Research & Creative Grant Recipients
Luis Sentis
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Mechanical Engineering Project Title: Testbed Development for Dynamic Bipedal Robot
Donglei (Emma) Fan
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Mechanical Engineering Project Title: Arrays of Rotary NEMS Devices Assembled on Nano-Magnets
Christopher John Ellison
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Chemical Engineering Project Title: Synthesis and Characterization of Melanin Inspired Polymers and Nanocomposities
Hal Samuel Alper
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Chemical Engineering Project Title: Novel, Consortia-Based Processes for Biomass Utilization and Biofuels Production
Alan Conrad Bovik
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering Project Title: Stereo CAD for 3D Breast Imaging
Venkat Ganesan
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Chemical Engineering Project Title: Interactions and Phase Behavior in Protein-Polysaccharide Mixtures
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
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
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
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
Krishnendu Roy
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Biomedical Engineering Project Title: Microfabrication of Complex, Spatially Patterned Tissue-engineering Scaffolds
Dan Wheat
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Project Title: Piezoelectric Response Near Growth Defects in Wood
Nicholas A. Peppas
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Chemical Engineering Project Title: Novel Nanodevices for Biomolecular Sensing
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
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
Gyeong S. Hwang
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Chemical Engineering Project Title: Rational Design of Oxide Supported Bimetallic Nanocatalysts
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
Desiderio Kovar
College/School: Cockrell School of Engineering Department: Mechanical Engineering Project Title: Microscale Cellular Materials with Non-uniform Structures
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
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
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