DOE EERE AMO Grant: Industrial Assessment Centers

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is being issued by the U.S.
Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
(EERE) Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO). The U.S. manufacturing sector
uses 25% of the nation’s energy and has an annual energy bill of more than $150
billion. Efficiency improvements in manufacturing not only benefit the
manufacturing sector, but also impact the energy efficiency of products used
throughout the economy.
AMO’s technical partnerships support the development, deployment and
validation of technologies and practices including increasing the productivity and
competitiveness of American manufacturers and other large energy-using
facilities and continuing the education and development of the US workforce of
energy professionals.
The Federal Government has been funding the Industrial Assessment Center
(IAC)1 program, formerly called the Energy Analysis and Diagnostic Center
program, since 1976. The goal of the IAC program is twofold: first, to help US
manufacturing competitiveness by providing assessments and recommendations
for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on energy efficiency,
productivity, sustainability and competitiveness – including measuring the
impacts of these recommendations on reducing greenhouse gas emissions; and
second, to address a growing shortage of engineering professionals with applied
energy and manufacturing-related skills by training a diverse cross-section of
engineering students through hands-on involvement in these assessments.

This is a restricted eligibility announcement. Eligibility is restricted to the
following types of entities: a U.S. college or school of engineering that is an
integral part of its institutional structure and that has at least one of its four year
undergraduate programs accredited by the Engineering Accreditation
Commission or the Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation
Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) or equivalent (The IAC must be in
the engineering department that holds the programmatic ABET or equivalent
accreditation). The U.S. college or school of engineering must be physically
located in the U.S. Eligible minority-serving institutions (MSIs) that meet the
eligibility requirements are encouraged to apply.

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is being issued by the U.S.
Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
(EERE) Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO). The U.S. manufacturing sector
uses 25% of the nation’s energy and has an annual energy bill of more than $150
billion. Efficiency improvements in manufacturing not only benefit the
manufacturing sector, but also impact the energy efficiency of products used
throughout the economy.
AMO’s technical partnerships support the development, deployment and
validation of technologies and practices including increasing the productivity and
competitiveness of American manufacturers and other large energy-using
facilities and continuing the education and development of the US workforce of
energy professionals.
The Federal Government has been funding the Industrial Assessment Center
(IAC)1 program, formerly called the Energy Analysis and Diagnostic Center
program, since 1976. The goal of the IAC program is twofold: first, to help US
manufacturing competitiveness by providing assessments and recommendations
for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on energy efficiency,
productivity, sustainability and competitiveness – including measuring the
impacts of these recommendations on reducing greenhouse gas emissions; and
second, to address a growing shortage of engineering professionals with applied
energy and manufacturing-related skills by training a diverse cross-section of
engineering students through hands-on involvement in these assessments.

This is a restricted eligibility announcement. Eligibility is restricted to the
following types of entities: a U.S. college or school of engineering that is an
integral part of its institutional structure and that has at least one of its four year
undergraduate programs accredited by the Engineering Accreditation
Commission or the Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation
Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) or equivalent (The IAC must be in
the engineering department that holds the programmatic ABET or equivalent
accreditation). The U.S. college or school of engineering must be physically
located in the U.S. Eligible minority-serving institutions (MSIs) that meet the
eligibility requirements are encouraged to apply.

This is a restricted eligibility announcement. Eligibility is restricted to the
following types of entities: a U.S. college or school of engineering that is an
integral part of its institutional structure and that has at least one of its four year
undergraduate programs accredited by the Engineering Accreditation
Commission or the Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation
Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) or equivalent (The IAC must be in
the engineering department that holds the programmatic ABET or equivalent
accreditation). The U.S. college or school of engineering must be physically
located in the U.S. Eligible minority-serving institutions (MSIs) that meet the
eligibility requirements are encouraged to apply.