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Partnerships for Innovation: Accelerating Innovation Research- Technology Translation

Deadline: March 1, 2016

The NSF Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) program within the Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP) is an umbrella for two complementary subprograms, Accelerating Innovation Research (AIR) and Building Innovation Capacity (BIC). Overall, the PFI program offers opportunities to connect new knowledge to societal benefit through translational research efforts and/or partnerships that encourage, enhance and accelerate innovation and entrepreneurship.

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Advanced, Trusted, Secure Hardware and Software System Computational Technologies

Deadline: March 1, 2016

Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Rome Research Site, is soliciting white papers under this announcement fortechnologies to explore, research and develop innovative and potentially disruptive technologies that support trusted foundations/architectures for high assurance, secure, resilient systems, while increasing computational sophistication, capacity, and energy and cost performance efficiencies under constraints imposed by Command, Control, Communications, Computer, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) trusted/secure systems and performance-requirement-driven layered information processing battlefield systems and networks.

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Dear Colleague Letter: Supporting Research Advances in Smart and Connected Communities

Deadline: March 1, 2016

The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorates for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), Education and Human Resources (EHR), Engineering (ENG), Geosciences (GEO), and Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) wish to notify the community of their intention to support, foster, and accelerate fundamental research that addresses challenges in enabling Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC).

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Superfund Hazardous Substance Research and Training Program

Deadline: March 11, 2016

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) invites applications for Superfund Hazardous Substance Research and Training Program, referred to as Superfund Research Program (SRP) Centers. SRP Center grants will support problem-based, solution-oriented research Centers that consist of multiple, integrated projects representing both the biomedical and environmental science and engineering disciplines; as well as cores tasked with administrative, community engagement, research translation, training, and research support functions.

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Vibrometry Interrogation for Battlefield Exploitation (VIBE)

Deadline: March 15, 2016

The objective of VIBE is to develop combat identification (CID) automatic target recognition (ATR) for vibrometry sensor data for use within anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) environments. The technologies developed in VIBE must demonstrate robust, efficient, high-performance, and sustainable technology.

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Professional Formation of Engineers (PFE: RIEF) Research Initiation in Engineering Formation

Deadline: March 31, 2016

The Professional Formation of Engineers: Research Initiation in Engineering Formation (PFE: RIEF) program enables engineering faculty who are renowned for teaching, mentoring, or leading educational reform efforts on their campus to initiate collaborations with colleagues in the social and/or learning sciences to address difficult, boundary-spanning problems in the professional formation of engineers.

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Structural and Architectural Engineering (SAE)

Deadline: February 16, 2016

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.

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Infrastructure Management and Extreme Events (IMEE)

Deadline: February 16, 2016

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. The program is deeply multidisciplinary and attempts to integrate multiple issues from civil, mechanical, transportation, and system engineering, sociology, psychology, economics, geography, political science, urban planning, epidemiology, natural and physical science, and computer science.

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Manufacturing Machines and Equipment (MME)

Deadline: February 16, 2016

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.

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Dynamics, Control and Systems Diagnostics (DCSD)

Deadline: February 16, 2016

Research topics of current interest include, but are not limited to, complex dynamical and structural systems; fundamental studies on stability, phase transitions, and wave propagation in complex and non-local media; integrity monitoring, reliability and safety of complex or stochastic engineered systems; unconventional applications of control; control and diagnostics of complex, distributed, interconnected and/or constrained systems; and control concepts inspired by nature.

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Service, Manufacturing and Operations Research (SMOR)

Deadline: February 16, 2016

The Service, Manufacturing and Operations Research (SMOR) program supports fundamental research leading to the creation of innovative mathematical models, analysis, and algorithms for decision-making related to design, planning, and operation of service, manufacturing, and other complex systems.

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Design of Engineering Material Systems (DEMS)

Deadline: February 16, 2016

The Design of Engineering Material Systems (DEMS) program supports fundamental research intended to lead to new paradigms of design, development, and insertion of advanced engineering material systems. Fundamental research that develops and creatively integrates theory, processing/manufacturing, data/informatics, experimental, and/or computational approaches with rigorous engineering design principles, approaches, and tools to enable the accelerated design and development of materials is welcome.

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Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering Education

Deadline: January 15, 2016

The purpose of this award is to recognize and honor a woman engineering educator who has an outstanding record in teaching engineering students, and reasonable performance histories of research and service within an engineering school.

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Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF)

Deadline: January 19, 2016

DMREF is the primary program by which NSF participates in the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) for Global Competitiveness. MGI recognizes the importance of materials science to the well-being and advancement of society and aims to “deploy advanced materials at least twice as fast as possible today, at a fraction of the cost.”

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Check out all the  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers awards coming up in January 2016. Visit SPIN to view the awards and find out if you are eligible to nominate or be nominated! Just click on the link above and enter “ Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers” into the search bar. Then scroll through the pages of award opportunities.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is offering a number of grant opportunities focused on solving the world’s greatest health and development challenges! Check out the links below to see how you can be a part of the Grand Challenge Team, and make a difference in our world.

Grand Challenges Exploration

New Interventions for Global Health: Vaccine Manufacturing

The Global Innovation Fund

Grand Challenges Africa

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Process Systems, Reaction Engineering and Molecular Thermodynamics

Deadline: October 20, 2015

The goal of the Process Systems, Reaction Engineering and Molecular Thermodynamics (PRM) program is to advance fundamental engineering research on the rates and mechanisms of important classes of catalyzed and uncatalyzed chemical reactions as they relate to the design, production, and application of catalysts, chemical processes, biochemical processes, and specialized materials that have important impacts on society.

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Energy for Sustainability

Deadline: October 20, 2015

The goal of the Energy for Sustainability program is to support fundamental engineering research that will enable innovative processes for the sustainable production of electricity and fuels. Processes for sustainable energy production must be environmentally benign, reduce greenhouse gas production, and utilize renewable resources.

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Environmental Engineering

Deadline: October 20, 2015

The goal of the Environmental Engineering program is to encourage transformative research which applies scientific and engineering principles to avoid or minimize solid, liquid, and gaseous discharges, resulting from human activities on land, inland and coastal waters, and air, while promoting resource and energy conservation and recovery. The program also fosters cutting-edge scientific research for identifying, evaluating, and monitoring the waste assimilative capacity of the natural environment and for removing or reducing contaminants from polluted air, water, and soils. Any proposal investigating sensors, materials or devices that does not integrate these products with an environmental engineering activity or area of research may be returned without review.

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Combustion and Fire Systems

Deadline: October 20, 2015

The goal of the Combustion and Fire Systems program is to generate cleaner global and local environments, enhance public safety, improve energy and homeland security, manufacture new materials, and enable more energy-efficient manufacturing. The program endeavors to create basic engineering knowledge and solutions that are needed to develop useful combustion applications (such as flame-assisted synthesis of novel materials) and for mitigating the effects of fire.

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