NNCI Coordinating Office at Georgia Tech

国家纳米技术协调基础设施(NNCI)包括16个由国家科学基金会单独授予的大学站点及其合作伙伴，以提供对全国范围内纳米制造和表征、用户设施和工作人员专业知识的开放访问。佐治亚理工学院NNCI协调办公室通过促进NNCI的能力、便利用户获取其资源、分享最佳做法以及通过协调各个地点的活动来提高总体效率，从而加强了NNCI作为国家基础设施网络的影响。协调办公室通过NNCI网站和其他营销方法，帮助学术界、产业界和政府的用户寻找NNCI制造和表征资源，以满足他们的研究需求。协调办公室领导层利用现场工作人员的专业知识，促进整个网络中的教育和外联、社会和伦理影响、计算建模和模拟以及创新和创业方面的计划，并帮助提供与其他国家和国际纳米技术资源的联系。NNCI协调办公室的整体活动有助于提高美国在培训具有全球竞争力的劳动力和为纳米技术商业化提供有效资源方面的经济竞争力。他们还帮助公众了解和教育纳米科学和工程的基本原理和进展及其社会和伦理影响。NNCI协调办公室的使命是利用全国范围内的大学纳米技术用户设施网络的综合资产，支持NNCI各个站点、站点用户和更广泛的公众的利益。协调办公室使用各种机制向设施的用户传达网络资产的可用性，促进站点之间的互动，并评估各种计划的影响。一种主要的交流方式是专门的NNCI网站，该网站允许新用户和现有用户在网络中高效地定位能力和专业知识，并向学生、教师和更广泛的公众提供最新的纳米技术资源。为强调网站网络的重要性，协调办公室由一个由所有16个网站的代表组成的执行委员会以及若干工作组和小组委员会指导，这些工作组和小组委员会讨论广泛感兴趣的议题并解决共同问题。研究社区围绕关键的科学和工程挑战而组织，为NNCI提供了与更广泛的研究生态系统互动的机会。NNCI网络的一项旗舰活动是一年一度的NNCI会议，该会议将突出各个网站支持的研究，并为网站工作人员提供一个分享最佳做法和研究趋势的场所。外部咨询委员会就网络管理问题和未来方向提供意见。在整个网络中协调教育和外展活动，以分享和传播在地方、地区和国家各级有影响力的方案的最佳做法和资源。网络和多站点课程包括面向本科生(REU)和教师(RET)的课程。社会和伦理影响计划，如年度静修和研讨会，使社会科学家能够与纳米级的科学家、工程师和学生互动，以便所有群体都可以考虑新发现可能对社会产生的潜在影响。通过现有资源清单、与计算纳米技术网络的合作以及计划举办的一系列研讨会，为用户社区的计算建模和模拟需求提供支持。创新和创业活动，如演讲系列、本科教育和常驻企业家计划，为实现NNCI资源和专业知识的经济和社会效益提供了一种手段。对网站和网络整体实力的评估是通过与网站合作制定的衡量标准来确定的，并基于网站使用率、网站生产力和影响力、对网络的贡献以及教育和外联活动。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) comprises 16 university sites and their partners awarded individually by the National Science Foundation to provide open access to nanoscale fabrication and characterization user facilities and staff expertise across the nation. The NNCI Coordinating Office at Georgia Tech enhances the impact of NNCI as a national infrastructure network by promoting its capabilities, facilitating user access to its resources, sharing best practices, and improving overall efficiency through coordination of activities of the individual sites. The Coordinating Office assists users from academe, industry, and government in finding NNCI fabrication and characterization resources to meet their research needs through an NNCI website and other marketing approaches. The Coordinating Office leadership, using site staff expertise, facilitates programs in education and outreach, social and ethical implications, computational modeling and simulation, and innovation and entrepreneurship across the network, and helps provide linkages with other national and international nanotechnology resources. The overall activities of the NNCI Coordinating Office contribute to the economic competitiveness of the U.S. in training a globally competitive workforce and in providing efficient access to resources for commercialization of nanotechnology. They also help to inform and educate the general public on fundamentals and advances of nanoscience and engineering and their social and ethical implications.The mission of the NNCI Coordinating Office is to support the interests of individual NNCI sites, site users, and the broader public using the combined assets of a nation-wide network of university-based nanotechnology user facilities. The Coordinating Office uses a variety of mechanisms to communicate availability of network assets to users of the facilities, foster interactions among the sites, and assess the impact of the various programs. A primary mode for communication is a dedicated NNCI website, which allows new and existing users to efficiently locate capabilities and expertise within the network, and also provide up-to-date nanotechnology resources to students, teachers, and the broader public. To emphasize the importance of a network of sites, the Coordinating Office is guided by an Executive Committee with representation from all 16 sites as well as a number of Working Groups and Subcommittees that address topics of broad interest and solve common problems. Research Communities are organized around key scientific and engineering challenges and represent an opportunity for the NNCI to interact with the broader research ecosystem. A flagship event for the NNCI network is an annual NNCI Conference that will highlight the research supported by the individual sites, as well as provide a venue for site staff to share best practices and research trends. An External Advisory Board provides input on network management issues and future directions. Education and outreach activities are coordinated across the network to share and disseminate best practices and resources for impactful programs at the local, regional, and national levels. Network and multi-site programs include those for undergraduates (REU) and teachers (RET). Societal and ethical implications programs, such as an annual retreat and workshops, enable social scientists to interact with nanoscale scientists, engineers, and students so that all groups can consider the potential impacts new discoveries might have on society. Computational modeling and simulation needs of the user community are supported through an inventory of available resources and collaboration with the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN), as well as a planned seminar series. Innovation and entrepreneurship activities, such as a speaker series, undergraduate education, and entrepreneur-in-residence programs, provide a means for realizing the economic and societal benefits of NNCI resources and expertise. Assessment of the strength of the sites and the network as a whole are determined through metrics developed in collaboration with the sites and are based on site usage, site productivity and impact, contributions to the network, and education and outreach activity.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.