February 2017 Awards
BIOLOGICAL AND AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING
Hadley, Gregg (Agriculture & Natural Resources) and Ebert, Kerri, US Department of Agriculture, $110,000, “Kansas SARE – Kansas 2017 PDP.”
Sharda, Ajay and Prabhakar, Pavithra (Computer Science), US Department of Agriculture, $499,968, “Develop Canopy Sensing and Computational Systems for Real-Time Control and Feedback of Irrigation Technology.”
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Amama, Placidus,National Science Foundation, $105,265, “CAREER: Rational Design of Efficient Carbon Nanotube-Supported TiO2 Photocatalysts for Air Purification.”
Edgar, James, National Science Foundation, $5,500, “Hexagonal Boron Nitride Crystal Growth from Solution: A Study of Fundamentals.”
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Sharda, Ajay (Biological and Agricultural Engineering) and Prabhakar, Pavithra, US Department of Agriculture, $499,968, “Develop Canopy Sensing and Computational Systems for Real-Time Control and Feedback of Irrigation Technology.”
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Kuhn, William, US Department of Energy, $98,000, “RF Design/Layout of High-Frequency Electronics in Advanced PC Board Technologies.”
Carter, David (Kansas Industrial Extension Services) and Miller, Ruth, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, $20,000, “Wind for Schools.”
KANSAS INDUSTRIAL EXTENSION SERVICES
Carter, David and Miller, Ruth (Electrical and Computer Engineering), National Renewable Energy Laboratory, $20,000, “Wind for Schools.”
Snead, Bruce, US Department of Health and Human Services, $2,700, “Training for the Nebraska State Radon Program 2017.”
MECHANICAL AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Bindra, Hitesh, US Department of Energy, $55,228, “Experimental Investigation of Forced Convection and Natural Circulation Cooling of a VHTR Core under Normal Operation and Accident Scenario.”
Chen, Mingchang (James), US Department of Defense, $120,000, “A Multiscale Morphing Continuum Analysis on Energy Cascade of Compressible Turbulence.”
Derby, Melanie, National Science Foundation, $500,000, “CAREER: Altering Transient Soil Evaporation Mechanisms through Hydrophobicity.”