Symposium:Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Community Planning Grant

这笔赠款的目的是为一个新的电气和计算机工程(欧洲经委会)研究社区组织规划和奠定基础。在过去18个月中，围绕需要更强大的集体声音以推进对欧洲经委会各部门重要领域的研究和创新的国家议程，形成了共识和临界数量。这场全国性的讨论是由电气和计算机工程系主任协会ECEDHA领导的，该协会代表了全美300多个欧洲经委会部门和7000多名教职员工。该项目的目标是建立一个组织，不断将欧洲经委会研究界聚集在一起，并开展使研究前沿与国家优先事项保持一致的展望活动。这项提议的学术价值是集体发展战略愿景和引人注目的科学和技术议程，这将影响全国所有电气和计算机工程系的研究和教育。该项目还将支持举办一个讲习班，欧洲经委会将在该讲习班上讨论与国家优先事项相一致的未来重大挑战，并将确定欧洲经委会各部门的研究前沿。调查人员还将制定一个财政上可持续的欧洲经委会研究共同体组织的路线图，该组织将确保继续通过从科学和技术角度的明智投资找到解决方案，这些解决方案是应对重大挑战所需的，而欧洲经委会社区是解决方案的主要和关键参与者。这一努力预计将产生巨大影响，因为欧洲经委会各部门的智力资本将共同引导国家迎接21世纪的重大挑战。通过与正在进行的课程改革和学科品牌化努力的协调，该项目还将解决巨大的劳动力发展问题，以支持更多和更多样化的欧洲经委会工作人员，该工作人员目前正面临来自其他领域的更激烈竞争。

The purpose of this grant is to plan and lay the groundwork for a new Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Research Community organization. Over the past eighteen months consensus and critical mass have developed around the need for a stronger collective voice to advance the national agenda in research and innovation in areas of importance to ECE Departments. This national discussion was led by ECEDHA, the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association, which represents more than 300 ECE departments and more than 7,000 faculty in the nation. The goal of this project is to develop an organization that will continuously bring the ECE research community together and develop visioning activities that align the research frontier with national priorities. The intellectual merit of this proposal is the collective development of a strategic vision and a compelling scientific and technological agenda that will impact research and education in all electrical and computer engineering departments across the nation. This project will also support a workshop where the ECE community will deliberate on future grand challenges that align with national priorities, and will define the research frontier of ECE departments. The investigators will also set the roadmap for a fiscally sustainable ECE Research Community Organization that will ensure solutions, which are required to meet to grand challenges and for which the ECE community is a major and essential player, will continue to be found through wise investments from a scientific and technological perspective.This effort is expected to have an enormous impact as the intellectual capital of ECE departments is collectively steered toward 21st century grand challenges for the nation. Through coordination with ongoing efforts on curriculum reform and branding of the discipline, this project will also address tremendous workforce development issues to support a larger and more diverse ECE workforce, which is now facing stronger competition from other fields.