Unlike the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), NSF is not part of any of the cabinet departments. The current director, Dr. Subra Suresh, is an engineer and U. S. National Academy of Engineering member. He joined NSF in October 2. NSF director (and in his previous position as dean of MIT.
Slide 7 NSF CISE Program Overview CISE Programs Core Programs Algorithmic Foundations Software and Hardware Foundations Robust. Research Matters May 11, 2009. NSF CAREER Award Proposal Workshop is designed for assistant professors applying for National Science Foundation CAREER awards. Unlike most grant programs. Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). Applying to Core Programs Program Solicitations: – CCF: NSF 15-573 – CNS: NSF 15-572 – IIS: NSF 15-574.
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In some fields, NSF is the primary source of research support, and in many science and engineering fields, including OR/MS, grants from NSF are viewed as the most prestigious funding mechanism. A key reason is the panel review process. Every research proposal undergoes a rigorous peer review by at least three (and usually four) research experts independently, followed by a panel discussion among the reviewers to provide recommendations and rankings of the submitted proposals. The process is highly competitive: Due to budget constraints, only about 1. In the August 2. 00. OR/MS Today . Much of what was written then still holds today, so the emphasis of this article will be on providing an update on the programs, funding opportunities and recently supported projects, and on describing some current trends.
Specifically, the remainder of the article will describe the different types and typical profiles of OR/MS research awards, its three core programs which support OR/MS research, other opportunities within NSF for research support and new initiatives that are being pursued that are directly relevant to the OR/MS community. Core Program Funding. The three core programs for which the authors are responsible are Operations Research (OR), Service Enterprise Systems (SES) and Manufacturing Enterprise Systems (MES), all of which are found in the Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) Division of the Engineering Directorate. In fiscal year 2. Engineering Directorate had an overall funding rate of 1.
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CMMI success rate at 1. Core programs are targeted at projects where the lead researcher is from an academic institution, generally research- oriented. There are the two main types of grants: CAREER awards, for junior faculty, and unsolicited proposals, which have two deadlines annually. CAREER awards have durations of five years and in CMMI are fixed at $4.
July. Each of the three core programs usually awards from one to three CAREER awards per year. Unsolicited research awards are typically for a three- year duration in the range of $2. PIs). The funding for unsolicited projects generally covers one graduate student and some partial support for the primary investigator (PI) and any co- PIs, usually in terms of summer support, as well as travel. The current annual submission windows for unsolicited proposals are Sept. Related to CAREER awards, . Selection for this award is based on two important criteria: 1) innovative research at the frontiers of science and technology that is relevant to the mission of the sponsoring organization or agency, and 2) community service demonstrated through scientific leadership, education or community outreach. These awards foster innovative developments in science and technology, increase awareness of careers in science and engineering, give recognition to the scientific missions of the participating agencies, enhance connections between fundamental research and national goals and highlight the importance of science and technology for the nation.
Individuals cannot apply for PECASE. These awards are initiated by the participating federal agencies. At NSF, up to 2. 0 nominees for this award are selected each year from among the PECASE- eligible CAREER awardees who are most likely to become the leaders of academic research and education in the 2. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy makes the final selection and announcement of the awardees. Note that the PECASE program cuts across a large number of federal agencies, including NIH, NASA and most of the Cabinet level departments. In addition to the three core programs described below, other core programs in CMMI that could potentially fund OR/MS- related research include Engineering Design and Innovation, Civil Infrastructure Systems, Infrastructure Systems and Extreme Events, Control Systems and Dynamical Systems.
Outside of CMMI, but still in Engineering (ENG), are programs in the Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) Division such as Energy, Power and Adaptive Systems. Outside of the Engineering Directorate are opportunities in the three directorates: Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), Mathematical & Physical Sciences (MPS) and Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (SBE). Some specific core programs include Applied Mathematics and Combinatorics in the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) of MPS, Algorithmic Foundations in the Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) of CISE, Robust Intelligence and Information Integration and Informatics in the Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) Division of CISE, and Decision, Risk and Management Science in the Social and Economic Sciences (SES) Division of SBE. The Operations Research program supports fundamental research leading to the creation of innovative mathematical models, analysis and algorithms for optimal or near optimal decision- making in the design and operation of manufacturing, service and other complex systems.
The research focus of the OR program is on methodology and theory, broadly in the traditional areas of discrete and continuous optimization and stochastic modeling & analysis, primarily motivated by problems in engineering, including those arising from the transportation sector, services such as healthcare systems and energy, manufacturing, supply chain management, civil infrastructure and many others. Algorithmic development and rigorous mathematical analysis are key aspects of the research. The models, theory and algorithms that are developed in the research programs serve as critical foundations for the design and operation of civil, mechanical, industrial and manufacturing engineering systems in a safe and efficient manner, thus enabling increased productivity and economic growth. A particular recent interest is dynamic (multi- stage) decision- making under uncertainty.
New research thrusts complementing this focus include simulation optimization, approximate dynamic programming, stochastic programming and self- optimizing systems that can observe, learn and adapt to changing environments. Recent workshops reflect these priorities. The OR program has a normal base budget of between $5 million and $6 million. Over the past six years, the OR program has received between 1.
In the past few years, the program directors (PDs) have strived to fund a larger number of projects with smaller budgets. The amount actually funded has been based on a number of factors, including how highly the panel rated the proposal, how much graduate student support is requested and how much funding the PI(s) already have (both from NSF and from other sources). Table 1 lists many of the research projects funded over the past couple of years. Table 1: Examples of recently funded projects in the OR Program.
The Service Enterprise Systems program supports research on strategic decision- making, design, planning and operation of commercial, nonprofit and institutional service enterprises. While any service enterprise might be considered, there is particular focus on healthcare and other similar public service institutions. More than half of the proposal (and half of the awards) fund research in healthcare systems engineering.
The SES program emphasizes research topics leading to more effective systems modeling and analysis as a means to improved planning, resource allocation and policy development. It should have an impact on the analytical and computational techniques relevant to extended enterprise operations . For SES, focus on a specific service enterprise situation should suggest potential model and algorithm innovations.
For SES and MES, reviewers have greater concern that the models reflect the operation of real systems, so it is important to demonstrate model fidelity. For the same reason, the proposed research should offer the prospect of implementable solutions or implementable policy: for SES and MES, theory without demonstrated relevance to practice does not fare well in the review process. Table 2 shows highlights for the most commonly funded SES areas.
Healthcare: Research in this area creates mathematical models, both stochastic and deterministic, to provide insight and decision support for healthcare delivery and healthcare policy. These include transplant policy, hospital scheduling, vaccine design, radiation treatment, and health screening methods and policies. Supply Chain and Logistics: Research in this area creates new models used for design and execution of energy and other service delivery supply chains. Finance, Energy and Other Markets: Research in this area creates mathematical models to predict the behavior of markets, and includes techniques such as game theory, economics and stochastic processes. Table 2: Examples of recently funded projects in the SES Program.
The SES program. This year, funding levels (and the number of proposals submitted) will likely be higher because of two special healthcare initiatives. Up to an additional $1. Advancing Health Services through Systems Modeling Research, NSF 1. Based on the outcome of a 2.
NSF and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, this announcement seeks to fund research collaborations between industrial and systems engineers and health services researchers. A second initiative is the Smart Health and Wellbeing solicitation (NSF 1. Three directorates offer it jointly: Engineering, Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering, Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences. This solicitation will provide approximately $1. Proposals are likely to be collaborations of researchers in OR/MS, computer science, social science, engineering and medicine.