This repository provides a simple execution plan for the NSF GRFP based on 2021 latest solicitations. Moreover, this effort is in part inspired by an email from Joe Cloud (2020 NSF GRF recipient) where provides helpful resources in addition to what's provided by the program organizers. Also please check out his repo on NSF GRFP Analysis.
Great progress is often the result of a collective effort and success is not a zero game. Please feel free to make a pull request or fork it for your own use.
- Write research statement outline
- Write personal statement outline
- Search for recent similar funded grants from award-search
- Skim through survey papers on robotic manipulation surveys and elastic rod manipulation.
- Look up similar funded proposals
- Prep the research statement document, research.tex
- Read 5 previously accepted EE/CSE proposals and take notes on research.tex
- Read papers and takes notes on research.tex
- Collaborative Research: Mechanics of Knots and Tangles of Elastic Rods, August 2021
- Collaborative Research: Adaptive, Rapid, and Multifunctional Soft Robots (ARM SoRo) with Reconfigurable Shapes and Motions Enabled by Tunable Elastic Instabilities, August 2021
This format is too general and is only state for your information, not direct use.
- Source
- Must be one cohesive stroy
- 5 Paragraph Structure:
- Into: engage and hook the reader
- Rising Action
- Climax
- Falling Action
- Conclusion (denouement or lessons learned)
- Background
- Bridge
- Problem Statement
- Research Plan
- bridge
- Broader Impact
- NSF GRFP-21 (nsf21602), Oct. 21st
- (Faculty) NRI-3.0 (nsf21559),
- NASA MSI (),
- (Faculty) AFGLP (),
- Read NSF Proposal Review Guide nsf20001
- Application Process Infographic
- NSF GRFP Tips
- Search for recent similar funded grants from award-search
- If you're trying to figure out the focus, one thing to try is skim through recent (but well-received) survey papers. The future works/needs sections tend to highlight problems that can be helpful for identifying challenges for us grad students to focus on.
- source
- Two main documents
- Personal, Relevant Background and Future Goals Statement
- Graduate Research Statement
- Each must have "Intellectual Merit" and "Broader Impacts" sections or it needs to be addressed in text.
- Intellectual Merit: The Intellectual Merit criterion encompasses the potential to advance knowledge
- Broader Impact: The Broader Impacts criterion encompasses the potential to benefit society and contribute to the achievement of specific, desired societal outcomes.
- The following elements should be considered in the review for both criteria:
- What is the potential for the proposed activity to: A. Advance knowledge and understanding within its own field or across different fields (Intellectual Merit); and B. Benefit society or advance desired societal outcomes (Broader Impacts)?
- To what extent do the proposed activities suggest and explore creative, original, or potentially transformative concepts?
- Is the plan for carrying out the proposed activities well-reasoned, well-organized, and based on a sound rationale? Does the plan incorporate a mechanism to assess success?
- How well qualified is the individual, team, or organization to conduct the proposed activities?
- Are there adequate resources available to the PI (either at the home organization or through collaborations) to carry out the proposed activities?
- Standard 8.5" x 11" page size
- 12-point, Times New Roman font
- 10-point font may be used for citations, references, footnotes, figure captions, and text within figures
- 1" margins on all sides
- Single-spaced
Proposals shall include all the items listed below, appropriately labeled, in the exact order specified:
- Proposal Cover Page (including Project Summary, Program Specific Data and Data Management Plan)
- Impact Statement
- Faculty Adviser/PI Curriculum Vitae (CV)
- Project Description
- Candidate’s Degree Program Schedule
- Candidate’s Curriculum Vitae (CV)
- Personal Statement
- Candidate’s Transcripts
- Letters of Recommendation
- Letter of Support