PLANNING GRANT: Engineering Research Center for Empathetically Engineered Profitable Housing (CEEPH)

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竞赛的一部分，但旨在建立团队之间的能力，以规划收敛，中心规模的工程研究。随着人口的持续增长，对我们的自然资源的压力也将增加。如果不消耗能源和资源，人类对水、食物和住所的基本需求就无法得到满足。事实上，大约40%的能源消耗归因于住房（即，加热和冷却、烹饪、废物处理、娱乐等）。我们目前的做法，以满足这些需求与目前的单一用途技术是不一样的效率，因为他们可以与其他技术相结合。然而，采用更有效的技术是大多数人口负担不起的。 中心的规划补助金的主要目标为同情工程盈利住房（CEEPH）是开发所需的科学，工程，金融，政策相关和社会信息，以创建家庭式的单户和多租户住房，也为他们的业主盈利。 换句话说，这些住房将产生足够的收入来支付其融资成本，并为业主提供额外的收入，同时满足住宅用途和以家庭为基础的企业的设计需求。 CEEPH的第二个目标是在研究中包括尽可能多样化的观点，这将通过来自合作大学的不同研究人员以及参与规划补助金的利益相关者来实现。规划补助金将是至关重要的，以汇集这一多样化（在学科，性别，种族和背景方面）的研究人员和利益相关者群体，以发展ERC的活动和管理。我们设想的住宅，产生剩余的电力，需要零或接近零的水输入，通过水培和额外的收入流供应业主的食物，同时通过同情和协作设计确保满意的房屋所有权。 CEEPH还将通过培训区域承包商，建筑师，房屋子系统服务提供商，城市领导人等，作为劳动力发展的区域资源。ERC在这一领域有潜力促进新的科学和工程知识的跨学科发现，通过开发环境友好和可持续技术，可以显着改善所有人类对环境的影响。该中心将建立在根本性的变革原则上，即从人类和家庭有机废物中综合住宅发电和饮用水生产（以及其他解决方案）是一种科学合理，社会经济可行和负责任的方法。此外，一个潜在的中心的研究成果将对目前的住房设计产生更大的破坏性影响，因为我们提出了一个活跃的生态系统，通过内部共生和协同作用自我维持。拟议的CEEPH规划赠款的重要支柱之一是纳入住房设计的各个方面，并听取众多利益攸关方的意见。 这项规划补助金将为潜在的ERC参与者和利益相关者提供一个机会，参加为期两天的密集讨论，在密西西比州立大学，以加强拟议的ERC，沟通途径，包容性环境计划的目标的发展，并确定其他利益相关者。规划补助金活动将侧重于发展不同的跨学科团队，并通过建立科学家，工程师，经济学家，政策研究人员，建筑师和利益相关者之间的强有力的沟通和合作的途径来解决与团队科学相关的挑战。由于拟议的中心活动可能在发展中国家产生重大影响，规划赠款将用于确定将从这些发现中受益的国际合作伙伴，并对中心活动的影响进行全球展望。 因此，这一规划赠款活动的成果有助于为预期的中心做准备？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.As human population continues to grow, the strain on our natural resources will also increase. Basic human needs for water, food, and shelter cannot be met without energy and resource consumption. In fact, approximately 40% of the energy consumption is attributed to housing (i.e., heating and cooling, cooking, waste disposal, entertainment, etc.). Our current practices for supplying these needs with current singular-use technologies are not as efficient as they could be in combination with other technologies. However, the adoption of more efficient technologies is outside the affordability of most of the populations. The primary goal of a planning grant for a Center for Empathetically Engineered Profitable Housing (CEEPH) is to develop the science, engineering, financial, policy-related, and social information required to create homely single-family and multi-tenant housing that are also profitable for their owners. In other words, these housings would generate revenues sufficient to pay the cost of their financing and to provide the owners with an additional income while meeting the design needs for residential use, and home-based businesses. A secondary goal of the CEEPH is to include as diverse a perspective in the research as possible, which will be accomplished through a diverse group of researchers from the collaborating universities as well as stakeholders involved in the planning grant. The planning grant will be crucial to bring together this diverse (in terms of disciplines, gender, race, and backgrounds) group of researchers and stakeholders to developing the ERC activities and management. We envision dwellings that generate surplus electricity, require zero or near-zero water input, supply the owners with food via hydroponics and additional income streams, while ensuring satisfaction in home-ownership through empathetic and collaborative design. CEEPH will also serve as a regional resource for workforce development through training regional contractors, architects, house subsystem service providers, city leaders, etc.An ERC in this area has the potential to foster the interdisciplinary discovery of novel scientific and engineering knowledge that could significantly improve all humans' impact on our environment through the development of environmentally friendly and sustainable technologies. The Center would be founded on the fundamentally transformative principle that integrated residential power generation and potable water production from human and household organic waste (among other solutions) is a scientifically sound and socio-economically viable and responsible approach. In addition, a potential Center's research outcomes would have far more disruptive impacts on current housing designs as we propose an active and living ecosystem that is self-sustained by internal symbiosis and synergy. One of the important pillars of the planning grant for the proposed CEEPH is the inclusion of all aspects of housing design with numerous stakeholders' input. This planning grant will provide an opportunity for potential ERC participants and stakeholders to participate in a two-day intensive discussion at Mississippi State University to strengthen the development of the goals for the proposed ERC, communication pathways, plans for an inclusive environment, and identification of additional stakeholders. The planning grant activities will focus on the development of diverse interdisciplinary teams and address challenges related to team science by establishing pathways to strong communication and collaboration between the scientists, engineers, economists, policy researchers, architects, and stakeholders. Since the proposed Center activities could have significant impacts in developing countries, the planning grant will be used to identify international partners that would benefit from these discoveries and give a global prospective on the impacts of center's activities. Consequently, outcomes of this planning grant activities help prepare for the anticipated center?s research on empathetically designed housing models that will be self-sustainable and profit-deriving sources for the homeowners.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.