October 2017 Awards
ADVANCED MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE
Tucker, Jeffrey and Lanz, Bret, Support Funds, $3,000, “Match Funds Agreement for KS0973.”
Tucker, Jeffrey and Morgan, Heather, US Department of Agriculture, $150,000, “Technical Assistance to Rural Kansas Communities to Include Regional Thinking, Community Engagement, and Economic Efficiency in Community Facilities Projects.”
BIOLOGICAL AND AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING
Hutchinson, Stacy and Parameswaran, Prathap (Civil Engineering), US Department of Defense, $20,000, “Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor (AnMBR) for Sustainable Wastewater Treatment.”
Liu, Zifei and Maghirang, Ronaldo, National Pork Board, $66,239, “A Meta-analysis of Life Cycle Assessments on Environmental Footprints of Five Representative Finishing Swine Diets.”
Aguilar, Jonathan (Southwest Research Extension Center), Golden, Bill (Agricultural Economics), Devlin, Daniel (Kansas Water Resources Research Institute) , Lamm, Freddie (Northwest Research Extension Center), Kisekka, Isaya (Southwest Research Extension Center), Schlegel, Alan (Southwest Research Extension Center), Foster, Anserd (Southwest Research Extension Center), Vandeveer, Monte (Southwest Research Extension Center) and Danny Rogers, US Department of Agriculture, $672,982, “Using Farmer-Based Water Technology Farms to Implement New Irrigation Technologies to Sustain the Rural Economy.”
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Hutchinson, Stacy (Biological and Agricultural Engineering) and Prathap Parameswaran, US Department of Defense, $20,000, “Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor (AnMBR) for Sustainable Wastewater Treatment.”
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Amariucai, George, National Science Foundation, $10,541, “SBE: Small: Continuous Human-User Authentication by Induced Procedural Visual-Motor Biometrics.”
Hsu, William, US Department of Energy, $50,000, “Capability Inference based on Dynamic Topic Modeling and Text Information Extraction.”
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Pahwa, Anil, Sunflower Electric Power Corp. & Electric Power Research Ins., $9,336, "Thermal Loading to Prevent Ice on Transmission Lines.”
Shadmand, Mohammad, Qatar Foundation, $63,610, “1-MW PV Power RD&D Using SiC-based qZS Cascade Multilevel Inverter and Battery Energy Storage.”
Thompson, David, US Department of Energy, $15,000, “Real-Time Navigation System Simulation Advancement.”
INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
Eckels, Steven, Support Funds, $2,732, “Thermal Properties of Textile Products.”
Eckels, Steven, McGregor, Douglas (Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering) and Bindra, Hitesh (Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering), US Department of Energy, $640,000, “Influence of Dissolved Salts and Impurities in Seawater on Heat Transfer Degradation and Fluid Flow Through Fuel Channels Debris Bed.”
KANSAS INDUSTRIAL EXTENSION SERVICES
Snead, Bruce, Hanson, Brian and Snyder, Kristina, US Environmental Protection Agency, $200,000, “National Radon Program Services (NRPS).”
Larson, Nancy, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, $15,000, “Kansas Food Recovery Technical Assistance Partnership.”
Larson, Nancy, Kansas Department of Health and Environment, $229,247, “Small Business Environmental Assistance Program 2018.”
MECHANICAL AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
Bahadori, Amir, KBRwyle, $100,000, “Radiation Transport Simulations in Support of Active Shielding Measurement Campaign.”
Eckels, Steven (Institute for Environmental Research), McGregor, Douglas and Bindra, Hitesh, US Department of Energy, $640,000, “Influence of Dissolved Salts and Impurities in Seawater on Heat Transfer Degradation and Fluid Flow Through Fuel Channels Debris Bed.”
McGregor, Douglas, US Department of Energy, $34,232, “Advanced Manufacturing of Micro Pocket Fission Detector (MPFD).”