Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Resiliency Enhancement and Disaster-Impact Interception (READII) in the Manufacturing Sector

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。拟议的题为“提高制造业的抗灾能力和抗灾能力(READII)”的项目将解决重塑和改造制造业及其供应链的迫切需要，以提高对自然灾害(特别是飓风和洪水，但也考虑到地震等其他可能性)的复原力。总体愿景是开发概念框架、基础研究、教育和培训工具，以创建积极和创新的方法，以预防和减轻失败，并最终增强制造业的弹性。ERC的最终目标是创建一个综合框架、一套支持变革的概念和工具，以及一个多学科协作社区，以实现制造设施和供应链的设计和运营的范式转变，并大幅增强对自然灾害的适应能力。为了实现总体愿景，规划赠款将支持关键要素和有利步骤的发展，其基础是：(1)确定并聚集来自学术界、工业界和地方/地区/联邦机构的多学科合作者的伙伴关系社区，以开展趋同的研究合作；(2)在制造业弹性领域建设能力并培养包容和创新的文化；(3)评估制造业弹性方面的挑战和机会，以确定美国墨西哥湾沿岸地区(US GCR)内，特别是在高度受影响和被剥夺选举权的社区内所需的研究、劳动力发展和外联，以及(4)为高影响力的ERC提案制定路线图。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. The proposed project titled: "Resiliency Enhancement and Disaster-Impact Interception (READII) in the Manufacturing Sector" will address the critical need of reinventing and revamping the manufacturing sector and its supply chains to become more resilient to natural disasters (especially hurricanes and floods, but also considering other possibilities such as earthquakes). The overall vision is to develop the conceptual framework, fundamental research, educational and training tools to create proactive and innovative approaches to prevent and mitigate failure and ultimately enhance resiliency of the manufacturing sector. The ultimate goal of the ERC is to create an integrated framework, a supporting set of transformative concepts and tools, and a multi-disciplinary collaborative community to effect a paradigm shift in the design and operation of manufacturing facilities and supply chains with substantial enhancement in resilience to natural disasters. Towards achieving the overall vision, the planning grant will support the development of critical elements and enabling steps based upon: (1) Identifying and bringing together a partnering community of multi-disciplinary collaborators from academia, industry, and local/regional/federal agencies to undertake convergent research collaboration, (2) Building capacity and fostering a culture of inclusion and innovation in the area of manufacturing-sector resilience, (3) Assessing the manufacturing-resilience challenges and opportunities to identify the needed research, workforce development, and outreach within the US Gulf Coast Region (US GCR), especially within highly-impacted and disenfranchised communities, and (4) Developing a roadmap for a high-impact ERC proposal.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.