What's the buzz at NSF? William W. Schultz PD, NSF/ENG/CBET/FD IPA, UM, ME

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3 Federal R&D for FY 2005 $103 Billion Total (Dollars in Billions) DOD $48 47% NIH $28 27% Table 4 NASA $8 8% DOE $8 8% NucSec $4 4% NSF $4 4% Other $4 4%

4 Federal Academic S&E Support FY 2005 $22.4 Billion Total (Dollars in Billions) Table 59 NSF NIH $16 71% NSF $3 14% DOD $1 4% NASA $1 4% DOE $1 4% Other $1 3%

National Research Funding NSF funds 25% of US Gov University 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 B GNP** 0.6 M Jobs** $10 B Chemical Industry Operating Income* $8 B Taxes** $5 B Chemical Industry R&D Funding $1 B Federal R&D Funding In Chemical Sciences Basis: *estimated from CCR study **extrapolated from LANL study by Thayer, et al., April 2005 using REMI economic model

ENG and NSF Funding Rates Research Grants ENG Proposals and Awards Funding Rate Percent Yes, FD is Even lower!

Directorate FY 2006 Actual FY 2007 Request FY 2008 Request FY 2008 Request Change over FY 2006 Actual Change over FY 2007 Request Amt% % BIO$580.90$607.85$633.00$ %$ % CISE$ % % ENG (less SBIR/STTR)$ % % SBIR/STTR$ % % GEO$ % % MPS$1, , , % % SBE$ % % OCI$ % % OISE$ % % OPP$ % % IA$ % % U.S. Arctic Research Commission$1.17$1.45$ % % Research & Related Activities$4,449.25$4,765.95$5,131.69$ %$ % NSF Budget by Research Directorate Dollars in Millions

Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP) Directorate for Engineering FY 2007 Office of the Assistant Director Deputy Assistant Director Program Director for Diversity &Outreach Office of the Assistant Director Deputy Assistant Director Program Director for Diversity &Outreach Senior Advisor Nanotechnology Senior Advisor Nanotechnology

Engineering FY 2008 Budget Request Dollars in Millions Change over FY 2006FY 2007FY 2008FY 2007 Request Actual Request AmountPercent CBET$125$124$ % CMMI % ECCS % IIP % Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) % EEC % EFRI Total, ENG$585$628.55$683.30$ % Totals may not add due to rounding.

CBET Organizational Chart Chemical, Biochemical, and Biotechnology Systems Chemical, Biochemical, and Biotechnology Systems Biomedical Engineering and Engineering Healthcare Biomedical Engineering and Engineering Healthcare Process and Reaction Engineering Maria Burka Process and Reaction Engineering Maria Burka Catalysis and Biocatalysis John Regalbuto Catalysis and Biocatalysis John Regalbuto Biochemical Engineering Bruce Hamilton Biochemical Engineering Bruce Hamilton Environmental Engineering and Sustainability Environmental Engineering and Sustainability Biotechnology Fred Heineken Biotechnology Fred Heineken Chemical and Biological Separations Rose Wesson Chemical and Biological 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 Biophotonics Leon Esterowitz Biophotonics Leon Esterowitz Environmental Engineering Clark Liu Environmental Engineering Clark Liu Environmental Technology Paul Environmental Technology Paul Energy for Sustainability Trung van Nguyen Energy for Sustainability Trung van Nguyen Environmental Sustainability Bruce Hamilton Environmental Sustainability Bruce Hamilton Division Director John McGrath Division Director John McGrath Deputy Division Director Bob Wellek Deputy Division Director Bob Wellek Senior Advisor Marshall Lih Senior Advisor Marshall Lih Transport and Thermal Fluids Transport and Thermal Fluids Thermal Transport Processes Ted Bergman Thermal Transport Processes Ted Bergman Interfacial Processes And Thermodynamics Bob Wellek Interfacial Processes And Thermodynamics Bob Wellek Particulate and Multiphase Processes Marc Ingber Particulate and Multiphase Processes Marc Ingber Fluid Dynamics Bill Schultz Fluid Dynamics Bill Schultz Combustion, Fire, and Plasma Systems Phil Westmoreland Combustion, Fire, and Plasma Systems Phil Westmoreland

FD: Current Research Focus  TURBULENCE LES and SGS modeling, DNS, high Re experiments, transition, instrument development, flow control, 3D boundary layers, multi-phase turbulent flows  COMPLEX FLUIDS Rheology, instability, physics of polymer solutions, DNA, MD Simulations  WAVES and HYDRAULICS Wave-seabed or -structure interactions, breaking waves, cavitation, sediment transport  GENERAL FLUID MECHANICS Droplet dynamics, gravitational plumes, gas-liquid interfaces  COMPRESSIBLE FLOW Richtmeyer-Meshkov instability, hypersonics  MICRO/NANO SCALE FLOWS Microfluidics, biomedical microdevices, nanoscale rheology  ENVIRONMENTAL FLUID MECHANICS urban fluid mechanics  BIO-FLUID MECHANICS flows in biomedical assistive devices, biomimetics

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 FLOWS 15%  MICRO / NANO FLUIDICS 15%  INSTRUMENTATION 5%  BIO FLUID DYNAMICS 10% trends

Finding Fluids Funding (Where has all the funding gone?)  NSF funded $740M in “fluids” (23% in ENG)  $58M with ‘Turbulence’ in title 33% ENG, 41% GEO, 24% MPS  NASA Microgravity at $35M/year is gone Aero & Astro compromised by shuttle replacement  DOD & DOE more mission focused  Even NIH is feeling poor!  Help is on the way… ACI is helping to double budget?? WWS is pressing from within APS DFD are effectively lobbying … the stars are aligned and we have the resourceful fluid mechanics community!

Recent History of FM Funding (a personal view)  1970  1980  1990  2000  2010 HWA LDV LES PIV DNS Bio Nano Micro Cond avg Turb struct Energy Materials Dyn sys Enviro Catastrophe theory RANS MDS Transportation Energy ? ? LBM BEM FEM Electronic cooling Sustainability (& Resiliency) Cyber-infrastructure HPC Complexity Social aspects Education

NSF Funding Opportunities EVO CDI Peta-Apps EFRI Workshops CAREER NERS/NIRT GOALI MUSES / WATERS MRI IGERT Supplements REU RET IREE GRS EPSCoR / ADVANCE Hi-Fi? … and unsolicited

19  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

20 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

21 Other Useful Websites  Examples of the “broader impacts criterion”:   including “NSF CAREER Proposal Writing Tips” by G. Hazelrigg & Friends  FAQ (05-027)  (T. Anderson minority_faculty_workshop_31jul06.ppt and G. Prentice)

22 How to Contact your PD 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:

23 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)

24 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

25 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

26 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

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  Incremental Transformative

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

31 NSF Buzz Word Search

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33 Distribution of Average Reviewer Ratings FY 2005 Number of Proposals: 41,758 ( 31,966 Declines & 9,792 Awards )

34 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 enjoy Learning 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, …

35 ENG NSF-wide Investments Dollars in Millions

36 ENG Research Priorities FY07  Nanotechnology  Energy and Environment  Innovation  Complexity in Engineered and Natural Systems  Manufacturing Frontiers

37 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

38 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

39 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

WWS Brag Sheet  FD Prog Director ($8.5M direct, $12M total budget)  EFRI RESIN Co-director  CBET CAREER “Counselor”  IDR Gatekeeper  Participated in CDI, SBE, Peta-Apps, IGERT  Gave 18 NSF/Technical seminars  Main sponsor of 2 workshops, participated in 20 others  FacTIR

41  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

42  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