CBET OverviewASEE Engineering Research Council

Monday, March 17, 2008

Credit: Professor Eric Heller, Harvard Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center

Judy A. Raper

Division Director, Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems

Outline

National and NSF Research Funding

CBET Organization

CBET Budget, Proposals & Awards

Research Themes

Questions

America COMPETESAmerica Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education and Science Act was passed in August 2007 by Congress and signed by President Bush.

Education plays a significant role in America COMPETES. Pictured are two students at the University of Texas-El Paso. Zubia, 0521650.

The Act states: “support and promote innovation research in the United States through high-risk, high-reward projects that meet fundamental scientific and technological challenges, involve multidisciplinary work, and involve a high degree of novelty."

Outlines specific allocations for initiatives at NASA, NIST, NOAA, DOE, and NSF, with an emphasis on education.

America COMPETES

Authorizes funding that would increase the NSF budget by 20 percent between FY 2007 and FY 2009.

Authorizes $115M for Major Research Instrumentation program in FY 2008 and $123.1M for FY 2009.Calls on NSF to give priority in selecting awards that meet “critical national needs” in innovation, competitiveness, safety and security, physical and natural sciences, technology, engineering, social science and mathematics.

American Competitiveness InitiativeThe centerpiece of American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI) is to double the 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 incentivesEducation and workforce

External ReportsEngineering 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)

1987 Nobel Prize

Robert M. Solow, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize for Economics for identifying technological change as the chief factor underlying economic growth.

His 1957 article, "Technical Change and the Aggregate Production Function," showed that half of economic growth cannot be accounted for by increases in capital and labor. He then demonstrated that technological change—ignored by mainstream theory—is responsible for that unaccounted-for portion of economic growth—now called the "Solow residual.”

$40 BGNP**

0.6 MJobs**

$8 BTaxes**

Macroeconomic Implications

$1 BFederal

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$5 BChemicalIndustry

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

Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems

Division Director

Judy RaperDeputy Division Director

Bob WellekSenior Advisor

Marshall Lih

Biotechnology,Biochemical, and

Biomass Engineering

Fred Heineken

Thermal TransportProcesses

Pat Phelan

Combustion, Fire,and Plasma Systems

Phil Westmoreland

FluidDynamics

Bill Schultz

Particulate andMultiphase Processes

Marc Ingber

Interfacial Processesand Thermodynamics

Bob Wellek

Biophotonics, Advanced Imaging,

and Sensing forHuman Health

Leon Esterowitz

BiomedicalEngineering

Semahat Demir

Research to AidPersons withDisabilities

Vacant

EnvironmentalSustainability

Bruce Hamilton

Energy for Sustainability

Trung Van Nguyen

EnvironmentalImplications of

Emerging Technologies

Cindy Ekstein

Environmental Engineering

Clark Liu

Chemical andBiological Separations

Rose Wesson

Catalysis and Biocatalysis

John Regalbuto

BiomedicalEngineering and

Engineering Healthcare

EnvironmentalEngineering

and Sustainability

Transport and

Thermal Fluids

Process and Reaction Engineering

Maria Burka

Chemical, Biochemical,and Biotechnology

Systems

CBET Vision and MissionVISION

CBET will be a global leader in identifying and enabling the most innovative research and education at the frontiers of engineering; inspiring the integration of physical, mathematical and/or life sciences with engineering; and cultivating a vibrant, diverse community in key, emerging and core areas benefiting society.

MISSIONCBET will promote and support transformative research and education in engineering areas based on the physical, life and/or mathematical sciences; advance scientific and engineering knowledge; and develop a diverse, globally engaged workforce enhancing the economy of the United States.

What’s New at NSFTransformative Research Emphasis

Revolutionizing entire disciplinesCreating entirely new fieldsDisrupting accepted theories and perspectivespotential to change the way we address challenges in science, engineering, and innovation.

Merit Review Criteria modifiedIntellectual Merit

advance knowledge and understandingQualifications and access to resourcesIntent to explore creative, original, or potentially transformative conceptsProposal structure and organization

Broader Impacts Promote teaching, training, and learningBroaden participation of underrepresented groupsEnhance the infrastructure for research and educationProvide benefit to society and disseminate broadly to enhance technological understanding

Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)Employ advances in computational concepts, methods, models, algorithms, and tools (computational thinking) for revolutionary science and for generating and applying new knowledge.

Data to KnowledgeUnderstanding ComplexityVirtual Organizations

What’s New at CBETProgram reorganizations

Elimination of Biochemical EngineeringExpansion of BISH and RAPD programsEnvironmental Technology to concentrate on

environmental implications of emerging technologies

Emphasis on interdisciplinary team projectsMust be co-funded by several programsSubmit to your program during unsolicited proposal windows

Small equipment awards$50,000 - $100,000Submit during windows for unsolicited proposals

CBET Budget Overview & Statistics

CBET Budget

FY 2007 Actual$128 million

FY 2008 Plan$131 million

FY 2009 Request$173 million

32% INCREASE!

FY08 Budget by Cluster

Chemical, Biochemical & Biotechnology Systems

Transport & Thermal Fluid Phenomena

Environmental Engineering and Sustainability

Biomedical Engineering & Engineering Healthcare

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5342 – Research to Aid Persons with Disabilities5345 – Biomedical Engineering7236 – Biophotonics1401 – Catalysis and Biocatalysis1402 – Biochemical Engineering1403 – Process and Reaction Engineering1417 – Chemical and Biological Separations1491 -- Biotechnology

1179 – Environmental Technology1440 – Environmental Engineering7643 – Environmental Sustainability7644 – Energy Sustainability1406 – Thermal Transport Processes1407 – Combustion, Fire, and Plasma Systems1414 – Interfacial Processes and Thermodynamics1415 – Particulate and Multiphase Processes1443 – Fluid Dynamics

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ENG and CBET Research Overview

Directorate for EngineeringResearch and Education Themes FY 2008

Energy and the Environment: Frontier research to improve the cost, sustainability, and security of our nation’s energy system.

Innovation: Enables national competitiveness andthe ability to foster and catalyze innovation, and the research needed to move from fundamental knowledge to societal benefit.

Power Generation with Microbial Fuel Cells –

Bruce Logan, Penn State

Manufacturing Frontiers: Research that catalyzes multiscale manufacturing, from fundamental metrology through atomic-scale control of raw materials.

Nanotechnology: NSF, through the National Nanotechnology Initiative, drives our nation’s efforts to lead the world in fundamental nanotechnology research.

CBET Research Thematic AreasEnergy, Water and Sustainability

closely aligns with the ACI goals of hydrogen and solar energy, and research critical to alternative energy.

Nanoscience and Engineeringencourage utilization of research results in active nanosystems and devices

Systems and Multi-scale Approachesovercoming barriers to quantum information processing

Integration of Life Sciences in Engineering Research

Gain advantages of “Genomic” revolution by application of engineering way of thinking

VLP (Virus-Like Particle) with attached vaccine activators produced by the cell-free process

Swartz, Stanford

Structure of Virus used for Cancer Therapy Young, Montana State University

Freeman, Texas

CBET Submission Windows

Unsolicited Proposals/GOALIFebruary 1 – March 1August 15 – September 15

CAREERJuly 19

SGER/SupplementsAnytime but talk to the Program Director first

Other SolicitationsEthics Education in Science & Engineering (EESE) April 3CREST April 8DHS/NSF Academic Research Initiative (ARI) April 11Integrative Graduate Education & Training (IGERT)

Preliminary proposal – April 24Full proposal – October 20

Emerging Frontiers for Research and Innovation (EFRI) April 30Course Curriculum & Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) May 20Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems (VOSS) June 2Science of Learning Centers (SLC) August 4REU Sites August 18Cyber-based Discovery and Innovation

LOI – August 30 – September 30Preliminary Proposal – October 4 – November 4

Questions CBET Division:

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www.nsf.gov/eng/cbet/reviewer/