Engineering Research Initiation (ERI)
Funds a first federal research grant for engineering academics outside the top research universities — at least $200,000.
NSF's engineering directorate built this to widen who does engineering research. It funds new academic investigators who have not yet won enough research money from federal agencies, to get their research programme started and their career moving.
The eligibility rule is the whole point of the programme and it is unusually blunt. Proposals are welcome only from institutions not currently classifi…
A first substantial research award for new academic investigators in engineering who have not yet received sufficient federal research funding, at institutions outside the very-high-research-activity tier.
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