Faculty Grants and Awards—Fall 2005

Each month, we publish a listing of the research grants and awards issued to Lehigh’s world-class faculty members in engineering. These individuals, working collaboratively with industry and government partners, are making important contributions to the advancement of their fields. We salute their contributions to the academic community, and thank them for demonstrating Lehigh’s commitment to research excellence.

The following RCEAS faculty received grants and awards for the month of December 2005:
Edward K. Levy
Harun Bilirgen
Hugo S. Caram
Nenad Sarunac
Recovery of Water from Boiler Flue Gas
DOE-National Energy Technology Laboratory
1/1/2006 to 6/30/2008
Ricky S. Blum
Performance Limits and Design of MIMO for Sensor and Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
DOD-Air Force-Office of Scientific Research
12/15/2005 to 11/30/2008
Edward K. Levy
Carlos E. Romero
Modeling of SO3 Formation Processes in Coal-Fired Boilers
Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
11/22/2005 to 6/30/2006
David Wu
PDE Engineering Schools Equipment Grant Program - FY 2005-2006
PA-Department of Education
7/1/2005 to 6/30/2006
Richard G. Herman
PITA IX: Environmentally Friendly Soy For Printing Inks/Clear Coatings
PA-Department of Community & Economic Development
11/1/2005 to 3/31/2007
John N. DuPont
Arnold R. Marder
PITA IX: Optimization of Corrosion Test Methods And Heat Treating Procedures for High Alloy Stainless Steel Castings
PA-Department of Community & Economic Development
11/1/2005 to 3/31/2007
Clay Joshua Naito
PITA IX: Research on Blast Resistance of Civil Infrastructure Components with Polyurea Coatings
PA-Department of Community & Economic Development
11/1/2005 to 3/31/2007
Joe C. Hartman
Robert H Storer
Business Optimization at Cherrydale Farms - Phase I
Cherrydale Farms
12/9/2005 to 1/31/2006
Ricky S. Blum
PITA IX: Cooperative Mimo
PA-Department of Community & Economic Development
11/1/2005 to 3/31/2007
John R Spletzer
PITA IX: An Outdoor Machine Vision System (OMVS) for the Automatic Transport and Retrieval System (ATRS)
PA-Department of Community & Economic Development
11/1/2005 to 3/31/2007
Wojtek Z. Misiolek
PITA IX: Investigations of the Interactions of the Polymer-Substrate Interface and its Influence on Performance in Blast Attenuation Coatings
PA-Department of Community & EconomicDevelopment
11/1/2005 to 3/31/2007
Mooi Choo Chuah
Supplement: Enhanced Disruption/Fault Tolerant Bundle Delivery (EDIFY) System
DOD-Department of the Air Force
12/5/2005 to 3/20/2006
Clay Joshua Naito
Svetlana Tatic-Lucic
PITA IX: Feasibility Study of Microelectromechanical Devices for Use in Monitoring Concrete Strength
PA-Department of Community & Economic Development
11/1/2005 to 3/31/2007
The following RCEAS faculty received grants and awards for the month of November 2005:
Daniel P. Lopresti
Henry S. Baird
Document Understanding: Survey and Evaluation of the State-of-the-Art
BBNT Solutions LLC
9/1/2005 to 2/28/2006
Liang Cheng
PITA IX: Embedded Systems and Their Applications
PA-Department of Community & Economic Development
11/1/2005 to 3/31/2007
Glenn D. Blank
PITA IX: Evaluating the CIMEL multimedia intelligent tutoring system for Design First with Java course
PA-Department of Community & Economic Development
11/1/2005 to 3/31/2007
Derick G. Brown
PITA IX: Alteration of Bacterial Adhesion onto Materials used for Medical Devices through Bacterial Surface Property Modification with Ethylenediaminetetraacetate
PA-Department of Community & Economic Development
11/1/2005 to 3/31/2007
John P. Coulter
PITA IX: Investigation of a Novel Melt Flow Manipulation Technique via Programmed Mold Cavity Pressurization and Venting
PA-Department of Community & Economic Development
9/1/2005 to 3/31/2007
John P. Coulter
Investigation of a Novel Melt Flow Manipulation Technique via Programmed Mold Cavity Pressurization and Venting
Tyco Electronics Corporation
11/23/2005 to 11/22/2006
Masashi Watanabe
David B. Williams
FEG-STEM Microanalysis of Grain Boundaries in Alloy 600
BBWI
5/1/2004 to 6/30/2006
Derick G. Brown
Microbial Ecology of Peat on PAHs: Aqueous Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
11/1/2005 to 10/31/2006

The following RCEAS faculty received grants and awards for the month of October 2005:
Marvin H. White
Characterization of Nanoscaled CMOS Devices with High-K Dielectrics
Semiconductor Research Corporation
12/1/2005 to 11/30/2008
Hector Munoz-Avila
Transfer Learning and Hierarchical Task Network Representations and Planning
DOD-Navy-Chicago
10/1/2005 to 9/30/2007
William M. Pottenger
Link Analysis Survey
Department of Justice
9/1/2005 to 8/31/2006
William M. Pottenger
Free Text Conversion and Semantic Analysis
Department of Justice
9/1/2005 to 8/31/2006
Clay Joshua Naito
Research on Blast Resistance of Civil Infrastructure Components with Polyurea Coatings
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
10/18/2005 to 6/30/2007
Wojtek Z. Misiolek
Investigations Of The Interactions Of The Polymer-Substrate Interface And Its Influence On Performance In Blast Attenuation Coatings (PITA Match)
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
9/15/2005 to 3/31/2007

The following RCEAS faculty received grants and awards for the month of September 2005:
Richard Sause
PITA IX - Core Fund
PA-Department of Community & Economic Development
7/1/2005 to 6/30/2007
Samir Ghadiali
Middle Ear Pressure Regulation in Health and Disease (Core C)
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
7/1/2006 to 6/30/2011
William M. Pottenger
Collaborative Knowledge Discovery in Digital Government Data Using Distributed Higher- Order Text Mining
NSF-Directorate for Computer and Info. Sci. & Engr.
1/1/2006 to 12/31/2008
Anand Jagota
Rick P. Vinci
GOALI: Biomimetic Design of Fibrillar Interfaces for Adhesion, Tribology, and other Surface Properties
NSF-Directorate for Engineering
9/15/2005 to 8/31/2008
Weixian Zhang
Pilot Scale Production of Iron Nanoparticles
American Standard Inc.
9/1/2005 to 12/31/2006
Marvin H. White
Nanoscaled SONOS/NROM Nonvolatile Semiconductor Memory (NVSM) Devices
Semiconductor Research Corpora