March 2015 Awards
ADVANCED MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE
Jones, Taylor, US Department of Transportation, $381,657, “Active Suspension Control and Positioning - A Stewart Platform.”
BIOLOGICAL AND AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING
Hadley, Gregg (Agriculture & Natural Resource), and Ebert, Kerri, US Department of Agriculture, $100,000, “Kansas SARE - Kansas 2015 PDP.”
Wang, Donghai, US Department of Agriculture, $5,000, “Acquisition of Goods and Services.”
Wang, Donghai, US Department of Agriculture, $35,000, “Spectroscopic Measurement of Biological Materials.”
CENTER FOR HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE RESEARCH
Leven, Blase, US Department of Defense, $18,000, “Evaluations for Airburst Non-lethal Weapon System Program.”
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Hohn, Keith, INVISTA, $94,171, “Impact of Amines on Catalytic Dehydration of 2,3-butanediol to 1,3-butadiene.”
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Peterman, Robert, Kansas Department of Transportation, $84,464, “Comparison of NU Girders and K-Girders for Use in Kansas Pretensioned Concrete Bridges.”
Peterman, Robert, Riding, Kyle, Wu, Chih-Hang (Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering), and Beck, B. Terry (Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering), US Department of Transportation, $315,180, “Developing Qualification Tests to Ensure Proposer Selection and Interaction of Pretensioned Concrete Railroad Tie Materials”.
COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SCIENCES
DeLoach, Scott, and Ou, Xinming (Simon), US Department of Defense, $203,313, “Understanding and Quantifying the Impact of Moving Target Defenses on Computer Networks.”
Hatcliff, John, Robby, and Ranganath, Venkatesh, National Science Foundation, $80,000, “FDA SIR: Compositional Approaches to Safety and Risk Management for Medical Application Platforms.”
Hsu, William, US Department of Energy, $80,000, “Capacity-Oriented Relational Information Extraction from Public Domain Text Sources.”
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Miller, Ruth andWhite, Warren (Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering), National Renewable Energy Laboratory, $8,000, “Kansas State University Wind Turbine Design Team 2016.”
INDUSTRIAL AND MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
Peterman, Robert (Civil Engineering), Riding, Kyle (Civil Engineering), Wu, Chih-Hang, and Beck, B. Terry (Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering), US Department of Transportation, $315,180, “Developing Qualification Tests to Ensure Proposer Selection and Interaction of Pretensioned Concrete Railroad Tie Materials”.
KANSAS INDUSTRIAL EXTENSION SERVICES
Larson, Nancy and Carter, David, US Environmental Protection Agency, $74,548, “Kansas Pollution Prevention Grants - 2014 (P2).”
Goode, Barbara, US Environmental Protection Agency, $4,618, “Environmental Sustainability for the Salina, Kansas Community Level II.”
MECHANICAL AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Peterman, Robert (Civil Engineering), Riding, Kyle (Civil Engineering), Wu, Chih-Hang (Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering), and Beck, B. Terry, US Department of Transportation, $315,180, “Developing Qualification Tests to Ensure Proposer Selection and Interaction of Pretensioned Concrete Railroad Tie Materials”.
McGregor, Douglas, Ugorowski, Philip, Geuther, Jeffrey and Roberts, Jeremy, US Department of Energy, $39,140, “Develop an Active Sensor Array Prototype for Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory.”
Miller, Ruth (Electrical and Computer Engineering) and White, Warren, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, $8,000, “Kansas State University Wind Turbine Design Team 2016.”