NNCI Coordinating Office at Georgia Tech

佐治亚理工学院 NNCI 协调办公室

• 批准号: 1626153
• 负责人: Oliver Brand
• 金额: $ 350万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-04-01 至 2022-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1626153&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NNCI; Coordinating; Office; Georgia; Tech

Proposal: ECCS-1626153PI: Oliver BrandInstitution: Georgia Tech Research CorporationTitle: NNCI Coordinating Office at Georgia TechAbstractThe National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) comprises 16 university sites and their partners awarded individually by the National Science Foundation to provide open access to nanoscale fabrication and characterization user facilities and staff expertise across the nation. The NNCI Coordinating Office at Georgia Tech is established to enhance the impact of NNCI as a national infrastructure network by promoting its capabilities, facilitating user access to its resources, sharing best practices, and improving overall efficiency through coordination of activities of the individual sites. The Coordinating Office will assist users from academe, industry, and government in finding NNCI fabrication and characterization resources to meet their research needs through an interactive NNCI web portal. It will use the expertise of site staff to facilitate programs in education and outreach, social and ethical implications, and computational modeling and simulation across the network, and help provide linkages with other national and international nanotechnology resources. The overall activities of the NNCI Coordinating Office will contribute to the economic competiveness of the U.S. in training a globally competitive workforce and in providing efficient access to resources for innovation and commercialization of nanotechnology. They will also help to inform and educate the general public on fundamentals and advances of nanoscience and engineering and their social and ethical implications.The mission of the NNCI Coordinating Office is to support the individual NNCI sites, site users, and broader public interests using the combined assets of a nation-wide network of university nanotechnology user facilities. A key component of the Coordinating Office will be the development of mechanisms for communicating availability of network assets to users of the facilities as well as for fostering interactions among the sites. A primary mode for this communication will be an interactive NNCI web portal, which will allow new and existing users to efficiently locate capabilities and expertise within the network, and also provide up-to-date nanotechnology resources to the K-20 communities and broader public. To emphasize the importance of a network of sites, the Coordinating Office will be guided by an Executive Committee with representation from all 16 sites and will organize a number of working groups and committees to address topics of broad interest and solve common problems. A flagship event for the NNCI network will be an annual NNCI Conference that will highlight the research supported by the individual sites, as well as provide a venue for site staff to share best practices and research trends with the broader nanotechnology community. An External Advisory Board with members selected from the external advisory boards of all sites will provide input on network management issues and future directions. Education and outreach activities will be coordinated across the network to share and disseminate best practices and resources for impactful programs at the local, regional, and national levels. Social and ethical implications programs, such as an annual retreat and conference forums, will enable social scientists to interact with nanoscale scientists, engineers, and students so that all groups can consider the potential impacts new discoveries might have on society. Computational modeling and simulation needs of the user community will be supported through an inventory of available resources and close collaboration with the existing Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN). Assessment of the strength of the sites and the network as a whole will be determined through metrics developed in collaboration with the sites and will be based on site usage, site productivity and technical impact, contributions to the network, and education and outreach activity.

提案：ECCS-1626153 PI： 奥利弗品牌机构：格鲁吉亚技术研究公司名称：NNCI协调办公室在格鲁吉亚技术摘要国家纳米技术协调基础设施（NNCI）包括16所大学的网站和他们的合作伙伴分别授予国家科学基金会提供开放访问纳米制造和表征用户设施和工作人员的专业知识在全国各地。在格鲁吉亚技术建立NNCI协调办公室，以提高NNCI作为国家基础设施网络的影响力，通过促进其能力，方便用户访问其资源，分享最佳实践，并通过协调各个站点的活动提高整体效率。协调办公室将通过一个交互式NNCI门户网站，帮助来自工业界、政府部门的用户寻找NNCI制造和表征资源，以满足他们的研究需求。它将利用现场工作人员的专业知识，促进教育和推广，社会和道德影响，以及整个网络的计算建模和模拟计划，并帮助提供与其他国家和国际纳米技术资源的联系。NNCI协调办公室的整体活动将有助于美国的经济竞争力，培养具有全球竞争力的劳动力，并为纳米技术的创新和商业化提供有效的资源。他们也将有助于通知和教育一般公众的基本面和纳米科学和工程的进步及其社会和伦理的implication.The使命的NNCI协调办公室是支持个人NNCI网站，网站用户，和更广泛的公共利益，利用大学纳米技术用户设施的全国性网络的组合资产。协调办公室的一个关键组成部分将是建立机制，向设施用户通报网络资产的可用性，并促进各网站之间的互动。这种沟通的主要模式将是一个互动的NNCI门户网站，它将允许新的和现有的用户有效地定位网络内的能力和专业知识，并提供最新的纳米技术资源，以K-20社区和更广泛的公众。为了强调一个地点网络的重要性，协调处将由一个由所有16个地点的代表组成的执行委员会提供指导，并将组织若干工作组和委员会，以处理广泛关心的问题和解决共同的问题。NNCI网络的一个旗舰活动将是一年一度的NNCI会议，该会议将突出各个网站支持的研究，并为网站工作人员提供一个与更广泛的纳米技术社区分享最佳实践和研究趋势的场所。一个由从所有地点的外部咨询委员会中挑选的成员组成的外部咨询委员会将就网络管理问题和未来方向提供投入。教育和外联活动将在整个网络中协调，以分享和传播地方，区域和国家各级有影响力的计划的最佳做法和资源。社会和伦理影响计划，如年度务虚会和会议论坛，将使社会科学家与纳米科学家，工程师和学生互动，使所有群体都可以考虑新发现可能对社会产生的潜在影响。用户社区的计算建模和模拟需求将通过现有资源清单以及与现有计算纳米技术网络（NCN）的密切合作得到支持。将通过与网站合作制定的衡量标准，并根据网站使用情况、网站生产力和技术影响、对网络的贡献以及教育和外联活动，确定对网站和整个网络的实力进行评估。