Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Additive Food Manufacturing Technologies (CAFMT).

规划资助：添加剂食品制造技术工程研究中心（CAFMT）。

• 批准号: 1840419
• 负责人: Terry Howell
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-15 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1840419&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Engineering; Research; Center

The Planning Grants for Engineering Research Centers competition was run as a pilot solicitation within the ERC program. Planning grants are not required as part of the full ERC competition, but intended to build capacity among teams to plan for convergent, center-scale engineering research. The proposed Center for Additive Food Manufacturing Technologies (CAFMT) is a comprehensive, pre-competitive, public-private partnership that will create fundamental technologies for the 21st-century food manufacturing industry. New technologies will enable America's food manufacturing industry to transition from its outdated centralized food manufacturing model to a more futuristic decentralized, localized manufacturing network (DLFM) model. DLFM is an emerging food manufacturing network model favored by emerging consumers as it is based on localized food manufacturing with very short distribution chains taking advantage of local sourcing and providing highly desirable fresh foods. The proposed ERC will create the new food manufacturing model through the convergence of the advantages of additive manufacturing (3D "printing") of foodstuff with natural structures and texture, automation and robotics, micro/nanotechnologies, (bio)sensing, biomaterials, data integration platforms and internet based processes. New breakthroughs established under CAFMT will utilize raw materials more efficiently, reduce food waste by shortening the long distribution chains and provide nutritious food all consumers, even those in current urban food deserts. Ultimately, the CAFMT approach will advance American manufacturing competitiveness, reduce water and energy demands, and feed a growing global population using local food materials. The broader impact of the ERC will be increasing science literacy and engagement among the consuming public with the planning process used to identify education/intervention activities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

工程研究中心规划奖助金竞赛是作为ERC计划的试点征集活动进行的。计划拨款并不是整个ERC竞赛的一部分，而是为了在团队之间建立能力，以计划集中的、中心规模的工程研究。拟议的添加剂食品制造技术中心(CAFMT)是一个全面的、竞争前的公私合作伙伴关系，将为21世纪的食品制造业创造基础技术。新技术将使美国食品制造业从过时的集中式食品制造模式过渡到更具未来主义色彩的分散、本地化制造网络(DLFM)模式。DLFM是一种新兴的食品制造网络模式，受到新兴消费者的青睐，因为它基于本地化的食品制造，分销链非常短，利用当地采购优势，提供非常理想的新鲜食品。拟议的ERC将通过汇聚具有自然结构和质地的食品的添加制造(3D“打印”)、自动化和机器人、微/纳米技术、(生物)传感、生物材料、数据集成平台和基于互联网的过程的优势来创建新的食品制造模式。CAFMT下建立的新突破将更有效地利用原材料，通过缩短漫长的分销链减少食品浪费，并为所有消费者提供营养食品，即使是目前城市食品沙漠中的消费者。最终，CAFMT方法将提高美国制造业的竞争力，减少对水和能源的需求，并使用当地的食品原料养活日益增长的全球人口。ERC的更广泛影响将是提高消费公众的科学素养和参与用于识别教育/干预活动的规划过程。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。