Grant Recap - Summer 2020
College of Engineering Grant Recap - Summer 2020
JUNE 2020
Power-Test-Service Account
- Faculty: Satish Mahajan (PI), LK Crouch (Co-PI1), Robert Craven (Co-PI2)
- Founding Source: Various Industries
- Amount Funded: $13,017.00
- Length of Funding: 7/1/19-6/30/20
Novel Endogenous Beta Defensin Based Therapeutics to Treat COVID-19 Patients
- Faculty: Liqun Zhang (PI)
- Founding Source: Case Western Reserve University
- Amount Funded: $8,000.00
- Length of Funding: 4/24/20-10/31/20
Academic Review and Rewrite of NAVFAC-DM 7.02
- Faculty: Daniel VandenBerge
- Founding Source: National Institute of Building Sciences via Navy
- Amount Funded: $29,700.00
- Length of Funding: 5/21/20-9/30/20
Simulation of HF Inverter Circuits for High-Power Wireless Charging
- Faculty: Satish Mahajan (PI)
- Founding Source: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Amount Funded: $19,218.00
- Length of Funding: 10/10/19-12/31/20
2019-2020 Affiliate Capacity Building Fund
- Faculty: Martha Kosa
- Founding Source: National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT)
- Amount Funded: $1,955.00
- Length of Funding: 6/5/20-6/30/21
JULY 2020
SMART2 Smart Manufacturing for America's Revolutionizing Technological Transformation
- Faculty: Ismail Fidan (PI)
- Founding Source: National Science Foundation
- Amount Funded: $72,982.00
- Length of Funding: 8/18/18-6/30/21
CC* Collaborative - Tennessee Tech Science DMZ (This is Year 1- or 2-year project)
- Faculty: Susmit Shannigrahi (PI), Michael Rogers (Co-PI1)
- Founding Source: National Science Foundation
- Amount Funded: $259,112.00
- Length of Funding: 7/1/20-6/30/22
Quasi-Wireless Capacitive (QWiC) Surface Power for Adaptive and Reconfigurable Sensor Elements on Space Infrastructure
- Faculty: Charles Van Neste (PI), Satish Mahajan (Co-PI1), Denis Ulybyshev (Co-PI2), Manaak Gupta (Co-PI3)
- Founding Source: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Amount Funded: $60,405.00
- Length of Funding: 7/1/20-6/30/21
Investigations into the Design Rules for the Control of Wire ArcAdditive
- Faculty: DuckBong Kim (PI)
- Founding Source: National Science Foundation
- Amount Funded: $76,009.00
- Length of Funding: 7/1/20-6/30/23
Education Program for Connected and Automated Electric Vehicles (CAEVs)
- Faculty: Pingen Chen (PI), Vahid Motevalli (Co-PI1), Mohan Rao (Co-PI2), Stephen Canfield (Co-PI3), Ismail Fidan (Co-PI4), Denis Ulybyshev (Co-PI5), Steven Anton (Co-PI6), Syed Rafay Hasan (Co-PI7)
- Founding Source: Denso North American Foundation
- Amount Funded: $157,964.00
- Length of Funding: 7/1/20-4/20/22
From Can't to Can: Attack Prevention & In-situ detection of Advanced Attacks or Controller Area Networks
- Faculty: Sheikh Ghafoor (PI)
- Founding Source: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Amount Funded: $10,888.43
- Length of Funding: 3/11/19-9/30/20
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Presence of Antibiotic Resistance and Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in Urban Karst Ground Water Systems
- Faculty: Tania Datta (PI), Ron Kaiser (EVS) (Co-PI1)
- Founding Source: Cave Research Foundation
- Amount Funded: $3,000.00
- Length of Funding: 4/14/20-10/13/21
AUGUST 2020
Computer Science Academic Redshirt Program
- Faculty: Gerald Gannod (PI)
- Founding Source: Tennessee Board of Regents
- Amount Funded: $49,960.00
- Length of Funding: 7/1/20-6/30/21
Compilation and Analysis of Long-term Nitrogen and Phosphorous
- Faculty: Tania Datta (PI)
- Founding Source: Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC)
- Amount Funded: $40,000.00
- Length of Funding: 8/1/20-12/31/21
Evaluation of Nonlinear Interactions Between Tropical Cyclone Storm Surge and Rainfall-Runoff
Faculty: Alice Camuti (PI), Alfred Kalyanapu (Co-PI1), John Brackins (Student) Co-PI2)
- Founding Source: National Science Foundation/Graduate Research Fellowship Program
- Amount Funded: $46,000.00
- Length of Funding: 8/1/20-7/31/20
Supplement to Tennessee Cybercorps: A Hybrid Program in Cybersecurity - Community College Inclusion 2018-2021
- Faculty: Ambareen Siraj (PI), Doug Talbert (Co-PI2)
- Founding Source: National Science Foundation
- Amount Funded: $40,761.00
- Length of Funding: 1/1/16-12/31/20
RacePlus
- Faculty: Charria Campbell (MCA) (PI), Elizabeth Powell (Co-PI1)
- Founding Source: Tennessee Board of Regents
- Amount Funded: $50,000.00
- Length of Funding: 7/1/20-6/30/21
Holistic Foundry Undergraduate Engaged Learners (FUEL)
- Faculty: Andrea Arce-Trigatti (C&I) (PI), Stephanie Jorgensen (Co-PI1), Michael Aikens (ORED) (Co-PI2), Robbie Sanders (Co-PI3), Pedro Arce (Co-PI4)
- Founding Source: Tennessee Board of Regents
- Amount Funded: $50,000.00
- Length of Funding: 7/1/20-6/30/21
Tennessee Tech Science Olympiad Collegiate Scholars (SOCS)
- Faculty: Carlos Galindo (STEM)(PI), Arce-Trigatti (C&I) (Co-PI1), Stephanie Jorgensen (Co-PI2)
- Founding Source: Tennessee Board of Regents
- Amount Funded: $50,000.00
- Length of Funding: 7/1/20-6/30/21
Development of Hybrid Learning-Driven Predictive Inspection-Methods and Control Methods for Quality Assurance on Additive Man
- Faculty: DuckBong Kim (PI)
- Founding Source: Managing Institute and Joint Research Institute
- Amount Funded: $100,000.00
- Length of Funding: 6/1/20-5/31/21
Resiliency Tester "Bouncer" for Superior Graphite
- Faculty: Jie Cui (PI), Stephen Idem (Co-PI2)
- Founding Source: Superior Graphite
- Amount Funded: $29,276.00
- Length of Funding: 8/1/20-10/9/20
Collaborative Research: SaTC: EDU: Artificial Intelligence Assisted Malware Analysis
- Faculty: Manaak Gupta (PI), Sheikh Ghafoor (Co-PI1)
- Founding Source: National Science Foundation
- Amount Funded: $60,292.00
- Length of Funding: 8/1/20-7/31/23
CC* CRIA: Planning a Regional Cyber-Infrastructure-Research Consortium for Middle Tennessee
- Faculty: Sheikh Ghafoor (PI)
- Founding Source: National Science Foundation via UTC
- Amount Funded: $71,728.00
- Length of Funding: 7/1/20-12/31/21
CC* Integration-Small: Error Free File Transfer for Big Science
- Faculty: Susmit Shannigrahi (PI)
- Founding Source: Colorado State University via National Science Foundation
- Amount Funded: $69,212.00
- Length of Funding: 7/1/20-6/30/22
GenCyber Student Camp 2020
- Faculty: Ambareen Siraj (PI)
- Founding Source: National Security Agency
- Amount Funded: $129,243.00
- Length of Funding: 8/7/20-8/7/22
Development and improvement of high-resolution Flood2D-GPU modeling for Titan HPC environment
- Faculty: Alfred Kalyanapu (PI), Sheikh Ghafoor (Co-PI1)
- Founding Source: UT-Battelle, LLC c/o Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Amount Funded: $37,500.00
- Length of Funding: 8/16/18-8/15/21
SEPTEMBER 2020
Collaborative: CyberTraining: Pilot: Semi-Automatic Assessment of Parallel Programs in Training of Students and Faculty
- Faculty: Sheikh Ghafoor (PI), Ada Haynes (Co-PI1)
- Founding Source: National Science Foundation via UNC Chapel Hill
- Amount Funded: $42,119.00
- Length of Funding: 9/1/19-8/31/21
2020 Tennessee Technological University NCAE-C Research Grant
- Faculty: Sheikh Ghafoor (PI), Ambareen Siraj (Co-PI1)
- Founding Source: National Security Agency
- Amount Funded: $149,993.00
- Length of Funding: 9/2/20-9/1/22
BioFoundry Design: Leveraging Biomimicry to Advance Environmental and Social Sustainability Innovation in Prototypes Developed in Foundry-Guided Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Courses
- Faculty: Pedro Arce (PI), Robbie Sanders (Co-PI1), Stephanie Jorgensen (Co-Pi2), Andrea Arce-Trigatti (Co-PI3)
- Founding Source: Venturewell
- Amount Funded: $30,000.00
- Length of Funding: 6/30/20-12/31/23