Engineering (ENG): Electrical, Communications, and Computing Systems (ECCS)
Funds foundational engineering research on devices, circuits and control — $110 million across roughly 300 awards, with no deadline.
This is the main door into NSF engineering's electrical and computing systems division, and it runs three programmes.
Electronic, Photonic, Magnetic and Quantum Devices funds foundational engineering research on new classical and quantum devices, exploring the electronic, photonic and magnetic properties of matter to enable applications that do not yet exist. Circuits and Systems for Communicatio…
Foundational engineering research on electrical, communications and computing systems in three programmes — electronic, photonic, magnetic and quantum devices; circuits and systems for communications and sensing; and energy, power, control and learning including AI and networked multi-agent systems.
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