The New Jersey Space Grant Consortium fosters
aerospace related research in New Jersey by funding noteworthy and innovative
research projects involving Industry-University co-operative effort at
its member institutions on an annual basis.
A key component of this effort is to require matching contributions from
the industrial partners (either in cash or in kind support) as well as
participation by graduate students.
The total amount of funding available for this effort (of approximately
$100,000 per year), is typically utilized to fund about four or five proposals
with a maximum of $25,000 per proposal.
The proposals funded during the past involve
a wide range of topics ranging from biotechnology to material processing
to structural analysis to computational fluid mechanics -- topics of considerable
interest to aerospace industry and in the forefront of its current research
activities. The matching industrial support has typically averaged about
$120k/year with additional support of $80k/year from the participating
member institutions. A partial list of participating industries include:
Allied Signal (Morristown, NJ), AT & T Bell Laboratories (Holmdel, NJ),
Concepts, ETI (Parsippany, NJ), David Sarnoff Research Center (Princeton,
NJ), Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, MI), Lockheed-Martin (Princeton, NJ),
Northrup-Grumman (Bethpage, NY), Olin Hunt Speciality Products (West Paterson,
NJ).
NASA
Mission Statement
To pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics
research...
.. as only NASA can.
IUR Request For Research Proposals
The New Jersey Space Grant Consortium solicits proposals to conduct
research on topics related to aerospace engineering and sciences.
Background
The New Jersey Space Grant Consortium was established in 1991 by a grant from NASA. Its member institutions are: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Rutgers University, Stevens Institute of Technology, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. The objectives of the Consortium are to further aerospace education, research, and development in New Jersey. One element of the plan to achieve these objectives is to fund a limited number of noteworthy research projects at its member institutions. Preference will be given to proposals which are intended to seed new work rather than to augment established programs. Highest priority will be given to proposals from junior faculty members. It is anticipated that up to three proposals would be funded.
Proposal
The proposal (not to exceed a total of eight pages) should contain
the following sections.
• Cover Sheet (with signatures indicating Institutional Approval)
• Objective
• Technical Description
• Relevance to NASA Strategic Enterprise and NASA Involvement
• Statement of Work
• Deliverables
• Industrial Partner Statement — Letter of support from
the Industrial Partner stating involvement and
support for the project.
• Budget (should not include fringe benefits or overhead costs
and must use a four or more column
format showing budget request from NJSGC and contributions from
industry and university as well
as the total for each item on the list). Budget must have institutional
approval.
• Biographical sketch of the Principal Investigator (not to
exceed one page)
Project Requirements
The project must be relevant to aerospace and fit into one of NASA's strategic enterprises on Aerospace Technology, Human Exploration and Development of Space, Space Science or Earth Science.
The project must have an industrial partner whose contribution matches the funding requested from the consortium. The industrial contribution may be money or in kind support and must be specified in the proposal. Involvement of NASA Center(s) or collaboration is highly recommended.
Principal Investigator must be a full-time faculty member with tenure track appointment at one of the NJSGC member institutions.
Graduate students must be involved in the project.
Funding requested from the Consortium must not exceed $25,000.
Project accomplishments must be documented in the form of an interim report and a final report.
Proposal
Submission
1) Submit proposal on-line before June
16, 2006
2) Mail one original
with all the approval signatures by June
16, 2006 to:
The Program Director
New Jersey Space Grant Consortium
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, New Jersey 07030
Past awards
and other information pertaining to NJSGC as well as the national
space grant programs are available at the website here:
Questions regarding this solicitation may be addressed to a Program Council Member:
NJIT: Prof. Louis J. Lanzerotti Princeton:Prof. Edgar Y. Choueiri Rutgers:Prof. Haim Baruh Stevens: Prof. Siva Thangam UMDNJ: Prof. Peter Stein
