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Broad(er) impacts of the NSF CAREER proposal Tony L. Schmitz, Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science University of North Carolina at Charlotte Broader impacts If you are thinking about writing your CAREER proposal, then you’ve been studying the Grant Proposal Guide (GPG) and are familiar with… /pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf11001/gpg_3.jsp#IIIA2 I’m not actually going to talk about NSF proposal merit review criteria, however. I’d like to tell you about the broad(er) impact that the NSF CAREER program has had on my academic career. Broader impacts Agenda Introduction CAREER proposal broad(er) impacts Writing your CAREER proposal Conclusions Agenda Introduction CAREER proposal broad(er) impacts Writing your CAREER proposal Conclusions Introduction Education BS Temple University 1993 MS University of Florida 1996 PhD University of Florida 1999 Appointments Assistant football coach, Fort Scott Community College, Fort Scott, KS, 1993 Engineer, Acme Foundry, Coffeyville, KS, 1994 Guest researcher, LLNL, Livermore, CA, 1996 NRC post-doctoral research associate, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, 1999-2002 Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2000-2002 Assistant Professor, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 2002-2007 Associate Professor, University of Florida, 2007-2011 Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2011-present Defensive coordinator, Weddington HS, Weddington, NC, 2011-present CAREER proposal Submitted July, 2002. Awarded March, 2003. 1990 1995 2000 2010 2005 Agenda Introduction CAREER proposal broad(er) impacts Writing your CAREER proposal Conclusions CAREER proposal broad(er) impacts That very special (award) telephone call from your program manager (George Hazelrigg for me) has a few effects: it reduces the tremendous pressure you (probably) feel as a new faculty member it means you get to/need to hire students you now have to actually do the work that you proposed! CAREER proposal