May 2016 Awards

ADVANCED MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE

Miller, Ruth D. and Bloomfield, John J., Dakota Turbines, $48,574, “Certification Testing of Dakota DT-36 Wind Turbine.”

Tucker, Jeffrey W., Multi-Sponsor, $20,000, "Advanced Manufacturing Institute - Manufacturing Learning Center."

BIOLOGICAL AND AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING

Rice, Charles W., Rogers, Danny, Sanderson, Matthew R., Golden, Bill B., Kisekka, Isaya, US Department of Agriculture, $649,636, "Sustaining Agriculture through Adaptive Management to Preserve the Ogallala Aquifer under a Changing Climate."

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Rezac, Mary E., and Bergtold, Jason S., National Science Foundation, $108,600, "REU Site: Summer Academy in Sustainable BioEnergy."

CIVIL ENGINEERING

Mathews, Alexander P., National Science Foundation, $113,339, "Eager: A Novel Bioprocess for the Valorization of Waste and Biomass."

Peterman, Robert J., Brueseke, Matthew E., and Riding, Kyle, US Department of Transportation, $149,991, "Field Investigation of Concrete Tie Abrasion Wear Prevalence and Contributing Environmental Factors."

COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SCIENCES

Bean, Nathan, and DeLoach, Scott A., North American Sportsman Show, LLC, $72,092, "Vexpos Phase I: A Platform for Virtual Expositions."

DeLoach, Scott A., US Department of Defense, $210,795, "Understanding and Quantifying the Impact of Moving Target Defenses on Computer Networks."

Vasserman, Eugene, National Science Foundation, $130,995, "CAREER: Safety and Security for Next-generation World-scale Real-time Medical Systems

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Miller, Ruth D. and Bloomfield, John J.,Dakota Turbines, $48,574, “Certification Testing of Dakota DT-36 Wind Turbine.”

INDUSTRIAL AND MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Lei, Shuting, National Science Foundation, $10,000, "High Performance Machining of Brittle Materials by Controlled Crack Propagation."

INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Eckels, Steven J., and McCullough, Elizabeth A., Multi-Sponsor, $1,200, "Thermal Properties of Textile Products."

MECHANICAL AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING

Beck, B. Terry, US Department of Commerce, $9,565, "SURF Gaithersburg."

Bellinger, Steven L., McGregor, Douglas S., and Shultis, J. Kenneth, US Department of Defense, $395,682.61, "Advanced Trenched Structure for Solid-State Neutron Detectors."

Geuther, Jeffrey A., McGregor, Douglas S., Roberts, Jeremy A., and Ugorowski, Philip B., US Department of Energy, $15,300, "Develop an Active Sensor Array Prototype for Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory."