OVPR Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Luis Sentis

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Project Title: Testbed Development for Dynamic Bipedal Robot

2012

Donglei (Emma) Fan

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Project Title: Arrays of Rotary NEMS Devices Assembled on Nano-Magnets

2010

Christopher John Ellison

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
Project Title: Synthesis and Characterization of Melanin Inspired Polymers and Nanocomposities

2010

Hal Samuel Alper

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
Project Title: Novel, Consortia-Based Processes for Biomass Utilization and Biofuels Production

2009

Alan Conrad Bovik

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project Title: Stereo CAD for 3D Breast Imaging

2009

Venkat Ganesan

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
Project Title: Interactions and Phase Behavior in Protein-Polysaccharide Mixtures

2009

Jennifer Anne Maynard

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
Project Title: Engineering Cellular Immunity through Manipulation of T Cell Receptor-peptice-MHC Interactions

2009

Cindy Menches

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Project Title: Facilitating the Transfer of Knowledge About Building Damage by Understanding the Cognitive Aspects of Severity Judgments

2008

Jayant Sirohi

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Project Title: Development of an Electronic Flight Control System for a Micro-Helicopter

2008

Wolfgang Frey

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Project Title: The Role of Fibronectin and Force in the Maturation of Size-restricted Cell Adhesions

2007

Krishnendu Roy

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Project Title: Microfabrication of Complex, Spatially Patterned Tissue-engineering Scaffolds

2007

Dan Wheat

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Project Title: Piezoelectric Response Near Growth Defects in Wood

2007

Nicholas A. Peppas

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
Project Title: Novel Nanodevices for Biomolecular Sensing

2006

Leszek Demkowicz

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Project Title: Fully Automatic hp-Adaptive Finite Elements for Coupled Elasticity/Acoustics

2006

David B. Goldstein

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Project Title: The Use of Arbitrary Post-Collision Velocities in a Discrete Velocity Scheme for the Boltzmann Equation to Solve Micro-scale Flow Problems

2006

Gyeong S. Hwang

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Chemical Engineering
Project Title: Rational Design of Oxide Supported Bimetallic Nanocatalysts

2006

Kerry A. Kinney

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Project Title: Biodiesel Production from Microalgae on the Texas Gulf Coast

2006

Desiderio Kovar

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Project Title: Microscale Cellular Materials with Non-uniform Structures

2006

Philip L. Varghese

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Project Title: Surface Processing of Biopolymer Microparticles by Atmospheric Pressure Glow Discharges

2006

Harovel G. Wheat

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Project Title: Electrochemical and Acoustic Emission Activity for Steel in Salt-Contaminated Concrete

2006

Xiaojing Zhang

College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Project Title: Near-field Scanning Optical MEMS Probe Tip with a Nano-meter Sized Light Emitting Diode

2006