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Title of Collection: Grantee Reporting
Requirements for the Engineering
Research Centers (ERCs).
OMB Number: 3145–0220.
Expiration Date of Approval: May 31,
2015.
Type of Request: Intent to seek
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Abstract:
Proposed Project: The Engineering
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and engineered systems; educate a
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includes the factors associated with its
use in industry, society/environment, or
the human body.
ERCs enable and foster excellent
education, integrate research and
education, speed knowledge/technology
transfer through partnerships between
academe and industry, and prepare a
more competitive future workforce.
ERCs capitalize on diversity through
participation in center activities and
demonstrate leadership in the
involvement of groups
underrepresented in science and
engineering.
Centers are required to submit annual
reports on progress and plans, which
will be used as a basis for performance
review and determining the level of
continued funding. To support this
review and the management of a Center,
ERCs also are required to submit
management and performance
indicators annually to NSF via a data
collection Web site that is managed by
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indicators are both quantitative and
descriptive and may include, for
example, the characteristics of center
personnel and students; sources of cash
and in-kind support; expenditures by
operational component; characteristics
of industrial and/or other sector
participation; research activities;
education activities; knowledge transfer
activities; patents, licenses;
publications; degrees granted to
students involved in Center activities;
descriptions of significant advances and
other outcomes of the ERC effort. Such
reporting requirements will be included
in the cooperative agreement which is
binding between the academic
institution and the NSF.
Each Center’s annual report will
address the following categories of
activities: (1) Vision and impact, (2)
strategic plan, (3) research program, (4)
innovation ecosystem and industrial
collaboration, (5) education, (6)
infrastructure (leadership, management,
facilities, diversity) and (7) budget
issues.
For each of the categories the report
will describe overall objectives for the
year, progress toward center goals,
problems the Center has encountered in
making progress towards goals and how
they were overcome, plans for the future
and anticipated research and other
barriers to overcome in the following
year, and specific outputs and
outcomes.
Use of the Information: The data
collected will be used for NSF internal
reports, historical data, performance
review by peer site visit teams, program
level studies and evaluations, and for
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securing future funding for continued
ERC program maintenance and growth.
Estimate of Burden: 150 hours per
center for 17 centers for a total of 2,550
hours.
Respondents: Academic institutions.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Report: One from each of the 17 ERCs.
Dated: January 7, 2015.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science
Foundation.
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Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory
Committee; Notice of Meeting
In accordance with the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (Pub., L. 92–
463, as amended), the National Science
Foundation announces the following
meeting:
Name: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Advisory Committee (#13883).
Date and Time: February 27, 2015, 12:00
p.m.–4:00 p.m. EST, Teleconference.
Place: National Science Foundation, Room
1020, Safford I Building, 4201 Wilson Blvd.,
Arlington, VA, 22230.
Type of Meeting: Open.
Contact Person: Dr. James Ulvestad,
Division Director, Division of Astronomical
Sciences, Suite 1045, National Science
Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington,
VA 22230. Telephone: 703–292–8820.
Purpose of Meeting: To provide advice and
recommendations to the National Science
Foundation (NSF), the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration (NASA) and the
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on issues
within the field of astronomy and
astrophysics that are of mutual interest and
concern to the agencies.
Agenda: To provide updates on agency
activities and to discuss the Committee’s
draft annual report due 15 March 2015.
Dated: January 7, 2015.
Suzanne Plimpton,
Acting, Committee Management Officer.
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee; Notice of Meeting
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub., L. 92-
463, as amended), the National Science Foundation announces the
following meeting:
Name: Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee (#13883).
Date and Time: February 27, 2015, 12:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. EST,
Teleconference.
Place: National Science Foundation, Room 1020, Safford I
Building, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA, 22230.
Type of Meeting: Open.
Contact Person: Dr. James Ulvestad, Division Director, Division
of Astronomical Sciences, Suite 1045, National Science Foundation,
4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230. Telephone: 703-292-8820.
Purpose of Meeting: To provide advice and recommendations to the
National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
on issues within the field of astronomy and astrophysics that are of
mutual interest and concern to the agencies.
Agenda: To provide updates on agency activities and to discuss
the Committee's draft annual report due 15 March 2015.
Dated: January 7, 2015.
Suzanne Plimpton,
Acting, Committee Management Officer.
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