Award Summary for August

Principal Investigator

Department

Collaborators

Title

Agency

Award Amount

Period

Larry Joseph Webber

Civil and Environmental Engineering-

IIHR-Hydroscience and Engineering

 

Cohesive Sediment and River Sediment Transport

US DEPARTMENT OF RECLAMATION

$ 139,877

7/01/2002

to

6/30/2004

Kyung Kook Choi

Mechanical Engineering-

Center for Computer-Aided Design (CCAD)

 

Durability Analysis for Different Dynamic Model and Terrain and Validation of Simulation and Testing Results

US ARMY

$ 57,656

7/18/2002

to

12/31/2002

Sharif Rahman

Mechanical Engineering-

Center for Computer-Aided Design (CCAD)

 

Predictice and Analytical Methods for Rapidly Assessing the Reliability of Commercial Electronic Packaging for Military/Industrial Environments

ROCKWELL COLLINS, INC.

$ 25,000

7/30/2002

to

1/31/2003

Thomas Schnell

Industrial Engineering-

Center for Computer-Aided Design (CCAD)

 

Defining the Traffic Sign Luminance Needs of Nighttime Drivers for Achromatic and Chromatic Signs

3M COMPANY

$ 59,975

7/01/2002

to

13/31/2003

H S Udaykumar

Mechanical Engineering-

IIHR-Hydroscience and Engineering

 

Prediction and Analysis of Material Response to Impact and Shock Loading Using a Sharp-Interface Eulerian Methodology

US AIR FORCE

$ 35,000

8/15/2002

to

8/14/2003

Tonya L Peeples

Chemical & Biochemical Engineering

 

Hybrid Thermal/Biological Conversion to Industrial Chemicals

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY

$ 25,000

7/01/2002

to

6/30/2003

Tatsuaki Nakato

IIHR-Hydroscience and Engineering

 

Collection & Processing of Surface Water Data for the Des Moines River Basin

MISSMAN, STANLEY & ASSOCIATES, INC.

$ 49,522

6/21/2002

to

10/31/2002

Soura Dasgupta

Electrical & Computer Engineering

 

Collaborative Research: Objective-oriented Mobile Heterogeneous Sensor Networks for Coordinated Control

US NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

$ 90,000

10/01/2002

to

9/30/2004

Jerald L Schnoor

Civil &Environmental Engineering

 

Phytoremediation Research and Demonstration at the Unocal Bulk Storage Terminal in Superior, Wisconsin: A Greenhouse Study and Demonstration, Part II

UNOCAL CORPORATION

$ 50,341

6/07/2002

to

6/06/2003

Christoph Beckerman

Mechanical Engineering

 

Casting Simulations for Integrated Dimensional Engineering Program at Penn State University

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE

$ 132,500

9/15/2000

to

1/31/2003

Gregory R Carmichael

Chemical & Biochemical Engineering

 

ITR/AP&IM Development of a General Computational Framework for the Optimal Integration of Atmospheric Chemical Transport Models and Measurements Using Adjoints

US NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

$2,229,997

9/01/2002

to

8/31/2007

James Schmiedeler

Mechanical Engineering

 

Program for Enhanced Design Experience for Undergraduate Engineering Students: 2002-03

GENENCOR INTERNATIONAL

$ 33,450

7/01/2002

to

6/30/2003

A Allen Bradley

Civil and Environmental Engineering-IIHR-Hydroscience and Engineering

 

Forecast Technology Integration for Water Resources Management

US DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE-NOAA

$ 80,000

9/01/2002

to

8/31/2003

Soura Dasgupta

Electrical & Computer Engineering

 

Collaborative Research: Objective-oriented Mobile Heterogeneous Sensor Networks for Coordinated Control

US NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

$ 90,000

10/01/2002

to

9/30/2004

James William DeVocht

Biomedical Engineering

 

Biomechanical Evaluation of Mattresses

KING KOIL

$ 53,934

8/01/2002

to

2/26/2003

Tonya L. Peeples

Chemical & Biochemical Engineering

 

Archaeal Chaperonins Can Be Used to Extend the Functional Range of Conditions in Which Enzymes Can Be Used

NASA

$ 24,000

9/15/2001

to

9/14/2004

Gregory R. Carmichael

Chemical & Biochemical Engineering

 

Modeling and Emissions Analyses in Support of the Spring 2002 ITCT Field Experiment in the Eastern Pacific and Western US

US DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE-NOAA

$110,160

4/01/2002

to

3/31/2003

Thomas L. Casavant

Electrical and Computer Engineering

 

Integrated DNA Technologies/ Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Initiative

INTEGRATED DNA TECHNOLOGIES

$ 150,000

9/01/2002

to

8/31/2005

Thomas L. Casavant

Electrical and Computer Engineering-Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

 

An EST Approach to Understanding Endosymbolic Gene Transfer

US NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

$66,206

9/1/2002

to

8/31/2003