Funding Opportunities
The Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering received $123 million in sponsored research awards during the last fiscal year.
Through this website, the Office of Research and Innovation provides 300+ Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering faculty members with information and proposal resources for funding opportunities from federal agencies such as the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, NASA, and the Environmental Protection Agency, in addition to opportunities for collaboration with industry.
The Office of Research and Innovation:
- Provides information and direction in obtaining research funding
- Provides for college-level approval for all research proposals and negotiation of subsequent awards
- Negotiates cost sharing between the college, departments, and the UF Office of Research
- Oversees activities of the Office of Laboratory Safety
- Reviews and approves Outside Employment Activity requests and associated monitoring plans for college faculty
- Serves as the college liaison to the UF Office of Technology Licensing
- Oversees activities of the various centers and institutes in the college
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Army Research Office
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- Defense Threat Reduction Agency
- Department of Homeland Security
- DOE National Nuclear Security Administration
- DOE Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability
- DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
- DOE Office of Fossil Energy
- DOE Office of Nuclear Energy
- DOE Office of Science
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity
- NASA
- NASA (Unsolicited)
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- National Institutes of Health
- National Science Foundation
- NIH – National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Office of Naval Research
- Semiconductor Research Corporation
- US Department of Agriculture
- US Department of Transportation
- Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services
- Florida Department of Economic Opportunity
- Florida Department of Environmental Protection
- Florida Department of Transportation
- Northwest Florida Water Management District
- South Florida Water Management District
- Southwest Florida Water Management District
- St. Johns River Water Management District
- Suwannee Florida Water Management District