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NSF CAREER Award: A retrospective analysis Dr. Scarlett Miller Assistant Professor Engineering Design & , Industrial Engineering

From Risk Aversion to Innovation: Transforming the Concept Selection Process to Maximize Product Success - Awarded May 2014

Gain NSF Experience : Attend workshop, serve on panels, submit proposals, & get to know your program director. 5

Gain NSF Experience : Attend workshop, serve on panels, submit proposals, & get to know your program director. 6

Gain NSF Experience : Attend workshop, serve on panels, submit proposals, & get to know your program director. 7

Gain NSF Experience : Attend workshop, serve on panels, submit proposals, & get to know your program director. 8

Gain NSF Experience : Attend workshop, serve on panels, submit proposals, & get to know your program director. 9

Gain NSF Experience : Attend workshop, serve on panels, submit proposals, & get to know your program director. 10

Gain NSF Experience : Attend workshop, serve on panels, submit proposals, & get to know your program director . 11

Develop the idea : What’s the future of the field? What is your 5 year plan? How does this work support that? 14

Develop the idea : Why are you the person to study this problem? What are your qualifications? 15

Informative Subsection “1.3 Relation of CAREER Proposal to PI’s Prior Work and Departmental Goals” Develop the idea : Why are you the person to study this problem? What are your qualifications? 16

Develop the idea : What other projects have you been involved in? Think broader impacts! 17

Develop the idea : You can’t leverage experiences you don’t have! So get involved now! 18

Develop the idea : Think about how your educational and research plans align! Make sure it’s an integrated educational plan! 19

Develop the idea : Thinks about the broader impacts of the work. Answer the question ‘so what’! Write a 1-pager! 20

But it’s not perfect or a complete draft yet… Develop the idea : Don’t wait until it’s ’perfect’ to get feedback on your idea. Use your network! 21

So far, results have extended knowledge on: • The impact of risk taking attitudes on creative idea development in engineering students • The impact of decision tools and creative risk taking in engineering design course projects • The exploration of a developed risk attitude scale (preferences for creativity scale) and its impact on creative risk taking Current State of Research : Extended state- of-the-art in risk-taking, design decision making and design education research 24

Current State of Research : K-12 Outreach through EngInn engineering innovators! 25

Current State of Research : New graduate class on Creative Risk Taking in Engineering Design 26

Current State of Research : 6+ journal articles, 6+ conference papers, 2 web tools, a 1 st year module, and 1 MS & 1 PhD Student graduated (on tenure-track) 27

Current State of Research : On-going efforts are focused on exploring the impact of risk- taking in engineering design industry 28

What’s Next? : Design workshops in Morocco in 2017 and 2018 31

”long-term goal… transform the engineering design process in order to improve the flow of creative ideas using theories from creative cognition, decision-making, and engineering design.” What’s Next? : Risk Taking in design industry, Risk taking and creativity in additive manufacturing. 32

Sc Scarlett M Miller scarlettmiller@psu.edu www.engr.psu.edu/