(150e) Highlights on CBET Cluster on Environmental Engineering & Sustainability
AIChE Annual Meeting
2014
2014 AIChE Annual Meeting
Education Division
NSF Workshop I
Monday, November 17, 2014 - 1:55pm to 2:15pm
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…" With an annual budget of $7.2 billion (FY 2014), we are the funding source for approximately 24 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and universities. In many fields such as mathematics, computer science and the social sciences, NSF is the major source of federal backing.