The Division of Sponsored Research received notification in June that the following grants in excess of $25,000 had been awarded to engineering faculty members:
Theodore A. Bapty, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has received an award in the amount of $77,000 by the Department of Energy for “Lattice QCD SCIDAC: Optimization of Faulty Mitigation for Large Commodity Clusters.”
Bharat L. Bhuva, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has received an award in the amount of $58,333 by the Cisco Systems Foundation for “Cisco TSMC Logic Test Chip Design and Test.”
George E. Cook, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has received an award in the amount of $30,000 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for “Characterization and Predictive Process Modeling of Tool Wear in Friction Stir Welding of Metal Matrix Composites – Pre-Doctoral Fellowship for Tracie Prater.”
Jim L. Davidson, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has received an award in the amount of $55,592 by the Amtec Corporation for “CNT Ultracapacitors.” Weng Poo Kang is co-principal investigator.
Robert L. Galloway, Jr., Biomedical Engineering, has received an award in the amount of $107,376 by the National Institutes of Health for “System for Image-guided, Minimally-invasive Kidney Surgery.”
Michael Goldfarb, Mechanical Engineering, has received an award in the amount of $301,887 by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for “A Joint-coupled Controlled-brake Orthosis System for Hybrid FES Gait Restoration in Paraplegics.”
Jeffrey S. Kauppila, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has received an award in the amount of $150,000 by the Charles Start Draper Lab, Incorporated for “Draper Directive R&D.” Lloyd W. Massengill is co-principal investigator.
Bennett A. Landman, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has received an award in the amount of $168,428 by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for “Development of an Interactive Web-based Game for Collaborative Labeling of Medical Images.”
Peter N. Pintauro, Chemical Engineering, has received an award in the amount of $30,000 by The Electrochemical Society for “2010 ECS Oronzio de Nora Industrial Electrochemistry Fellowship.” Dr. Pintauro also received an award in the amount of $200,000 from the Department of Energy for “Nano Capillary Network Proton Conducting Membranes for High Temperature Hydrogen/Air.”
Robert A. Reed, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has received an award in the amount of $191,275 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for “Experimental and Simulation Studies of Radiation Effects in Advanced Microelectronic Devices.” Marcus Mendenhall and Robert A. Weller are co-principal investigators. Dr. Reed also received an award in the amount of $50,000 from the Department of Defense for “Mechanisms of Ionization-induced Carrier Transport and Collection in Next-generation III-V Structures.”
Douglas C. Schmidt, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has received an award in the amount of $73,000 by the Department of Defense for “AFRL Systems and Software PRodUcibility Collaboration and Experimentation Environment (S2PRUCE2).” William Hall is co-principal investigator. Dr. Schmidt also received an award in the amount of $50,050 from the Department of Defense for “Environment-specific Inter-ORB Protocol (ESIOP).” Also, the Lockheed Martin Corporation has awarded Dr. Schmidt $35,000 for “Predictive Cache Modeling and Analysis.” Christopher J. White is co-principal investigator on this project.
Nabil Simaan, Mechanical Engineering, has received an award in the amount of $80,000 by the Cochlear Corporation for “Robotic Tools for Electrode Array Insertion.”
Robert J. Webster, III, Mechanical Engineering, has received an award in the amount of $33,341 by The MATHWORKS for “Modeling and Control of an Educational Haptic Robot Using Matlab/Simulink.”
John P. Wikswo, Jr., Physics and Astronomy, has received an award in the amount of $540,275 by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute for “Correlative Multimodal Imaging of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Metabolism.” Franz J. Baudenbacher, biomedical engineering, and Veniamin Sidorov are co-principal investigators.