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CMMI Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | July 25, 2019 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | January 4, 2024 |
| Award Number: | 1936967 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
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Georgia-Ann Klutke
CMMI Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation ENG Directorate for Engineering |
| Start Date: | August 1, 2019 |
| End Date: | July 31, 2024 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $299,947.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $299,947.00 |
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110 8TH ST TROY NY US 12180-3590 (518)276-6000 |
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110 8th St. Troy NY US 12180-3522 |
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| NSF Program(s): | OE Operations Engineering |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.041 |
ABSTRACT
This EArly-concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) award will support the establishment of a network of operations researchers and a science plan to address cross-cutting methodological challenges in hazards and disaster research. An abiding challenge for decision making in the context of hazards and disasters derives from the need to provide prescriptive (decisional) guidance under dynamic conditions of sometimes profound uncertainty and risk. Addressing these challenge requires a renewed focus on identifying potentially high-impact research problems that lie beyond the boundary of existing disciplinary and interdisciplinary methods to address. This is particularly true for problems that involve large-scale, sometimes sustained interaction between human-machine systems and hazard-related phenomena within a broader policy and social context.
This project will establish the Operations and Systems Engineering Extreme Event Research (OSEEER) network, designed to marshal both traditional and non-traditional sources of expertise in order to accomplish three main objectives: first, to create and sustain a network of researchers, collaborators and other affiliates working within and across operations engineering-centered areas; second, to stimulate this network through workshops and early-stage research activities in order to define high-impact, methodologically challenging problems in the field in the domain of hazards and disasters; and third, to develop publications and other outputs that establish preliminary research results and an agenda for future work to address emerging challenges that will contribute to society's ability to mitigate, respond to and learn from hazards and disasters.
This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
Disclaimer
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The Operations and Systems Engineering Extreme Event Research (OSEEER) network established and exercised a diverse network of researchers in Operations Engineering (OE) in order to drive engineering innovations in the domain of hazard and disaster mitigation.
The OSEEER network consists of a broad range of early career to senior researchers working in diverse OE fields such as Operations Research and Applied Statistics. To stimulate the growth of this network--and to facilitate connections with complementary research communities--OSEEER provided the following mentoring, research, and outreach platforms.
OSEEER produced a seminar series as well as a workshop in order to help early career researchers identify opportunities and challenges for OE-oriented work in the hazard and disasters domain. The seminar series provided an overview of emerging topics in this domain for OE researchers, as delivered by prominent innovators in the field. The workshop convened senior and early career researchers to exchange ideas about methodological innovation in this domain and to explore potential sources of research funding and potential outlets for publication.
OSEEER participated as a member of the NSF-funded CONVERGE program (1841338), supporting outreach and cross-cutting collaborations in the hazard and disaster domain. OSEEER provided expertise and insights in the use of techniques from OE fields for addressing cross-disciplinary problems. These efforts crystalized in a successful NSF-funded project that included two other networks within CONVERGE, as well as other external collaborators.
OSEEER provides a model for developing and utilizing a community of researchers drawn from fields within Operations Engineering. Their efforts will remain essential in ensuring continued societal health and sustainability in the face of threats from hazards and disasters.
Last Modified: 01/28/2025
Modified by: David Mendonca
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