October 2015 Awards

CIVIL ENGINEERING

Fitzsimmons, Eric and Kulesza, Stacey, Kansas Department of Transportation, $50,000, “Class III Line System Inventory to Determine 129, 844 kg. (286,000 lb) Railcar Operational Status in Kansas”

Hossain, Mustaque, City of Salina, KS, $6,645, “Distress Survey and Pavement Condition Reporting for Microsurfacing Test Sections in the City of Salina”

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Scoglio, Caterina and Darabi Sahneh, Faryad, US Department of Agriculture, $7,500, “Long-distance Dispersal and Disease Outbreaks: Effects of Initial Prevalence, Basic Reproduction Number, and Control Tactics”

COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SCIENCES

Mizuno, Masaaki, Hatcliff, John, and Neilsen, Mitchell, US Department of the Interior, $183,343, “Modeling Security/Safety Interactions in Buildings for Compositional Security/Safety Control”

KANSAS INDUSTRIAL EXTENSION SERVICES

Goode, Barbara, US Environmental Protection Agency, $5,000, “Environmental Sustainability for the Salina, Kansas Community Level II”