1 CHBE 594 Lect 01 Proposal Writing 101 MW 3pm 229 Natural History

2 Faculty Kathy Young Director OSPRA 1901 South First Street Prof. Rich Masel, 213 RAL, Roland Garton Garton Consulting

3 Overview of Today's Lecture Course objectives Organization Requirements Grading

4 Course Objectives Leadership skills in the chemical sciences How to find good research projects How to do an effective literature search How to present this to an agency for funding

5 Ex-SCS Students Are Leaders Students From Masel’s group Bill Banholzer, CTO Dow Jim Foster, ex-cto Westvaco, now director of biofuels research for ADM Irene Strohbein, Research Director Kimberly Clark Tom Gow, Head of Chip Production, IBM

6 Leadership In the Chemical Sciences Skills needed How to find good projects How to find out what has been done before How to sell your ideas Course emphasis: Federal funding Professors or startup companies

7 Course Objectives: II Change from an undergrad to a professional Your responsible for your own direction

Major Topics Research career planning Evaluating yourself Planning your career path Deciding what research problems are good for your career Finding good research ideas Mining the literature Looking at SBIR calls, … Evaluating research ideas The Heilmeier criteria 8

9 Major Topics Introduction To Grant Agencies What do they fund How to find topics of interest to them How to find out what your competitors are doing Searching The Literature Information In The Chemical Sciences How To Use The Various Data Bases

10 Major Topics Continued Basic Proposal Organization Answering the Heilmier Criteria Writing Budgeting Agency specific Information Writing a proposal for your first academic job

11 Class schedule MW 3-4 – lectures F 3-4 Tutorials No Final

Should You Register For Course? Auditor Listen to lectures Register Listen to lectures Attend tutorials Get feedback on research ideas Get written feedback on your proposals from a professional grant writer (Roland Garton) 12

13 Requirements 8 Assignments Do a Self Evaluation Find a interesting topic, and provide a 2 page summary of the topic explaining how your idea fulfills the Heilmeier criteria Sept 19 Do a literature search on the topic. What has been done before. What are the holes? Oct 8 Create a proposal with an introduction, literature review and research outline Oct 19 Provide a 5 page preliminary proposal Oct 26 A full 15 page proposal draft Nov 9 Develop a budget Nov 16 A redraft Dec 5 NSF chemistry submission Window Nov 1-30 Engineering window February 1 through March 1 NIH window Jan 1- Feb 5

14 Textbook Research Proposals: A Guide To Success Thomas Ogden, Isreal Goldberg Academic Press (2002)

15 Recommended Book Writing Proposals, 2 nd Edition Richard Johnson-Sheehan Allyn Bacon Longman (2008)

16 References Getting Funded: The Complete Guide to Writing Grant Proposals by Mary S. Hall and Susan Howlett Guide to Effective Grant Writing: How to Write a Successful NIH Grant Application by Otto O. Yang

17 Grading Assignments 40% Draft Proposal 50% RIM Judgment 10%

18 My Grading Philosophy I like to give A's – but students have to earn them

19 Course Policies 1.No whining 2.No whining 3.No whining 4.Chill out 5.No extensions

20 Misc Course Info Course notes will be available at Please download lect prior to class