(CLOSED) NSF 19-546 Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Computing in Undergraduate Education (IUSE: CUE)

Sponsor Name: 
NSF
Amount: 
$4,500,000.00
Description of the Award: 

Increasingly, undergraduate computer science (CS) programs are being called upon to prepare larger and more diverse student populations for careers in both CS and non-CS fields, including careers in scientific and non-scientific disciplines. Many of these students aim to acquire the understandings and competencies needed to learn how to use computation collaboratively across different contexts and challenging problems. However, standard CS course sequences do not always serve these students well. With this solicitation, NSF will support teams of Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) in re-envisioning the role of computing in interdisciplinary collaboration within their institutions. In addition, NSF will encourage partnering IHEs to use this opportunity to integrate the study of ethics into their curricula, both within core CS courses and across the relevant interdisciplinary application areas.

NSF expects to fund 12 to 15 awards. Proposals that do not include an ethics component may request a maximum budget of $300,000 over 18 months; and proposals that do include an ethics component may request a maximum budget of $350,000 over 18 months.

Eligibility Information

Limit on Number of Proposals per Organization:

  • Proposals must comprise a multi-institutional partnership, with a lead institution and 2-4 additional partners. Proposals that do not meet this requirement will be returned without review.
  • A single institution may partner on at most two submitted proposals. THEREFORE EACH PARTICIPATING INSTITUTION MUST BE SELECTED THROUGH THEIR OWN INSTITUTION'S LIMITED SUBMISSION PROGRAM.

If you have any questions, please contact limitedsubs@psu.edu.

Limit (Number of applicants permitted per institution): 
1
Sponsor Final Deadline: 
May 09, 2019
To be considered as a Penn State institutional nominee, please submit a notice of intent by the date provided directly below.
Penn State OSVPR NOI Deadline: 
Friday, March 15, 2019 - 4:00pm
This limited submission is in downselect: 
Penn State may only submit a specific number of proposals to this funding opportunity. The number of NOIs received require that an internal competition take place, thus, a downselect process has commenced. No Penn State researchers may apply to this opportunity outside of this downselect process. To apply for this limited submission, please use this link:
OSVPR Downselect Deadline: 
Friday, March 15, 2019 - 4:00pm
Notes: 
Susser, Daniel (College of IST)