Symposium:Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Community Planning Grant

该补助金的目的是为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，围绕着需要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国家议程，形成了共识和必要数量。这次全国性的讨论是由ECEDHA，电气和计算机工程系主任协会，代表300多个ECE部门和7,000多名教师在全国领导。 该项目的目标是建立一个组织，不断将欧洲经委会的研究界聚集在一起，并开展远景规划活动，使研究前沿与国家优先事项保持一致。 该提案的智力价值是战略愿景和引人注目的科学和技术议程的集体发展，这将影响全国所有电气和计算机工程部门的研究和教育。该项目还将支持举办一个讲习班，欧洲经委会各界将在讲习班上审议与国家优先事项相一致的未来重大挑战，并确定欧洲经委会各部门的研究前沿。 调查人员还将为一个可持续的欧洲经委会研究社区组织制定路线图，该组织将确保解决方案，这些解决方案是应对重大挑战所必需的，欧洲经委会社区是其中一个主要和重要的参与者，将继续通过从科学和技术角度进行明智的投资来发现。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知识资本将集体为国家迎接21世纪世纪的重大挑战而努力。 通过与课程改革和学科品牌建设方面正在进行的努力进行协调，该项目还将解决巨大的工作人员队伍发展问题，以支持欧洲经委会的工作人员队伍规模更大、更多样化，因为欧洲经委会的工作人员队伍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.