Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Cyber-Enabled Public Services to Achieve Healthy Communities in America's Changing City Regions

规划拨款：网络公共服务工程研究中心，以在美国不断变化的城市地区实现健康社区

• 批准号: 1840559
• 负责人: Nancy Love
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 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 2020-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1840559&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.This proposal is focused around developing an Engineering Research Center to advance "smart" public service infrastructure, including water, mobility, power and food, that is locally distributed (units located at or near point of use). The development of these localized public service infrastructure (distributed systems) will enable automation for improved efficiency. These new distributed systems will interact with existing centralized (a single unit serving a large metropolitan area) systems to create hybrid systems. The ?smart? feature involves adding sensors and controls to connect these systems, making them operate in a more efficient manner. The planned Center will consider the fact that much of the U.S. public service infrastructure is currently in need of replacement. We aspire to both create and demonstrate new methods and state-of-the-art technologies that are more flexible, efficient, secure and responsive to the needs of those who rely upon them. Furthermore, a centerpiece of our proposed Center is to implement new approaches to governance, management, financing, decision-making and public sector engagement around the selection, management and use of public service infrastructure. If our planning activities are successful, this Center will transform the landscape of public sector infrastructure toward more efficient resource utilization; increased public understanding of and engagement with public service infrastructure; and create educational approaches that will produce a new generation of engineers, managers, scientists, public service representatives and engaged citizens. The purpose of this grant is to facilitate deeper planning for an Engineering Research Center concept around Regenerative, Restorative and Resilient Community Infrastructure Systems (R3CIS). The proposed Center's goal is to accelerate innovation, development and adoption of cyber-enabled distributed technologies. Additionally, the proposed Center aims to support institutions (such as government, management, and financial) that transform regenerative and restorative infrastructure systems so that it enhances the well-being of public and planetary health. The proposed Center concept specifically focuses on novel infrastructure systems that support the public-sector (water, power, mobility, food). This focus will shift public sector infrastructure planning from being service-oriented to resource management-oriented. This shift will enhance efficiency, increase resilience, restore city regions, and improve the institutional structures that facilitate the equitable distribution of resources to achieve healthy communities. Further, it puts decision science methodologies up front to ensure the work is stakeholder-focused and science-based to meet the needs of communities. In preparing to write an ERC proposal around this concept, this planning grant focuses on several parallel activities: create and engage a stakeholder commission for two test-beds (Detroit Metropolitan Area and Rocky Mountain Front Range) and a science advisory board; define a list of integrated public service infrastructure technologies and refine and prioritize that list during the planning year; develop a strategic plan for our Center concept and, as part of that effort, create a road-mapping process in which we lay out details of the first two years of the proposed Center. The road-mapping process is designed to be revisited annually to identify priorities for the coming two years, with an emphasis of putting ideas into practice; identify and work closely with those community partners from testbed communities and who work at the national level advocating for communities. We want to engage community members from the testbed locations from the start and ensure their participation in Center visioning; identify the education and outreach elements that emphasize the integration between academia and practice and create the plan for their development that will be part of a future Center proposal; nurture and further develop core plans with foreign partners. Together, these activities during this planning year will allow our team to develop an integrated system of systems research vision, detailed plans and partnerships for testbeds, a workforce development plan, methodologies for the innovation ecosystem, and identify additional collaborators and up to one additional institution that can fill expertise gaps. The broader impact of the proposed Center is that it will ultimately increase public scientific literacy and public engagement with science and technology. Our methods will enhance multi-stakeholder partnerships that include academia, industry and other groups. Using a stakeholder-centered model, we believe our work will improve the well-being of individuals in society. Importantly, this novel approach will allow for enhanced equity across diverse populations and help to reduce environmental injustices in the placement, deployment, use and management of public-sector infrastructure services. The improvements made to critical public-sector infrastructure will improve national security and increase the economic competitiveness of the U.S. Therefore, the planning grant will create the framework for being able to achieve all these broader impact elements.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。该提案的重点是开发一个工程研究中心，以推进“智能”公共服务基础设施，包括水、交通、电力和食品，这些基础设施是本地分布的（位于或靠近使用点的单元）。这些地方化的公共服务基础设施（分布式系统）的发展将使自动化成为可能，从而提高效率。 这些新的分布式系统将与现有的集中式系统（一个单一的单位服务于一个大都市区）相互作用，以创建混合系统。什么？聪明吗一个新的功能包括增加传感器和控制来连接这些系统，使它们以更有效的方式运行。 计划中的中心将考虑美国大部分公共服务基础设施目前需要更换的事实。我们渴望创造和展示新的方法和最先进的技术，这些方法和技术更灵活，更高效，更安全，更能满足依赖它们的人的需求。此外，我们拟议的中心的核心是围绕公共服务基础设施的选择、管理和使用，实施新的治理、管理、融资、决策和公共部门参与方法。 如果我们的规划活动取得成功，该中心将改变公共部门基础设施的格局，使其更有效地利用资源;提高公众对公共服务基础设施的理解和参与;并创造教育方法，培养新一代的工程师，管理人员，科学家，公共服务代表和参与公民。该补助金的目的是促进围绕再生，恢复和弹性社区基础设施系统（R3 CIS）的工程研究中心概念的深入规划。该中心的目标是加速创新，开发和采用网络支持的分布式技术。此外，拟议的中心旨在支持机构（如政府，管理和金融），改造再生和恢复性基础设施系统，以提高公众和地球健康的福祉。拟议的中心概念特别关注支持公共部门（水，电，移动，食品）的新型基础设施系统。这一重点将使公共部门基础设施规划从面向服务转向面向资源管理。这一转变将提高效率，增强复原力，恢复城市地区，并改善促进资源公平分配的体制结构，以实现健康的社区。 此外，它将决策科学方法放在首位，以确保工作以业主为中心，以科学为基础，以满足社区的需求。 在准备围绕这一概念撰写ERC提案时，该规划拨款侧重于几项并行活动：为两个试验台创建并聘请利益相关者委员会（底特律大都市区和落基山脉）和一个科学咨询委员会;确定一份综合公共服务基础设施技术清单，并在规划年内完善和优先考虑该清单;为我们的中心概念制定一个战略计划，并作为这一努力的一部分，创建一个路线图过程，其中我们列出了拟议中心头两年的细节。 路线图绘制过程每年都要重新审查，以确定今后两年的优先事项，重点是将想法付诸实践;确定来自试验社区和在国家一级为社区宣传的社区伙伴，并与他们密切合作。 我们希望从一开始就吸引来自试验基地的社区成员，并确保他们参与中心的愿景;确定强调学术与实践相结合的教育和推广要素，并为他们的发展制定计划，这将成为未来中心提案的一部分;与外国合作伙伴一起培育和进一步发展核心计划。 总之，在本规划年度的这些活动将使我们的团队能够开发一个集成的系统研究愿景，详细的计划和测试平台的合作伙伴关系，劳动力发展计划，创新生态系统的方法，并确定更多的合作者和最多一个可以填补专业知识空白的机构。 拟议中的中心的更广泛的影响是，它将最终提高公众的科学素养和公众对科学和技术的参与。 我们的方法将加强包括学术界、工业界和其他团体在内的多利益攸关方伙伴关系。 使用以股东为中心的模式，我们相信我们的工作将改善社会中个人的福祉。重要的是，这一新办法将有助于加强不同人群之间的公平，并有助于减少公共部门基础设施服务的安置、部署、使用和管理方面的环境不公正现象。对关键公共部门基础设施的改善将改善国家安全，提高美国的经济竞争力。因此，规划拨款将为实现所有这些更广泛的影响要素创建框架。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。