ERVA Open Call for Visioning Theme Submissions

Funded by the NSF Directorate for Engineering, the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA) is a neutral convener that helps to identify bold and transformative new engineering research directions. We do this by engaging experts in a visioning workshop.

Our call to action for you is to share Big Ideas — research problems for ERVA visioning. We greatly appreciate your insight on ideas that can shape exciting future engineering research with impacts that affect our entire ecosystem. Please help ERVA identify bold new engineering research problems that are:

• Emerging or nascent research areas that are currently under-resourced;
• Challenges that engineering can solve;
• Capable of major societal impact;
• Involve broad engagement of the engineering research community;
• Distinct from the previous visioning themes: The Role of Engineering to Address Climate Change, Leveraging Biology to Power Engineering Impact, Engineering R&D Solutions for Unhackable Infrastructure, and Sustainable Transportation Networks.

Ideas received by January 26, 2023 will receive full consideration.

Feel free to forward this survey to your colleagues in the engineering research community.