The National Science Foundation (NSF) is seeking proposals for the Manufacturing Machines and Equipment (MME) program, which supports fundamental research that enables the development of new and/or improved manufacturing machines and equipment, and optimization of their use. The program is particularly interested in equipment appropriate for the manufacture of mechanical and electromechanical devices, products, and systems featuring scales from microns to meters. Proposals relating to a wide...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is seeking grant applications for fundamental research that enables the development of new and/or improved manufacturing machines and equipment, and optimization of their use. The Manufacturing Machines and Equipment (MME) program supports a wide range of manufacturing operations, including subtractive and additive processes, forming, bonding/joining, and laser processing. Proposals that leverage the facilities, infrastructure, and member companies of the...
The National Science Foundation's Cybermanufacturing Systems (CM) Program supports fundamental research to enable the evolution of a wide range of network-accessed manufacturing services. The program seeks proposals that explore frameworks for partitioning the mechanical design space, develop CAD engines to facilitate design option restrictions, create product- and domain-focused parametric design apps, and establish software systems for generating and verifying machine instructions....
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is seeking grant applications for the Materials Engineering and Processing (MEP) program, which supports fundamental research on the processing and performance of engineering materials. The program is interested in proposals that investigate the interrelationship between materials processing, structure, properties, and life-cycle performance for targeted applications, including manufacturing processes, novel nanoscale material production, and the utilization...
The Design of Engineering Material Systems (DEMS) program from the National Science Foundation (NSF) supports fundamental research to develop new paradigms for the design, development, and integration of advanced engineering material systems. The program seeks proposals that creatively integrate theory, processing/manufacturing, data/informatics, experimental, and/or computational approaches with rigorous engineering design principles. Key objectives include enabling the accelerated design and...
The Service Enterprise Systems (SES) program, sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), supports research on decision-making related to the design, planning, and operation of commercial, nonprofit, and institutional service enterprises. The goal is to improve the overall effectiveness and cost reduction of these enterprises. Research proposals should be grounded in relevant applications and require the development of novel analytical and computational methodologies. Key research...
The Nanomanufacturing (NM) program supports fundamental research to enable and improve the large-scale or customized manufacturing of nano-scale materials, structures, devices, and systems. The program is seeking proposals for research leading to new nanomanufacturing methods using batch or continuous processes, and top-down/bottom-up processes and their integration. Key focus areas include addressing manufacturability challenges such as scalability, customizability, sustainability,...
The National Science Foundation's Systems Science (SYS) program supports fundamental research aimed at developing a theoretical foundation for design and systems engineering. The program seeks intellectual advances that integrate underlying theories, such as probability theory, decision theory, and organizational sociology, to create general, domain-independent explanatory models for design and systems engineering. Successful proposals should address research topics like search strategies,...
The National Science Foundation's Operations Engineering (OE) program supports fundamental research on advanced analytical methods for improving operations in complex decision-driven environments. This includes research on deterministic and stochastic modeling, optimization, decision and risk analysis, data science, and simulation. The program is particularly interested in applications in commercial enterprises, the public sector/government, and public/private partnerships, such as...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is seeking grant applications for its Operations Research (OR) program, which supports fundamental research into innovative mathematical models, analysis, and algorithms for optimal or near-optimal decision-making in complex systems. The program covers traditional areas of operations research, such as discrete and continuous optimization and stochastic modeling, as well as emerging areas like simulation optimization and self-optimizing systems. Eligible...