An Overview of the ECCS Division

Robert J. Trew Division Director

Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) Division

Engineering Directorate National Science Foundation

Arlington, VA

Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS)

Senior Engineering Advisor: Lawrence Goldberg

Samir El-Ghazaly • Microwave/mm-Wave/THz Devices & Circuits • Novel & Next Generation Devices • Vacuum Devices & Electronics Antennas • Electromagnetic Propagation & Scattering • Microwave Metamaterials-Based Devices • Device /Circuit Simulation & Modeling

Anupama Kaul • Flexible & Printed Electronics • Light Emitting Devices & Displays • Molecular /Organic Electronics & Photonics • Energy-Efficient Green Electronics • Next Generation Memories, Memristors, & other

Novel Devices

Usha Varshney • Bioelectronics & Biomagnetics Devices • Science & Engineering Beyond Moore’s Law • Quantum Devices • Magnetics, Multiferroics, & Spintronics • Sensor Devices & Technologies

John Zavada & Dominique Dagenais

• Optoelectronics & Photonics • Nanophotonics • Plasmonics & Optical Metamaterials-Based

Devices • Large-Scale Photonic Integration • Ultrafast Photonics

Gerry Tian • Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) • Embedded Systems • Wireless Communications Algorithms &

Networking • Integrated Sensing, Communications, &

Computational Systems • Signal Processing & Coding • Cyber Security

Vacant • Sensors, Actuators, & Electronic Interfaces • Chemical, Biological, & Physical Diagnostic

Systems • Implantable & Wearable Systems • Environmental Sensing & Monitoring • MEMS/NEMS Devices • System-Level Fabrication, Packaging, &

Assembly

Vacant • RF/Wireless, Optical, & Hybrid Communications • Broadband & Low Power Communications • RF/Microwave & mm-Wave Components/Circuits • Inter- and Intra-Chip Communications &

Networking • Submm-Wave/THz Imaging & Sensing • Mixed Signal Circuits & Systems • Enabling Technologies for Intelligent

Communications Systems • Interconnects & Packaging Techniques

Kishan Baheti • Control Theory & Hybrid Dynamical Systems • Distributed & Mobile Networked Control • Systems Theory in Molecular, Cellular, &

Synthetic Biology/Medicine • Estimation in Sensing & Imaging Systems • Sensor Networks for Energy-Efficient Buildings • Transportation Networks • Human-Robot Interaction • Stochastic Modeling & Applications

George Maracas • Energy Collection, Photovoltaics, & Thermal

Devices • Novel Energy Conversion Devices • Renewable Energy Devices & Systems • Power Conversion, Generators, Motors &

Network Interfacing • Energy & Power Sensing Technologies • Energy Storage Technologies • High Voltage, High Power Switching &

Conversion Devices

Paul Werbos • Adaptive & Intelligent Systems • Transmission & Distributed Systems • Intelligent Power Grid • Quantum Systems & Modeling • Neural Networks • High Performance & Multiscale Modeling • Cognitive Optimization & Predication • Intelligent Vehicles &Robots

Electronics, Photonics, and Magnetic Devices (EPMD)

Communications, Circuits, and Sensing-Systems (CCSS)

Energy, Power, and Adaptive Systems (EPAS)

Division Director: Robert Trew

ENG Funding ($M)

FY 2010 Omnibus

Actual

FY 2010 Enacted/

Annualized FY 2011 CR

FY 2012 Request

Change Over FY 2010 Enacted

Amount Percent

CBET $157.08 $156.82 $194.03 $37.21 23.7%

CMMI 189.40 188.00 226.10 38.10 20.3%

ECCS 93.97 94.00 131.00 37.00 39.4%

EEC 125.86 124.11 132.40 8.29 6.7%

IIP 180.63 152.00 191.57 39.57 26.0% SBIR/STTR 156.84 125.77 146.88 21.11 16.8%

EFRI 28.99 29.00 33.20 4.20 14.5%

Total, ENG $775.92 $743.93 $908.30 $164.37 22.1%

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Emerging Research Opportunities

Subsequently: 4 Unsolicited Proposals Awarded (3 yrs) 4 CAREER Awards (5 yrs)

EAGER

(Early Concept Grants For Exploratory Research) Ex: In FY 2008

24 Awards

WORKSHOPS / CONFERENCES

Ex: 50 Workshops (FY 2008-2010) that reviewed the State-of-the-Art & Collected Recommendations for Future Research from Experts in the field

EFRI (Exploring Frontiers of Research & Innovation)

Initiative on Bio- Flex Electronics

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2008 2009 2010 Collaborative Proposals Collaborative Awards Funding Rate

Reviewer Demographics FY 2008-2010

Reviewer Demographics FY 2008-2010

Women constitute 9.7% of Electrical Engineering Faculty

Underrepresented Minorities (Black, Hispanic, and Native American) constitute 3.6% of Electrical Engineering Faculty

No 92%

Yes 8%

Panelist Minority Status

* 48.7% Reporting Rate

Female 15%

Male 85%

Panelist Participation by Gender

* 60.1% Reporting Rate

FY 2007, Nelson Diversity Surveys, “Top 50” Departments, http://chem.ou.edu/~djn/diversity/Faculty_Tables_FY07/07Report.pdf

Reviewer Demographics FY 2008-2010

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Institutional Distribution (N=1781)

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Business, State & Local, Foreign, Other

Masters

PhD Institutions

Research Intensive PhD Institutions (Top 100)

Yes 25%

No 75%

First Time Panelist Status

* 34.2% Reporting Rate

Future Program Directions

Science and Engineering Beyond Moore’s Law (SEBML)

Flexible Electronics (EFRI: BioFlex) Energy and Power

› Smart Grid › Alternate Energy

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Enhanced Access to the Radio Spectrum (EARS) Robotics (NRI)

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