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Faculty Research Grants
Following are some recent research awards to our engineering faculty:
Individual Faculty Awards
Mark Aindow, United Technologies-Pratt & Whitney, TEM Characterization of SAM AI, 9/07-12/08, $40,000.
S. Pamir Alpay, DoD/Army/Structured Materials Industries, Inc., Frequency-Agile, Ka-band Filters Based on Functionally Graded BST Thin Films, 8/08-8/09, $112,500.
Emmanouil Anagnostou, National Aeronautics & Space Administration, Understanding the Use of Satellite Rainfall in Flood Prediction for Complex Terrain Basins, 8/07-10/08, $80,000.
Emmanouil Anagnostou, NSF, Collaborative Research: Rainfall estimation accuracy and classification from deep underwater sound measurements, 9/08-8/11, $236,300.
A.F.M. Anwar, DoD/Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Develop Laser Improvements, 12/08-12/09, $55,000.
Thomas Barber, UTC Power Corporation, Fuel Cell Pressure Plate Optimization, 9/08-6/09, $6,000.
Theodore Bergman, NSF, NSF Intergovernmental Personnel Assignment, 9/08-9/09, $257,273.
Steven Boggs, DoD/Army, Research in High Energy Density Capacitor Technology, 9/08-9/10, $120,000.
Steven Boggs, LDIC GmbH, Partial Discharge Detection and the Effect thereof on Insulation Materials, 1/09-12/12, $280,000.
Steven Boggs, UtilX Corporation, Optimization of PD Data Acquisition and Analysis, 8/08-6/10, $123,750.
Steven Boggs, UtilX Corporation, Research into New Approaches to Partial Discharge Detection and Analysis for Shielded Power Cable, 8/08-6/10, $123,750.
Chengyu Cao, NASA/University of Illinois, Adaptive Control with a priori Guaranteed Performance Bounds and Robustness/Stability Margins, 9/08-9/11, $288,369.
Chengyu Cao, NIH/AfaSci, Inc., Image Sensing and Sleeping Deprivation Systems for Smart Home Cages, 11/08-12/08, $15,000.
Wilson Chiu, NSF, Advanced Thermal Processing Workshop, 8/08-7/09, $10,000.
Wilson Chiu, NSF, GOALI: Pore-Scale Understanding of Ohmic Polarization in Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrodes, 10/08-9/09, $90,000.
Mun Y. Choi, NASA, Flex Droplet Flame Extinguishment in Microgravity, 12/07-12/11, $360,000.
Richard Christenson, NSF/Washington University, NEESR-SG: Performance-Based Design and Real-Time Large-Scale Testing to Enable Implementation of Advanced Damping Systems, 9/08-8/12, $100,000.
Maria Chrysochoou, National Chromium Company, Inc., Column Studies of Cr-Contaminated Soil in National Chromium Facility, 11/08-10/09, $10,000.
Maria Chrysochoou, Schnabel Engineering North, LLC, Analysis of Soil-Cement Samples, 9/08-12/08, $2,000.
Jun-Hong Cui, National Science Foundation, Collaborative Research: CRI: IAD: Developing a Novel Infrastructure for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks, 8/07-7/10, $319,998.
Jun-Hong Cui (PI), Zhijie Shi (Co-PI), Shengli Zhou (Co-PI), Ivar Babb (Co-PI), and Thomas Torgersen (Co-PI), NSF, MRI: Development of Instrumentation for an Autonomous Underwater Sensor Network System, 8/08-7/11. $500,000.
Steve Demurjian (PI) and Dong-Guk Shin (Co-PI), CT Department of Insurance, Feasibility Study of Information System Reengineering: Part XII, 7/08-6/09, $160,000.
Steven Demurjian, University of Connecticut Health Center, Developing a Center for Translational Health Services and Strategic Planning for HIT in Community Health Organizations, 9/08-2/09, $23,057.
John Enderle, VA/Boston Healthcare System, Clinical Engineering Internship Program at the Boston VA Hospital, 8/08-9/13, $218,727
John Enderle, VA/Providence Medical Center, Clinical Engineering Internship Program at the Providence VA Hospital, 10/08-5/09, $29,031.
John Enderle, VA/Boston Healthcare System, Clinical Engineering Internship Program at the Boston VA Hospital, 8/08-9/08, $3,791.
John Enderle, UConn Health Center, Clinical Engineering Internship Program at the UConn Health Center, 8/97-8/09, $418,878.
Amir Faghri, National Science Foundation, Transport Phenomena in Micro/Miniature Passive Vapor Feed Direct Alcohol Fuel Cells, 9/07-8/10, $300,342.
Tai-Hsi Fan (PI) and Nejat Olgac (Co-PI), NSF, New Concepts in Fluidics and Cellular Mechanics for Controlled Microinjection, 8/08-7/10, $200,000.
Norman Garrick, DoT/Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Community Design and Transportation Safety Towards a “Vision Zero” Road Fatalities Plan, 9/07-8/11, $75,901.
Norman Garrick, National Science Foundation, The Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program/2007 Eisenhower Graduate Fellowships, 9/07-9/09, $61,500.
Pu-Xian Gao, American Chemical Society/Petroleum Research Fund, A Systematic Study on Vapor-Liquid-Solid (VLS) Growth Process of Metal Oxide Nanodendrites, 9/08-8/10, $50,000.
Mekonnen Gebremichael, NASA, What is the Ability of Global Land Surface Models to Simulate Land Surface Processes, 5/08-5/11, $357,155.
Ali Gokirmak, NSF, GOALI: Side gated ultra narrow channel silicon MOSFETs and transport studies at nanometer scale, 8/08-7/11, $199,644.
Ian Greenshields, National Science Foundation, U.S.-Egypt International Workshop on Supercomputing Applications in Climate Sciences and Remote Sensing, March 17-19, Cairo, Egypt, 10/07-9/08, $47,721.
Chun-Hsi Huang, Nat'l Science Foundation, REU Site: BioGrid Initiatives for Interdisciplinary Research and Education, 1/08-2/11, $285,000.
Bryan Huey, NSF, IMR: Development of High Speed SPM for Research and Education, 9/08-8/10, $311,111.
Faquir Jain, Dept. of Defense/Navy/Office of Naval Research, Imaging Laser Radar and Optical Processor for Underwater Target Recognition and Tracking System, 10/07-10/08, $215,903.
Faquir Jain, LGS Innovations, LLC, Growth and Characterization of InGaAs-InP Devices and Optoelectronic Systems, 8/08-2/09, $65,700.
Eric Jordan, Nat'l Science Foundation/Southwest Sciences, Optical NDI of Thermal Barrier Coatings, 12/07-12/08, $50,000.
Kazem Kazerounian, OSIM International Ltd., Detailed Design and Proof of Various Massage Equipment, 7/07-6/09, $96,678.
Aggelos Kiayias, Dept. of Homeland Security/Sonalysts Inc., Botnet Detection and Mitigation, 7/07-7/09, $228,995.
Aggelos Kiayias, National Science Foundation, SGER: Collaborative Research: Secure and Auditable Privacy Contracts, 10/07-9/08, $50,000.
Aggelos Kiayias, NSF, CT-ISG: Collaborative Research: Tamper Proofing Cryptographic Operations, 9/08-8/11, $223,225.
Aggelos Kiayias, NSF, CT-ISG: Collaborative Research: Key Generation from Physical Layer Characteristics in Wireless Networks, 9/08-8/11, $193,500.
Shiva Kotha, Importance of Beta-Catenin Signaling in Osteocytes Associated with Anabolic Load, NIH, 8/08-5/13, $1,757,809.
H. Russell Kunz, University of Central Florida, Proposal on Increasing Fuel cell Performance Using Heteropolyacid Additives, 9/08-12/008, $26,111.
Yu Lei, National Science Foundation, EXP-LA: Real-time, Compact, and Ultra-sensitive Sensor Arrays for Explosives Vapor Detection, 9/07-8/10, $792,404.
Yu Lei, NSF, Rapid, Sensitive and Sequential Detection of E. coli and Total Coliforms Using Engineered Conducting Membranes for Water Quality Control, 9/08-8/10, $160,058.
Baikun Li, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), Demonstrating Power Production in Wastewater Treatment Processes on a Pilot Scale Basis, 3/09-2/10, $70,000.
Peter Luh, Southern California Edison, Simultaneous Optimal Auction and Unit Commitment for Deregulated Electricity Markets, Phase VI, 1/09-12/09, $68,815.
Peter Luh, ISO New England, Inc., Start-Up and No-Load Pricing for Electricity Markets, Phase II and III, 8/08-9/09, $49,996.
Peter Luh, Midwest ISO, Effective Methods to Solve the Dual Problems for Convex Hull Pricing of Electricity Markets, 7/08-7/09, $58,556.
Peter Luh, Southern California Edison, Simultaneous Optimal Auction and Unit Commitment for Deregulated Electricity Markets, Phase IV, 1/08-12/08, $63,518.
Peter Luh, Alstom Power Corp., Power Plant Boiler Modeling and Optimization, Phase VII, 8/08-1/09, $41,754.
Peter Luh, ISO New England Inc., Short-Term Load Forecasting: Wavelet-Based Similar-Day Neural Networks, 9/07-12/08, $76,859.
Peter Luh, EnvaPower Inc., Wavelet Decomposition for Short-Term Load Forecasting of Mid-West ISO, 8/08-9/09, $57,375.
Robert Magnusson, Conn. Office for Workforce Competitiveness/Conn. Center for Advanced Technology Inc., Development of Nanoscale Imprint Technology for Efficient Fabrication of Resonant Photonic-Crystal Devices, 10/07-6/08, $54,638.
James Mahoney, DoT/Connecticut Department of Transportation, Establishment of a Connecticut Advanced Pavement Laboratory (CAP Lab) – FY09, 7/08-6/09, $160,796.
James Mahoney, Dept. of Transportation/Federal Highway Admin./New England Transportation Consortium, New England Transportation Consortium (NETC) Project 04-1, Recycling Asphalt Pavements Containing Modified Binders (Phase 2), 8/07-11/08, $82,751.
James Mahoney, Dept. of Transportation / Federal Highway Admin. / New England Transportation Consortium, Establishing Default Dynamic Modulus Values for New England, 7/08-12/09, $109,787.
Ramesh Malla (PI) and Montgomery Shaw (Co-PI), New England Transportation Consortium, Sealing of Small Movement Bridge Expansion Joints – Phase II: Field Demonstration and Monitoring, 8/08-7/11, $75,000.
Robert McCartney, NSF, Collaborative Research: Commonsense Computing: What Students Know Before We Teach, 8/08-7/10, $27,058.
Robert McCartney, NSF, Collaborative Research: A Network of Disciplinary Commons in Computing Education, 9/08-8/11, $1,836.
Laurent Michel, ISO New England Inc., Short-Term Load Forecasting: Wavelet-Based Similar-Day Neural Networks, 12/07-12/08, $62,447.
Trent Molter, Greater New Haven Transit District, GNHTD Prototype PEM Fuel Cell Evaluation Program, 10/08-4/09, $34,638.
Trent Molter, Ensign-Bickford Industries, Inc., Solid Hydrogen Fuel Element Development – Thermal/Fluid Analysis of Fuel Element Housing & Ammonia Borane Pyrolysis Chemistry Characterization, 6/08-6/09, $143,518.
Kevin Murphy, NSF, Collaborative Research: Improvement of MEMS Performance by Structural Vibrations – Theory and Practical Implementations, 8/08-7/11, $50,000.
Nejat Olgac, Dept. of Defense/Army, Swarm Behavior During Conflicts: From Biological to Engineered Systems, 8/07-8/10, $270,983.
Nejat Olgac, Massachusetts General Hospital, Simple and Cost Effective Storage of Mouse Sperm, 6/08-4/09, $93,918.
Richard Parnas (PI), James Stuart (Co-PI) and Christopher Perkins (Co-PI), Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development/Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, Inc., Catalyzing the Development of Biofuels Industry in Connecticut with an Integrated Testing Program, 12/08-11/09, $598,244.
Ugur Pasaogullari, Nissan Motor Company, Ltd., Transient Dynamics of Two-Phase Transport in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells, 2/09-1/10, $65,178.
Ugur Pasaogullari, Nat'l Science Foundation, CAREER: Role of Interfaces on Transport Phenomena in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells, 2/08-1/13, $400,000.
Ugur Pasaogullari, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Effect of Permeation on Net Water Transport in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells, 2/08-1/09, $41,577.
Krishna Pattipati, DoD/Office of Naval Research, Modeling and Analysis of Agile C2 Organizations for MHQ with MOC, 10/08-9/11, $765,000.
Krishna Pattipati, Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America, Inc., Audit/Quantification of Embedded Software Quality, 9/08-12/08, $30,000.
Krishna Pattipati, Toyota Technical Center USA Inc., Intelligent Diagnostics and Vehicle Health Management, 9/07-8/08, $155,502.
Krishna Pattipati, National Security Innovations, Inc., Machine Learning Techniques to Identify Patterns in Sparse Data – Phase II (expansion effort), 8/08-9/08, $19,999.
Krishna Pattipati, Naval Postgraduate School/ONR, Coordination Mechanisms for ISR and MHQ/MOC, 8/08-5/09, $104,813.
Krishna Pattipati, Aptima Inc., Algorithms and Organizational Identification and Automated Development of Action Plans for Adaptive Forces, 8/08-6/09, $50,000.
Ranga Pitchumani, National Science Foundation, Investigations on Transport Phenomena Governing Replication of Electroforming Micromolds for Fabrication of High Aspect Ratio Microstructures, 9/07-8/10, $300,001.
Michael Renfro, United Technologies-Pratt & Whitney, Bluff Body Flame Holding in Unmixed Vitiated Air, 8/08-12/08, $5,000.
George Rossetti, DoD/Office of Naval Research, Design and Modeling of High Power Density Acoustic Transducer Materials for Autonomous Undersea Vehicles, 10/08-9/11, $210,000.
Alexander Russell, NSF, Collaborative Research: EMT/QIS: Quantum Algorithms and Post-Quantum Cryptography, 9/08-8/11, $100,000.
Zhijie Shi, National Science Foundation, CAREER: Novel Primitives and Side-Channel Countermeasures in the Design and Implementation of Cryptographic Algorithms, 9/07-8/12, $400,000.
Alexander Shvartsman, CT Office of the Secretary of the State, Voting Technology Center, 9/08-8/09, $380,000.
Alevtina Smirnova, UTC Power, Synthesis of Carbon Aerogels, 5/08-8/08, $2,500.
Ranjan Srivastava, NSF, Collaborative Research: A Systems Biology Approach for Metabolically Engineering Escherichia Coli for Producing Hydrogen via Fermentation, 9/08-8/11, $75,813.
Wei Sun, American Heart Association, Development of Biomechanical Models for Analyzing Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Annuloplasty, 1/09-12/12, $308,000.
Jiong Tang, DoD/AFOSR/University of Michigan, Highly Sensitive and Robust Damage Detection of Periodic Structures with Piezoelectric Networking, 6/08-5/10, $82,691.
Geoff Taylor, Opel Inc., Development of Infrared Detectors, 1/08-1/10, $220,000.
Mohammad Tehranipoor, National Science Foundation, Conn.-ISG: Collaborative Research: Detection and Isolation of Malicious Inclusions in Secure Hardware (DIMINISH), 8/07-7/10, $150,000.
Mohammed Tehranipoor, NSF, CPA-DA: Dealing with Voltage Variations and Supply Noise During Performance Verification in Nanometer Technology Designs, 9/08-8/11, $250,000.
Mohammed Tehranipoor, NSF, GOALI (Industry-University Collaborative Project): Collaborative Research: Scalable Techniques for Detecting Small-Delay Defects in Nanometer Integrated Circuits, 9/08-8/11, $164,659.
Bing Wang, Nat'l Science Foundation, CAREER: Automating Wireless Network Management: Lessons from Managing Wireless LANs and Sensor Networks, 2/08-1/13, $449,996.
Guiling Wang, NOAA, Soil Moisture-Vegetation-Precipitation Feedback over North America: the Search for Observational Evidence, 7/08-6/11, $277,064.
Robert Weiss, National Science Foundation, Manufacture of Controlled Microstructure Proton Exchange Membranes, 9/07-8/10, $453,888.
Robert Weiss, American Chemical Society/Petroleum Research Fund, Synthesis of PLA Ionomers, 2/08-1/10, $55,911.
Benjamin Wilhite, American Chemical Society/Petroleum Research Fund, Electroceramic Materials for High-Purity Hydrogen Extraction from Liquid Hydrocarbon Fuels: Fundamental Investigations of Coupled Electrochemical and Catalytic Phenomena, 1/09-8/11, $100,000.
Ben Wilhite, Dept. of Defense/Navy/Office of Naval Research, Analysis of Hydrogen Purification Membranes for Use in Fuel Cell-Based Naval Power Systems, 12/07-12/08, $97,055.
Ben Wilhite, NSF, CAREER: Composite Catalytic Micromembranes. Tailoring Reaction and Transport at the Microscale for Efficient Hydrogen Extraction from Green Hydrocarbons, 8/08-7/13, $400,000.
Peter Willett, DoD/Navy, Tracking Primer, 6/08-12/08. $69,256.
Peter Willett, Dept. of Defense/Missile Defense Agency/Vectraxx Inc., The PMHT for Track-Before-Detect, 10/07-9/09, $186,000.
Peter Willett, Qualtech Systems, Inc., Data Reduction Techniques for Real-time Fault Detection and Isolation (FDI) and Multiple Fault Interference with Imperfect Tests, 1/08-1/09, $30,000.
Yufeng Wu, NSF, III-CXT-Medium: Collaborative Research: Inference of Complex Genealogical Histories in Populations: Algorithms and Applications, 9/08-8/11, $305,209.
Shengli Zhou, National Science Foundation, A Multicarrier Underwater Acoustic Modem with Precise-Ranging Capability, 9/07-8/09, $274,026.
Shengli Zhou, National Science Foundation, Collaborative Research NeTS-NOSS: SEA-Swarm: A Rapidly Deployable Underwater Sensor Network, 9/07-8/10, $200,000.
Shengli Zhou, DoD/Office of Naval Research, PECASE: Advancing Underwater Acoustic Communications for Autonomous Distributed Networks via Sparse Channel Sensing, Coding and Navigation Support, 7/09-6/14, $999,998.
Lei Zhu, Travel Support Proposal for an ACS PMSE Symposium “Functional Polymer Nanocomposites for Energy Storage and Conversion”, 12/08-11/09, $4,000.
Joint Faculty Awards
Peter Luh (PI) and Laurent Michel (Co-PI), ISO New England, Inc., Very Short Term Prediction of Electric Power System 30 Minute Operating Reserve, 11/08-12/09, $142,142.
Yaakov Bar-Shalom (PI) and Peter Willett (Co-PI), DoD/US Army Space and Missile Command/Technology Service Corporation, Advanced Sensor Data Fusion, 10/08-9/10, $265,000.
Baki Cetegen (PI) and Michael Renfro (Co-PI), United Technologies, Inc. - Pratt & Whitney, Dynamics of Bluff-Body Stabilized Premixed and Partially-Premixed Flames Near Blowoff, 12/08-12/09, $70,000.
John Ivan (PI), Norman Garrick (Co-PI) and Nicholas Lownes (Co-PI), DoT/Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Connecticut Transportation Institute of NEUTC Graduate Fellowships, 9/07-8/11, $82,000.
Eric Jordan (PI) and Michael Renfro (Co-PI), Rolls Royce, Inc., Remaining Life Estimation of Realistically Contaminated Turbine Blades by Oxide Fluorescence Measurements, 6/08-12/08, $80,921.
Harris Marcus (PI) and Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos (Co-PI), Connecticut Office for Workforce Competitiveness, The Connecticut Nanotechnology Initiative and the Connecticut Nanoscale Science Center, 10/08-6/09, $106,200.
Amvrossios Bagtzoglou (PI), Ramesh Malla (Co-PI), Baki Cetegen (Co-PI) and Thomas Barber (Co-PI), Native Nano, LLC, Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis and Testing of an Innovative Small-Scale, Environmentally Friendly, Low-Head Hydropower Concept, 9/08-6/09, $177,795.
Joseph Bushey (PI), Amvrossios Bagtzoglou (Co-PI) and Christopher Perkins (Co-PI), Entex Technologies, Inc., Technical and Operational Support for Entex Pilot Plant at the Stafford Connecticut Water Pollution Control Facility, 10/08-4/09, $12,279.
Amir Faghri (PI), Theodore Bergman (Co-PI), and Ranga Pitchumani (Co-PI), DoE, Novel Thermal Energy Storage for Concentrating Solar Power, 1/09-12/11, $1,290,362.
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran (PI) and Robert Birge (Co-PI), NSF, Computing with Protein-Based Associative Memory Processors, 9/08-8/11, $749,999.
Alexander Shvartsman (PI), Alexander Russell (Co-PI), Aggelos Kiayias (Co-PI), Laurent Michel (Co-PI), and Reda Ammar (Co-PI), CT Office of the Secretary of the State, Certification and Acceptance Testing of Electronic Voting Equipment, 7/08-6/09, $380,000.
Yaakov Bar-Shalom (PI) and Peter Willett (Co-PI), DoD/Missile Defense Agency, Advanced Ballistic Missile Tracking and Fusion Algorithms, 10/08-9/11, $600,000.
Alexander Russell (PI) and Robin Coté (Co-PI), NSF, CDI Type-I: Quantum Diffusion and Quantum Random Walks in Physical Systems, 9/08-8/11, $550,448.