December 2015 Awards

BIOLOGICAL AND AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING

Flippo, Daniel, McCornack, Brian (Entomology), Zukoff, Sarah (Entomology), Brokesh, Edwin and Sharda, Ajay, Kansas Corn Commission, $37,990, “Comprehensive Study of Light Wavelength and Image Processing to Automatically Identify Corn Pests.”

Hutchinson, Stacy, Devlin, Daniel (Agronomy) and Middendorf, Gerad (Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work), US Department of the Interior, $53,398, “Water Research for the Fort Riley Net Zero Initiative.”

CIVIL ENGINEERING

Kulesza, Stacey, Kansas Department of Transportation, $52,750, “Galvanized and Aluminized Pipe Durability Field Review and Evaluation.”

Stokes, Robert, US Department of Transportation, $100,000, “Traffic Assistance Services for Kansas.”

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Mirafzal, Behrooz, National Science Foundation, $50,000, “I-Corps Teams: A Novel Direct Drive Wind Energy System.”

Prakash, Punit, National University of Ireland Galway, $27,614, “Proof-of-principle Assessment of Microwave Ablation for Treating Esophageal Varices.”

KANSAS INDUSTRIAL EXTENSION SERVICES

Snead, Bruce and Hanson, Brian, US Environmental Protection Agency, $150,000, “Radon Projects for Kansas.”

MECHANICAL AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING

McGregor, Douglas, Ugorowski, Philip, Geuther, Jeffrey and Roberts, Jeremy, US Department of Energy, $216,475, “Develop an Active Sensor Array Prototype for Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory.”

McGregor, Douglas and Shultis, J. Kenneth, US Department of Defense, $110,263.46, “Wearable Detection Device (Wdd) – Low Visibility Gamma Neutron Sensor.”