School of EngineeringUniversity of Bridgeport

Mechanisms for Supporting Research

• Periodic Graduate Programs Review• Periodic Research Review

– SWOT Analysis• Identification of “Centers of Excellence”

– Potential groups / individuals / student work.– Existing opportunities

• Yearly / Periodic Goals (Change and Maintenance)• Faculty Development Funds, Seed grants• Making research embedded in the culture• Professional review• Develop Web, training/workshops, grant writ(ers)/(ing)

School of EngineeringUniversity of Bridgeport

Research Strategies

• Sponsored Research: Industry, Federal, Foundations, State, Local– Multi-Disciplinary

• Across departments, schools, campuses– SWOT again

• Joint work / proposal writing: Partner with Industry Centers, Other Universities, School Districts, etc.• Identification / Listing of resources / agencies (project)

• Recommendations regarding potential project resources

School of EngineeringUniversity of Bridgeport

Some Techniques

• IAB role– Student Centered Activities– Startup co-ops, internships, GA’s, low overhead.

• Relations with Industry / University Clients Model– Complete Involvement– Joint Work (research and curricular)

• Interfacing: VC’s (connecting), Incubator(s)• Overhead % back to group / dept. / school.• Seed funding / ID of potential, extending

resources.

School of EngineeringUniversity of Bridgeport

Project Examples:

• Glove (Chiro, Eng and Business (law))• Robotic Musicians (A&S, Music, Eng)• E-Assessment (Education, Eng)• ConnCap (Education, Eng)• Face ID (Bus, Eng, art (law))• Tire changing (Bus, Eng)• Reverse Engineering in Dentistry, Film Making (Eng, Art,

Health sciences)

• Across dept., school, campus, joint with Univ., school districts, industry, VC’s.

School of EngineeringUniversity of Bridgeport

Example Resources• Faculty Enhancement Programs• Instrumentation Grants for research in Computer and Information Science• Research Equipment Grant Program• CISE Directorate Educational Supplements• Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement• Research in Undergraduate Institutions Program• Grant Opportunities for Academic Liason with Industry Programs• Institutional Infrastructure Programs.• Activities for Women and Minorities in Science Programs• Networking Infrastructure for Education Program.• DUE Undergraduate Education programs• Graduate Research Traineeships programs• Research Careers for Minority scholars program• CISE Computer and Computation Research Grants.• CISE Information, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems Grants (RMI).• CISE Cross-Disciplinary Activities in: o Educational Infrastructure o Institutional Infrastructure for Research o Special Projects• Academic Research Infrastructure (a cross-directorate program)• Research Opportunity Awards (a cross-directorate program)• Small grants for Exploratory Research Program.• Research and Education in Strategic Areas Programs• EHR Division of Undergraduate Education Programs.• EHR Division of Graduate Education and Research Development Programs.• International Directorate Grants.• DARPA, ONR, AFOSR, DoD, NASA, DOE, NIH.• State and local initiatives (centers of excellence programs, etc.)• Collaboration with research centers, industry,• Inter-school, inter-campuses, other Universities, school districts.• Student fellowships (federal / state /industry / foundation) (e.g, IEEE CSIDC, Sigma Xi, Microsoft, etc.)