GRAND and Interdisciplinary
Research Seminar (Wed 4 Mar, 3 pm)
Title:Research at IISc and the Indo-US Center of Excellence for
Sustainable
Design Date:
Wednesday, March 4th, 3 pm Location:Room 4201 Speaker:Amaresh Chakrabarti, Professor Centre for Product Design
and
Manufacturing Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore
Abstract
Design
Research
investigates phenomena associated with designing so as to develop
knowledge with which to inform and improve research, education and
practice of
design. Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing at Indian
Institute of
Science (IISc) is has a strong focus on design research, its areas
spanning
from design theory and methodology,design synthesis and
creativity, human
factors, aesthetics, safety, sustainability, design for
manufacturing, digital
human modelling, product informatics, geometric modelling,
CAD/CAE, Robotics,
and so on. IISc has been recently awarded a Indo-US Joint Center
of Excellence
(CoE) in Design of Sustainable Products, Services and
Manufacturing Systems,
with partners from Centre for Study of Science, Technology and
Policy (CSTEP),
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), National
Innovation Foundation
India (NIF), University of California Berkeley, Syracuse
University and
Washington State University. The talk will outline some of the
research from
IISc into design, and the main objectives and deliverables of the
CoE.
Biosketch
Amaresh
Chakrabarti
is a professor of Engineering Design at the Centre for Product
Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science (IISc),
Bangalore. He has
BE in Mechanical Engineering from Univ. of Calcutta (now IIEST
Shibpur), India,
ME in Mechanical Design from IISc, and PhD in Engineering Design
from
University of Cambridge, UK. After PhD, he led for 10 years the
Design
Synthesis team at the EPSRC Centre for Excellence Engineering
Design Centre at
University of Cambridge, before joining IISc. His interests are in
design
synthesis & creativity, eco-design & sustainability, and
product
informatics. He authored/edited 10 books, over 250 peer-reviewed
articles, and
has 6 patents granted/pending. He co-authored DRM, a methodology
used widely as
a framework for doing engineering design research. He is an
Associate Editor,
AI EDAM (Cambridge University Press), Area Editor, Research in
Engg Design
(Springer), Regional Editor, J for Remanufacturing (Springer), and
Advisory
Editor for nine International Journals incl. J of Engg Design
(Taylor &
Francis), Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy (Springer),
and Int J of
Design Creativity and Innovation (Taylor & Francis). Professor
Chakrabarti
has been on the Advisory Board of Design Society, UK, where he is
currently a
member of its Board of Management, member of the CII National
Committee on
Design, India, and member of the Jury for India Design Mark, India
Design
Council. He founded IDeASLab – the first laboratory in India for
research into
design creativity, sustainability and innovation. He is Programme
chair for
International Conferences on Research into Design (ICoRD), 22nd
CIRP Design
Conference (CIRP Design 2012) and vice-Chair for AI in Design
(AID) and Design
Computing and Cognition (DCC) Conferences. He is an Honorary
Fellow of the
Institution of Engineering Designers, the peer society under the
UK Royal
Charter in engineering design. 11 of his papers won top paper
awards in various
international conferences.
Funding Opportunity:NIH Summer Research
Experience for Students
Title:NIH Summer Research
Experience Programs
(R25) Sponsor:National Institutes
of Health/DHHS
SYNOPSIS:The sponsors invite
applications to provide a
high quality research experience for high school and college
students and for
science teachers during the summer academic break.The NIH expects that such
programs will: help
attract young students to careers in science; provide
opportunities for college
students to gain valuable research experience to help prepare them
for graduate
school; and enhance the skills of science teachers and enable them
to more effectively
communicate the nature of the scientific process to their
students.The programs
would also contribute to
enhancing overall science literacy.Summer Research Programs that expand and complement
existing summer
educational and training programs are encouraged.This FOA will utilize the R25
Education
Projects award mechanism.
DEADLINE
NOTE The
deadline for receipt of standard applications is April 2, 2015, by
5:00 PM
local time of applicant organization.The deadline for receipt of AIDS-related applications is
May 21,
2015by 5:00 PM local time
of applicant
organization.
This
Research
Announcement (RA) solicits ground-breaking single-investigator
proposals from junior faculty for research and development in the
areas of
Physical Sciences, Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine, Biology,
Information and
Social Sciences of interest to DARPA's Defense Sciences Office
(DSO),
Microsystems Technology Office (MTO), and Biological Technology
Office (BTO).
See the full DARPA-RA-15-32 document for details.(The full solicitation lists
topic areas that
are of interest to DARPA.)
Participation
is
limited to untenured Assistant or Associate Professors within 5
years of
appointment to a tenure-track position at a U.S. institution of
higher
education or equivalent at a non-profit science and technology
research
institution.
Funding Opportunity:Rapid Response to Earth
System Events (NASA)
Title:ROSES 2015: Rapid
Response and
Novel Research in Earth Science Sponsor:National Aeronautics
& Space
Administration
This
program
element solicits proposals that advance the goals and objectives
of
NASA?s Earth Science Division by conducting unique research to
investigate 1)
unforeseen or unpredictable Earth system events and opportunities
that require
rapid response, and 2) novel new ideas of potential high merit and
relevance for
ESD science that have not otherwise been solicited by NASA in the
past three
years.
DEADLINE
NOTE There
are rolling submissions through March 31, 2016.
OBJECTIVES:Rapid Response to Earth
System Events –
This subelement is focused on research proposals having great
urgency for action
involving quick-response research on natural or anthropogenic
extreme events,
disasters, and/or similar unanticipated or unpredictable events.
Examples are
major fires, volcanic eruptions, 100-year floods, episodes of
severe and
large-scale environmental pollution, harmful algal blooms, coral
bleaching
events, and other events causing large-scale and rapid
environmental change. …
Funding Opportunity:Cyberlearning and Future
Learning
Technologies (NSF)
Sponsor:Directorate for
Computer and
Information Sciences and Engineering/NSF
The
purpose
of the Cyberlearning and Future LearningTechnologies
program
is to integrate opportunities offered by emergingtechnologies
with advances in what is known about how people learn toadvance
three interconnected thrusts: Innovation: inventing andimproving
next-generation genres (types) of learning technologies,identifying
new means of using technology for fostering and assessinglearning,
and proposing new ways of integrating learning technologieswith
each other and into learning environments to foster and assesslearning;
Advancing understanding of how people learn intechnology-rich
learning
environments: enhancing understanding of how people
learn
and how to better foster and assess learning, especiallyin
technology-rich learning environments that offer new opportunitiesfor
learning and through data collection and computational modeling oflearners
and groups of learners that can be done only in suchenvironments;
and Promoting broad use and transferability of newgenres:
extracting lessons from experiences with these technologiesthat can
inform design and use of new genres across disciplines,
populations,
and learning environments; advancing understanding of howto foster
learning through effective use these new technologies and
the
environments they are integrated into.
Deadlines
are as follows: Full
Proposal Target Date:March
27, 2015 -- Capacity-Building Projects;
Letter
of Intent Deadline: May 11, 2015 --
Integration Projects only; Full
Proposal Deadline:July
13, 2015-- Integration Projects; Full
Proposal Target Date:July
31, 2015 -- Capacity-Building Projects; Full
Proposal Target Date:December
7, 2015 -- Capacity-Building
Projects; Full
Proposal Deadline: December 18,
2015-- Exploration
Projects; Full
Proposal Deadline:January
18, 2016-- Development
and Implementation.
Funding Opportunity:Broadening Participation in
Engineering (NSF)
Sponsor:Directorate for
Engineering/NSF
The
Broadening
Participation in Engineering (BPE) Program is a Directorate-wide
activity to support the development of a diverse and well-prepared
workforce of
engineering graduates, particularly those with advanced degrees.
The BPE
Program supports projects to engage and develop diverse teams that
can offer
unique perspectives and insights to challenges in engineering
research and
education.
Funding Opportunity:Team-Based Design in
Bioengineering Education
(NIH)
Title:Team-Based
Design in Biomedical
Engineering Education (R25) Sponsor:National Institute of
Biomedical
Imaging and Bioengineering/NIH/DHHS
SYNOPSIS:The sponsors invite
applications from
institutions that propose to establish new or to enhance existing
team-based
design courses in undergraduate Biomedical Engineering departments
or programs.
This FOA targets undergraduate students at the senior level but
may also
include junior undergraduates and first-year graduate students.
Courses that
address innovative and/or ground-breaking development,
multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary training and clinical
immersion are
especially encouraged.This
FOA will use
the NIH Research Education (R25) grant mechanism.
Deadline
Note:Optional letters of
intents may be
submitted thirty days before the application due date.The deadline for receipt of
full applications
is May 13 annually.This
FOA will expire
on May 14, 2015.
Funding Opportunity:Bioengineering Research
Partnerships (NIH)
Title:Bioengineering
Research
Partnerships (BRP) R01 Sponsor:National Institute of
Biomedical
Imaging and Bioengineering/NIH/DHHS
SYNOPSIS:National Institutes of
Health (NIH) participating
Institutes and Centers invite bioengineering applications that
will accelerate
the development and adoption of promising tools and technologies
that can
address important biomedical research problems. The objectives are
to establish
these tools and technologies as robust, well-characterized
solutions that
fulfill an unmet need and are capable of enhancing our
understanding of life
science processes or the practice of medicine. Awards will focus
on supporting multidisciplinary
teams that apply an integrative, quantitative bioengineering
approach to
developing these technologies and engage biomedical researchers or
clinicians
throughout the project. The goal of the program is to support
projects that can
realize meaningful solutions within 5-10 years.This FOA will use the NIH Research Project (R01) award
mechanism.
Deadline
Note:The deadlines for
receipt of
standard R01 applications under this announcement are: May 20,
2015, and
September 18, 2015), by 5:00 PM local time of applicant
organization.The
deadlines for receipt of AIDS-related
applications are: September 7, 2015, and January 7, 2016, by 5:00
PM local time
of applicant organization.This
FOA will
expire on January 8, 2016.
NOAA’s
Office
of Education (OEd) has issued a request for applications for
projects
designed to strengthen the public’s and/or K-12 students’
environmental
literacy to improve community resilience to extreme weather events
and
environmental changes.Successful
projects
will advance NOAA’s mission and build the environmental literacy
necessary for community resilience by focusing on geographic
awareness and an
understanding of Earth systems and the threats and vulnerabilities
that are
associated with a community’s location.Eligible applicants are limited to institutions of higher
education;
other nonprofits, including informal education institutions such
as museums,
zoos, and aquariums; K-12 public and independent schools and
school systems;
and state, local and Indian tribal governments in the United
States.Proposed projects
should be between two and
five years in duration and have total budget requests of $250,000
to $500,000 for
all years of the project.
Two
informational
webinars with the program officers will occur on March 9, 2015
from 3:00 to 5:00 pm EDT and March 10, 2015 from 3:00 to 5:00 pm
EDT. NOTE: the
same content will be presented in both webinars. By 12:00 PM EST
on March 6,
2015, interested applicants should register for one of the
webinars by emailing
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Volgenau School of Engineering
George Mason University
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