Reseach Awards
The UTSA vision is to become a premier research institution. By achieving a 253 percent increase in research funding over the past 10 years, UTSA's is making significant progress in meeting that goal, and the College of Engineering plays a large role in bringing in research funding to the university. Listed below are the sponsored projects awarded to members of the College of Engineering between Jan. 1, 2015, and Dec. 4, 2015.
Agaian, Sos
Proposal title: Evaluation of the Use of a Non-Contact, 3D Scanner for Collecting Post-Mortem Fingerprints
Funding Agency: Flashscan 3D
Amount: $99,612
Agaian, Sos
Proposal title:: RAPID: I-Corps Teams: Cloud Pathology Platform for Computer Aided Digitized Histopathology Image Processing and Analysis System
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount: $50,000
Alaeddini, Adel
Proposal title: VA777-16-G-0014
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Amount: $64,326
Alaeddini, Adel (PI) Agaian, Sos (Co-PI)
Proposal title:Image-based Process Monitoring Phase 1: Real-time Quality Monitoring of Printing Process
Funding Agency: Harland Clarke
Amount: $77,630
Bhaganagar, Kiran (PI) Pack, Daniel; Sharif, Hatim (Co-PIs)
Proposal title: Novel Technology for Detection and Prediction of Spreading of Air-Borne Chemicals
Funding Agency: Minority Serving Institutions STEM Research and Development Consortium (MSRDC)
Amount: $258,515
Browning, JoAnn (PI) Merchant, Betty (Co-PI)
Proposal title: Deep Roots: Wide-Spread Implementation of Community-Driven Evidence-Based Pedagogy
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount: $223,072
Castillo, Krystel (PI) Shipley, Heather; Chen, Frank; Giacomoni, Marcio (Co-PIs)
Proposal title: Opportunities for Higher Education and Research Experience in Renewable Energy and Water Quality to Enable STEM Hispanic Leaders
Funding Agency: USDA
Amount: $290,000
Castillo, Krystel
Proposal title: BioEnergy and Water for Agriculture Research and Education (BE AWARE) Network
Funding Agency: USDA
Amount: $250,000
Castillo, Krystel
Proposal title: Biomass Logistics Simulations
Funding Agency: UT-Battelle LLC
Amount: $60,000
Diaz, Manuel (PI) Arroyo, German (Co-PI)
Proposal title: Dwight D. Eisenhower Fellowship-2015
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Transportation
Amount: $30,000
Dong, Bing
Proposal title: International Workshop on Implications of Occupant Behavior for Building Design and Operation: Now and the Future
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount: $34,911
Dong, Bing (PI) Nishimoto, Taeg (Co-PI)
Proposal title: Strategic Data Management for Energy and Water Consumption Efficiency in Marriott Hotels
Funding Agency: Marriott
Amount: $40,029
Feng, Yusheng
Proposal title: I-Corps: Portable Hands Free Medical Suction Device for Combat and Emergency Medicine
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount: $50,000
Finol, Ender (PI) De Oliveira, Victor; Menon Gopalakrishna, Prahlad (Co-PIs)
Proposal title: Geometric Surrogates for Clinical Management of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $514,370
Finol, Ender
Proposal title: Clinical Management of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAA) Using Patient-Specific Tissue Mechanics
Funding Agency: American Heart Association
Amount: $52,000
Furl, Chad
Proposal title: RAPID: Forensic Hydrological Field Investigation of the Blanco River Flood - May 2015, Wimberley, TX
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount: $26,531
Gatsis, Nikolas
Proposal title: EAGER-DynamicData: Machine Intelligence for Dynamic Data-Driven Morphing of Nodal Demand in Smart Energy Systems
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount: $73,303
Guda, Teja (PI) Ong, Anson (Co-PI)
Proposal title: Evaluation in the Rat Femoral Segmental Bone Defect (SBD) Model
Funding Agency: Stem Biosystems Inc.
Amount: $45,105
Guo, Ruyan (PI) Bhalla, Amar (Co-PI)
Proposal title: Phase I - Measure
Funding Agency: FBD Partnership
Amount: $36,000
Han, Hai-Chao
Proposal title: A New Treatment for Diastolic Heart Failure: Trabecular Cutting
Funding Agency: The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Amount: $8,153
Huang, Jie (PI) Dessouky, Samer; Sharif, Hatim (Co-PIs)
Proposal title: Evaluating Use of Sub-Grade Drains with PFC Stormwater Drainage
Funding Agency: Texas Department of Transportation
Amount: $276,293
Jamshidi, Mohammad (PI) Kelley, Brian (Co-PI)
Proposal title: Modeling, Analysis and Control of Large Scale Autonomous System of Vehicles
Funding Agency: North Carolina Agricultural and Tech State
Amount: $266,200
Kelley, Brian
Proposal title: IPA
Funding Agency: U.S. National Security Agency
Amount: $106,090
Krishnan, Ramnarayan (PI) Park, Jae Hong (Co-PI)
Proposal title: Social Networking for Community Resilience
Funding Agency: LMI Research Institute
Amount: $50,000
Krishnan, Ramnarayan (PI) Sandhu, Ravinderpal (Co-PI)
Proposal title: Fine-Grained, Dynamic Virtual Resource Separation in Cloud Platforms for Assured Delivery of Cloud Based Services
Funding Agency: U.S. Dept. of the Army
Amount: $593,514
Krishnan, Ramnarayan (PI) Sandhu, Ravinderpal (Co-PI)
Proposal title: Design and Implementation of Cybersecurity Risk Metrics for Cloud Based IT Infrastructure
Funding Agency: LMI Research Institute
Amount: $50,000
Lin, Wei-Ming (PI) Sandhu, Ravinderpal; Xu, Kufeng (Co-PIs)
Proposal title: EAGER: Collaborative: IC Supply Chain Security and Quality Control in a Business and Social Context
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount: $179,997
Liu, Rui (PI) Dong, Bing; Du, Jing (Co-PIs)
Proposal title: Building Information Modeling Supported Building Life Cycle Management: On the Edge of Total Information Management
Funding Agency: The University of Texas at Austin
Amount: $68,220
Matamoros, Adolfo
Proposal title: Static and Dynamic Testing of Energy Absorbing Connectors for Blast-Loaded Components
Funding Agency: Protection Engineering Consultants Inc.
Amount: $5,276
Millwater, Harry (PI) Montoya, Arturo; Wilkerson, Justin (Co-PIs)
Proposal title: Three Dimensional Fracture Mechanics Capability for Structures Operating in High Temperature Thermal Environments
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of the Army
Amount: $397,843
Montoya, Arturo (PI) Gorski, Waldemar (Co-PI)
Proposal title: Potential Risk of Hydrogen Embrittlement of ZnNi Coated High Strength Steel
Funding Agency: Southwest Research Institute
Amount: $66,028
Najafirad, Peyman
Proposal title: Intel OpenStack Internship Program
Funding Agency: Intel
Amount: $229,473
Najafirad, Peyman
Proposal title: Kubernetes and Docker Configuration
Funding Agency: Indiana University
Amount: $8,000
Pack, Daniel
Proposal title: Cooperative Technology Development
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of the Navy
Amount: $80,000
Pack, Daniel (PI) Akopian, David (Co-PI)
Proposal title: Extending GPS Operation in GPS-denied Areas through Cross-Correlation Jamming Cancellation
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of the Air Force
Amount: $194,800
Papagiannakis, Athanassios
Proposal title: Testing of Asphalt Concretes Incorporating Dry-process PP
Funding Agency: Earl M. Stenger
Amount: $14,115
Reilly, Matthew (PI) Bizios, Rena (Co-PI)
Proposal title: Torsional Indirect Traumatic Neuropathy (TITON): Animal Model for Diagnostics, Drug Delivery, and Therapeutics for Central Nervous System Injury
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Defense
Amount: $1,000,000
Reilly, Matthew
Proposal title: Injectable Microgel for Soft Tissue Repair
Funding Agency: Rochal Industries
Amount: $8,939
Rogers, Dwain (PI) Castillo, Krystel (Co-PI)
Proposal title: Central Texas Fuel Independence Project Fleet Analysis
Funding Agency: Austin Energy
Amount: $20,000
Saygin, Can (PI) Alaeddini, Adel; Castillo, Krystel; Wan, Hung-Da (Co-PIs)
Proposal title: Predictive Maintenance - Phase 2: From Data to Performance Metrics
Funding Agency: Harland Clarke
Amount: $90,000
Saygin, Can
Proposal title: San Antonio Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center
Funding Agency: The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Amount: $33,998
Shadaram, Mehdi
Proposal title: Summer Engineering Camp for Texas Students
Funding Agency: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Amount: $13,998
Sharif, Hatim (PI) Dessouky, Samer; Weissmann, Jose (Co-PIs)
Proposal title: Traffic Safety Challenges and Strategies in the Eagle Ford Shale Area
Funding Agency: Texas Department of Transportation
Amount: $266,603
Shephard, Les
Proposal title: National Incubator Initiative for Clean Energy
Funding Agency: The University of Texas at Austin
Amount: $43,476
Shephard, Les (PI) Dong, Bing; Vega, Rolando (Co-PIs)
Proposal title: Topic Area 3: Integrated Systems: Omnetric Corp Duke Energy Cps Energy The University of Texas at San Antonio
Funding Agency: Omnetric Corp
Amount: $203,368
Shephard, Les
Proposal title: Transforming and Modernizing the Electric Sector
Funding Agency: City Public Service
Amount: $620,000
Shipley, Heather (PI) Bizios, Rena; Castillo; Krystel; Guo, Ruyan (Co-PIs)
Proposal title: S-STEM: UTSA's Scholarship Program for Undergraduates' Retention and Success (SPURS)
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount: $626,890
Tang, Liang
Proposal title: IFSEEN - Integrating Food Science/Engineering and Education Network: A Partnership to Integrate Efforts and Collaboration to Shape Tomorrow's Hispanic Food Safety/Science Leaders
Funding Agency: UT Pan American
Amount: $186,368
Testik, Firat
Proposal title: NSF Award Transfer: Critical Raindrop Characteristics: Fall Speed, Shape, and Size Distributions
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount: $135,177
Wan, Hung-Da (PI) Alaeddini, Adel; Castillo, Krystel; Chen, Frank; Saygin, Can (Co-PIs)
Proposal title: Harland Clarke CAMLS Consortium Membership 2015-17
Funding Agency: Harland Clarke
Amount: $62,000
Wang, Xiaodu (PI) Zeng, Xiaowei (Co-PI)
Proposal title: Multiscale Modeling of Ultrastructural Origins Of Bone Fragility
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount: $368,931
Weissmann, Jose
Proposal title: Evaluate Specialized Hauling Vehicles with Regard to Pavement and Bridge Deterioration and Posting Limits
Funding Agency: Texas Department of Transportation
Amount: $155,556
Wilkerson, Justin
Proposal title: A Simple Constitutive Framework for Anisotropic Dynamic Ductile Failure
Funding Agency: Johns Hopkins University
Amount: $25,000
Xie, Hongjie (PI) Gao, Yongli; Lambert, Lance; Sharif, Hatim (Co-PIs)
Proposal title: Minority Improvement in Earth Science and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio (MIESE at UTSA)
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Education
Amount: $748,705
Zeng, Xiaowei
Proposal title: Numerical Investigation of Collective Cell Migration
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $441,000