Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Advanced Materials Manufacturing and Discovery for Extreme Environments (CAM2DE2)

规划资助：极端环境先进材料制造与发现工程研究中心（CAM2DE2）

• 批准号: 1840598
• 负责人: Raymundo Arroyave
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1840598&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Engineering; Research; Center

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.Technology advances are resulting in increasingly complex engineering systems for energy, biomedical devices, infrastructure, transportation, and space exploration. These advances also require materials that can perform in extreme environments. These requirements currently exceed the operating limits of available materials. This project envisions an ERC that brings together experts from multiple areas and perspectives to tackle this issue at two levels. The first level is the need to have input from the areas of materials, process, product, and life cycle design research to tackle these challenges. The second level looks at how advanced materials and manufacturing modeling, data analytics, and design methodologies interact in a comprehensive solution. The vision of this planning grant is to establish a joint industry-academia research and innovation team to identify overarching fundamental scientific issues that limit current material capabilities. The goal of this ERC planning grant will be to bring these research areas and approaches together to discover and design advanced materials that can extreme conditions. The proposed ERC would impact society through the development of materials and infrastructure that are durable and resilient, improving the safety and welfare of society against extreme events. Understanding the behavior of materials and engineered systems under extreme conditions and translating this knowledge into the design of robust and sustainable materials requires a full description of the multi-scale phenomena associated with the interaction between materials and environment. The proposed ERC planning grant will provide a fertile platform to bring stakeholders together through three regional workshops. The scientific and technological problems identified at these workshops will serve to enable a fundamental paradigm shift in materials and manufacturing design for extreme environments. This shift will incorporate computational materials/product design, machine learning, and stochastic approaches. This ERC planning grant will enable comprehensive formulation of a sustainable vision, focus, and ERC structure on the proposed topic. Key material systems and testbeds will be identified, in collaboration with targeted industry partners, professional societies, federal regulatory bodies, and end users. Long-term plans for integrated education, entrepreneurship, technology transfer, and broadening participation activities will be developed. Applications will span from healthcare, transportation, and energy generation, to infrastructure applications. These activities will engage a wide range of stakeholders, from K-12 to professionals as well as industry partners. Established partnerships and collaborations with minority-serving institutions will provide opportunities for broadening participation.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.

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。ERC竞赛不需要规划赠款，但旨在培养团队规划融合的中心规模工程研究的能力。技术进步导致能源，生物医学设备，基础设施，交通和太空探索的工程系统日益复杂。这些进步还需要能够在极端环境中发挥作用的材料。这些要求目前超过了现有材料的操作极限。该项目设想建立一个紧急救济协调员，将来自多个领域和观点的专家聚集在一起，在两个层面上解决这一问题。第一个层次是需要从材料、工艺、产品和生命周期设计研究领域获得投入，以应对这些挑战。第二个层次着眼于先进的材料和制造建模、数据分析和设计方法如何在综合解决方案中相互作用。这项规划补助金的愿景是建立一个联合的工业-学术研究和创新团队，以确定限制当前材料能力的总体基本科学问题。ERC计划拨款的目标是将这些研究领域和方法结合在一起，以发现和设计可以在极端条件下使用的先进材料。拟议的ERC将通过开发耐用和有弹性的材料和基础设施来影响社会，提高社会的安全和福利，以应对极端事件。了解材料和工程系统在极端条件下的行为，并将这些知识转化为耐用和可持续材料的设计，需要对与材料和环境之间相互作用相关的多尺度现象进行全面描述。拟议的对外关系委员会规划赠款将提供一个丰富的平台，通过三个区域讲习班将利益攸关方聚集在一起。在这些研讨会上确定的科学和技术问题将有助于实现极端环境下材料和制造设计的根本范式转变。这种转变将包括计算材料/产品设计，机器学习和随机方法。该ERC规划补助金将能够全面制定关于拟议主题的可持续愿景，重点和ERC结构。将与目标行业合作伙伴、专业协会、联邦监管机构和最终用户合作，确定关键材料系统和试验台。将制定综合教育、创业、技术转让和扩大参与活动的长期计划。应用范围将从医疗保健、交通运输和能源发电到基础设施应用。这些活动将吸引广泛的利益相关者，从K-12到专业人士以及行业合作伙伴。与少数群体服务机构建立的伙伴关系和合作将为扩大参与提供机会。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。