Recent Research Awards
| Name | Title | Agency |
| Hassan Aref | Virginia Tech - Middle East and North Africa Graduate Program | Arab Academy for Science and Technology |
| Romesh Batra | Multilayered Technologies for Armored Structures and Composites (MultiTASC): Teaming the Army Research Laboratories (ARL) with Virginia Tech | US Army Research Lab |
| Optimal design of marine sandwich structures and nanocomposites for mitigation of thermomechanical shocks | Office of Naval Research | |
| Scott Case | Structure-property relations for charred insulating composite materials | Air Force Flight Test Center |
| Next Navy Composites (N2C): Multifunctonal composites for Next Navy seaframes | Office of Naval Research | |
| Composite Reliability Initiative Phase III - fatigue fracture component testing and inspection task | US Naval Surface Warfare Center | |
| Mark Cramer | Effect of large bulk viscosity on high speed separation | National Science Foundation |
| David Dillard | Poisson's ratio characterization of conformed coating | National Science Foundation |
| Joint research effort to evaluate a controlled humidity cell developed by TA instruments | TA Instruments Waters LLC | |
| Developing nondestructive evaluation diagnostics for adhesives and sealants | Adhesive and Sealant Council, Inc. | |
| REU: Materials and processes for proton exchange membrane fuel cells | National Science Foundation | |
| Building interdisciplinary collaboration skills through a green engineering capstone design experience | National Science Foundation | |
| Evaluation of insulation joints for rail applications | Association of American Railroads Transportation Technology Center | |
| Advancing characterization of adhesion through combinatorial probe tests for surfaces and adhesives | National Institute of Standards and Technology | |
| Testing protocol development for bhbtm tapes for structural glazing applications | 3M | |
| Support for the Adhesion Society's 30th Meeting | Air Force Office of Scientific Research | |
| John Duke | Composite Reliability Initiative Phase III - fatigue fracture component testing and inspection task | US Naval Surface Warfare Center |
| Thermomechanical sensing of component degradation | Siemens Power Generation, Inc | |
| Wally Grant | Sensory processing in mammalian vestibular organs | Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary |
| Biomechanics of vestibular hair cells: experimental and computational analysis | Ohio University | |
| Muhammad Hajj | Square lighting pole wind vibration | HAPCO Aluminum Pole Products |
| Ronald Kriz | Extensible 3-D (X3D) graphics loader for OpenSceneGraph (OSG) | Naval Postgraduate School |
| Maintain SGI legacy Power Onyx, Rock, and IRIX OS | Nutter, McClennen and Fish | |
| John Lesko | A gas gun for exploring high strain rate phenomena | U. S. Army Research Office |
| Building interdisciplinary collaboration skills through a green engineering capstone design experience | National Science Foundation | |
| Light-weight flame retardant ammunition packaging | Luna Innovations, Inc. | |
| Rapid replacement of Tangier Island bridges including lightweight and durable fiber reinforced plastics (FRP) deck systems | Virginia Transportation Research Council | |
| Next Navy Composites (N2C): Multifunctonal composites for Next Navy seaframes | Office of Naval Research | |
| Composite Reliability Initiative Phase III - fatigue fracture component testing and inspection task | US Naval Surface Warfare Center | |
| Michael Madigan | Effects of sarcopenic obesity on recovery from a trip | Wake Forest University Medical Center |
| Risk factors and controls for falls from heights | NIOSH | |
| Ali Nayfeh | Twelfth conference on nonlinear vibrations, stability, and dynamics of structures | US Army Research Office |
| Physics-based indentification and management of aeroelastic limit-cycle oscillations | Equilibria | |
| Marie Paretti | Building connections within the engineering education research community | National Science Foundation |
| Building interdisciplinary collaboration skills through a green engineering capstone design experience | National Science Foundation | |
| Cyberinfrastructure Training, Education, Advancement, and Mentoring (Ci-TEAM) implementation project: Collaborative research - A national engineering dissection cyber-collaboratory | National Science Foundation | |
| Ishwar Puri | Development of a nitrifying microbial fuel cell for sustainable wastewater treatment | Water Environment Research Foundation |
| Nanotechnology under graduate education: A spiral cirriculum approach | National Science Foundation | |
| Gravitational effects on partially premixed flames | NASA, John H Glenn Research Center | |
| Single crystal optical waveguides for ultra high temperature sensing | Lamda Instruments, Inc | |
| Shane Ross | Motor control effects of excercise on recurrent back pain | Ohio State University Research Foundation |
| Mark Stremler | Collaborative research: Topological fluid mechanics of stirring (transfer from Vanderbilt University) | National Science Foundation |
| Laminar mixing in micro- and meso-scale flows: enhancing heat and mass transfer with chaotic advection | Vanderbilt University | |
| Mixing enhancement in small-scale flow systems | US Army Research Office | |
| Demetri Telionis | Developmentand validation of computational models for industrial flotation cells | Dorr Oliver Eimco USA Inc. |
| Development of velocity probe calibration methods | Aeroprobe Corporation | |
| Aerodynamics and flight control of a circulation-control disk/rotor aircraft | Boeing Company |
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225 Norris Hall (0219), Blacksburg, VA 24061
Phone: 540/231-6651
Fax: 540/231-4574
Send comments to: webadmin@www.esm.vt.edu