August 07, 2015 edition
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Research Seminar Series
Planning has started for the 2015-2016 Research Seminar Series. Please send any
presenter requests or general suggestions to chismjul@egr.msu.edu
U.S. EPA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Solicitation Webinar
Learn about EPA’s SBIR program, this year’s solicitation topics, and how to apply
for an SBIR contract. EPA SBIR program experts will be available to answer
questions during a question & answer (Q&A) session following the presentation.
Webinar | Thursday, August 13 | 2:00pm-3:00pm
NSF Grant Workshop: Get Noticed, Get Funded!
This interactive workshop will give a general introduction to NSF grants to help
you improve the chance of your proposal being highly rated and funded. The
workshop includes information not to be found in NSF proposal solicitations or
general instructions, but learned the hard way, working on numerous NSF grants
and by in-depth conversations with grantees and the NSF. Registration required.
Myrna E. Watanabe, Ph.D., Grant Consultant
Kellogg Center Auditorium | Tuesday, August 18 | 10:00am-3:00pm
NIH Workshop: Competitive Advantage in R01 Grant Writing
This is not a workshop on R01 grant writing basics. It’s about advanced strategies
and tactics, many of them seldom used, for writing R01 research plans that can
score high and win. Whether you’re writing your first R01 or your fiftieth, this is a
workshop you won’t want to miss. Registration required.
Tom Hollon, Ph.D. grant consultant for OVPRGS
Kellogg Center Auditorium | Wednesday, August 19, 2015 | 10:00am-3:00pm
Trifecta and Sparrow/MSU Center for Innovation & Research
• Keynote Speaker: Sara Czaja Ph.D., Professor Department of Psychiatry &
Behavioral Sciences & Industrial Engineering at the University of Miami
• Research Collaboration Opportunities – Breakout Sessions
• Successful Grant Writing Strategy Workshop
• Networking with Sparrow Clinicians and MSU Researchers
MSU University Club | August 31, 2015 | 8:00am-3:00pm | RSVP Required
NCURA Research Administrators Day- September 25, 2015
This day will recognize the significant contributions made by admnistrators in
support of research innovation, inquiry and discovery.
Save the Date: 2015 MSU-FBI Academic Alliance Conference
The 2015 FBI-MSU Academic Alliance Conference is full-day program at the
Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center. Free event but registration is required.
Monday, September 28 | 8:00am-5:00pm
Write On-Site with Trifecta
Trifecta’s “Write On-Site” is a way to build in writing time and accountability.
Bring your laptop or whatever writing materials you need and get started. This is
an open invitation; we always have coffee and sometimes cookies!
Every Wednesday | 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. | CAS207
Spartan Marketplace Coming Fall 2015
Spartan Marketplace is an e-procurement solution that will provide the MSU
community with a centralized, convenient, cost-effective way to buy items using
Purchasing-negotiated contracts.
Guidance on Changes That Involve Human Subjects in Active Awards and That Will
Require Prior NIH Approval: Updated Notice NOT-OD-15-128
This updated Notice continues to provide detailed guidance on the types of
changes in human subjects research awards that will require prior NIH approval
and provides information on the process for submission of such requests.
Dear Colleague Letter: Communication About Automated Compliance Checking
and Proposal Submission NSF 15-095
This Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) is to communicate with the engineering research
community about the new features that NSF has implemented in the FastLane
system for automated compliance checking and about common reasons for lack
of compliance. The goals are to ensure consistency in NSF's proposal submissions,
to enhance the ease of submissions, to reduce the number of submitted
proposals that will be returned without review, and to enable a greater number of
meritorious ideas to advance.
SPA (OSP|CGA) Federal Uniform Guidance
Stay up to date with grant regulation changes resulting from Uniform Guidance.
MSU Sponsored Projects’ Proposal Deadline Policy
College of Engineering’s Proposal Processing Timeline
Completed proposals must be provided to OSP at least three full business days
prior to the sponsor's deadline to be considered on time. On-time proposals will
take precedence over those considered late. Thank you for your continued
cooperation and commitment to improving the process of proposal review,
approval and timely submission.
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
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Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) NSF 15-598
Biomechanics and Mechanobiology (BMMB) PD 14-7479
Civil Infrastructure Systems (CIS) PD 15-1631
Design of Engineering Material Systems (DEMS) PD 12-8086
Dynamics, Control and Systems Diagnostics (DCSD) PD 15-7569
Engineering for Natural Hazards (ENH) PD 15-7396
Infrastructure Management and Extreme Events (IMEE) PD 15-1638
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Manufacturing Machines and Equipment (MME) PD 15-1468
Mechanics of Materials and Structures (MOMS) PD 15-1630
Nanomanufacturing (NM) PD 14-1788
Structural and Architectural Engineering (SAE) PD 15-1637
Systems Science (SYS) PD 14-8085
Gen-3 Engineering Research Centers (ERC) NSF 15-589
Broad Agency Announcement, Submarine, Surveillance, and Surface
Combat System Signal Processing Technologies N0002415IWS5A01
Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) NSF 15-598
NHERI will be a distributed, multi-user, national facility that will provide the
natural hazards engineering community with access to research infrastructure
(earthquake and wind engineering experimental facilities, cyberinfrastructure,
computational modeling and simulation tools, and research data), coupled with
education and community outreach activities. NHERI will enable research and
educational advances that can contribute knowledge and innovation for the
nation's civil infrastructure and communities to prevent natural hazard events
from becoming societal disasters.
Internal deadline: September 08, 2015
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Biomechanics and Mechanobiology (BMMB) PD 14-7479
The BMMB Program supports fundamental research in biomechanics and
mechanobiology. An emphasis is placed on multiscale mechanics approaches in
the study of organisms that integrate across molecular, cell, tissue, and organ
domains. The influence of in vivo mechanical forces on cell and matrix biology in
the histomorphogenesis, maintenance, regeneration, and aging of tissues is an
important concern. In addition, the relationships between mechanical behavior
and extracellular matrix composition and organization are of interest. Funded
projects may include theoretical, computational, and experimental approaches.
The program encourages the consideration of diverse living tissues as smart
materials that are self-designing.
Deadline: September 15, 2015
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Civil Infrastructure Systems (CIS) PD 15-1631
The Civil Infrastructure Systems (CIS) program supports fundamental and
innovative research necessary for designing, constructing, managing, maintaining,
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operating and protecting efficient, resilient and sustainable civil infrastructure
systems.
Deadline: September 15, 2015
Design of Engineering Material Systems (DEMS) PD 12-8086
Research proposals are sought that strive to develop systematic scientific
methodologies to tailor the behavior of material systems in ways that are driven
by performance metrics and incorporate processing/manufacturing. While an
emphasis on a specific material system may be appropriate to provide the
necessary project focus, techniques developed should transcend materials
systems. Ultimately it is expected that research outcomes will be methodologies
to enable the discovery of materials systems with new properties and behavior,
and enable their rapid insertion into engineering systems.
Deadline: September 15, 2015
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Dynamics, Control and Systems Diagnostics (DCSD) PD 15-7569
The Dynamics, Control and Systems Diagnostics (DCSD) program supports
fundamental research on the analysis, measurement, monitoring and control of
dynamic systems, including development of new analytical, computational and
experimental tools, and novel applications to engineered and natural systems.
Dynamics is the science of systems that change in time. Control concerns the use
of external influences to produce desired dynamic behaviors. Systems diagnostics
concerns the use of observation to infer information about a dynamic system.
Objectives of the DCSD program are the discovery of new phenomena and the
investigation of innovative methods and applications in dynamics, control and
diagnostics. The intellectual merit of proposals submitted to the DCSD program
will be evaluated on the basis of fundamental innovation in foundational areas of
dynamics and control, and on the potential for transformative impact within and
across disciplinary boundaries.
Deadline: September 15, 2015
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Engineering for Natural Hazards (ENH) PD 15-7396
Research topics of interest to the ENH program include, but are not limited to:
advances in system-level design concepts for new and existing sustainable civil
infrastructure to achieve desired lifetime system-level performance under single
or multi-hazard loadings; advances in geotechnical engineering for design and
construction of natural hazard-resistant foundations and geostructures,
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liquefaction mitigation, soil-foundation-structure interaction, levee and earth
dam stability, and landslide, mudflow and debris flow analysis and mitigation,
with a focus on field or system performance; applications of decision theory for
design concepts for civil infrastructure to achieve desired lifetime system-level
performance for both multi-hazard resilience and sustainability; and advances in
computational modeling and simulation that integrate theory, computation,
experimentation, and data, as appropriate, to advance natural hazard mitigation
for civil infrastructure. The ENH program encourages knowledge dissemination
and technology transfer activities that can lead to broader societal benefit and
implementation for natural hazard mitigation for civil infrastructure.
Deadline: September 15, 2015
Infrastructure Management and Extreme Events (IMEE) PD 15-1638
The IMEE program supports fundamental, multidisciplinary research on the
impact of hazards and extreme events upon civil infrastructure and society. The
program is focused upon research on the mitigation of, preparedness for,
response to, and recovery from multi-hazard disasters. Community and societal
resilience and sustainability are important topics within the research portfolio of
IMEE.
Deadline: September 15, 2015
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Manufacturing Machines and Equipment (MME) PD 15-1468
The MME program supports fundamental research that enables the development
of new and/or improved manufacturing machines and equipment, and
optimization of their use, with a particular focus on equipment appropriate for
the manufacture of mechanical and electromechanical devices, products, and
systems featuring scales from microns to meters (proposals relating to
nanomanufacturing should be submitted to the CMMI NanoManufacturing
program, and those relating to the manufacture of electronic devices such as IC
products should be submitted to the ECCS Division). Proposals relating to a wide
range of manufacturing operations are encouraged, including both subtractive
and additive processes, forming, bonding/joining, and laser processing. Of
particular interest are proposals that relate to the manufacture of equipment and
facilities that enable the production of energy products.
Deadline: September 15, 2015
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Mechanics of Materials and Structures (MOMS) PD 15-1630
The Mechanics of Materials and Structures program supports fundamental
research in mechanics as related to the behavior of deformable solid materials
and respective structures under internal and external actions. A diverse and
interdisciplinary spectrum of research is supported with emphasis on research
that leads to advances in i) theory, experimental, and/or computational methods
in mechanics, and/or ii) uses contemporary mechanics methods to address
modern challenges in materials and structures. Proposed research can focus on
existing or emerging materials and structural systems, across time and length
scales.
Deadline: September 15, 2015
Nanomanufacturing (NM) PD 14-1788
The Program seeks to explore transformative approaches to nanomanufacturing,
including but not limited to: micro-reactor and micro-fluidics enabled
nanosynthesis, bio-inspired nanomanufacturing, manufacturing by
nanomachines, additive nanomanufacturing, hierarchical nanostructure assembly,
continuous high-rate nanofabrication such as roll-to-roll processing or massivelyparallel large-area processing, and modular manufacturing platforms for
nanosystems. The Program encourages the fabrication of nanomaterials by
design, three-dimensional nanostructures, multi-layer nanodevices, and multimaterial and multi-functional nanosystems. Also of interest is the manufacture of
dynamic nanosystems such as nanomotors, nanorobots, and nanomachines, and
enabling advances in transport and diffusion mechanisms at the nano-scale.
Deadline: September 15, 2015
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Structural and Architectural Engineering (SAE) PD 15-1637
The overall goal of the Structural and Architectural Engineering (SAE) program is
to evolve sustainable structures, such as buildings, that can be continuously
occupied and /or operational during the structure’s useful life. The SAE program
supports fundamental research for advancing knowledge and innovation in
structural and architectural engineering that enables holistic approach to design,
construction, operation, maintenance, retrofit, repair and end-of-life disposal of
structures. For buildings, holistic approach incorporates the foundation-structureenvelope-nonstructural system, as well as the façade and roofing. Research topics
of interest for sustainable structures include the following: strategies for
structures that over their lifecycle are cost-effective, make efficient use of
resources and energy, and incorporate sustainable structural and architectural
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materials; deterioration due to fatigue and corrosion; serviceability concerns due
to large deflections and vibrations; and advances in physics-based computational
modeling and simulation.
Deadline: September 15, 2015
Systems Science (SYS) PD 14-8085
The Systems Science (SYS) program supports fundamental research leading to a
theoretical foundation for design and systems engineering. In particular, the
Systems Science program seeks intellectual advances in which underlying theories
(such as probability theory, decision theory, game theory, organizational
sociology, behavioral economics or cognitive psychology) are integrated and
abstracted to develop explanatory models for design and systems engineering in a
general, domain-independent fashion. Ideally, the explanatory models, derived
from the underlying theoretical foundations will lead to testable hypotheses.
Based on collected evidence supporting or falsifying the hypotheses, new insights
are gained allowing the explanatory models to be refined or updated.
Deadline: September 15, 2015
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CENTER HIGHLIGHT: Gen-3 Engineering Research Centers (ERC) NSF 15589
The goal of the ERC Program is to integrate engineering research and education
with technological innovation to transform national prosperity, health, and
security. ERCs create an innovative, inclusive culture in engineering to cultivate
new ideas and pursue engineering discovery that achieves a significant science,
technology, and societal outcome within the 10-year timeframe of NSF support.
Deadline: letter of intent due September 25,2015
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Broad Agency Announcement, Submarine, Surveillance, and Surface
Combat System Signal Processing Technologies N0002415IWS5A01
The Navy's primary objective for this BAA is the acquisition of basic and applied
research for the development of capabilities in the following areas: Automation,
Torpedo Defense, Electronic Warfare, Situational Awareness, Active Sonar Signal
Processing, and Imaging. A two-phased (Phase I and Phase II) proposal selection
process will be utilized under this BAA.
Deadline: September 30, 2015
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All deadlines listed in this announcement indicate the agency’s due date. Please
adjust your PPF submission to account for the new deadline policies.
DER Proposal Processing Form (PPF)