Symposium:Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Community Planning Grant

这项拨款的目的是为一个新的电气和计算机工程（ECE）研究社区组织规划和奠定基础。在过去18个月里，围绕需要有更强有力的集体声音来推动欧洲经委会各部门重要领域的研究和创新的国家议程，已经形成了协商一致意见和临界质量。这次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，该协会代表了全国300多个电气和计算机工程系和7000多名教师。该项目的目标是发展一个组织，使欧洲经委会研究界不断团结起来，并开展远景活动，使研究前沿与国家优先事项保持一致。该提案的智力价值在于战略愿景和引人注目的科学和技术议程的共同发展，这将影响全国所有电气和计算机工程部门的研究和教育。这个项目还将支助一个讲习班，在这个讲习班上，欧洲经委会共同体将审议符合国家优先事项的未来重大挑战，并将确定欧洲经委会各部门的研究前沿。研究人员还将为财政上可持续的欧洲经委会研究共同体组织制定路线图，以确保通过科学和技术角度的明智投资，继续找到应对重大挑战所需的解决方案，欧洲经委会共同体是主要和必不可少的参与者。这一努力预计将产生巨大的影响，因为欧洲经委会各部门的智力资本被集体引导，以应对21世纪对国家的重大挑战。通过与正在进行的课程改革和学科品牌化工作的协调，该项目还将解决巨大的劳动力发展问题，以支持规模更大、更多样化的欧洲经委会劳动力，这些劳动力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.