The goal of this workshop is to provide PhD students, postdocs, and early career faculty in the engineering design community a specific forum to learn and discuss best practice for preparing an NSF CAREER proposal. A second goal of this workshop is to encourage interaction between junior and senior faculty and strengthen the community bonds by providing a forum to discuss career development and planning. Such a workshop is necessary because CAREER proposals are inherently different from general unsolicited proposals to a NSF program, and those preparing to submit a CAREER must consider:
- how their proposed efforts relate to their overall career vision,
- how such a proposal should be structured,
- how to make the right connections that support the proposal, and
- how to incorporate feedback from previous panels.
This workshop will be held at the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers & Information in Engineering Conference (ASME IDETC/CIE) as part of the Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle Conference. This workshop will take place on Tuesday, August 23, 2016 from 9:00 am – 1 pm at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, NC and approximately 140 attendees will be expected (subject to room availability).