Agaian, Sos (PI)

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Proposal title: Evaluation of the Use of a Non-Contact, 3D Scanner for Collecting Post Mortem Fingerprints
Funding Agency: FLASHSCAN3D
Amount: $99,612

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Akopian, David (PI)

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Proposal title: Pediatric Obesity Management Intervention Trial for Hispanic Families
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health, through Univ. of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Amount: $275,000

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Akopian, David (PI)

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Proposal title: Proposal title: Tobacco Cessation Services for Bi-Lingual and Spanish Speaking Young Adult Latinos in South Texas
Funding Agency: Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas, through Univ. of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Amount: $181,379

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Alaeddini, Adel (PI)

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Proposal title: Integrative Statistical and Operational Methods for Effective Chronic Disease Management
Funding Agency: UTSA VPR Office
Amount: $20,000

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Alaeddini, Adel (PI)

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Center for Advanced Manufacturing & Lean Systems
Proposal title: Applying Lean Principles to the Faculty Appointment Process at VP-AFSA-UTHSC
Funding Agency: Univ. of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Amount: $5,100

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Alaeddini, Adel (PI)

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Center for Advanced Manufacturing & Lean Systems
Proposal title: Review Warranty Claims from the City of San Antonio Against Toter Two- Wheeled Carts for Curbside Automated Waste
Funding Agency: Toter LLC
Amount: $12,950

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Alaeddini, Adel (PI) Agaian, Sos (Co-PI)

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Proposal title: Image-based Process Monitoring Phase 1: Real-time Quality Monitoring of Printing Process
Funding Agency: Harland Clarke
Amount: $77,630

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Castillo Villar, Krystel (PI)

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Proposal title: Integrated Modeling and Optimization of Supply Chain Design for Sustainable Bioenergy Systems
Funding Agency: UTSA VPR Office
Amount: $20,000

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Castillo Villar, Krystel (PI)

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Proposal title: Scheduling and Routing Optimization for Supply Chains with Disruptions in Transportation
Funding Agency: Conacyt-Consejo National de Ciencia
Amount: $77,360

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Castillo Villar, Krystel (PI) Giacomoni, Marcio (Co-PI) Chen, Fengshan (Co-PI) Shipley, Heather (Co-PI)

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Proposal title: Opportunities for Higher Education and Research Experience in Renewable Energy and Water Quality to Enable STEM Hispanic Leaders
Funding Agency: US Dept. of Agriculture
Amount: $290,000

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Dessouky, Samer (PI) Guo, Ruyan (Co-PI) Papagiannakis, Athanassios (Co-PI) Montoya Rodriguez, Arturo (Co-PI) Bhalla, Amar (Co-PI)

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Proposal title: Phase 1: Development of Highway Sensing and Energy Conversion (HiSEC) Modules For Generating Power
Funding Agency: Dept. of Transportation
Amount: $3,490,339

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Diaz, Manuel (PI) Arroyo, G (Co-PI)

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Proposal title: Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Grant
Funding Agency: U.S. Dept. of Transportation
Amount: $10,000

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Dong, Bing (PI)

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Proposal title: DOE/Aerofluid LLC: Assessment of Automated Evaluation Measurement of Verification (EM&V) Methods
Funding Agency: Aerofluids LLC
Amount: $9,700

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Dong, Bing (PI) Nishimoto, Taeg (Co-PI)

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, COA Dept. of Architecture, Texas Sustainable Energy Research Institute
Proposal title: Strategic Data Management for Energy and Water Consumption Efficiency in Marriott Hotels
Funding Agency: Marriott International Inc
Amount: $35,000

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Dupont, William (PI) Manteufel, Randall (Co- PI) Gunhan, Suat (Co-PI) Rashed-Ali, Hazem (Co-PI)

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, COA Dept. of Architecture, Center for Cultural Sustainability
Proposal title: Radiant Barrier Retrofits to Improve Energy Efficiency of Older Homes in Hot - Humid Climate Zones
Funding Agency: U.S. DOI National Park Service
Amount: $38,500

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Feng, Yusheng (PI) Quarles, John (Co-PI) Huang, Yufei (Co-PI) Castillo Villar, Krystel (Co-PI)

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, COS Dept. of Computer Science, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Center for Simulation, Visualization and Real Time Prediction
Proposal title: SALSI: Medical Data Analytics and Visualization Cluster
Funding Agency: Univ. of Texas System
Amount: $150,000

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Finol, Ender (PI) Menon Gopalakrishna, Prahlad (Co-PI) De Oliveira, Victor (Co-PI)

Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, COB Dept innovating research College of Engineering’s Innovations | 31 of Management, Science & Statistics
Proposal title: Geometric Surrogates for Clinical Management of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
Funding Agency: Institute of Health
Amount: $514,370

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Frederick, John (PI) Acevedo, Gabriel (Co-PI) Shipley, Heather (Co-PI) Sponsel, Valerie (Co-PI)

Academic Affairs, Provost, COLFA Dept. of Sociology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, COS Dept. Of Biology
Proposal title: ADVANCE IT-Catalyst: Institutional Self-Study on Women Faculty in STEM and SBS Disciplines at UTSA
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount: $168,000

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Gatsis, Nikolaos (PI)

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Proposal title: CIF: Small: Collaborative Research: From Communication to Power Networks: Adaptive Energy Management for Power Systems with Renewables
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount: $171,409

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Guo, Ruyan (PI) Bhalla, Amar (Co-PI)

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Proposal title: Unified Approach to Increase STEM Undergraduate Students Employment in Department of the Navy - UTSA Contribution
Funding Agency: University of Texas at Austin
Amount: $255,000

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Han, Hai-Chao (PI), Jin, Yufang (Co-PI)

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Proposal title: San Antonio Cardiovascular Proteomic Center
Funding Agency: Univ. of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Amount: $256,269

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Huang, Jie (PI) Sharif, Hatim (Co-PI) Dessouky, Samer (Co-PI)

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Proposal title: Evaluating Use of Sub-Grade Drains with PFC for Stormwater Drainage
Funding Agency: Texas Dept. of Transportation
Amount: $99,530

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Huang, Yufei (PI)

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Proposal title: Identification and characterization of mRNA methylation in Breast Cancer
Funding Agency: Univ. of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Amount: $130,000

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Huang, Yufei (PI) Zhang, Jianqiu (Co-PI)

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Proposal title: Graphical Models for Characterizing Global RNA Methylation
Funding Agency: National Institute of Health
Amount: $1,085,774

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Jamshidi, Mohammad (PI) Kelley, Brian (Co-PI)

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Proposal title: Modeling, Analysis And Control of Large Scale Autonomous System Of Vehicles
Funding Agency: North Carolina Agricultural & Tech State
Amount: $266,200

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Johnson, Drew (PI) Shipley, Heather (Co-PI)

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Water Institute of Texas
Proposal title: Activated Sludge Aeration Waste Heat for Membrane Evaporation of Desalination Brine Concentrate: A Bench Scale Collaborative Study
Funding Agency: U.S. Dept. of the Interior
Amount: $85,587

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Johnson, Drew (PI) Shipley, Heather (Co-PI)

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Proposal title: Support for Historical Data Review and Source Analysis for Lower Leon Creek Watershed
Funding Agency: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Amount: $62,881

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Krishnan, Ramnarayan (PI) Park, Jae Hong (Co-PI)

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute for Cyber Security
Proposal title: Enhancing Situational Awareness for Emergency Response Using Social Media Provenance
Funding Agency: LMI Research Institute
Amount: $50,000

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Krishnan, Ramnarayan (PI) Sandhu, Ravinderpal (Co-PI)

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Sciences
Proposal title: TWC: Small: Attribute Based Access Control for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount: $500,000

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Liu, Rui (PI) Dong, Bing (Co-PI) Du, Jing (Co-PI)

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, COA Dept. of Construction
Proposal title: Building Information Modeling Supported Building Life Cycle Management: On the Edge of Total Information Management
Funding Agency: Univ. of Texas at Austin
Amount: $68,220

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Matamoros, Adolfo (PI)

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Proposal title: Composite Action in Prestressed NU I-Girder Bridge Deck Systems Constructed with Bond Breakers to Facilitate Deck Removal
Funding Agency: Univ. of Kansas Ctr. Res. Inc.
Amount: $7,647

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Millwater, Harry (PI)

College of Engineering
Proposal title: Gas Turbine Engine Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics Research
Funding Agency: Southwest Research Institute
Amount: $16,626

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Millwater, Harry (PI) Ocampo De los Rios, Juan (Co-PI)

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Center for Simulation, Visualization, and Real Time Prediction
Proposal title: Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Aircraft Structures
Funding Agency: Texas Res. Inst. Austin Inc.
Amount: $42,750

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Montoya Rodriguez, Arturo (PI) Maldonado, Victor (Co-PI) Alaeddini, Adel (Co-PI)

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Proposal title: A Novel Pipeline Monitoring System
Funding Agency: Flatrock Engineering & Environmental Ltd.
Amount: $84,272

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Ong, Anson (PI)

Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Proposal title: Establishment of Pancreatic Microenvironment Ex Vivo to Grow and Preserve Pancreatic Islets
Funding Agency: SALSI
Amount: $100,000

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Ong, Anson (PI)

Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Proposal title: Nanotechniques and Instrumentation - 2015
Funding Agency: Alamo Community College District
Amount: $1,500

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Ong, Anson (PI) Guda, Teja (Co-PI)

Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Proposal title: Processing and Characterization of Coatings for Polymeric Implants
Funding Agency: North Carolina State Univ.
Amount: $37,000

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Pack, Daniel (PI)

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Proposal title: A Strap-down Image-Based Guidance on Virtual Field of View
Funding Agency: Agency for Defense Development
Amount: $220,000

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Pack, Daniel (PI)

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Proposal title: Cooperative Control and Sensing for Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Working in GPS-denied Environments
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of the Air Force
Amount: $125,000

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Pack, Daniel (PI) Akopian, David (Co-PI)

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Proposal title: Perseus III
Funding Agency: U.S. Dept. of the Navy
Amount: $70,000

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Pack, Daniel (PI) Huang, Yufei (Co-PI)

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Proposal title: Controlling Cooperative UAVs Cognition and Neuroergonomics Collaborative Technology Alliance Technology Transition Subcontract for Mutually Adaptive Systems
Funding Agency: Office of the Secretary of Defense
Amount: $282,925

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Pack, Daniel (PI) Qian, Chunjiang (Key Personnel) Akopian, David (Key Personnel) Huang, Yufei (Key Personnel) Maldonado, Victor (Key Personnel)

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Proposal title: Acquisition of Small Unmanned Aerial Systems for Advancing Cooperative Man- Machine Systems Research and Education
Funding Agency: US Dept of the Army
Amount: $446,105

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Pei, Ruoting (PI)

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Proposal title: Does Cell-cell Communication Promote Microcystis Aeruginosa Blooms?
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount: $290,468

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Ramasubramanian, Anand (PI)

Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Proposal title: IIMS: A Rapid, Low-cost Device for MRSA Identification and Drug Susceptibility
Funding Agency: Univ. of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Amount: $43,000

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Ramasubramanian, Anand (PI) Reddoch, Kristin (Co-PI)

Dept. of Biomedical Engineering RISE Programs
Proposal title: Cell Death Machinery Involved in Cold Platelet Storage for Transfusion
Funding Agency: American Heart Association
Amount: $25,000

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Rogers, Dwain (PI) Castillo Villar, Krystel (Co-PI)

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Texas Sustainable Energy Research Institute
Proposal title: Central Texas Fuel Independence Project Fleet Analysis
Funding Agency: Austin Energy
Amount: $20,000

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Saygin, Can (PI) Wan, Hung-Da (Co-PI)

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Center for Advanced Manufacturing & Lean Systems
Proposal title: Incorporating Lean-Six Sigma Methodologies into the Institute for Integration of Medicine and Science
Funding Agency: Univ. of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Amount: $100,000

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Saygin, Can (PI) Wan, Hung-Da (Co-PI) Castillo Villar, Krystel (Co-PI) Alaeddini, Adel (Co-PI)

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Center for Advanced Manufacturing & Lean Systems
Proposal title: Predictive Maintenance - Phase 2: From Data to Performance Metrics
Funding Agency: Harland Clarke
Amount: $90,000

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Shadaram, Mehdi (PI)

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Center for Excellence in Engineering Education
Proposal title: Engineering Summer Residential Camp for Texas High School Students
Funding Agency: Texas Higher Educ. Coordinating Board
Amount: $12,500

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Shadaram, Mehdi (PI)

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Center for Excellence in Engineering Education
Proposal title: Somerset ISD GEAR
Funding Agency: Somerset ISD Office of the Superintendent
Amount: $15,600

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Sharif, Hatim (PI)

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Proposal title: The Use of Operational Precipitation Products in The Context of Flood Forecasting
Funding Agency: U.S. Dept. of the Army
Amount: $147,340

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Shephard, Les (PI)

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Proposal title: National Incubator Initiative for Clean Energy
Funding Agency: Univ. of Texas at Austin
Amount: $43,476

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Vega, Rolando (PI) Shephard, Les (Co-PI)

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas Sustainable Energy Research Institute
Proposal title: Outdoor test system configuration and reflective material characterization for bifacial solar photo-voltaic technology
Funding Agency: Mission Solar Energy
Amount: $100,000

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Wang, Xiaodu (PI)

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Proposal title: Intrafibrillar mineralization vs. bone fragility
Funding Agency: National Institute of Health
Amount: $362,174

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Wang, Xiaodu (PI) Zeng, Xiaowei (Co-PI)

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Proposal title: Non-collagenous proteins vs. bone fragility
Funding Agency: National Institute of Health
Amount: $366,698

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Weissmann, Jose (PI)

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Proposal title: A Process for Designating and Managing Overweight Truck Routes in Coastal Port Regions
Funding Agency: Texas Dept. of Transportation
Amount: $48,749

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Weissmann, Jose (PI)

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Proposal title: Review and Evaluation of Current Gross Vehicle Weights and Axle Load Limits
Funding Agency: Texas Dept. of Transportation
Amount: $90,990

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Weissmann, Jose (PI) Papagiannakis, Athanassios (Co-PI)

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Proposal title: Evaluation of the Benefits of Diamond Grinding of CRC Pavements
Funding Agency: Texas Dept. of Transportation
Amount: $79,992

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