March 2018 Awards

ADVANCED MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE

Tucker, Jeffrey and Lanz, Bret, Support Funds, $81,600, "Match Funds Agreement for KS 0973."

BIOLOGICAL AND AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING

Sharda, Ajay, Schapaugh, William (Agronomy), Flippo, Daniel and Van Der Merwe, Deon (Diagnostic Medicine Pathobiology), Kansas Soybean Commission, $45,740, "Small Unmanned Aircraft Thermal Infrared Imaging System to Identify Soybean Drought Tolerant Varieties."

Flippo, Daniel, Welch, Stephen (Agronomy), Asebedo, Antonio (Agronomy), Temme, Arnaud (Geography) and Das, Sanjoy (Electrical and Computer Engineering), US Department of Agriculture, $1,178,191, "NRI: INT: Multi-Robot Farming on Marginal, Highly Sloped Lands."

Maghirang, Ronaldo, US Department of Agriculture, $182,000, "Mechanisms and Mitigation of Dust Generation During Grain Handling and Processing."

Ciampitti, Ignacio (Agronomy), Griffin, Terry (Agricultural Economics) and Sharda, Ajay, United Soybean Board, $75,574, "On-Farm Digital Technologies."

CHEMICA L ENGINEERING

Amama, Placidus, National Science Foundation, $105,337, "CAREER: Rational Design of Efficient Carbon Nanotube-Supported TiO2 Photocatalysts for Air Purification."

Amama, Placidus, National Science Foundation, $5,827, "Nanomanufacturing of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays from Industrial Waste Gas Mixture."

CIVIL ENGINEERING

Hossain, Mustaque and Kulesza, Stacey, Kansas Department of Transportation, $104,448, "Implementation AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design Software for KDOT."

Peterman, Robert and Beck, Terry (Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering), US Department of Transportation, $318,648, "Developing Qualification Tests to Ensure Proper Selection and Interaction of Pretensioned Concrete Railroad Tie Materials."

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Caragea, Cornelia, Institute of Museum and Library Services, $148,394, "Programmatic Extraction of 'Documents' from Web Archives."

Prabhakar, Pavithra, National Science Foundation, $82,493, "CAREER: Robust Verification of Cyber-Physical Systems."

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Flippo, Daniel (Biological and Agricultural Engineering), Welch, Stephen (Agronomy), Asebedo, Antonio (Agronomy), Temme, Arnaud (Geography) and Das, Sanjoy, US Department of Agriculture, $1,178,191,"NRI: INT: Multi-Robot Farming on Marginal, Highly Sloped Lands."

Natarajan, Balasubraman, National Science Foundation, $15,000, "NSF Student Travel Grant for 2018 IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (IEEE SECON)."

MECHANICAL AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING

Bahadori, Amir and McNeil, Walter, US Department of Energy, $115,063, "Solid State Dual Neutron / X-Ray Imager."

Peterman, Robert (Civil Engineering) and Beck, Terry, US Department of Transportation, $318,648, "Developing Qualification Tests to Ensure Proper Selection and Interaction of Pretensioned Concrete Railroad Tie Materials."

Betz, Amy and Derby, Melanie, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, $289,560, "17-EPSCoRProp-0037, Efficient and Compact Thermal and Water Management Systems using Novel Capillary Structure for Space Technology."

Chen, James, US Department of Defense, $120,000, "YIP: A Multiscale Morphing Continuum Analysis on Energy Cascade of Compressible Turbulence."

NATIONAL GAS MACHINERY LABORATORY

Jones, Byron and Figge, Eric, Pipeline Research Council International, Inc., $50,000, "CEPM for Turbochargers."