and Physical Sciences

NSF Solicitations Three types of solicitations

(1) PIs submit to the solicitation (ie MIP, DMREF) • solicitation has separate deadline, budget • may have special submission requirements

(2) PIs submit to a standing program which participates in the solicitation • examples: GOALI, SusCHEM • proposals are reviewed with other unsolicited proposals • must align with topic of program • usually no separate pot of funds

(3) PIs submit to solicitation with a participating program (ie CAREER) • special solicitation requirements • separate deadline and budget guidelines • submitted to an NSF program; must align with topic of program

DMREFNSF’s Response to and participation in the Materials

Genome Initiative

DMREF Solicitation DetailsNSF Solicitation 15-608

Lead Program Director: John Schlueter (DMR) Submission Window Date(s): January 4-19, 2016

DMREF is the primary program by which NSF participates in the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) for Global Competitiveness. MGI

recognizes the importance of materials science to the well-being and advancement of society and aims to "deploy advanced materials at

least twice as fast as possible today, at a fraction of the cost.“

Three or four year awards totaling $750,000 – 1,600,000 for the award period are anticipated.

Total funds $29M (FY16)

DMREF SolicitationSpecial Review Criteria

Theory, computation and experiment guiding one another in an iterative loop

Open access to data and codes

Solicitation PI RequirementsMust be collaborative (at least 2 PIs)

An individual can be a PI or co-PI on only one DMREF proposal per window

Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP)NSF Solicitation 15-522

Program Directors: Sean Jones and Guebre Tessema

Midscale user facility program

MIPs push the frontiers in materials research by advancing the capabilities of current state-of-the-art experimental tools through the development of new

techniques and the next generation of instrumentation that will lead to understanding and discovering new phenomena as well as the discovery of complex functional material systems.  In addition, it is expected that open access to these cutting edge tools will strengthen collaborations among

scientists and enable researchers to work in new ways, while fostering new modalities of multidisciplinary education and training.

The initial MIPs will focus on developing new bulk and thin film crystalline hard materials.

5 year awards, $10M - $25M First round in FY15, Next solicitation in FY17-18

Other NSF Solicitations and opportunities*

*not a complete list

Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program

The CAREER program embodies NSF’s commitment to encourage faculty and academic institutions to value and

support the integration of research and education.

Creative, integrative and effective research and education plans, while building a firm foundation for a lifetime of

contributions to research, education and their integration.

Submit to the relevant NSF Program (ie directly to MEP)

July submission, $500k, 5 years.

PhD, tenure track, 3 attempts only.

NSF 15-555

Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI)

NSF 12-513

Industry/Academia partnerships

NSF funds cannot go to an industry partner; they can only be used by the academic institution.

The industry partner is expected to participate in the research effort to facilitate in the commercialization of the research.

Submit to a program (MEP) or solicitation (DMREF) which accepts GOALI proposals

Proposals are reviewed alongside other (non-GOALI) proposals submitted in the same window

Reviewers are instructed to evaluate the quality of the industrial partner’s participation

Computation and Data Enabled Science & Engineering (CDS&E)

Goal: To identify and capitalize on opportunities for major scientific and engineering breakthroughs through new computational and data analysis

approaches. 

 Outcomes must rely on advancement of both research and infrastructure in computation and data. 

All NSF Directorates Participate

Deadlines differ for each Division; check solicitation for submission windows

NSF 12-8084

Integrated NSF Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education (INSPIRE)

Complementing existing NSF efforts, INSPIRE was created to handle proposals whose:

Scientific advances lie outside the scope of a single program or discipline.

Lines of research promise transformational advances. Prospective discoveries reside at the interfaces of disciplinary

boundaries that may not be recognized through traditional review or co-review.

Proposals in response to this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) may be submitted after August 01, 2014.

A maximum budget of $1 million applies. Duration may be up to 5 years.

Must get at least two PDs to support.

NSF 14-106

Facilitating Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions:

Research Opportunity Awards (ROAs) Research Opportunity Awards (ROAs) are typically used to enable faculty members at PUIs to pursue research as

visiting scientists with NSF-supported investigators at other institutions.

Typical ROA awards are for up to $80,000 for periods of two to 12 months.

Awarded as supplements to existing grants. Approximately 45 in 2015.

Submit any time – talk to your PD.

NSF Solicitation 14-579

Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) and Research Opportunity Awards (ROA)

Other Funding Opportunities• Individual projects (unsolicited) • Special Solicitations • Instrumentation – MRI awards, equipment supplements • Fellowships, traineeships, research assistantships, post-doctoral funding - NRT

• Centers (Research and Education) • Small Business Innovation (SBIR, STTR) • International Collaboration • Workshops and Conferences

Getting More Information

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Alexis Lewis Program Director, Materials Engineering and

Processing ENG/CMMI

alewis@nsf.gov