Research Funding Sources

Following is a list of sources that describe research funding opportunities in engineering.

• Federal agencies
• State agencies
• Private agencies and foundations
• UC programs
• General databases

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Federal Agencies

• Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
  http://afosr.sciencewise.com/
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
  http://www.arpa.mil/
• Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
  http://www.faa.gov/
• Federal Energy Technology Center (FETC)
  http://www.fetc.doe.gov/index-b.html
• Federal Highway Administration (FHA)
  http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/
• Fulbright Program
  http://exchanges.state.gov/education/fulbright/
• Gas Research Institute
  http://www.gri.org/
• National Academy of Sciences
  http://www.nas.edu/
• National Aeronautical & Space Administration (NASA)
  http://www.nasa.gov/NASA_homepage.html/
• NASA Glen Research Center
  http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/
• National Institute for Global Environmental Change
  http://nigec.ucdavis.edu/
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  http://www.nih.gov/
• National Institute of Science & Technology (NIST)
  http://www.nist.gov/
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
  http://www.noaa.gov/
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory
  http://www.nrel.gov/
• National Research Council (NRC)
  http://www.nas.edu/nrc/
• National Security Agency (NSA)
  http://www.nsa.gov/
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
  http://www.nsf.gov/
• National Technology Transfer Center (NTTC)
  http://www.nttc.edu/
• Naval Research Laboratory
  http://www.nrl.navy.mil/
• Office of Naval Research (ONR)
  http://www.onr.navy.mil/
• U.S. Agency for International Development
  http://www.usaid.gov/
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  http://www.usace.army.mil/
• U.S. Army Research Office
  http://www.aro.ncren.net/
• U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
  http://www.usda.gov/
• U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC)
  http://www.doc.gov/
• U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)
  http://www.defenselink.mil/
• U.S. Department of Education (DoEd)
  http://www.ed.gov/
• U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
  http://www.er.doe.gov/
• U.S. Department of the Interior
  http://www.doi.gov/
• U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)
  http://www.dot.gov/
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  http://www.epa.gov/
• U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
  http://www.usgs.gov/index.html

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State Agencies

Ohio Board of Regents (OBR)
http://www.regents.state.oh.us/for_campuses.htm

Ohio Department of Development (ODOD)
http://www.odod.state.oh.us/

Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR)
http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/

Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT)
http://www.dot.state.oh.us/

Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA)
http://www.epa.state.oh.us/

Ohio Engineers and Surveyors Board
http://www.peps.state.oh.us/index.html

Ohio Department of Health
http://www.odh.state.oh.us/

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Private Agencies

American Association of University Women Educational Foundation
http://www.aauw.org/3000/fdnfelgra.html

American Chemical Society (ACS)
http://www.acs.org/

ACS Petroleum Research Fund

American Water Works Association (AWWA)
http://www.awwa.org/

AT&T Foundation
http://www.att.com/foundation/

Beckman Foundation
http://www.beckman-foundation.com/

Burroughs Wellcome Fund
http://www.bwfund.org/

Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
http://www.dreyfus.org/

Carnegie Corporation
http://www.carnegie.org/

David and Lucille Packard Foundation
http://www.packfound.org/

Energy Foundation
http://www.energyfoundation.org/applications/index.html

Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
http://www.epri.com/

Engineering Foundation
http://www.engfnd.org/engfnd/

Ford Foundation
http://www.fordfound.org/

Kresge Foundation
http://www.kresge.org/

Heinz Endowments
http://www.heinz.org/menu.html

The Henry Luce Foundation
http://www.hluce.org/

MacArthur Foundation
http://www.macfdn.org/

The Pew Charitable Trusts
http://www.pewtrusts.com/

W. Alton Jones Foundation
http://www.wajones.org/

Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF)
http://www.werf.org/

Whitaker Foundation
http://www.whitaker.org/

W.M. Keck Foundation
http://www.wmkeck.org/

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General Research Databases

Commerce Business Daily
http://cbd.cos.com/

Community of Science
http://www.cos.com/

The Foundation Center
http://www.fdncenter.org/

Grants Web
http://www.srainternational.org/cws/sra/resource.htm

FEDIX - federal research
http://content.sciencewise.com/fedix/index.htm?

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Community of Science Database

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With a COS account, you can search more than 22,000 records, representing over 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion -- updated daily. You can also sign up to receive weekly email alerts for research announcements in your specific research areas.

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