ERC Planning Grant Insights: National Science Foundation Program Office Q&A

This Q&A panel session begins with a brief wrap-up of prior workshop presentations, led by SESYNC Director Margaret Palmer. In the Q&A panel, NSF Program Directors and Officers Junhong Chen, Mary Poats, Sandra Cruz-Pol, Dana Denick, and Deborah Jackson field questions from workshop attendees on topics including: the role that international collaborators can play in grant planning and practice; how to think about team science as part of a research agenda; clarification and examples of convergent research; and advice for planning grant activities. Panelists: • Junhong Chen, Program Director, National Science Foundation • Mary Poats, Program Manager, National Science Foundation • Sandra Cruz-Pol, Program Director, National Science Foundation • Dana Denick, Associate Program Officer, National Science Foundation • Deborah Jackson, Program Director, National Science Foundation This talk was presented at the 2018 Accelerating Engineering Research Center Preparedness Workshop on October 2, 2018. This workshop was supported by NSF award EEC-1748840, NSF Engineering Education and Centers: Stewarding a Community of Scholars, Leaders, and Innovators. For more information about the workshop, visit: https://ercbiennial.asee.org/2018-pgw