Subcontract proposal for NSF NIRT

Topic: Active Nanostructures and Nanosystems (ANN) http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06595/nsf06595.htm

Due Nov. 15 at NSF with all bells & whistles.

See NsfProposalInstructionsSummary for the most important instructions.

Other NIRT-specific instructions from the NSF NIRT website:

Proposers must indicate in order of priority one (or more) of the four research and education themes described in Section II which the proposal addresses. This must be stated in the last line of the project summary, and it will be used to assist in assignment of the proposal to the most appropriate panel.

NOTE : The Project Summary and Project Description sections must indicate, in separate statements, the intellectual merit of the proposed work and its broader impacts. (See Section VI.), or the proposal will be returned without review.

NIRT proposals must conform to the requirements of the Grant Proposal Guide (GPG) or the NSF Grants.gov Application Guide, with three modifications:

Collaborative research activities should be described and submitted in a single proposal in which a single award is requested, with subawards administered by the lead organization to any other participating organizations. (See GPG section II.D.3.a.) This solicitation encourages team approaches in the belief that a synergistic blend of expertise is needed to make major headway in research, education, and development of the infrastructure. Budgets for any subawards to different organizations must be included.

The project description is limited to 15 pages plus 1 additional page per each co-principal investigator. For example, a proposal with 1 principal investigator and 4 co-principal investigators listed on the cover page and budget request would be limited to 19 pages of project description. The maximum number of PIs and Co-PIs is 5, so the maximum number of pages in the project description would be 19 pages.

The project description should include a discussion of the management, education and outreach aspects of the project. The proposal should describe the roles to be played by the participating organizations, the responsibilities of the managing PI the activities of associated partners, arrangements for networking, exchange, dissemination of data and results. The managing PI must be from the lead organization. Details on the education, training, and outreach activities planned as part of the project should be included. Opportunities for students to obtain novel research or educational experiences should be detailed, as well as any specific training activities or workshops.

Proposals that exceed the page limitations described above will be returned without review.

Proposal Deadline Date: Full proposals for NIRT are due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time on November 15, 2006. Proposals must be submitted electronically through FastLane? or Grants.gov by the lead organization.

organizing PI is Prof. Kim Turner at UCSB

From

turner@engineering.ucsb.edu

Subject

NIRT Proposal Draft

Date

November 5, 2006 16:51:25 PST

To

jacob@engineering.ucsb.edu, cutkosky@stanford.edu, kenny@cdr.stanford.edu, arzt@mf.mpg.de

Hello,

Thank you all for being a part of this NIRT submission. In order to keep everyone's work to a minimum, and keep duplication to a minimum, I'm sending you a draft of the Project Description. Please make any edits to this draft--especially where you see your name. In addition, since we have not spoken as a team about this, if you feel the focus needs adjusting, etc., please let me know, and we can work things out. This NIRT proposal was nearly funded last year with a slightly different team, and we are hopeful for another good review this year, especially with a few scrutinized points carefully addressed. If you have other funding on this work, please make sure to be careful and mention diffferences in focus between that and this proposal to avoid duplication of funding.

Tom--I need your Current & Pending, as well as your 2 page bio. I will assign this proposal an NSF number shortly and then you'll be able to log in and view/upload things as well.

As far as the Budget: NIRT budgets are modest to say the least. I think that the total budget is 350K per year. I hope that this modest collaboration will lead to the start of something bigger in the future. For now, we must make do with what we have. Here is what I propose:

Per year: Turner 85K Israelachvili 85K Cutkosky 75K Kenny 75K Arzt (travel) 30K This is of course all debatable.

Now for the CATCH: This proposal is due November 15 at NSF. However, I will be OUT OF TOWN from 11-12 to 11-18 and UNABLE to check my email after Nov. 12. Therefore, I need to get it submitted prior to Nov. 12. This means I will need budgets THIS WEEK. If we can't get everything together on Nov. 12, I wlil have a secretary put in charge of final submissions, but I hope to not have to utilize that option.

Please let me know of any concerns/questions as soon as they come up. I will be in Chicago at ASME on Tuesday and Wed. of this week but can certainly still be reachable. IN addition, my cell phone is 805-403-7426.

Thanks again, Kimberly

Kimberly L. Turner Associate Professor and Vice Chair Department of Mechanical Engineering UC Santa Barbara 2326 Engineering II, Mailstop 5070 Santa Barbara, CA 93106 805-893-5106 FAX 805-893-8651 Email: turner@engineering.ucsb.edu Web: www.engr.ucsb.edu/~tmems

?

-- MarkCutkosky - 06 Nov 2006