Page 20 - ASME IMECE 2017 Program
P. 20
Special Events WEDNESDAY
NSF Proposal Development Workshop Materials Division Lectures and Reception
10:15am–12:15pm Sponsored by: Materials Division
Room 39, Tampa Convention Center 10:30am–1:00pm
Meeting Room 1, 2nd Floor, Tampa Marriott Waterside
Kershed Cooper, Kara Peters, Siddiq Qidwai, Mary Toney
The following awards and lectures will be presented:
In this workshop, the fundamentals of successful grant
proposal writing for the National Science Foundation (NSF) will Materials Division Sia Nemat-Nasser Award Presentation
be covered. Participants will learn about key topics, including
the components of a successful proposal and finding the right Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award to Yashashree Kulkarni
home for the research. Critical aspects of the merit review “for pioneering work on twin boundaries in crystalline materials
process, funding profiles, and NSF programs, solicitations, and and their role in next-generation nanostructured materials.”
other opportunities will be presented. This workshop is geared
towards early career investigators at U.S. institutions seeking Biography: Yashashree Kulkarni is an
to understand the NSF merit review process, but the Associate Professor of Mechanical
information provided will be valuable to principal investigators Engineering at the University of Houston.
in any stage of their career seeking to learn more about She works in the area of computational
proposal writing and NSF funding opportunities. mechanics and materials science. She
received her PhD in applied mechanics from
One-on-One with NSF Program Directors Caltech in 2007 where she worked on multi-scale modeling
1:30pm–3:15pm (Session 1) of materials. Before joining the University of Houston in 2009,
she spent two years as a postdoctoral scholar at University of
West Exhibit Hall, Tampa Convention Center California San Diego. There she worked on atomistic
3:45pm–5:30pm (Session 2) simulations and mechanistic modeling of nanotwinned
materials. Her current research focuses on studying the role of
Room 39, Tampa Convention Center defects and interfaces in nanostructured materials, drawing
from statistical mechanics, continuum mechanics, and multi-
Kershed Cooper, Kara Peters, Siddiq Qidwai, Mary Toney scale modeling. Her honors and awards include the Bill D.
Cook Faculty Endowed Chair, the W.T. Kittinger Teaching
Principal Investigators (PIs) will have an opportunity to discuss Excellence Award from University of Houston, and the DARPA
one-on-one their research proposals and concerns with Young Faculty Award.
program directors (PDs) of their choice. PDs representing
materials (Mary Toney), mechanics (Siddiq Qidwai and Kara Materials Division Nadai Medal Award Presentation
Peters), and manufacturing (Kershed Cooper) programs will be
available. The meeting time of 20 minutes demand that the PIs Nadai Medal to John A. Rogers “for fundamental and applied
come prepared with their talking points. contributions to semiconductor nanomaterials for high
performance electronics.”
NSF-CBET Program Overview and Initiatives
1:30pm–3:15pm Biography: Professor John A. Rogers
obtained BA and BS degrees in chemistry
Room 39, Tampa Convention Center and in physics from the University of Texas,
Austin, in 1989. From MIT, he received SM
Song-Charng Kong and Jose Lage degrees in physics and in chemistry in 1992
and the PhD degree in physical chemistry
In this event, an overview of the Chemical, Bioengineering, in 1995. From 1995 to 1997, Rogers was a Junior Fellow in
Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) Division the Harvard University Society of Fellows. He joined Bell
will be provided with emphasis on programs and funding Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff in the Condensed
opportunities. The floor will then be opened to participants Matter Physics Research Department in 1997, and served as
to ask questions. Director of this department from the end of 2000 to 2002. He
then spent thirteen years on the faculty at University of Illinois
2018 IMECE Track Organizers and Co-Organizers at Urbana/Champaign, most recently as the Swanlund Chair
Meeting Professor, the highest chaired position at the university, with a
primary appointment in the Department of Materials Science
1:30pm–2:30pm and Engineering, with a joint appointment in Mechanical
Ballroom A, Tampa Convention Center Science and Engineering, where he also served as Director of
the Seitz Materials Research Laboratory. In 2016, he joined
xviii Northwestern University as the Louis Simpson and Kimberly
Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering,
Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science, Chemistry and
Neurological Surgery, where he is also the founding Director of
the newly endowed Center on Bio-Integrated Electronics.
