Division of Engineering Research
E-Funding News & Announcements
November 14, 2014 edition
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
DER Noontime Seminars Series
Denis Ulicny (Delphi Corporation) - Megatrends to Company Developments
November 11, 2014; 12:00-1:00 pm, 3540 EB; pizza and refreshments provided.
MSU Sponsored Projects’ Proposal Deadline Policy
College of Engineering’s Proposal Processing Timeline
All proposals due to the sponsor on or after December 1, 2014 must follow the
new OSP proposal deadline policy. The new policy requires that 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. See the proposal submission deadline policy for a
more detailed description.
2014/2015 PEER Applicant Information Webinar
This webinar will introduce potential applicants to the PEER Program. During the
webinar, PEER staff will explain eligibility guidelines for applicants and partners,
go over general research fields and special focus areas in which pre-proposals are
invited, and provide guidance on finding a partner. Advance registration is
required.
VPRGS 2014 & 2015 Research Workshops
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Faculty Early Career Grant Opportunities. Main Library North
Conference Room, 4th floor. November 20, 2014 from 3-4pm.
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Visiting Funding Agencies and Meeting Program Officers. Location
TBD. December 04, 2014 from 3-4pm.
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Write Winning Grant Proposals Workshop. Chemistry Building Room
138. January 08, 2015 from 8am-5pm.
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Campus Research Resources to Help You. International Center
Spartan Rooms A&B. January 15, 2015 from 3-5pm.
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
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GENerators for Small Electrical and Thermal Systems (GENSETS) DE-FOA0001198
Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E) PD 128084
Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering in Mathematical
and Statistical Sciences (CDS&E-MSS) PD 11-8069
Expeditions in Computing NSF 14-519
Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems
(NSF-NCS) NSF 14-611
Smart and Connected Health (SCH) NSF 13-543
Facile Methods and Technologies for Synthesis of Biomedically Relevant
Carbohydrates (U01) RFA-RM-14-015
Novel and Innovative Tools to Facilitate Identification, Tracking,
Manipulation, and Analysis of Glycans and their Functions (U01) RFA-RM14-013
Major Research Instrumentation Program: (MRI) Instrument Acquisition or
Development NSF 15-504
Computational Mathematics PD 10-1271
Novel IN SITU Imaging and Measurement Technologies for Biological
Systems Science DE-FOA-0001192
Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies (Cyberlearning) NSF 14526
Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) NSF 14-599
14) Wireless Network Defense Phases 2 and 3 DARPA-BAA-14-44
15) Funding Opportunity Announcement for Navy and Marine Corps Science,
Technology, Engineering ONRFOA14-002
GENerators for Small Electrical and Thermal Systems (GENSETS) DEFOA-0001198
The GENSETS Program – GENerators for Small Electrical and Thermal Systems –
seeks to fund the development of potentially disruptive generator technologies
that will enable widespread deployment of residential Combined Heat and Power
(CHP) systems. Here, CHP is defined as the distributed generation of electricity
from piped-in natural gas fuel at a residence or a commercial site complemented
by use of exhaust heat for local heating and cooling. If adopted widely by U.S.
residential and commercial sectors, GENSETS CHP systems could lead to annual
primary energy savings of more than 5 quadrillion BTU (quads). GENSETS systems
could also provide annual CO2 emissions reductions of more than 200 million
metric tons, which is roughly 10% of the CO2 produced annually from U.S.
electricity generation and 4% of total U.S. annual CO2 emissions.
Deadline: concept paper due December 01, 2014
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Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E)
PD 12-8084
CDS&E includes the creation, development, and application of the next
generation of mathematical and statistical theories and tools that will be essential
for addressing the challenges presented to the scientific and engineering
communities by the ever expanding role of computational modeling and
simulation on the one hand, and the explosion and production of digital and
observational data on the other.
Deadline: (Mathematical Sciences) December 09, 2014
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Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering in
Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (CDS&E-MSS) PD 11-8069
The CDS&E-MSS program accepts proposals that confront and embrace the host
of mathematical and statistical challenges presented to the scientific and
engineering communities by the ever-expanding role of computational modeling
and simulation on the one hand, and the explosion in production of digital and
observational data on the other. The goal of the program is to promote the
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creation and development of the next generation of mathematical and statistical
theories and tools that will be essential for addressing such issues.
Deadline: (Mathematical Sciences) December 09, 2014
Expeditions in Computing NSF 14-519
The Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) has
created the Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions) program to provide the CISE
research and education community with the opportunity to pursue ambitious,
fundamental research agendas that promise to define the future of computing
and information. In planning Expeditions projects, investigators are encouraged to
come together within or across departments or institutions to combine their
creative talents in the identification of compelling, transformative research
agendas that promise disruptive innovations in computing and information for
many years to come.
Deadline: December 10, 2014
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Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive
Systems (NSF-NCS) NSF 14-611
This solicitation describes the first phase of a new NSF program to support
transformative and integrative research that will accelerate understanding of
neural and cognitive systems. For FY 2015, this competition is organized around
two research themes: Neuroengineering and Brain-Inspired Concepts and Designs
and Individuality and Variation. Within each theme, general advances in theory
and methods, technological innovations, educational approaches, enabling
research infrastructure, and workforce development are all of significant interest.
Competitive proposals must be consistent with the missions of the participating
directorates. Potentially groundbreaking approaches that entail significant risk are
encouraged.
Deadline: LOI due December 10, 2014
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Smart and Connected Health (SCH) NSF 13-543
The purpose of this program is to develop next generation health care solutions
and encourage existing and new research communities to focus on breakthrough
ideas in a variety of areas of value to health, such as sensor technology,
networking, information and machine learning technology, decision support
systems, modeling of behavioral and cognitive processes, as well as system and
process modeling. Effective solutions must satisfy a multitude of constraints
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arising from clinical/medical needs, social interactions, cognitive limitations,
barriers to behavioral change, heterogeneity of data, semantic mismatch and
limitations of current cyberphysical systems. Such solutions demand
multidisciplinary teams ready to address technical, behavioral and clinical issues
ranging from fundamental science to clinical practice.
Deadline: INT Proposals due December 10, 2014
Facile Methods and Technologies for Synthesis of Biomedically
Relevant Carbohydrates (U01) RFA-RM-14-015
This FOA is intended to support development of new approaches (methods and
technologies) to facilitate the rapid and affordable synthesis, production, and/or
functionalization of bio-medically relevant glycans and glyco-conjugates
representing 1) mammalian glycomes and 2) microbial glycans.
Deadline: December 10, 2014
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Novel and Innovative Tools to Facilitate Identification, Tracking,
Manipulation, and Analysis of Glycans and their Functions (U01) RFA-RM14-013
The Common Fund Program - Accelerating Translation of Glycoscience:
Integration and Accessibility- aims to develop accessible and affordable new tools
and technologies for studying carbohydrates that will enable researchers in all
biomedical fields to dramatically advance our understanding of the roles of these
complex molecules in health and disease and to not abandon glycan discovery
due to the difficulty or inability to study them. This FOA solicits development of
new, more easily accessible tools, reagents, and technologies to facilitate
identification, tracking, manipulation, and analysis of glycans with their biological
binding partners and determine their functions. This initiative may build on
efforts that interface with existing technologies and procedures to make them
easier to access and use. As applicable, efforts must consider: factors for scale-up;
efforts to make instrumentation broadly accessible and cost-effective for the enduser; and compatibility of data generated with integration into existing
databases.
Deadline: full proposal due December 10, 2014
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Major Research Instrumentation Program: (MRI) Instrument
Acquisition or Development NSF 15-504
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The Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) serves to increase access to
shared scientific and engineering instruments for research and research training
in our Nation's institutions of higher education, and not-for-profit museums,
science centers and scientific/engineering research organizations. This program
especially seeks to improve the quality and expand the scope of research and
research training in science and engineering, by supporting proposals for shared
instrumentation that fosters the integration of research and education in
research-intensive learning environments. Each MRI proposal may request
support for the acquisition (Track 1) or development (Track 2) of a single research
instrument for shared inter- and/or intra-organizational use; development efforts
that leverage the strengths of private sector partners to build instrument
development capacity at MRI submission-eligible organizations are encouraged.
Deadline: Internal submission due December 12, 2014
Computational Mathematics PD 10-1271
Supports mathematical research in areas of science where computation plays a
central and essential role, emphasizing design, analysis, and implementation of
numerical methods and algorithms, and symbolic methods. The prominence of
computation with analysis of the computational approach in the research is a
hallmark of the program. Proposals ranging from single-investigator projects that
develop and analyze innovative computational methods to interdisciplinary team
projects that not only create and analyze new mathematical and computational
techniques but also use/implement them to model, study, and solve important
application problems are encouraged.
Deadline: December 15, 2014
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Novel IN SITU Imaging and Measurement Technologies for Biological
Systems Science DE-FOA-0001192
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) will consider applications for the
development of novel imaging instrumentation and measurement technologies
that support the integrative analysis of communication among subcellular
compartments, between individual microbial cells and within multicellular
communities/plant tissues. The goal is to develop in situ, dynamic and
nondestructive approaches to enable multifunctional imaging, quantitative flux
measurements, and multiscale integrative analysis of bioenergy-relevant plant
and microbial systems. Ideally, these imaging approaches will pave the way for
predictive understanding of the spatial and temporal relationships, physical
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connections, and chemical exchanges that facilitate the flow of materials and
information across membranes and between intracellular spaces.
Deadline: full proposal due December 18, 2014
Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies (Cyberlearning) NSF
14-526
The intention of this program is to advance technologies that specifically focus on
the experiences of learners; innovations that simply focus on making teaching
easier will not be funded. Proposals that focus on teachers or facilitators as
learners are invited; the aim in these proposals should be to help teachers and
facilitators learn to make the learning experiences of learners more effective.
Deadline: Exploration Projects (EXPs) due December 19, 2014
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Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) NSF 14-599
The Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program welcomes proposals that
address Cybersecurity from a Trustworthy Computing Systems (TWC) perspective
and/or a Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) perspective, or from the
Secure, Trustworthy, Assured and Resilient Semiconductors and Systems
(STARSS).
Deadline: December 19, 2014
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Wireless Network Defense Phases 2 and 3 DARPA-BAA-14-44
The Wireless Network Defense (WND) program is developing and demonstrating
new technology to protect the control protocols of wireless networks from the
effects of advanced attacks or other forms of compromise. The program focuses
on the protocols at the network and medium access control (MAC) layers of the
network stack with the goal of protecting those protocols that coordinate among
the distributed devices' management of resources such as spectrum, time, and
power, and delivery of information. The development of this technology will both
improve the robustness of the class of wireless networks that are being procured
and fielded in the near future, and also provide a reliable foundation on which to
build the next generation of wireless systems. These new defenses will minimize
the impact of attacks on network control and will force attacks to be observable
and attributable in order to be effective.
Deadline: December 20, 2014
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Funding Opportunity Announcement for Navy and Marine Corps
Science, Technology, Engineering ONRFOA14-002
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) seeks proposals for developing innovative
solutions that directly support the development and maintenance of a robust
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) workforce. The goal of
any proposed effort should be to provide "game changing" solutions that will
establish and maintain a diverse pipeline of U.S. citizens who are interested in
uniformed or civilian Naval STEM related workforce opportunities.
Deadline: December 31, 2014
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Please take advantage of our online Proposal Processing Form:
DER Proposal Processing Form (PPF)