NSF Engines Development Award: Advancing manufacturing technologies (OH)

该区域创新引擎发展奖专注于研究驱动的发现，开发，翻译和商业化的可持续制造技术对生产和产品至关重要。该项目填补了国家生态系统中解决问题的研究，制造业产出，强大的供应链管理，宜居的工资工作和机会结构以及社会环境管理的重要空白。东北部的俄亥俄州是美国的制造业强国，但不协调的机构和不可持续的制造业实践在该地区的18个城市，郊区和农村县留下了撤资，不平等和环境危害的遗产。服务区域延伸至俄亥俄州东北部，以创建一个由行业、政府实体、社区团体以及领先的研究和学术机构组成的强大网络，致力于解决问题，开展以使用为灵感的研究、创新、技术转化和劳动力发展。该项目由凯斯西储大学牵头，领导机构包括大克利夫兰伙伴关系、NEO团队、MAGNET、JumpStart、克利夫兰市、凯霍加县、克利夫兰州立大学、克利夫兰水联盟、东北俄亥俄州西班牙裔经济发展中心和大克利夫兰城市联盟。该奖项的工作重点是建立一个强大的，合作的，一致的，公平的框架，以大幅提高能源科学，电化学，绿色钢铁和芯片生产，碳捕获，储存/封存和利用，以及石油基塑料，包装和可生物降解副产品的替代品的发现和采用解决方案。我们寻求减少能源、水和能源的使用，以及温室气体排放，同时过渡到材料循环和可持续能源，包括过程电气化。创造健全和公平的工作和机会结构是根本，并融入每一项活动。规划工作将通过四个综合工作流来推动：技术创新（解决问题的使用启发研究），技术采用（翻译，商业化，采用，劳动力和人才发展（途径，计划，管道），以及意向领导和治理（以公平为中心的领导和治理）。该奖项将为该地区打造一个NSF引擎和一个公平而充满活力的生态系统做好准备，以促进创新，加速可持续技术的转化，并培养更广泛、更多样化的劳动力。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。

This Regional Innovation Engines Development Award is focused on research-driven discovery, development, translation, and commercialization of sustainable manufacturing technologies essential for both production and products. The project fills a vital gap in the nation's ecosystem for problem-solving research, manufacturing output, robust supply chain management, livable wage jobs and opportunity structures, and socio-environmental stewardship. Northeast Ohio was the nation's manufacturing powerhouse, but poorly aligned institutions and unsustainable manufacturing practices have left a legacy of disinvestment, inequity, and environmental hazards across the region's 18 urban, suburban, and rural counties. The region of service extends across Northeast Ohio to create a robust network of industry, government entities, community groups, and leading research and academic institutions committed to problem-solving use-inspired research, innovation, technology translation, and workforce development. Led by Case Western Reserve University, the project's leadership includes Greater Cleveland Partnership, Team NEO, MAGNET, JumpStart, City of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Cleveland State University, Cleveland Water Alliance, Northeast Ohio Hispanic Center for Economic Development, and Urban League of Greater Cleveland. The award efforts will focus on the creation of a robust, cooperative, aligned, and equitable framework for the substantial elevation of discovery and adoption of solutions in energy science, electrochemistry, green steel and chip production, carbon capture, storage/sequestration, and utilization, as well as alternatives to petroleum-based plastics, packaging, and biodegradable byproducts. We seek to reduce embodied energy, energy, and water usage, greenhouse emissions, all while transitioning to material circularity and sustainable energy, including process electrification. Robust and equitable job and opportunity structure creations are fundamental and woven into every activity. The planning effort will be driven through four integrated workstreams: Technology Innovation (problem-solving use-inspired research), Technology Adoption (translation, commercialization, adoption, Workforce and Talent Development (pathways, programs, pipelines), and Intentional Leadership and Governance (equity-focused leadership and governance). This award will prepare the region for an NSF Engine and an equitable and vibrant ecosystem that catalyzes innovation, accelerates sustainable technologies' translation, and develops a broader, more diverse workforce.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.