NNCI Coordinating Office at Georgia Tech

提案：ECCS-1626153PI: Oliver brandi机构：Georgia Tech Research corporation头衔：Georgia Tech NNCI协调办公室摘要国家纳米技术协调基础设施（NNCI）由16所大学及其合作伙伴组成，由国家科学基金会单独授予，为全国范围内的纳米级制造和表征用户设施和工作人员专业知识提供开放访问。乔治亚理工学院NNCI协调办公室的成立是为了增强NNCI作为国家基础设施网络的影响，通过促进其能力，促进用户访问其资源，分享最佳实践，并通过协调各个站点的活动提高整体效率。协调办公室将协助来自学术界、工业界和政府的用户通过交互式NNCI门户网站寻找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来促进教育和推广、社会和伦理影响以及整个网络的计算建模和模拟方面的项目，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在培训具有全球竞争力的劳动力方面的经济竞争力，并为纳米技术的创新和商业化提供有效的资源。他们还将帮助告知和教育公众纳米科学和工程的基本原理和进展及其社会和伦理影响。NNCI协调办公室的任务是利用全国范围内的大学纳米技术用户设施网络的综合资产，支持NNCI各个站点、站点用户和更广泛的公共利益。协调办事处的一个关键组成部分将是制定机制，向设施用户通报网络资产的可用性，并促进各场址之间的相互作用。这种交流的主要模式将是一个交互式的NNCI门户网站，它将允许新的和现有的用户在网络中有效地定位能力和专业知识，并为K-20社区和更广泛的公众提供最新的纳米技术资源。为了强调场址网络的重要性，协调办公室将由一个由所有16个场址代表组成的执行委员会指导，并将组织一些工作组和委员会来处理广泛关心的主题和解决共同问题。NNCI网络的一个旗舰活动将是一年一度的NNCI会议，它将突出各个站点支持的研究，并为站点的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。从所有场址的外部咨询委员会中挑选成员组成的外部咨询委员会将提供关于网络管理问题和未来方向的投入。教育和外联活动将在整个网络中进行协调，以便在地方、区域和国家各级分享和传播有效方案的最佳做法和资源。社会和伦理影响项目，如年度务静会和会议论坛，将使社会科学家与纳米科学家、工程师和学生互动，以便所有群体都能考虑新发现可能对社会产生的潜在影响。用户群体的计算建模和仿真需求将通过现有资源的清单和与现有计算纳米技术网络（NCN）的密切合作得到支持。对网站和网络整体实力的评估将通过与网站合作制定的指标来确定，这些指标将基于网站的使用情况、网站的生产力和技术影响、对网络的贡献以及教育和外展活动。

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.