March 2013 Awards

BIOLOGICAL AND AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING
Liu, Zifei, DeRouchey, Joel M., Maghirang, Ronaldo G., and Murphy, James P., National Pork Board, $36,262, "Effectiveness of Vegetative Environmental Buffers to Reduce Weine Facility Emissions."

Liu, Zifei, DeRouchey, Joel M. (Animal Sciences and Industry), Maghirang, Ronaldo G., and Murphy, James P., National Pork Board, $37,368, "Mitigation of Air Emissions from Swine Buildings through the Photocatalytic Technology using UV/TiO2."

CIVIL ENGINEERING
Peterman, Robert J., Beck, B. Terry (Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering), and Wu, Chih-Hang (Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering), US Department of Transportation, $250,749, "Quantifying the Effect of Prestressing Steel and Concrete Variables on the Transfer Length in Pretensioned Concrete Crossties."

COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SCIENCES
Neilsen, Mitchell L., US Department of Agriculture, $35,000, "Enhancement of Software Tools for Predicting Embankment Erosion of Earthen Dams."

Ou, Xinming (Simon), National Science Foundation, $88,088, "CAREER: Reasoning about Uncertainty in Cybersecurity."

INDUSTRIAL AND MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
Ben-Arieh, David H., Children's Mercy Hospital, $46,472, "Predictive Scheduling Model."

Ben-Arieh, David H., and Wu, Chih-Hang, Mercy Regional Health Center, Inc., $7,638, "Improving Process Flow at the Mercy ED."

Kramer, Bradley A., and Deines, Timothy W., National Science Foundation, $88,412, "Collaborative Research: Development of a Sophomore-Level Course "Introduction of Renewable Energy Manufacturing" and Faculty Expertise."

Wu, Chih-Hang, Beck, B. Terry (Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering), and Peterman, Robert J. (Civil Engineering), US Department of Transportation, $153,236, "Quantifying the Effect of Prestressing Steel and Concrete Variables on the Transfer Length in Pretensioned Concrete Crossties."

MECHANICAL AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Beck, B. Terry, Peterman, Robert J. (Civil Engineering), and Wu, Chih- Hang(Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering), US Department of Transportation, $153,236, "Quantifying the Effect of Prestressing Steel and Concrete Variables on the Transfer Length in Pretensioned Concrete Crossties."

McGregor, Douglas S., US Department of Defense, $18,000, "Investigation of Neutron Detection and Spectrometry."