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TITLE:  Dear Colleague Letter: US-South Korea Collaborative Research in 
        Advanced Manufacturing (nsf15029)
DATE:   12/15/2014


   NSF 15-029

Dear Colleague Letter: US-South Korea Collaborative Research in Advanced
Manufacturing

   Dear Colleagues:

   In May, 2013, in Pohang, Korea, and August, 2014, in Reno, Nevada, the
   U.S. National Science Foundation and the National Research Foundation
   of Korea hosted workshops to identify areas of mutual interest for
   research in advanced manufacturing. The final report of these workshops
   is forthcoming and will be posted on the NSF Division of Civil,
   Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) web site. As a result of
   these workshops, the NSF Engineering Directorate (ENG) and the National
   Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea Division of Engineering are
   partnering to encourage joint research by U.S. - Korean teams
   collaborating on fundamental research in advanced manufacturing. The
   workshops identified opportunities potentially beneficial to both
   countries for collaborative research in the following areas:
   
    1. Robotics for manufacturing
    2. Materials Processing
    3. Manufacturing Mathematics and Smart Manufacturing
    4. Micro/nano Manufacturing
    5. Additive Manufacturing

   U.S.-based researchers, through their U.S. institutions, may submit
   unsolicited proposals to collaborate with Korea-based researchers on
   any of the topics listed above to appropriate programs in CMMI. All
   unsolicited proposals directed to CMMI must be submitted during one of
   two annual unsolicited proposal submission windows, February 1-15 and
   September 1-15, and they must be submitted in accordance with the
   current version of the NSF Grant Proposal Guide. Each of these proposal
   submission windows opens at 12:01 AM on the first day of the window,
   and closes at 5 PM submitter's local time on the last day of the
   window. In the event that the last day of the window is a Saturday,
   Sunday, or Federal holiday, the window closes at 5 PM submitter's local
   time on the following Federal government work day. Unsolicited
   proposals submitted at any other time will be returned without review.

   Questions concerning this opportunity may be emailed to the CMMI
   Manufacturing Machines and Equipment program director, ZJ Pei
   ([1]zpei@nsf.gov) or the CMMI Nanomanufacturing program director,
   Khershed Cooper ([2]khcooper@nsf.gov).

   Sincerely,

   George Hazelrigg
   Acting Division Director
   Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation
   Directorate for Engineering

References

   1. mailto:zpei@nsf.gov
   2. mailto:khcooper@nsf.gov