The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grants

A Follow-Up Program to the U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium  

Since 2011, the National Academy of Engineering has awarded the Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grants. Two grants of $30,000 each will be awarded.

These grants provide seed funding for the U.S. FOE participants who are at U.S.-based institutions to enable further pursuit of important new interdisciplinaryresearch and projects stimulated by the U.S. FOE symposia. They are intended to provide seed money 1) for support of students and post docs in a research effort or technical work, the purchase of equipment, and/or the acquisition of preliminary data that will support competition for larger awards from other sources, of 2) for execution of a discrete technical project of an interdisciplinary nature that will contribute to innovation in a particular area.

Below are links to the grant application and sample grant agreement. The grant application deadline is as follows:

Submission deadline: December 15, 2015, 5pm Eastern Time
Award Announcement: March 15, 2016
Grant Term: The grant term may begin no earlier than April 1, 2016, and end no later than May 31, 2018.

The proposal format is described in Section 2.2 of the grant application.

Grant Application

Sample Grant Agreement

Please direct questions to Janet Hunziker at jhunziker@nae.edu.