January 2018 Awards

BIOLOGICAL AND AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING

Wang, Donghai and Sun, Xiuzhi (Grain Science and Industry), US Environmental Protection Agency, $14,964, “Fully Utilizing Biomass for Biofuels and Chemicals.”

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Poland, Jesse (Plant Pathology) and Neilsen, Mitchell, National Science Foundation, $50,000, “BREAD PHENO: High-Throughput Phenotyping with Smart Phones. #phenoApps.”

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

White, Warren (Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering) and Miller, Ruth, US Department of Energy, $10,000, “Kansas State University Wind Turbine Design Team 2018.”

Pahwa, Anil, Sunflower Electric Power Corp. and Electric Power Research Ins, $52, 453, “Thermal Loading to Prevent Ice on Transmission Lines.”

INDUSTRIAL AND MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Lin, Dong, Johnson Center for Basic Cancer Research, $24,000, “3D Printing Biomimetic Bone Structure with Hierarchical and Interconnected Porosity for Breast Cancer Metastasis.”

KANSAS INDUSTRIAL EXTENSION SERVICES

Goode, Barbara, Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, $7,100, “Environmental Compliance and Pollution Prevention Assessment, Road and Bridge Property.”

MECHANICAL AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING

McGregor, Douglas, Roberts, Jeremy and Reichenberger, Michael, US Department of Energy, $64,415, “Develop an Active Sensor Array Prototype for Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory.”

McNeil, Walter, US Department of Defense, $230,882, “Low-Profile PMT Scintillator Read-Out System.”

White, Warren and Miller, Ruth (Electrical and Computer Engineering), US Department of Energy, $10,000, “Kansas State University Wind Turbine Design Team 2018.”