May 2018 Awards
ADVANCED MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE
Tucker, Jeffrey, North Central Regional Planning Commission, $30,000, “Off Campus Service Agreement.”
BIOLOGICAL AND AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING
Sharda, Ajay, Jagadish, S.V. Krishna (Agronomy), Flippo, Daniel and Van Der Merwe, Deon (Diagnostic Medicine Pathobiology), CNH Industrial America LLC, $9,500, “Testing and Evaluation Services Agreement.”
Parameswaran, Prathap (Civil Engineering), Hettiarachchi, Ganga (Agronomy) and Hutchinson, Stacy, US Department of Agriculture, $100,000, “Novel Platform for Channelized Nutrient Product Sequestration from Agricultural Wastewaters through Optimized Anaerobic Bioprocesses.”
Devlin, Daniel (Kansas Center for Agricultural Resources and the Environment), Golden, Billy (Agricultural Economics), Lin, Xiaomao (Agronomy), Aiken, Robert (Northwest Research Extension Center), Lamm, Freddie (Northwest Research Extension Center), Obour, Augustine (Hays Agricultural Research Center), Jaeger, John (Hays Agricultural Research Center), Schlegel, Alan (Southwest Research Extension Center), Holman, Johnathon (Southwest Research Extension Center), Johnson, Sandra (Northwest Research Extension Center), O’Brien, Daniel (Northwest Research Extension Center), Aguilar, Jonathan (Southwest Research Extension Center), Vandeveer, Monte (Southwest Research Extension Center), Rogers, Danny, Steward, David (Civil Engineering) and Kulesza, Stacey (Civil Engineering), US Department of Agriculture, $100,000, “Water Management to Sustain the Economic Activity from the Ogallala Aquifer on the Southern High Plains – KSU.”
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Amama, Placidus, US Department of Defense, $10,000, “Effect of Ion Beam Bombardment of Different Metal Oxide Catalyst Supports on Carbon Nanotube Growth.”
Edgar, James and Janzen, Eli, US Department of Commerce, $9,219, “Undergraduate Research through the NIST SURF Program (Eli Janzen).”
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Hossain, A.S.M., US Department of Transportation, $249,832, “Optimum AC Overlay Thickness over FDR of Existing AC Pavements.”
Devlin, Daniel (Kansas Center for Agricultural Resources and the Environment), Golden, Billy (Agricultural Economics), Lin, Xiaomao (Agronomy), Aiken, Robert (Northwest Research Extension Center), Lamm, Freddie (Northwest Research Extension Center), Obour, Augustine (Hays Agricultural Research Center), Jaeger, John (Hays Agricultural Research Center), Schlegel, Alan (Southwest Research Extension Center), Holman, Johnathon (Southwest Research Extension Center), Johnson, Sandra (Northwest Research Extension Center), O’Brien, Daniel (Northwest Research Extension Center), Aguilar, Jonathan (Southwest Research Extension Center), Vandeveer, Monte (Southwest Research Extension Center), Rogers, Danny (Biological and Agricultural Engineering), Steward, David and Kulesza, Stacey, US Department of Agriculture, $100,000, “Water Management to Sustain the Economic Activity from the Ogallala Aquifer on the Southern High Plains – KSU.”
Mathews, Alexander, National Science Foundation, $6,000, “EAGER: A Novel Bioprocess for the Valorization of Waste and Biomass.”
Parameswaran, Prathap, Hettiarachchi, Ganga (Agronomy) and Hutchinson, Stacy (Biological and Agricultural Engineering), US Department of Agriculture, $100,000, “Novel Platform for Channelized Nutrient Product Sequestration from Agricultural Wastewaters through Optimized Anaerobic Bioprocesses.”
Peric, Dunja and Goh, Gyuhyeong (Statistics), Kansas Department of Transportation, $96,051, “Determining an Acceptable California Bearing Ratio (CBR) Value for Kansas Subgrades Based on Pavement Distress Data.”
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Caragea, Cornelia, National Science Foundation, $97,730, “CAREER: From Data to Knowledge: Extracting and Utilizing Concept Graphs in Online Environments.”
Caragea, Cornelia, National Science Foundation, $10,000, “III: Small: Collaborative Research: Keyphrase Extraction in Document Networks.”
Hatcliff, John and Vasserman, Eugene, US Department of Homeland Security, $101,658, “Cyber Physical System Security (CPSSEC).”
INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
Eckels, Steven, Support Funds, $695, “Thermal Properties of Textile Products.”
KANSAS INDUSTRIAL EXTENSION SERVICES
Carter, David, Cook, Yvonne and Hamel, Ryan, Kansas Corporation Commission, $15,000, “KCC and Kansas State University Energy Education Servic
Carter, David, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, $10,000, “Wind for Schools.”
Carter, David, Cook, Yvonne and Hamel, Ryan, Kansas Corporation Commission, $45,000, “KCC and Kansas State University Energy Education Services.”
MECHANICAL AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
McNeil, Walter, Shultis, J. Kenneth and Bahadori, Amir, North Carolina State University, $300,000, “Proposal for a Consortium for Nonproliferation-Enabling Capabilities.”