Division of Engineering Research
E-Funding News & Announcements
October 03, 2014 edition
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
DER Noontime Seminars Series
Please join us for the October 07, 2014 session featuring Mark Urban-Lurain
(CEER) and Andy Anderson (Teacher Education). They will be presenting on the
following topic: Increasing enrollments, decreasing time: how do you preserve
meaningful learning with growing class sizes?
Pizza and refreshments provided; 12:00 – 1:00 PM; 3540 Engineering
NSF has a large number of engineering geared opportunities available! Check
them out throughout this newsletter with a summary of titles near the end.
VPRGS 2014 Research Workshops
 Faculty Early Career Grant Opportunities. Main Library North Conference
Room, 4th floor. October 16, 2014 from 3-4pm.
 Visiting Funding Agencies and Meeting Program Officers. Main Library
North Conference Room, 4th floor. November 20, 2014 from 3-4pm.
Informational Webinar on Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure
2015-2019 (NHERI)
This informational webinar will provide an overview presentation and answers to
questions on the National Science Foundation (NSF) program solicitation Natural
Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure 2015-2019 (NHERI) NSF 14-605.
Webinar: October 07, 2014
2014-2015 UGS 200H Honors Research Seminars
Honors Research Seminars combine faculty mentorship and undergraduate
teaching to produce unique hands-on learning experiences for first- and secondyear HC students. The Honors College seeks proposals from faculty for the Honors
Research Seminars for 2015-2016. Deadline: November 10, 2014.
Applications to NIH Loan Repayment Programs
Researchers who have incurred significant educational debt may be eligible to
apply. In exchange for a commitment to conduct biomedical or behavioral
research funded by a nonprofit or government institution, the NIH will repay up
to $70,000 of student loan debt per two-year contract. Deadline: November 17,
2014
NIH Clinical Research Online Series
Free online training is offered by NIH starting October 2014 through March 2015.
Access videos and handouts for new presenters each week. Certificate granted
upon passing an optional exam in the spring.
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
1) MSU’s Call for Applications for the First Annual Science Studies @ State
Collaborative Grant Award
2) Energy, Power, Control and Networks (EPCN) PD 13-7607
3) Digital Media and Learning Competition Trust Challenge
4) Biomedical Engineering PD 14-5345
5) Environmental Health and Safety of Nanotechnology PD 14-1179
6) Environmental Sustainability PD 14-7643
7) Thermal Transport Processes PD 14-1406
8) Dear Colleague Letter: US-China Collaborative Research in Environmental
Sustainability NSF 14-102
9) Simplifying Complexity in Scientific Discovery (SIMPLEX) DARPA-BAA-14-59
10) Novel and Innovative Tools to Facilitate Identification, Tracking,
Manipulation, and Analysis of Glycans and their Functions (U01) RFA-RM14-013
11) Cooperative Training Partnership in Environmental Health Sciences
Research EPA-G2015-ORD-C1
12) Materials Research and Survivability Studies BAA-RQKM-2014-0013
13) National Robotics Initiative (NRI) NSF 14-500
14) Nuclear Organization and Function Interdisciplinary Consortium
(NOFIC)(U54) RFA-RM-14-006
15) Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) FISCAL
YEAR 2015 PA-AFOSR-2014-0001
1) MSU’s Call for Applications for the First Annual Science Studies @ State
Collaborative Grant Award
The Science Studies @ State (S3) Collaborative Grant seeks to stimulate new or
emerging interdisciplinary collaborations between MSU’s science studies scholars
and its STEM and health sciences professionals. These interdisciplinary seed
grants will be used to help create opportunities for developing collaborative
research projects, hopefully resulting in increased applications for external
funding, publications, and visibility for STEM and science studies research at MSU.
Deadline: November 03, 2014
2) Energy, Power, Control and Networks (EPCN) PD 13-7607
Recent advances in communications, computation, and sensing technologies offer
unprecedented opportunities for the design of cyber-physical systems with
increased responsiveness, interconnectivity and automation. To meet new
challenges and societal needs, the Energy, Power, Control and Networks (EPCN)
Program invests in systems and control methods for analysis and design of cyberphysical systems to ensure stability, performance, robustness, and security.
Topics of interest include modeling, optimization, learning, and control of
networked multi-agent systems, higher-level decision making, and dynamic
resource allocation as well as risk management in the presence of uncertainty,
sub-system failures and stochastic disturbances. EPCN also invests in adaptive
dynamic programing, brain-like networked architectures performing real-time
learning, and neuromorphic engineering. EPCN supports innovative proposals
dealing with systems research in such areas as energy, transportation, and
nanotechnology. EPCN encourages cross-disciplinary proposals that benefit from
active collaboration of researchers with complementary skills.
Deadline: November 03, 2014
3) Digital Media and Learning Competition Trust Challenge
The Trust Challenge funds successful collaborations or "laboratories" where
challenges to trust in connected learning environments can be identified and
addressed. Successful labs will create scalable, innovative, and transformative
exemplars of connected learning that bridge technological solutions with complex
social considerations of trust.
Deadline: November 03, 2014
4) Biomedical Engineering PD 14-5345
The Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering (BBE) program supports
fundamental engineering research that advances the understanding of cellular
and biomolecular processes (in vivo, in vitro, and/or ex vivo) and eventually leads
to the development of enabling technology for advanced manufacturing and/or
applications in support of the biopharmaceutical, biotechnology, and bioenergy
industries, or with applications in health or the environment. A quantitative
treatment of biological and engineering problems of biological processes is
considered vital to successful research projects in the BBE program.
Deadline: November 05, 2014
5) Environmental Health and Safety of Nanotechnology PD 14-1179
The Nano EHS program provides support to examine and mitigate the
environmental effects of nanotechnologies. Fundamental research is sought to
understand, evaluate, and lessen the impact of nanotechnology on the
environment and biological systems. The program emphasizes engineering
principles underlying the environmental health and safety impacts of
nanotechnology. Innovative methods related to clean nanomaterials production
processes, waste reduction, recycling, and industrial ecology of nanotechnology
are also of interest.
Deadline: November 05, 2014
6) Environmental Sustainability PD 14-7643
The goal of the Environmental Sustainability program is to promote sustainable
engineered systems that support human well-being and that are also compatible
with sustaining natural (environmental) systems. These systems provide
ecological services vital for human survival. Research efforts supported by the
program typically consider long time horizons and may incorporate contributions
from the social sciences and ethics.
Deadline: November 05, 2014
7) Thermal Transport Processes PD 14-1406
The program supports transformational research in transport processes that are
driven by thermal gradients, and manipulation of these processes to achieve
engineering goals. Mass transport or system-design oriented efforts are not of
interest to this program.
Deadline: November 05, 2014
8) Dear Colleague Letter: US-China Collaborative Research in Environmental
Sustainability NSF 14-102
The NSF Engineering Directorate (ENG) and the National Natural Science
Foundation of China (NSFC) Department of Engineering and Material Sciences
(DEMS) are partnering to encourage joint research by U.S. - China teams
collaborating on fundamental research that addresses critical environmental
sustainability challenges. This call is for research proposals from joint U.S. - China
teams in two environmental sustainability topic areas: Topic 1. Combustion
Related to Sustainable Energy, Topic 2. Sustainable Manufacturing.
Deadline: November 05, 2014
9) Simplifying Complexity in Scientific Discovery (SIMPLEX) DARPA-BAA-14-59
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative
research proposals in the area of mathematical systems of representation and
analysis as applied to complex phenomena. Advances in computational
capabilities and measurement technologies have rapidly expanded the volume,
scale, and variety of data across many complex scientific and engineering fields.
However, without tools to unify principles, results, models, and data into a single
computational representation, it is difficult to relate individual datasets to the
larger body of knowledge at scale. The SIMPLEX program will develop unified
mathematical frameworks and tools for the context-aware analysis of scientific
data to facilitate big hypothesis generation and accelerate discovery. The goal of
SIMPLEX is to create domain-agnostic mathematical formalisms to capture
functional relationships across multi-scale heterogeneous data and forms of
knowledge. SIMPLEX will enable investigation of scientific questions through
formal mathematical techniques and data-driven interactive queries to
complement the time-consuming and often insufficient pursuit of published
literature.
Deadline: November 06, 2014
10) 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.
Deadline: LOI due November 10, 2014
11) Cooperative Training Partnership in Environmental Health Sciences
Research EPA-G2015-ORD-C1
The EPA’s Office of Research and Development (ORD) conducts timely, missionrelevant, solution-oriented research based on the principles of integrity,
sustainability, and responsiveness to the needs of the Nation. The research
products and outputs are utilized by the EPA to better determine toxicological
hazards, define dose-response relationships, estimate human exposure
characteristics, and assess potential susceptible or vulnerable populations in
support of the Agency’s responsibility to provide risk assessment, policy analysis,
regulatory standards for environmental hazards, and contribute to sustainable
solutions to the Nation’s greatest environmental concerns. EPA’s ORD seeks
applications to enter into cooperative agreements that will provide training
opportunities for undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows
on-site at one of the EPA/ORD National Health and Environmental Effects
Research Laboratory's (NHEERL) Health Divisions
Deadline: November 11, 2014
12) Materials Research and Survivability Studies BAA-RQKM-2014-0013
The objective of this program is to conduct research and advance the current
state-of-the-art in photonic materials technologies, interactions, and applications
using unique and innovative solutions for improved hardened materials and
increased survivability of sensors, structures, systems, and aircrew members.
Deadline: November 12, 2014
13) National Robotics Initiative (NRI) NSF 14-500
The purpose of this program is the development of this next generation of
robotics, to advance the capability and usability of such systems and artifacts, and
to encourage existing and new communities to focus on innovative application
areas. It will address the entire life cycle from fundamental research and
development to manufacturing and deployment. Methods for the establishment
and infusion of robotics in educational curricula and research to gain a better
understanding of the long term social, behavioral and economic implications of
co-robots across all areas of human activity are important parts of this initiative.
Collaboration between academic, industry, non-profit and other organizations is
strongly encouraged to establish better linkages between fundamental science
and technology development, deployment and use.
Deadline: November 13, 2014
14) Nuclear Organization and Function Interdisciplinary Consortium
(NOFIC)(U54) RFA-RM-14-006
This FOA seeks to establish technology-development and data-production centers
whose mission will be to develop, benchmark, standardize, and validate the next
generation of high-throughput technologies that can produce three dimensional
physical and functional maps of mammalian genomes, develop predictive models
of mammalian genome structure-function relationships, and test the relevance of
new nuclear organizational principles within the context of specific biological
paradigms and systems.
Deadline: LOI due November 16, 2014
15) Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) FISCAL
YEAR 2015 PA-AFOSR-2014-0001
The Department of Defense (DoD) announces the Fiscal Year 2015 Defense
University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP), a part of the University
Research Initiative (URI). DURIP is designed to improve the capabilities of U.S.
institutions of higher education to conduct research and to educate scientists and
engineers in areas important to national defense, by providing funds for the
acquisition of research equipment.
Deadline: November 17, 2014 by 4:00 pm
NSF Funding Opportunities:
October 31, 2014
Biomaterials (BMAT) PD 06-7623
Ceramics (CER) PD 14-1774
Chemical Measurement and Imaging (CMI) PD 09-6880
Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E) PD 128084
Condensed Matter and Materials Theory (CMMT) PD 09-1765
Condensed Matter Physics (CMP) PD 03-1710
Electronic and Photonic Materials (EPM) PD 03-1775
Environmental Chemical Sciences (ECS) PD 09-6882
Macromolecular, Supramolecular and Nanochemistry (MSN) PD 09-6885
Metals and Metallic Nanostructures (MMN) PD 09-1771
Polymers (POL) PD 03-1773
Solid State and Materials Chemistry (SSMC) PD 10-1762
November 03, 2014
Communications, Circuits, and Sensing-Systems (CCSS) PD 13-7564
Electronics, Photonics, and Magnetic Devices (EPMD) PD 13-1517
November 04, 2014
Geometric Analysis PD 10-1265
November 05, 2014
Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering PD 14-1491
Biophotonics PD 14-7236
Catalysis and Biocatalysis PD 14-1401
Combustion and Fire Systems PD 14-1407
Chemical and Biological Separations PD 14-1417
Energy for Sustainability PD 14-7644
Environmental Engineering PD 14-1440
Fluid Dynamics PD 14-1443
General & Age-Related Disabilities Engineering (GARDE) PD 14-5342
Interfacial Processes and Thermodynamics PD 14-1414
Nano-Biosensing PD 14-7909
Particulate and Multiphase Processes PD 14-1415
Process and Reaction Engineering PD 14-1403
November 06, 2014
CISE Research Infrastructure (CRI) NSF 14-593
Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) NSF
14-512
Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (2015 - 2019) (NHERI)
NSF 14-605
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