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

工程研究中心的规划赠款竞争是作为ERC计划内的试点招标运行。 规划赠款不需要作为整个ERC竞争的一部分，但旨在建立团队之间的能力，以规划融合的中心规模的工程研究。由于制造业的转型以及对材料效率和功效需求的增加，大多数工程结构和部件越来越需要复杂的异质材料接头。材料连接对美国经济做出了重大贡献，是至少占其国内生产总值三分之一的关键技术，并影响其国防，基础设施和经济福祉的支柱。从这一点出发，ERC关于异构材料连接的转型科学和制造创新的愿景是通过使用基础科学，工艺创新，创新设计和预测建模的综合方法来转变先进的异构材料连接，再加上发展一个充满活力和多样化的劳动力，准备创造和部署新技术，这个中心将推动美国成为全球制造业的领导者。该跨学科团队包括来自俄亥俄州州立大学（牵头）、北卡罗来纳州AT州立大学（NCAT）、密歇根大学（UM）和IUCRC-Ma 2 JIC的成员，他们将开发科学并实现美国和世界主要工业部门（包括能源、交通、生物医学和国防）制造商在材料连接方面面临的当前和未来挑战所需的技术转型。该计划拨款将使拟议的团队能够进一步发展他们的教育和劳动力发展中心计划，建立一个协同团队，并详细说明要解决的科学和技术挑战。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力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.