Office of Research

Smart Manufacturing Technologies for Material and Process Innovation

Limited Submissions

To realize a clean, decarbonized economy, we must drive innovation to transform resources, materials, and manufacturing for energy applications. The U.S. ramp up of production of technologies that are needed for this energy transition will require new materials, new manufacturing processes, and new circular materials flows.

The modernization of manufacturing can help bring these innovations on-line at the needed scale and quality faster. Among the most important trends to impact the manufacturing sector is the drive toward digitalization, which is the process of employing digital technologies and information to transform the manufacturing enterprise system and business operations across the total production lifecycle. Smart manufacturing provides a systemic approach for the digital transformation of manufacturing that holds great promise to significantly improve productivity, efficiency, safety, security, and sustainability of U.S. manufacturing and energy systems.

The topic areas are:

  1. Smart Manufacturing for a Circular Economy
  2. Smart Manufacturing of Tooling and Equipment for Sustainable Transportation
  3. Smart Manufacturing for High Performance Materials
  4. Smart Technologies for Sustainable and Competitive U.S. Mining

Application Instructions

Please submit:

  1. A one‐page letter of intent with the topic area you are addressing, a description of proposed aims and approach.
  2. If the final application requires a diversity statement or statement of broader impacts, please summarize your plans to address the specific requirements on an additional page.
  3. CV (not biosketch) of the PI including past grant funding.

to limitedsubs@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Wednesday, July 31, 2024. If given the go‐ahead by the Limited Submissions review committee, a concept paper is due to the sponsor 8/22/2024 and it must be submitted by OSP, so you will need to have your materials in to the Office of Sponsored Programs by 8/13/2024.

Opportunity Details

Program web page

Program Announcement No.

DE-FOA-0003329

Deadlines
07/31/2024 UW Internal Deadline Closed
08/13/2024 OSP Deadline
08/22/2024 Sponsor Deadline
Sponsor

Department of Energy (DOE)

Funding amount

$3,000,000 (maximum; depends on topic area)

Maximum Number of Applications

1 (for each of 4 topic areas)

Eligible groups
  • All campus

Inquiries and Contact Information

Investigators who identify a grant, award or fellowship program that restricts the number of applications that can be submitted from an Institution should immediately contact their Chairperson, Associate Dean for Research (or Dean, if no ADR) and the Office of Research (see below) if they intend to prepare a response. Failure to do so, or to meet the deadlines for submission of pre-proposal, will preclude submission of the application through the Office of Sponsored Programs.

For general inquiries, or to request a listing of a limited submission opportunity that should be but is not already listed, please email us at limitedsubs@uw.edu.