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APPENDIX A Detailed Recommendations for Funding
Pages 185-197

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From page 185...
... ~ This principle underlies industry's support of academic chemical engineering research. In the last 6 years, industrial support has nearly quadrupled; it has been the main engine for funding growth in academic chemical engineering (Figure A
From page 186...
... Department of Energy Department of Health and Human Services (NIH) Department of the Interior Bureau of Mines Geological Surveys Minerals Management Service Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration Federal Railroad Administration Research and Special Programs Administration Environmental Protection Agency Federal Emergency Management Agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Science Foundation Arms Control and Disarmament Agency APPLE ~ Support to All Performers Support to Academia TOTAL 3,267 2,353 26,689 24,790 1,673 126 1,660 136,625 4,264 500 200 341 60 18,026 200 674 32,606 80 c c 254,134a o 2,353a 1,072 414 332 250b 15,182 c c o o o 520b N/A 674 27,957 N/A 48,754a a Estimate.
From page 187...
... Access to more sophisticated instrumentation and facilities is costly. Table A.2 presents a range of grant sizes that will be required to perform frontier research efficiently in the future.
From page 188...
... Biotechnology and Biomedicine Since publication of a preliminary report by this committee in 1984,5 NSF has increased its support of biochemical engineering by putting in place a new program in biotechnology in its Division of Emerging and Critical [Engineering Systems, by funding an Engineering Research Center focused on biotechnology processing, and by increasing support to the CBTE program on biochemical and biomass engineering. The committee applauds this progress and strongly encourages NSF to sustain the growth and quality of its research support in this area.
From page 189...
... Among engineering disciplines, chemical engineering enjoyed the second largest percentage growth in nonfederal support from FY 1980 to FY 1985. Dunng this same period, it also experienced the lowest percentage growth infederal support.
From page 190...
... , and an Engineering Research Center grant of $1.25 million. In contrast, there was virtually no identifiable NSF support in FY 1986 for the chemical engineering of ceramics.
From page 191...
... A recent report from the National Research Council recommends that the NSF Separation and Purification Processes Program receive a substantial increment in its budget over the next 5 years.6 The committee endorses those recommendations. Environmental Protection, Process Safety, and Hazardous Waste Management NSF Initiative 5 The National Science Foundation should strongly support growth in this research area, with a special focus on engineering design and control methodology for process safety and waste minimization.
From page 192...
... A variety of support mechanisms for carrying out such research could be envisioned that would include sponsorship of individual research projects in academia or federal laboratories, where appropriate; a DOE equivalent of the NSF Engineering Research Centers, but with more cooperative involvement from industry; and stimulation by DOE of industrial consortia both to carry out joint research among companies on nonproprietary topics and to support relevant research in academia.
From page 193...
... Up to now, this program has had relatively little involvement from chemical engineers. Given that chemical processing approaches to ceramics have a bright future, both for structural applications and possibly for ceramic superconductors, the OER should consider a major thrust in chemical processing of materials, with a view towards the more facile production of defect-free ceramics for energy and energy-saving applications.
From page 194...
... A special strength of the DOD research infrastructure is its vertical integration from basic research, through applied and exploratory research, to advanced testing and evaluation of technologies in the field. The committee recommends that DOD exploit this strength by formulating integrated initiatives around topics where advances in chemical processing can exert leverage.
From page 195...
... The committee urges EPA to revitalize its research grant program in the Office of Exploratory Research. As part of this revitalization, EPA should seek to fund the best chemical engineering research groups investigating important ongoing challenges to environmental quality: · fundamental chemical processes important in the generation and control of toxic substances by combustion, ~ chemical processes involved in the transport and fate of hazardous substances in the environment, and ~ design methodologies that could result in waste and process hazard minimization in chemical manufacturing plants.
From page 196...
... The specific tasks and possible organization of such a center, as well as its potential relationship with a new NSF center on hazardous waste management, should be the subject of an indepth study by EPA and any competition for siting and operating this center should be open to the most meritorious proposal, whether it originates from a university, a federal laboratory, the nonprofit sector, or some combination of the three. NATIONALBUREAU OF STANDARDS The National Bureau of Standards has a unique role to play in supporting the field of chemical engineering.
From page 197...
... National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Studies. Federal Support to Universities, Colleges, and Selected Nonprofit Institutions, Fiscal Year 1985.


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