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

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。拟议项目的标题为：“制造业的弹性增强和灾害影响拦截（READII）”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）的弹性。总体愿景是开发概念框架、基础研究、教育和培训工具，以创造积极主动的创新方法，预防和减轻故障，并最终提高制造业的弹性。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，以及一个多学科的协作社区，以实现制造设施和供应链设计和运营的范式转变，并大幅提高对自然灾害的抵御能力。为实现总体愿景，规划赠款将支持制定关键要素和有利步骤，其依据是：（1）确定并汇集来自学术界、工业界和地方/区域/联邦机构的多学科合作者的合作社区，以开展融合的研究合作，（2）在制造业部门复原力领域开展能力建设，并培养包容和创新的文化，劳动力发展和美国墨西哥湾沿岸地区（US GCR）的外展，特别是在高度影响和被剥夺公民权的社区，以及（4）为高影响的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. 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.