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Grants

Michael Alles, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $175,000 from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency for “Design of Radiation Hardened Nanoelectronics Focus Center (RHFC) Technology Test Chip.”

Theodore A. Bapty, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $74,684 from the Department of Energy for “Lattice QCD SCIDAC: Optimization of Fault Mitigation for Large Commodity Clusters.”

Daniel M. Fleetwood, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $100,000 from the Mission Research Corporation for “Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (R,D,T & E) of Radiation Effects Phenomena on Electronic Devices Subjected to Aging Environments.” Ronald D. Schrimpf and Sokrates T. Pantelides are co-principal investigators.

Michael Goldfarb, Mechanical Engineering, $175,065 from the Department of Defense for “Anthropomorphic Upper Extremity Prosthesis.” Eric Barth is co-principal investigator.

Thomas R. Harris, Biomedical Engineering, $79,650 from the National Science Foundation for “The Vanderbilt-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MIT (VaNTH) Engineering Research Center for Bioengineering Educational Technology.” Stacy S. Klein is co-principal investigator.

Gabor Karsai, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $290,000 from the Department of Defense for “Model-Based Software Technologies Targeting Interoperability for Systems of Systems.” Janos Sztipanovits, Douglas Schmidt and Theodore A. Bapty are co-principal investigators. Karsai also received $204,849 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for “MIC Tools for Exploration Systems (MICTES).”

Yongsheng Leng, Chemical Engineering, $225,000 from the National Science Foundation for “Multi-Timescale Molecular Simulation Study of Hydration Force, Hydrophobic Interaction and Shear Dynamics in Nanometer Confined Aqueous Systems.” Peter Cummings is co-principal investigator.

Douglas C. Schmidt, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $60,000 from the Lockheed Missile and Space Company, Incorporated for “Thimble Software Technology Initiative (STI).” Schmidt also received $60,000 from the Lockheed Missile and Space Company, Incorporated for “Quality of Service pICKER (QUICKER) Project for the Software Technology Initiative (STI).” Schmidt received $77,080 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for “Advanced Information Systems and Technology Program-Roses.” Gautam Biswas is co-principal investigator.

Ronald D. Schrimpf, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $2,942,000 from the Department of Defense for “Institute for Space and Defense Electronics.” Lloyd W. Massengill, Daniel M. Fleetwood, Kenneth F. Galloway and Tim Holman are co-principal investigators.

Leslie M. Shor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, $199,957 from the National Science Foundation for “IDBR EcoChip: A Micro-Structured Microbial Habitat Array.” David Kosson, Eugene LeBoeuf and John P. Wikso Jr. are co-principal investigators.

Greg Walker, Mechanical Engineering, $25,500 from the Department of Defense for “SBIR: Innovative Flight Instrumentation for Hypersonics.”

Michael Alles, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $200,000 from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency for “SBIR: High Efficiency Compact Modeling of Radiation Effects/Lynguent.”

Benoit Dawant, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $430,246 from the Public Health Service for “Computer-Assisted Functional Neurosurgery.” Michael J. Fitzpatrick, Douglas H. Fisher, Robert E. Bodenheimer and Alfred B. Bonds III are co-principal investigators.

Michael Goldfarb, Mechanical Engineering, $338,609 from the Public Health Service for “Robotic Prosthesis for Biomimetic Locomotion in Transfemoral Amputees.” Eric Barth and Kevin Fite are co-principal investigators. Goldfarb also received $47,655 from the National Science Foundation for “Engineering Research Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power.” Eric Barth is co-principal investigator.

M. Douglas LeVan, Chemical Engineering, $45,801 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for “Low-Power Co2 Removal and Compression System: Modeling and Supporting Experiments.”

Michael I. Miga, Biomedical Engineering, $55,642 from the Public Health Service for “Multimodal Registration of the Brain’s Cortical Surface.” Benoit Dawant is co-principal investigator.

Douglas C. Schmidt, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $50,000 from the Department of Defense for “Adaptive Resource Control for Certifiable Systems: (CoWorkEr) (RACE).” Schmidt also received $77,000 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for “Advanced Information Systems and Technology Program-Roses.” Gautam Biswas is co-principal investigator.

John P. Wikswo Jr., Physics, $70,456 from the Public Health Service for “Electrophysiological Implications of the Cardiac Bidomain.” Franz J. Baudenbacher and Veniamin Sidorov are co-principal investigators.

Julie A. Adams, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $300,166 from the National Science Foundation for “CAREER: Human Interaction with Large Numbers of Unmanned Vehicles.”

Michael Alles, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $42,000 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for “Radiation Effects in Mixed Signal Circuits, SiGe Integrated Electronics for Extreme Environments, Phase II.” Robert A. Reed is co-principal investigator.

Peter T. Cummings, Chemical Engineering, $270,000 from the Department of Energy for “Integrated Multi-Scale Modeling of Molecular Computing Devices.” Sokrates T. Pantelides, Ronald D. Schrimpf, Yongsheng Leng and Kalman Varga are co-principal investigators.

Frederick R. Haselton, Biomedical Engineering, $191,667 from the Public Health Service for “Multi-Spectral Quantum Dot-Based Imaging of Molecular Expression In Vivo.”

E. Duco Jansen, Biomedical Engineering, $347,436 from the Public Health Service for “Development of a High Resolution, High Throughput Optical Nerve/Brain Stimulator.” Anita Mahadevan-Jansen is co-principal investigator.

David Kosson, Civil and Environmental Engineering, $2,000,000 from the Department of Energy for “Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (CRESP III).”

Sankaran Mahadevan, Civil and Environmental Engineering, $110,310 from Transportation Technology Center, Incorporated for “Advanced Modeling Capabilities for Railroad Wheel Failure Analysis.”

Lloyd W. Massengill, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $25,000 from the Department of Defense for “DARPA PHBD Phase 1.5.” Massengill also received $500,000 from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency for “SET Effects in High-Speed Mixed-Signal Circuits and in Advanced Technology Nodes.” Bharat L. Bhuva, William T. Holman, Robert A. Reed, Ronald A. Schrimpf and Robert A. Weller are co-principal investigators.

Florence Sanchez, Civil and Environmental Engineering, $50,000 from Arcadis, Incorporated for “Laboratory Analysis of Extracts from Laboratory Leaching Tests and Field Leachate Samples.” Sanchez also received $50,000 from Arcadis, Incorporated for “Evaluation of Potential Leaching of Mercury and Other Constituents from Coal Combustion Residues.”

Douglas C. Schmidt, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $50,000 from Siemens Aktiengesellschaft for “Applying Aspect Oriented Programming in Development of Component Synthesis Toolset with Model-Integrated Computing.”

Yi Cui, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $78,848 from the National Science Foundation for “CAREER: Achieving Self-Tunability of Peer-to-Peer Streaming Service Through User-level QoS Inference.”

Jim L. Davidson, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $50,000 from the Tennessee Valley Authority for “Develop Technology to Significantly Enhance Breaker Life and Reliability.” Kevin Holmes is co-principal investigator. Davidson also received $130,000 from the Tennessee Valley Authority for “CVD Diamond Vacuum Emission Devices Program.” Weng Poo Kang is co-principal investigator.

Daniel M. Fleetwood, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $150,000 from the Mission Research Corporation for “Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (R,D,T & E) of Radiation Effects Phenomena on Electronic Devices Subjected to Aging Environments.” Ronald D. Schrimpf and Sokrates S. Pantelides are co-principal investigators.

Xenofon Koutsoukos, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $150,000 from the Department of Defense for “Heterogeneous Sensor Webs for Automated Target Recognition and Tracking in Urban Terrain – MURI Topic 26.” Janos Sztipanovits and Akos Ledeczi are co-principal investigators.

Sankaran Mahadevan, Civil and Environmental Engineering, $100,000 from Sandia National Laboratories for “Bayesian Framework for Model Validation.”

D. Mitchell Wilkes, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $530,000 from the National Science Foundation for “A Biologically Inspired Adaptive Working Memory System for Efficient Robot Control.” Kazuhiko Kawamura and David Noelle are co-principal investigators.

Theodore A. Bapty, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $70,000 from the Raytheon Company for “Signal Processing Platform (SPP) – Tool Chain Enhancements and Processor Architecture Support.” Sandeep Neema is co-principal investigator.

Franz Baudenbacher, Biomedical Engineering, $132,547 from the National Science Foundation for “Collaborative Proposal: Development of a Vector SQUID Microscope for Geomagnetism.”

Michael Goldfarb, Mechanical Engineering, $200,000 from the Department of Defense for “Anthropomorphic Upper Extremity Prosthesis.” Eric Barth is co-principal investigator.

Nilanjan Sarkar, Mechanical Engineering, $90,426 from the Department of Defense for “Intelligent Fault Adaptation in Autonomous and Semi-Autonomous Robotic Systems.”

Stephen R. Schach, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $50,000 from the Microsoft Corporation for “The Non Maintainability of Linux.”

Douglas C. Schmidt, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $600,000 from the Department of Defense for “Pollux: Enhancing the Quality of Service of the Global Information Grid.”

Alvin M. Strauss, Mechanical Engineering, $399,910 from the Department of Defense for “Portable Power Research Institute.” Jimmy L. Davidson, Weng Poo Kang, Michael Goldfarb and Eric Barth are co-principal investigators.

Michael Alles, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $125,000 by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency for “Design of Radiation Hardened Nanoelectronics Focus Center (RHFC) Technology Test Chip.” Jeffrey D. Black is co-principal investigator.

Theodore A. Bapty, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $36,975 by the Department of Energy for “Lattice QCD SCIDAC: Optimization of Fault Mitigation for Large Commodity Clusters.”

Gautam Biswas, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $311,883 by the National Science Foundation for “Collaborative Research:
REESE-Assisting and Assessing Middle School Science Learning in Formal and Informal Settings.”

Peter T. Cummings, Chemical Engineering, $280,600 by the National Science Foundation for “Collaborative Research: Cyberinfrastructure for Phase-Space Mapping-Free Energies, Phase Equilibria and Transition Paths.”

David M. Dilts, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $102,282 by the Public Health Service for “Timing and Process Flow Analysis of Opening Clinical Trials.”

Kevin B. Fite, Mechanical Engineering, $32,798 by the Department of Defense for “Feasibility Study of MICE Powered Upper and Lower Extremity Prostheses.” Michael Goldfarb is co-principal investigator.

Robert L. Galloway Jr., Biomedical Engineering, $211,932 by the Public Health Service for “Subcontract to Intuitive Surgical for Surgical Guidance Using Preoperative and Realtime Images (STTR).”

Aniruddha Gokhale, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $70,000 by the Department of Defense for “ORB Infrastructure for Adaptive and Reflective Middleware Systems.” Balachandran Natarajan is co-principal investigator.

Sanjiv Gokhale, Civil and Environmental Engineering, $75,400 by the University of Texas Construction Industry Institute for “Maximizing the Value of Construction in Pre-Project Planning.”

Scott Guelcher, Chemical Engineering, $62,150 by the Public Health Service for “Polyurethane Scaffold Synthesis for Tissue Engineering.”

David Kosson, Civil and Environmental Engineering, $2,000,000 by the Department of Energy for “Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (CRESP III).” Charles W. Powers is co-principal investigator. Kosson also received $31,078 from the Department of Energy for “Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation II.” James H. Clarke, Andrew C. Garrabrants and Sankaran Mahadevan are co-principal investigators.

Sandeep Neema, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $40,000 by the BAE Systems for “SCA Rapid Development.”

William H. Robinson, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $280,000 by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency for “Study to Identify and Approach to Develop an Advanced Radiation-Hardened Microprocessor Technology/Architecture Capable of Melting Future Satellite and Missile System Requirements.” Bharat L. Bhuva, Ronald D. Schrimpf, Lloyd W. Massengill, Theodore A. Bapty and Sandeep K. Neema are co-principal investigators.

Douglas C. Schmidt, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $100,000 by the Raytheon Company for “Technologies for Integrating Distributed, Real-Time Embedded Infrastructure (DREI) and Model-Driven Computing (MDC) for Command Control.” Anirudda Gokhale is co-principal investigator. Schmidt also received $49,415 from the National Science Foundation for “New Research Direction in High Confidence Software Platforms for Cyber Physical Systems Workshop.”

Alvin M. Strauss, Mechanical Engineering, $40,000 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for “The Tennessee Space Grant Consortium.”

Mark Stremler, Mechanical Engineering, $213,818 by the National Science Foundation for “Collaborative Research: Topological Fluid Mechanics of Stirring.”

Greg Walker, Mechanical Engineering, $312,926 by the National Science Foundation for “Coupled Transport in Energy Conversion Devices.”

Robert A. Weller, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $400,000 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for “An Unsolicited Proposal to Develop a Tool for Predicting the Radiation-Induced Single Event Effect Response for Semiconductor Devices and Circuits.” Robert Reed and Marcus Mendenhall are co-principal investigators.

Adam Anderson, Biomedical Engineering, $232,236 from the Public Health Service for “Improved Imaging of Brain White Matter.” Akram Aldroubi is co-principal investigator.

Edsel B. Daniel, Civil and Environmental Engineering, $46,900 from the U.K. Department for International Development for “St. Helena Environmental Information System (SHEIS) Project.”

Jim L. Davidson, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
$2,973,905 from the Department of Defense for “Advanced Carbon Nanotechnology Consortium.” Weng Poo Kang, Charles M. Lukehart, Alvin M. Strauss and Norman H. Tolk are co-principal investigators.

Mark Does, Biomedical Engineering, $294,903 from the Public Health Service for “Sub-Voxel Tissue Characterization with In-Vivo MRI.”

Leonard C. Feldman, Materials Science and Engineering, $653,292 and $86,400 from the National Science Foundation for “Vanderbilt-Fisk Interdisciplinary Program for Research and Education in the Nanosciences.” Sandra J. Rosenthal, Peter Cummings and James E. Wittig are co-principal investigators.

Michael Goldfarb, Mechanical Engineering, $270,939 from the National Science Foundation for “Engineering Research Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power.” Eric Barth is co-principal investigator.

Scott Guelcher, Chemical Engineering, $70,000 from the Department of Defense for “Controlled Delivery of PDGF with Poly (Ester Urethane Urea) Scaffolds.”

E. Duco Jansen, Biomedical Engineering, $339,154 from the Public Health Service for “Optical Stimulation of Neural Tissue.” Anita Mahadevan-Jansen is co-principal investigator.

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, Biomedical Engineering, $299,331 from the Public Health Service for “Development of Handheld Probe for Confocal Microscopy and Raman Spectroscopy of Skin.”

Florence Sanchez, Civil and Environmental Engineering, $50,000 from the Arcadis, Incorporated for “Laboratory Analysis of Extracts from Laboratory Leaching Tests and Field Leachate Samples.” Sanchez also received $25,000 from the Arcadis, Incorporated for “Evaluation of Potential Leaching of Mercury and Other Constituents from Coal Combustion Residues.”

L. Roy Xu, Civil and Environmental Engineering, $47,909 from the National Science Foundation for “SGER: Application of Dynamic Failure Mechanics to Material and Interface Selections for Protecting Critical Structures.”

Daniel M. Fleetwood, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $250,000 from the Mission Research Corporation for “Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (R.D.T. & E.) of Radiation Effects Phenomena on Electronic Devices Subjected to Aging Environments.”
Ronald D. Schrimpf and Sokrates S. Pantelides are co-principal investigators.

Gabor Karsai, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $132,729 from the Department of Defense for “Support for Critically Sensitive Coordination (CSC).”

Sankaran Mahadevan, Civil and Environmental Engineering, has received two awards in the amount of $25,000 and $50,000 from the Sandia National Laboratories for “Bayesian Framework for Model Validation.”

Lloyd W. Massengill, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $500,000 from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency for “SET Effects in Hi-Speed Mixed-Signal Circuits and in Advanced Technology Nodes.” Bharat L. Bhuva, Tim Holman, Robert Reed, Ronald D.
Schrimpf and Robert A. Weller are co-principal investigators.

Clare McCabe, Chemical Engineering, $468,135 from the Department of Defense for “A Combined Computational and Experimental Study of Nanoscale Lubrication: Application to Micro- and Nano-Electromechanical Systems.” G. Kane Jennings is co-principal investigator.

Veniamin Sidorov, Biomedical Engineering, $65,000 from the American Heart Association for “The Role of Changing Ion Concentration in Fibrillation and in Cardiac Shock Response.”

Alvin M. Strauss, Mechanical Engineering, $580,000 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for “The Tennessee Space Grant Consortium.”

Michael Alles, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $30,000 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for “Radiation Effects in Mixed Signal Circuits, SiGe Integrated Electronics for Extreme Environments, Phase II.” Robert Reed is co-principal investigator.

Peter T. Cummings, Chemical Engineering, $52,500 from the Department of Energy for “Molecular Simulation of the Electrical Double Layer.”

Douglas H. Fisher, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
$43,951 from the Public Health Service for “Clinical and Microarray Data Predict Lung Cancer Outcomes.”

Robert L. Galloway Jr., Biomedical Engineering, $179,746 from the Public Health Service for “Open Architecture Image-Guided Therapy Software System.” Galloway also received $28,990 from the Public Health Service for “Surgical Guidance Using Preoperative and Realtime Images (STTR Phase II).”

Thomas R. Harris, Biomedical Engineering, $55,935 from the National Science Foundation for “The Vanderbilt-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MIT (VaNTH) Engineering Research Center for Bioengineering Educational Technology.”

Gabor Karsai, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $399,781 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for “Support For CMMD: Coordinated Multisource Maintenance on Demand.” Karsai also received $161,208 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for “MIC Tools for Exploration Systems (MICTES).”

Xenofon Koutsoukos, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $87,000 from the National Science Foundation for “Distributed Monitoring and Diagnosis of Embedded Systems Using Hierarchical Abstractions.” Gautam Biswas is co-principal investigator.

Sankaran Mahadevan, Civil and Environmental Engineering, $28,500 from the Federal Highway Administration for “Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program ? Mark McDonald.”

Lloyd W. Massengill, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $100,000 from the Department of Defense for “DARPA PHBD Phase l.5.”

Clare McCabe, Chemical Engineering, $101,687 from the National Science Foundation for “Development of Predictive Methods for Thermodynamic Properties Relevant to Environmentally Benign Processes.”

Robert Reed, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $400,000 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for “Advanced Modeling and Test Methods for Radiation Effects on Microelectronic Devices.” Robert A. Weller and Marcus Mendenhall are co-principal investigators.

Janos Sztipanovits, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
$89,968 from the Department of Defense for “Future Combat Systems:
System Development and Demonstration Phase.” Douglas Schmidt, Garbor Karsai and Theodore A. Bapty are co-principal investigators.

Robert A. Weller, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $25,000 from the Department of Defense for “Developing Digital Models of Radiation Induced Single Events in Focal Plane Array Infrared Detectors.” Ronald D. Schrimpf and Robert Reed are co-principal investigators.

Mark D. Abkowitz, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $200,000 from the Tennessee Department of Transportation for “Intelligent Transportation Systems Customer Relations Applications.” James Dobbins is co-principal investigator. (February 2006)

Michael Alles, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $250,000 from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency for “Design of Radiation Hardened Nanoelectronics Focus Center (RHFC) Technology Test Chip.” Jeffrey D. Black is co-principal investigator. (February 2006)

Peter T. Cummings, Chemical Engineering, $100,000 from the Department of Energy for “Molecular Modeling and Simulation of Aqueous Electrolyte Systems.” Cummings also received $158,704 from the Department of Energy for “Joint Faculty Appointment ? Vanderbilt University/Oak Ridge National Laboratory.” (February 2006)

Andrew C. Garrabrants, Civil and Environmental Engineering, $123,753 from the Electric Power Research Institute for “Leachate Test Methods for the Evaluation of the Effectiveness of In-Situ Stabilization of Soil Material at Form MGP Sites.” Leslie M. Shor is co-principal investigator. (February 2006)

Michael Goldfarb, Mechanical Engineering, $280,000 from the Department of Defense for “Anthropomorphic Upper Extremity Prosthesis.” Eric Barth is co-principal investigator. (February 2006)

Akos Ledeczi, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $199,671 from the Department of the Interior for “SCRIPTE: Smart Capture, Recognition, Interpretation and Presentation of the Tactical Environment.” Theodore A. Bapty and Peter Volgyesi are co-principal investigators. (February 2006)

Michael I. Miga, Biomedical Engineering, $320,075 from the Public Health Service for “Multimodal Registration of the Brain’s Cortical Surface.” Benoit Dawant is co-principal investigator. (February 2006)

Ronald D. Schrimpf, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $2,631,144 from the Department of Defense for “Institute for Space and Defense Electronics.” Lloyd W. Massengill, Daniel M. Fleetwood, Tim Holman and Kenneth F. Galloway are co-principal investigators. (February 2006)

Janos Sztipanovits, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $345,365 from the Department of Defense for “Future Combat Systems: System Development and Demonstration Phase.” Douglas Schmidt, Gabor Karsai and Theodore A. Bapty are co-principal investigators. (February 2006)

Gautam Biswas, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $44,599 by the National Science Foundation for “Collaborative Research: Exploring the Value of Learning by Teaching.”

Scott Guelcher, Chemical Engineering, $44,000 by the Department of Defense for “A Resorbable Polyurethane/Bone Composite Intramedullary Rod for Fracture Fixation.”

Janos Sztipanovits, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $100,557 by the Department of Defense for “Future Combat Systems: Software Architecture Engineering Support.” Douglas Schmidt, Gabor Karsai and Anirudda Gokhale are co-principal investigators.

Aniruddha Gokhale, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $110,000 by the Department of Defense for “ORB Infrastructure for Adaptive and Reflective Middleware Systems.” Balachandran Natarajan is co-principal investigator.

Michael Goldfarb, Mechanical Engineering, $75,551 by the Department of the Interior for “Concept Study Proposal for Lightweight Man-Portable Rescue Spreader.”

Scott Guelcher, Chemical Engineering, $60,995 by the Public Health Service for “Polyurethane Scaffold Synthesis for Tissue Engineering.”

Gabor Karsai, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $208,552 by the Department of Defense for “Support for CARTE: Comprehensive, Analytic, Real-Time Execution of Joint Air Operations.” Christopher van Buskirk is co-principal investigator.

David Kosson, Civil and Environmental Engineering, $159,653 by the Department of Energy for “Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation II.” James H. Clarke, Andrew C. Garrabrants and Sankaran Mahadevan are co-principal investigators.

Michael Alles, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $33,000 by the Department of Defense for "SBIR: High Efficiency Compact Modeling of Radiation Effects."

Adam Anderson, Biomedical Engineering, $50,000 by the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression for "Independent Investigator Award."

Robert L. Galloway Jr., Biomedical Engineering, $74,263 by the Public Health Service for "Minimally Invasive Surgical Planning and Training System." Michael I. Miga is co-principal investigator.
Galloway also received $180,652 from the Public Health Service for "Image-Guided Liver Surgery." Benoit Dawant, Michael Miga and J. Michael Fitzpatrick are co-principal investigators.

Aniruddha Gokhale, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $74,332 by the National Science Foundation for "CSR-SMA Collaborative: A Model-Driven Performance Analysis Framework for Distributed, Performance-Sensitive Software Systems."

Thomas R. Harris, Biomedical Engineering, $26,223 by the National Science Foundation for "The LIFE Center: Dynamic Assessment with Technology." Harris also received $2,090,400 from the National Science Foundation for "The Vanderbilt-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MIT (VaNTH) Engineering Research Center for Bioengineering Educational Technology." Davis S. Cordray, Arlene Harris, Sean Brophy, Robert J. Roselli and Jerry C. Collins are co-principal investigators.

David Kosson, Civil and Environmental Engineering, $187,858 by the Department of Energy for "Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation II." James H. Clarke, Andrew C. Garrabrants and Sankaran Mahadevan are co-principal investigators.

Frank L. Parker, Civil and Environmental Engineering, $118,889 by the Department of Defense for "Environmental Security Implications of Decommissioned Russian Nuclear Submarines in the Russian Far East."

Robert W. Pitz, Mechanical Engineering, $112,406 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for "Curved Flames in Microgravity." Joseph Wehrmeyer is co-principal investigator.

Douglas C. Schmidt, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $105,000 by Siemens Aktiengesellschaft for "Applying Aspect Oriented Programming in Development of Component Synthesis Toolset with Model-Integrated Computing." Schmidt also received $69,454 from the National Science Foundation for "ITR: Proposal to Solve/Address the Issue of Trustworthiness in Embedded Systems." Xenofon Koutsoukos is co-principal investigator.

Ronald D. Schrimpf, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $272,942 by the Department of Defense for "Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative - Radiation Effects on Emerging Electronic Materials and Devices." Lloyd W. Massengill, Daniel M. Fleetwood, Robert Reed, Marcus Mendenhall and Robert A. Weller are co-principal investigators.

Janos Sztipanovits, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $250,000 by the Raytheon Company for "Establishment of an Embedded and Software Infrastructure." Sandeep Neema is co-principal investigator.

L. Roy Xu, Civil and Environmental Engineering, $115,164 by the Department of Defense for "Enhancing the Interfacial and Dynamic Failure Behavior for Advanced Structures Using Nanocomposite Materials."

Jerry Collins, Biomedical Engineering, $61,768 by the Whitaker Foundation for "A Program of Industrial Internships for Biomedical Engineering Students at Vanderbilt University."

Peter Cummings, Chemical Engineering, Jim Wittig, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Len Feldman, Materials Science and Engineering, $35,100 from National Science Foundation for "Vanderbilt-Fisk Interdisciplinary Program for Research and Education in the Nanosciences."

Len Feldman, Materials Science and Engineering, $30,345 by the Department of Energy for "Fabricate Nanometer-Scale Fluid Channels."

Aniruddha Gokhale, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $80,000 by the Department of the Interior for "Model-Driven Configuration and Deployment for Dynamic and Multilayered Resource Management."

Michael Goldfarb, Mechanical Engineering, $190,710 by the National Science Foundation, for "Regenerative Above-Knee Prosthesis.

Tom Harris, Biomedical Engineering, $43,273 by the National Science Foundation for "The LIFE Center: Learning in Informal and Formal Environments."

Tim Holman, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Lloyd Massengill, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $121,000 by the Charles Stark Draper Lab for "Compact Models for Single-Event Transient REsponse of Semiconductor Devices.

Sankaran Mahadevan, Civil and Environmental Education, Gabor Karsai, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, David Kosson, Civil and Environmental Engineering, $142,560 by National Science Foundation for "Multi-Disciplinary Training in Reliability and Risk Engineering, Analysis and Management." Mahadevan also received $37,504 from the Federal Highway Administration for "Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship for Audrey Copeland."

Florence Sanchez, Civil and Environmental Engineering, $150,885 by the National Science Foundation for "Durability of Short Carbon Fiber Reinforced Cement-Based Materials During Exposure to Chemical Attack."

John Wikswo, Biomedical Engineering, $301,819 by the Whitaker Foundation for "Instrumenting and Controlling the Single Cell: An Educational Program in Biomedical Engineering."

Gautam Biswas, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $77,218 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for “Distributed Monitoring + Control of Complex Dynamic Systems.” Sherif Abdelwahed is co-principal investigator.

Peter T. Cummings, Chemical Engineering, $80,000 by the American Chemical Society/Petroleum Research Fund for “Nanotribology of Ultrathin Confined Liquid Films.”

David M. Dilts, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $299,126 by the Public Health Service for “A Timing and Process Flow Analysis of Opening Clinical Trials.”

Thomas R. Harris, Biomedical Engineering, $56,500 by the National Science Foundation for “The Vanderbilt-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MIT (VaNTH) Engineering Research Center for Bioengineering Educational Technology.” Stacy Klein is co-principal investigator.

Gabor Karsai, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $561,756 by the Department of Defense for “Support for Criticality-Sensitive Coordination (CSC).” Karsai received $35,501 from the Department of Defense for “CACE Technology Transition, Research and Development.” Christopher van Buskirk is co-principal investigator.

David Kosson, Civil and Environmental Engineering, $271,746 by the Department of Energy for “Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation II.” James H. Clarke, Andrew C. Garrabrants and Sankaran Mahadevan are co-principal investigators.

M. Douglas LeVan, Chemical Engineering, $100,000 by the Department of Defense for “Adsorption Cycles, Equilibrium and Rates: Advanced Prediction and Validation.”

Deyu Li, Mechanical Engineering, $100,000 by the National Science Foundation for “Electroosmotic Flow and Single Molecule Trapping in Hybrid Nanochannels.” Mark Stremler, Todd D. Giorgio, Anthony B. Hmelo and Leonard Feldman are co-principal investigators.

Lloyd W. Massengill, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $813,288 by the Mission Research Corporation for “Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (R,D,T&E) of Radiation Effects in Analog and Mixed Signal Technology.” Bharat L. Bhuva, Tim Holman, William H. Robinson, Robert A. Reed and Ronald D. Schrimpf are co-principal investigators.

Sandeep Neema, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $255,000 by the Department of Defense for “Tool Integration Framework for Bio Infomatics.”

Douglas C. Schmidt, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $40,000 by the VERITAS Software Global Corporation for “ACE/TAO Shared Library Improvement Techniques and Solutions.”

Ronald D. Schrimpf, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $445,440 by the Department of Defense for “D.O. 0019 – Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (R,D,T&E) of Radiation Effects in Analog and Mixed Signal Technology.” Lloyd W. Massengill, Daniel M. Fleetwood and Robert A. Weller are co-principal investigators.

Janos Sztipanovits, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $250,000 by the General Motors Corporation for “Establishment of an Embedded Systems and Software Infrastructure.” Sztipanovits also received $499,635 from the Department of Defense for “Future Combat Systems: Software Architecture Engineering Support.” Douglas C. Schmidt, Gabor Karsai and Aniruddha Gokhale are co-principal investigators.

 

 

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