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。在制造业转型和对材料效率和功效的需求日益增加的推动下，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，是至少占美国国内生产总值三分之一的关键使能技术，并影响到美国国防、基础设施和经济福祉的支柱。在此基础上，ERC异质材料加入转型科学和制造创新中心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质材料加入，再加上发展一支充满活力和多样化的劳动力队伍，为创造和部署新技术做准备，该中心将把美国推向全球制造业领导地位的顶端。跨学科团队，包括来自俄亥俄州立大学的成员。(主要)，北卡罗来纳州农工大学。(NCAT)，大学密歇根大学(UM)和IUCRC-Ma2JIC将发展科学，实现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需要面对的当前和未来材料连接挑战的技术变革。这一规划拨款将允许拟议的团队进一步制定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优势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.