Engineering (ENG): Chemical, Bioengineering, Energy, and Transport Systems (CBET)

About This Grant

<p>The U.S. National Science Foundation Directorate for Engineering (NSF ENG) supports foundational engineering research for chemical, bioengineering, energy, and transport systems through the&nbsp;following programs: &nbsp;</p><ul><li><p>The&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/chemical-process-systems"><strong>Chemical Process Systems (CPS) program</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>supports&nbsp;foundational engineering research in chemical and biochemical processes for chemicals, fuels, energy, and materials.&nbsp;</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>The&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/engineering-biological-biomedical-systems"><strong>Engineering Biological and Biomedical Systems (EBBS) program</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>supports foundational engineering research on platforms, devices, organisms, tissues, and processes that advance knowledge and control of biological functions.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>The&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/energy-water-resource-engineering"><strong>Energy, Water, and Resource Engineering (EWRE) program</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>supports foundational engineering research to manage energy, water, minerals, and material resources.&nbsp;</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>The&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/transport-phenomena"><strong>Transport Phenomena (TP) program</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>supports foundational engineering research to understand, model, and control the transport of mass, momentum, energy, and species across multiple scales.&nbsp;</p></li></ul><p>NSF ENG&nbsp;anticipates&nbsp;a portfolio of ENG: Chemical, Bioengineering, Energy, and Transport Systems (CBET) awards with a range of budgets and durations. Estimated program budget, number of awards, and average award size/duration are subject to the availability of funds.&nbsp;</p><p>NSF ENG is particularly interested in intellectually ambitious and potentially transformative foundational research. Proposals need not promise a near-term product, deployment, or commercial outcome, nor need they address later-stage development to be competitive.</p>