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

工程研究中心规划拨款竞赛是ERC项目的试点征集。规划补助金不需要作为ERC竞赛的一部分，但它旨在在团队之间建立能力，以规划聚合的、中心规模的工程研究。技术进步导致能源、生物医学设备、基础设施、交通和空间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可用材料的操作限制。该项目设想了一个伦理委员会，汇集了来自多个领域和观点的专家，在两个层面上解决这个问题。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。第二层次着眼于先进材料和制造建模、数据分析和设计方法如何在一个全面的解决方案中相互作用。该计划的愿景是建立一个联合的产学研创新团队，以确定限制当前材料能力的总体基础科学问题。这项ERC计划拨款的目标是将这些研究领域和方法结合起来，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，提高社会对极端事件的安全性和福利。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坚固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ERC规划赠款将提供一个肥沃的平台，通过三个区域讲习班将利益相关者聚集在一起。在这些研讨会上确定的科学和技术问题将有助于在极端环境的材料和制造设计方面实现根本的范式转变。这种转变将包括计算材料/产品设计、机器学习和随机方法。这项ERC规划拨款将有助于就拟议主题全面制定可持续的愿景、重点和ERC结构。关键材料系统和试验台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。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。应用将从医疗保健、交通运输、能源生产到基础设施应用。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。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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.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.