Printer FriendlyResearch 2006-2007
Prof Hongwei Sun has been awarded a $33,000 grant from Physical Sciences Inc for research on "Commercial Methods for Production of Orientation Patterned GaAs".
Prof. Julie Chen has been awarded a grant from Applied Physical Sciences Corp. for research on "Development of Lightweight and Low Cost Advanced Structural Materials for Off-board Surface Vessels."
Prof. Hongwei Sun was recently awarded a $100,000 grant from Northeastern University to study “Droplet-based Processing of Quasicrystalline Magnesium Alloys for the Production of High Performance Particulate, Bulk and Coating Materials.”
Profs. Chris Niezrecki, Eugene Niemi and Julie Chen of the ME department were recently awarded a $100,000 grant from the Natick Soldier Center (NSC) to study "Deformation Measurement and Modeling of Parachute Fabric Using Imaging and Smart Material Sensors."
Ted Kennedy joined, Marty Meehan, Steven Panagiotakos delivered a $2 million federal grant to Julie Chen. Director of the nanomanufacturing center of excellence. This will fund research into the mass production of nanotechnology devices that will benefit the Army.
Prof. Niezrecki has been awarded an $18,000 contract from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA). The project is titled Flashback Lighting System. Prof. Robert Malloy (PE) is Co-PI.
Prof. Avitabile has been awarded a $5500 contract from the Bobcat Company for a project titled Technical Support for the Modal Analysis activities at Bobcat Company.
Profs. Niezrecki, Avitabile, Chen, Sherwood, and Kurup (CEE) have been awarded a $490,000 equipment grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will be used to purchase a 3D Scanning Laser Vibrometer. Only one other university in the country currently possesses this equipment.
Profs. Niezrecki , Chen, and Niemi have been awarded a 4 month research contract extension from the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Center RDECOM (Airdrop/Aerial Delivery Directorate). The project is titled Deformation Measurement and Modeling of Parachute Fabric Using Imaging and Smart Material Sensors. The award amount is $75,000.
Prof. Avitabile has been awarded a $99,809 contract from the US Army Aviation and Missile Command for research on “System Modeling Approaches of Helicopter/Wing/Missile configurations”.
Prof. Sherwood has been awarded a $10,000 contract from the All Japan Baseball Bat Industry Association for research on “Collaborative International Research to Explore a Global Bat Performance Standard”.
Prof. Chen received a $589,776 contract from the National Science Foundation for research on “Industrial Safety of Nanoheaters”. Prof. Chen is Co-PI with Prof. Gu of Chemical Engineering.
Prof. Duffy received a renewal and increase of his award from the National Science Foundation for research on “Service Learning Integrated throughout a college of engineering”. The award was increased from $999,695 to $1,036, 177.
Prof. Duffy received a $17,500 contract from the National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) for research on “Microenterprise of Solar Water Purification Bottles with Dye Indicator”.
Prof. Shina received a $25,000 contract from the US Environmental Protection Agency for research on “New England Halogen Free Research Consortium Testing Project Long Term Reliability Study”
Profs. Kurup (CEE), Kumar (Physics), Sun (ME), Gu (CE), and Nagarajan (PE) - $800,000 , National Science Foundation. High Precision Detection and Prediction of Explosives Based on Multiple Sensing Systems and Data Fusion.
Patents
A patent was recently awarded to mechanical engineering professor John Duffy for an electrolyzer pressure equalization system.
On September 28, 2007 Rockwell International engineers and UML ME sophomore COOP student Shaun Hentchel filed a patent entitled "Polarimetric Based Color Sensor".