July 2016 Awards

BIOLOGICAL AND AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING

Sharda, Ajay, Deere & Company, $4,650, “Quantifying Nozzle Flow and Pressure.”

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Mizuno, Masaaki, Hatcliff, John and Neilsen, Mitchell, US Department of Interior, $218,639, “Modeling Security/Safety Interactions in Buildings for Compositional Security/Safety Control.”

Poland, Jesse (Plant Pathology)and Neilsen, Mitchell, National Science Foundation, $542,368, “BREAD PHENO: iPheno - Highthroughput Phenotyping with Smart Phones. #phenoApp.”

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Miller, Ruth, Westar Energy, $16,791, “Photovoltaic Systems Online Power and Energy Display.”

Prakash, Punit, National University of Ireland Galway, $27,614, “Proof-of-principle Assessment of Biopolar Radiofrequency of Ablation of Nasal Targets.”

Thompson, David, US Department of Energy, $41,605, “Real-Time Navigation System Simulation Advancement.”

INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Hosni, Mohammad, US Department of Health and Human Services, $113,836, “Aircraft Cabin Microbial Research.”

KANSAS INDUSTRIAL EXTENSION SERVICES

Carter, David, US Department of Energy, $264,875, “Kansas Corporation Commission and Kansas State University for Energy Education Services.”

Snead, Bruce, Hanson, Brian and Snyder, Kristina, US Environmental Protection Agency, $175,000, “National Radon Program Services (NRPS).”

MECHANICAL AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING

Derby, Melanie, OneSubsea Corporate Technology, $79,603, “Oil-water Separation Utilizing Surface Tension Effects in Horizontal Minichannels.”

McGregor, Douglas, Guether, Jeffery and Roberts, Jeremy, US Department of Energy, $296,574, “Develop an Active Sensor Array Prototype for Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory.”

Singh, Gurpreet, OneSubsea Corporate Technology, $85,000, “Investigation of Graphene Oxide Coating for Protection Against Seawater Corrosion.”