Ideas from NSF

• Identify and establish collaborations between disciplines and institutions, among the U.S. academic institutions, industry and government and with international partners.

• Stimulate and support the development and dissemination of next-generation instrumentation, multi-user facilities, and other shared research and education platforms.

• Maintain, operate and modernize shared research and education infrastructure, including facilities and science and technology centers and engineering research centers.

• Upgrade the computation and computing infrastructure, including advanced computing resources and new types of information tools (e.g., large databases, networks and associated systems, and digital libraries).

• Develop activities that ensure that multi-user facilities are sites of research and mentoring for large numbers of science and engineering students.

Examples

• Every NSF proposal has to address broader impacts. Any piece of equipment large enough that you need to write a grant to buy it is large enough to serve as the basis for building research infrastructure. This poster from Purdue is a good example of showing how the instrumentation builds infrastructure.

Resources