problems quickly20 3/6/2017Team Ideation ExerciseAn example3/6/201722 Borrowed from L. Michelle Bennett, 2015 3/6/2017 Team Forming – Introduction and Ice-Breaker Introduction ‒ In under 1 min - introduce yourself to your tablemates: name, role and institution, expertise/research area of interest past or present, and where someone is likely to find you on a Saturday afternoon23 Team Ideation Exercise 3/6/2017 Team Forming – Introduction and Ice-BreakerPaper Airplane Building Contest ‒ In 10 min or less, Design and Build a paper airplane that is: optimized to fly the longest distance
University/Industry PartnershipsSupported by NSFBarry W. JohnsonActing Assistant DirectorNational Science FoundationDirectorate for EngineeringMarch 7, 2017 NSF Strategic Goals• Strategic Goal 1: Transform the frontiers of science and engineering.• Strategic Goal 2: Stimulate innovation and address societal needs through research and education.• Strategic Goal 3: Excel as a federal science agency. 2 Mission and Vision Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP)• Mission: IIP will enhance our nation’s economic competiveness by catalyzing the transformation of discovery into societal benefits through stimulating partnerships and
University-Corporate Relations:Best Practices PRESENTED BY KAREN BENDER, ASEE ERC CONFERENCE MARCH 8, 2017Approach to University/IndustryPartnerships Which do you choose?NACRO: NETWORK of AcademicCorporate Relations Officers • Founded in 2007 • Now over 500 U.S. members, plus Canada, Mexico, Chile, Australia, UAE, etc. • Resources include white papers, such as best practices and metricsOverview of discussion (1) Building partnerships (2) Navigating
Ph.D. Degrees Formed in 2012Growing Faculty Team, Research Enterprise Since the college’s formation: • 64 Faculty of which 53 are Tenure-Track • 33% Growth in Tenure Track Faculty • 1 PCASE Awardee • 6 CAREER Awardees • 3X Growth in Awards • 2.5X expenditure growth • 66% Federal • 22% Industry Improved Quality of Life through Sustainable System
20 16 12 Programs 7 To Date 1 2007 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Rising Above the American America Gathering Storm Recovery & COMPETES Published Reinvestment Act Reauthorization Signed Signed America COMPETES Act Signed $400 Million $180 Million $275 Million $251 Million $280 Million $280 Million $291 Million
, 2012Technology to enable change Training to enact changeIncentives to embrace changeCommunity InterfacesInterfaces OSF Services Ecosystem DataOpenSesameOpenSesamehttp://osf.ioContentExperts ScholCommExpertsTechnical Services Ecosystem Data ExpertsSignals: Making Behaviors Visible Promotes Adoption % Articles reporting that data was available0% 10% 30% 40% 20%UNIVERSITIES PUBLISHINGecosystem FUNDERS SOCIETIES What can you do? Take a picture http://cos.io/ 1. OSF Institutions for your researchers 2. Openness-Reproducibility Training Workshops 3. Encourage sharing
://research.utah.edu/grants/seed.php Some Statistics Yr 1 - Yr 1 - Yr 2 - Yr 2 - Yr 3 - Yr 3 - Yr 4 - Yr 4 - Spring Fall Spring Fall Spring Fall Spring FallCollege Award Submit Award Submit Award Submit Award Submit Award Submit Award Submit Award Submit Award SubmitArchitecture 0 2Business 1 1Engineering 6 13 5 8 4 8 1 9 3 17 4
levelTable 1 80 60-95 program officers Reduced teaching load and/or a one semester sabbatical Facilitated at the college level Associate Dean and Dean meet with untenured faculty a couple of times per semester Facilitated at the college level Facilitated with money from the vice provost for Proposal development workshops and consultants, particularly for research or college. Expertise obtainedTable 2 182 45-340 CAREER awards
- government) built upon, driven by, community and agency interests Common approach: Initial community engagement: level of interest, capacity? Workshops, engaging community, to determine challenges, opportunities NSF-internal discussions, informed by workshops SolicitationTRIPODS Computer Science Research 5 Community 1 2 3 4Smart and Connected Communities Computer Science Research 5 Community 1 2 3 4
experience and recruit graduate students”Facilitated Discussions• Summary slide of the keynote and some prepared questions.• Break-out session to address key challenges .• Reporting by break-out groups and discussions8 Chicago Conference Summary Findingsa) Helping faculty to be successful, i.e. getting more funding andnational recognition 1) What does a successful proposal look like, library of successful proposals. 2) Appropriate startup for new faculty and its management. 3) Assist faculty to find collaborators. 4) National recognition; participate/organize wkshps/conf.b) Assist junior faculty, through mentoring, particularly forhighly prestigious and competitive grants. 1) Provide grant writing and proposal development support. 2) Build
S&T Funding in the NewAdministration & CongressMatt HourihanMarch 8, 2017For the ASEE Engineering Research CouncilAAAS R&D Budget and Policy Programhttp://www.aaas.org/program/rd-budget-and-policy-program Copyright © 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science 8/26/15 1 Where We Are and Upcoming Milestones FY 2017 DOD S&T in FY 2017 Appropriations percent change from FY 2016 levels, nominal dollars Appropriations stuck since fall 15% Trump Admin budget amendment
. • Sponsor 70%; State 15%; OR/college/dept 5%/5%/5%• Other Cost Share: • Most c/s is in-kind e.g. % time of faculty and key staff • Up to 10% cash matched 1:1 College/Dept• We require 2-4 weeks to develop cost share plans • It is rarely formulaic, and often requires 1-1 negotiation. Some offices require 2 weeks lead time
5-20 years Discovery & Invention (Basic and Applied 4-8 years Science)Focus 2-4 years Leap Ahead Innovations Technology (Innovative Naval Maturation Prototypes) ≈ 12% ≈ 50% 1-2 years (FNCs, etc.) Quick Reaction &
M3C COPN BSBA ACQUIRE NewLAW 2-DARE HyBi MIKS ODISSEI PSBRAdvancing Communication Quantum InformationResearch in Engineering (ACQUIRE)• Key Idea: Address key engineering research challenges to enable room temperature, chip-level transducers, repeaters, systems and architectures for a secure, scalable quantum communication network.(1) Reproducible room temperature single photon sources and detectors on a chip,(2) Low-energy quantum devices such as repeaters and memories,(3) Generation of quantum entangled Qbits scalable to multi-Qbits, and demonstration of a secure