From the National Science Foundation
March 1, 2000, Arlington, VA
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announces today the availability of $6.2 million for the Combined Research-Curriculum Development (CRCD) Program, a joint initiative of the Directorate for Engineering and the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering.
Repeated every year for the past 7 - 8 years, this popular initiative supports multidisciplinary projects that integrate new, state-of-the-art research advances in emerging technology areas into upper level undergraduate and introductory graduate engineering and computer and information science curricula.
The Foundation anticipates funding a total of 10-15 grant awards in this year’s program.
According to NSF, CRCD projects "address a need for innovative curricula, courses, textbooks, instructional modules and instructional laboratories by integrating the research and education interests of faculty through involvement in curriculum change." It continues: "The CRCD program seeks to closely engage faculty researchers, with support of academic administration and industry, in curriculum innovation in the context that education and research are of equal value and complementary parts of an integrative engineering and science education enterprise."
For more details, see http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2000/nsf0066/nsf0066.htm.