College of Engineering faculty pursue external funding of their research. Below is a list of the College's research grants and contracts for 2019.
Current Research Grants and Contracts
12/17/2019 Thomas Klein (Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center), Nuclear Waste Partnership LLC, $81,247
12/2/2019 David Jauregui (Civil Engineering), “2019-2020 Bridge Inspection Program for New Mexico”, New Mexico Department of Transportation, $953,390
11/26/2019 Paola Bandini (Civil Engineering), “NSF Engineering Research Center for Bio-Mediated and Bio-Inspired Geotechnics”, Arizona State University, $487,504
11/7/2019 Nagamany Nirmalakhandan (Civil Engineering), “Re-Inventing America's Urban Water Infrastructure, Stanford University”, $235,470
11/1/2019 Meng Zhou (Chemical and Materials Engineering), “Computer Controlled Spray Coating Electrolytes for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell”, Batelle Energy Alliance (INL), $82,002
11/1/2019 Meng Zhou (Chemical and Materials Engineering), “Preparation and Optimization of Solid Oxide Electrolyte for Hydrogen Production at Intermediate Temperature”, Batelle Energy Alliance (INL), $82,002
10/17/2019 Hyeongjun Park (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), “Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Hypersonic Vehicles Sandia National Laboratories”, $63,500
10/16/2019 Liang Sun (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), “Learning-Aided Distributed Dynamic Task Allocation for Robust, Rapid, Autonomous Sensor Management”, Sandia National Laboratories, $111,577
10/1/2019 Olga Lavrova (Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering), “DarkNet - Advanced Sensors”, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, $95,000
10/1/2019 Olga Lavrova (Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering), “Signal-Based Fast Tripping Schemes for Electric Power Distribution System Resilence”, Sandia National Laboratories, $83,415
10/1/2019 Hyeongjun Park (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), “Collaborative: CubeSat Ideas Lab: Collaborative Research: VIrtual Super-Resolution Optics with Reconfigurable Swarms (VISORS)”, National Science Foundation, $27,500
10/1/2019 Abdessattar Abdelkefi (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Effectiveness and Improvement of Blind Source Separation Techniques for Nonlinear Dynamical Systems), New Mexico Consortium Inc., $30,921
10/1/2019 Abdessattar Abdelkefi (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), “Nonlinear Dynamics of Rigid Body Dynamics Models of Mechanism”, Sandia National Laboratories, $49,000
10/1/2019 Laura Boucheron Spence (Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering), Extending Academic Analytics: Application to Engineering Education at New Mexico State University”, US Department of Education, $249,737
10/1/2019 Abdel-Hameed Badawy (Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Performance Prediction Toolkit for GPGPUs and Shared Memory Systems”, New Mexico Consortium Inc., $49,290
9/16/2019 Phillip DeLeon (Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering), “Faculty Research in Signal Processing and Machine Learning”, National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, $55,027
9/15/2019 Liang Sun (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), “I-Corps: Tethred Heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial and Ground System for Autonomous Targeted Distribution of Fluid Delivery”, National Science Foundation, $50,000
9/13/2019 Delia Valles-Rosales (Industrial Engineering), “ALFA-loT ALliance for Smart Agriculture in the Internet of Things Era”, University of Texas at El Paso, $75,000
9/10 Patricia Sullivan (Engineering College), “Pollution Prevention and Energy Efficiency Technical Assistance”, Environmental Protection Agency, $138,244
9/6/19 Hongmei Luo (Chemical and Materials Engineering), “Degradation Studies of Various Model Lithium Ion Battery Cathode Materials”, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, $80,000
9/5/2019 Andreas Gross (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), “Large-Eddy Simulation of Super/Hypersonic Inlet and Isolator Flows National Aeronautics & Space Administration”, $110,000
9/1/2019 David Voelz (Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering), “Novel Characterization Measurements and Meterological-Driven Modeling of Turbulence and Refraction in the Lower Atmosphere for Directed Energy Applications”, US Department of Defense/Office of Naval Research, $299,387
9/1/2019 Abdel-Hameed Badawy (Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering), “Performance Prediction Toolkit for GPGPUs and Shared Memory Systems”, New Mexico Consortium Inc. $10,653
9/1/2019 Jesslyn Ratliff (Civil Engineering), “NMSU Student Support Services Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Health Sciences”, US Department of Education. $253,032
8/30/19 Catie Brewer (Chemical and Materials Engineering), “Phytoremediation of Contaminated Soil”, BHP Billiton, $188,994
8/28/19 Meng Zhou (Chemical and Materials Engineering), “Novel Metal Oxides for Hydrogen Production through Steam Electrolysis”, Batelle Energy Alliance, $55,000
8/22/2019 Ehsan Dehghan Niri (Civil Engineering), “Real-time Testing and Monitoring of AM Process with Bulk Ultrasound and Lamb Waves Using EMA”, Relativity Space Company, $23,500
8/21/2019 A. Bawazir (Civil Engineering), “Using Remote Sensing and Ground Measurements to Improve Evaporation Estimation and Reservoir Management”, US Department of Interior/Bureau of Reclamation, $146,000
8/19/2019 Abdessattar Abdelkefi (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), “Integration of Reduced-Order Models and Macro-Scale Continuum Approaches to Model Damage and Failure in Quasi-Brittle Materials”, Triad National Security, LLC $63,514
8/16/2019 Vimal Chaitanya (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), “LANL-NMSU Research Collaboration and Coordination 2019/2020”, New Mexico Consortium Inc. $38,139
8/13/2019 Phillip DeLeon (Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering), “Instantaneous Spectral Analysis for Identification and Classification of Bursty Data in Congested Frequency Bands”, Sandia National Laboratories $81,290
8/1/19 Jessica Houston (Chemical and Materials Engineering), “Microflow Time-Resolved Cytometry for FRET and Fluorescent Protein Development”, NIH, $278,393
8/1/2019 Pei Xu (Civil Engineering), “INFEWS/T2: Improving Crop Yield and Soil Salinity by Cost-Effective Integration of Microbial, Community, Hydrology, Desalination, & Renewable Power”, University of North Texas, $406,971
8/1/2019 Yanyan Zhang (Civil Engineering), “Resistance and Virulence of Surviving Bacteria in Water after Various Disinfection Processes”, US Department of Health & Human Services/National Institutes of Health (NIH), $145,600
8/1/2019 Abdessattar Abdelkefi (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), “Vibratory Energy Harvesting Absorbers: Multi Fidelity Nonlinear Modeling and Performance Enhancement - Tyler A”, Sandia National Laboratories, $50,973
8/1/2019 Abdessattar Abdelkefi (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), “High and Low Fidelity Representations and Uncertainty Quantification of Pipelines Conveying Fluid”, Sandia National Laboratories, $50,973
7/29/2019 David Voelz Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering AF19A-T005-3D Imaging for Tracking and Aim-Point Maintenance in the Presence of Target-Pose Changes TAU Technologies LLC $46,964.00
7/3/2019 David Jauregui (Civil Engineering), “2016 Bridge Inspection Program for New Mexico”, New Mexico Department of Transportation, $32,000
7/1/2019 Patricia Sullivan (Engineering College), “Innovation and Commercialization for a Regional Energy Workforce (I-CREW)”, US Department of Commerce/Economic Development Administration, $750,000
3/26/2019 Hongmei Luo (Chemical and Materials Engineering) "Semiconductor Quantum Dots: Synthesis and Device Assembly," Los Alamos National Security, LLC, $30,000
3/15/2019 Steven Stochaj (Electrical and Computer Engineering) "Virtual Telescope for X-ray Observations: VTXO," NASA-NSPIRES, $21,276
3/14/2019 Phillip De Leon/Muhammed Dawood (Electrical and Computer Engineering) "Micro-Scale Initial Implementation Program Bandpass Filter," Northrop Grumman, $87,100
3/1/2019 Phillip King/Pei Xu (Civil Engineering) "Assessment and Implementation Frame work for Transboudary Brackish Ground Water Desalination in South-Central New Mexico," Bureau of Reclamation, $399,353
3/1/2019 David Voelz (Electrical and Computer Engineering) "Efficient Matrix-based Wave-optics Propagation Code for HPCS," TAU Technologies, $44,844
2/1/2019 Andreas Gross (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) "Numerical Investigation of Wake Effect fo High-Lift Low-pressure Turbine Blades," Air Force Office of Scientific Research, $75,932
2/1/201 9 Vimal Chaitanya (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) "Indentify and Develop Energy Materials Research Collaborations," Los Alamos National Laboratories, $112,144
1/9/2019 Andreas Gross (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) "Numerical Investigation of Turbulent Junction Flows", Air Force Research Laboratories, $58,000
1/31/2019 Laura Boucheron Spence (Electrical and Computer Engineering) "Streak Detection in Sky Images Using Deep Learning," TAU Technologies, LLC, $47,102
