Alabama NASA EPSCoR Presentation for

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Alabama NASA EPSCoR Presentation for 2007 Alabama
EPSCoR Annual Meeting Huntsville February 13,
2007 John Gregory Director, Alabama Space Grant
Consortium and Alabama-NASA EPSCoR Program
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Research Infrastructure Announcement

• Release Date December 21, 2006
• Proposals Due February 26, 2007
• Announcement of
• Selections March 30, 2007

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Funding and Cost-Sharing

• Max. level requested is 125K/yr for up to 3 yrs
• Cost-sharing match of 11 is required
• NASA EPSCoR RID funds cannot be used for
• Equipment
• Foreign Travel
• Civil Service Personnel Travel

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The Purposes of theTechnical Advisory Committee
are to

• Advise on jurisdiction research and economic
  priorities
• Assist in planning research areas that align with
  state priorities
• Provide technical guidance to the states NASA
  EPSCoR program and
• Review program progress and accomplishments.

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Technical Advisory Committee consists of

• the states NASA EPSCoR Program Director
  (Committee Chair)
• at least one member of the states EPSCoR
  Committee
• at least one representative from the states
  industry
• at least one representative from the states
  government, and
• one member from at least three affiliates of the
  states NASA Space Grant Program.

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2 USRP Students Supported in 2006

• Natika Onyeka, Alabama AM
• Assisted in the development of advanced sensors
  needed to monitor the structural health of
  spacecrafts such as the Crew Exploration Vehicle
  (CEV).
• David Parsons, Auburn University
• Assisted in establishing a distributed simulation
  of the integrated Crew Launch Vehicle (CLV) and
  Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV).

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6 Seed Grant proposals funded in 2006

• Dr. Jihua Guo, USA, Innovative Manufacturing of
  Hybrid Nanocomposites with Engineered Nanopapers
  for Cryogenically Cycled Structure
• Dr. Luke Marzen, AU, An Investigation of
  Wet-target Craters on Mars
• Dr. Andrei Stanishevsky, UAB, Nanoporous
  Multilayer Metal Complex Oxide Ceramic
  Nanoparticle Compacts for Membrane Technologies
  in ISRU Systems
• Dr. Semih Olcmen, UA, Parametric Study of
  Impinging/Counterflow Supersonic Jets
• Dr. Lior Burko, UAH, Towards a Wave-Extraction
  Method for Numerical Relativity Simulations of
  Compact Binary Inspirals
• Dr. Stephen Paddison, UAH, A Computational Study
  of Factors Governing Proton Conductivity in
  Anhydrous Proton-Conductivity Polymeric Membranes
  for Fuel Cells

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Dr. Jihua Gou, Univ. of South Alabama

• Innovative Manufacturing of Hybrid
  Nanocomposites with Engineered Nanopapers for
  Cryogenically Cycled Structure
• INTERIM REPORT
• 2 undergraduate students
• 2 journal articles submitted
• 4 conference papers submitted
• 2 research projects funded
• 3 research projects pending
• Collaboration with 1 NASA Center
• Collaboration w/ Minority and Women Eng. Programs

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Dr. Luke Marzen, Auburn University

• An Investigation of Wet-target Craters on Mars
• INTERIM REPORT
• 1 female graduate student
• 2 abstracts published
• 2 abstracts submitted
• Collaboration with 1 NASA Center

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Dr. Andrei Stanishevsky, UAB

• Nanoporous Multilayer Metal Complex Oxide
  Ceramic Nanoparticle Compacts for Membrane
  Technologies in ISRU Systems
• INTERIM REPORT
• 1 undergraduate 1 graduate student
• 3 articles published
• 1 funded proposal
• 2 proposals pending
• Collaboration with 1 NASA Center

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Dr. Semih Olcmen, UA

• Parametric Study of Impinging/Counterflow
  Supersonic Jets
• INTERIM REPORT
• 1 graduate student
• 1 proposal submitted
• Collaboration with 1 NASA Center

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Dr. Lior Burko, UAH

• Towards a Wave-Extraction Method for Numerical
  Relativity Simulations of Compact Binary
  Inspirals
• INTERIM REPORT
• 1 graduate student
• 1 article published
• 2 articles submitted
• Collaboration with 1 NASA Center

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Dr. Stephen Paddison, UAH

• A Computational Study of Factors Governing
  Proton Conductivity in Anhydrous
  Proton-Conductivity Polymeric Membranes for Fuel
  Cells
• INTERIM REPORT
• 1 female undergraduate student
• 1 article submitted
• 2 proposals funded
• 3 proposals pending
• Collaboration with 1 NASA Center