Jack Stankovic BP America Professor Director, Link Lab University of Virginia
Cover all issues ( with details ) in solicitation ◦ Education plan ◦ Research plan ◦ Integration of Education and Research ◦ Professional Development ◦ Sustainability ◦ Evaluation ◦ Recruiting ◦ Dissemination Little/no (or minimize) boilerplate Provide evidence!
UVA: Cyber Physical Systems ◦ We created the interdisciplinary structure FIRST (across 5 Depts.) and then applied for the NRT ◦ Value of this approach: Shows buy-in Faculty Students Administration $5M and 8 faculty lines (a new Link Lab) Shows previous research work Shows sustainability potential
Give details ◦ Classes (inputs, content, outputs, when taught) ◦ How are they related to departments ◦ Related to teaching loads ◦ Who will be in the classes Not only NRT students/leverage! ◦ Will it affect time to graduate ◦ Team teaching? – if so, credit ◦ KEY: Professional development (later)
Show why/how students lack this training now!
Demonstrate that you have thought through the logistics and the content of the training
Give details and why it needs new training ◦ UVA Smart Health Smart Cities Autonomous Vehicles UVA Example (multidisciplinary): ◦ Smart Health – safety critical Need new formal method techniques that involve sensors (physical world), uncertainty, etc. Engineering students don’t know formal methods CS students limited in sensing, signal processing, etc. NEW CLASS
Don’t minimize the research aspects and content UVA proposal: Gave example projects that illustrate the research content and how the research is helped by the traineeship education ◦ Challenges ◦ 3 example projects ◦ How education will improve research
How does training integrate with the research What are the expected research outcomes UVA Example: ◦ Class on integrating SP, ML and FC as core material to enable non-domain experts to come up to speed quickly and to see connections and how the cyber and physical interact And how this class enables more effective research on Smart Cities, Smart Health and Autonomous Systems
Communications/writing/leadership/ … How will skills be guaranteed ◦ What is optional/required How will skills be measured Not a one shot training Cohort Culture Industry involvement (advisory board)
New degree New lab New culture How to engage faculty beyond the NRT faculty With Industry ◦ Internships ◦ Testbeds ◦ Advisory Board
What will you measure ◦ Technical skills ◦ Research output/quality ◦ Professional development Use Logic Model Formative evaluation to inform changes to training components External evaluator – member of leadership team and many evaluation time points
Underrepresented groups (some boilerplate) ◦ Short term ◦ Long term REUs Summer Programs UVA University Commitment ◦ UG – doubled enrollment at UG level Various techniques ◦ Move this to grad program ◦ New Dean’s scholar program ($8.5M)
Work with Engineering Center for Diversity Targeted outreach to HBCUs (with specific schools named) REU site Embraced holistic admissions Mentoring and Retention At UVA: “the 4 year graduation rate for Black (2 times the national average) and Hispanic students (3 times the national average)”
Dissemination of curricula developments and the rationale – some boilerplate Established partnership with another Univ. for excellence in CPS ◦ Can share educational and research materials ◦ How/when etc. – give details
Broader Impact Organization and Management ◦ Include an ORG chart
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