College of Engineering Research Update

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College of EngineeringResearch Update

• John S. Strenkowski
• Sarah A. Rajala
• February 3, 2005

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Research Highlights

• Nanotechnologies
• Microfluidic chips (Velev)
• Self-assembled 3D nanostructures (Narayan)
• Nanoelectronics and photonics (Muth)
• Nanoscale Imaging (Gruverman)
• Nuclear Engineering
• Idaho National Labs consortium (Turinsky)
• INIE (Hawari)

An anisotropic eyeball particle
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Research Highlights

• Environmental Engineering
• Building Decontamination Debris (Barlaz)
• Information Technologies
• Visualization of complex data sets (Healey)
• Embedded Systems

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Research Highlights

• Bioengineering
• Artificial retina (Lazzi)
• Visualization of proteins (Hall)
• Bioimaging
• Medical devices (Cormier Harrysson)

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COE Research Funding Trends
Research expenditures 86M (03-04)
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COE Research Enterprise

• Young faculty with growing research programs
  NSF Careers, ONR Young Faculty Awards, . . .
• Broad participation of faculty engaged in
  research across all COE depts
• Large growing number of funding agencies
• NSF, DOD, DOE, EPA, DARPA, NASA, NIH, . . .
• Props submitted 205 Sponsors FY03-04
• Growing industry support 17 of new awards for
  July 1, 2004 Jan 31, 2005
• Building Interdisciplinary Teams with other
  colleges, universities, industry . . .

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Support of COE Faculty and Research Admin Staff

• New Faculty Workshop Follow-Up Sessions
• Updated Research Website new research funding
  announcements, funding trends . . .
• Training workshops for faculty and staff
• COE Research Committee research trends
• Paperless processing for pre and post award
• Departmental visits with contract managers
• News Flash latest news in COE Research Admin

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Future Opportunities

• Capitalize on Bio opportunities
• BTEC
• Biomedical (NIH, NSF, DOD, OSHA . . )
• Biomolecular
• Biocontamination
• Biomedical devices

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Future Opportunities

• Continue to expand nanotech and photonics
  research efforts
• NSECs, NERs, NIRTS, NanoEd, DOD, . . .
• Continue to encourage and support
  cross-disciplinary and international projects
• NSF, NASA-NIA, FAA, . . .
• Continue to expand Semiconductor Power
  Electronics (Huang, Baliga, Baran)

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Future Opportunities

• National security
• Environmental (Bio/chem decontamination)
• Military (IMST,VLCOE, etc)
• US Coast Guard
• Nuclear Renaissance
• Neutron beams for material science research
• Modeling simulation of advanced reactor systems
  
• Nuclear medicine

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Future Opportunities

• COE Building Projects
• Engineering Building 1 (CHE MSE)
• Engineering Building 2 (CSC ECE)
• West Research Annex (MAE)
• BME lab renovation (BEL)
• Daniels renovation (IE)

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Our Dream Team Research Admin
Staff...

• Pat Hayes, Director, (Post-Award)
• Rosette Tavolacci, Assistant Director
• (Pre-Award)
• Richard Duckworth, Information Processing
• Specialist
• Alice Mundia, Information Processing
• Specialist
• Mary Bracey, Contract Manager for Centers