Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Transformational Science and Manufacturing Innovation on Heterogeneous Materials Joining - ERC-TRANSMI-HMJ

工程研究中心规划拨款竞赛是ERC项目的试点征集。规划补助金不需要作为ERC竞赛的一部分，但它旨在在团队之间建立能力，以规划聚合的、中心规模的工程研究。由于制造业的转型和对材料效率和功效的需求增加，大多数工程结构和部件越来越需要复杂的异质材料接头。材料加入对美国经济做出了重大贡献，是一项关键的使能技术，至少占美国国内生产总值的三分之一，并影响着美国国防、基础设施和经济福祉的支柱。基于此，ERC对异质材料连接的转型科学和制造创新的愿景是通过综合方法，利用基础科学、工艺创新、创新设计和预测建模，再加上发展一支充满活力和多样化的劳动力队伍，准备创造和部署新技术，来改造先进的异质材料连接。这个中心将推动美国成为全球制造业的领导者。跨学科团队，包括来自俄亥俄州立大学（领导）、北卡罗来纳州立大学（NCAT）、密歇根大学（UM）和IUCRC-Ma2JIC的成员，将发展科学，使美国和世界制造商在能源、交通、生物医学和国防等关键工业部门的技术变革成为可能，需要面对材料连接方面的当前和未来挑战。这项计划拨款将允许被提议的团队进一步发展他们的教育和劳动力发展中心计划，建立一个协同的团队，并详细说明要解决的科学和技术挑战。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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. Driven by transformations in manufacturing and increased need for materials efficiency and efficacy,most engineering structures and components increasingly require complex heterogeneous materials joints. Materials joining makes a substantial contribution to the U.S. economy, being a critical enabling technology for at least one-third of its gross domestic product and influencing the backbone of its defense, infrastructure, and economic well-being. Drawing from that, the vision of the ERC for Transformational Science and Manufacturing Innovation on Heterogeneous Materials Joining is to transform advanced heterogeneous materials joining through a comprehensive approach using fundamental science, process innovation, innovative design, and predictive modeling, coupled with the development of a vibrant and diverse workforce prepared to create and deploy new technologies, this center will propel the U.S. to the top of global manufacturing leadership. The interdisciplinary team, including members from The Ohio State Univ. (lead), North Carolina A&T State Univ. (NCAT), Univ. of Michigan (UM), and IUCRC-Ma2JIC, will develop the science and enable the technological transformations that the U.S. and world manufacturers across key industrial sectors including energy, transportation, biomedical, and defense, need to face present and future challenges on materials joining. This planning grant will allow the proposed team to further develop their center plans for education and workforce development, build a synergistic team, and detail the scientific and technical challenges to tackle.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.