Polytechnic research proposals submitted - March 2017

Funding proposals for March 2017. Bolded names are Purdue Polytechnic faculty or staff; starred names are the principal investigators.

  • Standards Education – Lectures, Labs and Online Modules (SELLOM)
    Investigator(s): Helen McNally*; Sponsor: National Institute of Standards and Technology; Polytechnic: $75,000.00
  • MRI: Development of a Next-Generation 3-D Printer for Smart Product Design - Purdue PolymerMakers
    Investigator(s): Richard Voyles*; Bedrich Benes; Brittany Newell; Karthik Ramani; Wenzhuo Wu; Davin Huston; Hyowon Lee; Haiyan Zhang; Sponsor: National Science Foundation; Total:  $1,867,017.20; Polytechnic: $1,306,911.90
  • Characterization and Assessment of Midwest Regional Energy Technology Innovation Ecosystem
    Investigator(s): Machael Ladisch*; Tomas Diaz De La Rubia; Pankaj Sharma; Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy; Total:  $200,000.00; Polytechnic: $70,000.00
  • Education Equipment
    Investigator(s): Miles Creasy*; Sponsor: SIA Foundation, Inc.; Polytechnic: $10,000.00
  • CICI: CE: Enhancing Cybersecurity for Broadening Data Driven Research and Partnerships
    Investigator(s): Sonia Fahmy*, Bruno Ribeiro, Nicole Key, Ida Ngambeki, Xiao Zhu, Franco, Jeffrey Schwab, Michael Shuey, Preston Smith; Sponsor: National Science Foundation; Total:  $991,083.21; Polytechnic: $148,662.45
  • Automated Sorghum Phenotyping and Trait Development Platform
    Investigator(s): Mitchel Tuinstra*, Keith Cherkauer, Melba Crawford, Edward Delp, David Ebert, Ayman Habib, Michael Leasure, Clifford Weil; Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy; Total: $12,291.00; Polytechnic: $614.55
  • CPS: Medium: Multi-Robot Cyber-Physical Systems for Water Quality Monitoring 
    Investigator(s): Byung-Cheol Min*, Sara McMillan, Richard Voyles; Sponsor: National Science Foundation; Total:  $999,637.42; Polytechnic: $749,728.50
  • CPS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Close Loop Sustainable Precision Animal Agriculture 
    Investigator(s): Richard Voyles*, George Chiu, Shawn Donkin, Byung-Cheol Min, Shreyas Sundaram; Sponsor: National Science Foundation; Total: $579,703.87; Polytechnic: $289,852.00
  • ADWISE: Advanced Drive Warning-Information System for the Elderly
    Investigator(s): Byung-Cheol Min*; Sponsor: Hyundai Motor Group; Polytechnic: $25,000.00
  • WMT 1371 STEM Education 
    Investigator(s): Miles Creasy*; Sponsor: Walmart Foundation; Polytechnic: $2,500.00
  • WMT 4216 STEM Education 
    Investigator(s): Miles Creasy*; Sponsor: Walmart Foundation; Polytechnic: $2,500.00
  • WMT 884 STEM Education 
    Investigator(s): Miles Creasy*; Sponsor: Walmart Foundation; Polytechnic: $2,500.00
  • WMT 1033 STEM Education 
    Investigator(s): Miles Creasy*; Sponsor: Walmart Foundation; Polytechnic: $2,500.00
  • Ensuring the Inclusion of Travelers with Disabilities in Autonomous Transportation
    Investigator(s): Bradley Duerstock*, Srinivas Peeta, Brandon Pitts, Justin Seipel; Sponsor: Administration for Community Living; Total: $2,471,511.90; Polytechnic: $617,878.00
  • Quality Assurance Procedures for Chip Seal Operations Using Macrotexture Metrics Robots
    Investigator(s): Yi Jiang*; Sponsor:  IN Department of Transportation; Polytechnic: $67,390.00
  • DC 6017 STEM Education
    Investigator(s): Miles Creasy*; Sponsor: Walmart Foundation; Polytechnic: $2,500.00
  • SPR-4158-Implementation of LEAN Business Processes for INDOT Maintenance (Training and Tracking Process Improvements)
    Investigator(s): Jon Padfield*; Sponsor: IN Department of Transportation; Polytechnic: $51,581.00
  • BIGDATA: F: Sparse Event Discovery in Massive Heterogeneous Data
    Investigator(s): Tonglin Zhang*, Baijian Yang; Sponsor: National Science Foundation; Total: $814,508.05; Polytechnic: $325,803.20
  • Tascent Test
    Investigator(s):  Stephen Elliott*, Kevin O’Connor; Sponsor: Tascent, Inc.; Polytechnic: $9,854.00  
  • The SPE Foundation/Thermoforming Division Equipment Matching Grant
    Investigator(s): Rex Kanu*; Sponsor: Society of Plastic Engineers; Polytechnic: $7,373.00
  • Realizing Next-Generation Smart Manufacturing
    Investigator(s): Nathan Hartman*, Elisa Bertino, Thomas Brush, Brett Crawford, Daniel DeLaurentis, Abhijit Deshmukh, Mark French, James Greenan, Thomas Hacker, Timothy Ropp, Michael Sangid, John Sutherland, Michael Witt; Sponsor:  Purdue University.; Total:  $300,000.00: Polytechnic: $180,000.00
  • Project  19: Center of Excellence Student Outreach 
    Investigator(s): William Crossley*, Richard Fanjoy, Sebastien Helie, Mary Johnson, Steven Landry, Heifeng Wang; Sponsor: Federal Aviation Administration; Total: $42,396.85; Polytechnic: $8,479.80
  • The HI-TECH HOME for 2018 Solar Decathlon China Competition
    Investigator(s): Ming Qu*, Eckhard Groll, William Hutzel, Haiyan Zhang, Jan Olek, Byron Pipes, Zhen Qian, Wenbin Yu, Pablo Zavattieri; Sponsor: China Overseas Development Association; Total: $159,999.91; Polytechnic: $8,000.00
  • CRII: CHS: Dark Patterns, Pragmatist Ethics, and User Experience
    Investigator(s): Colin Gray*; Sponsor: National Science Foundation; Polytechnic: $16,000.00
  • Developing Teachers' Pedagogical Knowledge for Computational Thinking integrated STEM Teaching, and Assessing the impact on Student Learning
    Investigator(s): Paul Asunda*, Alejandra Magana, Anita Roychoudhury, Greg Strimel; Sponsor: National Science Foundation; Total: $1,206,636.33: Polytechnic: $874,811.10
  • Integrating Computational Thinking and Engineering Design Through Data Visualization
    Investigator(s): Vetria Byrd*, Greg Strimel, Scott Bartholomew; Sponsor: National Science Foundation; Polytechnic: $1,110,949
  • Integrating Computational Thinking into Middle School Science Teaching and Learning
    Investigator(s): Muhsin Menekse*, Susanne Hambrusch, Alejandra Magana, Carina Rebello; Sponsor:  National Science Foundation; Total: $1,249,955.61; Polytechnic: $249,991.00
  • REnewable Acid Condensation Hydrotreatment (REACH) Process Engineering
    Investigator(s): Gozdem Kilaz*, Nathan Mosier; Sponsor: Mercurius Biorefining; Total: $50,000.00: Polytechnic:  $12,500.00

* indicates principal investigator

Total Polytechnic proposals = $6,228,879.50