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Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI)
CMMI Reorganization
The Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) Division is one of the four research divisions in the Directorate for Engineering at the National Science Foundation. Its mission is to fund fundamental research and education in support of the Foundation’s strategic goals directed at advances in the disciplines of civil, mechanical, industrial and manufacturing engineering, and materials design. In addition, the Division has a focus on the reduction of risks and damage resulting from earthquakes and other natural and technological hazards. The Division encourages cross-disciplinary research partnerships at the intersections of traditional disciplines to promote transformative advances in civil, mechanical and industrial systems and manufacturing technologies. It also encourages discovery enabled by the use of cross-cutting technologies such as adaptive systems, nanotechnology, and simulation. The integration of research and education is supported across all programs of the Division.
In order to achieve these goals in a more effective manner, the Division has recently reorganized its core research programs. This organization will allow for better collaboration between program directors and provide clarification to the community as to what programs best support their research. It will also allow new opportunities for support of cross-, multi-, and trans-disciplinary research activities. The CMMI Division is now organized into four program clusters, each containing four to six research programs:
• Advanced Manufacturing
• Mechanics and Engineering Materials
• Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructures
• Systems Engineering and Design In light of this reorganization of programs, please take note of new program descriptions, titles, and program description numbers, all of which have changed, especially in the submission of proposals in the future. Proposals submitted to the previous program names and descriptions that are still pending will be considered under the guidelines of the previous program. Please contact the cognizant program director if you have any questions. CMMI also accepts interdisciplinary proposals on nanotechnology topics from teams of researchers. Should you have questions, please contact the director of the programs closest to the primary area of research. The deadlines, preparation, and review criteria follow the same rules as regular proposals. PIs of such proposals are strongly encouraged to contact the director of the primary program area prior to preparing such a proposal.
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All unsolicited proposals directed to CMMI must be submitted during one of two annual unsolicited proposal submission windows, January 15 through February 15 and September 1 through October 1. Each of these windows opens at 12:01 AM on the first day of the window, and closes at 5 PM submitter's local time on the last day of the window. In the event that the last day of the window is a Saturday or Sunday, the window closes at 5 PM submitter's local time on the following Monday. Unsolicited proposals submitted at any other time will be returned without review. For proposals submitted under special announcements or solicitations, please refer to the deadline dates specified in the appropriate announcement or solicitation.
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