UCONN Engineering Annual Report 2009-2010

UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ANNUAL REPORT 2009-2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY……………………………………………………………. 3 DEPARTMENTS CHEMICAL, MATERIALS & BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY…………………………………………………………. 10 ARCHIVAL TECHNICAL JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS…………………………………….. 14 PUBLISHED BOOKS, BOOK CHAPTERS, BOOK SECTIONS & EDITED VOLUMES……….. 25 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS……………………………….. 27 ACTIVE RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS………………………………………... 29 AWARDS, HONORS, PATENTS………………………………………………….…....... 40 MAJOR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES…………………………………………………… 41 CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY…………………………………………………………. 61 ARCHIVAL TECHNICAL JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS…………………………………….. 64 PUBLISHED BOOKS, BOOK CHAPTERS, BOOK SECTIONS & EDITED VOLUMES………. 70 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS……………………………….. 71 ACTIVE RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS……………………………………….. 76 AWARDS, HONORS, PATENTS………………………………………………….……… 85 MAJOR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES……………………………………………………. 86 COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY…………………………………………………………. 99 ARCHIVAL TECHNICAL JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS……………………………………. 102 PUBLISHED BOOKS, BOOK CHAPTERS, BOOK SECTIONS & EDITED VOLUMES………. 106 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS……………………………….. 108 ACTIVE RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS……………………………………….. 114 AWARDS, HONORS, PATENTS………………………………………………….…........ 124 MAJOR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES…………………………………………………… 125 ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY…………………………………………………………. 140 ARCHIVAL TECHNICAL JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS…………………………………….. 143 PUBLISHED BOOKS, BOOK CHAPTERS, BOOK SECTIONS & EDITED VOLUMES……….. 153 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS……………………………….. 155 ACTIVE RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS……………………………………….. 169 AWARDS, HONORS, PATENTS………………………………………………….……... 179 MAJOR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES……………………………………………………. 181 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY………………………………………………………… 196 ARCHIVAL TECHNICAL JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS……………………………………. 198 PUBLISHED BOOKS, BOOK CHAPTERS, BOOK SECTIONS & EDITED VOLUMES……….. 206 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS……………………………….. 207 ACTIVE RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS……………………………………….. 218 1

AWARDS, HONORS, PATENTS………………………………………………….…...

MAJOR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES…………………………………………………

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CENTERS BOOTH ENGINEERING CENTER FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY…………………………… 241 CENTER FOR CLEAN ENERGY ENGINEERING……………………………………………… 244 CONNECTICUT TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE………………………………………………250 CENTER FOR RESILIENT TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURES…………………………. 252 CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION & LIVABLE SYSTEMS…………………………………… 254

PROGRAMS BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING…………………………………………………………......... 256 ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING PROGRAM………………………………………………. 258 MANAGEMENT AND ENGINEERING FOR MANUFACTURING……………………………….. 261 UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS OFFICE…………………………………………………..... 262

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SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY 2009-2010 During the 2009-10 fiscal year, the School of Engineering increased its strategic momentum in technological, educational, outreach and lab-to-fab areas.

The University charged a Committee for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Programs (CEGaPP) with evaluating doctoral programs at UConn. Among the highlights of the CEGaPP report were: •

The Electrical Engineering program was recognized as a Program of National Distinction, ranking in the 97th percentile among 153 programs rated by Academic Analytics, earning very high ranking scores for its grant dollars/faculty, GRE-Q scores and median time to degree.

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Chemical Engineering and Environmental Engineering were judged Programs with Potential to Achieve National Distinction. Chemical Engineering was listed in the 71st percentile on the Academic Analytics scale, among 117 programs, receiving very high marks for journal publications/faculty member, number of applicants relative to the program size, GRE-Q scores and median time to degree.

The Environmental Engineering program scored in the 79th percentile on the Academic Analytics scale, among 78 programs, receiving very high marks for GRE-Q scores and the number of degrees awarded relative to program size.

EDUCATION & OUTREACH

In August 2009 we welcomed a freshman class of 425 students, whose average combined verbal and math SAT score was 1278. The quality and dedication of our students remain exceptional. For the fall ’09 term, 410 engineering students were named to the Dean’s List for maintaining a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 3.533 or greater; for the spring ’10 term, 418 students made the Dean’s List for maintaining a CGPA of 3.55 or greater. In addition, the School of Engineering continued to have the highest proportion of University Honors Program scholars (12% of its undergraduate population) among the eight bachelor’s degree-granting schools and colleges at UConn.

The greatest share of undergraduate engineering students resides within the Mechanical Engineering Department, which boasted 462 undergraduates during the 2009-10 school year. The Biomedical Engineering Program enjoyed enrollments of nearly 300 undergraduates, equal to the combined Civil & Environmental Engineering enrollment.

During the year, the School of Engineering introduced two new minor programs, in Electronics and Systems, and in Engineering Management (offered jointly with the School of Business). These new offerings reflect the evolving needs of employers and allow students greater freedom to customize their educational coursework. The Entrepreneurial Senior Design Program, initiated in 2009 in conjunction with the School of Business, continued to attract students who are interested in strengthening their business skills. ESDP students augment their engineering coursework with rigorous MBA-level entrepreneurship classes offered through the School of Business, and apply their blossoming business knowhow within the framework of their culminating senior design projects.

The School of Engineering launched a new teacher enrichment program during the summer of 2009, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), which immerses middle and high school teachers in the super-hot 3

arena of energy research at the Storrs campus. The five-week Joule Fellows Program is funded through the Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program and kicked off July 13th with the arrival of 11 teachers representing nine schools across Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. This program builds upon the success of, but dramatically expands, the da Vinci Project, another NSF-funded teacher immersion program.

To further engage and excite students about the fundamental, transformative nature of engineering, in the fall the School co-sponsored, with the UConn chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) a presentation of Dr. Bernard Amadei, EWB president and founder. The presentation drew EWB members from the University of Hartford, University of New Haven, and the Hartford Professionals chapters as well as members of the Hartford Professionals Chapter of EWB, faculty members and non-engineers.

Over 280 undergraduate and graduate students were feted during the School of Engineering awards ceremony on April 19, 2010. The event enfolded not only the award of merit scholarships to continuing undergraduate students, but also fellowship honors for top graduate students. The scholarships were made possible thanks to generous donations by alumni and industrial friends.

During the year, the Engineering Diversity Program and Undergraduate Office continued their diverse portfolio of outreach and recruiting activities aimed at increasing the diversity and quality of the undergraduate engineering population and exciting greater interest in engineering as a program of study.

These activities included the highly successful BRIDGE summer preparatory program, the one-day Multiply Your Options for eighth grade girls, the Saturday Pre-Engineering Program, the week-long Explore Engineering program for high school juniors and seniors; sponsorship of the Connecticut Invention Convention, Northeast Regional Science Bowl and competitive chess contests; and immersive research experiences for middle and high school teachers.

STRATEGIC PRIORITIES & SUCCESSES

The School of Engineering posted research expenditures of over $21,563,000 during the year.

The interdisciplinary Center for Clean Energy Engineering is undergoing an important metamorphosis. The center, was founded in 2001 with $14.5 million in funding from the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund and industry partners, is enlarging its mission to embrace a range of sustainable energy research, education and industry outreach. Reflective of this expanded vision, the center assumed a new name during 2009-10: the Center for Clean Energy Engineering (C2E2). The center now serves as a nexus for activities involving fundamental and applied research in a breadth of clean and efficient energy technologies as well as training the next generation of sustainable energy engineers.

A new institute was established within the School of Engineering, the Institute for Innovative Transportation Systems (IITS). Dr. Michael Accorsi (Civil & Environmental Engineering) serves as Director, and James Mahoney, Executive Program Director of the Connecticut Transportation Institute (CTI), was named Associate Director. The IITS serves as a nexus integrating and extending the resources, missions and activities of the Center for Resilient Transportation Infrastructure (CRTI), one of seven institutions awarded funding as a U.S. Department of Homeland Security National Transportation Security Center of Excellence and directed by Dr. Accorsi; the Center for Livable Transportation Systems, one of a network of University Transportation Centers established by the U.S. Department of Transportation and directed by Dr. Nicholas Lownes (Civil & Environmental Engineering); and the CTI, overseen by Mr. Mahoney. The umbrella institute will enable economies of resource sharing within the School of Engineering; align the centers’ activities and missions to achieve a unified, coherent and directed roadmap; and provide leadership in securing sustained funding.

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An interdisciplinary team led by Dr. John Chandy succeeded in securing UConn’s designation as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research (CAE-R) during the spring. The designation, for the academic years 2010-2015, was announced by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security. UConn is the first institution in Connecticut to receive the designation.

In February, long-time corporate ally Pratt & Whitney Aircraft established a Center of Excellence at the UConn for research in the field of aviation propulsion systems. The company will work with UConn on fundamental and applied research initiatives that support the design and development of more efficient gas turbine engines. Engineering faculty will focus primarily on advanced sensors, diagnostics, and controls for use in commercial and military aircraft propulsion systems.

The School was notified in April that the Higher Education for Development (HED) organization has recommended funding for the proposed strategic plan, “Partnership in Sustainable Development & Management of Water Resources,” an international capacity building effort involving partners in the U.S. and Ethiopia. Drs. Mekonnen Gebremichael and Michael Accorsi lead the UConn effort, which is likely to result in a $10 million grant. The team has been invited to submit a detailed two-year plan.

INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION GRANTS

Engineering faculty received a notable number of research honors throughout 2009-10.

Six faculty received prestigious National Science Foundation Early Career (CAREER) Development Awards. Two faculty members in Mechanical Engineering, Drs. Shiva Kotha and Tai-Hsi Fan, were selected for CAREER Awards. Dr. Kotha will research strategies for improving the body’s ability to repair damaged bone; antibodies – the specialized proteins responsible for identifying and routing out disease – are the subject of Dr. Fan’s research. CAREER Awards also went to two Electrical & Computer Engineering faculty members, Drs. Yunsi Fei and Lei Wang. Dr. Fei seeks to develop superior computer architectures and designs for secure processing in embedded systems, while Dr. Wang’s research will focus on enhancing the sustainability of cyber-aquatic systems used, for example, in marine ecosystem observation, pollution monitoring, coastline protection and national security surveillance. Dr. Yufeng Wu of Computer Science & Engineering also received a CAREER Award, to develop efficient algorithms that will enable accurate inferences to be made from massive data collected in population genomics studies. Dr. Yong Wang (Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering) received a CAREER in 2010 to conduct research aimed at creating a new generation of tissue-like biomaterials using chemical and biomolecular engineering tools.

An interdisciplinary faculty team comprising Drs. Douglas Cooper (PI; Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering), Kazem Kazerounian (Associate Dean for Research & Strategic Initiatives), Mun Y. Choi (Dean of Engineering) and Ruth Washington (Molecular & Cell Biology) garnered a $2.7 million competitive grant from NSF for a novel GK-12 program that will enfold UConn graduate and undergraduate students, and technical high school students and their teachers in cross-cutting sustainable engineering research. A complementary NSF grant of nearly $600k will support approximately 20 scholarships for graduates from the Connecticut Technical High School System (CTHSS). The award was made under NSF’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics program.

During 2009 and 2010, engineering teams won five U.S. Department of Education Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) grants aimed at enhancing the nation’s technological competitiveness.

With matching funds, they total more than $1.16 million per year, supporting 25 graduate fellowships annually. They support groundbreaking research in: • •

Cloud computing (PI: Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, CSE) Biomaterials for tissue regeneration (PIs: Mei Wei, CMBE and Jon Goldberg, UCHC) 5

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Advanced energy and environmental technologies, including fuel cells, solar power, waste-to-energy conversion, carbon sequestration and distributed power (PI: Mun Choi, Dean) Advanced computing research targeting biomedical informatics and underwater sensor networks (PI: Reda Ammar, CSE) Advanced computing security to strengthen financial, communications, transportation and defense systems (PI: John Chandy, CSE)

Drs. Wilson K.S. Chiu and Chi-Jen “Jackie” Sung, both of Mechanical Engineering, will contribute their expertise toward separate Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), at the University of South Carolina and Princeton University, respectively. Dr. Sung also received a $761,500 award from the Department of Defense to model and validate large molecular weight hydrocarbon fuels.

Non-institutional awards were impressive as well. Drs. Puxian Gao (PI) and Yu Lei (both of CMBE) received nearly $800,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) to develop multifunctional nanowire/film composites based bi-modular sensors for in-situ and real-time high temperature gas detection.

Drs. Gao (PI), Pamir Alpay and Ramamurthy Ramprasad (all of CMBE) received more than $1.2 million from DOE to develop nanostructures for lean NOx emission control. In addition to his EFRC grant, Dr. Sung (ME) received more than $760k for a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative with colleagues at Princeton. Drs. Rainer Hebert (PI), Bryan Huey, George Rossetti – all of CMBE – and Jeong-Ho Kim (CEE) received more than $865k from the Department of Homeland Security for research involving advanced blast- and fire-resistant materials. Dr. John Chandy (ECE) received over $500k from NSF to develop active object storage to enable scalable and reliable parallel file systems. Drs. Krishna Pattipati (PI, ECE) and Swapna Gokhale (CSE) received a $550k grant to develop a fault diagnosis technique for embedded systems in automotive vehicles. The interdisciplinary team of Drs. Horea Ilies (PI) and Kazem Kazerounian (both of ME) – along with Kerry Marsh (Psychology), Kristine Nowak (Communications Sciences) and Amy Anderson (Pharmaceutical Sciences) was awarded nearly $800k from NSF for the development of a gesture based virtual reality system for research in virtual worlds. Dr. Yaakov Bar-Shalom (ECE) received a $567k grant from DOE for information extraction and fusion.

HONORS & AWARDS

Dr. Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, the UTC Chair Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In addition, professor emeritus (Metallurgy) Dr. Arthur McEvily was elected a 2009 Fellow of the International Congress on Fracture, and Dr. C. Barry Carter, Head of CMBE, was elected a Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America.

Dr. Ramamurthy (“Rampi”) Ramprasad (CMBE) was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Foundation Fellowship, and Dr. Lanbo Liu (CEE) won a prestigious Fulbright Scholar grant. In addition, Engineering Dean Mun Choi was appointed to serve on the Renewable Energy Investment Board (Connecticut Clean Energy Fund - CCEF), which promotes, develops, and invests in clean energy sources for the benefit of Connecticut ratepayers.

The School was well represented in the 2010 Connecticut Women of Innovation Awards. Dr. Baikun Li of CEE received the Research Innovation and Leadership award, and Ms. Claire Weiss, a doctoral student in Materials Science & Engineering was presented the Collegian Innovation and Leadership award.

Engineering Advisory Board member Heidi Douglas won the Innovation and Leadership award. Among the finalists were Dr. Guiling Wang (CEE), new graduate Ms. Emily Tao (ChE ’10), Biomedical Engineering graduate student Jamie Maciaszek, and UConn engineering alumnae Darlene Nebinger (principal product 6

development engineer with Covidien Surgical Devices) and Deborah Orosz (Manager of Engineering Effectiveness in the Aerospace Power Systems group of Hamilton Sundstrand).

Four UConn engineering faculty were elected to membership in the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE): Drs. Emmanouil Anagnostou, C. Barry Carter, Robert Gao and Shengli Zhou.

Several doctoral students captured Best Paper awards: Ke Peng with his advisor Dr. Mohammad Tehranipoor (ECE), Woosun An and Chulwoo Park with their advisor Dr. Krishna Pattipati (ECE). In addition, Yasaman Ardeshirpour (ECE) was awarded a $1,000 scholarship by the Society of Women Engineers; Jing Dong (ChE) received one of just five $5,000 Michael J. Hogan Graduate Summer Research Awards; and Mehdi DaneshPanah received a $3,000 SPIE Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering.

Highly competitive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships were awarded to four engineering graduates: Alexandra Cooper (ChE ‘09), now at Cornell; Michael Khalil (BME ’08), now at Columbia; Eric Sirois (ME ’09) at UConn; and Joseph Zinski (ChE ’10), now at the University of Pennsylvania.

ENGINEERING/INDUSTRY INTERACTIONS

The School of Engineering launched a new academic/business network, dubbed the Connection, intended to foster collaborative relationships between UConn Engineering and practicing engineers, businesses and entrepreneurs. Alliances with industry and practitioners are invaluable to the School’s mission, underpinning student internships, coops, employment opportunities, scholarships and senior design experiences as well as research collaborations between engineering faculty members and commercial partners (SBIR and other symbiotic relationships). The Connection is gaining momentum and support within the business community.

During the year, the School welcomed several new extramural personnel in support of its commercialization efforts. Ms. Robin Ann Bienemann was appointed the School’s first Entrepreneur in Residence. She will work with the university’s leadership to develop and implement strategies to connect members of the business community with the resources at UConn. Dr. Hadi Bozorgmanesh and Mr. Michael Wisniewski, both affiliated with UConn’s Office of Technology Commercialization, now share office space within the F.L. Castleman as university resource personnel. Their role is to assist in identifying commercially viable technologies developed at UConn, to connect UConn faculty with members of the business community, and to enhance partnerships between UConn and the commercial sector. The School also co-sponsored a series of networking functions throughout the spring intended to introduce engineering faculty to members of the business and industrial communities who may wish to collaborate on research or commercial ventures.

The School continued to offer its on-site practice-oriented Master of Engineering (MENG) program, which delivers coursework for employees of General Dynamics Electric Boat (at the UConn-Avery Point campus) and on-site at United Technologies Corporation, Pratt & Whitney and UTC Power.

PERSONNEL

The School was pleased to welcome Dr. Jun-Hong Cui of CSE as the Assistant Dean for Graduate Education & Diversity. Dr. Cui is the first woman in the School’s history to be named to a top administrative post.

Six new tenure-track faculty members joined us for the fall ‘09 and spring ‘10 terms. These individuals possess valuable expertise in the energy arena and are associated with the Eminent Faculty Initiative in Sustainable Energy. They are: Drs. Leslie McCabe Shor and Georgios Bollas (both in CMBE), Chih-Jen “Jackie” Sung (Princeton) and Hanchen Huang (UCLA) – both in ME, Sung-Yeul Park (Virginia Tech) in ECE, and Timothy Vadas (Cornell) and Alexander Agrios (Northwestern University), both in CEE. In addition, seven new faculty members were recruited and hired for the coming year.

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The School also welcomed Ms. Amy Smith, who provides assistance in the area of grant submission; and Aida Ghiaei, who is managing various graduate-level fellowship initiatives.

Four faculty members were promoted to full professor effective August 2010: Drs. S. Pamir Alpay and Richard Parnas (both of CMBE), Wilson Chiu of ME, and Alexander Russell of CSE. Eight faculty members were awarded promotion to associate professor, with tenure: Drs. Bryan Huey of CMBE; Richard Christenson and Jeong-Ho Kim of CEE; Jerry Shi, Yunsi Fei, Lei Wang and Mohammad Tehranipoor of ECE; and Horea Ilies of ME. Two faculty members were selected to receive distinguished chair faculty positions. Drs. Eric Jordan and Emmanouil Anagnostou were chosen based on the impact of their research contributions, national reputations and leadership in their areas of expertise. Dr. Jordan (ME) was named the United Technologies Corporation Professor of Advanced Materials, while Dr. Anagnostou (CEE) was selected the Northeast Utilities Foundation Chair of Environmental Engineering. Dr. Yaakov Bar-Shalom, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, was reappointed to a second five-year term as the Marianne E. Klewin Professor in Engineering.

In addition, two faculty members were named United Technologies Corporation (UTC) Professors in Engineering Innovation within the School of Engineering. Only five faculty members hold this honor across the entire School. The new appointees were: Drs. Pamir Alpay of CMBE and Richard Christenson of CEE. Dr. Guiling Wang, director of the Environmental Engineering Program, was selected the Al Geib Professor in Civil & Environmental Engineering.

ALUMNI

The School of Engineering closely engaged its alumni during the year. In conjunction with the university’s 2010 Alumni Weekend events in early June, the School sponsored a special presentation by astronaut, alumnus and Waterbury native Richard Mastracchio (B.S. Electrical Engineering/Computer Science,’82).

The event attracted more than 300 attendees of all ages.

In addition, during the year a number of generous alumni established scholarships for deserving engineering students. Dr. Tom Martin (M.S. ‘71, Ph.D. ‘74), president and co-founder of Phonon Corporation in Simsbury, CT, created the Tom A. Martin Scholarship, which went to Sutaria I. Shiv. Scott Harrison (B.S.’99), now in a senior product management position at GE, started the “Scott Harrison ‘99 Scholarship” for students pursuing a non-traditional path for engineers, such as marketing and management. The 2010 recipient was Michael J. Allen. Craig W. Ashmore (B.S. ‘80), executive vice president of Emerson, and his wife established the Craig and Sandy Ashmore Endowment, which funds scholarships in the NEAG School of Education and the School of Engineering. Muhammad M. Khatri was the 2010 engineering recipient.

Thomas S. Juros (B.S. ‘63) established the Juros Scholarship for the School of Engineering; this year’s award went to Kyle W. Hamilton. The Sharon Nunes Scholarship was established anonymously during the year in honor of alumna and IBM vice president Dr. Sharon Nunes (M.S., ‘80; Ph.D. ‘83) and supported Kristian L. Collier. Jon W. Gurka (B.S. ‘89), a patent attorney and partner with Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP, established the Lorraine P. Gurka Scholarship in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, which was awarded to CSE/German student Matthew D. Gorecki. Dominick Pagano (B.S. ’68), president and CEO of Dapco Industries, Inc., established a second scholarship, the Dominick A. Pagano Scholarship, which went to CSE student Zachary P. Goulet.

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Thanks to the vision and generosity of supportive alumni and corporate friends, the School was able to award more than $352,000 in merit scholarships to over 240 current undergraduate engineering students. The awards were presented during an April ceremony before an audience of proud families.

In addition, the School honored distinguished alumni during two gala events in December and April, during which 13 alumni were inducted into the UConn Academy of Distinguished Engineers. The 2009 inductees were: • Hamid R. Adib (M.S. ‘84, Ph.D. ‘95), P.E. - Senior Vice President for the Specialty Practices Group, North America, AECOM. • Austin L. Alvarez (M.S. ‘73), P.E. - Staff Engineer and the Technical Leader for shock and structures development, General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, CT. • Jeffrey M. Cohen (B.S. ‘85, M.S. ‘87, Ph.D. ‘95) - a Fellow in the Thermal and Fluid Sciences Department of the United Technologies Research Center.

• John E. Dresty, Jr. (M.S. ‘71) - founder, President and CEO, Clearwater Systems Corporation, Essex, CT. • Xiaohong Guan (Ph.D. ‘93) - Cheung Kong Professor of Systems Engineering and Dean, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.

• William H. Hover (M.S. ‘79) - Senior Principal and Senior Vice President, GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc., Norwood, MA. The 2010 inductees were: • Francis Chan (Ph.D. ‘99), Science Advisor to the Commander of the U.S. Navy’s Submarine Force.

• Michael Culmo (B.S.E. ‘83, M.S. ‘86), Vice President of Transportation and Structures, CME Associates, Woodstock, CT. • Zhongxue Gan (M.S. ‘92, Ph.D. ‘95), Chief Technology Officer of ENN Group.

• John Halkias, Ph.D. (B.S.E. ‘78), Team Leader, Office of Operations, Federal Highway Administration.

• Martin Hosek (Ph.D. ‘97), most recently Vice President of Hardware Engineering and Technology within the Critical Solutions Group, Brooks Automation.

• Robert Klancko (B.S.E. ‘67), Partner with Klancko & Klancko LLC, Woodbridge, CT. • Lee Langston, Ph.D. (B.S. ‘59), professor emeritus of Mechanical Engineering, UConn.

2009 Distinguished Service Awards were presented to David Carter, Vice President of Engineering & Technology at Hamilton Sundstrand, and Peter Halvordson, Vice President of Engineering at General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, CT. Kevin Bouley (B.A., Finance ‘80), President and CEO of Nerac, Inc. of Tolland, CT, was the 2010 Distinguished Service awardee.

OTHER

Throughout the year, we developed a sleek, streamlined School of Engineering website to better serve our diverse constituencies. We also maintained Facebook and Twitter accounts that allow students and alumni to stay on top of the latest developments and activities underway in the School. Both are accessible from our website at www.engr.uconn.edu. Our emagination electronic news page was produced throughout the year, on the order of every three weeks, and transmitted to alumni, students, faculty; industry friends; University leadership; and legislators.

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CHEMICAL, MATERIALS & BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY 2009-2010 The Department of Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering (CMBE) continues to move toward a more unified mode of operation following its formation by the combination of the two departments (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering). Most activities are still conducted within the framework of the component units; however, the Department Head remains committed to the goal of integrating and unifying the program units. This year, for example, incoming graduate students were welcomed as a departmental cohort, and the CMBE Promotion, Tenure & Reappointment Committee will become a department-wide committee during the summer of 2010.

This year, CMBE welcomed Drs. Leslie Shor (Ph.D. Rutgers, 2002) in August 2009 and George Bollas (Ph.D. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2005) in January 2010. Dr. Shor was previously a research professor at Vanderbilt University for four years. Dr. Bollas recently completed a postdoctoral position at MIT that commenced in 2006. Dr. Shor is the first female tenure-track faculty member in the history of UConn’s Chemical Engineering (ChE) program, and her contributions are notable already.

The department hired Alison Engwall (B.S. MIT) as Lab Manager for the MSE program following the retirement of Fred Massicotte. For the fall 2010 term, CMBE will be enriched through the additions of Drs. Ashish Mhadeshwar (Ph.D. University of Delaware, 2005), Mu-Ping Nieh (Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, 1998) and Chris Cornelius (Ph.D. Virginia Tech, 2000) – who join the ChE program in August 2010; and Dr. Radenka Maric, who will join the MSE program. Dr. Mhadeshwar has been at GE since 2006; Dr. Nieh was formerly with NRC Canada since2001; and Dr. Cornelius spent eight years at Sandia National Laboratories (NM) followed by two years as the associate director of the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) and as the technical director of the Center for Naval Systems at Virginia Tech.

Drs. Monty Shaw and Bob Weiss accepted the State of Connecticut’s Retirement Incentive offer, although both have emeritus status. Instructor-in-Residence Eric Anderson is leaving UConn for a post at the University of Virginia; his successor, Daniel Burkey, holds a B.S. from Lehigh University (1998) and a Ph.D. from MIT (2003) and has spent five years on the faculty at Northeastern University followed by a stint at GVD Corporation. Dr. Ben Wilhite has accepted a position at Texas A&M. The Chemical Engineering program, and by implication MSE also, celebrated its 50th anniversary at UConn in October 2009.

Metallurgy was part of Chemical Engineering for seven years before it became a separate department (eventually becoming MSE). The MSE Department joined the Chemical Engineering Department in 2006 to form the CMBE Department.

RESEARCH

The department had its strongest funding year for some time with total research expenditures for this period approaching $4.5 million (including CMBE faculty located at the UConn Health Center). Our faculty members are particularly active in the Institute of Materials Science (IMS), Center for Clean Energy Engineering (C2E2) and Center for Environmental Science & Engineering (CESE) – which report expenditures separately – thus, the expenditures of our faculty are almost certainly underestimated here. Our research programs are stronger than before, in spite of Connecticut’s ongoing depressed economy and budget cutbacks. The table below summarizes some performance metrics from 2002 through June 2010 for the CMBE faculty members. It is clear from these figures that MSE faculty have progressed very well in the time 10

since the department was merged (2005-06). The achievements of the ChE faculty illustrate that ChE is returning to (or exceeding) pre-2005 values.

Special funding successes this year include a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for Dr. Yong Wang (our second in two years), along with important grants from NSF for Drs. Bryan Huey, Wang (again), Leon Shaw and Yu Lei. Also notable are large grants from Rolls Royce and Idaho National Lab for Dr. Prabhakar Singh, and from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for a team led by Dr. Rainer Hebert. Dr. Doug Cooper led the team that won the $2.7 million grant from NSF for a novel GK-12 program that will enfold UConn graduate and undergraduate students, and technical high school students and their teachers in cross-cutting sustainable engineering research.

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS

The CMBE Department had undergraduate enrollments of more than 300 students by spring 2010, and during the year we continued to increase and enhance technical electives in both programs. CMBE seniors moved on to graduate studies or industry in increasing numbers this year. Several of our ChE graduates will again proceed to doctoral degree programs. Lu Han, a ChE undergrad, was recognized as one of approximately30, 2010 University Scholars. Joseph Zinski graduated from ChE in May 2010 having won an NSF Fellowship; Alexandra Cooper (ChE 2009) finished her first year at Cornell by also winning an NSF Fellowship. CMBE again graduated a strong class with 11 MSE majors, while ChE graduated 24 majors.

Undergraduate research thrives in both programs: (i) for credit as independent study students; and (ii) noncredit as research assistants working within the research groups of individual faculty members. A total of 26 ChE students (up from 16 last year), and 14 MSE students carried out for-credit research this year. Honors students are advised by Ben Wilhite and Ranjan Srivastava in ChE. The May commencement ceremonies featured remarks by a ChE undergrad (for the second consecutive year).

Year

2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002

Undergrad Students Totals ’09 on ChE 220 191 55 37 35 42 28 20 17

MSE 82 71 12 13 13 22 11 9 6

Graduate Graduate Students Students Advised Advised ChE MSE PhD MS PhD MS 43 12 50 44 39 15 42 30 31.5 19 27 32 34.5 17 25 27 33 22 16 22 60 23 15 22 77 20 17 24 71 20 22 25 59 20 19 20

Journal Articles

Conference Papers

Active Research Grants

ChE MSE 42 68 58 84 33 53 67 43 40 60 79 61 54 66 52 52 45 58

ChE MSE 42 103 68 70 53 79 59 68 63 59 132 60 151 71 110 82 88 63

ChE MSE 56 84 55 73 46 43 32 33 30 27 64 26 74 36 86 28 67 30

GRADUATE PROGRAMS

During the year, the University charged a Committee for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Programs (CEGaPP) with evaluating doctoral programs at UConn. The CEGaPP report gave high marks to the ChE program, which it ranked among those “Programs with Potential to Achieve National Distinction.” ChE was listed in the 71st percentile on the Academic Analytics scale, among 117 programs, receiving very high marks for journal publications/faculty member, number of applicants relative to the program size, GRE-Q scores and median time to degree. ChE was highly ranked for its grant dollars per faculty member and number of degrees awarded relative to program size.

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The department continues to strive to enhance its reputation and international recognition. Signs for the future are again strong for the graduate programs: 24 (12 each, MSE and ChE) graduate students were admitted to CMBE for the fall 2009 semester. The number of applicants to the MSE PhD program was 144, while ChE received 150 applicants to its doctoral program. In terms of the practice-oriented part-time graduate program, Drs. Leon Shaw and Pamir Alpay taught Master of Engineering courses on-site at Pratt &Whitney. The department’s industrial interactions with local industry continue to grow but the rate of growth will now accelerate as we consolidate and industry comes to know our graduates and faculty. Our Biomolecular Engineering Program is gaining visibility; this effort is coordinated by Drs. Mei Wei and Ranjan Srivastava of CMBE, along with MSE graduate faculty members, Drs. Liisa Kuhn and Yusuf Khan, both of the UConn Health Center (UCHC).

STAFF & FACULTY

The Department Head continues to serve as both the MSE Program Director and the Associate Head. Dr. Brian Willis is in his second year as the ChE Program Director. Tom Anderson (now retired), Yehia Khalil, Dan Goberman and Terry Hennessey again assisted the department as adjunct faculty members. This year they were joined by Assistant-Professor-in-Residence Ephrem Hunde. The department is fortunate in having Professors Emeritus Mike Howard, Donald Potter, and Robert Coughlin as continuing assets. Dr. Howard volunteers in the ChE Senior Lab, Dr. Potter runs the MSE Materials Characterization Lab, and Dr. Coughlin chaired the ChE PTR Committee. Dr. Douglas Cooper is on assignment as Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education & Regional Campuses.

There were no changes in the staff this year. Ms. Cathy McCracken, joined Ms. Katrice Sponzo, Ms. Susan Soucy and Ms. Leah Winterberger in the main office. The labs were staffed by Mr. Eric Anderson (Instructor in Residence), Mr. Richard Kozel (assisting with the ChE Senior Lab) and Ms. Alison Engwall (assisting in the MSE undergraduate labs). Drs. Mark Aindow and Theo Kattamis celebrated their 10- and 40-year UConn anniversaries, respectively.

Drs. Willis, Srivastava and Monty Shaw served on the Polymer/ChE Faculty Search Committee, which successfully identified two new polymer faculty members, Mu-Ping Nieh and Chris Cornelius; both join UConn as tenure-track Associate Professors.

HONORS & AWARDS

CMBE’s Department Head, Dr. Barry Carter, was elected a Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America and a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering in spring 2010.

Dr. Alpay (MSE) was selected to receive a United Technologies Corporation (UTC) Professor in Engineering Innovation Award for his outstanding achievements in research, instruction and service. Dr. Ramamurthy (“Rampi”) Ramprasad (MSE) was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Foundation Fellowship that enables him to conduct research at the Fritz-Haber-Institut of the famed Max Planck Society, in Berlin, Germany During the year, doctoral student Claire Weiss (advised by Dr. Alpay) received the 2010 Connecticut Women of Innovation’s 2010 Collegian Innovation and Leadership award. Senior Ms. Emily Tao (ChE ’10) was a finalist for the same award.

PROGRAM OUTREACH

Yet again, the Materials Advantage Student Chapter (Faculty Advisor: Rainer Hebert) won a “Chapter of Excellence” award at the Materials Science & Technology Conference. The MS&T meeting was attended by 12

a group of undergraduate members of the UConn chapter. The MRS (Materials Research Society) student chapter (Faculty Advisors: Bryan Huey and Barry Carter) and the student chapter of the AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers; Faculty Advisors: Yu Lei and Jeff McCutcheon) continue to be active. The new CMBE department newsletter (CoMBinE) was mailed out to alumni, colleagues and friends in fall 2009.

Another issue will be mailed in June 2010.

ALUMNI

The department applauds Michael Cantor (Chemical & Materials Engineering '80, and J.D. '83), who through his law firm of Cantor Colburn, donated $50,000 to establish the President’s Challenge Engineering Scholarship to give a boost to promising students. Alumnus Robert J. Klancko (B.S.E. Chemical Engineering/Nuclear Engineering, '67), a Partner in the consulting firm of Klancko & Klancko, LLC, of Woodbridge, CT, was inducted into the UConn Academy of Distinguished Engineers in recognition of his exceptional professional achievements.

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CHEMICAL, MATERIALS & BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ARCHIVAL TECHNICAL JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS 2009-2010 Mark Aindow “Fabrication of ZnO with Different Morphologies for Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity by Solvothermal Methods,” (with L.P. Xu, Y.L. Hu, C. Pelligra, C.H. Chen, L. Jin, H. Huang, S. Sithambaram, R. Joesten and S.L. Suib), Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 21, pp. 2875-2885, 2009.

“Modification of Carbon Aerogel Supports for PEMFC Catalysts,” (with A. Smirnova, T. Wender, D. Goberman, Y.L. Hu, W. Rhine and N. M. Sammes), International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 34, pp.

8892-8897, 2009.

“Stability and Work Function of TiCxN1-x Alloy Surfaces: Density Functional Theory Calculations,” (with H. Zhu and R. Ramprasad), Physical Review B, Vol. 80, pp. 201406-R, 2009.

“Atomic Site Occupancies and Mechanical Response of the Eutectic C14 and A15 Phases in a Quinternary Nb-Mo-Cr-Al-Si Alloy,” (with Y.L. Hu, L.C. Zhang, D. Shuman and B. Huey), Scripta Materialia, Vol. 60, p. 309-312, 2009.

“Nanoscale Carbide Precipitation in the Recast Layer of a Percussion Laser-Drilled Superalloy,” (with J.K.M. Garofano and H.L. Marcus), Scripta Materialia, Vol. 61, pg. 943–946, 2009. [doi:10.1016/j.scriptamat.2009.07.034] “Nanostructured Arrays of Semiconducting Octahedral Molecular Sieves by Pulsed Laser Deposition,” (with A.E. Espinal, L.C. Zhang, C-H. Chen, A. Morey, Y.F. Nie, L. Espinal, B.O. Wells, R. Joesten, and S.L. Suib), Nature Materials, Vol. 9, pp. 54-59, 2010.

“Heteroepitaxial Growth of Nanoscale Oxide Shell-Fiber Superstructures by Mild Hydrothermal Processes,” (with C-H. Chen, L. Jin, A.E. Espinal, B.T. Firliet, L.P. Xu, R. Joesten, and S.L. Suib), Small, Vol. 6, pp.

988-992, 2010. Also featured on the inside cover [doi:10.1002/smll.201090027] Pamir Alpay “Pyroelectric Properties of Epitaxial (001) Barium Strontium Titanate as a Function of Space Charge Density,” (with M.B. Okatan and C.V. Weiss), Integrated Ferroelectrics, Vol. 111, pp. 80, 2009.

“Design and Simulation of Tunable Ka Band Filters with Graded Barium Strontium Titanate (BST) Varactors,” (with T.S. Kalkur, N.M. Sbrockey and G.S. Tompa), Integrated Ferroelectrics, Vol. 111, pp. 50, 2009.

“The Optical Dielectric Function in Monolithic BaxSr1-xTiO3 Films,” (with D. Bruzzese, K. Fahnestock, C.L. Schauer, J.E. Spanier, C.V. Weiss, M.W. Cole, N.M. Sbrockey and G.S. Tompa), Integrated Ferroelectrics, Vol. 111, pp. 27, 2009.

“Imprint in Ferroelectric Materials due to Space Charges: A Theoretical Analysis,” (with M.B. Okatan), Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 95, pp. 092902, 2009.

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“Compositionally Graded Ferroelectric Multilayers for Frequency Agile Tunable Devices,” (with C.V. Weiss, M.B. Okatan, M.W. Cole, E. Ngo and R.C. Toonen), Journal of Materials Science, Vol. 44, pp.

5364-5374, 2009.

“Electrothermal Properties of Perovskite Ferroelectric Films,” (with J. Zhang, A.A. Heitmann and G.A. Rossetti, Jr.), Journal of Materials Science, Vol. 44, pp. 5263-5273, 2009.

“Ab Initio Study of Ferroelectricity in BaTiO3 Nanowires,” (with G. Pilania and R. Ramprasad), Physical Review B, Vol. 80, pp. 014113, 2009.

“Domain Engineering in Compositionally Graded Ferroelectric Films for Enhanced Dielectric Response and Tunability,” (with M.B. Okatan, A.L. Roytburd and J.V. Mantese), Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 105, pp.

114106, 2009.

“Polarization Coupling in Ferroelectric Multilayers,” (with M.B. Okatan and J.V. Mantese), Physical Review B, Vol. 79, pp. 174113, 2009.

“Band Gap Tuning in GaN through Equibiaxial In-plane Strains,” (with L. Dong, S. Yadav and R. Ramprasad), Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 96, 202106-1, 2010.

“Ab Initio Study of Ferroelectricity in BaTiO3 Nanowires,” (with G. Pilania and R. Ramprasad), Physical Review B, Vol. 80, 014113, 2009.

“Recent Developments in Ferroelectric Nanostructures and Multilayers,” (with V. Nagarajan and G.A. Rossetti, Jr.), Journal of Material Science, Vol. 44, pp. 5021–5024, 2009.

“Electrothermal Properties of Perovskite Ferroelectric Films,” (with J. Zhang, A.A. Heitmann and G.A. Rossetti, Jr.), Journal of Material Science, Vol. 44, pp. 5263–5273, 2009.

“Intergrated Ferroelectrics,” (with M.W. Cole, L.F. Cobas and M. Ivill), Integrated Ferroelectrics, Vol. 111, pp. 1-2, 2009.

“Misfit Strain-Film Thickness Phase Diagrams and Related Electromechanical Properties of Epitaxial UltraThin Lead Zirconate Titanate Films,” (with Q.Y. Qiu, R. Mahjoub and V. Nagarajan), Acta Materialia, Vol. 58, pp. 823-835, 2010.

“Effect of Space Charge on the Polarization Hysteresis Characteristics of Monolithic and Compositionally Graded Ferroelectrics,” (with M.B. Okatan and J.V. Mantese), Acta Materialia, Vol. 58, pp. 39-48, 2010.

Harold Brody “Response of Tensile Properties in Age Hardened Al-Si-Mg-Cu Alloys to Microstructure and Solute Distribution Produced by Casting and Solutionizing Processes Fundamentals, Applications, and Innovations in Heat Treatment,” (with Y. Ma, J. Fang, F. Yi, K. Song and J.E. Morral), TMS Warrendale, PA, Materials Science & Technology, p. 2410-2421, 2009.

“Predicting the Q-phase in Al-Cu-Mg-Si alloys,” (with X. Pan and J.E. Morral), Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 144-148, April 2010.

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C. Barry Carter “Nanoengineered Transparent, Free Standing, Conductive Nanofibrous Membranes,” (with W. Jia, Y. Wang, J. Basu, T. Strout, A. Gokirmak and Y. Lei), Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 113, No. 45, pp. 1952519530, 2009.

“Nanopatterning by Solid State Dewetting on Reconstructed Ceramic Surfaces,” (with J. Basu, R. Divakar, B. Mukherjee and N. Ravishankar), Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 94, No. 17, pp. 171114-6, 2009.

“Low Temperature and Ambient-pressure Synthesis and Shape Evolution of Nanocrystalline Pure, La-doped and Gd-doped CeO2,” (with J. Basu, R. Divaka and J.P. Winterstein), Applied Surface Science, Vol. 256, No.12, pp. 3772-3777, 2010.

“Synthesis of Cobalt-doped Barium Cerate Zirconate and its Evaluation for Hydrogen Production and Electrochemical Characterization,” (with A. Suresh, J. Basu, N. Sammes and B.A. Wilhite), Journal of Materials Science, Vol. 45, pp. 3215-3227, 2010.

Puxian Gao “Zinc-blend Structured ZnS Nanowires and their Structure Decomposition into Nanoparticles, Nanotubes and Nanocables under Electron Irradiation,” (with D.S. Kim and P. Shimpi) Nano Research, Vol. 2, No. 12, pp. 966, 2009.

“Seedless Synthesis and Thermal Decomposition of Single Crystalline Zinc Hydroxystannate Cubes,” (with G. Wrobel, M. Piech, S. Dardona and Y. Ding), Crystal Growth & Design, Vol. 9, No. 10, pp. 4456, 2009.

“Spherical CuO Synthesized by a Simple Hydrothermal Reaction: Concentration-dependent Size and its Electrocatalytic Application,” (with W.Z. Jia, E. Reitz, P. Shimpi, E.G. Rodriguez and Y. Lei), Materials Research Bulletin, Vol. 44, pp. 1681, 2009.

“Zigzag Zinc-blend ZnS Nanowires: Large Scale Synthesis and their Structure Evolution Induced by Electron-irradiation,” (with D.S. Kim and P. Shimpi), Nano Research, Vol. 2, Ch. 12, pp. 966, 2009.

“Oxide-catalyzed Vapor-solid-solid Growth and Chemical Sensing of Large Scale Single Crystalline Zn2SnO4 Nanowires,” (with W. J. Cai, P. Shimpi and D.L. Jian), Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2010.

“Carbon-assisted and Strain Driven Lateral Alignment of Silica Nanowires,” (with P. Shimpi), Crystal Engineering Communications, Vol. 12, pp. 2817, 2010.

“Temperature-dependent Phase-transformation Associated Shape-evolution and Catalytic Degradation Activity of CuxO (x=1, 2) Nanocrystals,” (with Y. Xi, C.G. Hu, R.S. Yang, X.S. He and X. Wang), Materials Science and Engineering B, Vol. 166, pp. 113, 2010.

“Surface Dezincification and Selection Oxidation induced Heterogeneous Semiconductor Nanowire/Nanofilm Network Junctions,” (with M.F. Sarac, P. Shimpi, J.A. Mackey and D.S. Kim), Crystal Growth and Design, Vol. 10, pg. 3942, 2010. “(La,Sr)CoO3/ZnO Nanofilm-nanorod Diode Arrays for Photo-responsive Moisture and Humidity Detection,” (with H.Y. Gao, W.J. Cai, P. Shimpi and H.-J. Lin), Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Vol. 43, pp. 272002, 2010.

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“Oxide-catalyzed Growth of Ag20/Zn2Sn04 Hybrid Nanowires and Their Reversible Catalytic Ambient Ethanol/oxygen Detection,” (with W. J. Cai, P. Shimpi and D. L. Jian), Journal of Materials Chemistry, Vol. 20, pp. 5265-5270, 2010.

Rainer Hebert “Thermomechanical Behavior of Cu50Hf41.5Al8.5 Bulk Metallic Glass after Sustained Elastic Deformation,” (with A. Mubarok), Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Vol. 41, No. 7, 1658-1663, DOI: 10.1007/s11661-009-0067-z.

“Nanostructure Development during Devitrification and Deformation,” (with J.H. Perepezko and S. Imhoff), Journal of Alloys Compounds, Vol. 495, No. 2, p. 360-364, April 2010.

Bryan Huey “Ferroelectric Domain Switching Dynamics with Combined 20 nm and 10 ns Resolution,” (with N.A. Polomoff, R.N. Premnath and J.L. Bosse), Journal of Materials Science, Vol. 44, p. 5189-96, 2009.

“Atomic Site Occupancies and Mechanical Response of the Eutectic C14 and A15 Phases in a Quinternary Nb-Mo-Cr-Al-Si Alloy,” (with Y.L. Hu, L.C. Zhang, D. Shuman and M. Aindow), Scripta Materialia, Vol. 60, p. 309-312, 2009.

“Scanning Probe Microscopy Method for Nanosuspension Stabilizer Selection,” (with S. Verma and D. J. Burgess), Langmuir, Vol. 25, No. 21, p. 12481-12487, 2009.

Yusuf Khan “Tissue Engineered Matrices as Functional Delivery Systems: Adsorption and Release of Bioactive Proteins from Degradable Composite Scaffolds,” (with E. Cushnie and C.T. Laurencin), Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, October 7, 2009.

“Biodegradable Polyphosphazene-nanohydroxyapatite Composite Nanofibers: Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering,” (with S. Bhattacharyya, S.G. Kumbar, L S. Nair, A. Singh, N.R. Krogman, P.W. Brown, H.R. Allcock and C.T. Laurencin), Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 69-75, 2009.

“Functionalization of Chitosan/poly(lactic acid-glycolic acid) Sintered Microsphere Scaffolds via Surface Heparinization for Bone Tissue Engineering,” (with T. Jiang, L.S. Nair, W.I. Abdel-Fattah and C.T. Laurencin), Journal of Biomedical Materials Research A, Vol. 93, No. 3, pp. 1193-208, 2010.

Sangamesh Kumbar “Biodegradable Polyphosphazene-nanohydroxyapatite Composite Nanofibers: Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering,” (with S. Bhattacharyya, Y.M. Khan, L.S. Nair, A. Singh, N.R. Krogman, P.W. Brown, H.R. Allcock and C.T. Laurencin), Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 69-75, 2009.

“The Implications of Polymer Selection in Regenerative Medicine: A Comparison of Amorphous and SemiCrystalline Polymer for Tissue Regeneration,” (with M.D. Kofron, A. Griswold, K. Martin, X. Wen and C.T. Laurencin), Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 19, pp. 1-9, 2009.

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“Dipeptide-based Polyphosphazene and Polyester Blends for Bone Tissue Engineering,” (with M. Deng, L. S. Nair, S.P. Nukavarapu, T. Jiang, W.A Kanner, X. Li, A.L. Weikel, N.R. Krogman, H.R. Allcock, and C.T. Laurencin), Biomaterials, Vol. 31, No. 18, pp. 4898-908, June 2010. Published electronically March 23, 2010.

“Biomimetic, Bioactive Etheric Polyphosphazene-poly(lactide-co-glycolide) Blends for Bone Tissue Engineering,” (with M. Deng, L.S. Nair, S. . Nukavarapu, J.L. Brown, N.R. Krogman, A.L. Weikel, H.R. Allcock and C.T. Laurencin), Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, Vol. 92, No. 1, pp. 114-25, January 2010.

“Polyphosphazene Polymers for Tissue Engineering: an Analysis of Material Synthesis, Characterization and Applications,” (with M. Deng, Y. Wan, U.S. Toti, H.R. Allcock and C.T. Laurencin), Soft Matter, 2010.

Cato Laurencin “Novel Factor-loaded Polyphosphazene Matrices: Potential for driving angiogenesis,” (with O. OredeinMcCoy, N. R. Krogman, A. L. Weikel, M. D. Hindenlang and H. R. Allcock), Journal of Microencapsulation, Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 544-55, September 2009.

“Tissue Engineering of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament: the Viscoelastic Behavior and Cell Viability of a Novel Braid-twist Scaffold,” (with J.W. Freeman, M.D. Woods, D.A. Cromer and L.D. Wright), Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition, Vol. 20, No. 12, pp. 1709-28, 2009.

“The Impact of Biomechanics in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine,” (with D.L. Butler, S.A. Goldstein, R.E. Guldberg, X.E. Guo, R. Kamm, L.V. McIntire, V.C. Mow, R.M. Nerem, R.L. Sah, L.J. Soslowsky, R.L. Spilker and R.T. Tranquillo), Tissue Engineering Part B Reviews, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 47784, December 2009.

“Curcumin-loaded Poly(epsilon-caprolactone) Nanofibres: Diabetic Wound Dressing with Anti-oxidant and Anti-inflammatory Properties,” (with J.G. Merrell, S.W. McLaughlin, L. Tie, A.F. Chen and L.S. Nair), Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology, Vol. 36, No. 12, pp. 1149-56, December 2009.

“Fabrication, Characterization, and in vitro Evaluation of Poly(lactic acid glycolic acid)/nano-hydroxyapatite Composite Microsphere-based Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering in Rotating Bioreactors,” (with Q. Lv and L. Nair), Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, Vol. 91, No. 3, pp. 679-91, December 2009.

“Biodegradable Polyphosphazene-nanohydroxyapatite Composite Nanofibers: Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering,” (with S. Bhattacharyya, S.G. Kumbar, L.S. Nair, A. Singh, N.R. Krogman, P.W. Brown, H.R. Allcock and Y. Khan), Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 69-75, 2009.

“The Implications of Polymer Selection in Regenerative Medicine: A Comparison of Amorphous and SemiCrystalline Polymer for Tissue Regeneration,” (with M.D. Kofron, A. Griswold, K. Martin, X. Wen and S. Kumbar), Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 19, pp. 1-9, 2009.

“Biomimetic, Bioactive Etheric Polyphosphazene-poly(lactide-co-glycolide) Blends for Bone Tissue Engineering,” (with M. Deng, L.S. Nair, S.P . Nukavarapu, S.G. Kumbar, J.L. Brown, N.R. Krogman, A.L. Weikel and H.R. Allcock), Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, Vol. 92, No. 1, pp. 114-25, January 2010.

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“Dipeptide-based Polyphosphazene and Polyester Blends for Bone Tissue Engineering,” (with M. Deng, L. S. Nair, S.P. Nukavarapu, T. Jiang, W.A Kanner, X. Li, S.G. Kumbar, A.L. Weikel, N.R. Krogman and H.R. Allcock), Biomaterials, Vol. 31, No. 18, pp. 4898-908, June 2010. (Published electronically March 23, 2010.)

“Chitosan-poly(lactide-co-glycolide) Microsphere-based Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering: In vitro Degradation and in vivo Bone Regeneration Studies,” (with T. Jiang, S.P. Nukavarapu, M. Deng, E. Jabbarzadeh, M.D. Kofrom, S.B. Doty and W.I. Abdel-Fattah), Acta Biomaterialia, (published electronically March 20, 2010).

“Tissue-engineered Matrices as Functional Delivery Systems: Adsorption and Release of Bioactive Proteins from Degradable Composite Scaffolds,” (with E.K. Cushnie and Y.M. Khan), Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, (published electronically March 2, 2010).

“Multipotential Differentiation of Human Anulus Fibrosus Cells: an in vitro Study,” (with G. Fend, X. Yang, H. Shang, I.W. Marks, F.H. Shen, A. Katz, V. Arlet and X. Li), The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American), Vol. 92, No. 3, pp. 675-85, March 2010.

“Spiral-structured, Nanofibrous, 3D Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering,” (with J. Wang, C.M. Valmikinathan, W. Liu and X. Yu), Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, Vol. 93, No. 2, pp.

753-62, May 2010.

“Mechanical Properties and Osteocompatibility of Novel Biodegradable Alanine Based Polyphosphazenes: Side Group Effects,” (with S. Sethuraman, L.E. Nair, S. El-Amin, M.T. Nguyen, A. Singh, N. Krogman, Y.E. Greish, H.R. Allcock and P.W. Brown), Acta Biomaterialia, Vol. 6, No. 6, pp. 1931-7, June 2010.

“Functionalization of Chitosan/poly(lactic acid-glycolic acid) Sintered Microsphere Scaffolds via Surface Heparinization for Bone Tissue Engineering,” (with T. Jiang, Y. Khan, L.S. Nair and W.I. Abdel-Fattah), Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, Vol. 93, No. 3, pp. 1193-208, June 1, 2010.

“Polyphosphazene Polymers for Tissue Engineering: an Analysis of Material Synthesis, Characterization and Applications,” (with M. Deng, Y. Wan, U.S. Toti, H.R. Allcock and S. Kumbar), Soft Matter, 2010.

Yu Lei “Free-standing Palladium/polyamide 6 Nanofibers for Electrooxidation of Alcohols in Alkaline Medium,” (with L. Su, W. Z. Jia, A. Schempf and Y. Ding), Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 113, No. 36, pp.

16174-16180, August 2009.

“Spherical CuO Synthesized by a Simple Hydrothermal Reaction: Concentration-dependent Size and its Electrocatalytic,” (with W.Z. Jia, E. Reitz, P. Shimpi, E.G. Rodriguez and P.X. Gao), Materials Research Bulletin, Vol. 44, No. 8, pp. 1681-86, August 2009.

“Preparation, Characterization and Sensitive Gas Sensing of Conductive Core-sheath TiO2-PEDOT Nanocables,” (with Y. Wang, W.Z. Jia, T. Strout and Y. Ding), Sensors, Vol. 9, No. 9, pp. 6752-6763, August 2009.

“Nanoengineered Transparent, Free-standing, Conductive Nanofibrous Membranes,” (with W.Z. Jia, Y. Wang, J. Basu, T. Strout, C.B. Carter and A. Gokirmak), Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 113, No. 45, pp. 19525-30, November 2009.

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“Palladium/Titanium Dioxide Nanofibers for Electrooxidation of Glycerol in Alkaline Medium,” (with L. Su, W. Z. Jia and A. Schempf), Electrochemistry Communications, Vol. 11 No. 11, pp. 2199-2202, November 2009.

“Pd/TiO2 Nanofibrous Membrane and its Application in Hydrogen Sensing,” (with W.Z. Jia, L. Su, Y. Ding, A. Schempf and Y. Wang), Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 113, No. 37, pp. 16402-16407, 2009.

“Poly[meso-tetrakis(2-thienyl)porphyrin] for the Sensitive Electrochemical Detection of Explosives,” (with W. Chen, Y. Wang, C. Brückner and C.M. Li), Sensors and Actuators B-Chemical, Vol. 147, No. 1, pp.

191-7, May 2010.

“Direct Electrochemistry and Electrocatalysis of Novel Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes-hemoglobin Composite Microbelts – Towards the Development of Sensitive and Mediator-free Biosensor,” (with Y. Ding and Y. Wang), Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 390-7, October 2010. (Published electronically August 12, 2010.)

“Manganese Dioxide as a New Cathode Catalyst in Microbial Fuel Cells,” (with X.A. Li, B. X. Hu, S. Suib and B.K. Li), Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 195, No. 9, pp. 2586-91, May 2010.

Harris Marcus “Nanoscale Carbide Precipitation in the Recast Layer of a Percussion Laser-Drilled Superalloy,” (with J.K.M. Garofano and M. Aindow), Scripta Materialia, Vol. 61, pp. 943–946, 2009.

William Mustain “Effect of CO2, HCO3- and CO3-2 on Oxygen Reduction in Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells,” (with J. A. Vega), Electrochimica Acta, Vol. 5, No. 55, pp. 1638 -1644, February 2010.

Lakshmi Nair “Mechanical Properties and Osteocompatibility of Novel Biodegradable Alanine Based Polyphosphazenes: Side Group Effects,” (with S. Sethuraman, S. El-Amin, M.T. Nguyen, A. Singh, N. Krogman, Y.E Greish, H. R. Allcock, P.W. Brown and C.T. Laurencin), Acta Biomaterialia, Vol. 6, No. 6, pp. 1931-7, June 2010.

(Published electronically December 24, 2009.)

“Curcumin-loaded Poly(epsilon-caprolactone) Nanofibres: Diabetic Wound Dressing with Anti-oxidant and Anti-inflammatory Properties,” (with J.G. Merrell, S.W. McLaughlin, L. Tie, C.T. Laurencin and A.F. Chen), Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology, Vol. 36, No. 12, pp. 1149-56, December 2009. (Published electronically May 19, 2009.)

“Biodegradable Polyphosphazene-nanohydroxyapatite Composite Nanofibers: Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering,” (with S. Bhattacharyya, S.G. Kumbar, Y. Khan, A. Singh, N.R. Krogman, P.W. Brown, H.R. Allcock and C.T. Laurencin), Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 69-75, 2009.

“Fabrication, Characterization, and in vitro Evaluation of Poly(lactic acid glycolic acid)/nano-hydroxyapatite composite Microsphere-based Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering in Rotating Bioreactors,” (with Q. Lv and C.T. Laurencin), Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, Vol. 91, No. 3, pp. 679-91, December 2009.

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“Biomimetic, Bioactive Etheric Polyphosphazene-poly(lactide-co-glycolide) Blends for Bone Tissue Engineering,” (with M. Deng, S.P. Nukavarapu, S.G. Kumbar, J.L Brown, N.R. Krogman, A.L. Weikel, H.R. Allock and C.T. Laurencin), Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. Part A, Vol. 92, No. 1, pp. 114-25, January 2010.

“Injectable Tissue-engineered Bone Repair of a Rat Calvarial Defect,” (with S.J. Stephan, S.S. Tholpady, B. Gross, C.E. Petrie-Aronin, E.A. Botchway, R.C. Ogle and S.S. Park), Laryngoscope, Vol. 120, No. 5, pp.

895-901, May 2010.

“Dipeptide-based Polyphosphazene and Polyester Blends for Bone Tissue Engineering,” (with M. Deng, S.P Nukavarapu, T. Jiang, W.A. Kanner, X. Li, S.G. Kumbar, A.L. Weikel, N.R. Krogman, H.R. Allcock and C.T. Laurencin), Biomaterials, Vol. 31, No. 18, pp. 4898-908, June 2010. (Published electronically March 23, 2010.)

“Functionalization of Chitosan/poly(lactic acid-glycolic acid) Sintered Microsphere Scaffolds via Surface Heparinization for Bone Tissue Engineering,” (with T. Jiang, Y. Khan, W.I. Abdel-Fattah and C.T. Laurencin), Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. Part A, Vol. 93, No. 3, pp. 1193-208, June 1, 2010.

Richard Parnas “Demonstration of a Liquid-Tin Anode Solid-Oxide Fuel Cell (LTA-SOFC) Operating from Bio-diesel Fuel,” (with W.A.G. McPhee, M. Boucher, J. Stuart, M. Koslowske, T. Tao and B.A. Wilhite), Energy Fuels, Vol. 23, No. 10, pp. 5036–41, 2009.

“Effects of Heteropolyacid Addition to the Electrodes of Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells,” (with P. Brooker, P. Baker, H. Kunz and L. Bonville), Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 156, No. 11, pp. B1317-21, 2009.

Ramamurthy Ramprasad “Stability and Work Function of TiCxN1−x Alloy Surfaces: Density Functional Theory Calculations,” (with H. Zhu and M. Aindow), Physical Review B, Vol. 80, 201406(R), 2009.

“Ab initio Study of Ferroelectricity in BaTiO3 Nanowires,” (with G. Pilani and S.P. Alpay), Physical Review B, Vol. 80, 014113, 2009.

“Band Gap Tuning in GaN through Equibiaxial In-plane Strains,” (with L. Dong, S. Yadav and S.P. Alpay), Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 96, 202106-1, 2010.

“Quantum Mechanical Studies of Carbonyl Impurities in Dielectric Polyethylene,” (with A. Huzayyin and S. Boggs), IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 926-931, June 2010.

“Density Functional Analysis of Chemical Impurities in Dielectric {olyethylene,” (with A. Huzayyin and S. Boggs), IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 932-936, June 2010.

“Density Functional Theory Study of ZnX (X=O, S, Se, Te) under Uniaxial Strain,” (with S.K. Yadav and T. Sadowski), Physical Review B, Vol. 81, 144120, 2010.

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“Point Defect Chemistry in Amorphous HfO2: Density Functional Theory Calculations,” (with C. Tang), Physical Review B, Vol. 81, 161201(R), 2010.

“Ab initio Thermodynamic Model to Assess Stability of Heterostructure Nanocrystals,” (with T. Sadowski), Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 96, 101906, 2010.

“Oxygen-Assisted Unidirectional Growth of CdSe Nanorods using a Low-Temperature Redox Process,” (with J.D. Doll, G. Pilania and F. Papadimitrakopoulos), Nano Letters, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 680-685, 2010.

“Core/Shell CdSe/CdTe Heterostructure Nanowires Under Axial Strain,” (with T. Sadowski), Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 114, No. 4, pp 1773–178, 2010.

“A First Principles Investigation of Isotactic Polypropylene,” (with M.E. Stournara), Journal of Material Science, Vol. 45, pp. 443-0447, 2010.

George Rossetti “Recent Developments in Ferroelectric Nanostructures and Multilayers,” (with S.P. Alpay and V. Nagarajan), Journal of Material Science, Vol. 44, pp. 5021–5024, 2009.

“Electrothermal Properties of Perovskite Ferroelectric Films,” (with J. Zhang, A.A. Heitmann and S.P. Alpay), Journal of Material Science, Vol. 44, pp. 5263–5273, 2009.

“Thermodynamics of Polar Anisotropy in Ferroelectric Solid Solutions,” (with A. Heitmann), Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 90, pp. 71 – 87, January 2010.

Leon Shaw “Nanocrystallization Process and Mechanism in a Nickel Alloy Subjected to Surface SPD,” (with J.C. Villegas), Acta Materialia, Vol. 57, No. 19, pp. 5782-5795, November 2009.

“A Study on the Surface Severe Plastic Deformation Behavior of a Zr-Based Bulk Metallic Glass,” (with J.W. Tian, Y.D. Wang, Y. Yokoyama and P.K. Liaw), Intermetallics, Vol. 17, No. 11, pp. 951-957, November 2009.

“Crystallite Size Refinement of ZrB2 by High-Energy Ball Milling,” (C.A. Galán, A.L. Ortiz and F. Guiberteau), Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Vol. 92, No. 12, pp. 3114–3117, December 2009.

“Nanocrystalline Hydroxyapatite with Simultaneous Enhancements in Hardness and Toughness,” (with J. Wang), Biomaterials, Vol. 30, No. 34, pp. 6565-6572, December 2009.

“Microstructure Dependence of a Cu-38Zn Alloy on Processing Conditions of Constrained Groove Pressing,” (with K. Peng, Y. Zhang and K.-W. Qian), Acta Materialia, Vol. 57, pp. 5543–5553, 2009.

“Synthesis of High Purity Hydroxyapatite Nanopowder via Sol-Gel Combustion Process,” (with J. Wang), Journal of Material Science: Materials in Medicine, Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 1223-1227, 2009.

“Valence States of Nanocrystalline Ceria under Combined Effects of Hydrogen Reduction and Particle Size,” (with X. Wan, D. Goberman, G. Yi and G.-M. Chow), Applied Physical Letters, Vol. 96, 123108, 2010.

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“FTIR Analysis of the Hydrolysis Rate in the Sol-Gel Formation of Gadolinia-Doped Ceria with Acetylacetonate Precursors,” (with C. Shen), Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, Vol. 53, pp. 571577, 2010.

“A Direct Comparison in the Fatigue Resistance Enhanced by Surface Severe Plastic Deformation and Shot Peening in a C-2000 Superalloy,” (with J.-W. Tian, A.L. Ortiz, K. Dai, J.C. Villegas, P.K. Liaw, R. Ren and D.L. Klarstrom), Material Science Engineering, Vol.527, No. 4-5, pp. 986-994, February 2010.

“Experimental Study of the Microstructure and Stress State of Shot Peened and Surface Mechanical Attrition Treated Nickel Alloy,” (with A.L. Ortiz, J.-W. Tian and P.K. Liaw), Scripta Materialia, Vol. 62, No. 3, pp.

129-132, February 2010.

“Grain-Size Dependence of the Hardness of Submicrometer and Nanometer Hydroxyapatite,” (with J. Wang). Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Vol. 93, No. 3, pp. 601–604, March 2010.

“Detailed Investigation of Ion Exchange in Ball Milled LiH+MgB2 System using Ultra-High Field NMR Spectroscopy,” (with J.-Z. Hu, J.-H. Kwak, Z. Yang and X. Wan), Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 195, No. 11, pp. 3645–3648, June 2010.

“Synthesis of Gadolinia-Doped Ceria Gels and Powders from Acetylacetonate Precursors,” (with C. Shen and E.L. Thomas), Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 1-11, 2010.

Leslie Shor “Window on a Microworld: Simple Microfluidic Systems for Studying Microbial Transport in Porous Media,” (with D.A. Markov, P.C. Samson, D.K. Schaffer, A. Dhummakupt and J.P. Wikswo), Journal of Visualized Experiments, Vol. 39, May 3, 2010.

“Mass Balances on Selected Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the NY/NJ Harbor,” (with L.A. Rodenburg, S.N. Valle, M.A. Panero and G.R. Muñoz), Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 642-653, 2010.

“Tape-underlayment, Rotary-node (TURN) Valves for Simple On-chip Microfluidic Flow Control,” (with D.A. Markov, S. Manuel, S. Opalenik, J.P. Wikswo and P. Samson), Biomedical Microdevices, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 135-44, 2010.

Ranjan Srivastava “Metabolic Investigation of Host/pathogen Interaction using MS2-infected Escherichia coli,” (with R. Jain), BMC Systems Biology, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 121, 2009.

Yong Wang “Development of a Novel Pretargeting System with Bifunctional Nucleic Acid Molecules,” (with J. Zhou, B. Soontornworajit and M. Snipes), Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, Vol. 386, pp.

521-525, August 2009.

“A Hybrid DNA Aptamer-dendrimer Nanomaterial for Targeted Cell Labeling,” (with J. Zhou, B. Soontornworajit, J. Martin, B.A. Sullenger and E. Gilboa), Macromolecular Bioscience, Vol. 9, pp. 831-835, September 9, 2009.

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“Structural Prediction and Binding Analysis of Hybridized Aptamers,” (with J. Zhou, B. Soontornworajit and M. Snipes), Journal of Molecular Recognition, March 29, 2010 (online).

“Hydrogel Functionalization with DNA Aptamers for Sustained PDGF-BB Release,” (with B. Soontornworajit, J. Zhou, M.T. Shaw and T.H. Fan), Chemical Communications, Vol. 46, pp. 1857–1859, 2010.

Mei Wei “Alkali Etching of Poly(Lactide) Fiber,” (with S. Sun and M.T. Shaw), ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol. 1, No. 7, pp. 1572-8, July 2009.

“Fabrication and Mechanical Properties of PLLA/PCL/HA Composites via a Biomimetic, Dip Coating, and Hot Compression Procedure,” (with L.F. Charles, M.T. Shaw and J.R. Olson), Journal of Materials Science Materials in Medicine, Vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 1845-54, June 2010.

Benjamin Wilhite “Demonstration of a Liquid-Tin Anode Solid-Oxide Fuel Cell (LTA-SOFC) Operating from Bio-diesel Fuel,” (with W.G. McPhee, M. Boucher, J. Stuart, R.S. Parnas, M. Koslowske and T. Tao), Energy Fuels, Vol. 23, No. 10, pp. 5036–5041, 2009.

“Towards an Integrated Ceramic Micro-Membrane Network: Electroless-Plated Palladium Membranes in Cordierite Supports,” (with D. Kim, A. Kellogg and E. Livaich), Journal of Membrane Science, Vol. 340, pp.

109-116, September 15, 2009.

“Autothermal Hydrogen Generation from Methanol in a Ceramic Microchannel Network,” (with A. Moreno), Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 195, No. 7, pp. 1964-1970, April 2, 2010.

“Synthesis of Cobalt-doped Barium Cerate Zirconate and its Evaluation for Hydrogen Production and Electrochemical Characterization,” (with A. Suresh, J. Basu, N. Sammes and C.B. Carter), Journal of Materials Science, Vol. 45, pp. 3215-3227, 2010.

Brian Willis “Characterization of ALD Copper Thin Films on Palladium Seed Layers for Molecular Electronics,” (with I. Hsu, B.E. McCandless and C. Weilund), Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A, Vol. 27, pp. 660, 2009.

“Parallel Fabrication of Monolithic Nanoscopic Tunnel Junctions for Molecular Devices,” (with R. Gupta), Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B, Vol. 28, 2010.

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CHEMICAL, MATERIALS & BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT PUBLISHED BOOKS, BOOK CHAPTERS, BOOK SECTIONS & EDITED VOLUMES 2009-2010 Pamir Alpay “Dislocations in Ferroelectric Thin Films,” (with G. Akcay and V. Nagarajan), in Ferroelectric Films at Microwave Frequencies, (T.J. Jackson, P.M. Suherman and P. Bao, eds.), Research Signpost, 2010.

C. Barry Carter Transmission Electron Microscopy: A Textbook for Materials Science, (with D.B. Williams), Springer, 832 pgs., 2009.

Puxian Gao “Metal-catalyzed Nanoarchitectures of Zinc Oxide and their Applications,” in Metal Oxide Nanostructures and Their Applications, Vol. 5, American Scientific Publisher, Stevenson Ranch, pp. 513-545, 2010.

Bryan Huey “High Speed Piezo Force Microscopy: Novel Observations of Ferroelectric Domain Poling, Nucleation, and Growth,” (with R. Nath), in Scanning Probe Microscopy of Functional Materials: Nanoscale Imaging and Spectroscopy, 1st ed., Springer, 2010.

Sangamesh Kumbar “Nanofibrous Scaffolds as Implant Materials,” (with R. James, U.S. Toti and C.T. Laurencin), in Biomedical Nanotechnology in The Methods in Molecular Biology series, (J.M. Walker, ed.), Humana Press, 2010.

“Biodegradable Polyphosphazene Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering,” (with S.P. Nukavarapu and C.T. Laurencin), in Polyphosphazenes for Biomedical Applications, (A.K. Andrianov, ed.), Taylor & Francis Group, 2009.

Cato Laurencin “Biodegradable Polyphosphazene Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering,” (with S.P. Nukavarapu and S. Kumbar), in Polyphosphazenes for Biomedical Applications, (A.K. Andrianov, ed.), Taylor & Francis Group, 2009.

“Nanofibrous Scaffolds as Implant Materials,” (with R. James, U.S. Toti, and S. Kumbar), in Biomedical Nanotechnology in The Methods in Molecular Biology series, (J.M. Walker, ed.), Humana Press, 2010.

Ramamurthy Ramprasad “Modeling the Physics and Chemistry of Interfaces in Nanodielectrics,” (with N. Shi and C. Tang), in Dielectric Polymer Nanocomposites, (J.K. Nelson, ed.), Springer, pp. 133-161, 2010.

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“Nanodielectrics for Energy Storage from First Principles,” (with N. Shi), in Functional Polymers, Vol. 1034, ACS Symposium Book Series, pp. 9-21, 2010.

Prabhakar Singh “Advances In Solid Oxide Fuel Cells V,” (with N.P. Bansal, co-eds.), The American Ceramic Society – A Collection of Papers Presented at the 33rd International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, John Wiley & Sons, 2010.

Ranjan Srivastava “Genome-Scale Analysis of Metabolic Networks,” in Systems Analysis of Biological Networks, (A. Jayaraman and J. Hahn, eds.), Artech House, pp. 95-110, 2009.

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CHEMICAL, MATERIALS & BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS 2009-2010 Mark Aindow “Synthesis of Novel Electrode Materials using Supercritical Fluids,” (with A. Smirnova, Y.-L. Hu, L. Zhang, L. Shaw, P. Menard, D. Goberman, X. Wan and W. Rhine), ECS Transactions, Vol. 19, pp. 9-21, 2009.

C. Barry Carter “Metal Nanostructures on Ceramic Surfaces for Energy Applications,” (with J. Basu, S. Bhowmick, J.P. Winterstein and N. Ravishankar), Proceedings of Microscopy & Microanalysis, Vol. 15, pp. 1442-3, 2009.

“Microscopy of Oxide Nanoparticles for Energy Application,” (with J. Basu, S. Bhowmick, J.P. Winterstein, C. Wang and Y. Xue), Proceedings of Microscopy & Microanalysis 2009, Vol. 15, pp. 1404-5, 2009.

“Synthesis and Activity of Cobalt-doped Barium Cerium Zirconate for Catalysis and Proton Conduction,” (with A. Suresh, J. Basu, N.M. Sammes and B.A. Wilhite), Advances in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells V, Ceramic Engineering & Science Proceedings, Vol. 30, pp. 167-173, 2009.

“Phase-boundary Grooving at Surfaces of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Materials,” (with S. Bhowmick, J.L. Riesterer and Y. Xue), Advances in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells V, Ceramics Engineering & Science Proceedings, Vol. 30, pp. 105-112, 2009.

“Synthesis and Characterization of Oxide Nanoparticles for Energy Applications,” (with J. Basu, T.P. Winterstein and S. Bhowmick), Advances in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells V, Ceramics Engineering & Science Proceedings, Vol. 30, pp. 233-238, 2009.

Bryan Huey “Nanomechanics of Individual Living Cells upon Exposure to Foreign Nanostructures,” (with V. Palumbo and A. Lucas), NSF CMMI Conference Proceedings, 2009.

William Mustain “Performance of a Direct Borohydride Fuel Cell Stack,” (with S. Towne, M. Carella, V. Viswanathan, P. Rieke, U. Pasaoguillari and P. Singh), ECS Transactions, Vol. 25, 2009.

George Rossetti “Physical Phenomena in Ferroelectric Solid Solutions,” Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Advanced Materials, 2009.

“Morphotropism, Microstructure and Electromechanical Properties in Ferroelectric Solid Solutions,” Proceedings of the XVIII International Materials Research Congress, 2009.

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Leon Shaw “Synthesis of Novel Electrode Materials using Supercritical Fluids,” (with A. Smirnova, Y.-L. Hu, L. Zhang, M. Aindow, P. Menard, D. Goberman, X. Wan and W. Rhine), ECS Transactions, Vol. 19, pp. 9-21, 2009.

Leslie Shor “Towards Predicting Impacts of Nanomaterials in the Environment,” Proceedings of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) National Meeting, CD, 2009.

“Challenges to Water Quality Sustainability from Chronic PAH Pollution in an Urban Estuary,” (with L.A, Rodenburg, S.N. Valle, M.A. Panero and G.R. Muñoz), Proceedings of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) National Meeting, CD, 2009.

Prabhakar Singh “Performance of a Direct Borohydride Fuel Cell Stack,” (with S. Towne, M. Carella, V. Viswanathan, P. Rieke, U. Pasaogullari and W. Mustain), ECS Transactions, Vol. 25, 2009.

Ranjan Srivastava “Cellular Engineering of Escherichia coli for Hydrogen Production,” The Leermaker Symposium, 2010.

Benjamin Wilhite “Synthesis and Activity of Cobalt-doped Barium Cerium Zirconate for Catalysis and Proton Conduction,” (with A. Suresh, J. Basu, N.M. Sammes and C.B. Carter), Advances in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells V, Ceramic Engineering & Science Proceedings, Vol. 30, pp. 167-173, 2009.

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CHEMICAL, MATERIALS & BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ACTIVE RESEARCH GRANTS & CONTRACTS 2009-2010 Mark Aindow “The Effects of Impurities on Fuel Cell Performance and Durability,” (with PI: T. Molter (90%)), U.S. Department of Energy, 3/1/07 – 2/28/11, $1,868,580.

“Engineered Nano-Composite Oxides for High Durability Missile Domes,” (with PI: E. Jordan (75%)), Subcontract from Raytheon on DARPA proposal, 4/16/07 – 10/15/10, $2,808,000.

“Self-Healing, High-Reliability Electrical Contacts for Military Applications,” (with PI: S.P. Alpay (50%)), U.S. Army Research Office, 6/1/07 – 5/31/10, $398,375.

“TEM Characterization of SAM Al,” Pratt & Whitney, 8/1/09-12/31/10, $40,000.

“Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells,” United Technologies Research Center, 9/1/09-8/31/10, $36,051.

“The Effect of Airborne Contaminants on Fuel Cell Performance and Durability,” (with PI: T. Molter), U.S. Department of Energy/Hawaii National Energy Institute, 5/23/09 – 5/22/13, $1,712,847.

Pamir Alpay “Self-Healing, High-Reliability Electrical Contacts for Military Applications,” (with co-PI: M. Aindow (50%)), U.S. Army Research Office, 6/01/2007-6/01/2010, $398,375.

“Interlayer Interfaces in Multilayer and Graded Ferroelectrics: Modeling and Deposition of Multilayer and Graded Barium Strontium Titanate Films, subcontract from Frequency-Agile, Functionally Graded Ka-band Filters,” SMI Inc., NJ, Department of Defense, Army STTR, Phase II, 8/27/2008-8/27/2010, $225,000.

“Three Dimensional Composite Nanostructures for Lean NOx Emission Control,” (with co-PIs: P-X. Gao (70%) and R. Ramprasad (15%)), U.S. Department of Energy, 10/1/2009-9/30/2012, $1,248,242.

Hal Brody “Sub-micron Precipitates in Segregated Al-Si-Cu-Mg Cast and Aged Alloys,” Distinguished Professor Discretionary Account, Provost, $46,014.

Capstone Project Course/MSE Excellence Scholarships, Connecticut and Massachusetts businesses, $46,500.

C. Barry Carter “MACAN: Merging Atomistic and Continuum Analysis of Nanometer Length-Scale Metal,” European Union/FP7, 7/1/09 – 6/30/13, $65,708.

“UCIG Award with UConn Health Center,” (with P. Nukavarapu and C. Laurencin), 8/27/09 – 8/31/11, $100,000.

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“Mechanistic Evaluation of Degradation Processes in Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells (SOEC),” (with PI: P. Singh (50%) and co-PI: A. Verma (25%)) Idaho National Laboratory, 4/1/10-8/22/11, $174,971.

“Treatment of Cathode Support and Measurement of Mechanical Strength of Cathode-Supported SFC’s,” (with PI: P. Singh (50%), co-PIs: J-H. Kim (15%) and A. Verma (20%)), Siemens Corporation, 4/1/103/313/11, $108,663.

Douglas J. Cooper Unrestricted Grant, Control Station, Inc., 7/1/05 – 5/31/12, $48,754.

“Emerging Technologies,” 7/1/07 – 6/30/10, $9,740.

“Continuous Improvement in Co-Gen Plant Operation,” University of Connecticut, 7/1/09 – 6/30/10, $69,168.

“GK-12: Ingenuity Incubators Develop NSF Fellow Potential and Prepare Tech Students for Engineering,” (with co-PIs: K. Kazerounian, M.Y. Choi and R.A. Washington), 3/10 – 2/15, $2,700,000.

“First-in-Family Energy Scholarships for Tech School Grads,” (with co-PIs: K. Kazerounian, M.Y. Choi and M. Wood), 7/1/10 – 6/30/15, $596,096.

Puxian Gao “Three-dimensional Composite Nanostructures for Lean NOx Emission Control,” (with co-PIs: P. Alpay (15%) and R. Ramprasad (15%)), U.S. Department of Energy/NETL, 10/1/09 – 9/30/12, $1,248,242.

“Multifunctional Nanowire/film Composites based Bi-modular Sensors for In-situ and Real-time High Temperature Gas Detection,” (with co-PI: Y. Lei (30%)), .S. Department of Energy/NETL, 10/1/09 – 9/30/12, $795,607.

“Synthesis of Inorganic Nanostructures as Field Emitters,” United Technologies Research Center, 6/2/07 – 10/1/10, $116,983.

“A Systematic Study of VLS Growth Process of Metal Oxide Nanowires,” ACS-Petroleum Research Fund, 9/1/08 – 8/31/10, $50,000.

“Large Scale Synthesis of Heterojunction Semiconductor Nanowires for Electronics and Optoelectronics Applications,” University of Connecticut Research Foundation Large Grant, 1/1/2008 – 8/31/2009, $23,884.

Maurice Gell “Barrier Layers to Improve the Durability Thermal Barrier Coatings,” University of Connecticut Center for Science and Technology Commercialization, 5/15/09 – 8/31/10, $50,000.

Rainer Hebert “Accumulative Roll Bonding of Metallic Multilayers,” National Science Foundation-CMMI, 5/01/07 12/31/10, $299,000.

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“Accumulative Roll-Bonding Processing of Bulk Nanocomposite Materials,” National Science Foundation Graduate Research Supplement, 7/24/08 – 4/30/11, $31,831.

“Creep-tester,” UConn Intermediate Equipment Grant, 12/31/09 – 1/31/11, $66,000.

“Exploratory Study of the Response of Amorphous Steels to Wear and Cavitation,” University of Connecticut Research Foundation, 12/16/09 – 12/31/10, $11,874.

“Advanced Composite Materials for Blast and Fire Resistance,” (with co-PIs: B. Huey (25%), G. Rossetti (25%) and J. Kim (25%)), Department of Homeland Security, 7/1/09 – 6/30/10, $865,520.

“Impact Resistant Multifunctional Composite Sensor for Structural Monitoring,” (with co-PIs: B. Huey (25%), G. Rossetti (25%) and J. Kim (25%)), Department of Homeland Security, 8/1/09 – 1/31/11, $220,000.

Bryan Huey “Mechanical Response of Individual Living Epithelial and Endothelial Cells to in situ Biochemical Signal Exposure and Direct Drug Delivery,” National Science Foundation NanoBioMechanics, 9/1/06 – 8/31/10, $257,694.

“REU: Integrated Molecular Separation and Nanoscale Patterning,” National Science Foundation NanoBioMechanics, 9/1/06 – 8/31/10, $10,800.

NSF-NBM Minority Student Supplement, National Science Foundation NanoBioMechanics, 9/1/08 – 8/31/10, $33,494.

“Development of High Speed SPM for Research and Education,” National Science Foundation DME IMR, 9/1/08 – 8/31/11, $311,111.

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 5/1/09 – 9/30/09, $7,715.

“Impact Resistant Multifunctional Composite Sensor Platform for Structural Monitoring,” (co-PIs: R. Hebert (25%), J.H. Kim (25%) and G. Rossetti (25%)), Department of Homeland Security, 8/1/09 – 1/31/11, $220,000.

“Materials World Network: Ultrafast Switching in Phase Change Materials,” National Science Foundation Ceramics, 8/1/09 – 7/31/12, $312,000.

“Advanced Composite Materials for Blast and Fire Resistance,” (with co-PIs: R. Hebert (25%), J.H. Kim (25%) and G. Rossetti (25%)), Department of Homeland Security, 7/1/09 – 6/30/10, $865,000.

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship for Joshua Liebowitz, National Science Foundation/NIST, $8,315.

“Nanoscale Analysis of Fuel Cell Electrodes,” UTC Power, $10,000.

“Nanoscience and Society,” (with H. Silva (50%)), UConn Honors Program, $10,000.

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Yusuf Khan “Functionalizing Allografts with Polymer-based Bioactive Coatings,” (with co-PI: J. Lieberman), Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation, 1/1/10 – 12/31/10, $100,000.

“EFRI: Biological, Chemical, and Mechanical Surface Cues for Cell Migration, Proliferation, and Differentiation: An Integrated Approach to Regeneration of New Tissues,” (with PI: C.T. Laurencin and coPI: L. Nair), National Science Foundation, 9/1/07 – 8/31/11, $1,640,000.

Sangamesh Kumar Coulter Translational Research Award in Biomedical Engineering, The Wallace H. Coulter Foundation, 2009, $41,086.

University of Connecticut Center for Science and Technology Commercialization, 1/2010 – 12/2010, $75,000.

“Development of a Degradable Interference Screws Prototype,” (with PI: C. Laurencin), University of Connecticut Foundation, 2010-2012, $72,000.

Cato Laurencin “UCIG Award with UConn Health Center,” (with P. Nukavarapu and C.B. Carter), 8/27/09 – 8/31/11, $100,000.

“EFRI: Biological, Chemical, and Mechanical Surface Cues for Cell Migration, Proliferation, and Differentiation: An Integrated Approach to Regeneration of New Tissues,” (with co-PIs: L. Nair and Y. Khan), National Science Foundation, 9/1/07 – 8/31/11, $1,640,000.

“Development of a Novel Injectable Controlled Analgesic Delivery System for Effective Pain Management,” Department of Defense (U.S. Army), 2007-2010, $504,000.

“Biological, Chemical and Mechanical Surface Cues for Cell Migration, Proliferation and Differentiation: An Integrated Approach to Regeneration of Tissues,” National Science Foundation EFRI, 2007-2011, $1,586,000.

“Novel Structures Nanofibrous Scaffolds for Bone Healing Phase 2,” (with co-PI: X. Yu), Coulter Foundation Grant, 2009-2011, $103,000.

“Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring,” National Science Foundation, 2009-2010, $10,000.

“Novel Composite Nanostructures Scaffolds for cartilage regeneration,” (with co-PI: J. Freeman), Coulter Foundation Grant, 2009-2011, $100,000.

“Development of a degradable Interference Screws Prototype,” (with co-PI: S. Kumbar), University of Connecticut Foundation, 2010-2012, $72,000.

“Role of Estrogen Receptor Beta in Regulating Mandibular Condylar,” (with co-PI: S. Wadhwa), National Institutes of Health, 2010-2014, $1,537,000.

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“Novel Biodegradable Materials for Tissue Engineering, National Institutes of Health, 2008 – 2011, $300,000.

“Polymer/Ceramic Composites for Tissue Engineering,” National Institutes of Health, 2008-2011, $519,000.

Yu Lei “Exp-LA: Realtime, Compact, & Ultra-Sensitive Sensor Arrays for Explosives,” (with co-PIs: C. Brueckner (29.95%) and A. Gokirmak (3.13%)), National Science Foundation, 9/1/07 – 8/31/11, $780,404.

“Rapid and Sensitive Detection of Total Coliforms and E. coli Using SWNT Membrane,” U.S. Geological Survey through Connecticut Institute of Water Resources, 3/1/08 – 2/28/11, $49,726.

“Novel Explosives Sensors Using Signal-Amplifying Molecularly Imprinted Conducting Polymers,” Department of Homeland Security, 6/1/08 – 5/31/10, $229,000.

“Simultaneous, Rapid, and Sensitive Detection of Total Coliforms and E. coli Using Engineered Conducting Membrane for Water Quality Control,” National Science Foundation, 9/1/08 – 8/31/11, $160,058.

“MRI: Development of Instrumentation for an Autonomous Underwater Sensor Network System,” (with PI: J.-H. Cui and co-PIs: I. Babb, Z. Shi, T. Torgersen and S. Zhou; and Senior Personnel: R. Ammar, A.Bagtzoglou, Y. Fei, L. Liu, S. Rajasekaran, E. Schultz, B. Wang, L. Wang and P. Willett), National Science Foundation/MRI, 8/01/2008 – 7/31/2011, $500,000 from NSF and $150,000 from UConn.

“REU Supplement: Rapid, Sensitive and Sequential Detection of E. coli and Total Coliforms Using Engineered Conducting Membranes for Water Quality Control,” National Science Foundation, 7/22/2009 – 8/31/2010, $6,000.

“Multifunctional Nanowire/film Composites Based Bi-modular Sensors for In-situ and Real-time High Temperature Gas Detection,” (with PI: P. Gao (50%)), U.S. Department of Energy, 2009-2012, $795,607 + $215,165 from UConn.

“Multiplexed Biosensor for Pathogenic Bacteria and Protozoa,” University of Connecticut Center for Environmental Science & Engineering, 2009-2010, $10,787.

“Novel Nanofiber Biosensor for Nitrite: Towards Fighting Nitrite Toxicity for Sustainable Environment” University of Connecticut Center for Environmental Science & Engineering, 2009-2010, $10,787.

Harris Marcus “Support for the Application of Lasers to Materials Processing,” U.S. Department of Energy/AFOSR-CCAT, Inc., 6/1/08 – 5/31/10, $91,880.

“CT Workforce Investment Act Survey,” U.S. Department of Defense/AFSOR-CCAT, Inc., 6/1/08 – 5/31/10, $8,921.

“The Connecticut Nanotechnology Initiative and The Connecticut Nanoscale,” Connecticut Office for Workforce Competitiveness, 10/17/08 – 6/30/09, $99,000.

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Jeffrey McCutcheon “Novel Activated Carbon Nanofiber Biofilm Support for Enhanced Wastewater Treatment,” (with co-PI: B. Li), National Science Foundation, CBET – Environmental Engineering, 9/4/2009-9/3/2012, $293,876.

“Testing and Evaluation of Forward Osmosis (FO) Process: Benchmarking and Testing with Saline,” U.S. Department of Energy/Battelle, 4/16/09 – 10/31/09, $44,824.

“Electrospun Nanofiber Thin Film Composite Membranes for Engineered Osmosis,” University of Connecticut Large Faculty Grant, 1/1/2010-12/31/2010, $23,993.

William Mustain “EAGER: Electrochemical Reactor for Spontaneous Power Conversion and CO2 Capture,” National Science Foundation, 2/15/10 – 1/31/11, $97,721.

University of Connecticut Research Foundation Large Faculty Grant, 12/16/09 - 12/31/10, $24,111.

Lakshmi Nair “Inductive Microenvironment for Improved Osseous Integration,” U.S. Army – Department of Defense, 9/1/10 – 8/31/13, $614,372.

“Mandibular Chondrogenic Differentiation,” (co-PI), National Institutes of Health-R01, 9/1/10 – 2/28/15, $1,250,000.

“Polymer/Ceramic Composites for Bone Tissue Engineering,” (co-PI), National Institute of Health, 9/15/05 – 9/14/10, $1,425,828.

“Development of a Novel Injectable Controlled Analgesic Delivery, (co-PI), U.S. Department of DefenseArmy, 6/1/07 – 6/30/10, $698,279.

“Biological, Chemical and Mechanical Surface Cues for Cell Migration, Proliferation and Differentiation: An Integrated Approach to Regeneration of New Tissues,” (co-PI), National Science Foundation, 12/1/07 – 11/31/11, $1,197,796.

“Novel Composite Nanostructured Scaffolds for Cartilage Regeneration,” (co-PI), Coulter Foundation, 12/1/08 – 11/31/10, $240,000.

Richard Parnas Partnership with the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development to Develop a Biofuels Industry, 5/22/08 – 6/30/10, $94,709.

“Catalyzing the Development of a Biofuels Industry in Connecticut with an Integrated Testing Program,” (with co-PIs: J. Stuart and C. Perkins (33%)), Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development and Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, 1/2009 – 12/2009, $598,244.

“Investigation of Wheat Gluten for Industrial Composites,” (with co-PI: A. Asandei), U.S. Department of Agriculture-CSREES, 9/1/05 – 3/30/09, $354,000.

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“Bioenergy,” (with I. Hart), U.S. Department of Agriculture, 7/1/08 – 6/30/09, $138,898.

Ramamurthy Ramprasad “Computational Support of the ONR Capacitor Program,” (with co-PI: S. Boggs (50%)), Office of Naval Research, 1/1/2008 – 12/31/2010, $480,000.

“Electrical Degradation in High-k Dielectrics Based Devices: a Computational Study,” National Science Foundation, 8/1/2007 – 7/31/2010, $270,000.

“Binary and Ternary Semiconductor Quantum Rods: A Computational Route to Next-generation Allinorganic Photovoltaic Materials,” National Science Foundation, 1/1/2008 – 12/31/2010, $199,968.

“Three-dimensional Composite Nanostructures for Lean NOx Emission Control,” (with co-PIs: P. Gao (70%) and S.P. Alpay (15%)), U.S. Department of Energy, 1/1/2010 – 12/31/2012, $1,200,000.

“CIEG Supplement: Electrical Degradation in High-k Dielectrics Based Devices: a Computational Study,” National Science Foundation, Summer 2008, $12,500.

George Rossetti “Design and Modeling of High Power Density Acoustic Transducer Materials for Autonomous Undersea Vehicles,” U.S. Department of Defense/Navy/Office of Naval Research, 10/1/08 – 9/30/11, $210,000.

“STIR: Nanoscale Domain Structure Control in Functional Oxides,” DOD/Army Research Laboratory, 4/3/09 – 12/30/09, $46,542.

“Impact Resistant Multifunctional Composite Sensor Platform for Structural Monitoring, (with co-PIs: R. Hebert (25%), B. D. Huey (25%) and J.H. Kim (25%)), National Transportation Security Center of Excellence, 8/1/09 – 1/31/11, $220,000.

“Advanced Composite Materials for Blast And Fire Resistance,” (with co-PIs: R. Hebert (25%), B.D. Huey (25%) and J.H. Kim (25%)), 7/1/09 – 6/30/12, $865,000.

Leon Shaw “Functionally Graded Orthopedic Implants via the Slurry Mixing and Dispensing Process,” (with co-PI: Y. Wang (30%)), National Science Foundation, 9/1/2009 – 8/31/2012, $330,000.

“REU Supplement: Novel Processing of WC/Co Cermets,” National Science Foundation, 6/1/2010 – 5/31/2012, $12,000.

“Synthesis and Fabrication of Nanorod-Enhanced Beta-Alumina Electrolytes for Advanced Sodium-Beta Batteries (SBBs),” University of Connecticut Research Foundation, 7/1/2010 – 6/31/2011, $26,623.

“Novel Processing of WC/Co Hardmetals with Simultaneous Improvements in Hardness and Toughness Derived from Nanocrystalline Powder,” National Science Foundation, 9/1/2009 – 8/31/2012, $300,000.

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“Si3N4/SiC Nanocomposites Synthesized from Waste Silica Fume for High Temperature Structural Applications,” National Science Foundation /U.S.-Egypt Joint Board, 9/1/2009 – 8/31/2012, $100,000.

“Effects and Mechanisms of Mechanical Activation on Hydrogen Sorption/Desorption of Nanoscale Lithium Nitrides,” (with co-PI: Z.G. Yang (25%)), U.S. Department of Energy, 12/09/04 – 12/08/09, $1,600,000 + $400,000 UConn match.

“Preparation & Sintering of Nano-SiC from Waste Silica Fume via an Integrated Mechanical and Thermal Activation Process,” National Science Foundation/U.S.-Egypt Joint Board, 9/1/2005 – 8/31/2009, $28,500.

Montgomery T. Shaw “Evaluating Application of Field Spectroscopy Devices to Fingerprint Commonly,” NAS/Transportation Research Board, 2/4/09 – 2/3/11, $100,808.

“Stability of a Binary Polymer Mixture,” Gerber Scientific, Inc., 7/1/09 – 12/31/09, $41,367.

Leslie Shor “EAGER: Field-deployed Microfluidic Trap Array for Discovery and Observation of Microbial Eukaryotes,” National Science Foundation, 5/1/10-4/30/12, $160,000.

Prabhakar Singh “Mechanistic Evaluation of Degradation Processes in Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells (SOEC),” (with co-PIs: C.B. Carter (25%) and co-PI: A. Verma (25%)), Idaho National Laboratory, 4/1/10-8/22/11, $174,971.

“Treatment of Cathode Support and Measurement of Mechanical Strength of Cathode-Supported SFC’s,” (with co-PIs: J-H. Kim (15%), A. Verma (20%) and C.B. Carter (15%)), Siemens Corporation, 4/1/103/313/11, $108,663.

“Direct Boron Fuel Cell Feasibility,” (PI (50%)), U.S. Department of Energy/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 2/2/09 – 8/12/09, $48,904.

“Graduate Assistants in Areas of National Need: Clean Energy,” (25%), U.S. Department of Education/Office of Postsecondary Education, 8/1/09 – 7/31/12, $522,624.

“To Identify the Dominant Degradation Mechanisms Associated with SOFC Technology,” (PI (50%)), U.S. Department of Energy/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 6/15/09 – 6/30/10, $104,000.

“Metals Program in Support of Stack Block Durability Testing,” (PI (50%)), U.S. Department of Energy, 7/1/09 – 9/30/10, $187,489.

“Advanced Materials for Micro Generators,” U.S. Department of Defense/Navy/Office of Naval Research, 7/6/09 – 8/22/09, $24,344.

“Evaluation of Bio-Based Fuels in Advanced Fuel Cells,” (PI (50%)), U.S. Department of Energy/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 5/1/10 – 9/30/10, $178,794.

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Alevtina Smirnova “Nano-Engineered Supercapacitor for Space-Based Applications,” U.S. Department of Defense/ AFRL/Giner, Inc., 2/13/09 – 11/13/09, $19,086.

Ranjan Srivastava “Automatic Generation of Genome-scale Flux Balance Models,” National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine, 5/1/08 – 4/30/11, $152,000.

“Collaborative Research: A Systems Biology Approach for Metabolically Engineering Escherichia coli for Producing Hydrogen via Fermentation,” National Science Foundation, 9/01/08 – 8/31/11, $75,813.

“Development of a Preliminary Mucositis Model,” University of Connecticut Health Center, 6/4/07 – 12/31/2010, $4,496.

Yong Wang “CAREER: Creation of Complex Biomimetic Materials via Molecular Recognition,” National Science Foundation, 5/2010 – 4/2011, $479,642.

“Hybrid Peptide/RNA Molecules for Safe and Efficient Gene Silencing in Human Embryonic Stem Cells,” Connecticut Department of Public Health, 6/2009 – 5/2010, $200,000.

“Multivalent “Artificial Antibody” Based on RNA/Dendrimer-Like Star Polymer Hybrid Nanomaterials,” (with co-PI: L. Zhu (50%)), National Science Foundation, 7/2009 – 6/2010, $450,000.

“Multivalent ‘Artificial Antibody’ Based on RNA/Dendrimer-Like Star Polymer Hybrid Nanomaterials,” National Science Foundation, 6/2009 – 8/2009, $6,000.

“Functionally Graded Orthopedic Implants via the Slurry Mixing and Dispensing Process,” (with PI: L. Shaw (70%)), National Science Foundation, 9/2009 – 8/2010, $330,000.

“Multivalent “Artificial Antibody” Based on RNA/Dendrimer-Like Star Polymer Hybrid Nanomaterials,” National Science Foundation, 6/2010 – 8/2010, $6,000.

Mei Wei “BME/RAPD/GOALI: Fabrication of Multi-functional Composites for Load-bearing Skeletal,” National Science Foundation, 9/2005 – 8/2010, $375,000.

“Optimizing Mesoderm Derived Bone Cell Differentiation from hES Cells (Group Grant): Project 5: Optimizing Mesoderm Derived Bone Cell Differentiation from hES Cells and Administrative Core,” State of Connecticut Stem Cell Initiative, 4/2007 – 4/2010, $28,850.

“Multi-Functional Composites,” (with co-PI: M. Shaw ((40%)), Teleflex Medical, 9/2005 – 8/2010, $75,000.

“BME/RAPD/GOALI: Fabrication of Multi-functional Composites for Load-bearing Skeletal,” National Science Foundation REU Supplement, 5/2010 – 8/2010, $6,000.

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“HA Coated Implants: A Novel Approach to Improve the Interfacial Strength of Hydroxyapatite,” National Science Foundation REU Supplement, 6/2008 – 8/2010, $6,000.

“HA Coated Implants: A Novel Approach to Improve the Interfacial Strength of Hydroxyapatite,” National Science Foundation IREE Supplement, 8/2009 – 8/2010, $23,850.

“BME/RAPD/GOALI: Fabrication of Multi-functional Composites for Load-bearing Skeletal,” National Science Foundation IREE Supplement, 9/2006 – 8/2010, $18,750.

“HA Coated Implants: A Novel Approach to Improve the Interfacial Strength of Hydroxyapatite,” National Science Foundation REU Supplement, 5/2010 - 8/2010, $6,000.

“BME/RAPD/GOALI: Fabrication of Multi-functional Composites for Load-bearing Skeletal,” National Science Foundation Graduate Research Supplement, 8/2009 – 8/2010, $53,590.

“GAANN: Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need,” (with co-PI: J. Goldberg), Department of Education, 7/2009 - 8/2010, $217,760.

“Improving Soldier Recovery from Battle Field,” U.S. Army, 8/2009 – 8/2010, $31,142.

“Evaluation and Development of UConn Innovation,” Teleflex Medical, 1/2010 – 12/2010, $41,176.

“Use of Novel Nanopolymer Scaffolds for Human Articular Cartilage Repair,” University of Connecticut Research Foundation, 9/2009 – 8/2010, $17,500.

“HA Coated Implants: A Novel Approach to Improve the Interfacial Strength of Hydroxyapatite,” National Science Foundation, 9/2005 – 8/2010.

Robert A. Weiss “Manufacture of Controlled Microstructure Protein Exchange Membranes,” National Science Foundation, 9/1/07 – 8/31/10, $453,888.

“Manufacture of Controlled Microstructure Protein Exchange Membranes,” National Science Foundation REU Supplement, 5/1/08 – 8/31/10, $11,750.

“Synthesis of PLA Ionomers,” American Chemical Society/Petroleum Research Fund, 2/1/08 – 1/31/10, $55,991.

Benjamin Wilhite “Heat-Integrated Hydrogen Production from Liquid Fuels,” Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program (ONR-YIP), 5/11/07 – 9/30/10, $299,905.

“Hydrogen from Ethanol via Integrated Ceramic Microchannel Membrane Networks,” National Science Foundation, Chemical and Transport Science Division, 6/01/07 – 5/31/10, $239,000.

“Integrated Fuel Reformers for Hydrogen Production from Green Resources,” DuPont de Nemours Corporation, Young Professor Grant, 9/01/07 – 8/30/10, $75,000.

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“CAREER: Composite Catalytic Micro-Membranes. Tailoring Reaction and Diffusion at the Microscale for Permselective Hydrogen Extraction from Green Resources,” National Science Foundation, Process and Reaction Engineering Division, 8/01/08 – 12/31/12, $400,000,.

“Electroceramic Materials for High-Purity Hydrogen Extraction from Liquid Hydrocarbon Fuels: Fundamental Investigations of Coupled Electrochemical and Catalytic Phenomena,” American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Program (ACS-PRF-DNI, 1/01/09 – 12/31/10, $100,000.

“Analysis of Hydrogen Purification Membranes for Use in Fuel Cell-Based Naval Power Systems,” Office of Naval Research, 1/1/08 – 12/31/08, $97,055.

Brian Willis “CAREER: Perovskite Buffer Layers for Compound Semiconductor-Silicon Heteroepitaxy,” National Science Foundation, 1/1/09-1/31/10, $29,162.

“Development of Alternative, Low-Cost and Durable High Performance Cathode Supports for PEM Fuel Cells,” U.S. Department of Energy/Pacific Northwest National Lab, 1/1/09-7/31/11, $40,000.

“Next Generation Biochemical Sensor Based on Tunneling Spectroscopy,” Office of Naval Research, 1/1/0912/31/09, $154,706.

“Tunneling Spectroscopy for Nanofabricated Biochemical Sensors,” National Science Foundation, 1/1/095/31/10, $97,832.

“Chemical Vapor Deposition and Atomic Layer Deposition Strategies for the Hete,” Intel, 1/1/09-12/31/09, $110,362.

“Epitaxial Oxides by ALD,” National Science Foundation, 9/1/09 – 8/31/12, $259,059.

Lei Zhu “CAREER: Tailoring the Nanostructore and Morphology of Hydrogen-Bonded Supramolec,” National Science Foundation, 1/1/04 – 6/30/09, $430,000.

“Polymer-Ceramic Nanocomposites for High Power Capacitor,” U.S. Air Force/Agiltron, Inc., 11/20/07 – 8/14/09, $225,000.

“Nanodielectrics for High Energy Density Capacitors,” DOD/Airforce/Agiltron, Inc., 4/22/09 – 11/1/09, $25,000.

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CHEMICAL, MATERIALS & BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT AWARDS, HONORS, PATENTS 2009-2010 Pamir Alpay United Technologies Corporation (UTC) Associate Professor in Engineering Innovation (June 2009-2010).

Puxian Gao Best oral paper award: “Seedless Synthesis and Field Emission of ZnO Nanoneedles on Metal Electrodes,” (with G. Wrobel, M. Piech and S. Dardona), Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Symposium Program, April 7, Storrs, CT. Cato Laurencin Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, 2010.

Named one of the 100 Engineers of Modern Era, American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Pierre Galletti Award, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Awarded Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa, Lincoln University.

Richard Parnas “Optical Fiber Based Fluorescence Sensor for in-situ Measurement and Control of Fuel Cells,” (with Y.P. Patil), U.S. Patent No. 7,695,970, April 13, 2010.

Ramamurthy Ramprasad Max Planck Society Fellowship.

Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship.

Ranjan Srivastava 2010 Leermaker Symposia Plenary Speaker.

Yong Wang Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation, 2010.

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CHEMICAL, MATERIALS & BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT MAJOR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2009-2010 Mark Aindow Editor, Journal of Materials Science, July 2004-date; Deputy Editor-in-Chief, January 2008-date.

Member, Editorial Board, Advances in Materials Science, April 2008-date.

Member, Fellowship Panel, Institute of Physics, London.

Corresponding Member, Publications Committee, Institute of Materials, London.

Fellow, Institute of Physics, London.

Fellow, Institute of Materials, London.

Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, 2009-date.

Granted access to SHaRE characterization facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Pamir Alpay Guest Editor, Integrated Ferroelectrics, Proceedings of XVIII International Materials Research Congress, Symposium on Ferroelectricity and Piezoelectricity: Materials, Devices, and Applications, 2009.

Guest Editor, Journal of Materials Science, Special Issue on Recent Developments in Ferroelectric Nanostructures and Multilayers, Volume 44 (19), 2009.

Co-organizer, Materials Science & Technology 2010, Symposium on Multifunctional Oxides, October 2010.

Co-organizer, XIX International Materials Research Congress, Symposium on Ferroelectricity and Piezoelectric Materials, Devices, and Applications, Cancun, Mexico, August 2010.

Co-organizer, International Symposium on Integrated Functionalities (ISIF 2010), Symposium on Ferroelectric Materials: Theory & Experiments, San Juan, PR, June 2010.

Co-organizer, XVIII International Materials Research Congress, Symposium on Ferroelectricity and Piezoelectricity: Materials, Devices, and Applications, Cancun, Mexico, August 2009.

United Technologies Corporation (UTC) Associate Professor in Engineering Innovation, June 2009-10.

Presentations: “Interlayer Interactions and Electrical Domain Structures in Compositionally Graded Ferroelectrics,� (with M.B. Okatan, R. Ramprasad and G.A. Rossetti, Jr.), Army Research Office Workshop on Atomistic Interfaces 2009, Storrs, CT, August 2009.

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“Wedge Domains in Compositionally Graded Ferroelectrics: Dielectric Response and Tunability,” (with M.B. Okatan, A.L. Roytburd and J.V. Mantese), XVIII International Materials Research Congress, Symposium on Ferroelectricity and Piezoelectricity, Cancun, Mexico, August 2009.

“Domain Engineering in Compositionally Graded Ferroelectric Films for Enhanced Dielectric Response and Tunability,” (with M.B. Okatan, A.L. Roytburd and J.V. Mantese), Materials Science &Technology 2009, Symposium on Domain Microstructures and Mechanisms for Advanced Properties in Phase Transforming Materials, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2009.

“Optimization of Deposition Parameters for Complex Oxide Thin Films,” (with C.V. Weiss and M.W. Cole), Materials Science Technology 2009, Symposium on Ferroelectrics and Multiferroics, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2009.

“Synchrotron X-ray Study of Thin Film Sm-Doped BiFeO3 at an MPB,” (with S.B. Emery, C.-J. Cheng, D. Kan, V. Nagarajan, I. Takeuchi and B.O. Wells), Symposium on Dielectric, Ferroelectric, and Piezoelectric Oxides - Thin Film Multiferroics, Annual American Physical Society Meeting, Portland, OR, March 2010.

“Prediction of Giant Electromechanical Response in PZT Bilayers,” (with R. Mahjoub and V. Nagarajan), Symposium on Structure-Function Relations at Perovskite Surfaces and Interfaces, MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2010.

“Misfit-strain Film-thickness Phase Diagrams and Related Electromechanical Properties of Ultra-thin Perovskite Films,” (with Q.Y. Qiu and V. Nagarajan), Symposium on Structure-Function Relations at Perovskite Surfaces and Interfaces, MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2010.

George Bollas Member, Editorial Advisory Board, The Open Catalysis Journal.

Elected Chair, Applied Chemical Technology Subdivision (ACTS), American Chemical Society for 2011.

Member, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Society, MIT Chapter, 2009 – present.

Member, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2006 – present.

Member, American Chemical Society, 2007 – present.

Member, Technical Chamber of Greece, 2001 – present.

Member, Hellenic Chemical Engineering Society, 2001 – present.

Harold D. Brody Fellow ASM International.

Co-chair, M.C. Flemings Honorary Symposium, ASM, TMS, ACerS, AIST TMS-09.

Fellow, Connecticut Academy of Education.

Access granted: NSF-Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, A-2.

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Access granted: Argonne National Lab, Synchrotron, NIST Consortium.

Member, Solidification Committee, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS).

Member, Process Models Committee, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS).

C. Barry Carter Fellow, American Ceramic Society.

Fellow, Materials Research Society.

Fellow, Royal Microscopical Society.

Fellow, Microscopy Society of America.

Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.

President, Connecticut Microscopy Society, 2009-2010.

Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Materials Science.

Member, Editorial Board, Materials Characterization.

Member, Editorial Board, Microscopy & Microanalysis.

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Microscopy.

Symposium Organizer, ICAM 2009 (International Conference on Advance Materials, Rio de Janeiro) Current Trends in Oxide Materials.

Symposium Organizer, FEMMS 2009 (Frontiers of Electron Microscopy in Materials Science, Kyushu, Japan) Materials Science Applications.

Chairman, International Symposium on the Reactivity of Solids, 2007-2011.

Member, Awards Committee, Materials Research Society.

Member, MRS Medal Committee.

Member, FEMMS Committee.

Member, ISRS (International Symposium on Reactivity of Solids) Committee.

Member, International Committee, Microscopy Society of America.

Member, CIASEM (International Committee of InterAmerican Societies for Electron Microscopy).

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Presentations: “Synthesis and TEM Characterization of Ceria Nanoparticles,” invited, ICAM/Brazilian-MRS, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 20-24, 2009.

“Thermal Grooving in Two-Phase Fuel-Cell Materials,” invited, CIASEM 2009 Rosario, Argentina, October 26-29, 2009.

“Interfaces and Small Particles,” Department Seminar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, October 21, 2009.

“The State of TEM,” invited opening keynote, Workshop on the TEM, St. Gobain, Northborough, MA, October 6, 2009.

“Introduction to TEM: Lecture 1,” invited, School on the Electron Microscopy of Ceramic Materials, Eskisehir, Turkey, October 8-11, 2009.

“Introduction to TEM: Lecture 2,” invited, School on the Electron Microscopy of Ceramic Materials, Eskisehir, Turkey, October 8-11, 2009.

“Interfaces in Ceramics: Challenges for Microscopy,” invited keynote, Workshop on Electron Microscopy of Ceramic Materials, Eskisehir, Turkey, October 12-13, 2009.

“Nanoengineered Transparent Metallic Nanofibrous Membrane and its Application for Humidity Sensing,” (with W. Jia, Y. Wang, J. Basu, T. Strout and Y. Lei), American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2009.

“Observation on Structural Modification of Co-doped Barium Cerate-Zirconate during Exposure to Reducing Environment,” (with J. Basu, A. Suresh, B. Wilhite and P. Singh), (ICACC-S3-047-2010), 34th International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Daytona Beach, Fl., January 24-29, 2010.

“Interdiffusion in NiO-YSZ Composites,” (with J. Basu, S. Bhowmick, D. King and P. Singh), (ICACCS3-061-2010), 34th International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Daytona Beach, Fl., January 24-29, 2010.

“Interfaces in Ceramics: Challenges for Microscopy,” invited, University of Graz., Graz, Austria, January 29, 2010.

“Interfaces and Small Particles,” invited, University of Leoben, Leoben, Austria, January 28, 2010.

“Interfaces and Small Particles,” invited, Solid Mechanics/Materials Seminar, Brown University, Providence, RI, March 22, 2010.

“Interfaces and Small Particles,” MSE Department Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, April 23, 2010.

Douglas J. Cooper Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.

Member, Economic Development Committee, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.

Member, Automation Division of ISA. Member, Education Section, American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE).

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Member, Computing and System Technology Section, AIChE. Member, Chemical Engineering Division, American Society for Engineering Education.

Member, Connecticut Section of Sigma XI – The Scientific Research Society.

Puxian Gao Presentations: “Hierarchical Semiconductor Nanostructures for Energy, Environmental and Sensing Applications,” invited, OCPA6–International Conference on Physics Education and Frontier Physics Research, Lanchou, China, August 3-7, 2009.

“Solution Based Alloying Process in MgO/ZnO Composite Nanowires,” (with P. Shimpi, D.G. Gobermann and Y. Ding), American Chemical Society Fall Meeting, Washington, DC, August 18, 2009.

“Catalyst Free Lateral Alignment of Large Scale SiOx Nanowire Arrays along Silicon Substrate Surface,” (with P. Shimpi), American Chemical Society Fall Meeting, Washington, DC, August 18, 2009.

“Electronic Transport of Superlattice-structured ZnO Nanohelix,” (with Y. Ding and Z.L. Wang), American Chemical Society Fall Meeting, Washington, DC, August 18, 2009.

“Oxide Assisted Vapor-solid-solid Growth and Chemical Sensing of Large Scale Crystalline Zn2SnO4 Nanowires,” (with W. J. Cai, D. Jian and P. Shimpi), American Chemical Society Fall Meeting, Washington, DC, August 19, 2009. (PETR division student competition) “Nanostructured CuO: Synthesis, Characterization and Application,” (with W. Jia, E. Reitz, Y. Wang, P. Shimpi, H. Zhang and Y. Lei), American Chemical Society Fall Meeting, Washington, DC, August 19, 2009.

“Composite Nanowire Based Nanocatalysts for Environmental Applications,” (with W.J. Cai, D. Jian, C. Brooks and P. Shimpi), American Chemical Society Fall Meeting, Washington, DC, August 20, 2009.

“A Universal Growth Process for Various Functional Nanowire Architectures without Using Metal Catalysts,” (with P. Shimpi), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, December 2009.

“Controlled Annealing Induced Structure and Photoluminescence Property Evolution in Solutionprocessed Mg–alloyed ZnO Nanowires,” (with P. Shimpi), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, December 2009.

“Lateral Heterojunction Micro-networks of Semiconductor Nanowires/nanofilms,” (with M.F. Sarac, J.A. Mackey, P. Shimpi and D.S. Kim), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, December 2009.

“Flow Dynamics Controlled Helical Structured ZnS Nanowires and Nanobelts,” (with D.S. Kim and P. Shimpi), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, December 2009.

“Zig-zag Zinc-blend Structured ZnS Nanowires: Large Scale Synthesis and Their Structure Evolution Induced by Electron Irradiation,” (with D.S. Kim and P. Shimpi), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, December 2009.

“Investigation on the Contradictory Gas Sensing Behaviors of ZnO and Zn2SnO4 Crystalline Nanowire Arrays,” (with W.J. Cai), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, December 2009.

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“Chemical and Thermal Stability, and Gaseous Catalytic and Sensing Behaviors of ZnO/(La,Sr)CoO3 Composite Nanowire Arrays,” (with W.J. Cai, P. Shimpi and C. Brooks), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, December 2009.

“Seedless Synthesis and Thermal Decomposition of Single Crystalline Zinc Hydroxystannate Cubes,” (with G. Wrobel, M. Piech, S. Dardona and Y. Ding), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, December 2009.

“Seedless Synthesis and Field Emission of ZnO Nanoneedles on Metal Electrodes,” (with G. Wrobel, M. Piech and S. Dardona), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, December 2009.

“Multifunctional Nanowire/film Composites based Bi-modular Sensors for In-situ and Real-time High Temperature Gas Detection,” invited, DOE/NETL, Pittsburgh, PA, December 15, 2009.

“Three-dimensional Composite Nanostructures for Lean NOx Emission Control,” invited, Department of Energy, Washington, DC, March 31, 2010.

“Hierarchical Composite Nanostructures for Energy, Environmental and Sensing Applications,” invited, Materials Science and Engineering Program, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, March 17, 2010.

“Investigation on the Contradictory Gas Sensing Behaviors of Semiconducting ZnO and Zn2SnO4 Single Crystalline Nanowires,” (with W. J. Cai), Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Symposium Program, Storrs, CT, April 7, 2010.

“Seedless Synthesis and Field Emission of ZnO Nanoneedles on Metal Electrodes,” (with G. Wrobel, M. Piech and S. Dardona), Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Symposium Program, Storrs, CT, April 7, 2010.

“Hydrothermal Synthesis of ZnMgO Nanowire Arrays and Annealing Induced Structure Evolution,” (with P. Shimpi), IMAPS New England 37th Annual Symposium, Boxboro, MA, May 4, 2010.

“Three-dimensional Composite Nanostructures for Lean NOx Emission Control,” invited, DOE Vehicle Technology Program Annual Merits Review Meeting, Washington, DC, June 10, 2010.

“Composite Nanowire Catalysts for Energy, Environmental and Sensing Applications,” Gordon Research Conference - Catalysis, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH, June 27-July 2, 2010.

“Piezoelectric Nanohelix Mechanics,” 2nd Advanced Materials Forum: Nano- & Micromechanics, Benet Army Laboratory, Albany, NY, June 14-15, 2010.

Rainer Hebert Board member, ASM Hartford Chapter.

Session Chair, TMS Annual Meeting 2010 Ultrafine-grained Materials TMS Solidification Committee, Presentations: “Thermal and Thermomechanical Anisotropy in a Cu50Hf41.5Al8.5 Bulk Metallic Glass,” (with A. Mubarok), Symposium on Bulk Metallic Glasses, TMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, February 2010.

“Necking Instabilities in Multilayers during Accumulative Roll Bonding (ARB),” Symposium on Ultrafine-grained Materials VII, TMS Annual Meeting 2010, Seattle, WA, February 2010.

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Bryan Huey Member, Editorial Board, Microscopy Today.

Head, Scanning Probe Microscopy Course, Lehigh Microscopy School.

Lead Organizer, MRS Fall 2010 Symposium V: Advances in Scanning Probe Microscopy.

Co-organizer, EMA 2011 Symposium S3: Nano Phenomena and Interfacial/Surface Effects in Electronic Ceramics.

Session Chair, “Multiferroic and Ferroelectric Materials: Domains,” Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, December 2, 2009.

Division Program co-Chair, American Ceramic Society’s Basic Science Division, overseeing 25 symposiums for five international meetings in 2011.

Presentations: “Nanoscale Mechanics, Optics, and Electronic Properties,” invited, IMS Associates Program Board Meeting, August 6, 2009.

“High Speed Scanning Probe Microscopy,” invited, The Ohio State University Dept. of Materials, August 10, 2009.

“Enhanced Nascent Domain Growth Correlated with Local Mechanical Properties,” (with N. Polomoff), International Symposium on Integrated Ferroelectrics, September 28, 2009.

“Ferroelectric Domain Dynamics at the Combined Nanosecond and Nanometer Scales,” invited, International Symposium on Integrated Ferroelectrics (ISIF 2009), September 29, 2009.

“High Speed SPM,” invited, Aarhus University iNANO, October 6, 2009.

“Nanomechanics Combined with 3D Optics for Novel Biological and Bio-Materials Analysis,” invited, Danish Technical University, October 9, 2009.

“Ethics and Engineering, The Space Shuttle Disasters,” invited, UConn School of Engineering, Engineering 1000, October 20, 2009.

“AFM for Biochemistry,” invited, UConn Department of Chemistry class, October 20, 2009.

“Optical and Nanomechanical Living Cell Response to Foreign Structure Exposure and Cellular Deformation,” UConn MetaScience Meeting-Biophysics, January 15, 2010.

“Ethics and Engineering, The Space Shuttle Disasters,” invited, UConn School of Engineering, Engineering 1000, October 21, 2009.

“Nanobiomechanics,” invited, UConn Biomedical Engineering Program class, November 13, 2009.

“Combined Nanosecond and Nanometer Scale Dynamics of Ferroelectric Domains to Map Nucleation Activation Energies,” (with N. Polomoff, V. Palumbo, J. Bosse and S. Lee), invited, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, December 1, 2009.

“Direct Nanoscale and Nanosecond Investigation of the Mechanical and Ferroelectric Influence of Individual Domain Defects on Polarization Switching,” (with N. Polomoff, S. Lee, Y.H. Chu, P. Yu and R. Ramesh), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, December 1, 2009.

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“Ferroelectric Domain Switching Dynamics at Macroscopic Geometric and Strained Defects,” (with N. Polomoff, S. Lee, Y. H. Chu, P. Yu and R. Ramesh), poster, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, December 1, 2009.

“Real Time Dynamics of Silver Diffusion from Nanoparticles into, and out of, Chalcogenide Glass Films Upon Optical Absorption,” (with V. Palumbo, A. Rakin, J. Cech and H. Jain), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, December 2, 2009.

“Pharmaceutical Nanosuspension Stabilizer Selection by Scanning Probe Microscopy,” (with S. Verma and D. Burgess), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, December 2, 2009.

“Sinusoidal Scanning for High Speed Scanning Probe Microscopy,” (with S. Lee, N. Polomoff and J. Bosse), invited, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, December 2, 2009.

“Combined Atomic Force Microscopy and 3-D Optical Investigation of the Active Cytoskeletal Response of Livig MHS Cells to Nanoscale Structures and Forces,” (with V. Palumbo, A. Rakin, A. Lucas, R. Gilberti and D. Knecht), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, December 3, 2009.

“Nanometer and Nanosecond Scale Dynamics of Ferroelectric Domain Nucleation and Growth,” invited, Electronic Materials and Applications (EMA 2010), January 20, 2010.

“Novel Developments in Scanning Probe Microscopy,” invited, UConn/Drexel/Postech Collaborative Meeting, January 27, 2010.

“Nanoscale Resolved Ferroelectric Domain Growth Correlated to Mechanical Compliance,” (with V. Palumbo, N. Polomoff, G. Santone and A. Rakin), poster, Connecticut Symposium on Microelectronics & Optoelectronics, April 7, 2010.

“Nucleation and Growth: Parallels between Faculty Careers and Materials Science,” invited, UConn School of Engineering Retirement Lecture Series, April 19, 2010.

“3D Optical Cross Sections of Living Cells during Nanomechanical Probing,” (with V. Palumbo, R. Gilberti and D. Knecht), poster, Asylum Research / Exxon-Mobile Users Meeting, April 20, 2010.

Yusuf Khan Program Chair, Orthopaedic Biomaterials Special Interest Group, Society for Biomaterials.

Vice Chair, Biomaterials Education Special Interest Group, Society for Biomaterials.

Program Chair, Orthopaedic Biomaterials Special Interest Group, Society for Biomaterials.

Vice Chair, Biomaterials Education Special Interest Group, Society for Biomaterials.

Presentations: “Osteoinduction of Human Adipose Derived Stem Cells using Composite Sintered Microsphere Matrix,” (with L. Nair, E. Cushnie and C. T. Laurencin), ISSCR, Barcelona, Spain, July 8-11, 2009.

“Low Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound Increases Wnt Signaling in Mouse Osteoprogenitor Cells,” (with K.W.H. Lo and J. Veronick), Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting 2010.

“Scaffold-Directed Stem Cell Behavior: The Effect of Polymer Ceramic Composites on Bone Repair,” (with E. Cushnie and C.T. Laurencin), Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting April 2010.

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Sangamesh Kumbar Presentations: “Biodegradable Micro-nano Scaffolds for Ligament and Tendon Regeneration,” keynote, World Conference on Regenerative Medicine, Leipzig, Germany, October 29-31, 2009.

“Nanofiber Matrices for Tendon Augmentation: Effect of Cell Seeding and Extracellular Matrix Components on Proliferation and Tensile properties,” (with M.S. Peach, S. Roberge, B. Aleen, U. Toti and C. Laurencin), Presented at Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting and Exposition, Seattle, WA, April 21-24, 2010.

“Mechanically Competent Polyphosphazene Nanostructured Biomimetic Scaffolds: Accelerated Osteoblast Differentiation,” (with M. Deng, L.S. Nair, A.L. Weikel, H.R. Allcock and C.T. Laurencin), Presented at Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting and Exposition, Seattle, WA, April 21-24, 2010.

Cato Laurencin Fellow, Academy of Medicine.

Presentations: “Osteoinduction of Human Adipose Derived Stem Cells using Composite Sintered Microsphere Matrix,” (with L. Nair, E. Cushnie and Y. Khan), ISSCR, Barcelona, Spain, July 8-11, 2009.

“Osteogenic Nanostructured Titanium Surface: A Potential Orthopaedic Material,” (with J. Saleh and L. Nair), 6th International Key Symposium on Nanomedicine, Stockholm, Sweden (Young investigator, abstract accepted), September 9-11, 2009.

“Biodegradable Micro-nano Scaffolds for Ligament and Tendon Regeneration,” (with L. Nair), World Conference on Regenerative Medicine, Leipzig, Germany, October 29-31, 2009.

“Scaffold-Directed Stem Cell Behavior: The Effect of Polymer Ceramic Composites on Bone Repair,” (with E. Cushnie and Y. Khan), Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting April 2010.

“Nanofiber Matrices for Tendon Augmentation: Effect of Cell Seeding and Extracellular Matrix Components on Proliferation and Tensile Properties,” (with M.S. Peach, S. Roberge, B. Aleen, U. Toti and S. Kumbar), Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting and Exposition, Seattle, WA, April 21-24, 2010.

“Mechanically Competent Polyphosphazene Nanostructured Biomimetic Scaffolds: Accelerated Osteoblast Differentiation,” (with M. Deng, L.S. Nair, A.L. Weikel, H.R. Allcock and S. Kumbar), Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting and Exposition, Seattle, WA, April 21-24, 2010.

Yu Lei Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Applied Biochemistry.

Member, Editorial Board, Biotechnology.

Guest Editor, special topic on Biosensors, Analytical Letters, 2010.

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Presentations: “Gas Sensor Using Polypyrrole-Coated TiO2/ZnO Nanofibers,” (with Y. Wang, W. Jia, T. Strout, A. Schempf and H. Zhang), National Science Foundation Conference, Hawaii, 2009.

“Electrocatalytic Oxidation and Reduction of H2O2 on Vertically Aligned Co3O4 Nanowalls Electrode: Toward H2O2 Detection,” (with W. Jia, Y. Wang, T. Yu, M. Guo and E.G. Rodriguez), National Science Foundation Conference, Hawaii, 2009.

“Electronic Sensor for the Detection of TNT and Other Nitroaromatics,” (with J. Akhigbe, Y. Wang, A. Gokirmak, C. Brückner and Y. Yan), National Science Foundation CMMI Hawaii Conference 2009.

“Detection of E. coli and Total Coliforms,” (with L. Su and K. Venkitanarayanan), American Chemical Society 2009.

“Sensitive Ammonia Gas Sensor Using Polypyrrole-Coated TiO2/ZnO Nanofibers,” (with Y. Wang, W. Jia, T. Strout, A. Schempf and H. Zhang), American Chemical Society 2009.

“Nanostructured CuO: Synthesis, Characterization and Application,” (with W. Jia, E. Reiz, Y. Wang, P. Shimpi, H. Zhang and P. Gao), American Chemical Society 2009.

“Nanoengineered Transparent Metallic Nanofibrous Membrane and its Application for Humidity Sensing,” (with W. Jia, Y. Wang, J. Basu, T. Strout and C.B. Carter), American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2009.

“Pd/TiO2 Nanofibrous Membrane and its Application in Hydrogen Sensing,” (with W. Jia, L. Su, Y. Ding, A. Schempf and Y. Wang), American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2009.

“Palladium Nanofibers for Electrooxidation of Alcohols in Alkaline Medium,” (with L. Su, W. Jia, A. Schempf and Y. Ding), American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2009.

“Carbonized Hemoglobin Nanofibers for Sensitive H2O2 Detection,” (with Y. Ding and H. Zhang), American Chemical Society 2010.

“Hemoglobin Fibers for Sensitive H2O2 and Nitrite Detection,” (with Y. Ding), American Chemical Society 2010.

“Poly(meso-tetra(2-thienyl)porphyrin) for Explosives Detection,” (with W. Chen, J. Akhigbe, Y. Wang and C. Bruckner), invited, American Chemical Society Regional Conference 2010.

Jeffrey McCutcheon Northeast Utilities Assistant Professor in Environmental Engineering Education.

Chair,“Osmotically Driven Membrane Processes” session, North American Membrane Society 2010 Meeting, Washington, D.C., July 17-22, 2010.

Co-chair, “Sustainable Water Production and Waste Treatment: Emerging Technologies for the Treatment and Utilization of Impaired Water Sources,” Division of Environmental Chemistry.

Member, North American Membrane Society.

Member, Separations Division, American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Member, Environmental and Polymer Division, American Chemical Society.

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Presentations: “Desalination Using Forward Osmosis: A High Recovery, Low Energy, Low Cost, and Sustainable Desalination Alternative,” Barcelona Technology Seminar Sessions on Energy, Water, and Mobility, Barcelona, Spain, July 2009.

“Engineering Osmosis for Sustainable Desalination: A High Recovery and Affordable Alternative to Reverse Osmosis,” American Chemical Society National Meeting, Polymer Division, San Francisco, CA, March 21-25, 2010.

“Waste Heat Recovery using the Ammonia-Carbon Dioxide Osmotic Heat Engine,” (with R.L. McGinnis and J. Arena), American Chemical Society National Meeting, Environmental Chemistry Division, San Francisco, CA, March 21-25, 2010.

William Mustain Session Chair, B7: Electrode Processes Relevant to Fuel Cell Technology, 217th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society.

Member, Energy Technology Executive Committee, Electrochemical Society.

Member, New Technology Committee, Electrochemical Society.

Member, Industrial Electrolysis and Electrochemical Engineering Division, Electrochemical Society.

Presentations: “Performance of a Direct Borohydride Fuel Cell Stack,” 216th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, October 2009.

“Effect of Carbon Dioxide on the Reduction of O2 in Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells,” 216th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, October 2009.

“Promising Alternative for a CO2 Tolerant Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells,” 217th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, April 2010.

“Nitrogen Functionalized Mesoporous Carbon for PEM Fuel Cells,” 217th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, April 2010.

“A Self-Supported Direct Borohydride Fuel Cell: System Development and Bench Marking,” (with A. Shukla, P. Sridhar, S. Pitchumani, P. Singh and U. Pasaogullari), ASME 8th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science and Technology, Abstract No.:FuelCell2010-33313, New York, NY, June 14-16, 2010.

Lakshmi Nair Chair, Society for Biomaterials-Orthopaedic Biomaterials SIG, 2009-11.

Secretary/Treasurer, Society for Biomaterials-Cell/Organ Therapies, 2009-11.

Presentations: “Injectable Tissue-engineered Bone Healing of a Rat Calvarial Defect,” (with S. Stephen, B. Gross, S. Tholpady, R. Ogle and S. Park), Otolaryngology Conference, July 2009.

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“Osteoinduction of Human Adipose Derived Stem Cells using Composite Sintered Microsphere Matrix,” (with C.T. Laurencin, E. Cushnie and Y. Khan), ISSCR, Barcelona, Spain, July 8-11, 2009.

“Osteogenic Nanostructured Titanium Surface: A Potential Orthopaedic Material,” (with J. Saleh and C.T. Laurencin), 6th International Key Symposium on Nanomedicine, Stockholm, Sweden, Young Investigator abstract accepted, September 9-11, 2009.

“Biodegradable Micro-nano Scaffolds for Ligament and Tendon Regeneration,” (with C.T. Laurencin), World Conference on Regenerative Medicine, Leipzig, Germany, October 29-31, 2009.

“Mechanically Competent Polyphosphazene Nanostructured Biomimetic Scaffolds: Accelerated Osteoblast Differentiation,” (with M. Deng, S. Kumbar, A.L. Weikel, H.R. Allcock and C.T. Laurencin), Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting and Exposition, Seattle, WA, April 21-24, 2010.

“Nanotechnology and Tissue Engineering,” invited, Columbia University, 2010.

Richard Parnas Member, Editorial Board, Polymer Composites.

Member, Editorial Board, Composite Materials A. Co-Organizer, Biofuels Quality Testing Laboratory Grand Opening and Symposium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 8, 2010.

Presentations: “Low Value Waste to High Value Fuel and Power,” invited, Idroesse Infrastrutture SpA, Padova, Italy, July 8, 2009.

“Protein Based Plastics and Biodiesel Fuel: 2 Sides of the Sustainability Coin,” invited, Consorzio San Marco Innovazione, Hotel Fiore, Castel Franko, Italy, July 11, 2009.

“Biofuels at UCONN,” invited, Guest Lecture in EcoHouse INTD 1810, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, December 2, 2009.

“Sustainable Energy Solutions,” invited, Connecticut Venture Group, December 10, 2009.

“Biofuels at UCONN,” invited, Guest Lecture in EcoHouse INTD 1784, University of Connecticut, February 16, 2010.

“Variable Feedstock Biodiesel Synthesis via Novel Laminar Flow Reactor/Separator,” invited, BlazeTech Corp., Woburn, MA, March 12, 2010.

“UConn Biofuels,” invited, UConn 2010 Biofuels Symposium, Storrs, CT, April 8, 2010.

“Biofuels Research at UConn and the Materials Needed to Move Forward,” invited, Institute of Materials Science Advisory Board Meeting, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, May 27, 2010.

“Reaction Engineering for Scalable Biofuels Production,” invited, US-China Workshop on Biofuels, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, June 1, 2010.

Ramamurthy Ramprasad Max Planck Society Fellowship.

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Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship.

Access granted: Teragrid Resource Allocation Grant (800,000 SUs) at NSF Teragrid.

Presentations: “Effective Work Functions of TiCxN1-x in Contact with HfO2 Through ab initio Simulations,” (with H. Zhu), MRS Conference, Boston, MA, December 2009.

“Vortex Polarization Instability in PbTiO3 Nanowires,” (with G. Pilania), MRS Conference, Boston, MA, December 2009.

“Band Gap Engineering of ZnO and Related Materials through Uniaxial Strain,” (with S.K. Yadav), MRS Conference, Boston, MA, December 2009.

“Ab Initio Thermodynamic Model for the Stability of Nanocrystal Heterostructures,” (with T. Sadowski), MRS Conference, Boston, MA, December 2009.

“ZnX (X = O, S, Se, Te) Nanowires under Uniaxial Strain: A Pathway for Band Gap Engineering,” (with S.K. Yadav and T. Sadowski), MRS Conference, Boston, MA, December 2009.

“Point Defects in CdSe and CdTe Nanostructures - An Ab Initio Study,” (with T. Sadowski and G. Pilania), MRS Conference, Boston, MA, December 2009.

“Electronic Properties of Polypropylene Capacitor Dielectrics from First Principles,” (with M. Stournara), MRS Conference, Boston, MA, December 2009.

“Anti-ferroelectric PbZrO3 (001) Surfaces: An ab initio Study,” (with G. Pilania), MRS Conference, Boston, MA, December 2009.

“Stability and Work Function of TiCxN1-x Alloy Surfaces,” (with H. Zhu), MRS Conference, Boston, MA, December 2009.

“Kinetics of O Defect Diffusion in Amorphous HfO2 from First Principles,” (with C. Tang), MRS Conference, Boston, MA, December 2009.

“ZnX (X = O, S, Se, Te) under Uniaxial Strain,” (with S. Yadav), APS Conference, Portland, OR, March 2010.

“Vortex Polarization Instabilities in PbTiO3 Nanowires,” (with G. Pilania), APS Conference, Portland, OR, March 2010.

“Stability and Work Function of TiCxN1-x Alloy Surfaces: Density Functional Theory Calculations,” (with H. Zhu), APS Conference, Portland, OR, March 2010.

“Point Defect Chemistry in Amorphous HfO2,” (with C. Tang), APS Conference, Portland, OR, March 2010.

“Point Defect Chemistry in Amorphous HfO2,” CMOC Conference, Storrs, CT, April 2010.

“Band Gap Engineering of ZnO and Related Materials through Uniaxial Stress,” (with S.K. Yadav and T. Sadowski), CMOC Conference, Storrs, CT, April 2010.

“Vortex Polarization Instability in PbTiO3 Nanowires,” (with G. Pilania), CMOC Conference, Storrs, CT, April 2010.

“Effective Work Functions of TiCxN1-x in Contact with HfO2 through ab initio Simulations,” (with H. Zhu), CMOC Conference, Storrs, CT, April 2010.

Connecticut Microelectronics & Optoelectronics Symposium, invited, Storrs, CT, April 2010.

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George Rossetti Contributing Editor, Journal of the American Ceramic Society.

Session Chair: Piezo-MEMS, U.S. Navy Workshop on Acoustic Transduction Materials and Devices, State College, PA, May 2010.

Member, Piezocrystals Standards Committee, U.S. Navy Workshop on Acoustic Transduction Materials and Devices, State College, PA, May 2010.

Student Poster Judge, U.S. Navy Workshop on Acoustic Transduction Materials and Devices, State College, PA, May 2010.

Session Chair, Multiscale Modeling of Microstructure Deformation in Material Processing, MS&T 09, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2009.

Session Chair, Current Trends in Oxide Materials, 11th International Conference on Advanced Materials, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 2009.

Access to large-signal electromechanical properties facilities, Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI (via collaboration under the ONR ULI and NREIP Programs).

Presentations: “Design and Modeling of High Power Density Acoustic Transducer Materials for Autonomous Undersea Vehicles,” (with A.A. Heitmann and A. Amin), ONR University Laboratory Initiative Review, 2009.

“Compositional Design of Piezoelectric Transducer Materials: Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2009.

Lessons from Thermodynamics,”

“Morphotropism, Microstructure and Electromechanical Properties in Ferroelectric Solid Solutions,” invited, XVIII International Materials Research Congress, Cancun, Mexico, August 2009.

“Interlayer Interactions and Electrical Domain Structures in Compositionally Graded Ferroelectrics,” (with S.P. Alpay, R. Ramprasad and B. Okatan), invited, ARO-Sponsored Workshop on Atomistic Interfaces – Ionic Solids, Storrs, CT, August 2009.

“Physical Phenomena in Ferroelectric Solid Solutions,” invited, 11th International Conference on Advanced Materials, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 2009.

“Transformational Phenomena, Microstructure and Physical Properties of Ferroelectric Solid Solutions,” (with A.A. Heitmann), invited, MS&T 09, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2009.

“Transformational Processes and Physical Phenomena in Ferroelectric Solid Solutions,” invited, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, University of Connecticut, November 2009.

“Thermodynamic Behavior and Electromechanical Properties of Ferroelectric Solid Solutions,” invited, Materials Science and Engineering Seminar, University of Maryland, March 2010.

“Thermodynamic Behavior and Electromechanical Properties of Lead Zinc Niobate – Lead Titanate (PZN–PT) Single Crystals,” (with A. A. Heitmann and A. Amin), invited, U.S. Navy Workshop on Acoustic Transduction Materials and Devices, State College, PA, May 2010.

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“High Transition Temperature Ternary Single Crystals,” invited, (with H-Y. Lee, A.A. Heitmann and A. Amin), U.S. Navy Workshop on Acoustic Transduction Materials and Devices, State College, PA, May 2010.

Leon Shaw Organizer: “A Symposium in Honor of Professor Reza Abbaschian: Processing, Crystal Growth and Phase Equilibrium of Advanced Materials,” Symposium at MS&T’ 2010, Houston, TX, October 17-21, 2010.

Member, Executive Committee, ASM Nanomaterials Task Force.

Chair, ASM-MSCTS Materials Synthesis & Processing Committee.

Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, 2006-date.

Fellow, World Academy of Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, Poland, 2005-date.

Fellow, ASM International, 2004-date.

Member, Engineering Ceramics Division, American Ceramic Society.

Member, TMS Mechanical Metallurgy Committee.

Member, TMS Composite Materials Committee.

Member, TMS Powder Metallurgy Committee.

Presentations: “Grain-Size Dependence of the Hardness and Toughness of Submicrometer and Nanometer Hydroxyapatite,” invited, (with J. Wang), “Next Generation Biomaterials Symposium,” MS&T 2009 Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, October 25-29, 2009.

“Experimental Study of the Microstructure and Stress State of Shot Peened and Surface Severely Plastically Deformed Nickel Alloys,” invited, (with A.L. Ortiz, J.-W. Tian and P.K. Liaw), “Structural Materials for Aerospace and Defense: Challenges and Prospects Symposium,” MS&T 2009 Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, October 25-29, 2009.

“Nanoengineering-Enabled Solid-State Hydrogen Uptake and Release in the LiBH4 plus MgH2 System,” (with X. Wan, T. Markmaitree, W. Osborn and K. Crosby), “Energy Materials” symposium, MS&T 2009 Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, October 25-29, 2009.

“Ultralow Temperature Sintering and Simultaneous Improvements in the Hardness and Toughness of Hydroxyapatite (HA),” invited, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, January 20, 2010.

“Enhancing the Hydriding and Dehydriding Kinetics of LiBH4+MgH2 systems via the Addition of Transition Metals,” (with X. Wan, K. Crosby and Y. Zhong), Materials Challenges in Alternative & Renewable Energy 2010 Conference, Cocoa Beach, FL, February 21-25, 2010.

“Novel Hydrogen Storage Properties Derived from Nanoscale LiBH4,” (with X. Wan, Y. Zhong and K. Crosby), invited, “Materials Challenges in Alternative & Renewable Energy 2010 conference,” Cocoa Beach, Florida, February 21-25, 2010.

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“Enhancing Hydrogen Storage Properties through Nanoscale LiBH4,” invited, The John & Virginia Towers Distinguished Lecture, Michigan Technological University, April 9, 2010.

“The Pathways to On-Board Hydrogen Storage for Fuel Cell Vehicles,” invited, The Institute of Materials Science (IMS) Associates Program Annual Meeting, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, May 27, 2010.

Leslie Shor Co-Chair, Water Section, Environmental Division, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).

Conference Session Chair, Environmental Impacts of Nanomaterials, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) National Meeting.

Member, Nanoparticles in the Environment sub-committee, NEWEA (New England Water Environment Association).

Presentations: “Microfluidic Devices as Micro-structured Microbial Habitat Arrays,” invited, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, ITESM, Monterrey Mexico, January 19, 2010.

“Examination of NOM Physicochemical Properties on Nanomaterial Transport,” (with C.P. McNew, E.J. LeBoeuf, Y. Li and D.A. Markov), American Chemical Society, San Francisco, CA, March 2010.

“Microfluidic Devices as Engineered Habitats for Microbes,” invited, University of Connecticut, Department of Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, March 5, 2010.

Prabhakar Singh Associate Editor, International Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Engineering.

Guest Editor, International Journal of Advanced Ceramics.

Guest Editor, Journal of Materials, Engineering and Performance.

Technical Chair, ASME 8th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science and Engineering, New York, NY, June 14-16, 2010.

Chair, Energy Division, ASM. Session Co-Chair: “Electrochemical Performance,” Symposium 3: 7th International Symposium on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC): Materials, Science and Technology, 34th International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Daytona Beach, Fl., January 24-29, 2010.

Session Co-Chair: “Seals, Materials and Designs,” Symposium 3: 7th International Symposium on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC): Materials, Science and Technology, 34th International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Daytona Beach, FL, January 24-29, 2010.

Access granted: Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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Presentations: “Influence of pH on Synthesis of Homogeneous Cobalt-doped Barium Cerium Zirconium Oxide via Oxalate Co-precipitation,” (with A. Suresh and B.A. Wilhite), American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) National Meeting, 2009.

“IT Solid Oxide Fuel Cells – Recent Advances and Development Needs,” (with A. Verma), 2009 Taiwan SOFC Internal Symposium, August 11-13, 2009.

“Energy Systems for Carbon Constrained World – A UConn Perspective,” (with A. Verma), 2009 Taiwan SOFC Internal Symposium, August 11-13, 2009.

“Direct Borohydride Fuel Cells,” invited, India – US Energy Conference, Washington, DC, September 28 – October 1, 2009.

“Anodic Electrode Processes in Liquid Tin Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (LT-SOFC),” (with U. Pasaogullari, A. Verma and G. McVay), (ICACC-S3-024-2010), 34th International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Daytona Beach, FL, January 24-29, 2010.

“Preparation and Characterization of LSCF(La0.58Sr0.4Co0.2Fe0.8Ox)/GDC (Ce0.8Gd0.2O2) Cathode,” (with N. Li, A. Smirnova, A. Verma and J-H. Kim), (ICACC-S3-035-2010), 34th International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Daytona Beach, FL, January 24-29, 2010.

“Observation on Structural Modification of Co-doped Barium Cerate-Zirconate during Exposure to Reducing Environment, (with J. Basu, A. Suresh, B. Wilhite and C. Carter), (ICACC-S3-047-2010), 34th International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Daytona Beach, FL, January 24-29, 2010.

“Assessment of Electrochemical Properties of Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.2Fe0.8O3-x,” (with A. Verma), (ICACCS3-057-2010), 34th International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Daytona Beach, FL, January 24-29, 2010.

“Interdiffusion in NiO-YSZ Composites,” (with J. Basu, S. Bhowmick, D. King and C. Carter), (ICACCS3-061-2010), 34th International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Daytona Beach, FL, January 24-29, 2010.

“Basic Energy Science – Clean Energy System Development,” invited, U.S. Department of Energy: Science for Energy Technology Workshop, Rockville, MD, January 28-29, 2010.

“Center for Clean Energy Engineering,” DGLIO Workshop on Hydrogen and Fuel Cells, February 23, 2010.

“Possible Mechanisms Associated with the Accelerated Corrosion of Metals and Alloys under Bi-Polar Exposure (H2-H2O) // Metal // Air) Conditions,” DGLIO Workshop on Hydrogen and Fuel Cells, February 23, 2010.

“A Self-Supported Direct Borohydride Fuel Cell: System Development and Bench Marking,” (with A. Shukla, P. Sridhar, S. Pitchumani, W. Mustain and U. Pasaogullari), ASME 8th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science and Technology, Abstract No.:FuelCell2010-33313, New York, NY, June 14-16, 2010.

“Meeting Future Emissions Regulatoins in Aviation – Potential Role for Fuel Cells,” (with E. Erdl), ASME 8th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science and Technology, Abstract No.:FuelCell201033278, New York City, NY, June 14-16, 2010.

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“Observations on the Scaling and Oxidation Resistance of Nanocrystaline Fe-CR Alloys,” (with R. Singh), ASME 8th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science and Technology, Abstract No.:FuelCell2010-33273, New York, NY, June 14-16, 2010.

Ranjan Srivastava Member, “Electronic Dissemination of Meeting Content” Task Force, American Chemical Society.

Member, Bioinformatics Advisory Board, SRI International.

Presentations: “Heuristic Development for Model-Guided Cellular Engineering for Model-Guided Cellular Engineering of Escherichia coli for Biohydrogen Production,” Biochemical Engineering XVI, Burlington, VT, July 7, 2009.

“Investigation of n-butanol Separation by Pervaporation using PDMS and PDMS-PE Composite Membrane,” ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC, August 20, 2009.

“Hypothesis Generation Utilizing Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling With BioCyc,” Pathway Tools Meeting, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, August 25, 2009.

“Leveraging Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling,” Polymer Program Seminar Series, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, November 6, 2009.

“Narrow Band Imaging (NBI) of Oral Mucositis in Cancer Patients,” ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 24, 2010.

“Cellular Engineering of Escherichia coli For Hydrogen Production,” plenary, The Leermaker Symposium, Wesleyan University, May 7, 2010.

“Cellular Engineering Of Escherichia coli For Hydrogen Production, The Leermaker Symposium, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, May 7, 2010.

Yong Wang Section Editor, Handbook of Biomedical Engineering.

Session Chair, BMES Annual Conference, October 9, 2009.

Presentations: “Using Molecular Guides to Identify the Essential Nanostructures of Nucleic Acid Aptamers,” (with J. Zhou and B. Soontornworajit), Abstract No. BIOT 112, 238th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Washington, DC, August 16-20, 2009.

“A DNA Aptamer-based Nanomaterial for Targeted Cell Labeling,” (with J. Zhou and B. Soontornworajit), Abstract No. PMSE 255, 238th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Washington, DC, August 16-20, 2009.

“Determining the Essential Nucleotides of an Aptamer by using Molecular Guides,” (with J. Zhou and B. Soontornworajit), Abstract No. 282, 2009 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Fall Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, October 7-10, 2009.

“Artificial Antibody for Cancer Cell Labeling,” (with J. Zhou and B. Soontornworajit), Abstract No. 283, 58

2009 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Fall Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, October 7-10, 2009.

“Aptamer-functionalized Materials for Cell Recognition and Drug Delivery,” Gordon Research Conference, New London, NH, June 20-25, 2010.

Young Investigator Presentations, invited, Bioanalytical Sensors, Gordon Research Conference, New London, NH, June 23, 2010.

Mei Wei Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Biomimetics, Bioinformatics and Biocomputing.

Member, Board of Review, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A. Member, Editorial Board, ASAIO Journal.

Session Chair, 4th Annual New England Musculoskeletal Institute (NEMSI) Research Day, April 2010.

Presentations: “Bone Repair Using New Apatite/Collagen Scaffolds,” U.S. Department of Defense Workshop, July 2009.

“Biomimetic Apatite Coating,” Teleflex Medical, September 2009.

“Biomaterials Research in Engineering,” Meta Science, December 2009.

“Biomimetic Collagen-Hydroxyapatite Coating on UV Irradiated Ti6Al4V Discs,” (with Z. Xia), National Science Foundation CMMI Research and Innovation Conference, Honolulu, HI, June 22-25, 2009.

“Novel Scaffold-guided New Bone Formation in a Mouse Calvarial Model,” (with X. Yu, L. Wang, F. Peng, X. Jiang, J. Huang, Z. Xia and D. Rowe), NIDCR Trainee Day, Bethesda, MD, March 2, 2010. “

Bone Regeneration using Collagen Scaffolds Loaded with Different Types of Donor Cells,” (with X. Yu, L. Wang, F. Peng, X. Jiang, J. Huang, Z. Xia and D. Rowe), Society for Biomaterials, 2010 Annual Meeting and Exposition, Seattle, WA, April 21-24, 2010.

“Effect of Scaffold Microstructure on New Bone Formation,” (with X. Yu, Z. Xia, L. Wang, F. Peng, X. Jiang, J. Huang and D. Rowe), Society for Biomaterials, 2010 Annual Meeting and Exposition, Seattle, WA, April 21-24, 2010.

“A Quick Biomimetic Method for Hydroxyapatite Coating with Gradient Structure,” (with F. Peng, M. T. Shaw and J. R. Olson), Society for Biomaterials, 2010 Annual Meeting and Exposition, Seattle, WA, April 21-24, 2010.

Benjamin Wilhite Programming Chair, Area 20B: Chemical Reaction Engineering, American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Member, Scientific Advisory Board, International Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering.

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Presentation: “Influence of pH on Synthesis of Homogeneous Cobalt-doped Barium Cerium Zirconium Oxide via Oxalate Co-precipitation,” (with A. Suresh and P. Singh), American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) National Meeting, 2009.

“Observation on Structural Modification of Co-doped Barium Cerate-Zirconate during Exposure to Reducing Environment,” (with J. Basu, A. Suresh, P. Singh and C. Carter), (ICACC-S3-047-2010), 34th International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Daytona Beach, FL, January 24-29, 2010.

Brian Willis Conference Organizer, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Area 08E Session 2010.

Conference Session Chair, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2009.

Presentations: “Atomic Layer Deposition for Epitaxial Oxides on Semiconductors,” American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, 2009.

“Nanoelectrode Sensor Devices,” American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Nashville TN, 2009.

“Adsorption and Desorption of Dinitrotoluene on Functionalized Surfaces,” AVS Spring Meeting, Troy, NY, 2010.

“Engineering when Nanometers Count,” invited, Kansas State University, 2010.

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CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY 2009-2010 Many of the headlines from 2009, and indeed the recent news of the ongoing oil spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, deal with national and global challenges where civil and environmental engineers are actively engaged – including global climate change, environmental pollution crises, water shortage crises, nonsustainable energy practices, transportation planning and land use. The Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE) Department continues to address these global challenges through its didactic and research missions.

Through our accredited Civil Engineering (CE) and Environmental Engineering (ENVE) programs we educate and prepare engineers to face major societal challenges, and the CEE faculty members perform cutting-edge research to develop new solutions to global problems.

FACULTY & STAFF

The department welcomed two new faculty members in the fall 2009 and spring 2010. Drs. Tim Vadas and Alexander Agrios joined UConn from post-doctoral positions with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Uppsala University in Sweden, respectively. Dr. Vadas received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and has expertise in the role of plants in facilitating transport and remediation of metals in environmental systems. Dr. Agrios received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University and has expertise in the applications of nano-particulate semiconductors to solar energy conversion.

The department hired two new faculty members during 2009-2010 who will join the university in fall 2010.

Ms. Shinae Jang will be joining our department from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she is currently completing her Ph.D. Ms. Jang’s research interests are in structural health monitoring and smart wireless sensor networks. Her activities will complement existing departmental strengths in structural engineering and will lead to additional collaborations with geotechnical and transportation engineering faculty. Dr. Kay Wille will be joining our department from the University of Michigan, where he has been a post-doctoral fellow for the past two years. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Leipzig in Germany in 2008. His research interests and expertise are in ultra high performance, fiber-reinforced concrete, novel composite structures, and sensors, and will be teaching design and analysis courses.

Associate Professor Emmanouil Anagnostou was promoted to Full Professor in August 2009 and was appointed as the Northeast Utilities Foundation Chair in Environmental Engineering in spring 2010. There were two more faculty promotions within the department, both effective fall 2010: Assistant Professors Richard Christenson and Jeong-Ho Kim were promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure.

Finally, two more recognitions were bestowed upon our faculty. Dr. Richard Christenson was appointed UTC Professor in Engineering Innovation and Dr. Guiling Wang was appointed the Al Geib Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering Research and Education.

UNDERGRADUATE & GRADUATE EDUCATION

Undergraduate enrollments in the Civil & Environmental Engineering programs continued to increase, and reached an all-time high during the last year with combined CE and ENVE program enrollments surpassing 300 students in spring 2010. The CEE undergraduate students have formed a Student Advisory Board. The mission of this board is to provide a forum for students and faculty members within the CEE Department to communicate ideas and/or concerns with the intention of improving the current teaching methods being utilized by the faculty and enhance the sense of community within the department.

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Professor Michael Accorsi was this year’s recipient of the C.R. Klewin Award for Excellence in Teaching.

The award recipients are chosen each year by the graduating senior class for their unique contributions to undergraduate teaching.

Graduate enrollments in the CE and ENVE programs continued to increase and reached an all-time high with 92 M.S. and Ph.D. students registered in spring 2010. The CEE graduate students formed a Graduate Student Association (GSA) and an associated Graduate Student Advisory Board with the objective of advocating for the CEE graduate student community’s concerns and needs to both the Department and the University. The CEE GSA strives to enhance and encourage cooperation and association within the CEE Graduate Community.

RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP

The department’s research activities and scholarship remained very strong, and in fact improved significantly during the last year, with almost $2.7M in research expenditures generated from 114 active grants from a wide variety of funding sources including the National Science Foundation, NASA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) and ConnDOT, United States Army, Department of Homeland Security, USAID, Environmental Protection Agency, National Academy of Sciences, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Geological Survey and numerous private companies. Department faculty published 63 journal articles, two books, three book chapters and 50 full-length conference papers, and made 67 conference presentations in the past year.

The department’s international research programs continued to develop last year with major activities in water resources and natural hazards mitigation. Professor Anagnostou continued his work on establishing an excellence team to study the global water cycle under a Marie Curie Excellence grant. The team consists of between five and seven researchers who are jointly hosted by UConn and the Hellenic Center for Marine Research in Greece. Assistant Professor Gebremichael and five CEE faculty (Drs. Accorsi, Wang, Anagnostou, MacKay and Bagtzoglou) developed a strategic plan for USAID/HED entitled “Sustainable Water Resources: Capacity Building in Education, Research and Outreach.” This strategic plan calls for the University of Connecticut to lead and coordinate efforts among five Ethiopian universities and Alabama A&M University and is focused on the theme of Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management. The strategic plan was received with great enthusiasm and currently a major funding award is being negotiated with the sponsoring organization.

The Center for Transportation and Urban Planning (CTUP), directed by Associate Professor Norman Garrick, completed its third year of operations. This spring, the School of Engineering instituted the UConn Consortium for Infrastructure and Transportation Centers, comprising the DHS-funded Center for Resilient Transportation Infrastructure, the Connecticut Transportation Institute, and the DOT-funded UTC Center for Transportation and Livability (CTL). This Consortium was formed in an effort to better align the centers’ activities and missions to achieve a unified, coherent and directed roadmap; enable economies of resource sharing within the School and provide leadership in securing sustained funding. The CTL is the evolution of the CTUP and focuses primarily on the design of transportation systems and infrastructure, and corresponding policies that complement and integrate smoothly with our communities. The first four UTCfunded research projects with multi-disciplinary teams across the university were completed and five more were externally peer-reviewed and approved for funding under the CTL’s Research Grant Program.

The ENVE graduate program was ranked by the UConn Provost’s Committee on Graduate Education to have the potential to achieve national distinction. This evaluation was based on externally derived data for our program’s quality and performance. It is one of only two graduate programs in the School of Engineering, and one of only eight graduate programs in UConn (out of almost 70) to receive this distinction. ENVE 62

received the highest rank (79th percentile) among these programs (79, 71, 71, 69, 66, 65, 52, and 39).

Moreover, it was highly ranked in journal publications per faculty, and median time to degree.

Assistant Professor Baikun Li received the State of Connecticut’s 2010 award of the Women of Innovation in the Research Innovation and Leadership category. This award celebrates her leading stature in the areas of environmental biotechnology, wastewater treatment and bioenergy production. Professor Anagnostou was elected to membership in the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering in May 2010 in recognition of his fundamental work in hydrometeorology and remote sensing.

STUDENT ACTIVITIES

The department’s undergraduate student organizations continued to be highly active during the past year. The Steel Bridge Club placed 2nd overall in the Northeast Regional Steel Bridge Competition in April (1st in the lightness category), securing a position in the national competition, which was held at Purdue University in May. The UConn team placed 25th out of more than 50 teams nationally. Under the continuous enthusiastic guidance of alumnus Michael Culmo, Vice President of Transportation and Structures for CME Associates, the club has made the national competition six times during the last nine years and has dominated the northeast regional competitions. It deserves its own rightful place within School of Engineering facilities in order to conduct the club activities.

The UConn chapter of Engineers without Borders completed its second year as an officially recognized chapter. Drs. Gebremichael and Bagtzoglou serve as advisor and co-advisor, respectively to the student chapter. During the last year, the student chapter began projects to improve the lives of impoverished people in rural Nicaragua and Ethiopia. The first officially sanctioned field campaign is to take place this summer in Nicaragua.

The UConn Green Building Club, with Dr. Accorsi as faculty advisor, was established this past fall and they had an excellent first year due to the hard work and dedication of its members. The culmination of the club’s activities was the participation of two design teams (involving 10 CEE students) in the Building Energy 2010 Student Design Competition sponsored by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association. One of the two UConn teams placed 1st overall in the competition.

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CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ARCHIVAL TECHNICAL JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS 2009-2010 Jaehun Ahn “Experimental Evaluation of Strength Characteristics of Stabilized Dredged Soil,” (Y.-T. Kim, W.-J. Han and M.A. Gabr), Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 22, No. 5, pp. 539-554, 2010.

Emmanouil N. Anagnostou “Benchmarking High-resolution Global Satellite Rain Products to Radar and Rain Gauge Rainfall Estimates,” (with V. Maggioni, E. Nikolopoulos, T. Meskele, F. Hossain and A. Papadopoulos), IEEE Transaction on Geosciences and Remote Sensing, Vol. 48, No 4, pp. 1667-1683, 2010.

“Critical Steps for Continuing Advancement of Satellite Rainfall Applications for Surface Hydrology in the Nile River Basin,” (with M. Gebremichael and M. Bitew), Journal of American Water Resources Association, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 361-366, April 2010.

“Understanding the Scale Relationships of Uncertainty Propagation of Satellite Rainfall through a Distributed Hydrological Model,” (with E.I. Nikolopoulos, F. Hossain, M. Gebremichael and M. Borga), Journal of Hydrometeorology, Vol. 11, Issue 2, pp. 520-532, 2010.

“Error Propagation of Remote Sensing Rainfall Estimates in Soil Moisture Prediction from Land Surface Model,” (with E. Serpetzoglou, A. Papadopoulos, E.I. Nikolopoulos and V. Maggioni), Journal of Hydrometeorology, doi: 10.1175/2009JHM1166.1, 2010.

“Passive Aquatic Listener: A State-of-art System Employed in Atmospheric, Oceanic and Biological Sciences in the Marine Environment, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research,” (with M.N. Anagnostou, J.A. Nystuen, A. Papadopoulos and V. Lykousis), Elsevier, doi:10.1016/j.nima.2010.04.140, 2010.

“Experimental Results on Rainfall Estimation in Complex Terrain with a Mobile X-band Polarimetric Weather Radar,” (with M.N. Anagnostou, J. Kalogiros and A. Papadopoulos), Atmospheric Research, Vol. 94, Issue 4, pp. 579-595, 2009.

“Precipitation: Measurement, Remote Sensing, Climatology and Modeling,” (with S. Michaelides, V. Levizzani, P. Bauer, T. Kasparis and J.E. Lane), Atmospheric Research (review paper), Vol. 94, Issue 4, pp.

512–533, 2009.

“Evaluating the Impact of Lightning Data Assimilation on Mesoscale Model Simulations of a Flash Flood Inducing Storm,” (with A. Papadopoulos and E. Serpetzoglou), Atmospheric Research, Vol. 94, Issue 4, pp.

715–725, 2009.

Amvrossios C. Bagtzoglou “Enhanced Mixing and Plume Containment in Porous Media under Time Dependent Oscillatory Flow,” (with P. Zhang, S.L. DeVries and A. Dathe), Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 43 No.16, pp.

6283-6288, 2009.

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“Zonal Management of Arsenic Contaminated Ground Water in Northwestern Bangladesh,” (with F. Hossain and J. Hill), Journal of Environmental Management, Vol. 90, No.12, pp. 3721-3729, 2009.

“Investigating the Effectiveness of Spatial Downscaling of Satellite Rainfall Data for Stream Flow Prediction in a Medium-Sized Basin,” (with S. Rahman, F. Hossain, L. Tang, L.D. Yarborough and G. Easson), Journal of Hydrometeorology, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 1063-1079, 2009.

“Radial Basis Function Neural Network for Hydrologic Inversion: An Appraisal with Classical and SpatioTemporal Geostatistical Techniques in the Context of Site Characterization,” (with F. Hossain), Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, Vol. 23, No. 7, pp. 933-945, 2009.

“Fuzzy Rule-Based Hydrologic Models for Performance Assessment of Nuclear Waste Disposal Sites,” (with R. Ababou, A. Nedungadi and B. Sagar), ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 11, pp. 12401248, 2009.

“Transport Management in Iran: Traffic Safety and Cleaner Cars,” (with F. Nadim, A. Afshar, J. Iranmahboob, M.R. Monazzam and M. Yunesian), Journal of Environmental Engineering and Management, Vol. 19, No. 6, pp. 317-325, 2009.

“Anti-diffusion and Source Identification with the RAW Scheme: A Particle-Based Censored Random Walk,” (with R. Ababou and A. Mallet), Journal of Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 10, No. 1-2, pp.

41-76, 2010.

Dipanjan Basu “Effect of Soil Disturbance on Consolidation by Prefabricated Vertical Drains Installed in a Rectangular Pattern,” (with M. Prezzi and M.R. Madhav), Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp.

61-77, 2010.

Richard E. Christenson “Probabilistic Structural Health Monitoring Method Applied to the Bridge Health Monitoring Benchmark Problem,” (with A.M. Scianna), Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2131, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., pp. 92–97, DOI: 10.3141/2131-09, 2009.

“Experimental Evaluation of an Adaptive Inverse Compensation Technique for Real-time Simulation of a Large-scale Magneto-rheological Fluid Damper,” (with C. Chen, J. Ricles and R. Sause), Journal of Smart Materials and Structures, Vol. 19, 025017, 2010.

Maria Chrysochoou “Calcium Polysulfide Treatment of Cr Contaminated Soil,” (with D.R. Ferreira and C.P. Johnson), Journal of Hazardous Materials, Vol. 179, Nos. 1-3, pp. 650-657, 2010.

“Geoenvironmental Characterization of Chromite Ore Processing Residue: Implications for treatment,” (with D. Dermatas, D.H. Moon, D.G. Grubb and C. Christodoulatos), Journal of Hazardous Materials, Vol. 136, No. 3, pp. 510-521, 2010.

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“Use of Micro-X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Diffraction to Delineate Cr(VI) Speciation in COPR,” (with D.H. Moon, S. Fakra, M.A. Marcus, D. Dermatas and C. Christodoulatos), Global NEST Journal, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 318-324, 2009.

“Microstructural Analyses of Cr(VI) Speciation In Chromite Ore Processing Residue (COPR),” (with S. Fakra, M.A. Marcus, D.H. Moon, D. Dermatas and C. Christodoulatos), Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 43, No. 14., pp. 5461-5466, 2009.

John T. DeWolf “Development of a Baseline for Structural Health Monitoring for a Curved Post-Tensioned Concrete BoxGirder Bridge,” (with C. Liu and J. Kim), Engineering Structures, Vol. 31, No. 12, pp. 3107-3115, 2009.

“Implementation of a Long-Term Bridge Weigh’In’Motion System for a Steel Girder Bridge in the Interstate Highway System,” (with A.J. Cardini), Journal of Bridge Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 14, No. 6, pp. 418-423, 2009.

Norman Garrick “Street Network Types and Road Safety,” (with W.E. Marshall), Urban Design International, 10.1057/udi.2009.31, April 21, 2010.

Mekonnen Gebremichael “Dependence of Remote Sensing Evapotranspiration Algorithm on Spatial Resolution,” (with J. Wang and T.W. Sammis), Atmospheric Research, Vol. 96, No. 4, pp. 489-495, June 2010.

“Critical Steps for Continuing Advancement of Satellite Rainfall Applications for Surface Hydrology in the Nile River Basin,” (with E.N. Anagnostou and M.M. Bitew), Journal of American Water Resources Association, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 361-366, April 2010.

“Evaluation of High Resolution Satellite Precipitation Products Over Very Complex Terrain in Ethiopia,” (with F.A. Hirpa and T. Hopson), Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, DOI: 10.1175/2009JAMC2298.1, December 2009.

“Intercomparison of Sensible Heat Flux from Large Aperture Scintillometer and Eddy Covariance Methods: Field Experiment Over a Homogeneous Semiarid Region,” (with D.A. Zeweldi, J. Wang, T. Sammis, J. Kleissl and D. Miller), Boundary-Layer Meteorology, Vol. 135, No. 1, pp. 151-159, April 2010.

“Multispectral Remote Sensing for Rainfall Detection and Estimation at the Source of the Blue Nile River,” (with A.T. Haile, T. Rientjes and A. Gieske), International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. S76-S82, February 2010.

“On the Local-scale Spatial Variability of Daily Rainfall in the Highlands of the Blue Nile: Observational Evidence,” (with M.M. Bitew, F.A. Hirpa, Y. Michael, Y. Seleshi and Y. Girma), Hydrological Processes, Vol. 23, No. 26, pp. 3670-3674, December 2009.

“Rainfall Variability Over Mountainous and Adjacent Lake Areas: the Case of Lake Tana Basin at the Source of the Blue Nile River,” (with A.T. Haile, T. Rientjes and A. Gieske), Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Vol. 49, No. 8, pp. 1696-1717, August 2009.

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“Understanding the Scale Relationships of Uncertainty Propagation of Satellite Rainfall Through a Distributed Hydrologic Model,” (with E.I. Nikolopoulos, E.N. Anagnostou, F. Hossain and M. Borga), Journal of Hydrometeorology, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 520-532, April 2009.

Daba Gedafa “Field Verification of Superpave Dynamic Modulus,” (with M. Hossain, S. Romanoschi and A.J. Gisi), ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, Vol. 22, No. 5, pp. 485-494, May 2010.

“Estimation of Remaining Service Life of Flexible Pavements from Surface Deflections,” (with M. Hossain, R. Miller and T. Van), ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, Vol. 136, No. 4, pp.342-352, April 2010.

John N. Ivan “Predicting Segment-Intersection Crashes with Land Development Data,” (with S. Bindra and T. Jonsson), Transportation Research Record, No. 2102, pp. 9-17, 2009.

“Differences in the Performance of Safety Performance Functions Estimated for Total Crash Count and for Crash Count by Crash Type,” (with T. Jonsson, C. Lyon, S. Washington, I. van Schalkwyk and D. Lord), Transportation Research Record, No. 2102, pp. 115-123, 2009.

Eric D. Jackson “Modal Analysis of Vehicle Operation and Particulate Emissions from Connecticut Transit Buses,” (with B.A. Holmén), Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Vol. 2123, pp. 76-87, 2009.

Jeong-Ho Kim “On the Modal Behavior of a Three-Dimensional Functionally Graded Cantilever Beam: Poisson’s Ratio and Material Sampling Effects,” (with G. Anandakumar), Composite Structures, Vol. 92, pp. 1358-1371, 2010.

“Dynamic, Modal and Wave Propagation Analyses of 3D Functionally Graded Continua,” (with G. Anandakumar), Materials Science Forum, Vol. 631-632, pp. 17-22, 2010.

“Development of a Baseline for Structural Health Monitoring and Seismic Evaluation for a Curved Posttensioned Concrete Box Girder Bridge,” (with C. Liu and J.T. DeWolf), Engineering Structures, Vol. 31, pp.

3107-3115, 2009.

“A Complex Variable Approach for Asymptotic Mode-III Crack-tip Fields in an Anisotropic Functionally Graded Material,” (with L. Zhang), Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol. 76, pp. 2512-2525, 2009.

Baikun Li “Granula Activated Carbon Microbial Fuel Cell (GACMFC) for Large Scale Wastewater Treatment,” (with D. Jiang), Journal of Biochemical Engineering, Vol. 47, No. 1-3, pp. 31-37, 2009.

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“The Variation of Power Generation with Organic Substrates in Single-chamber Microbial Fuel Cells (SCMFCs),” (with Y. Sharma), Bioresource Technology, Vol. 101, No. 6, pp. 1884-1850, 2010.

“Optimization of Hydrogen Production from Wastewater in Batch Reactors Through Experimental and Kinetic Analysis,” (with Y. Sharma), International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 34, No. 15, pp. 61716180, 2010.

“Manganese Dioxide as a New Cathode Catalyst in Microbial Fuel Cells,” (with X. Li, B. Hu, S. Suib and Y. Lei), Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 195, No. 9, pp. 2586-2591, 2010.

“Optimizing Energy Harvest in Wastewater Treatment by Combining Anaerobic Hydrogen Producing Biofermentor (HPB) and Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC),” (with Y. Sharma), International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 35, No. 8, pp. 3789-3797, 2010.

“Electrospun Hemoglobin Microbelts Based Biosensor for Sensitive Detection of Hydrogen Peroxide and Nitrite,” (with Y. Ding, Y. Wang and Y. Lei), Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Vol. 25, No. 9, pp. 2009-2015, 2010.

Lanbo Liu “Estimation of Seismic Interface Wave Dispersion in Geoacoustic Inversion,” (with H. Dong), Journal of the Acoustic Society of America, Vol. 126, No. 4, Pt. 2, pp. 2207, 2009.

“The Effect of Buildings on Acoustic Pulse Propagation in an Urban Environment,” (with D. Albert), Journal of the Acoustic Society of America, Vol. 127, No. 3, pp. 1335–1346, 2010.

“Marine Electrical Resistivity Imaging of Submarine Ground-water Discharge: Application and Sensitivity Analysis,” (invited, with R. Henderson, F. Day-Lewis, E. Abarca, C. Harvey, H. Karam and J. Lane), Hydrogeology Journal, Vol. 18, pp 173-185, 2010.

Nicholas E. Lownes “Driver Behavior Considerations in Calibrating for Capacity,” (with C.D. Yannes), International Journal of Society Systems Science, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 84-99, 2010.

“Exact and Heuristic Methods for Public Transit Circulator Design,” (with R.B. Machemehl), Transportation Research Part B, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 309-318, 2010.

Allison A. MacKay “Trends in Soil Sorption Coefficients Within and Across Common Antimicrobial Families,” (with R.A. Figueroa and D. Vasudevan), Chemosphere, Vol. 79, pp. 786, 2010.

“Presence, Distribution and Diversity of Iron Oxidizing Bacteria at a Landfill Leachate Impacted Groundwater Surface Water Interface,” (with B.F. Smets, S. Zhang, R. Yu and P. Gan), FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Vol.71, pp. 260, 2009.

“Attenuation of Heavy Metals in Roadway Runoff with Wood Chips,” (with S.M. Syring and R. Krishnamurthy), ASCE Journal of Environmental Engineering, Vol. 135, pp. 747, 2009.

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“pH-Dependent Ciprofloxacin Sorption to Soils: Interaction Mechanisms and Soil Factors Influencing Sorption” (with D. Vasudevan, G.L. Bruland, B.S. Torrance and V.G. Upchurch), Geoderma, Vol. 151, pp.

68, 2009.

Guiling Wang “Rain Follows Logging in the Amazon? Results from CAM3-CLM3,” (with R. Mei), Climate Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0592-4, 2009.

“Role of Dynamic Vegetation in Regional Climate Predictions Over Western Africa,” (with C. Alo), Climate Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s00383-010-0744-2, 2010.

Adam M. Zofka “Comparison of Low Temperature Field Performance and Laboratory Testing Using Ten Test Sections in the Midwest,” (with A. Braham), Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2127, pp. 107-114, 2009.

“Revising Thermal Stresses in the TSRST for Low Temperature Cracking Prediction,” (with R. Velasquez, J. Labuz and M. Marasteanu), Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 21, No. 11, pp. 680-687, 2009.

“Bending Beam Rheometer Testing of Asphalt Mixtures,” (with R. Velasquez, M. Marasteanu and M. Turos), International Journal of Pavement Engineering, pp. 1-14, 2009.

“Comparison of Data Interpretation Procedures for Indirect Tensile (IDT) Creep Test for Linear Viscoelastic Materials,” (with M. Marasteanu, L. Khazanovich and I. Yut), Road Materials and Pavement Design, Vol. 11, pp. 411-441, Special Issues/2010.

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CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT PUBLISHED BOOKS, BOOK CHAPTERS, BOOK SECTIONS & EDITED VOLUMES 2009-2010 Emmanouil N. Anagnostou “Regional Evaluation through Hydrological Application: Europe,” (with E.I. Nikolopoulos and F. Hossain), Satellite Rainfall Applications for Surface Hydrology, (M. Gebremichael and F. Hossain, eds.), SpringerVerlag, ISBN: 978-90-481-2914-0, pp. 215-226.

“A Practical Guide to a Space-Time Stochastic Error Model for Simulation of High Resolution Satellite Rainfall Data,” (with E.I. Nikolopoulos, F. Hossain and L. Tang), Satellite Rainfall Applications for Surface Hydrology, (M. Gebremichael and F. Hossain, eds.), Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 978-90-481-2914-0, pp. 145166.

John T. DeWolf Statics and Mechanics of Materials, (with F.P. Beer, E.R. Johnston and D.F. Mazurek), McGraw-Hill, First Edition, 800 pages, 2010.

Mekonnen Gebremichael Satellite Rainfall Applications for Surface Hydrology, (with F. Hossain, eds.), Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 97890-481-2914-0, 327 pages, 2010.

“Evaluation Through Independent Measurements: Complex Terrain and Humid Tropical Region in Ethiopia,” (with M.M. Bitew), Satellite Rainfall Applications for Surface Hydrology, Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 978-90-481-2915-7_12, pp. 205-214, 2010.

Ramesh B. Malla Engineering, Science, Construction and Operations in Challenging Environments, (with G. Song, co-eds.), Earth & Space 2010 conference proceedings, ASCE, Reston, VA, ISBN 978-0-7844-1096-7, approx. 3890 pages (CD ROM), March 2010.

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CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS 2009-2010 Emmanouil N. Anagnostou “Measurements of Spatially Averaged Ocean Surface Geophysical Parameters using Underwater Sound Integrated with the Poseidon Monitoring System,” (with M.N. Anagnostou, J.A. Nystuen, A. Papadopoulos, D. Ballas, K. Nittis, P. Pagonis, L. Perivoliotis and D. Georgopoulos), Proceedings of the Underwater Acoustic Measurements: Technologies & Results and 3rd International Conference & Exhibition, Nafplion, Greece, pp. 144-145, June 21-26, 2009.

“Operational Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting in the Eastern Mediterranean,” (with K. Nittis, L. Perivoliotis, G. Korres, D. Ballas, A. Papadopoulos, P. Pagonis, G. Petihakis, M.N. Anagnostou and G. Georgopoulos), Proceedings of the Underwater Acoustic Measurements: Technologies & Results and 3rd International Conference & Exhibition, Nafplion, Greece, pp. 143-144, June 21-26, 2009.

Amvrossios Bagtzoglou “Urban Sewage and Stormwater Management in the United States,” (with F. Nadim, S. Govindan and J. Cook), Proceedings of the International Conference on Capacity Building in Urban Water Management under Water Scarcity Conditions, CD Proceedings, pp. 14, 2009.

“Structural Analysis of Reciprocating Small Scale Hydropower System for Lift Force Estimation,” (with R. Malla, B. Shrestha and J. Drasdis), Proceedings of the 12th ASCE International Conference on Engineering, Science, Construction and Operations in Challenging Environments, pp. 2228-2238, 2010.

Dipanjan Basu “Analytical Solutions for Vertical Drains Considering Soil Disturbance,” (with P. Basu and M. Prezzi), CD Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Alexandria, Egypt, October 2009.

“Application of the Method of Initial Parameters to the Laterally Loaded Pile Problem,” (with R. Salgado), CD Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Alexandria, Egypt, October 2009.

“Design Charts for Vertical Drains Considering Soil Disturbance,” (with M. Prezzi), CD Proceedings of the GeoFlorida 2010, West Palm Beach, FL, CD-ROM, February 2010.

Richard E. Christenson “Fast Hybrid Test Validation of a MR Damper Controlled Building with Shake Table Tests,” (with Y.Z. Lin), CD Proceedings of the Asian-Pacific Network of Centers for Research in Smart Structure Technology (ANCRiSST) 5th Annual Workshop, Boston, MA, July 2009.

“Implementation of a Probabilistic Bridge Health Monitoring Method on an In-Service Highway Bridge,” (with A.M. Scianna), CD Proceedings of the 5th New York City Bridge Conference, New York City, August 2009.

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“Structural Control of a Highway Bridge using MR Dampers,” (with Z. Jiang), CD Proceedings of the AsianPacific Network of Centers for Research in Smart Structure Technology (ANCRiSST) 5th Annual Workshop, Boston, MA, July 2009.

“Implementation of an Automated Bridge Health Monitoring System to Connecticut’s Long-Term Bridge Monitoring Network,” (with A.M. Scianna), CD Proceedings of the Asian-Pacific Network of Centers for Research in Smart Structure Technology (ANCRiSST) 5th Annual Workshop, Boston, MA, July 2009.

Maria Chrysochoou “Evaluation of Two Aluminum Powders for Soil-Cement Applications,” (with D.G. Grubb and J. Fair), Proceedings of the GeoFlorida 2010 Conference, Geotechnical Special Publication 365, pp. 253-263, 2010.

Howard I. Epstein “Restoration of Life Star Rooftop Heliport at Hartford Hospital,” (with G. Torello), Proceedings of Forensic Engineering 2009 – Pathology of the Built Environment, Washington, D.C., pp. 809-815, November 11-14, 2009.

Norman W. Garrick “The Influence on Parking Policy on the Built Environment and Travel Behavior in Two New England Cities, over the Period 1960 to 2007,” (with C.T. McCahill), Transportation Report Board Annual Meeting, Paper 10-3768, January 2010.

“The Effect of Street Network Design on Walking and Biking,” (with W.E. Marshall), Transportation Report Board Annual Meeting, Paper 10-1463, January 2010.

“Operationalizing Placemaking in a Choice Experiment Context,” (with N.E. Lownes, C.D., Yannes and R. Johnston), Transportation Report Board Annual Meeting, Paper 10-2178, January 2010.

Daba Gedafa “Comparison of Moduli of Kansas Superpave Asphalt Mixes,” (with M. Hossain, S. Romanoschi and A.J. Gisi ), CD Proceedings of the 2010 89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Paper #102359, Washington, DC, 2010.

“Cost Effectiveness of Ultrathin Bonded Bituminous Surface and Modified Slurry Seal,” (with L. Liu, V.S. Manepalli and M. Hossain), Proceedings of the1st International Conference on Pavement Preservation, pp.

317-329, Newport Beach, CA, April 12-16, 2010.

“Curling of New Concrete Pavement and Long-Term Performance,” (with Z.Q. Siddique, K. Fredrichs, D. Meggers and M. Hossain), CD Proceedings of the 2009 Mid-Continent Transportation Research Symposium, Ames, IA, August 2009.

“Simulation of Flexible Pavement Design in Kansas,” (with M. Hossain, S. Romanoschi and A.J. Gisi), CD Proceedings of the 2009 Mid-Continent Transportation Research Symposium, Ames, IA, August 2009.

“Safety Analysis for Older Drivers at Signalized Intersections in Kansas,” CD Proceedings of the 2009 MidContinent Transportation Research Symposium, Ames, IA, August 2009.

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John N. Ivan “Gap Acceptance of Elderly Drivers Making Left Turns at Unsignalized Intersections,” (with H. Zhou, N. Lownes, P. Gårder and N. Ravishanker), Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Paper No. 101668, Washington, DC, January 2010.

Eric D. Jackson “Analysis of Real-World Lead Vehicle Operation for the Integration of Modal Emissions and Traffic Simulation Models,” (with L. Aultman-Hall), CD Proceedings of the 2010 89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Paper #10-2370, Washington, DC, 2010.

Baikun Li “Optimization of Hydrogen Production in Anaerobic Acidogenic Phase and Electricity Generation in MFCs,” (with Y. Sharma), CD Proceedings of the New England ACS Annual Conference, October 2009.

“Manganese Dioxide as a New Cathode Catalyst in Microbial Fuel Cells,” (with X. Li), CD Proceedings of the New England ACS Annual Conference, October 2009.

“Large-scale Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) Treating Wastewater,” (with D. Jiang), CD Proceedings of the 82nd WEFTEC Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, October 2009.

“Large-scale Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) Treating Wastewater,” (with D. Jiang), CD Proceedings of the New England WEF Annual Conference, January 2010.

“Large-scale Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) Treating Wastewater,” (with D. Jiang), CD Proceedings of the ACS Annual Conference, March 2010.

“Optimization of Hydrogen Production in Anaerobic Acidogenic Phase and Electricity Generation in MFCs,” (with Y. Sharma), CD Proceedings of the ACS Annual Conference, March 2010.

“Manganese Dioxide as a New Cathode Catalyst in Microbial Fuel Cells,” (with X. Li), CD Proceedings of the ACS Annual Conference, March 2010.

Lanbo Liu “Tests of Sommerfeld Ground Wave Theory using Ground-Penetrating Radar Pulses,” (with S. Arcone), CD Proceedings of the International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, Lecce, Italy, 2010.

“Ambient Vibration Noise as the New Source for Urban Engineering Seismology and Earthquake Engineering: Case Studies from the Metropolitan Area of Beijing,” (with Q. Chen, W. Wang, C. Qi and E. Rohrbach), CD Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Engineering and Environmental Geophysics, Chengdu, China, 2010.

“A Novel Approach for Thermoacoustic Tomography by Kirchhoff Migration,” (with Z. Liu), CD Proceedings of the International Conference on Theoretical and Computational Acoustics (ICTCA), Dresden, Germany, 2009.

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“Application of the Alternating Direction Implicit (ADI) Algorithm on Staggered-grid PSTD Modeling of Electromagnetic Waves,” (with Z. Liu and B. Barrowes), CD Proceedings of the PIERS, Cambridge, MA. 2010.

“Estimation of Seismic Interface Wave Dispersion using Ambient Noise Recorded by Ocean Bottom Cable,” (with H. Dong, M. Thompson and A. Morton), CD Proceedings of the European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (ECUA), 2010.

“Surface Wave Dispersion Curve Calculation in TIV Medium,” (with G. Ke, H. Dong and Z. Cao), CD Proceedings of the Expanded Abstract to the Society of Exploration Geophysicists Annual Meeting, 2010.

“Experimental Studies of Underwater Acoustic Communications over Multipath Channels,” (with G. Zhang, H. Dong and J. Hovem), CD Proceedings of the SENSORCOMM, 2010.

Nicholas E. Lownes “An Aggregated Public Transit Accessibility Measure,” (with S. Al Mamun), Proceedings of the 51st Annual Transportation Research Forum, Vol. 6, March 2010.

“Gap Acceptance of Elderly Drivers Making Left Turns at Unsignalized Intersections,” (with H. Zhou, J.N. Ivan, N. Ravishankar, and P. Gårder), Proceedings of the 89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Paper #10-1668, January 2010.

“Spatially Compatible Rainfall-Speed Analysis,” (with A. Rahman), Proceedings of the 89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Paper #10-3923, January 2010.

“Operationalizing Placemaking in a Choice Experiment Context,” (with C.D. Yannes, N.W. Garrick and R. Johnston), Proceedings of the 89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Paper #10-2178, January 2010.

Ramesh B. Malla “Laboratory Evaluation of a Silicone Foam Sealant for Field Application on Bridge Expansion Joints,” (with B. Swanson and M.T. Shaw), CD Proceedings of the 2010 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Society of Experimental Mechanics, Indianapolis, IN, June 7-10, 2010 and Bethel, CT, June 2010.

“Stress and Displacement Wave Propagation in a Percussive Tubular Mechanism for Space Applications,” (with B.R. Shrestha and K. Zacny), Proceedings of the 51st AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials, AIAA, Reston, VA, Paper #AIAA 2010-2785, (Online Proceedings), April 2010.

“Rotary-Percussive Deep Drill for Planetary Applications,” (with G. Paulsen, K. Zacny, C. McKay, L. Shiraishi, K. Kriechbaum, B. Glass, M. Szczesiak, C. Santoro, J. Craft and M. Maksymuk), CD Proceedings of the ASCE Earth & Space 2010 Conference, ASCE, Reston, VA, pp. 1423-1436, March 2010.

“Variation in Wave Propagation in Lunar Percussive Drilling Instrument Due to Presence of a Joint,” (with B.R. Shrestha, G. Paulsen and J. Craft), CD Proceedings of the ASCE Earth & Space 2010 Conference, ASCE, Reston, VA, pp. 1513-1524, March 2010.

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“Structural Analysis of Reciprocating Small Scale Hydropower System for Lift Force Estimation,” (with B. Shrestha, J. Drasdis and A. Bagtzoglou), CD Proceedings of the ASCE Earth & Space 2010 Conference, ASCE, Reston, VA, pp. 2228-2238, March 2010.

“Foreword,” Earth & Space 2010 – Engineering, Science, Construction and Operations in Challenging Environments,(with G. Song), Proceedings of the 12th ASCE Aerospace Div. Biennial International Conference on Engineering, Construction and Operations in Challenging Environments, Honolulu, HI, March 14-17, 2010); published by ASCE, Reston, VA, March 2010; ISBN 978-0-7844-1096-7, approx. 3890 pages (CD ROM).

“Foreword,” (with B. Tiwari and P. Khanal), Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Conference of the American Society of Nepalese Engineers, Oakland, CA, July 2-4, 2009.

Adam M. Zofka “Case Study on Perpetual Flexible Pavement in Connecticut,” (with I. Yut and D. Nener-Plante), CD Proceedings of the First International Conference on Pavement Preservation, Newport Beach, CA, April 1315, 2010.

“Preservation of Flexible Pavements in Connecticut - Case Study,” (with I. Yut and D. Nener-Plante), CD Proceedings of Transportation Research Board Meeting, Washington, DC, January 10-14, 2010.

“RAP Study for Asphalt Mixtures Used in Connecticut,” (with I. Yut and D. Nener-Plante), CD Proceedings of the II International Conference Environmentally Friendly Roads, ENVIROAD, Warsaw, Poland, October 15-16, 2009.

“Case Study on Perpetual Pavement in Connecticut,” (with I. Yut and D. Nener-Plante), CD Proceedings of the International Conference on Perpetual Pavement, Columbus, OH, September 30 – October 2, 2009.

“Long-Term Study on Asphalt Mixture Segregation in Connecticut: Preliminary Results on Use of MTV,” (with D. Nener-Plante), CD Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways, and Airfields, Urbana-Champaign, IL, June 29 – July 2, 2009.

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CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ACTIVE RESEARCH GRANTS & CONTRACTS 2009-2010 Michael L. Accorsi “Development and Application of Airdrop Simulation Capabilities,” U.S. Department of Defense/Army Natick Soldier Center, April 1, 2008-January 31, 2010, $58,301.

“Mechanical Characterization of Ultra-High Performance Concrete for Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure,” (with co-PI: A. Zofka (50%)), U.S. Department of Homeland Security/National Transportation Security Center of Excellence, July 1, 2009-June 30, 2011, $100,000.

“Ethiopian-UCONN Partnership in Sustainable Development and Management of Water Resources,” (with PI: M. Gebremichael and co-PIs: E. Anagnostou, A. Bagtzoglou, G. Wang, C. Atkinson-Palombo, J. Osleeb and F. Shah), U.S. Agency for International Development, May 19, 2009-November 30, 2009, $50,000.

“CCHRP Agreement, Work Program for 2009-2010,” JHRAC, Connecticut Department of Transportation, May 23, 2009-June 30, 2011, $199,869.

“National Security Training & Research for Advanced National Security for Inter-Modal Transportation,” U.S. Department of Homeland Security, July 1, 2008-June 30, 2012, $505,746.

Emmanouil N. Anagnostou “Defining Optimality Criteria for the Effective Use of Satellite Precipitation Datasets in Land Surface Hydrology and Water Cycle Studies,” (with co-PI: A.C. Bagtzoglou (30%)), NASA, January 12, 2007January 11, 2011, $387,070.

“Understanding the Use of Satellite Rainfall in Flood Prediction for Complex Terrain Basins,” NASA, August 3, 2007-August 2, 2010, $84,000.

“Collaborative Research: Rainfall Estimation Accuracy and Classification from Deep Underwater Sound Measurements,” National Science Foundation, September 15, 2008-August 31, 2011, $146,996.

“Investigation of Satellite QPE and Hydrologic Validation in Complex Terrain Basins,” NASA, April 5, 2010-March 31, 2013, $150,000.

“Investigating the Impact of Improved Model Error Characterization on the Assimilation of Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture in a Land Data Assimilation System,” NASA, August 23, 2009-August 31, 2010, $30,000.

“Ethiopian-UCONN Partnership in Sustainable Development and Management of Water Resources,” (with PI: M. Gebremichael and co-PIs: M. Accorsi, A. Bagtzoglou, G. Wang, C. Atkinson-Palombo, J. Osleeb and F. Shah), U.S. Agency for International Development, May 19, 2009-November 30, 2009, $50,000.

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Amvrossios C. Bagtzoglou “Ethiopian-UCONN Partnership in Sustainable Development and Management of Water Resources,” (with PI: M. Gebremichael and co-PIs: M. Accorsi, E. Anagnostou, G. Wang, C. Atkinson-Palombo, J. Osleeb and F. Shah), U.S. Agency for International Development, May 19, 2009-November 30, 2009, $50,000.

“Strengthening and Modeling of Earth Embankments under High Loads,” (with co-PIs: M. Chrysochoou (45%) and D. Basu (45%)), U.S. Department of Homeland Security/National Transportation Security Center of Excellence, July 1, 2009- June 30, 2011, $118,425.

“Defining Optimality Criteria for the Effective Use of Satellite Precipitation Datasets in Land Surface Hydrology and Water Cycle Studies,” (with co-PI: E. Anagnostou (70%)), NASA, January 12, 2007-January 11, 2011, $387,070.

“Collaborative Research: Developing a Novel Infrastructure for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks,” (with B. Levine and J. Kurose, UMass; L. Freitag, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute; UConn co-PIs: J.H. Cui, S. Rajasekaran, Z. Shi, P. Willett, S. Zhou and Senior Personnel: R. Ammar, A. Bagtzoglou, Y. Fei, T. Torgersen and B. Wang), National Science Foundation/CISE, August 1, 2007-July 31, 2010, $319,998.

“Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis and Testing of an Innovative Small-Scale, Environmentally Friendly, Low-Head Hydropower Concept,” (with co-PIs: R. Malla (33%), B. Cetegen (15%) and T. Barber (15%)), NativeNano LLC, September 24, 2008-June 30, 2009, $177,795.

“Reversing Urban Sprawl: A Reclaimability Index Approach for Reviving Downtown Brownfields,” (with co-PIs: M. Chrysochoou (55%), K. Segerson (15%) and N. Garrick (15%)), Center for Transportation and Urban Planning/Federal Highway Administration, August 23, 2008-August 22, 2010, $123,525.

Dipanjan Basu “Strengthening and Modeling of Earth Embankments under High Loads,” (with co-PIs: M. Chrysochoou (45%) and A. Bagtzoglou (10%)), U.S. Department of Homeland Security/National Transportation Security Center of Excellence, July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2011, $118,425.

“High Strain Rate Modeling of Sandy Soil,” UConn Research Foundation New Large Grant, July 1, 2009August 31, 2010, $27,481.

Joseph T. Bushey “Dynamics of Nitrogen Loading and Speciation in Urban Combined Sewer Catchments: An Assessment of the Effects of Flow Conditions,” (with co-PIs: C. Perkins (40%) and M. Willig (10%)), Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, January 7, 2009-January 6, 2012, $709,695.

“Stream Chemical Interactions within the Urban Environment: Assessing the Fate of Nitrogen and Mercury in a Stream Impacted by Combined Sewer Overflows,” Connecticut Institute of Water Resources – USGS, March 1, 2009-February, 28, 2011, $31,858.

“Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment due to Addition of a Lane on a Divided Highway in Southeastern Connecticut,” (with co-PI: J. Mahoney (50%)), Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, May 15, 2009-August 31, 2010, $31,858.

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“Evaluation of Environmental Wetland Mitigation Alternatives for Transportation Projects,” (with co-PI: E. Jackson (10%)), Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, July 1, 2009-August 31, 2010, $19,986.

Richard E. Christenson “Deployment and Integration of Instructional Shake Tables using the NEES Cyberinfrastructure,” National Science Foundation, September 15, 2006-August 31, 2009, $169,500.

“Experimental Testing of Controllable Damping Devices Toward Extending the Lifespan of Existing Highway Bridges,” Connecticut Cooperative Research Program JHRAC, May 23, 2009-June 30, 2011, $53,181.

“REU Site: Collaborative Research: International REU Program in Smart Structures,” National Science Foundation, May 1, 2009-April 30, 2012, $61,059.

“NEESR-SD: Development of a Real-Time Multi-Site Hybrid Testing Tool for NEES,” National Science Foundation, March 15, 2009-February 28, 2011, $200,000.

“Reducing Fatigue in Wind-Excited Traffic Signal Support Structures using Smart Damping Technologies,” NAS/Transportation Research Board, February 1, 2009-January 31, 2011, $135,000.

“NEESR-SG: Performance-Based Design and Real-time Large-scale Testing to Enable Implementation of Advanced Damping Systems,” (with PI: S.J. Dyke, Washington University in St. Louis (25%) and co-PIs: A.K. Agrawal, City College of New York (10%), J.M. Ricles, Lehigh University (30%), and B.F. Spencer, University of Illinois (25%)), National Science Foundation, September 1, 2008-August 31, 2012, $100,000.

“Expansion and Refinement of a Bridge Monitoring Network in Connecticut,” (with co-PI: J. DeWolf (25%)), Federal Highway Administration/Connecticut Department of Transportation, July 1, 2009-June 30, 2010, $229,441.

“Development and Evaluation of a Dual Purpose Bridge Health Monitoring and Weigh-In-Motion System for a Steel Girder Bridge,” Federal Highway Administration through Connecticut Department of Transportation, August 3, 2009-June 30, 2010, $140,052.

“REU Supplement for NEESR-SD: Development of a Real-Time Multi-Site Hybrid Testing Tool for NEES,” National Science Foundation, March 15, 2009-February 28, 2011, $6,000.

“Integrated Sensing and Control System for Highway Bridges,” (with co-PI: J. Tang (50%)), U.S. Department of Homeland Security/National Transportation Security Center of Excellence, July 1, 2009- June 30, 2011, $100,000.

Maria Chrysochoou “Column Studies for Treatment Optimization at National Chromium,” National Chromium Company Inc., November 1, 2008-May 31, 2010, $10,000.

“Reversing Urban Sprawl: A Reclaimability Index Approach for Reviving Downtown Brownfields,” (with co-PIs: N. Garrick (15%), K. Segerson (15%) and A. Bagtzoglou (15%)), Center for Transportation and Urban Planning/Federal Highway Administration, August 23, 2008-August 22, 2010, $123,525.

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“Evaluating Applications of Field Spectroscopy Devices to Fingerprint Commonly Used Construction Materials,” (with co-PIs: A. Zofka (35%), M. Shaw (20%) and J. Mahoney (10%)), NAS/Transportation Research Board, February 4, 2009-February 3, 2011, $298,984.

“Strengthening and Modeling of Earth Embankments under High Loads,” (with co-PIs: D. Basu (45%) and A. Bagtzoglou (10%)), U.S. Department of Homeland Security/National Transportation Security Center of Excellence, July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2011, $118,425.

“PPG Chromium Non-Remediation Project: Chromium Ore Processing Residue Samples,” AECOM Inc., January 25, 2010-June 30, 2010, $8,800.

“Investigations of the Use of Nanoscale Zero Valent Iron for Cr Remediation in Contaminated Soils,” UConn Research Foundation Large Faculty Grant, July 1, 2009-June 30, 2010, $28,614.

John T. DeWolf “Expansion and Refinement of a Bridge Monitoring Network in Connecticut,” (with co-PI: R. Christenson (75%)), Federal Highway Administration/Connecticut Department of Transportation, July 1, 2009-June 30, 2010, $229,441.

Norman W. Garrick “2009 Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship for Jason Billings,” U.S. Department of Transportation/Federal Highway Administration, September 1, 2009-September 1, 2010, $11,500.

“Investigating Strategies for Creating Viable Bicycle Network in Older Cities,” U.S. Department of Transportation/New England University Transportation Center, September 1, 2005-August 31, 2009, $64,244.

“Improving User Information for Transit in Nantucket,” Remain Nantucket, LLC, June 1, 2010-January 31, 2011, $11,715.

“NEUTC Year 21 Fellowship,” U.S. Department of Transportation/Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 1, 2008-August 31, 2011, $97,000.

“University of Connecticut Graduate Transportation Fellowships, Year 22,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 1, 2009-August 31, 2011.

“University Transportation Center,” (with co-PI: N. Lownes (33%)), U.S. Department of Transportation, August 10, 2005-August 21, 2012, $890,132.

“Community Design and Transportation Safety towards a ‘Vision Zero’ Road,” U.S. Department of Transportation/New England University Transportation Center, September 1, 2007-August 31, 2011, $75,901.

“The Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program 2007,” U.S. Department of Transportation/Federal Highway Administration, September 1, 2007- September 1, 2009, $61,500.

“Nantucket Transit Assessment: A Plan for Growing Transit in Nantucket,” Remain Nantucket, LLC, May 1, 2009-October 16, 2009, $25,340.

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“Effect of Street Networks on Emergency Response Times,” U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyCongress for the New Urbanism, May 1, 2009-December 31, 2009, $11,250.

“Case Studies of the Access & Mobility Impact of Freeway Removal,” (with co-PI: N. Lownes (36%)), U.S. Department of Transportation/Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 1, 2008-August 31, 2011, $96,864.

“Reversing Urban Sprawl: A Reclaimability Index Approach for Reviving Downtown Brownfields,” (with co-PIs: M. Chrysochoou (55%), K. Segerson (15%) and A. Bagtzoglou (15%)), Center for Transportation and Urban Planning/Federal Highway Administration, August 23, 2008-August 22, 2010, $123,525.

“A Public Transit Design for Smart Growth: Using Choice Experiments to Quantify Tradeoffs, Values and Funding Implications,” (with co-PIs: N. Lownes (70%) and E. Jackson (5%)), U.S. Department of Transportation, August 23, 2008-January 31, 2011, $130,876.

Mekonnen Gebremichael “IRES: US-Ethiopia Collaboration on Hydrological Studies of Semiarid Regions,” National Science Foundation/Office of International Science and Engineering, May 8, 2007-June 30, 2010, $141,173.

“Ethiopian-UCONN Partnership in Sustainable Development and Management of Water Resources,” (with co-PIs: M. Accorsi, E. Anagnostou, A. Bagtzoglou, G. Wang, C. Atkinson-Palombo, J. Osleeb and F. Shah), U.S. Agency for International Development, May 19, 2009-November 30, 2009, $50,000.

“What is the Ability of Global Land Surface Models to Simulate Land Surface Processes?,” NASA – New Investigator Program, May 27, 2008-May 26, 2011, $352,322.

“A New Statistical Model of Streamflow Forecast Error,” (with co-PI: J. Yan (50%)), U.S. Department of Commerce/NOAA/National Weather Service, May 1, 2010-April 30, 2012, $70,366.

“Testing the Suitability of Satellite Precipitation Products for Hydrological Modeling at Multiple Scales across the Blue Nile Basin,” (with co-PI: J. Yan (10%)), NASA Precipitation Science, March 18, 2010March 17, 2013, $100,000.

“USDA National Needs Fellowships for M.S. in Resource Economics with a Focus on Integrated Watershed Management and Policy,” (with co-PI: R. Lopez (27.2%); R. Pomeroy (18.2%), F. Shah (18.2%) and K. Segerson (18.2%)), U.S. Department of Agriculture - Food and Agricultural Sciences National Needs Graduate and Postgraduate Fellowship Grants Program, January 1, 2010-December 31, 2014, $218,000.

“US-Ethiopia: Enhancing Collaborations in Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management,” National Science Foundation - Office of International Science and Engineering - International Planning and Workshops, September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010, $47,625.

John N. Ivan “Identification of Crash-Prone Traffic Flow States on Freeways Using Real-Time Surveillance Data,” New England University Transportation Center (USDOT), September 1, 2005-August 31, 2009, $64,244.

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“Differences in Gap Acceptance of Elderly Drivers and the Impact on Traffic Simulation Modeling,” New England University Transportation Center (USDOT), September 1, 2006-August 31, 2009, $94,922.

“Incorporating Wet Pavement Friction into Traffic Safety Analysis,” (with co-PI: N. Ravishankar (50%)), Cooperative Research Program (ConnDOT), May 23, 2009-June 30, 2011, $4,866.

Eric Jackson “Design and Feasibility Study: Connecticut Transportation Planning Data Phase II,” (with co-PI: N. Lownes (50%)), Connecticut Department of Transportation, October 1, 2009-September 30, 2010, $63,003.

“Digital Preservation of a Highway Photolog Film Archive in Connecticut,” (with co-PI: J. Mahoney (10%)), Connecticut Department of Transportation, July 1, 2009-June 30, 2010, $357,788.

“Public Transit Design for Smart Growth: Using Choice Experiments to Quantify Tradeoffs, Values and Funding Implications - Phase I,” (with co-PIs: N. Garrick (25%) and N. Lownes (70%)), Center for Transportation and Urban Planning, August 23, 2008-January 31, 2011, $130,876.

“The Design-Build Methodology: A Review of Practice and Evaluation for Connecticut Applications,” (with co-PI: J. Mahoney (10%)), Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, May 15, 2009-June 30, 2010, $19,877.

“Evaluation of Environmental Wetland Mitigation Alternatives for Transportation Projects,” (with co-PI: J. Bushey (90%)), Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, July 1, 2009-August 31, 2010, $19,968.

Jeong-Ho Kim “CAREER: An Integrated Research and Education on Functionally Graded Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Modeling and Experiments,” National Science Foundation CMMI-Division, August 1, 2006-July 31, 2011, $400,000.

“Advanced Composite Materials for Blast and Fire Resistance,” (with co-PIs: R. Hebert, B. Huey, G. Rossetti Jr., R. Riman (Rutgers University) and A. Shukla (University of Rhode Island)), U.S. Department of Homeland Security, July 1, 2009-June 30, 2010, $860,520.

“Technologies and Research for Advanced National Security of Intermodal Transportation,” (with co-PIs: R. Hebert, B. Huey, G. Rossetti Jr., R. Riman (Rutgers University) and A. Shukla (University of Rhode Island)), U.S. Department of Homeland Security, August 1, 2009-January 31, 2011, $220,000.

Baikun Li “Optimization of Acidogenic Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment with the Potential for Water Reclamation,” U.S. Department of the Interior/U.S. Geological Survey, February 29, 2008-February 28, 2011, $49,474.

“Novel Activated Carbon Nanofiber Biofilm Support for Enhanced Wastewater,” (with J. McCutcheon 50%), National Science Foundation, September 1, 2009-August 31, 2010, $94,391.

“Demonstrating Power Production in Wastewater Treatment Processes on a Pilot Scaled Basis,” NYSERDA/Hydroqual Environmental, February 26, 2009-January 31, 2011, $57,000.

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“Electricity Generation from Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment in Microbial Fuel,” Environmental Protection Agency/Fuss & O’Neill, Inc., February 1, 2009-July 31, 2010, $45,000.

Lanbo Liu “Advanced Numerical Simulation of Electromagnetic Wave Propagation with Multi-region, Pseudospectral Time Domain Method for Surface and Subsurface Sensing,” U.S. Army, July 1, 2007-December 31, 2010, $202,746.

“Cooperative Hydrogeophysics and Water Resources Research,” (with co-PI: M. Willig), DOI/U.S. Geological Survey, June 1, 2007-May 31, 2012, $146,717.

“BioRASCAN: Rapid Detection of Human Vital Signs for Security Applications - Project Plan Preparation,” North Atlantic Treaty Organization, April 23, 2009-July 31, 2009, $9,570.

“Advanced Simulation and Testing for Border-Crossing Clandestine Tunnel Detection,” MITRE Corporation, March 30, 2009-May 31, 2010, $34,296.

“Two-Dimensional Electric Resistivity Tomography for Assisting Characterization of Sewage Water Contamination to the Avalon Bay, California,” City of Avalon, California/University of California at Irvine, January 2, 2009-March1, 2010, $9,810.

“Development of the Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) Radar System for New Pavement Quality Control and Quality Assurance,” University of Connecticut Research Foundation New Large Faculty Grant, July 1, 2009-June 30, 2010, $6,396.

Nicholas E. Lownes “Assessing and Quantifying Public Transportation Access Year II,” Connecticut Cooperative Highway Research Program (CCHRP), May 23, 2009-June 30, 2011, $59,045.

“Innovative Recruitment Initiatives,” University of Connecticut Graduate Student Recruitment Pilot Program, March 5, 2008-February 28, 2010, $8,750.

“Driver Response to Adverse Weather: Impacts on Time Headway,” University of Connecticut Research Foundation Large Faculty Grant, January 1, 2009-April 30, 2010, $17,851.

“Assessing the Impact of Light Rail Transit on Land Values and Tax Revenues - Year II,” (with co-PI: C. Atkinson-Palombo (75%)), U.S. Department of Transportation, August 23, 2008-January 21, 2011, $71,490.

“Public Transit Design for Smart Growth: Using Choice Experiments to Quantify Tradeoffs, Values and Funding Implications - Phase I,” (with co-PIs: N. Garrick (25%) and E. Jackson (5%)), Center for Transportation and Urban Planning (CTUP), August 23, 2008-January 31, 2011, $130,876.

“Design and Feasibility Study: Connecticut Transportation Planning Data Phase II,” (with co-PI: E. Jackson (50%)), Connecticut Department of Transportation, October 1, 2009-September 30, 2010, $63,003.

“The Influence of Real-time Rural Transit Tracking on Traveler Perception,” (with co-PI: A. Zofka (40%)), U.S. Department of Transportation/Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 1, 2009-August 31, 2011, $66,576.

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“Case Studies of the Access & Mobility Impact of Freeway Removal,” (with co-PI: N. Garrick (64%)), U.S. Department of Transportation/Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 1, 2008-August 31, 2011, $96,864.

“University Transportation Center,” (with co-PI: N. Garrick (67%)), U.S. Department of Transportation, August 10, 2005-August 21, 2012, $890,132.

“Senior Department for Real-Time Monitoring of Transportation Vulnerability,” (with co-PIs: R. Ammar and S. Rajasekaran), U.S. Department of Homeland Security, July 1, 2009-June 30, 2011, $107,686.

Allison A. MacKay “Microelectrode Development for in situ Contaminant Fate Assessment,” UConn Research Foundation New Large Faculty Grant, July 1, 2009-December 31, 2010, $30,000.

Ramesh B. Malla “Finite Element Analysis of Percussive Systems for Planetary Exploration,” NASA/Honeybee Robotics Spacecraft Mechanism Systems Corp., April 1, 2009-July 31, 2010, $23,500.

“Sealing of Small Movement Bridge Expansion Joints – Phase II: Field Demonstration and Monitoring,” (with co-PI: M. Shaw (5%)), New England Transportation Consortium, August 1, 2008-July 31, 2011, $75,000.

“Analysis and Design of a Lunar Base with Regolith (Soil)-Structure Interaction,” NASA-University of Hartford, June 1, 2009-August 31, 2010, $20,000.

“Analysis and Design of a Lunar Base with Regolith (Soil)-Structure Interaction,” United TechnologiesHamilton Sundstrand, June 1, 2009-January 15, 2011, $10,000.

“Human Habitat with Efficient Life Support and Environmental Control System for Lunar Colonization,” (with co-PI: T. Filburn, University of Hartford (43%)), NASA/University of Hartford, November 20, 2009December 31, 2010, $40,000.

“Investigation of Mechanism of Longitudinal Joint Failure in Pavement,” GM2 Associates, Inc., August 1, 2009-September 30, 2010, $15,000.

Guiling Wang “Understanding the Dynamic Land-atmosphere System: Multiple Equilibrium States and Climate Variability,” National Science Foundation/GEO, September 1, 2005-August 31, 2010, $365,347.

“Soil Moisture-vegetation-precipitation Feedback over North America: The Search for Observational Evidence,” U.S. Department of Commerce/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, July 1, 2008June 30, 2011, $181,549.

“A Multi-Scale Approach to the Forecast of Potential Distributions of Invasive Species,” (with co-PI: J. Silander), U.S. Department of Agriculture/CSREES, May 1, 2008-June 14, 2012, $20,000.

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“Ethiopian-UCONN Partnership in Sustainable Development and Management of Water Resources,” (with PI: M. Gebremichael and co-PIs: M. Accorsi, E. Anagnostou, A. Bagtzoglou, C. Atkinson-Palombo, J. Osleeb and F. Shah), U.S. Agency for International Development, May 19, 2009-November 30, 2009, $50,000.

Adam Zofka “Evaluating Applications of Field Spectroscopy Devices to Fingerprint Commonly Used Construction Materials,” (with co-PIs: M. Chrysochoou (35%) and J. Mahoney (10%)), NAS/Transportation Research Board, February 4, 2009-February 3, 2011, $298,984.

“Environmental Effects on Physiochemical Properties of Bituminous Materials,” UConn Research Foundation, January 1, 2009-June 30, 2010, $18,071.

“Warm Mix Asphalt Pilot Project Development,” (with co-PI: J. Mahoney (50%)), Connecticut Department of Transportation, April 1, 2010 – June 30, 2010, $13,484.

“Use of Polymer Modified Asphalt Binder for High Friction Thin Lift Overlays in Connecticut,” (with co-PI: J. Mahoney (50%)), Connecticut Department of Transportation, April 1, 2010-June 30, 2010 $13,553.

“Evaluation of Using PG 64-22 Asphalt Binder Instead of PG 64-28,” (with co-PI: J. Mahoney (50%)), Connecticut Department of Transportation, July 1, 2009-June 30, 2010, $50,578.

“Mechanical Characterization of Ultra-High Performance Concrete for Resilient Transportation Infrastructure,” (with co-PIs: M. Accorsi (25%) and J. Mahoney (25%)), U.S. Department of Homeland Security, July 1, 2009-June 30, 2011, $152,576, $127,576.

“The Influence of Real-Time Rural Transit Tracking on Traveler Perception,” (with co-PI: N. Lownes (60%)), U.S. Department of Transportation/Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 1, 2009August 31, 2011, $66,576.

“2009 Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship for Derek Nener-Plante,” U.S. Department of Transportation/Federal Highway Administration, September 1, 2009-September 1, 2010, $1,500.

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CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT AWARDS, HONORS & PATENTS 2009-2010 Norman W. Garrick Award of Recognition, Connecticut Greenways Program, 2010.

Mekonnen Gebremichael IBM Faculty Award.

Jeong-Ho Kim Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship, 2010.

Baikun Li

Research Innovation and Leadership Award, Women of Innovation, Connecticut Science and Technology Council, January 2010.

Lanbo Liu Fulbright Scholar, 2009-2010.

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CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT MAJOR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2009-2010 Michael Accorsi Presentation: “Enabling Technologies for Resilient Transportation Infrastructure,” Fourth Annual DHS University Network Summit, March 10-12, 2010, Washington, DC. Alexander Agrios Invited speaker, Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, April 23, 2010.

Rais Ahmad Presentations: “Application of Different Continuous Wavelet Functions on Cylindrical Guided Wave Signals for Underground Pipe Inspection,” (co-author T. Kundu), 7th International Conference on Urban Earthquake Engineering and 5th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering, (7CUEE & 5ICEE), Tokyo Japan, March 3-5, 2010.

“Application of Gabor Wavelet in Locating Defects in Underground Pipes using Guided Wave Techniques,” (co-author T. Kundu), Fifth European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHMA 2010), Sorrento Naples, Italy, June 29 – July 2, 2010.

Jaehun Ahn Presentation: “Evaluation of Moduli of Geotechnical Materials in Large-scale Tests,” Workshop on Inverse Problems and System Identification of Geo-Systems, RPI, March 24, 2010.

Emmanouil N. Anagnostou Northeast Utilities Endowed Chair in Environmental Engineering.

Associate Editor, Journal of Hydrology.

Guest Editor, Journal of Hydrology, special issue on flash floods.

Leader, European Union Marie Curie Excellence Team, Hellenic Center for Marine Research.

Member, NASA Precipitation Science Team.

Member, International Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS).

Member, International Science Steering Committee of HyMEX Project.

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Elected membership, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, 2010.

Keynote presentation, National Climate Change Conference, State Hydrometeorological Service of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova, June 15-17, 2010.

Unlimited access, NASA’s Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Branch’s Special Sensor Microwave Imager archived data.

Presentations: “Incorporating Vegetation Dynamics in Regional Climate Change Projections over the Mediterranean Region,” (with C.A. Alo and A. Papadopoulos), 11th Plinius Conference on Mediterranean Storms, EGU, Barcelona, Spain, September 7-11, 2009.

“Precipitation Estimation over Complex Terrain from Passive Microwave Observations,” (with M. Grecu and A. Papadopoulos), 11th Plinius Conference on Mediterranean Storms, EGU, Barcelona, Spain, September 7-11, 2009.

“The Impact of a 3D Data Assimilation System on Operational Weather Forecasts across the Mediterranean Basin,” (with A. Papadopoulos, P. Katsafados and E. Mavromatidis), 11th Plinius Conference on Mediterranean Storms, EGU, Barcelona, Spain, September 7-11, 2009.

“Regional Assessment of the Impact of Vegetation Feedback on Climate Prediction in West Africa and the Mediterranean,” (with C.A. Alo and G. Wang), Eos Trans. AGU, 90 (52), 2009 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2009.

“Passive Aquatic Listener: A State-of-art System Employed in Atmospheric, Oceanic and Biological Sciences in the Marine Environment,” (with M.N. Anagnostou, J.A. Nystuen, A. Papadopoulos and V. Lykousis), International Workshop on Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescopes, Athens, Greece, October 13-15, 2009.

“Sensitivity of a Mountain Basin Flash Flood to Initial Soil Moisture and Rainfall Variability,” (with E.I. Nikolopoulos, M. Borga, E.R. Vivoni and A. Papadopoulos), EGU2010-4064, EGU General Assembly 2010, Vienna, Austria, May 2-7, 2010.

“Investigating the Impact of Improved Satellite-rainfall Error Characterization on Soil Moisture Simulations by Land Surface Modeling,” (with V. Maggioni and R. Reichle), EGU2010-1804, EGU General Assembly 2010, Vienna, Austria, May 2-7, 2010.

“Use of Satellite Precipitation Estimates in Short Term Precipitation Forecasting via Elastic Registration,” (with M. Grecu and A. Papadopoulos), EGU2010-5283, EGU General Assembly 2010, Vienna, Austria, May 2-7, 2010.

“Assessing the Effect of Lateral Groundwater Fluxes on the Simulation of Soil Moisture in a Regional Land-surface Model,” (with M. Zampieri, E. Serpetzoglou, E.I. Nikolopoulos and A. Papadopoulos), EGU2010-1213, EGU General Assembly 2010, Vienna, Austria, May 2-7, 2010.

Amvrossios C. Bagtzoglou Environmental Engineering Topical Editor, Encyclopedia of Earth.

Associate Editor, The Open Environmental Engineering Journal.

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Environmental Forensics.

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Member, Editorial Board, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment.

Member, Editorial Board, The Open Civil Engineering Journal.

Member, Editorial Board, The Open Environmental Engineering Journal.

Member, Advisory Board, Connecticut Institute of Water Resources.

Member, New York State Academy of Sciences.

Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.

Presentations: “Effect of Soil Texture on Bacterial Richness and Diversity,” (with J.F. Chau and M. Willig), ASM General Meeting, 2009.

“A Strategic Plan for Brownfield Redevelopment in Connecticut,” (with M. Chrysochoou, N. Garrick and K. Segerson), CTUP Footprint Winter/Spring 2010.

Dipanjan Basu Member, Computational Geotechnics Committee and Soil Properties and Modeling Committee, ASCE GeoInstitute.

Presentations: “Analytical Solutions for Vertical Drains Considering Soil Disturbance,” (with P. Basu and M. Prezzi), 17th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Alexandria, Egypt, October 2009.

“Application of the Method of Initial Parameters to the Laterally Loaded Pile Problem,” (with R. Salgado), 17th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Alexandria, Egypt, October 2009.

“Load and Resistance Factor Design of Drilled Shafts,” University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, November 2009.

“Design of Prefabricated Vertical Drains Considering Soil Disturbance,” GeoFlorida 2010, West Palm Beach, FL, February 2010.

“Design Charts for Vertical Drains Considering Soil Disturbance,” (with M. Prezzi), GeoFlorida 2010, West Palm Beach, FL, February 2010.

“Analysis of Laterally Loaded Piles in Layered Soil,” Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, March 2010.

“A Geotechnical Paradigm for Soil Structure Interaction Problems,” Engineer Research and Development Center, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS, May 2010.

“Nonlinear Elastic and Viscoplastic Soil Structure Interaction with Applications in Foundation Engineering and Geo-Hazard Mitigation,” Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, May 2010.

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Joseph T. Bushey Session Chair - “Urban Biogeochemical Connections,” American Chemical Society, Northeast Regional Meeting, October 7-12, 2009, Hartford, CT. Invited Scholarly Colloquia, Norwich University, March 23, 2010.

Presentations: “Mercury Dynamics in an Urban Watershed Ecosystem,” (with C.T. Driscoll, P.M. Groffman, E.F. Mason, Jr., C.B. Fuss and G.T. Fisher), American Chemical Society Northeast Regional Meeting, October 7-12, 2009, Hartford, CT. “Bioavailability of Mercury in the Sediments of a Suburban Detention Pond,” (with M.D. Mendes and C.A. Segal), poster, American Chemical Society Northeast Regional Meeting, Hartford, CT, October 712, 2009.

“Fate of CSO Contaminants in Urban Streams,” (with A.T. Aragon-Jose, G. Ulatowski, C.R. Perkins and M.D. Mendes), poster, American Chemical Society Northeast Regional Meeting, Hartford, CT, October 7-12, 2009.

“Fate of Hg in Urban Streams,” (with A.T. Aragon-Jose, L.B. Aniskoff and C.R. Perkins), poster, North American Lake Management Society Annual Meeting, Hartford, CT, October 27-31, 2009.

“Impact of Management Strategies on Contaminant Cycling in Suburban Detention Ponds,” (with C.A. Segal, L. Blazeck, T. Torgersen and M.D.Mendes), North American Lake Management Society Annual Meeting, Hartford, CT, October 27-31, 2009.

“Simulating Downstream Effects of Combined Sewer Systems: Assessing the Hartford, CT, Network and the Impact on Long Island Sound,” (with L.B. Aniskoff, C.R. Perkins and C. Fleischmann), poster, North American Lake Management Society Annual Meeting, Hartford, CT, October 27-31, 2009.

“Bioavailability of Mercury in the Sediments of a Suburban Detention Pond,” (with M.D. Mendes and C.A. Segal), poster, North American Lake Management Society Annual Meeting, Hartford, CT, October 27-31, 2009.

“Mercury Cycling and Bioavailability in a Polymictic Suburban Detention Pond,” (with L. Blazeck, C.A. Segal, T. Torgersen and M.D. Mendes), Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 2009, New Orleans, LA, November 19-24, 2009.

“Influence of Roadway Proximity on Metal Uptake and Bioavailability in a Wetland-dwelling Amphibian,” (with S. Brady, C. Acevedo and D. Skelly), Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 2009, New Orleans, LA, November 19-24, 2009.

“Simulating Downstream Effects of Combined Sewer Systems: Assessing the Hartford, CT, Network and the Impact on Long Island Sound,” (with C. Fleischmann, C.R. Perkins, L.B. Aniskoff and M. Willig), poster, Connecticut Conference on Natural Resources, Storrs, CT, March 8, 2010.

“Fate of CSO Contaminants in Urban Streams,” (with A.T. Aragon-Jose, G. Ulatowski, C.R. Perkins and M.D. Mendes), poster, Connecticut Conference on Natural Resources, Storrs, CT, March 8, 2010.

Richard E. Christenson Member, Program Committee, 2009 American Control Conference.

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Member at Large, ASCE Structural Control Committee.

Session Organizer, Hybrid Testing (with C. Chen, Lehigh University), 2010 Structures Congress.

Session Organizer, Key Findings of the Structural Control Benchmark Problems (with S. Narasimhan, University of Waterloo), 2010 Structures Congress.

Conducting research at the NSF-sponsored Network George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) shared national network at Lehigh University, May 2008 – May 2011.

Second place, “A Symbiotic Structural Health Monitoring and Structural Control System for Resilient Highway Bridges,” (with Z. Jiang, E. Lovejoy, X. Wang and J. Tang), NCSIC Competition, Colorado Springs, CO, May 2010.

Presentations: “Reducing Fatigue in Wind-Excited Traffic Signal Support Structures using Smart Damping Technologies,” poster, NCHRP-IDEA Special Poster session, Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 2010.

“NSF REU Program in Smart Structures,” poster, NSF Engineering Education Conference, Reston, VA, February 2010.

Maria Chrysochoou Access to Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Advanced Light Source, February 2010.

Access to Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, April 2010.

Session chair, Enhancement of Soil Properties and Geoenvironmental Processes for Soil Remediation and Geohazard Mitigation, GeoFlorida 2010: Advances in Analysis, Modeling, & Design, conference organized by the American Society for Civil Engineers.

Presentations: “Calcium Polysulfide Reduction of Hexavalent Chromium-contaminated Aquifer Sediments in Saturated Flow-through Columns,” (with C.P. Johnston), American Chemical Society Northeast Regional Meeting, Hartford, CT, October 8, 2009.

“Reaction Kinetics between Hexavalent Chromium and Cationic Polysulfides in Aqueous Solutions,” (with A. Ting), American Chemical Society Northeast Regional Meeting, Hartford, CT, October 8, 2009.

“Strengthening of Soil Embankments under High Dynamic Loads,” (with M. Rood), 2009 Northeast Geotechnical Graduate Research Symposium, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, October 30, 2009.

“An in situ ATR-FTIR Study of Chromate Binding to Goethite,” (with C.P. Johnston), American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 21-25, 2010.

“Nanoscale Zero Valent Iron Treatment of Cr Contaminated Soil,” (with G. Dahal), American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 21-25, 2010.

“Kinetics of Cr(VI) Reduction by Cationic Polysulfides,” (with A. Ting), American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 21-25, 2010.

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“Geochemistry: A Science for Dusty Classrooms or a Living, Breathing Beast in Geotechnical/ geoenvironmental Engineering?,” invited, 2010 Schnabel University Workshop, organized by Schnabel Engineering.

“A Strategic Plan for Brownfield Redevelopment in Connecticut,” (with A. Bagtzoglou, N. Garrick and K. Segerson), CTUP Footprint Winter/Spring 2010.

John T. DeWolf Associate Editor, Structural Health Monitoring.

Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers.

Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.

Member, Board of Examiners for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors (appointed by Governor).

Howard I. Epstein Presentations: “Building a Code Compliant Deck,” Torello Engineers Series: New London, CT (9/1/09 & 1/19/10).

“The Roof is Falling (Avoiding Roof Failures),” Torello Engineers Series: Cromwell, CT (9/22/09), Manchester, CT (9/29/09), Stratford, CT (10/13/09), Uncasville, CT (10/20/09), Litchfield (10/27/09).

“Getting Ready for the New Connecticut Building Code,” Torello Engineers Series: Stratford (4/6/10), Cromwell (4/13/10), Uncasville (5/4/10), Litchfield (5/11/10).

Radio Interview: WILI radio’s morning show hosted by Wayne Norman, 9:30-10:00 a.m., April 29, 2010 – Topic: UConn Senior Design Projects in Civil Engineering.

Norman W. Garrick Member, Board of Directors, Congress for the New Urbanism.

Co-Chair, Transportation Task Force, Congress for the New Urbanism.

Board of Trustees, Tri-state Transportation Campaign.

Conference Organizer, Transportation Summit, Congress for the New Urbanism, Portland, OR, November 2009.

Conference Organizer, Congress for the New Urbanism, Atlanta, GA, June 2010.

Session Chair, Congress for the New Urbanism, Atlanta, GA, May 2010.

Presentations: “Street Networks: Traffic Safety, Travel Mode Choice and Emergency Service,” (with W.E. Marshall), Congress for the New Urbanism, Transportation Summit, Portland, OR, November 2009.

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“Transportation and Place-making,” invited, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, May 2010.

“Biking Revolution,” invited, 2nd Burlington BikeFest, Burlington, VT, September 2009.

“Biking in Cities,” invited, Fairfield County/East Coast Greenway Bicycle and Pedestrian Summit, Stamford, CT, October 2009.

“Nantucket Transit,” invited, Nantucket, MA, December 2009.

“Slaying the Sprawl Monster,” invited, Elgin, IL, March 2010.

“Street Networks and Vehicle Miles Travelled,” (with W.E. Marshall), Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC, April 2010.

“TOD Planning,” invited, Getting Your Community on Track, Rocky Hill, CT, May 2010.

“Shifting Out of Reverse: Transportation, Parking and Value in Hartford,” invited, 3rd Connecticut Smart Growth Conference, Elgin, IL, May 2010.

“Evidence on Why Bicycle Friendly Cities Are Safer for All Road Users,” (with W.E. Marshall), Congress for the New Urbanism, Atlanta, GA, May 2010.

“Losing Hartford: Transportation Policy and the Decline of An American City,” (with C.T. McCahill), Congress for the New Urbanism, Atlanta, GA, May 2010.

“Case Studies of the Access and Mobility Impact of Freeway Removal,” (with J. Billings), Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 2010.

“Development and Application of A Composite Index for Transportation Sustainability,” (with J. Zheng, C. Atkinson-Palombo, C. McCahill and R. O’Hara), New England ITE Student Symposium, Storrs, CT, 2010.

“Freeway Removal in Six Cities,” (with J. Billings), New England ITE Student Symposium, Storrs, CT, 2010.

“The Evolution of the Built Environment and Travel Behavior in Hartford (CT) and Cambridge (MA),” (with C.T. McCahill), New England ITE Student Symposium, Storrs, CT, 2010.

“A Strategic Plan for Brownfield Redevelopment in Connecticut,” (with A. Bagtzoglou, M. Chrysochoou and K. Segerson), CTUP Footprint Winter/Spring 2010.

Newspaper Interviews: “Hartford: It’s A Parking Place,” Hartford Courant, November 2009; “The End of the Automobile Era?,” Planetizen, April 2010; “Car Culture: The Empire’s Time Has Passed,” Hartford Courant, May 2010; “Turning Downtown into Suburbia – The Case Study of Hartford, Connecticut?,” Planetizen, May 2010.

Radio Interviews: El Universal, Mexico City, Mexico, May 2010; News Talk 93 FM Jamaica, May 2010; “Where We Live,” Connecticut Public Radio Network, Hartford, CT, March 2010.

Mekonnen Gebremichael Associate Editor, Atmospheric Research.

Guest Editor, special issue of Hydrology and Earth System Science - “Climate, Weather and Hydrology of East African Highlands.”

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Member, Editorial Board, Remote Sensing.

Conference Organizer, “The 2010 Water Resources Conference in Ethiopia,” January 2010.

Conference Session Convener, “Scaling in Hydrology from Precipitation to Groundwater,” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2009.

Conference Session Convener, “Climate, Water and Health,” European Geophysical Union – EGU Scientific Assembly, Vienna, Austria, May 2010.

UConn’s Representative, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science (CUAHSI).

Member, CUAHSI’s Audit Committee.

Member, NASA Precipitation Science Team.

Member, Statistical Hydrology Working Group (STAHY) of International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS).

Member, Precipitation Committee of American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Member, International Precipitation Working Group.

Secretary of Ethiopian Geophysical Union International.

Secured access to supercomputer at National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Presentations: “Ethiopian-UConn Partnership in Sustainable Development & Management of Water Resources,” Africa-U.S. Higher Education Initiative Conference, Accra, Ghana, August. 2009.

“Long-term Memory and Multi-scaling Properties of River Flow,” (with F.A. Hirpa), EOS Transactions American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Abstract NG13C-04, Vol. 90, No. 52, San Francisco, CA, December 2009.

“A New Paradigm in Satellite Rainfall Estimates,” (with J. Yan and G. Liao), EOS Transactions American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Abstract H31D-0811, Vol. 90, No. 52, San Francisco, CA, December 2009.

“Satellite Rainfall for Hydrological Applications in the Blue Nile River Basin,” (with M.M. Bitew and Y.A. Bayissa), EOS Transactions American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Abstract H21A-0814, Vol. 90, No. 52, San Francisco, CA, December 2009.

“How Good are Satellite Rainfall Products for Hydrologic Simulations of a Small Watershed?” (with D.A. Zeweldi and C.W. Downer), EOS Transactions American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Abstract H21A-0815, Vol. 90, No. 52, San Francisco, CA, December 2009.

“A Simple Model for Estimating Evapotranspiration Based Solely on Remote Sensing: Algorithm and Application,” (with Z. Sun, Q. Wang, B. Matsushita, T. Fukushima and Z. Ouyang), EOS Transactions American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Abstract H51B-0769, Vol. 90, No. 52, San Francisco, CA, December 2009.

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“Intercomparison Between Model and ESTAR Soil Moistures during the Southern Great Plain Hydrology Experiments,” (with A. Bushara, R. Rigon and T. Over), Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 12, EGU2010-4841-6, EGU General Assembly, May 2010.

John N. Ivan Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Accident Analysis & Prevention.

Associate Editor, Journal of Transportation Safety and Security.

Presentations: Invited Talk, Transportation Graduate Seminar, University of Rhode Island, Department of Civil Engineering, March 3, 2010.

Jeong-Ho Kim Presentations: “Three-dimensional Dynamic and Wave Propagation Analyses of Functionally Graded Solids,” (with G. Anandakumar), Recent Advances in Modeling Functionally Graded Materials at the 10th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Columbus, OH, July 16-19, 2009.

“Fracture Modeling of Nonhomogeneous Materials Subjected to Residual Stress and Strain Loads,” Recent Advances in Modeling Functionally Graded Materials at the 10th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Columbus, OH, July 16-19, 2009.

“Preparation and Characterization of LSCF (La0.58Sr0.4Co0.2Fe0.8Ox )/GDC (Ce0.8Gd0.2O2) Cathode,” (with N. Li, A. Smirnova, A. Verma and P. Singh), 7th International Symposium on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Materials, Science and Technology, 34th International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Daytona Beach, FL, January 24-29, 2010.

“Fracture and Damage Modeling of Functionally Graded Material Systems under Thermo-mechanical Loadings,” invited, Seminar in Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, University of Rhode Island, March 19, 2010.

Baikun Li Member, Editorial Board, Water Journal.

Member, Editorial Board, Clean-Water, Air, Soil.

Chair, poster symposium: WEFTEC Annual Conference , 2008-2011.

Co-organizer, Environmental Chemistry Symposium, ACS Annual Conference, 2010.

Member, Executive Committee for WEFTEC Annual Conference, 2009-2011.

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Presentations: “EPA SBIR Phase I MFC Treating Wastewater,” invited, EPA Headquarters, August 2009.

“Pilot-scale Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) Treating Wastewater,” invited, NYSERDA –WERF Meeting, July 2009.

Lanbo Liu Associate Editor, Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics.

Invited Visiting Professorships: Department of Geophysics, Peking University.

Presentations: “Ambient Vibration Noise as the New Source for Urban Engineering Seismology and Earthquake Engineering: Case Studies from the Metropolitan Area of Beijing,” keynote, (with Q. Chen, W. Wang, C. Qi and E. Rohrbach), 4th International Conference on Engineering and Environmental Geophysics, Chengdu, China, 2010.

“Characterization of Seafloor Sediments with a Passive Vertical Array,” (with H. Dong, G. Zhang, Z. Cao and J. Hovem), 33rd Scandinavian Symposium on Physical Acoustics, Geilo Hotel, February 7-10, 2010.

“On Acoustic Scattering from Two Spheres with Different Distances: Model and Experiment,” (with Z. Cao, H. Dong and G. Zhang), 33rd Scandinavian Symposium on Physical Acoustics, Geilo Hotel, February 7-10, 2010.

“Surface Wave Modelling in Layered Transversely Isotropic Medium,” (with G. Ke, H. Dong and X. Liang), 33rd Scandinavian Symposium on Physical Acoustics, Geilo Hotel, February 7-10, 2010.

“Underwater Acoustic Communication Experiments in the Trondheim Fjord,” (with G. Zhang, H. Dong and J. Hovem), 33rd Scandinavian Symposium on Physical Acoustics, Geilo Hotel, February 7-10, 2010.

Invited lecture, World Earth Day to the Graduate School of China Academy of Science, April 2010.

Nicholas E. Lownes Member, Editorial Board - International Journal of Society Systems Science (IJSSS).

Session Chair, “Public Transit II: Equity, Availability and Assignment,” INFORMS Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., October 2009.

Member, Transportation Research Board (TRB) Traffic Simulations Applications Subcommittee 40(1.2).

Member, Transportation Research Board (TRB) Transit, Freight and Logistics Modeling Subcommittee ADB30(1).

Member, Board of Directors, Intelligent Transportation Society of Connecticut (ITS-CT).

Presentations: “The Social Accessibility of Transit Network Design,” INFORMS Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, October 11, 2009.

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“Estimating Transportation Network Vulnerability Using a Graph Theory Model,” (with D. Sharma, R. Rajasekaran and R. Ammar), 6th Annual New England ITE Student Research Symposium, Storrs, CT, April 2010.

“Estimating Transportation Network Vulnerability Using a Graph Theory Model,” (with S. Ibrahim, R. Ammar and R. Rajasekaran), 6th Annual New England ITE Student Research Symposium, Storrs, CT, April 2010.

“The Impacts of Precipitation on Time Headway and Following Distance,” (with A. Raman), 6th Annual New England ITE Student Research Symposium, Storrs, CT, April 2010.

“A Composite Public Transit Accessibility Measure,” (with S. Al Mamun), 6th Annual New England ITE Student Research Symposium, Storrs, CT, April 2010.

“Transportation Research: UConn’s Role in a National Challenge,” invited, Connecticut ITE Joint Spring Meeting, Storrs, CT, April 7, 2010.

Allison A. MacKay Session co-chair: “Environmental Chemistry,” 32nd Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Hartford, CT, October 7-10, 2009.

Presentations: “Pharmaceutical Interactions with Natural Organic Matter,” invited, American Chemical Society 238th National Meeting, Geochemistry Section, Washington, D.C., August 16-20, 2009.

“Environmental Fate of Antibiotics: Factors Affecting Soil Interactions,” invited, University of Nebraska, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, April 23, 2010.

“How ‘Useless’ Information Turns Out to be Useful Someday,” invited, University of Nebraska, Pathways to Success ADVANCE Luncheon Series, April 22, 2010.

Ramesh B. Malla Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Space Structures, UK. Member, Planning Committee, 52nd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials (SDM) Conference, Palm Springs, CA, April 7-11, 2011.

SDM Long Range Planning Committee, AIAA, Washington, D.C. Conference General Chair, 2nd American Society of Nepalese Engineers (ASNEngr) Annual Conference and Meeting, Oakland, CA; July 2-4, 2009.

Symposium Chair, Symposium on Intelligent Sensors and Actuators, Earth & Space 2010 – 12th Biennial ASCE Aerospace Division International Conference on Engineering, Science, Construction and Operations in Challenging Environments, Honolulu, HI; March 14-17, 2010.

Technical Chair, 51st AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials (SDM) Conference, Orlando, FL, April 12-15, 2010.

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Member, Executive Board, Technical Activities Committee, American Society of Civil Engineers, October 2006-September 2009.

Founding President, American Society of Nepalese Engineers, September 2007-present.

Session Chair, “Novel Applications of Shape Memory Alloy,” 12th ASCE Aerospace Div. International Conference on Engineering, Construction and Operations in Challenging Environments (Earth & Space 2010), Honolulu, HI, March 14-17, 2010.

Session Chair, “Instruments and Methods for Characterizing Geotechnical Properties of Granular Materials,” 12th ASCE Aerospace Div. International Conference on Engineering, Construction and Operations in Challenging Environments (Earth & Space 2010), Honolulu, HI, March 14-17, 2010.

Session Co-Chair, “Effects of Aerodynamics on Civil Structures,” 12th ASCE Aerospace Div. International Conf. on Engineering, Construction and Operations in Challenging Environments (Earth & Space 2010), Honolulu, HI, March 14-17, 2010.

Session Chair, Technical Sessions I and II, 2nd Annual Conference of the American Society of Nepalese Engineers, Oakland, CA, July 2-4, 2009.

Invited paper - “Variation in Wave Propagation in Lunar Percussive Drilling Instrument due to Presence of a Joint,” (with B.R. Shrestha, G. Paulsen, and J. Craft), Earth & Space 2010 – 12th Biennial ASCE Aerospace Division International Conference on Engineering, Science, Construction and Operations in Challenging Environments, Honolulu, HI, March 14-17, 2010.

Presentations: “Stress and Displacement Wave Propagation Study in Percussive Penetrometer System for Lunar Exploration,” (with B.R. Shrestha), 2nd Annual Conference, American Society of Nepalese Engineers, Oakland, CA, July 2-4, 2009.

“Role of Structural Engineers to Create Earthquake-Resistant Buildings and Infrastructure in Nepal,” (with K. Kayastha), 4th NRN Regional Conference, 4 pages, Houston, TX, May 28-30, 2010.

“Design of Human Habitat with Efficient Life Support and Environmental Control System for Lunar Colonization,” invited, (with T. Filburn, Univ. of Hartford), Webinar/Seminar through internet to NASA representative, Industry personnel and University faculty, (Host: F. Prochaska, NASA Johnson Space Center), NASA/Ralph Steckler Space Colonization Research and Development program, May 18, 2010.

“Development and Installation of Foam Sealant for Small Movement Bridge Expansion Joints,” poster, (with B. Swanson and M.T. Shaw), 27th Annual International Bridge Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, June 69, 2010.

Timothy Vadas Presentation: “Metal Transport through Bioretention Soil Columns,” poster, Gordon Research Conference, Environmental Sciences: Water, June 20-25, 2010.

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Guiling Wang Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences.

Presentations: “On the Hydrological and Ecological Impact of Hydraulic Redistribution,” invited, NASA/GSFC, January 2010.

“On the Hydrological and Ecological Impact of Hydraulic Redistribution,” invited, Departmental of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, April 2010.

“Role of Land Surface Dynamics in Precipitation Variability at Sub-seasonal to Decadal Time Scales,” invited, Lamont Earth Observatory, Division of Ocean and Climate Physics, Columbia University, April 2010.

“Assessing the Potential Hydrological and Ecological Impact of Plant Hydraulic Redistribution in the Amazon Region,” Keynote, the 2nd Hydrology Delivers Earth System Science to Society Conference, Tokyo, Japan, June 23, 2010.

Visiting Professor, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, June 2-18, 2010.

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COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY 2009-2010 The Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) Department continues to reach new levels in terms of national recognition in education and research. Our undergraduate programs in Computer Science, Computer Science & Engineering, and Computer Engineering (jointly offered with the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department) attracted 40% more students for the fall 2010 class than for the fall 2009 freshman class. In research, CSE faculty continued their record of success in winning National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards. With the new NSF CAREER Award presented to Dr. Yufeng Wu this year, the department currently has 10 out of 27 UConn engineering CAREER Award recipients. Overall, the CSE Department attained more than $2,082,000 in new research funding for FY2010. Our cumulative funding, including existing grants and contracts, totals more than $14 million, a sum that reflects the continued accomplishments of CSE faculty. Graduate enrollment continued to grow, in parallel with our strong funding profile and in response to our comprehensive outreach activities. More than 100 students are currently enrolled in our M.S. and Ph.D. programs.

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS HIGHLIGHTS

For the fall 2010 term, the Department has observed a 40% increase in freshman enrollment over fall 2009 figures. This is due to our recruiting efforts and a recognition of our high quality undergraduate education.

We have begun to develop plans to increase retention of freshmen and sophomores. These plans include curriculum modification and academic assistance to students during their first two years. We offered a new version of CSE 1100 (Introduction to Computing) that benefits all engineering students during their study.

Now a three-credit course, CSE 1100 uses MATLAB as a programming environment and covers computing in greater depth for freshman students.

The department serves more than 100 M.S. and Ph.D. students. To bolster enrollments of domestic graduate students, our faculty members have led and received two U.S. Department of Education Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) awards, in Advanced Computing and Cloud Computing. CSE faculty also participate in two other GAANN projects awarded to the School of Engineering, on Advanced Computing Security and Sustainable Energy. These GAANN grants provide significant resources to recruit more high quality Ph.D. students. We also continue to recruit high quality, funded international graduate students, and to establish faculty and graduate exchange programs with foreign universities.

FACULTY

Dr. Alexander Russell was promoted to the rank of full professor and Dr. Jerry Shi was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. Both of these promotions will be effective in the fall of 2010. The department lost Ms. Ruth Simons due to retirement and Dr. Yoo-Ah Kim due to resignation. However, the department successfully recruited a new faculty member, Dr. Jinbo Bi, whose position is associated with the Biomedical Informatics joint search between CSE and the UConn Health Center. Two additional positions are expected to be filled under the Biomedical Informatics search.

STRATEGIC PLAN

The CSE Department continues to implement its strategic plan, which was developed three years ago with a focus on the continued growth in research and graduate education, undergraduate education and outreach.

The department is focusing particularly on the development of new opportunities in: multi-dimensional collaboration (large-scale research initiatives, synergistic collaborations with other UConn units and 99

international collaboration); focused strategic growth in Bioinformatics/Biomedical Informatics, Information Security, and Networking and Grid Computing; and increased cooperation and partnership with State government and industry.

RESARCH HIGHLIGHTS

The CSE Department received two grants since 2009 from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Postsecondary Education for Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need, in the areas of Advanced Computing (Biomedical Informatics and Underwater Sensor Networks), worth over $500,000 (PI: Reda A. Ammar, co-PIs: Jun-Hong Cui, Steven A. Demurjian, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran and Shengli Zhou); and Cloud Computing, worth over $400,000 (PI: S. Rajasekaran, co-PIs: R.A. Ammar, J.H Cui, Ian Greenshields and Peter Luh). In addition, Drs. Aggelos Kiayias, Jerry Shi, Alexander Shvartsman and Bing Wang are coPIs on an additional GAANN project awarded to the ECE Department on Advanced Computer Security. Dr. Ammar received a new grant from the Department of Homeland Security for Real-Time Monitoring of Transportation Vulnerability ($100,000); Dr. Ion Mandoiu received a new grant from NSF for Collaborative Research: Reconstruction of Haplotype Spectra from High Throughput Sequencing Data ( $275,000); Dr. Russell received Department of Defense/Army funding through the University of California to conduct research in the area of Quantum Algorithms on the Algebraic Frontier ($191,000); and Dr. Wu received a new NSF CAREER award in the area of Efficient and Accurate Computation for High Throughput Sequencing Related Problems in Population Genomics ($496,000). Drs. Mandoiu, Shi, Wang and Wu all received supplemental funding from NSF for Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU).

The department enjoyed increased support from Connecticut industry and State agencies. Drs. Demurjian and Dong-Guk Shin continued to receive substantial funding from the State of Connecticut Insurance Department; Drs. Shvartsman, Kiayias, Laurent Michel and Russell continued to receive federal HAVA funding through the Connecticut Secretary of State for their voting technology center.

This year, our faculty collectively published more than 100 archival journal and conference papers. Several CSE faculty are writing scholarly books and book chapters and others are editing books or journal special issues. Of particular note, Dr. Rajasekaran co-edited a book entitled Bioinformatics Research and Applications (with M. Borodovsky, J.P. Gogarten, and T.M. Przytycka); Dr. Thomas Peters co-edited the Proceedings of the Fourth Conference, Mathematics in Industry, for 2009 (with D.A. Field); and Dr. Shvartsman assembled a special issue on distributed system for Theoretical Computer Science.

Our faculty continued their leadership as officers of professional societies, members of editorial boards, and members of steering committees and program chairs for international conferences. Examples include: Dr. Ammar continued as president of the International Society on Computers and Their Applications, Conference Chair for the IEEE Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT 2010) and the 1st International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication (ACC-2010), and Registration & Finance Chair for the IEEE Symposium on Computer and Communication (ISCC ’10). Dr. Cui serves as Editor of Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks and chair of the Steering Committee of WUWNet'09 and ’10. Dr. Swapna Gokhale served as a Session Chair for the 21st International Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE ’09) and Dr. Chun-Hsi Huang is the Organizing Chair for the Workshop on Biomedical Computations on the Grid. Dr. Kiayias is the Chair, CT-RSA 2011 and a Steering Committee Member of ACM Digital Rights Management Workshop 2009; and Dr. Mandoiu is General Co-Chair for the 6th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA). Dr. Robert McCartney is Co-Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Computing Education and Co-Chair of the Icer doctoral consortium. Dr. Michel is a member of the Editorial Board of Constraints, Area Editor of Constraint Programming Letters (CPL) and Associate Editor and Editorial Board member of Mathematical Programming Computation (MPC). Dr. Peters is Organizer of the Society of Industrial and Applied 100

Mathematics, 4th Conference, Mathematics in Industry, 2009. Dr. Rajasekaran is Program Co-Chair for the 6th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA 2010) and General Chair of the 1st International Conference on Networks & Communications (NetCom 2009)/ Dr. Russell is Associate Editor-in-Chief of Theory of Computing, and Dr. Shi is Demo Chair of the ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet 2010). Dr. Shin is Editor of Bioinformatics and Biology Insights, Libertas Academica. Dr. Shvartsman is co-Chair of the 2010 EATCS International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2010) and the 2009 Workshop on Theoretical Aspects of Dynamic Distributed Systems; and Dr. Wu is Workshop & Poster Co-Chair of the 6th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA 2010). Faculty members have also been invited to present their research directions and results, including keynote addresses in several major international and national conferences and at top ranked institutes.

CSE faculty also took the lead and played a major role in submitting multi-dimensional proposals. For example: Dr. Demurjian is Core Co-Director and Associate Director of Research Informatics, Biomedical Informatics, in the proposed Connecticut Institute of Clinical and Translational Science (CICaTS); and Dr. Cui submitted for an NSF Engineering Research Center for High-Confidence Cyber-Aquatic Systems (HiCAS) proposal with nine other institutes.

CONCLUDING REMARK

The Computer Science & Engineering Department continues on an impressive growth path. We have a balanced faculty with full professors and associate professors with tenure, and a strong core of junior faculty.

Our undergraduate and graduate educational programs are well developed, and we continue to fine-tune them, to even better serve the State and the nation. Our research accomplishments are exemplary with the new research grants. We are growing at an impressive pace in terms of research funding, publications, and national and international service and recognition.

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COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ARCHIVAL TECHNICAL JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS 2009-2010 Reda A. Ammar “Performance-Driven Approach for Restructuring Distributed Object-Oriented Software,” (with A.A. ElRaouf, T. Fergany and S. Hamad), Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, pp. 127-135, July, 2009.

Jun-Hong Cui “Ammonia Gas Sensor Using Polypyrrole-Coated TiO2/ZnO Nanofibers,” (with Y. Wang, W. Jia, T. Strout, A. Schempf, H. Zhang, B. Li and Y. Lei), Wiley Electroanalysis, Vol. 21, No. 12, pp. 1432-1438, 2009 “Efficient Localization for Large-Scale Underwater Sensor Networks,” (with Z. Zhou and S. Zhou), Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 267-279, May 2010.

Steve A. Demurjian “Assessment of Candidate Information Models for Granular Computing,” International Journal of Granular Computing, Rough Sets, and Intelligent Systems (IJGCRSIS), Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-20, July 2009.

“A Framework of Composable Security Features: Preserving Separation of Security Concerns from Models to Code,” (with J. Pavlich-Mariscal and L.D. Michel), Computer & Security Journal, special issue on Software Engineering for Secure Systems, Elsevier EES, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 350-379, May 2010.

“Integrating Access Control into UML for Secure Software Modeling and Analysis,” (with T. Doan, LD. Michel and S. Berhe), International Journal of Secure Software Engineering, IGI Global, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp.

1-19, January-March 2010.

Swapna S. Gokhale “Reliable Operating Systems: Overview and Techniques,” (with M. Ahmed), IETE Technical Review – Research Journal, Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 461-469, 2009.

“Linux Bugs: Life Cycle, Resolution and Architectural Analysis,” (with M. Ahmed), Information and Software Technology, Vol. 51, No. 11, pp. 1618-1627, November 2009.

“Estimating System Reliability with Correlated Component Failures,” (with L. Fiondella), International Journal of Reliability and Safety, Vol. 4, No. 2-3, pp. 188-205, April 2010.

“Importance Measures for Modular Software with Uncertain Parameters,” (with L. Fiondella), Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 63-85, 2010.

“A Multiplicative Model of Software Defect Repair Times,” (with R. Mullen), Empirical Software Engineering Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 296-319, June 2010.

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Chun-Hsi Huang “Ensemble Learning Algorithms for Classification of mtDNA into Haplogroups,” (with C. Wong, Y. Li and C. Lee), Briefings in Bioinformatics, Vol. 11, No. 4, (11 pages), March 2010.

Aggelos Kiayias “State-wide Elections, Optical Scan Voting Systems, and the Pursuit of Integrity,” (with T. Antonyan, S. Davtyan, S. Kentros, L.D. Michel, N. Nicolaou, A.C. Russell and A.A. Shvartsman), IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 597–610, 2009.

“Hidden Identity Based Signatures,” (with H-S. Zhou), IET Information Security, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 119-127, September 2009.

Ion I. Mandoiu “Identification of Mammalian Orthologs using Local Synteny,” (with J. Jun and C.E. Nelson), BMC Genomics, Vol. 10, No. 630, 2009 “The Birth of New Genes by RNA- and DNA-Mediated Duplication during Mammalian Evolution,” (with J. Jun, P. Ryvkin, E. Hemphill and C.E. Nelson), Journal of Computational Biology, Vol. 16, pp. 1429-1444, 2009.

Robert D. McCartney “Naturally Occurring Data as Research Instrument: Analyzing Examination Responses to Study the Novice Programmer,” (with R. Lister, T. Clear, B. Simon, D.J. Bouvier, P. Carter, A. Eckerdal, J. Jackova, M. Lopez, P. Robbins, O. Seppala and E. Thompson), Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Bulletin, Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 156-173, 2009.

“Liminal Spaces and Learning Computing,” (with J. Boustedt, A. Eckerdal, J.E. Mostrom, K. Sanders, L. Thomas and C. Zander), European Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 379-387, 2009.

“Learning Computer Science: Perceptions, Actions and Roles,” (with A. Berglund, A. Eckerdal, A. Pears, P. East, P. Kinnunen, L. Malmi, J.E. Mostrom, L. Murphy, M. Ratcliffe, C. Schulte, B. Simon, I. Stamouli and L. Thomas), European Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 325-335, 2009.

“Games and Machine Learning: A Powerful Combination in an Artificial Intelligence Course,” (with S.A. Wallace and I. Russell), Computer Science Education, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 17-36, March 2010.

Laurent D. Michel “Model-driven Visualizations of Constraint-Based Local Search,” (with G. Dooms and P. Van Hentenryck), Constraints, ISSN 1383-7133 (Print) 1572-9354 (Online), pp. 1-31, Springer, 2009.

“Transparent Parallelization of Constraint Programming,” (with A. See and P. Van Hentenryck), INFORMS Journal on Computing 2009, Vol. 21, pp. 363-382, DOI: 10.1287/ijoc.1080.0313, May 19, 2009.

“Parallel and Distributed Local Search in COMET,” (with A. See and P. Van Hentenryck), Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 36, No. 8, pp. 2357-2375, ISSN:0305-0548, August 2009.

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“State-wide Elections, Optical Scan Voting Systems, and the Pursuit of Integrity,” (with T. Antonyan, S. Davtyan, S. Kentros, A. Kiayias, N. Nicolaou, A.C. Russell and A.A. Shvartsman), IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 597–610, 2009.

“Integrating Access Control into UML for Secure Software Modeling and Analysis,” (with T. Doan, S.A. Demurjian and S. Berhe), International Journal of Secure Software Engineering, IGI Global, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-19, January-March 2010.

“Optimal Deployment of Eventually-Serializable Data Services,” (with A.A. Shvartsman, E. Sonderegger and P. Van Hentenryck), Annals of Operations Research, DOI: 10.1007/s10479-010-0684-3, February 2010.

“A Framework of Composable Security Features: Preserving Separation of Security Concerns from Models to Code,” (with J. Pavlich-Mariscal and S.A. Demurjian), Computer & Security Journal, special issue on Software Engineering for Secure Systems, Elsevier EES, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 350-379, May 2010.

Sanguthevar Rajasekaran “A Proposed Syntax for Minimotif Semantics, Version I,” (with J. Vyas, R.J. Nowling, M.W. Maciejewski, M.R. Gryk and M.R. Schiller), BMC Genomics, Vol. 10, No. 360, 2009.

“Fast Local-search-based Parallel Algorithms for DNA Probe Placement on Oligonucleotide Arrays,” (with D. Trinca), Advanced Modeling and Optimization, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 45-55, 2010.

Alexander C. Russell “Quantum Algorithms for Simon’s Problem over Nonabelian Groups,” (with G. Alagic and C. Moore), ACM Transactions on Algorithms, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 19:1 – 19:15, 2009.

“State-Wide Elections, Optical Scan Voting Systems, and the Pursuit of Integrity,” (with T. Antonyan, S. Davtyan, S. Kentros, A. Kiayias, L.D. Michel, N. Nicolaou and A.A. Shvartsman), IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 597–610, 2009.

“Uncertainty Principles for Compact Groups,” (with G. Alagic), Illinois Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 52, No. 4, pp. 1315–1324, 2009.

“Quantum and Randomized Lower Bounds for Local Search on Vertex-Transitive Graphs,” (with H. Dinh), Quantum Information and Computation, Vol. 10, Nos. 7&8, pp. 636–652, 2010.

“Finding Conjugate Stabilizer Subgroups in PSL and Related Groups,” (with A. Denney and C. Moore), Quantum Information and Computation, Vol. 10, Nos. 3&4, pp. 282–291, 2010.

“On the Impossibility of a Quantum Sieve Algorithm for Graph Isomorphism,” (with C. Moore and P. Sniady), SIAM Journal on Computing, Vol. 39, No. 6, pp. 2377–2396, 2010.

Zhijie Shi “SDRT: A Reliable Data Transport Protocol for Underwater Sensor Networks,” (with P. Xie, Z. Zhou, Z. Peng and J-H. Cui), Ad Hoc Networks, Vol. 8, No. 7, pp. 708-722, 2010.

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Dong-Guk Shin “Computing Consistencies between Microarray Data and Known Gene Regulation Relationships,” (with S. Kazmi, B. Pei, Y-A. Kim, J. Maddox, R. Nori, A. Wong, W. Krueger and D.W. Rowe), IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 1075-1082, 2009.

“Identification of Differentially Expressed Genes between Osteoblasts and Osteocytes,” (with F. Paic, J.C. Igwe, R. Nori, M.S. Kronenberg, P. Harrington, L. Kuo, S.E. Harris, D.W. Rowe and I. Kalajzic), Bone, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 682-692, 2009.

“Hyperbaric Oxygen Induces a Cytoprotective and Angiogenic Response in Human Microvascular Endothelial Cells,” (with C.A. Godman, K.P. Chheda, L.E. Hightower, G. Perdrizet and C. Giardina), Cell Stress and Chaperones, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 431-442, December 1, 2009.

Alexander A. Shvartsman “State-Wide Elections, Optical Scan Voting Systems, and the Pursuit of Integrity,” (with T. Antonyan, S. Davtyan, S. Kentros, A. Kiayias, L.D. Michel, N. Nicolaou and A.C. Russell), IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 597–610, 2009.

“Developing a Consistent Domain-Oriented Distributed Object Service,” (with C. Georgiou and P.M. Musial), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 20, No. 11, pp. 1567-1585, 2009.

“Node Discovery in Networks,” (with K.M. Konwar and D.R. Kowalski), Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 69, No. 4, pp. 337-348, 2009.

“Optimal Deployment of Eventually-Serializable Data Services,” (with L.D. Michel, E. Sonderegger and P. Van Hentenryck), Annals of Operations Research, DOI: 10.1007/s10479-010-0684-3, February 2010.

“Emulating Shared-Memory Do-All Algorithms in Asynchronous Message-Passing Systems,” (with D. Kowalski and M. Momenzadeh), Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 70, No 6, pp. 699705, June 2010.

Bing Wang “Multipath Live Streaming via TCP: Scheme, Performance and Benefits,” (with W. Wei, Z. Guo, and D. Towsley), ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP), Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 25:1 – 25:23, August 2009.

Yufeng Wu “An Analytical Upper Bound on the Minimum Number of Recombinations in the History of SNP Sequences in Populations,” Information Processing Letters (IPL), Vol. 109, No. 9, pp. 427-431, 2009.

“The Three-State Perfect Phylogeny Problem Reduces to 2-SAT,” (with D. Gusfield), Communications in Information and Systems, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 295-302, 2009.

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COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT PUBLISHED BOOKS, BOOK CHAPTERS, BOOK SECTIONS & EDITED VOLUMES 2009-2010 Reda A. Ammar “Enhancing Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks Using Surface Radios: Issues, Challenges and Solutions,” (with Z. Zhou, H. Yan, S. Ibrahim, J-H. Cui and Z. Shi), chapter in Sensor Networks: Where Theory Meets Practice, (G. Ferrari, ed.), Springer, pp. 283-307, March 2010.

Jun-Hong Cui “Enhancing Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks Using Surface Radios: Issues, Challenges and Solutions,” (with Z. Zhou, H. Yan, S. Ibrahim, Z. Shi and R.A. Ammar), chapter in Sensor Networks: Where Theory Meets Practice, (G. Ferrari, ed.), Springer, pp. 283-307, March 2010.

Steven A. Demurjian “Emerging Trends in Health Care Delivery: Towards Collaborative Security for NIST RBAC,” (with S. Berhe and T. Agresta), chapter in Research Directions in Data and Applications Security XXIII, (E. Gudes and J. Viadya, eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5645, Springer, pp. 283-290, July 2009.

“Improving the Information Security of Collaborative Web Portals via Fine-Grained Role-Based Access Control,” (with H. Ren, S. Berhe, M. Devineni, S. Vegad and K. Polineni), chapter in Handbook of Research on Web 2.0, 3.0 and X.0: Technologies, Business and Social Applications, a volume of the Advances in EBusiness Research Series, (S. Murugesan, ed.), IGI Global, pp. 430-448, April 2010.

“Chapter 39: Using a Collaborative Web Portal for Making Health Information Technology (HIT) Decisions,” (with R. Crowell, T. Agresta, M. Cook, J. Fifield, S. Carter, I. Becerra-Ortiz, S. Vegad and K. Polineni), chapter in Handbook of Research on Web 2.0, 3.0 and X.0: Technologies, Business and Social Applications, a volume of the Advances in E-Business Research Series, (S. Murugesan, ed.), IGI Global, pp.

862-698, April 2010.

Thomas J. Peters Proceedings of the Fourth Conference, Mathematics in Industry, for 2009, (with D.A. Field, ed.), published electronically by Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, San Francisco, CA, October 9-10, 2009.

Sanguthevar Rajasekaran Bioinformatics Research and Applications, (with M. Borodovsky, J.P. Gogarten and T.M. Przytycka), Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA 2010), Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics 6053.

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Zhijie Shi “Enhancing Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks Using Surface Radios: Issues, Challenges and Solutions,” (with Z. Zhou, H. Yan, S. Ibrahim, J-H. Cui and R.A. Ammar), chapter in Sensor Networks: Where Theory Meets Practice, (G. Ferrari, ed), Springer, pp. 283-307, March 2010.

Alexander A. Shvartsman “Principles of Distributed Systems, Special Issue,” (with P. Felber), chapter in Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 411, No. 14-15, March 2010.

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COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS 2009-2010 Reda A. Ammar “Novel Micro-Threading Techniques on the Cell Broadband Engine,” (with M. Ahmed and S. Rajasekaran), Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication, pp. 570-575, Sousse, Tunisia, July 5-8, 2009.

“Geometry-Guided Gateway Deployment Optimization in Underwater Sensor Networks,” (with S. Ibrahim and J-H. Cui), Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication, pp. 932-937, Sousse, Tunisia, July 5-8, 2009.

“Heuristics for Distributed Systems Clustering and Mapping under Network Restrictions,” (with N.S. Nabawi, M.F. Ahmed and A. Atwan), Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, pp. 1-6, Louisville, KY, September 24-26, 2009.

“Parallel ICA Using SCILAB and PVM,” (with A. Mahmoud, M. Hussien and M.I. Eladawy), Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, pp. 49-54, Louisville, KY, September 24-26 2009.

“Improving the Performance of the Instantaneous Blind Audio Source Separation Algorithms,” (with A.E Mohamed, M.I. Eladawy and M. Hussien), Proceedings of the IEEE-International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, pp. 31-37, Ajman, United Arab Emirates, December 14-16, 2009.

“A Randomized Automatic Pixel Purity Index Technique,” (with M. Maghrbay and S. Rajasekaran), Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, pp. 7-12, Honolulu, HI, March 24-26, 2010.

“FFTI: Fast In-Place FFT on the Cell Broadband Engine,” (with M.F. Ahmed and S. Rajasekaran), Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, pp. 167-173, Honolulu, HI, March 24-26, 2010.

“Surface Gateway Placement Strategy for Maximizing Underwater Sensor Network Lifetime,” (with S. Ibrahim and J-H. Cui), Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'10), Riccione, Italy, pp. 342-346, June 22-25, 2010.

Jun-Hong Cui “Geometry-Guided Gateway Deployment Optimization in Underwater Sensor Networks,” (with S. Ibrahim and R.A. Ammar), Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication, pp. 932937, Sousse, Tunis, July 5-8, 2009.

“Void Avoidance in Three-Dimensional Mobile Underwater Sensor Networks,” (with P. Xie, Z. Zhou, Z. Peng and Z. Shi), Proceedings of International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications (WASA 2009), pp. 305-314, Boston, MA, August 16-18, 2009.

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“Aqua-Net: A Network Solution to Underwater Networks,” (with Z. Peng, Z. Zhou and Z. Shi), Proceedings of Oceans 2009, CD-ROM, Biloxi, MS, October 26-29, 2009.

“Aqua-Sim: An NS-2 Based Simulator for Underwater Sensor Networks,” (with P. Xie, J. Sun, H. Yan, T. Hu, Z. Shi, Y. Fei, and S. Zhou), Proceedings of Oceans 2009, CD-ROM, Biloxi, MS, October 26-29, 2009.

“Handling Triple Hidden Terminal Problems for Multi-Channel MAC in Long-Delay Underwater Sensor Networks,” (with Z. Zhou, Z. Peng and Z. Jiang), Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2010, Mini-Conference, San Diego, CA, DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2010.5462209, March 15-19, 2010.

“Pressure Routing for Underwater Sensor Networks,” (with U. Lee, P. Wang, Y. Noh, L.F.M. Vieira and M. Gerla), Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, CA, DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2010.5461986, March 15-19, 2010.

“DSP Implementation of SISO and MIMO OFDM Acoustic Modems,” (with H. Yan, S. Zhou, Z. Shi, L. Wan, J. Huang, and H. Zhou),” Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference, Sydney, Australia, May 2427, 2010.

“COPE-MAC: A Contention-based Medium Access Control Protocol with Parallel Reservation for Underwater Acoustic Networks,” (with Z. Peng, Y. Zhu, Z. Zhou and Z. Guo), Proceedings of IEEE OCEANS'10, Sydney, Australia, May 24-27, 2010.

“Surface Gateway Placement Strategy for Maximizing Underwater Sensor Network Lifetime,” (with S. Ibrahim and R.A. Ammar), Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'10), pp. 332-336, Riccione, Italy, June 22-25, 2010.

Steven A. Demurjian “An Integrated Ontology Framework for Health Information Exchange,” (with R. Saripalle and S. Berhe), Proceedings of 21st International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE09), pp. 575-580, Boston, MA, July 1-3, 2009.

“Ontology-Driven Architecture for an Archive Information System: A Case Study at the Roper Center,” (with M. Maynard, T. Doan and S. Berhe), Proceedings of the International Workshop on Ontology-Driven Software Engineering, co-located with OOPSLA 2009, Orlando, FL, October 25-29, 2009.

Gerald L. Engel “The Computing Sciences Accreditation Board (CSAB): Promoting Quality Education in the Computing Fields,” (with J. Impagliazzo and P. LaMalva), Proceedings of the 2009 Conference of the History of Technical Societies (2009, IEEE), Philadelphia, PA, August 5-7, 2009.

Swapna S. Gokhale “Classifying Web Robots by K-means Clustering,” (with D. Doran), Proceedings of 21st International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 09), pp. 97-102, Boston, MA, July 2009.

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“Resource Allocation for a Modular Software System,” (with L. Fiondella), Proceedings of 21st International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 09), pp. 480-486, Boston, MA, July 2009.

Chun-Hsi Huang “Optimized Data Migration within a Medical Grid,” (with J. Christopherson), Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Health Informatics, pp. 117-120, Valencia, Spain, January 20-23, 2010.

“Structural Motif Enumeration in Transcriptional Regulation Networks,” (with C. Luciano), Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Bioinformatics, pp. 131-136, Valencia, Spain, January 20-23, 2010.

Aggelos Kiayias “Secure Function Collection with Sublinear Storage,” (with M.H. Ibrahim, M. Young and H-S. Zhou), Proceedings of the 36th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2009), pp. 534-545, Rhodes, Greece, July 5-12, 2009.

“At-Most-Once Semantics in Asynchronous Shared Memory,” (with S. Kentros and N. Nicolaou), Proceedings of the 21st Annual Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architecture (SPAA 2009), pp. 43-44, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, August 11-13, 2009.

“At-Most-Once Semantics in Asynchronous Shared Memory,” (with S. Kentros, N. Nicolaou and A.A. Shvartsman), Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2009), pp.

258-273, Elche/Elx, Spain, September 23-25, 2009.

“On the Security of a Public-Key Traitor Tracing Scheme with Sublinear Ciphertext Size,” (with S. Pehlivanoglu), Proceedings of the 9th ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management, pp. 1-10, Chicago, IL, November 9, 2009.

Ion I. Mandoiu “Estimation of Alternative Splicing Isoform Frequencies from RNA-Seq Data,” (with M. Nicolae, S. Mangul and A. Zelikovsky), Schloss Dagstuhl seminar on Structure Discovery in Biology: Motifs, Networks & Phylogenies, Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik, Dagstuhl, Germany, June 6-10, 2010.

Robert D. McCartney “Computer Science Student Transformations: Changes and Causes,” (with J.E. Mostrom, J. Boustedt, A. Eckerdal, K. Sanders, L. Thomas and C. Zander), Proceedings of the 14th Annual ACM SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE ’09), pp. 181-185, Paris, France, July 3-8, 2009.

“Commonsense Computing (episode 5): Algorithm Efficiency and Balloon Testing,” (with D.J. Bouvier, TY. Chen, G. Lewandowski, K. Sanders, B. Simon and T. VanDeGrift), Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Computing Education Research Workshop (ICER ’09), pp. 51-62, Berkeley, CA, August 1011, 2009.

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“Student Transformations: Are They Computer Scientists Yet?,” (with C. Zander, J. Boustedt, J.E. Mostrom, K. Sanders and L. Thomas), Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Computing Education Research Workshop (ICER ’09), pp. 129-40, Berkeley, CA, August 10-11, 2009.

“Work in Progress - Commonsense Probability: Preconceptions of Entering Engineering Students,” (with D. Bouvier, T-Y. Chen, G. Lewandowski, K. Sanders, B. Simon and T. VanDeGrift), Proceedings of the 39th IEEE International Conference on Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE’09), pp. 1039-1040, Piscataway, NJ, October 18-21, 2009.

“It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time,” (with J. Boustedt, J. Tenenberg, E.F. Gehringer, R. Lister and D. Musicant), SIGCSE '10: Proceedings of the 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, pp. 558-559, New York, NY, 2010.

Laurent D. Michel “Online Selection of Quorum Systems for RAMBO Reconfiguration,” (with M. Moraal, A.A. Shvartsman, E.L. Sonderegger and P. Van Hentenryck), Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2009), pp. 88-103, Lisbon, Portugal, September 20-24, 2009.

“Very Short-term Load Forecasting: Multilevel Wavelet Neural Networks with Data Pre-filtering,” (with C. Guan, M.A. Coolbeth, Y. Zhao, P. Luh, Y. Chen, C.J. Manville, P.B. Friedland and S.J. Rourke), Proceedings of the IEEE Power and Energy Society 2009 General Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, July 2009.

“Hybrid Kalman Algorithms for Very Short-term Load Forecasting and Confidence Interval Estimation,” (with C. Guan, P. Luh and P. Friedland), IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES).

“Interacting Multiple Model Approach for Very Short-Term Load Forecasting and Confidence Interval Estimation,” (with C. Guan, P. Luh, Y. Bar-Shalom and P.B. Friedland), Proceedings of the Eighth World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Jinan, Shandong, China, June 2010.

Thomas J. Peters “The Art of Mathematics for Industry,” (with D.A. Field), Proceedings of the 4th Conference, Mathematics in Industry, pp. i - ii, San Francisco, CA, October 9-10, 2009.

Sanguthevar Rajasekaran “Novel Micro-Threading Techniques on the Cell Broadband Engine,” (with M. Ahmed and R.A. Ammar), Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication, pp. 570-575, Sousse, Tunisia, July 5-8, 2009.

“Responsible Data Releases,” (with O. Harel, M. Zuba, G. Matthews and R. Aseltine), Proceedings of the Industrial Conference on Data Mining, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5633, pp. 388-400, Leipzig, Germany, July 20-22, 2009.

“Optimized Bzip2 Compression for Reducing Diffraction Effects in Protein-Based Computing: A Study of Feasibility,” (with D. Trinca), Proceedings of the 31st Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference, Minneapolis, MN, September 2-6, 2009.

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“A Randomized Automatic Pixel Purity Index Technique,” (with M. Maghrbay and R.A. Ammar), Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, pp. 7-12, Honolulu, HI, March 24-26, 2010.

“FFTI: Fast In-Place FFT on the Cell Broadband Engine,” (with M.F. Ahmed and R.A. Ammar), Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, pp. 167-173, Honolulu, HI, March 24-26, 2010.

Alexander C. Russell “Bounds on the Quantum Satisfiability Threshold,” (with S. Bravyi and C. Moore), Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Innovations in Computer Science (ICS 2010), Beijing, China, January 5-7, 2010.

Zhijie Shi “Void Avoidance in Three-Dimensional Mobile Underwater Sensor Networks,” (with P. Xie, Z. Zhou, Z. Peng and J-H. Cui), Proceedings of International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications (WASA 2009), pp. 305-314, Boston, MA, August 16-18, 2009.

“PIFT: Efficient Dynamic Information Flow Tracking Using Secure Page Allocation,” (with J.C.M. Santos and Y. Fei), Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Embedded Systems Security, CD-ROM, Grenoble, France, October 11-16, 2009.

“Delay Monitoring for Wireless Sensor Networks: An Architecture Using Air Sniffers,” (with W. Zeng, X. Chen, Y-H. Kim, Z. Bu, W. Wei and B. Wang), Proceedings of the IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2009), pp. 1-8, Boston, MA, October 18-21, 2009.

“Aqua-Net: A Network Solution to Underwater Networks,” (with Z. Peng, Z. Zhou and J-H. Cui), Proceedings of Oceans 2009, CD-ROM, Biloxi, MS, October 26-29, 2009.

“Aqua-Sim: An NS-2 Based Simulator for Underwater Sensor Networks,” (with P. Xie, J. Sun, H. Yan, T. Hu, J-H. Cui, Y. Fei and S. Zhou), Proceedings of Oceans 2009, CD-ROM, Biloxi, MS, October 26-29, 2009.

“DSP Implementation of SISO and MIMO OFDM Acoustic Modems,” (with H. Yan, S. Zhou, J.-H. Cui, L. Wan, J. Huang and H. Zhou),” Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference, Sydney, Australia, May 24-27, 2010.

Dong-Guk Shin “PBC: A Software Framework Facilitating Pattern-Based Clustering for Microarray Data Analysis,” (with SH. Hong, P. Joshi, R. Nori, B. Pei, H-W. Wang, P. Harrington, L Kuo, I. Kalajzic and D.W. Rowe), Proceedings of ISIBM International Joint Conference on Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Intelligent Computing, pp. 31-36, Shanghai, China, August 5-9, 2009.

“Applying Relational Dependency Discovery Framework to Geo-Spatial Data Mining,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Multimedia Technology ICIMT, pp. 10-14, Jeju, Korea, December 16-18, 2009.

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Alexander A. Shvartsman “Online Selection of Quorum Systems for RAMBO Reconfiguration,” (with L.D. Michel, M. Moraal, E.L. Sonderegger and P. Van Hentenryck), Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2009), pp. 88-103, Lisbon, Portugal, September 20-24, 2009.

“At-Most-Once Semantics in Asynchronous Shared Memory,” (with S. Kentros, N. Nicolaou and A. Kiayias), Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2009), pp. 258273, Elche/Elx, Spain, September 23-25, 2009.

“Analyzing the Number of Slow Reads for Semifast Atomic Read/Write Register Implementations,” (with Ch. Georgiou, S. Kentros and D. Nicolaou), Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2009), paper 668-038, Cambridge, MA, November 2009.

“On the Efficiency of Atomic Multi-Reader, Multi-Writer Distributed Memory,” (with B. Englert, C. Georgiou, P.M. Musial and N.C. Nicolaou), Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2009), pp. 240-254, Nimes, France, December 15-18, 2009.

Bing Wang “Data Collection with Multiple Sinks in Wireless Sensor Networks,” (with S. Chen, M. Coolbeth, H. Dinh and Y-A. Kim),” Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications (WASA 2009), pp. 284-294, Boston, MA, August 16-18, 2009.

“Sniffer Channel Selection for Monitoring Wireless LANs,” (with Y. Song, X. Chen, Y-A. Kim and G. Chen),” Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications (WASA 2009), pp. 489-498, Boston, MA, August 16-18, 2009.

“Delay Monitoring for Wireless Sensor Networks: An Architecture Using Air Sniffers,” (with W. Zeng, X. Chen, Y-H. Kim, Z. Bu, W. Wei and Z. Shi), Proceedings of the IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2009), pp. 1-8, Boston, MA, October 18-21, 2009.

Yufeng Wu “Fast Computation of the Exact Hybridization Number of Two Phylogenetic Trees,” (with J. Wang), Proceedings of the International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA 2010), Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, No. 6053, pp. 203-214, Storrs, CT, May 23-26, 2010.

“Bounds on the Minimum Mosaic of Population Sequences Under Recombination,” Proceedings of the 21st Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2010), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, No. 6129, pp. 152-163, New York, NY, June 21-23, 2010.

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COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ACTIVE RESEARCH GRANTS & CONTRACTS 2009-2010 Reda A. Ammar “ITR: Information Extraction from Massive Data Set,” (with PI: S. Rajasekaran and co-PIs: T. Cormen, C.H. Huang and S. Sahni), National Science Foundation, September 1, 2003 – August 31, 2009, $1,206,003.

“ITR: Information Extraction from Massive Data Set (REU Program)” (with PI: S. Rajasekaran and co-PIs: T. Cormen, C.-H. Huang and S. Sahni), National Science Foundation, April 20, 2005 – August 31, 2009, $12,000.

“Real-Time Architecture for High Speed Inspection,” (with co-PIs: I.R. Greenshields (50%) and H.A. Sholl), DAPCO, September 1, 1998 - January 7, 2010, $337,925.

“US-Egypt Cooperative Research: Perform Based Restructuring of Distributed Object,” U.S. Egypt Joint Science and Technology Board/National Science Foundation, February 1, 2007 – January 31, 2011, $32,845.

“Botnet Detection and Mitigation,” (with PI: A. Kiayias (50%) and co-PIs: S.A. Demurjian (15%) and S. Rajasekaran (25%)), Department of Homeland Security/Sonalysts, July 25, 2007 – July 24, 2009, $110,046.

“Effects of Impurities on Fuel Cell Performance and Durability,” (with PI: T. Molter and co-PI: S. Rajasekaran), U.S. Department of Energy, January 2007-February 2011, $1,900,000.

“US-Egypt International Workshop on Supercomputing Applications in Climate Sciences and Remote Sensing, March 17-19, Cairo, Egypt,” (with PI: I.R. Greenshields (40%) and co-PI: S. Rajasekaran (20%)), National Science Foundation/U.S. Department of Agriculture, October 10, 2007 – September 30, 2009, $47,721.

“Collaborative Research: Developing a Novel Infrastructure for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks,” (with PI: J-H. Cui (19%) and co-PIs: S. Rajasekaran (9%), Z. Shi (9%), P. Willett (9%), and S. Zhou (9%); Senior Personnel: A. Bagtzoglou (9%), Y. Fei (9%), T. Torgersen (9%), and B. Wang (9%)), UConn (lead) with UMass and WHOI; National Science Foundation - Computer & Information Science & Engineering, August 1, 2007 – July 31, 2010, $320, 000.

“MRI: Development of Instrumentation for an Autonomous UW Sensor Network,” (with PI: J-H. Cui (18%) and co-PIs: I. Babb (8%), Z. Shi (8%), T. Torgerson (8%) and S. Zhou (8%) and Senior Personnel: A. Bagtzoglou (5%), Y. Fei (5%), Y. Lei (5%), L. Lui (5%), S. Rajasekaran (5%), E. Schultz (5%), L. Wang (5%), B. Wang (5%) and P. Willett (5%)), National Science Foundation – Computer & Information Science & Engineering, August 1, 2008 – July 31, 2011, $500,000.

“Voter Technology Research Center,” (with PI: A.A. Shvartsman (50%) and co-PIs: A. Kiayias (20%), L.D. Michel (15%) and A.C. Russell (15%)), Secretary of the State, State of Connecticut, May 23, 2006 – August 22, 2010, $1,323,038.

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“U.S.-Egypt Cooperative Research: High Performance Techniques for Remote Sensing,” (with co-PI: S. Rajasekaran (40%)), National Science Foundation/US Egypt Joint Science & Technology Board, August 31, 2007 – July 31, 2011, $89,939.

“Blind Source Separation,” Egyptian Cultural and Educational Bureau, September 15, 2008 - August 20, 2010, $15,000.

“Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN): Advanced Computing,” (with co-PIs: J-H. Cui (10%), S. Demurjian (30%), S. Rajasekaran (20%) and S. Zhou (10%), U.S. Department of Education/Office of Postsecondary, August 15, 2009 – July 31, 2011, $522,624.

“Senior Department for Real-Time Monitoring of Transportation Vulnerability,” (with co-PIs: N. Lownes (30%) and S. Rajasekaran (30%)), U.S. Department of Homeland Security, July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2011, $107,686.

“Developing and Reviewing the Computer Science Undergraduate Program of the Akhbar El-Yom Academy,” Akhbar El-Yom, January 1, 2010 – July 27, 2014, $145,000.

“Developing and Reviewing the Nanotechnology Undergraduate Program of the Akhbar El-Yom Academy,” Akhbar El-Yom Academy, July 28, 2009 – July 24, 2014, $195,000.

“Establishing Energy and Nanotechnology Undergraduate Tracks in Faculty of Engineering,” (with PI: M. Choi), King Abdulaziz University, July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2010, $107,069.

“Developing and Reviewing Engineering Undergraduate Programs of the Future University,” (with PI: M. Choi), Future University, August 20, 2009 – August 19, 2013, $275,000.

Jun-Hong Cui “CAREER: Tackling Fundamental Networking Problems in Underwater Acoustic Networks,” National Science Foundation Career Award, January 1, 2007 – December 31, 2011, $400,000.

“Collaborative Research: Developing a Novel Infrastructure for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks,” (with co-PIs: S. Rajasekaran (9%), Z. Shi (9%), P. Willett (9%), and S. Zhou (9%); Senior Personnel: R.A. Ammar (9%), A. Bagtzoglou (9%), Y. Fei (9%), T. Torgersen (9%), and B. Wang (9%)), UConn (lead) with UMass and WHOI; National Science Foundation - Computer & Information Science & Engineering, August 1, 2007 – July 31, 2010, $320, 000.

“REU Collaborative Research: Developing a Novel Infrastructure for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks,” National Science Foundation - Computer & Information Science & Engineering, August 1, 2009 – July 31, 2010, Total: $16,000.

“Collaborative Research: SEA-Swarm: A Rapidly Deployable Underwater Sensor Network,” (with PI: S. Zhou (50%) (UConn), M. Gerla (UCLA), G. Caire (USC)), USC (lead) with UCLA and UConn, National Science Foundation - Computer & Information Science & Engineering, September 1, 2007 – August 31, 2010, Total $600,000, UConn: $200,000.

“MRI: Development of Instrumentation for an Autonomous Underwater Sensor Network,” (with co-PIs: I. Babb (8%), Z. Shi (8%), T. Torgerson (8%) and S. Zhou (8%) and Senior Personnel: R.A. Ammar (5%), A. Bagtzoglou (5%), Y. Fei (5%), Y. Lei (5%), L. Lui (5%), S. Rajasekaran (5%), E. Schultz (5%), L. Wang 115

(5%), B. Wang (5%) and P. Willett (5%)), National Science Foundation – Computer & Information Science & Engineering, August 1, 2008 – July 31, 2011, $500,000.

“A Networking Perspective: Towards Reliable Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks,” U.S. Department of Defense/Navy/Office of Naval Research, June 1, 2008 – May 32, 2011, $339,999.

“Student Travel Grants for Fourth ACM International Workshop on Underwater Networks WUWNet'09,” U.S. Department of Defense/Navy/Office of Naval Research, July 1, 2009 – December 31, 2010, $10,000.

“Student Travel Grants for Fourth ACM International Workshop on Underwater Networks WUWNet’09,” National Science Foundation, September 1, 2009 – August 31, 2010, $5,000.

“Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN): Advanced Computing,” (with PI: R. Ammar (30%) and co-PIs: S. Demurjian (30%), S. Rajasekaran (20%) and S. Zhou (10%), United States Department of Education/Office of Postsecondary, August 15, 2009 – July 31, 2011, $522,624.

Steven A. Demurjian “Feasibility Study of Information System Reengineering, Parts VII, VIII, IX, X, XI and XII,” (with co-PI: D.G. Shin (45%)), State of Connecticut Insurance Department, August 23, 2003 - June 30, 2011, $2,548,566.

“Botnet Detection and Mitigation,” (with PI: A. Kiayias (50%) and co-PIs: R.A. Ammar (10%) and S. Rajasekaran (20%)), U.S. Department of Homeland Security/Sonalysts, Phase II SBIR, July 25, 2007 – July 24, 2009, $229,004.

“Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN): Advanced Computing,” (with PI: R. Ammar (30%) and co-PIs: J-H. Cui (10%), S. Rajasekaran (20%) and S. Zhou (10%), U.S. Department of Education/Office of Postsecondary, August 15, 2009 – July 31, 2011, $522,624.

“Web Application Server Development Management for Youth Services Survey,” (with PI: Y-A. Kim and co-PI: D.G. Shin), State of Connecticut Department of Children and Families, January 7, 2009 - May 22, 2010; $19,800.

“Project VIABLE: Validation of Instruments for Assessing Behavior Longitudinally and Efficiently,” (with co-PI and PD: S. Chafouleas), U.S. Department of Education, Institute for Education Sciences, Faculty participant (supplement only): June 1, 2008 to May 31, 2011, $1,496,000 plus $166,965 supplement.

Swapna S. Gokhale “CAREER: Architecture-Based Assessment of Software Reliability,” National Science Foundation, January 15, 2007 – December 31, 2011, $400,000.

“Web Server Performance Analysis,” NASA/National Aeronautics & Space Administration, January 1, 2009 – December 31, 2009, $7,500.

Ian R. Greenshields “Real-Time Architecture for High Speed Inspection,” (with co-PIs: R.A. Ammar (50%) and H.A. Sholl), DAPCO, September 1, 1998 – January 7, 2010, $337,925.

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“US-Egypt International Workshop on Supercomputing Applications in Climate Sciences and Remote Sensing,” (with co-PIs: R.A. Ammar (40%) and S. Rajasekaran (20%)), National Science Foundation/U.S. Department of Agriculture, October 1, 2007 – September 30, 2009, $47,721.

Chun-Hsi Huang “Computing Infrastructure for the UConn HealthGrid Initiatives,” National Science Foundation - Computer & Information Science & Engineering, March 1, 2006 - August 31, 2009, $50,000.

“REU for Computing Infrastructure for the UConn HealthGrid Initiatives,” National Science Foundation Computer & Information Science and Engineering, March 1, 2006 – August 31, 2009, $12,000.

“Workshop on Biomedical Computations on the Grid,” (with co-PI: S. Rajasekaran), Public Health ServiceNational Institutes of Health/National Library of Medicine, January 15, 2005 – January 14, 2010, $100,000.

“REU BioGrid Initiatives for Interdisciplinary Research & Education,” National Science Foundation Computer & Information Science and Engineering, January 7, 2008 - February 28, 2011, $72,000.

“BioGrid Initiatives for Interdisciplinary Research & Education,” National Science Foundation - Computer & Information Science and Engineering , January 7, 2008 – February 28, 2011, $213,000.

“Machine for Graphical Supercomputing,” (with PI: T.J. Peters (50%)), University of Connecticut Research Foundation, March 11, 2009 – February 28, 2010, $1,500.

Aggelos Kiayias “CAREER: Cryptographic Aspects of Digital Rights Management,” National Science Foundation, January 15, 2005 – December 31, 2009, $400,000.

“Voter Technology Research Center,” (with PI: A.A Shvartsman (50%) and co-PIs: L.D. Michel (15%) and A.C. Russell (15%) and Senior Personnel: R.A. Ammar), Secretary of the State, State of Connecticut, May 23, 2006 – August 22, 2010, $1,323,038.

“Botnet Detection and Mitigation,” Department of Homeland Security/Sonalysts, (with co-PIs: R.A. Ammar (10%), S.A. Demurjian (15%) and S. Rajasekaran (25%)) July 25, 2007 – July 24, 2009, $110,056.

“Ct-Isg: Collaborative Research: Tamper Proofing Cryptographic Operations,” National Science Foundation - Computer & Information Science Engineering, September 1, 2008 – August 31, 2011, $223,225.

“Ct-Isg: Collaborative Research: Key Generation from Physical Layer Characteristics in Wireless Networks,” National Science Foundation Computer & Information Science Engineering, September 1, 2008 – August 31, 2011, $193,500.

“Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need, (GAANN): Advanced Computing Security,” (with PI: J. Chandy and co-PIs: Y. Fei, Z. Shi, A.A. Shvartsman, M. Tehranipoor, B. Wang and L. Wang), U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education, August 15, 2009 – August 14, 2012, $522,624.

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Ion I. Mandoiu “CAREER: Combinatorial Algorithms for High-Throughput Collection and Analysis of Genomic Diversity Data (IIS-0546457),” National Science Foundation, January 15, 2006 – December 31, 2010, $554,572.

“REU - CAREER: Combinatorial Algorithms for High-Throughput Collection and Analysis of Genomic Diversity Data (IIS-0546457),” National Science Foundation, June 5, 2009 – December 31, 2010, $16,000.

“Bioinformatics Tools Enabling Large-Scale DNA Barcoding,” National Science Foundation, July 1, 2006 – June 30, 2010, $399,622.

“III: Small: Collaborative Research: Reconstruction of Haplotype Spectra,” (with co-PI: Y. Wu), National Science Foundation/CISE, September 1, 2009 – August 31, 2010, $275,257.

“The Mechanism of Phenotypic Drift in hES Cells,” (with PI: R.J. O’Neill and co-PIs: B. Graveley, T. Rasmussen and Y. Wu), UCHC/Storrs and Regional Campus Incentive Grants (“UCIG”) Award, January 2009 – December 2009, $50,000.

“Computer Platform for Next Generation Sequencing Analyses,” (with PI: R. O’Neill), UConn Research Foundation Intermediate Research Equipment Competition, January 1, 2010 - June 30, 2010, $97,445.

Robert D. McCartney “Collaborative Research: A Network of Disciplinary Commons in Computing Education,” National Science Foundation - Education and Human Resources, August 1, 2008 – July 31, 2010, $27,058.

“Collaborative Research: Commonsense Computing: What Students Know Before We Teach,” National Science Foundation - Education and Human Resources, September 1, 2008 – August 31, 2011, $1,836.

Laurent D. Michel “A Framework for Modeling and Analyzing Distributed Systems,” STTR: DARPA/Veromodo, Inc., September 1, 2005 – August 30, 2009, $101,113.

“Achieving Quality and Coherent Configuration and Operations,” (with PI: P. Luh and co-PI: G. Santos), National Science Foundation, September 1, 2004 – August 31, 2009, $335,000.

“Voting Technology Research Center,” (with PI: A.A. Shvartsman (50%) and co-PIs: A. Kiayias (20%) and A.C. Russell (15%) and Senior Personnel: R.A. Ammar), State of Connecticut, Secretary of the State, May 23, 2006 – August 22, 2010, $1,323,038.

“CAREER: Synthesis of Search Procedures for Constraint Programs,” National Science Foundation, January 1, 2007 – December 31, 2011, $525,000.

“Very Short-term Prediction of Electric Power System 30 Minute Operating Reserve,” (with PI: P. Luh (50%)), ISO New England, Inc., November 15, 2008 – December 31, 2009, $142,142.

“Extending the Power and Applicability of Timed Input/Output Automata Framework,” (with PI: A.A. Shvartsman (70%)), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, $117,713, June 1, 2007 – May 31, 2010.

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Thomas J. Peters “MRI: Development of a Gesture Based Virtual Reality System for Research in Virtual Worlds,” (with PI: H. Ilies (90%)), National Science Foundation, July 15, 2009 - June 30, 2012, $750,000.

“Machine for Graphical Supercomputing,” (with co-PI: C-H. Huang (50%)), University of Connecticut Research Foundation, March 11, 2009 – February 28, 2010, $1,500.

Sanguthevar Rajasekaran “ITR: Information Extraction from Massive Data Set,” (with co-PIs: R.A. Ammar, T. Cormen, C-H. Huang and S. Sahni), National Science Foundation, September 1, 2003 – August 31, 2009, $1,225,000.

“ITR: Information Extraction from Massive Data Set (REU Program),” (with co-PIs: R.A. Ammar, T. Cormen, C-H. Huang and S. Sahni), National Science Foundation, April 20, 2005 - August 31, 2009, $12,000.

“Workshop on Biomedical Computations on the Grid,” (with PI: C-H. Huang), Public Health ServiceNational Institutes of Health/National Library of Medicine, January 15, 2005 - January 14, 2010, $100,000.

“Effects of Impurities on Fuel Cell Performance and Durability,” (with PI: T. Molter and co-PI: R.A. Ammar), U.S. Department of Energy, March 1, 2007 - February 28, 2011, $1,900,000.

“Building Motif Lexicons,” (with PI: M. Schiller (University of Nevada) and co-PIs: C-H. Huang (13%) (UConn), M. Gryk (UCHC) and M. Maciejewski (UCHC)), National Institutes of Health (NIGM/NLM), August 23, 2009 - March 31, 2010, $82,675.

“US-Egypt Cooperative Research: High Performance Techniques for Remote Sensing,” (with PI: R.A. Ammar (60%)), National Science Foundation, August 31, 2007 – July 31, 2011, $89,989.

“Botnet Detection and Mitigation,” (with PI: A.C. Kiayias (50%) and co-PIs: R.A. Ammar (10%) and S.A. Demurjian (15%)), U.S. Department of Homeland Security/Sonalysts, July 25, 2007 – July 24, 2009, $110,046.

“US-Egypt International Workshop on Supercomputing Applications in Climate Sciences and Remote Sensing, March 17-19, Cairo, Egypt,” National Science Foundation/USDA, (with PI: I.R. Greenshields (40%) and co-PI: R.A. Ammar (40%)), October 10, 2007 – September 30, 2009, $47,721.

“Collaborative Research: Developing a Novel Infrastructure for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks,” (with PI: J-H Cui (19%) and co-PIs: Z. Shi (9%), P. Willett (9%), and S. Zhou (9%); Senior Personnel: R.A. Ammar (9%), A. Bagtzoglou (9%), Y. Fei (9%), T. Torgersen (9%), and B. Wang (9%)), UConn (lead) with UMass and WHOI; National Science Foundation/Computer & Information Science & Engineering, August 1, 2007 – July 31, 2010, $320,000.

“MRI: Development of Instrumentation for an Autonomous UW Sensor Network,” (with PI: J-H. Cui (18%) and co-PIs: I. Babb (8%), Z. Shi (8%), T. Torgerson (8%) and S. Zhou (8%) and Senior Personnel: R.A. Ammar (5%), A. Bagtzoglou (5%), Y. Fei (5%), Y. Lei (5%), L. Lui (5%), E. Schultz (5%), L. Wang (5%), B. Wang (5%) and P. Willett (5%)), National Science Foundation – Computer & Information Science & Engineering, August 1, 2008 – July 31, 2011, $500,000.

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“EMT/NANO: Computing with Protein Based Associative Memory Processors,” (with co-PI: R. Birge (45%)), National Science Foundation, September 1, 2008 – August 31, 2011, $749,999.

“Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN): Advanced Computing,” (with PI: R. Ammar (30%) and co-PIs: J-H. Cui (10%), S. Demurjian (30%) and S. Zhou (10%)), U.S. Department of Education/Office of Postsecondary, August 15, 2009 – July 31, 2011, $522,624.

“Senior Department for Real-Time Monitoring of Transportation Vulnerability,” (with PI: R. Ammar (40%), and co-PI: N. Lownes (30%)), U.S. Department of Homeland Security, July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2011, $107,686.

“Efficient Data Mining Techniques for Drug Discovery,” Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation, March 8, 2010 – July 7, 2010, $18,000.

Alexander C. Russell “Collaborative Research QnTM: The Quantum Complexity of Algebraic Problems,” National Science Foundation, August 1, 2005 - July 2009, $120,000.

“QnTM: Quantum Information Processing with Quantum Random Walks,” (with PI: R. Cote (50%)), National Science Foundation, August 15, 2005 – July 31, 2009, $300,000.

“Voting Technology Research Center,” (with PI: A.A. Shvartsman (50%) and co-PIs: A. Kiayias (20%) and L.D. Michel (15%) and Senior Personnel: R.A. Ammar), Secretary of the State, State of Connecticut, May 23, 2006 – August 22, 2010, $1,323,038.

“Collaborative Research: Emt/Qis: Quantum Algorithms and Post-Quantum Cryptography,” National Science Foundation – Computer & Information Science & Engineering, September 15, 2008 – August 31, 2010, $100,000.

“CDI Type-I: Quantum Diffusion and Quantum Random Walks in Physical Systems,” (with co-PI: R. Cote (50%)) National Science Foundation – Computer & Information Science & Engineering, September 15, 2008 – August 31, 2011, $550,488.

Zhijie Shi “CAREER: Novel Primitives and Side-Channel Countermeasures in the Design and Implementation of Cryptographic Algorithms,” National Science Foundation, August 1, 2007 – August 31, 2012, $400,000.

“CAREER REU: Novel Primitives and Side-Channel Countermeasures in the Design and Implementation of Cryptographic Algorithms,” National Science Foundation, August 1, 2007 – August 31, 2012, $16,000.

“Collaborative Research: Developing a Novel Infrastructure for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks,” (with PI: J-H. Cui (19%) and co-PIs: S. Rajasekaran (9%), P. Willett (9%), and S. Zhou (9%); Senior Personnel: R.A. Ammar (9%), A. Bagtzoglou (9%), Y. Fei (9%), T. Torgersen (9%), and B. Wang (9%)), UConn (lead) with UMass and WHOI; National Science Foundation - Computer & Information Science & Engineering, August 1, 2007 – July 31, 2010, UConn total: $320,000.

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“REU: Collaborative Research: Developing a Novel Infrastructure for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks,” (with PI: J-H. Cui and co-PI: S. Zhou), National Science Foundation - Computer & Information Science & Engineering, August 1, 2009 – July 31, 2010, $16,000.

“MRI: Development of Instrumentation for an Autonomous UW Sensor Network,” (with PI: J-H. Cui (18%) and co-PIs: I. Babb (8%), T. Torgerson (8%) and S. Zhou (8%) and Senior Personnel: R.A. Ammar (5%), A. Bagtzoglou (5%), Y. Fei (5%), Y. Lei (5%), L. Lui (5%), S. Rajasekaran (5%), E. Schultz (5%), B. Wang (5%), L. Wang (5%) and P. Willett (5%)), National Science Foundation – Computer & Information Science & Engineering, August 1, 2008 – July 31, 2011, $500,000.

“Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN): Advanced Computing,” (with PI: R.A. Ammar and co-PIs: J-H. Cui, S. Demurjian, S. Rajasekaran, S. Zhou), U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education, August 15, 2009 – August 14, 2012.

“Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need, (GAANN): Advanced Computing Security,” (with PI: J. Chandy and co-PIs: Y. Fei, A. Kiayias, A.A. Shvartsman, M. Tehranipoor, B. Wang and L. Wang), U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education, August 15, 2009 – August 14, 2012, $522,624.

Dong-Guk Shin “Feasibility Study of Information System Reengineering, Parts VII, VIII, IX, X, XI and XII,” (with PI: S.A. Demurjian (55%)), State of Connecticut Insurance Department, August 23, 2003 - June 30, 2011, $2,548,566.

“Microarray and Genetic Networks/Stem Cell,” Connecticut Department of Public Health/University of Connecticut Health Center, April 5, 2007 – April 4, 2010, $393,749.

“Computational Analysis of Musculoskeletal MicroCT Images,” University of Connecticut Health Center/Department of Defense, August 1, 2007 – July 31, 2010, $350,312.

“Web Application Server Development Management for Youth Services Survey,” (with PI: Y-A. Kim, and co-PI: S.D. Demurjian), State of Connecticut Department of Children and Families, January 7, 2009 - May 22, 2010; $19,800.

“Mechanisms of FGRFR2 Signaling in Craniofacial Development,” (with Yale PI: Eswarakumar, Veraragavan), National Institutes of Health/Yale University, March 3, 2010 – March 31, 2015, $71,193.

Alexander A. Shvartsman “Voting Technology Research Center,” (with co-PIs: A. Kiayias (20%), L.D. Michel (15%) and A.C. Russell (15%) and Senior Personnel: R.A. Ammar), Secretary of the State, State of Connecticut, May 23, 2006 – August 22, 2010, $1,323,038.

“Extending the Power and Applicability of Timed Input/Output Automata Framework,” (with co-PI: L.D. Michel (30%)), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, $117,713, June 1, 2007 – May 31, 2010.

“Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need, (GAANN): Advanced Computing Security,” (with PI: J. Chandy and co-PIs: Y. Fei, A. Kiayias, Z. Shi, M. Tehranipoor, B. Wang and L. Wang), U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education, August 15, 2009 – August 14, 2012, $522,624.

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Bing Wang “CAREER: Automating Wireless Network Management: Lessons from Managing,” National Science Foundation, $449,996, February 1, 2008 – January 31, 2013.

“REU - Career: Automating Wireless Network Management: Lessons from Managing,” National Science Foundation Career Award, $32,000, July 8, 2009 – January 31, 2011.

“Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) for Afloat Information Technology (IT) and Network Services System (Phase II),” U.S. Department of Defense/Navy-Qualtech Systems, Inc., March 1, 2009 – July 30, 2010, $64,940.

“Collaborative Research: Developing a Novel Infrastructure for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks,” (with PI: J-H Cui (19%) and co-PIs: S. Rajasekaran (9%), Z. Shi (9%), P. Willett (9%), and S. Zhou (9%); and Senior Personnel: R.A. Ammar (9%), A. Bagtzoglou (9%), Y. Fei (9%) and T. Torgersen (9%)), UConn (lead) with UMass and WHOI; National Science Foundation - Computer & Information Science & Engineering, August 1, 2007 – July 31, 2010, $320,000.

“MRI: Development of Instrumentation for an Autonomous Underwater Sensor Network,” (with PI: J-H. Cui (18%) and co-PIs: I. Babb (8%), Z. Shi (8%), T. Torgerson (8%) and S. Zhou (8%) and Senior Personnel: R.A. Ammar (5%), A. Bagtzoglou (5%), Y. Fei (5%), Y. Lei (5%), L. Lui (5%), S. Rajasekaran (5%), E. Schultz (5%), L. Wang (5%) and P. Willett (5%)), National Science Foundation – Computer & Information Science & Engineering, August 1, 2008 – July 31, 2011, $500,000.

“Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN): Advanced Computing,” (with PI: R.A. Ammar and co-PIs: J-H. Cui, S. Demurjian, S. Rajasekaran and S. Zhou), U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education, August 15, 2009 – August 14, 2012, $522,624.

“Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need, (GAANN): Advanced Computing Security,” (with PI: J. Chandy and co-PIs: Y. Fei, A. Kiayias, Z. Shi, A.A. Shvartsman, M. Tehranipoor and L. Wang), U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education, August 15, 2009 – August 14, 2012, $522,624.

Yufeng Wu “CAREER: Efficient and Accurate Computation for High Throughput Sequencing Related Problems in Population Genomics,” National Science Foundation – Computer & Information Science & Engineering, July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2015, $496,406.

“III-CXT - Medium: Collaborative Research: Inference of Complex Genealogical Histories in Populations,” National Science Foundation – Computer & Information Science & Engineering, September 1, 2008 – August 31, 2011, $305,209.

“REU - III-CXT - Medium: Collaborative Research: Inference of Complex Genealogical Histories in Populations,” National Science Foundation – Computer & Information Science & Engineering, September 1, 2009 – August 31, 2011, $16,000.

“III: Small: Collaborative Research: Reconstruction of Haplotype Spectra,” (with PI: I.I. Mandoiu), National Science Foundation - Computer & Information Science & Engineering, September 1, 2009 – August 31, 2010, $275,257.

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“The Mechanism of Phenotypic Drift in hES Cells,” (with PI: R.J. O’Neill and co-PIs: B. Graveley, T. Rasmussen and I.I. Mandoiu), UCHC/Storrs and Regional Campus Incentive Grants (“UCIG”) Award, $50,000, January 2009 – December 2009.

“Algorithms and Applications of Inferring the Mosaic Patterns in Populations,” University of Connecticut Research Foundation Large Grant, January 1, 2008 – December 31, 2009, $15,000.

“Computer Platform for Next Generation Sequencing Analyses,” (with PI: R. O’Neill), UConn Research Foundation Intermediate Research Equipment Competition, January 1, 2010 - June 30, 2010, $97,445.

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COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT AWARDS, HONORS, PATENTS 2009-2010 Jun-Hong Cui United Technologies Corporation Professorship in Engineering Innovation.

Sanguthevar Rajasekaran Elected Fellow, AAAS. Yufeng Wu Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation, 2010 – 2015.

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COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT MAJOR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2009-2010 Reda A. Ammar Associate Editor, Computing Letters (CoLe).

Associate Editor, International Journal on Software Engineering.

Member, Editorial Board, the International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Information Sciences.

Member, Editorial Board, the International Journal of Software Architectures (IJSA).

Member, Editorial Board, the International Journal of Software Engineering (IJSE).

President, the International Journal on Computers and Their Applications.

Chair, the IEEE Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT 2010), Luxor, Egypt, December 15-18, 2010.

Chair, the 1st International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication (ACC-2010), Orlando, FL, September 15-17, 2010.

Registration & Finance Chair, the IEEE Symposium on Computer and Communication (ISCC ’10), Riccione, Italy, June 22-25, 2010.

Local Organizing Chair, 6th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA 2010), Storrs, CT, May 23-26, 2010.

Conference Session Chair, the 25th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, Honolulu, HI, March 24-26, 2010.

Registration & Finance Chair, the IEEE Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT 2009), Ajman, United Arab Emirates, December 14-17, 2009.

Registration & Finance Chair, the IEEE Symposium on Computer and Communication (ISCC ’09), Sousse, Tunisia, July 5-8, 2009.

Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE).

Member, Program Committee, ISCA 22nd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Communication Systems (PDCCS 2009), Louisville, KY, September 24-26, 2009.

Evaluator, National Ranking Committee.

President, Board of Director, the Islamic Center of the University of Connecticut (ICUC).

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Member, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM); IEEE Computer Society; International Society on Computers and Their Applications (ISCA); Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the National Computer Science Honorary Society, Society of Computer Simulation, IEEE Technical Committee on Simulation, IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing, AARC. Coordinator between the University of Connecticut and: Ain Shames University, Egypt; Egyptian Cultural and Education Bureau in USA; Helwan University, Egypt; King Saud University, Saudi Arabia; Umm AlQura University, Saudi Arabia; King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia; Kuwait University, Kuwait.

Presentations: “Integrating Entrepreneurship in Engineering Programs,” keynote/plenary, Workshop on Entrepreneurs in Global Trade, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA, November 2-4, 2009.

“Overview and Introduction to Intensive Experimental Learning Programs in an Entrepreneurship Context,” keynote/plenary, Entrepreneurs in Global Trade, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA, November 2-4, 2009.

“UConn-SoE Overview,” invited, Department of Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Kuwait University, January 17, 2010.

“Micro-Threading Framework on the Cell Broadband Engineering,” invited, Department of Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Kuwait University, January 18, 2010.

“Scheduling Real-time Task Graph for Efficient Utilization of Cluster Computing Environments,” invited, Department of Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Kuwait University, January 19, 2010 “Efficient Randomized Protocols for Single-Hop Radio Networks,” 6th Annual ITE Student Symposium, Storrs, CT, April 7, 2010.

“Estimating Transportation Network Vulnerability Using a Graph Theory Model,” 6th Annual ITE Student Symposium, Storrs, CT, April 7, 2010.

Jun-Hong Cui Editor, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, December 2007 – present.

Guest Editor, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, special issue on wireless communication in challenged environments, February 2010.

Chair, Steering Committee, 5th ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet’10), Woods Hole, MA, September 30 – October 1, 2010.

Chair, Steering Committee and Member, Program Committee, 4th ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet’09), in conjunction with ACM MobiCom'09, Berkeley, CA, November 3, 2009.

Member, Steering Committee, the International Workshop on Underwater Networks (WUWNet), December 2006 - Present.

Member, Technology Committee, Marine Communications, IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society, November 2006 - Present.

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Member, Program Committee, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2010), Miami, FL, December 6 10, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 7th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2010), San Francisco, CA, November 8-12, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 19th International Conference on Computer Communication Networks (ICCCN 2010), Zurich, Switzerland, August 2-5, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 30th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2010), Genoa, Italy, June 21-25, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 9th International Conference on Networking (Networking 2010), Chennai, India, May 10-14, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Computer Communication (INFOCOM’10), Chennai, India, May 10-14, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 16th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, (RTAS 2010), Stockholm, Sweden, April 12-15, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 7th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2010), Boston, MA, June 21-25, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 3rd IFIP/IEEE Wireless Days 2010, Venice, Italy, October 20-22, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 2nd IFIP/IEEE Wireless Days 2009, Paris, France, December 15-17, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, 11th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2010), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 14-17, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, Wireless Sensor Networks and RTLS Summit (WSN 2009), Denver, CO, November 3-4, 2009.

Member, IEEE; IEEE Computer Society; IEEE Communications Society; ACM, ACM SIGCOMM (Special Interest Group on Data Communications), ACM SIGMOBILE (Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing).

Presentations: “Aqua-fModem: A Stand-alone Underwater Acoustic Modem Based on OFDM Technology,” (with S. Zhou, Z. Shi, H. Zhou, J. Liu and P. Carroll), ACM WUWNet’09, Berkeley, CA, 2009 “Mobi-Sync: Efficient Time Synchronization for Mobile Underwater Sensor Networks,” (with J. Liu, Z. Zhou and Z. Peng), extended abstract for poster session, ACM WUWNet’09, Berkeley, CA, 2009 Steven A. Demurjian Member, Program Committee, 5th International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2010), Nice, France, August 22-27, 2010.

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Member, Program Committee, 4th International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2009), Porto, Portugal, September 20-25, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, 9h International Workshop on Web Semantics (WebS 2010), Bilbao, Spain, August 30 - September 3, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 8th International Workshop on Web Semantics (WebS 2009), Linz, Austria, August 31 - September 4, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2010), Athens, Greece, July 22-24, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2009), Sofia, Bulgaria, July 26-29, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, IADIS International WWW/Internet 2010 Conference, Timisoara, Romania, October 14-17, 2010.

Member, Scientific/Program Committee, IADIS International WWW/Internet 2009 Conference, Rome, Italy, November 19-22, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, 23rd Annual IFIP WG 11.3 XXII Conference on Data and Applications Security, Montreal, Canada, July 2009.

Member, Program Committee, 4th International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM), Florence, Italy, October 25-30, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 3rd International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM), Sliema, Malta, October 11-16, 2009, Member, Program Committee, 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST), Valencia, Spain, April 7-10, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI10), Arlington, VA, November 11-12, 2010.

Member: Association of Computing Machinery (ACM); IEEE Computer Society; IEEE Computer Society Technical Committees on Database Engineering and Software Engineering; Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the National Computer Science Honorary Society.

Member, International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP), Working Group (WG11.3) on Database Security.

Member, Connecticut Academy of Science & Engineering Gerald L. Engel Endowed Chair, Fredrick H. Leonhardt Computer Science Chair.

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Fellow, CSAB. Fellow, IEEE. Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery.

Member, Editorial Board, Computer Science Education.

Vice President, International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).

Vice President, IEEE Society on the Social Implications of Technology (SSIT).

Member, Board of Governors, IEEE Society on the Social Implications of Technology.

Member, IFIP Executive Board, U.S. Representative, IEEE Fellows Committee, IEEE Technical Activities Board, IEEE Publications Services and Products Board, IEEE Computer Society Intersociety Cooperation Committee, IEEE Society Constitution and Bylaws Committee, IFIP Strategic Planning Committee, IFIP Conferences Committee, IFIP Publication Committee.

Chair, IEEE Conferences Committee, CSAB History Committee.

Presentation: “Open Access and the Future of Learned Societies,” invited, Oregon Section Meeting of the IEEE, April 2, 2009.

Swapna S. Gokhale Member, Editorial Board, International Journal on Performability Engineering, 2008 – present.

Member, Editorial Board, Open Software Engineering Journal, 2007 – present.

Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering, 2007 – present.

Member, Editorial Board, IETE Technical Review, 2007 – present.

Session Chair and Member, Program Committee, 21st International Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE’2009), Boston, MA, July 1-3, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 10), San Jose, CA, November 1-4, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, Principles, Systems and Applications of IP Telecommunications (IPTComm 2010), Munich, Germany, August 2-3, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2010), Athens, Greece, July 22-24, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 10th International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC 2010), Zhangjiajie, China, July 14-15, 2010.

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Member, Program Committee, 22nd International Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE’2010), Redwood City, CA, July 1-3, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security (ARES 2010), Krakow, Poland, February 15-18, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 3rd International Conference on Internet Multimedia Systems Architecture and Application (IMSAA 2009), Bangalore, India, December 9-11, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC 2009), Jeju, Korea, August 24-25, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2009), Sofia, Bulgaria, July 26-29, 2009.

Senior Member, IEEE Computer Society.

Presentations: “Architecture-based Assessment of Software Reliability,” (with V. B. Mendiratta), invited, International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, Bangalore, India, November 2009.

“Architecture-based Reliability Analysis of Network Solutions and Services,” (with V.B. Mendiratta), invited, International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Chicago, IL, June 2010.

Ian R. Greenshields Chair, Program Committee, 1st International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication Conference (ACC-2010), sponsored by ISCA, Orlando, FL, September 15-17, 2010.

Chun-Hsi Huang Member, Editorial Board, Biomedical Informatics Insights, Libertas Academica, 2007-present.

Organizing Chair, Workshop on Biomedical Computations on the Grid, Melbourne, Australia, December 2009.

Member, Executive Committee, IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), 2006- present.

Member, Program Committee, 4th IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), Hong Kong, China, December 19-22, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 2nd Symposium on Grid and Distributed Computing (GDC), Bali, Indonesia, December 9-11, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 9th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB’ 10), Tokyo, Japan, September 26-28, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 1st International Conference on Information Technology in Bio-Medical Informatics (ITBAM), Bilbao, Spain, August 30-September 1, 2010.

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Member, Program Committee, 7th International Workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models (GECON) at the 16th European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par), Ischia, Italy, August 30-31, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT), Bradford, UK, June 29 - July 1, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, International Bioinformatics Workshop (IBW), Wuhan, China, June 4-6, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, Symposium on Grid and Distributed Computing (GDC), Jeju Island, Korea, December 10-12, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, 9th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT), Xiamen, China, October 11-14, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), Washington D.C., November 1-4, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, 6th International Workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models (GECON) at the 15th European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par), Delft, The Netherlands, August 24, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, 7th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA), Chengdu, China, August 10-12, 2009.

Member, International Society of Computational Biology, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Association of Computing Machinery.

Granted Access to the Center for Computational Research (CCR), Buffalo, NY. Accesses to (1) a 128 processor SGI Origin 3800, (2) a 64-processor IBM SP2, and (3) a 64-processor SUN Cluster.

Presentation: “High-Performance Computing in Network Biology,” invited talk, 9th Emerging Information and Technology Conference (EITC 09), Bioinformatics Track, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, August 6-7, 2009.

Aggelos Kiayias Special Issue Editor, IEEE Network, special issue on trusted computing.

Chair, Cryptographers’ Track RSA Conference (CT-RSA) 2011, San Francisco, CA, February 14-18, 2011.

Co-Chair, Program Committee, the 1st Workshop on Real-Life Cryptographic Protocols and Standardization (RLCPS 2010), Canary Islands, Spain, January 28, 2010.

Member, Steering Committee, ACM Digital Rights Management Workshop 2006-2009.

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Member, Program Committee, 9th ACM Digital Rights Management Workshop, Chicago, IL, October 4, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2010), Athens, Greece, September 20–22, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, the 1st International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security, (LATINCRYPT 2010), Puebla, Mexico, August 8–11, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 29th International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques (EUROCRYPT 2010), Nice, France, May 10 – June 3, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 8th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security (CANS 09), Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan, December 12-14, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, 3rd International Conference on Provable Security (ProvSec 2009), Guangzhou, China, November 11-13, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, 12th Information Security Conference (ISC 2009), Pisa, Italy, September 7-9, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, 2009 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE ‘09), Montreal, Canada, August 10-11, 2009.

Ion I. Mandoiu Associate Editor, BMC Bioinformatics.

Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications, 2006-2009.

Guest Editor, (with G. Narasimhan, Y. Pan and Y. Zhang), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, special section devoted to 5th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications.

General Co-Chair, 6th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA 2010), Storrs, CT, May 23-26, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 10th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI 2010), Liverpool, UK, September 6-8, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 2010 Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics (BSB 2010), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 30 - September 3, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 18th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2010), Boston, MA, July 11- 13, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 21st Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2010), New York, NY, June 21-23, 2010.

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Member, Program Committee, 2009 Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, July 29-31, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, 17th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) and 8th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB), Stockholm, Sweden, June 27 – July 2, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, Special Section on Advances in the Theory of Computing of the 12th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC 2010), Timisoara, Romania, September 23-26, 2010.

Member, American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT), International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Presentation: “Bioinformatics Pipeline for Detection of Immunogenic Cancer Mutations by High Throughput mRNA Sequencing,” (with J. Duitama and P.K. Srivastava), invited talk, 9th Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory/Wellcome Trust Conference on Genome Informatics, October 27-30, 2009.

Robert D. McCartney Co-Editor-in-Chief, ACM Transactions on Computing Education.

Member, Program Committee, 10th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, Koli National Park, Lieksa, Finland, October 28-31, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 6th International Workshop on Computing Education Research ICER ‘10, Aarhus, Denmark, August 8-11, 2010.

Co-chair, ICER Doctoral Consortium, Aarhus, Denmark, August 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 9th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, Koli National Park, Lieksa, Finland, October 29 – November 1, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, 5th International Workshop on Computing Education Research ICER ‘09, Berkeley, CA, August 10-11, 2009.

Member, Organizing Committee, DCER II Workshop, Sharing Research Data in Practice, Berkeley, CA, August 9, 2009.

Presentations: “What do the Students Know? An Ongoing Study of Student Computing Preconceptions,” invited, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Canada, September 2009.

“Commonsense Computing: Computing Preconceptions of Entering College Students,” invited, Connecticut Chapter, Computer Science Teachers Association, New Britain, CT, March 2010.

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Laurent D. Michel Area Editor, Constraint Programming Letters (CPL).

Member, Editorial Board, Constraints.

Member, Editorial Board, Mathematical Programming Computation (MPC).

Session Chair, 11th INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Conference, Charleston, SC, January 11-13, 2009.

Session Chair, ACP. Member, NSF – IIS Review Panel.

Presentation: “Parallelizing Constraint Programs,” keynote, Declarative Aspects of Multi-core Programming, Madrid, Spain, January 19, 2010.

Thomas J. Peters Organizer, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 4th Conference on Mathematics in Industry, San Francisco, CA, October 9-10, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 4th Conference on Mathematics in Industry, San Francisco, CA, October 9-10, 2009.

Research Access: IBM Blue Gene Supercomputer, IBM, Cambridge, MA. Member, American Mathematical Society, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), SIAM Activity Group on Geometric Design (SIAG/GD).

Presentations: “Topological Modeling for Movies and Simulations,” 2009 SIAM/ACM Joint Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling.

“The Transition from Surgical to Synthetic, SIAM Conference, Mathematics for Industry,” invited symposia, October 9 - 10, 2009.

Sanguthevar Rajasekaran Endowed Chair, United Technologies Corporation Professor of Computer Science & Engineering.

Associate Editor, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing.

Associate Editor, International Journal of Computers and Their Applications.

Associate Editor, Computing Letters.

Associate Editor, Parallel Processing Letters.

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Fellow, IEEE and AAAS. Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE), 2005-present.

General Chair, 1st International Workshop on Wireless & Mobile Networks (WiMo-2009), Brisbane, Australia, July 7-10, 2009.

General Chair, 1st International Conference on Networks & Communications (NetCom 2009), Chennai, India, December 27-29, 2009.

Co-Chair and Member, Program Committee, 6th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA), Storrs, CT, May 23-26, 2010.

Co-Chair, Doctoral Dissertation Consortium, International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS), Caen, France, June 28-July 2, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 12th Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computational Models (APDCM 2010), Atlanta, GA, April 19-23, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 25th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Data Mining Track, Sierre, Switzerland, March 21-26, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 4th International Conference on Digital Society (ICDS 2010), St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles, February 10-16, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC), Kochi, India, December 16-19, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, 20th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC), Hawaii, December 16-18, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), Washington, D.C., November 1-4, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, 22nd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Communication Systems, Louisville, KY, September 24-26, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, 1st International Workshop on Neutral Access Networks (NEUTRAL 2009), Cannes/La Bocca, French Riviera, France, August 23-29, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, 14th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Sousse, Tunisia, July 5-8, 2009.

Member, IASTED Technical Committee on Biomedical Engineering, Round Table Group, International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED).

Member, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, Association of Computing Machinery, Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Presentation: “Indo-US Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE) Workshop on Analysis of Algorithms,” Mysore, India, June 29 - July 3, 2010.

Alexander C. Russell Associate Editor-in-Chief, Theory of Computation, 2005-2010.

Session Chair and Member, Program Committee, 42nd Annual Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2010), Boston, MA, May 2010.

Member, Association of Computing Machinery/Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory, American Mathematical Society, Mathematical Association of America.

Presentation: “Hardness Results for Large Cardinality Hidden Subgroup problems,” (with H. Dinh), poster, Quantum Information Processing, Zurich, January 2010.

Zhijie Shi Chair, Demo, 5th ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet 2010), Woods Hole, MA, September 30 – October 1, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 5th Workshop on Embedded Systems Security (WESS’2010), Scottsdale, AZ, October 24, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 4th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2010), Melbourne, Australia, September 1-3, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 3rd International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2009), Gold Coast, Australia, October 19-21, 2009.

Member, IEEE Computer Society and Association of Computing Machinery.

Presentations: “System Security under side-Channel Attacks,” Army Research Office (ARO) Special Workshop on Hardware Assurance, University of Connecticut, August 14, 2009.

“Towards Comprehensive Countermeasures to Power Analysis Attacks,” Shanghai Jiaotong University, China, December 15, 2009.

“Aqua-fModem: A Stand-alone Underwater Acoustic Modem Based on OFDM Technology,” (with S, Zhou, J-H. Cui, H. Zhou, J. Liu, and P. Carroll), ACM WUWNet’09, Berkeley, CA, 2009.

Dong-Guk Shin Editor, Bioinformatics and Biology Insights, Libertas Academica.

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Member, Program Committee, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine (BIBM 2009), Washington D.C., November, 1–4, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, 5th International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (IASTED-HCI 2010), Maui, HI, August 23-25, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 8th International Bioinformatics Workshop, Wuhan, China, June 4-6, 2010.

Member, IEEE Computer Society and Korean Scientists and Engineers in America.

Presentations: “Research Issues in Gene Expression Data Mining,” invited, Brain Korean for 21st Century, Seoul National University, Bioinformatics Data Mining, Seoul, Korea, May 10, 2010.

“Green Computing: A Case Study Promoting a Global Bioinformatics Service,” plenary lecture, Korean Information Technology Service Spring Symposium, Seoul, Korea, May 19, 2010.

“Using Automatically Generated Molecular Ordering Relations to Improve Biological Network Reconstruction,” (with B. Pei), poster, 6th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA), Storrs, CT, May 23-26, 2010.

Alexander A. Shvartsman Member, Editorial Board, Studia Informatica Universalis, International Journal of Information Technology, 2000 – present.

Member, Editorial Board, IEEE Transactions on Computers.

Co-Chair, 2010 EATCS International Symposium on Distributed computing (DISC 2010), Cambridge, MA, September 13-15, 2010.

Co-Chair, 2009 Workshop on Theoretical Aspects of Dynamic Distributed Systems, September 2009.

Member, Steering Committee, International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity.

Member, Program Committee, the 13th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS), 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 8th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA09), Cambridge, MA, July 9-11, 2009.

Access to PlanetLab. Member, Association of Computing Machinery, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society and Cornell Society of Engineers

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Presentation: “At-most-once Semantics in Asynchronous Shared Memory,� (with S. Kentros, A. Kiayias and N.C. Nicolaou), 21st Annual ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA 2009), pp.

43-44, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, August 11-13, 2009.

Bing Wang Member, Program Committee, 30th Conference on Computer Communications (Infocom 2011), Shanghai, China, April 10-15, 2011.

Member, Program Committee, 29th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2010), Albuquerque, NM, December 9-11, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, IEEE Global Communications Conference Exhibition & Industry Form (GLOBECOM 2010), Miami, FL, December 6-10, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, IFIP Networking 2010, Chennai, India, May 10-14, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 29th Conference on Computer Communications (Infocom 2010), San Diego, CA, March 15-19, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications (WASA 2009), Boston, MA, August 16-18, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2009), San Francisco, MA, August 2-6, 2009.

Member, Association of Computing Machinery (SIGCOMM), IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communication Society.

Yufeng Wu Co-Chair, Poster, Member, Program Committee, 6th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA 2010), Storrs, CT, May 23-26, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 8th International Bioinformatics Workshop (IBW2010), Wuhan, China, June 4-6, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 3rd International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI'10), Yantai, China, October 16-18, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 21st Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2010), New York, NY, June 21-23, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 18th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2010), Boston, MA, July 11- 13, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, 2nd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICoB 2010), Honolulu, HI, March 24-26, 2010.

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Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine (BIBM 2009), Washington, DC, November 1-4, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, 17th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) and 8th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB), Stockholm, Sweden, June 27 – July 2, 2009.

Member, International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB) .

Presentations: “Inference of Complex Genealogical Histories in Populations: Algorithms and Applications,” (with D. Gusfield and C.H. Langley), poster, National Science Foundation, Information Integration and Informatics PI Workshop, Rosslyn, VA, April 22-23, 2010.

“Inferring Evolutionary History with Network Models in Population Genomics: Challenges and Progress,” Schloss Dagstuhl seminar on Structure Discovery in Biology: Motifs, Networks & Phylogenies, Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik, Dagstuhl, Germany, June 6-10, 2010.

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ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY 2009-2010 UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

The Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) department offers undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering (EE), Computer Engineering (CompE, offered jointly with the Computer Science & Engineering Department), and Engineering Physics (jointly with the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences). In fall 2009, 152 students were enrolled in Electrical Engineering, 41 in Computer Engineering, and five in Engineering Physics. During the academic year, we awarded 33 B.S.E. degrees in EE, eight degrees in CompE, and one in Engineering Physics.

RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP

The ECE faculty conducts funded research in fields including systems and energy, communications and signal/image processing, biomedical engineering, microelectronics, photonics and optoelectronics, electromagnetics, nanotechnology, VLSI, computer engineering, and homeland security. Scholarly productivity stimulated by research is strong. The faculty publications included 111 refereed journal articles, six book chapters, and 156 full conference proceedings papers. ECE faculty members developed three software packages, offered many professional short courses, were keynote speakers at four international conferences, and delivered 54 invited talks. The faculty worked on 116 sponsored grants valued at $4.8 million for FY 10 ($3.6 million in direct expenditures). During the year, the ECE faculty advised 145 graduate students; of these, 11 successfully completed their Ph.D. degrees and 21 students garnered their M.S. degrees. Geoffrey Taylor was awarded five patents; Lei Wang and Shengli Zhou secured two each, and Peter Luh received one.

The EE Ph.D. program was identified by the university as one of the seven that have achieved “national distinction.” Academic Analytics ranked the ECE faculty productivity (based on data on publications, citations, awards, and grants) in our program to be in the 97th percentile among 153 EE programs in the nation.

The National Security Agency (NSA) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have designated UConn as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research (CAER). John Chandy prepared the application that was submitted to NSA/DHS for consideration. UConn’s selection as a CAE-R reflects the strong core of faculty and graduate research, professional engagement and outreach in areas related to information security and encryption.

FACULTY HONORS

ECE faculty members received several prestigious awards. Bahram Javidi received The George Washington University’s Distinguished Alumni Scholar Award. Yunsi Fei and Lei Wang received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development Award. John Chandy led a team that received a Department of Education GAANN (Graduate Assistants in Areas of National Need) grant. Shengli Zhou was awarded a highly competitive Major Equipment grant from the University. Yaakov Bar-Shalom has been reappointed to a second five-year term as the Marianne E. Klewin Endowed Professor in Engineering. Yaakov BarShalom and Bahram Javidi are Board of Trustees Distinguished Professors. The faculty members are also leaders in many professional societies/organizations. Yaakov Bar-Shalom, Steven Boggs, Anthony DeMaria, John Enderle, Bahram Javidi, Peter Luh, Krishna Pattipati, Geoffrey Taylor and Peter Willett are IEEE Fellows; John Enderle and Bahram Javidi are American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering 140

Fellows; Anthony DeMaria and Bahram Javidi are Optical Society of America Fellows; Anthony DeMaria, Eric Donkor and Bahram Javidi are SPIE Fellows; John Enderle is an American Society of Engineering Education Fellow; Rajeev Bansal is a Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy; and Anthony DeMaria is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Shengli Zhou was inducted into the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE), joining faculty members Rajeev Bansal, Yaakov Bar-Shalom, Anthony DeMaria (who is a co-founding member), Eric Donkor, John Enderle, Monty Escabi, Faquir Jain, Bahram Javidi, Peter Luh, Krishna Pattipati, Geoffrey Taylor and Quing Zhu. During 2009-2010, ECE faculty members held five major journal editorships, 25 associate editorships or conference chair posts, and 43 other editorial or conference-planning appointments.

In particular, John Enderle, Bahram Javidi, Peter Luh, Krishna Pattipati and Peter Willett were Editors-in Chief while Mehdi Anwar, Rajeev Bansal, John Chandy, Eric Donkor, John Enderle, Bahram Javidi, Peter Luh, Robert Magnusson, Mohammad Tehranipoor, Peter Willett and Shengli Zhou served as Editors or Associate Editors of professional journals.

Congratulations to Yunsi Fei, Mohammad Tehranipoor and Lei Wang, who received promotion and tenure to associate professor. Also, congratulations to ECE Honors Scholar and ECE double major, Dipayan Ghosh, for receiving the Connecticut Power & Energy Society (CPES) scholarship for the 2009-2010 school year.

INDUSTRIAL CONNECTIONS

The Department has an engaged Industrial Advisory Board (IAB), providing vital input on our curricula, recruitment, and strategies. Industrial feedback is essential in maintaining high-quality, relevant programs and is a major link in the ABET accreditation process. Additionally, the affiliated companies participate in collaborative research, sponsor senior design projects, provide internship opportunities for our students, and often hire them permanently. The companies represented on the IAB this year are Aptima, ARRIS Access and Transport, BAE Systems, Coherent, GE Corporate Financial Services, GE Consumer & Industrial Technology, Hamilton Sundstrand, The Hartford, ISO New England, JDS Uniphase, Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Northeast Utilities, Pfizer, Phonon Corporation, Pratt & Whitney, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Silicon DFx, and Toyota Technical Center USA. The Department is also active in collaborative research and development projects with many other companies.

STUDENT ACTIVITIES

The UConn student branch of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) organized several educational and professional activities in the past two semesters, including internal presentations by SungYeul Park, who discussed renewable energy activities underway at UConn, and Ali Gokirmak, who spoke about nanoelectronics research. Along with Eta Kappa Nu, the International Honor Society of Electrical Engineers (HKN), IEEE co-sponsored a tour of IBM’s semiconductor research facility in New York. The two groups additionally co-sponsored lectures by Dr. Francis Chan (a UConn-EE alumnus, who was inducted into the School of Engineering Academy in April 2010) of the Naval Underwater Warfare Center and Dr. Ratnajeevan Hoole of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Advised by Ali Gokirmak, the UConn

IEEE branch is working with HKN on the design stages of a High Altitude Unmanned Balloon, with the goal of having remote data transferred in real time, as well as the Arduino Microcontroller Project, initiated by John Chandy to educate high school students on the applications of electrical and computer engineering.

The UConn chapter of The International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE) sponsored two seminars this academic year. The lectures were given by Dr. Peter de Groot, Director of Research 141

and Development at ZYGO Corp. and Mr. Kevin Harding, Optical Metrology Leader from GE Global Research and 2008 SPIE president. Quing Zhu is the chapter’s advisor.

Motivated by the need to build systems (as a part of senior design projects, REU Projects, Honors Projects) integrating electronic, photonic and MEM devices using surface mounted technology (SMT), a student chapter of SMTA was recently formed at UConn (School of Engineering). Faquir Jain is the faculty advisor for the newly formed group. The department would like to thank Mr. Stephen Altschuler, an EE alumnus, who played a catalytic role in this endeavor. His corporation (Altek Electronics, Torrington, CT) is assisting our students in the implementation of PCB and/or hybrid SMTA designs.

ECE PERSONNEL CHANGES

Two new faculty members have been hired under the Eminent Faculty Program to focus on Energy Power Systems. Sung-Yeul Park, who joined the department in fall 2009, earned his Ph.D from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). His expertise is in power electronics. Peng Zhang will be joining the department in fall 2010. Dr. Zhang received two Ph.D degrees (2009, U. British Columbia; 2002, Tsinghua U.) His area of expertise is in the field of Power Systems/Smart Grid Technology.

We also welcome Catherine Dagon, Administrative Services Specialist II, who is responsible for departmental grant tracking.

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ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ARCHIVAL TECHNICAL JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS 2009-2010 Mehdi Anwar “Study of Temperature, Air Dew Point Temperature and Reactant Flow Effects on Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Performances using Electrochemical Spectroscopy and Voltammetry Techniques,” (with S. Wasterlain, D. Candusso, D. Hissel, F. Harel, P. Bergman and P. Menard), Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 195, No. 4, pp. 984-993, 2010.

John E. Ayers “Misfit Dislocation Density and Strain Relaxation in Semiconductor Heterostructures with Arbitrary Composition Profiles,” (with B. Bertoli, E.N. Suarez and F.C. Jain), Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 106, p.

073519, 2009.

“Dislocations and Strain Relief in Reverse-Graded Semiconductor Layers,” (with B. Bertoli, E.N. Suarez and F.C. Jain), Semiconductor Science Technology, Vol. 24, p. 125006, 2009.

“A Quantitative Model for the Interpretation of RAV (Rocking Curve Azimuthal Variation) Results from Heteroepitaxial Semiconductor Layers,” (with B. Yarlagadda, A. Rodriguez, P. Li, R. Velampati and F.C. Jain), Journal of Crystal Growth, Vol. 312, p. 886, 2010.

“Asymmetric Dislocation Densities in Forward-Graded ZnSySe1-y/GaAs (001) Heterostructures,” (with J.F. Ocampo, B. Bertoli, P.B. Rago, E.N. Suarez, D. Shah and F.C. Jain), Journal of Electronic Materials, Vol. 39, p. 391, 2010.

“Nonvolatile Memories using Quantum Dot (QD) Floating Gate Assembled on li-VI Tunnel Insulator,” (with E. Suarez, M. Gogna, F. Al-Amoody, S. Karmakar, E. Heller and F.C. Jain), Journal of Electronic Materials, DOI: 10.1007/s11664-010-1207-3, 2010.

“Critical Layer Thickness in Exponentially-graded Heteroepitaxial Layers,” (with D. Sidoti, S. Xhurxhi, T. Kujofsa, S. Cheruka, J. Reed, B. Bertoli, P.B. Rago, E.N. Suarez and F.C. Jain), Journal of Electronic Materials, DOI: 10.1007/s11664-010-1207-3, 2010.

Yaakov Bar-Shalom “Coordinate Conversion and Tracking for Very Long Range Radars,” (with X. Tian), IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 1073-1088, July 2009.

“Tracking of Divers in a Noisy Background Using a Bubble Model,” (with A. Rodningsby), IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 1181-1193, July 2009.

“Removal of Out-of-Sequence Measurements from Tracks,” (with H. Chen), IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 612-619, 2009.

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“Multisensor Track Management for Targets with Fluctuating SNR,” (with W. Blanding, P.K. Willett and S. Coraluppi), IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 1275-1292, October 2009.

“T2T and M2T Association with Combined Hypotheses,” (with J. Areta and K.R. Pattipati), Journal of Advances in Information Fusion, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 40-51, 2009.

“Multitarget Tracking in the Presence of Wakes,” (with A. Rodningsby, O. Halingstad and J. Glattetre), Journal of Advances in Information Fusion, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 117-145, December 2009.

“Multistep Look-Ahead Policy for Autonomous Cooperative Surveillance by UAVs in Hostile Environments,” (with X. Tian and K.R. Pattipati), Journal of Advances in Information Fusion, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 146-164, December 2009.

“Track-to-Track Fusion Configurations and Association in a Sliding Window,” (with X. Tian), Journal of Advances in Information Fusion, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 146-164, December 2009.

“The Probabilistic Data Association Filter: Estimation in Presence of Measurement Origin Uncertainty,” (with F. Daum and J. Huang), IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 29, No. 6, pp. 82-100, December 2009.

“A Low Complexity Sliding Window Kalman FIR Smoother for Discrete Time Models,” (with D.F. Crouse and P.K. Willett), IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 177-180, February 2010.

Steven A. Boggs “Charge on a Conducting Particle Standing on a Ground Plane,” (with K. Zhou), IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 1158-1159, August 2009.

“The Electro-Chemical Basis of Manhole Events,” (with L. Zhang, S. Livanos, G. Varela and A. Prazan), IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine, Vol. 25, No. 5, pp. 25-30, September/October 2009.

“Historical Introduction to Capacitor Technology,” (with J. Ho and T.R. Jow), IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 20-25, January/February 2010.

“Overview of Laminar Dielectric Capacitors,” (with J. Ho and T.R. Jow), IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 7-13, March/April 2010.

“Density Functional Analysis of Chemical Impurities in Dielectric Polyethylene,” (with A. Huzayyin and R. Ramprasad), IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 920-925, June 2010.

“Quantum Mechanical Studies in Carbonyl Impurities in Dielectric Polyethylene,” (with A. Huzayyin and R. Ramprasad), IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 926-930, June 2010.

John A. Chandy “Novel Quantum Dot Gate FETs and Nonvolatile Memories Using Lattice-Matched II-VI Gate Insulators,” (with F.C. Jain, E.N. Suarez, M. Gogna, F. Al-Amoody, D. Butkiewicus, R. Hohner, T. Liaskas, S. 144

Karmakar, P.-Y. Chan, B. Miller and E. Heller), Journal of Electronic Materials, Vol. 38, No. 8, pp. 15741578, August 2009.

“ATTEST: ATTributes-based Extendable STorage,” (with S. Narayan), Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 83, No. 4, pp. 548-556, April 2010.

Anthony J. DeMaria “The CO2 Laser: The Work Horse of the Material Processing Industry,” (with T. Hennessey, Jr.), The Photonics Professional Magazine of SPIE, (feature article), January 2010.

Eric Donkor “Optoelectronic Encoder for a 12-bit 1.28 GSPS Analog-to-Digital Converter,” (with C. Villa and P. Kumavor), IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 21, No. 17, pp. 1238-1240, September 2009.

“Terahertz Optical Frequency Comb Generation by Spectral Filtering of Broadband Spontaneous Amplified Emissions from a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier,” (with M. Hayduk and C. Villa), IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 27, No. 23, pp. 5337-5441, December 2009.

John D. Enderle “An Updated Time-Optimal 3rd-Order Linear Saccadic Eye Plant Model,” (with W. Zhou and X. Chen), International Journal of Neural Systems, Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 309-330, 2009.

“Engineering a Health Level Seven Standard Interface and Wireless Infrastructure to Improve the Efficiency of Electrocardiogram Analysis at Hartford Hospital,” (with D.C. McGeary, R.R. Renouf and Q. Zhu), Journal of Clinical Engineering, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 95-97, 2010.

“Linear Homeomorphic Models for Muscles in the Head-Neck Region,” (with D. Sierra), Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 247-258, 2010.

Monty A. Escabi “Theta and Gamma Coherence Along the Septotemporal Axis of the Hippocampus,” (with H.R. Sabolek, S.C. Penley, J.G. Bunce, E.J. Markus and J.J. Chrobak), Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol. 101, No. 3, pp.

1192-1200, 2009.

“Spectrotemporal Modulation Tradeoff Along the Tonotopic Axis of the Inferior Colliculus,” (with F.A. Rodriguez and H.L. Read), Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol. 103, pp. 887-903, December 2009.

Yunsi Fei “Orchestrating Horizontal Parallelism and Vertical Instruction Packing of Programs to Improve System Overall Efficiency,” (with H. Lin), IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 58, No. 9, pp. 1211-1220, September 2009.

“Reducing Register File Power Consumption with RF Partitioning and Compiler Support,” (with X. Guan), ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, Vol. 15, No. 3, Article 24, May 2010.

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“QELAR: A Machine-learning-based Adaptive Routing Protocol for Energy-efficient and Lifetime-extended Underwater Sensor Networks,” (with T. Hu), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 9, No. 6, pp.

796-809, June 2010.

Ali Gokirmak “Melting and Crystallization of Nanocrystalline Silicon Microwires through Rapid Self-Heating,” (with G. Bakan, A. Cywar and H. Silva), Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 94, p. 251910, 2009.

“Attofarad Resolution Capacitance-Voltage Measurement of Nanometer Scale Field Effect Transistors Utilizing Ambient Noise,” (with H. Inaltekin and S. Tiwari), Nanotechnology, Vol. 20, p. 335203, 2009.

“Nanoengineered Transparent, Free-Standing, Conductive Nanofibrous Membranes,” (with W. Jia, Y. Wang, J. Basu, T. Strout, C.B. Carter and Y. Lei), Journal of Physical Chemistry, Vol. C 2009, No. 113, pp. 1952519530, 2009.

Jie Huang “MIMO-OFDM for High Rate Underwater Acoustic Communications,” (with B. Li, S. Zhou, K. Ball, M. Stojanovic, L. Freitag and P.K. Willett), IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 634-644, October 2009.

“Structure, Property, and Design of Nonbinary Regular Cycle Codes,” (with S. Zhou and P.K. Willett), IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 58, No. 4, pp. 1060-1071, April 2010.

“A Simple and Effective Noise Whitening Method for Underwater Acoustic Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing.” (with C.R. Berger, W. Chen and S. Zhou), The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 237, No. 4, pp. 2358-2367, April 2010.

Faquir C. Jain “Dislocations and Strain Relief in Reverse-graded Semiconductor Layers,” (with B. Bertoli, E.N. Suarez and J.E. Ayers), Semiconductor Science and Technology, Vol. 24, No. 125006, p. 6, 2009.

“Novel Quantum Dot Gate FETs and Nonvolatile Memories Using Lattice-Matched II-VI Gate Insulators,” (with E.N. Suarez, M. Gogna, F. Al-Amoody, D. Butkiewicus, R. Hohner, T. Liaskas, S. Karmakar, P.-Y. Chan, B. Miller, J.A. Chandy and E. Heller), Journal of Electronic Materials, Vol. 38, No. 8, pp. 1574-1578, 2009.

“Misfit Dislocation Density and Strain Relaxation in Graded Semiconductor Heterostructures with Arbitrary Composition Profiles,” (with B. Bertoli, E.N. Suarez and J.E. Ayers), Journal of Applied Physics, 106.073519, 2009.

“Enhanced Glucose Sensor Linearity using PVA Hydrogels,” (with S. Vaddiraju, D.J. Burgess and F. Papadimitrakopoulos), Journal of Diabetes, Vol. 3, pp. 863-874, July 2009.

“Utilizing Quantum Dot Transistors with Programmable Threshold Voltages for Low Power Mobile Computing,” (with S. Wang, J. Dai, E.-S. Hasaneen and L. Wang), ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems, Vol. 5, No. 3, Article 15, August 2009.

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“Asymmetric Dislocation Densities in Forward Graded ZnSySe1-y/GaAs (001) Heterostructures,” Journal of Electronic Materials, 10.1007/s1164-010-1101-z TMS, 2010.

“A Quantitative Model for the Interpretation of RAV (Rocking Curve Azimuthal Variation) Results from Heteroepitaxial Semiconducting Layers,” (with B. Yarlagadda, A. Rodriguez, P. Li, R. Velampati, J.F. Ocampo and J.E. Ayers), Journal of Crystal Growth, Vol. 312, pp. 886-891, 2010.

“Nonvolatile Memories using Quantum Dot (QD) Floating Gates Assembled on Li –V1 Tunnel Insulators,” (with E.N. Suarez, M. Gogna, F. Al-Amoody, S. Kamakar, J.E. Ayers and E. Heller), Journal of Electronic Material, 10.1007/s11664-010-1207-3 TMS, 2010. (Also appeared in the Proceedings of the II-VI Conference, Chicago, IL, October 2009.)

“Emerging Synergy between Nanotechnology and Implantable Biosensors: A Review,” Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 10.1016/j.bios.2009.12.001, March 2010.

“Temperature Insensitivity of Threshold Current Density in Exciton-dominated Wide Energy Gap Quantum Wire Lasers,” (with W. Huang), Optical Engineering, Vol. 40, No. 5, p. 1, May 2010.

Bahram Javidi “Three-dimensional Object Recognition using Truncated Photon Counting Model and Parametric Maximum Likelihood Estimator,” (with I.K. Moon), Optics Express, Vol. 17, No. 18, pp. 15709-15715, 2009.

“Single-shot Digital Holography by Use of the Fractional Talbot Effect,” (with L. Martinez-Leon, M. Araiza, P. Andres, V. Climent, J. Lancis and E. Tajahuerce), Optics Express, Vol. 17, No. 15, pp. 12900-12909, 2009.

“3D Imaging with Axially Distributed Sensing,” (with R. Schulein and M. Daneshpanah), Optics Letters, Vol. 34, No. 13, pp. 2012-2014, July 1, 2009.

“Free View Reconstruction of Three-Dimensional Integral Imaging using Tilted Reconstruction Planes with Locally Non-uniform Magnification,” (with M. Cho), IEEE Journal of Display Technology, Vol. 5, No. 9, pp. 345-349, September 2009.

“Information Theorectic Approach for Assessing Image Fidelity in Photon-counting Arrays,” (with S.R. Narravula and M.M. Hayat), Optics Express, Vol. 18, pp. 2449-2466, February 1, 2010.

“Distortion-tolerant 3D Recognition of Underwater Objects using Neural Networks,” (with R. Schulein and C. Do), Journal of the Optical Society of America, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 461-468, March 2010.

“Optical Implementation of Micro-zoom Arrays for Parallel Focusing in Integral Imaging,” (with A. Tolosa, R. Martinez, A. Pons, G. Saavedra and M. Martinez), Journal of the Optical Society of America, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 495-500, March 2010.

“Three-dimensional Microscopy with Single-beam Wavefront Sensing and Reconstruction from Speckle Fields,” (with A. Anand), Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics, Vol. 5, No. 6, April 8, 2010. (Also appeared in Optics Letters, Vol. 35, pp. 766-768, March 1, 2010.)

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“Breakthroughs in Photonics 2009 – Three Dimensional Holographic Imaging for Identification of Biological Micro/Nano Orgamisns,” (with M. Daneshpanah and I. Moon), IEEE Photonics Journal, invited, Vol. 2, No. 2, April 2010.

“Method to Remedy Image Degradations Due to Facet Braiding in 3D Integral-imaging Monitors,” (with H. Navarro, R. Martinez-Cuenca, A. Molina, M. Martinez-Corral and G. Saavedra), IEEE Journal of Display Technology, Vol. 6, No. 8, April 26, 2010.

“Lensless 3D Digital Holographic Microscopic Imaging at Vacuum UV Wavelength,” (with U. Gopinathan, G. Pedrini and W. Osten), IEEE Journal of Display Technology, Vol. 6, No. 8, April 26, 2010.

“All Optical Non-invasive Holographic 3D Imaging and Trapping for Cell Tracking and Identification,” (with M. Daneshpanah, S. Zwick, S. Schaal and W. Osten), IEEE Journal of Display Technology, Vol. 6, No. 8, April 26, 2010.

“Three-dimensional Photon Counting Integral Imaging using Baysian Estimation,” (with J. Jung, M. Cho and D. Dey), Optics Letters, Vol. 35, pp. 1825-01827, June 2010. (Also published online on May 24, 2010.)

Peter B. Luh “Bid Cost Minimization vs. Payment Cost Minimization: A Game Theoretic Study of Electricity Auctions,” (with F. Zhao, J.H. Yan, G.A. Stern and S.C. Chang), IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 181-194, February 2010.

“Short-term Load Forecasting: Similar Day-based Wavelet Neural Networks,” (with Y. Chen, C. Guan, Y. Zhao, L.D. Michel, M.A. Coolbeth, P.B. Friedland and S.J. Rourke), IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 322-330, February 2010.

“Optimization of Group Elevator Scheduling with Advance Information,” (with J. Sun and Q. Zhao), IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 352-363, April 2010.

Sung-Yeul Park “An Improved Zero-Voltage Switching Inverter Using Two Coupled Magnetics in One Resonant Pole,” (with W. Yu and J.-S. Lai), IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol. 25, pp. 952-961, April 2010.

Krishna R. Pattipati “T2T and M2T Association with Combined Hypotheses,” (with J. Areta and Y. Bar-Shalom), Journal of Advances in Information Fusion, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 40-51, 2009.

“Dynamic Multiple Fault Diagnosis with Imperfect Tests,” (with S. Ruan, Y. Zhou, F. Yu, P.K. Willett and A. Patterson-Hine), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Part A – Systems and Humans, Vol. 39, No. 6, pp. 1224-1236, November 2009.

“Multi-step Look Ahead Policy for Autonomous Cooperative Surveillance by UAVs in Hostile Environments,” (with X. Tian and Y. Bar-Shalom), Advances in Information Fusion, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 146164, December 2009.

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“Integrated Model-Based and Data-Driven Diagnosis of Automotive Anti-Lock Braking Systems,” (with J. Luo, M. Namburu, L. Qiao and S. Chigusa), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Part A – Systems and Humans, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 321-336, March 2010.

Helena Silva “Melting and Crystallization of Nanocrystalline Silicon Microwires through Rapid Self-heating,” (with G. Bakan, A.D. Cywar and A. Gokirmak), Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 94, p. 251910, 2009.

Geoffrey W. Taylor “Intersubband Absorption in Modulation Doped Heterostructures,” (with J. Yao, W. Zheng, H. Opper and J. Cai), Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 108, No. 013104, 2010.

Mohammad Tehranipoor “A Sensitivity Analysis of Power Signal Methods for Detecting Hardware Trojans under Real Process and Environmental Conditions,” (with R. Rad and J. Plusquellic), IEEE Transactions on VLSI, 2009.

“High Launch Switching Activity Reduction in At-Speed Scan Testing using CTX: A Clock-Gating-Based Test Relaxation and X-Filling Scheme,” (with K. Miyase, X. Wen, H. Furukawa, Y. Yamato, S. Kajihara, P. Girard and L.-T. Wang), IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals/Communications/Electronics/Information and Systems, Vol. E85-A/B/C/D, 2009.

“Survey of Power Supply Noise Effects on Delay Testing and Timing Analysis in Very Deep Submicron Designs,” (with K. Butler), IEEE Design and Test of Computers, 2010.

“Test-Pattern Selection Small-Delay Defects in Very Deep Submicron Integrated Circuits,” (with M. Yilmaz and K. Chakrabarty), IEEE Transactions on CAD, 2010.

“A Novel IR-drop Tolerant Transition Delay Fault Test Pattern Generation Procedure,” (with N. Ahmed), Journal of Low Power Electronics, Vol. 6, No. 1, April 2010.

“A Survey of Hardware Trojan Taxonomy and Detection,” (with F. Koushanfar), IEEE Design and Test of Computers, Vol. PP, No. 99, December 2009.

“A Novel Faster-than-at-speed Transition Delay Test Method Considering IR-drop Effects, (with N. Ahmed), IEEE Transactions on CAD of Integrated Circuits & Systems, Vol. 28, No. 10, pp. 1573-1582, October 2009.

Lei Wang “Exploiting Memory Soft Redundancy for Joint Improvement of Error Tolerance and Access Efficiency,” (with S. Wang), IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Vol. 17, pp. 973-982, August 2009.

“Utilizing Quantum Dot Transistors with Programmable Threshold Voltages for Low-Power Mobile Computing,” (with S. Wang, J. Dai, E. Hasaneen and F.C. Jain), ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems, Vol. 5, No. 3, Article 15, August 2009.

“A Defect/Error-Tolerant Nanosystem Architecture for DSP,” (with W. Tang and F. Lombardi), ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems, Vol. 5, November 2009.

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Peter K. Willett “Dynamic Multiple Fault Diagnosis with Imperfect Tests,” (with S. Ruan, Y. Zhou, F. Yu and K.R. Pattipati), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics – Part A, Systems and Human, Vol. 39, No. 6, pp. 1224-1236, July 2009.

“Distributed Target Detection in Sensor Networks Using Scan Statistics,” (with M. Guerriero and J. Glaz), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 57, No. 7, pp. 2629-2639, July 2009.

“PAC vs. MAC for Decentralized Detection using Noncoherent Modulation,” (with C. Berger, M. Guerriero and S. Zhou), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 57, No. 9, pp. 3562-3575, September 2009.

“From the Editor in Chief,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 45, No. 4, October 2009.

“Multisensor Track Management for Targets with Fluctuating SNR,” (with W. Blanding, Y. Bar-Shalom and S. Coraluppi), IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 1275-1292, October 2009.

“Receiver Comparisons on a OFDM Design for Doppler Spread Channels,” (with B. Li, J. Huang, S. Zhou, K. Ball, M. Stojanovic and L. Freitag), IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 634-644, October 2009.

“The Bin-Occupancy Filter and its Connection to the PHD Filters,” (with O. Erdinc and Y. Bar-Shalom), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 57, No. 11, pp. 4232-4246, November 2009.

“A Critical Look at the PMHT,” (with D. Crouse and M. Guerriero), Journal on Advances in Information Fusion, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 93-116, December 2009.

“A Low-Complexity Sliding-Window Kalman FIR Smoother for Discrete-Time Models,” (with D. Crouse and Y. Bar-Shalom), IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 177-180, February 2010.

“Signal Processing for Passive Radar Using OFDM Waveforms,” (with C. Berger, B. Demissie and J. Heckenbach), IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 226-238, February 2010.

“Asymptotic Optimality of Running Consensus in Testing Binary Hypotheses,” (with P. Braca, S. Marano and V. Matta), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 814-825, February 2010.

“Sparse Channel Estimation for Multicarrier Underwater Acoustic Communication: From Subspace Methods to Compressed Sensing,” (with C.R. Berger, S. Zhou and J. Preisig), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 58, No. 3 (Part 2), pp. 1708-1721, March 2010.

“Channel Energy Based Estimation of Target Trajectories Using Distributed Sensors with Low Communication Rate,” (with C.R. Berger, S. Choi and S. Zhou), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 58, No. 4, pp. 2339-2350, April 2010.

“Structure, Property, and Design of Nonbinary Regular Cycle Codes,” (with J. Huang and S. Zhou), IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 58, No. 4, pp. 1060-1071, April 2010.

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“Optimal Relay Function in The Low-Power Regime for Distributed Estimation with Correlated Observations,” (with M. Guerriero, S. Marano and V. Matta), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 58, No. 5, pp. 2907-2911, May 2010.

“Bayesian Data Fusion for Distributed Target Detection in Sensor Networks,” (with M. Guerriero and L. Svensson), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 58, No. 6, pp. 3417-3421, June 2010.

“Fuse-before-Track in Large Sensor Networks,” (with S. Coraluppi, M. Guerriero and C. Carthel), Journal on Advances in Information Fusion, Vol. 5, No. 1, June 2010.

Chen Xu “Light Shadowing Effect of Large Breast Lesions Imaged by Optical Tomography in Reflection Geometry,” Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 15, p. 036003, May 27, 2010.

“Early-Stage Invasive Breast Cancers: Potential Role of Optical Tomography with US Localization in Assisting US Diagnosis,” (with P. Hegde, A. Ricci, Jr., M. Kane, E. Cronin, Y. Ardeshirpour, Q. Zhu, A. Aguirre, S. Kurtzman, P. Deckers and S. Tannenbaum), Radiology, published online, Vol. 256, pp. 367-378, June 22, 2010.

Shengli Zhou “PAC vs. MAC for Decentralized Detection using Noncoherent Modulation,” (with C.R. Berger, M. Guerriero and P.K. Willett), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 57, No. 9, pp. 3562-3575, September 2009.

“MIMO-OFDM for High Rate Underwater Acoustic Communications,” (with B. Li, J. Huang, K. Ball, M. Stojanovic, L. Freitag and P.K. Willett), IEEE Journal on Oceanic Engineering, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 634-644, October 2009.

“Signal Processing for Passive Radar using OFDM Waveforms,” (with C.R. Berger, B. Demissie, J. Heckenbach and P.K. Willett), IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp.

226-238, February 2010.

“Sparse Channel Estimation for Multicarrier Underwater Acoustic Communication: From Subspace Methods to Compressed Sensing,” (with C.R. Berger, J. Preisig and P.K. Willett), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 58, No. 3, pp. 1708-1721, March 2010.

“A Simple and Effective Noise Whitening Method for Underwater Acoustic Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing,” (with C.R. Berger, W. Chen and J. Huang), Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 127, No. 4, pp. 2358-2367, April 2010.

“Structure, Property, and Design of Nonbinary Regular Cycle Codes,” (with J. Huang and P.K. Willett), IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 58, No. 4, April 2010.

“Channel Energy Based Estimation of Target Trajectories Using Distributed Sensors with Low Communication Rate,” (with C.R. Berger, S. Choi and P.K. Willett), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 58, No. 4, pp. 2339-2350, April 2010.

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“Efficient Localization for Large-Scale Underwater Sensor Networks,” (with Z. Zhou and J.-H. Cui), Ad Hoc Networks, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 267-279, May 2010.

Quing Zhu “Photoacoustic Tomography of Small Animal Brain with a Curved Array Transducer,” (with X. Yang, A. Maurudis, J. Gamelin, A. Aguirre and L.V. Wang), Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 14, pp. 054007 (1-7), 2009.

“Co-registered 3-D Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Imaging System for Ovarian Tissue Characterization,” (with A. Aguirre, P. Guo, J. Gamelin, S. Yan, M.M. Sanders and M. Brewer), Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 054014 (1-9), 2009.

“Effect of the Chest Wall on Breast Lesion Reconstruction,” (with Y. Ardeshirpour and M.M. Huang), Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 044005 (1-4), July/August 2009.

“Fluorescence Imaging of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Tumors for Mice Embedded in a Turbid Medium,” (with N.C. Biswal, J. Gamelin, B. Yuan, M. Backer and J. Backer), Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 016012 (1-11), January/February 2010.

“Real-time Photoacoustic Tomography of Cortical Hemodynamics in Small Animals,” (with C. Li, A. Aguirre, J. Gamelin, A. Maurudis and L.V. Wang), Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 1-3, January/February 2010.

“Light Shadowing Effect of Large Breast Lesions Imaged by Optical Tomography in Reflection Geometry,” (with C. Xu), Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 1-14, May/June, 2010.

“Early-Stage Invasive Breast Cancers: Potential Role of Optical Tomography with US Localization in Assisting US Diagnosis,” (with P. Hegde, A. Ricci, Jr., M. Kane, E. Cronin, Y. Ardeshirpour, C. Xu, A. Aguirre, S. Kurtzman, P. Deckers, S. Tannenbaum), Radiology, published online June 22, 2010.

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ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT PUBLISHED BOOKS, BOOK CHAPTERS, BOOK SECTIONS & EDITED VOLUMES 2009-2010 John E. Ayers Digital Integrated Circuits: Analysis and Design, Second Edition, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2009.

Yaakov Bar-Shalom “Optimality in Estimation with Data Association Uncertainty,” (with H.A.P. Blom), chapter in Handbook on Nonlinear Filtering, (B. Rozovski, ed.), Elsevier, 2010.

“Sensor Data Fusion with Application to Multitarget Tracking,” (with T. Kirubarajan, R. Tharmarasa, and K. Punithakumar), chapter 16 in Handbook on Array Processing and Sensor Networks, (S. Haykin, ed.), Wiley, 2010.

John D. Enderle “Models of Horizontal Eye Movements, Part 1: Early Models of Saccades and Smooth Pursuit,” Morgan & Claypool Publishers, San Rafael, CA, 149 pages, 2010.

“Models of Horizontal Eye Movements, Part 2: A 3rd-Order Linear Saccade Model,” (with W. Zhou), Morgan & Claypool Publishers, San Rafael, CA 144 pages, 2010.

“National Science Foundation 2007 Engineering Senior Design Projects to Aid Persons with Disabilities,” (with B. Hallowell, ed.), Creative Learning Press, Inc., Mansfield Center, CT, 361 pages, available for viewing at http://nsf-pad.bme.uconn.edu), 2010.

Bahram Javidi “Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Information Optics (WIO-09),” (with A. Djafari and T. Fournel, eds.), Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Institute of Physics, Paris, France, July 2009.

Three Dimensional Imaging, Visualization, and Display, (with F. Okano and J.Y. Son, eds.), SPIE Press, Bellingham, Washington, 2010.

Mahmoud Melehy Introduction to Interfacial Transport: A Generalization of Einstein’s Theory of Brownian Motion with Interdiciplinary Applications, Author House, Bloomington, IN, September, 2009.

Mohammad Tehranipoor “Test for Power Management Structures,” (with M. Kassab), chapter in Power Aware Testing and Test Strategies for Low Power Devices, (P. Girard, N. Nicolici and X. Wen, eds.), Springer, 2009.

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“Built-In Self-Test and Defect Tolerance for Molecular Electronics-Based NanoFabrics,” chapter in Robust Nano-Computing, (C. Huang, ed.), Springer, 2010.

“Hardware Trojan Horses,” (with B. Sunar), chapter in Towards Hardware Intrinsic Security: Foundation and Practices, (A. Sadeghi and D. Naccache, eds.), Springer, 2010.

Shengli Zhou “Energy-Efficient Random Cooperative Communication,” (with Z. Zhou, J. Cui and S. Cui), chapter in Cooperative Communications for Improved Wireless Network Transmission: Frameworks for Virtual Antenna Array Applications, (M. Uysal, ed.), IGI-Global, 2009.

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ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS 2009-2010 Mehdi Anwar “GaN-based THz Advanced Quantum Cascade Lasers for Manned and Unmanned Systems,” (with T. Manzur, K.R. Lefebvre and E.M. Capapezza), Proceedings of the SPIE: Unmanned/Unattended Sensors and Sensor Networks VI, (E.M. Capapezza, ed.), Vol. 7480, pp. 748012-748012-7, 2009.

John E. Ayers “Step Relaxation Model for Plastic Flow in Compositionally-Graded Semiconductor Structures,” (with B. Bertoli, E.N. Suarez and F.C. Jain), Proceedings of the Materials Science and Technology 2009 Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 25-29, 2009.

Rajeev Bansal “AP-S Turnstile,” a contributed column in IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, Vol. 51: August, October and December 2009; Vol. 52: February, April and June 2010.

“Microwave Surfing,” a contributed column in IEEE Microwave Magazine, Vol. 10: August, October and December 2009; Vol. 11: February, April and June 2010.

Yaakov Bar-Shalom “Feature-Aided Localization of Ground Vehicles Using Passive Acoustic Sensor Arrays,” (with V. Ravindra and T. Damarla), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Fusion, Seattle, WA, July 2009.

“Exact Algorithms for Four T2TF Configurations: All You Wanted to Know but Were Afraid to Ask,” (with X. Tian), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Fusion, Seattle, WA, July 2009.

“Robust Kernel-Based Object Tracking with Multiple Kernel Centers,” (with S. Zhang), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Fusion, Seattle, WA, July 2009.

“Sensor Bias Estimation in the Presence of Data Association Uncertainty,” (with D.F. Crouse and P.K. Willett), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, No. 7445, p.

28, San Diego, CA, August 2009.

“Unbiased Kalman Filter Using Converted Measurements: Revisit,” (with W. Mei), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, No. 7445, p. 38, San Diego, CA, August 2009.

“Design of an Adaptive Passive Collision Warning System for UAVs,” (with R.W. Osborne, III, P.K. Willett and G. Baker), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, No. 7445, p. 32, San Diego, CA, August 2009.

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“Tracking Move-Stop-Move Targets with State-Dependent Transition Probabilities,” (with S. Zhang), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, No. 7445, p. 47, San Diego, CA, August 2009.

“Feature-Aided Localization of Ground Vehicles Using Passive Acoustic Sensor Networks,” (with V. Ravindra and T. Damarla), Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, Aruba, Netherlands Antilles, December 2009.

“The Optimal Algorithms for Asynchronous Track-to-Track Fusion,” (with X. Tian), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, No. 7698, p. 46, Orlando, FL, April 2010.

“A No-Loss Covariance Intersection Algorithm for Track-to-Track Fusion,” (with X. Tian), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, No. 7698, p. 27, Orlando, FL, April 2010.

“Track Segment Association for Ground Moving Targets with Evasive Move-Stop-Move Maneuvers,” (with S. Zhang), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, No. 7698, p. 12, Orlando, FL, April 2010.

“Impact Point Prediction for Short-Range Thrusting Projectiles,” (with T. Yuan), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, No. 7698, p. 55, Orlando, FL, April 2010.

“The JPDAF in Practical Systems: Computation and Snake Oil,” (with D.F. Crouse and P.K. Willett), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, No. 7698, p. 38, Orlando, FL, April 2010.

“Maximum Likelihood Probabilistic Data Association Tracker Applied to Bistatic Sonar Data Sets,” (with S. Schoenecker and P.K. Willett), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, No. 7698, p. 19, Orlando, FL, April 2010.

“The JPDAF in Practical Systems: Approximations,” (with K. Romeo, D.F. Crouse and P.K. Willett), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, No. 7698, p. 57, Orlando, FL, April 2010.

“More Ways to Track Closely-Spaced Targets Than You Wanted to Know or Tips For Not Pissing Off the Radar Operator So Much That He Turns Off the Track Display,” (with D.F. Crouse, P.K. Willett and L. Svensson), Proceedings of the ONR-GTRI Workshop on Tracking, Santa Barbara, CA, May 2010.

“Survey of OOSM Problems: Updates, Removals and Biases,” (with S. Zhang), Proceedings of the ONRGTRI Workshop on Tracking, Santa Barbara, CA, May 2010.

Steven A. Boggs “Computational Quantum Mechanics-Based Study of Conduction in Iodine Doped Polyethylene,” (with A. Huzayyin and R. Ramprasad), 2009 Annual Report of the Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena, pp. 138-141, October 2009.

“The Increasing Role of Modeling in HV and Materials Engineering,” Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Electrical Insulation, San Diego, CA, June 6-9, 2010.

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John A. Chandy “An Analysis of Parallel Programming Techniques for Data Intensive Computation,” (with A. Thiruvenkata Ramani), Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, pp. 373-379, July 2009.

“3-State Behavior in Quantum Dot Gate FETs with Lattice-Matched Insulator,” (with S. Karmakar, M. Gogna, E.N. Suarez, F. Al-Amoody, E. Heller and F.C. Jain), Proceedings of the Nanoelectronic Devices for Defense & Security Conference, September 2009.

“Uncovering Errors: The Cost of Detecting Silent Data Corruption,” (with S. Narayan, S. Lang, P. Carns and R. Ross), Proceedings of the Petascale Data Storage Workshop, pp. 37-41, November 2009.

“3-State Behavior in Quantum Dot Gate FETs,” (with F.C. Jain, S. Karmakar, F. Al-Amoody, E.N. Suarez, M. Gogna, P.-Y. Chan, B. Miller and E. Heller), Proceedings of the International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium, December 2009.

“Design of ADCs and DACs using 3-State Quantum Dot Gate FETs,” (with S. Karmakar, A.P. Suresh and F.C. Jain), Proceedings of the International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium, December 2009.

“2-Dilated Flattened Butterfly: A Nonblocking Switching Network,” (with A. Thamarakuzhi) Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing, 134-139, June 2010.

Eric Donkor “Comparison of Quantum Key Distribution over Fiber Optics Network Topologies,” Proceedings of the SPIE Conference, Vol. 7702, p. 136, April 2010.

“Terahertz Frequency Generation in Optical Amplifiers,” Proceedings of the SPIE Conference, Vol. 7700, p.

132, April 2010.

Monty A. Escabi “Functional Transformation between Brainstem Inputs and Target Inferior Colliculus Neurons,” (with C. Chen), Proceedings of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology Conference, No. 273, p. 94, 2010.

“Modulation Tuning Characteristics Scale in the Inferior Colliculus: a Mechanism for Equalizing Natural Sounds, (with F.A. Rodriguez, C. Chen and H.L. Read), Proceedings of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology Conference, No. 274, p. 94-95, 2010.

Yunsi Fei “PIFT Efficient Dynamic Information Flow Tracking using Secure Page Allocation,” (with J.C. Martinez Santos and Z.J. Shi), Proceedings of the IEEE Embedded Systems Week/Workshop on Embedded Systems Security, October 2009.

“AQUA-SIM: An NS-2 based Simulator for Underwater Sensor Networks,” (with J.-H. Cui, P. Xie, H. Yan, T. Hu, Z. Shi, S. Zhou, Z. Zhou and Z. Peng), Proceedings of the MTS/IEEE Oceans Conference, October 2009.

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“Resource Sharing of Pipelined Custom Hardware Extension for Energy-efficient Application-specific Instruction Set Processor,” (with H. Lin), Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, October 2009.

“A Novel Multi-objective Instruction Synthesis Flow for Application-specific Instruction Set Processors,” (with H. Lin), Proceedings of the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, May 2010.

Ali Gokirmak “Measurements of Liquid Silicon Resistivity on Silicon Microwires,” (with G. Bakan, K. Cil, A.D. Cywar and H. Silva), Proceedings of the Materials Research Society Symposium, Vol. AA06-06, p. 1178, August 2009.

“Ambient Noise Defeats Quantization Errors,” http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/40318, September 9, 2009.

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Jie Huang “A Simple and Effective Noise Whitening Method for Underwater Acoustic OFDM,” (with C.R. Berger, S. Zhou and W. Chen), Proceedings of the MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference, Biloxi, MS, October 26-29, 2009.

“Iterative Sparse Channel Estimation and Decoding for Underwater MIMO-OFDM,” (with J.-Z. Huang, C.R. Berger, S. Zhou and P.K. Willett), Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference, Biloxi, MS, October 2629, 2009.

“Near-Shannon-Limit Linear-Time-Encodable Nonbinary Irregular LDPC Codes,” (with S. Zhou, and P.K. Willett), Proceedings of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, Honolulu, HI, November 30December 4, 2009.

“Progressive Inter-carrier Interference Equalization for OFDM Transmission over Time-varying Underwater Acoustic Channels,” (with J.-Z. Huang, S. Zhou, C.R. Berger and P.K. Willett), Proceedings of the MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference, Sydney, Australia, May 24-27, 2010.

“DSP Implementation of SISO and MIMO OFDM Acoustic Modems,” (with H. Yan, S. Zhou, Z. Shi, J.-H. Cui, L. Wan and H. Zhou), Proceedings of the MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference, Sydney, Australia, May 2427, 2010.

“Comparison of Basis Pursuit Algorithms for Sparse Channel Estimation in Underwater Acoustic OFDM,” (with J.-Z. Huang, C.R. Berger and S. Zhou), Proceedings of the MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference, Sydney, Australia, May 24-27, 2010.

Faquir C. Jain “Quantum Dot Gate InGaAs FETs,” (with F. Al-Amoody, E. Suarez, M. Gogna, P.-Y. Chan, S. Karmakar, J. Fikiet, B.I. Miller and E. Heller), Proceedings of the Nanotech 2009 Conference, Vol. 1, pp. 598-601, 2009.

“Enhanced Performance of Implantable Glucose Sensors Coated with Biocompatible Poly (Vinyl Alcohol) Hydrogels,” (with S. Vaddiraju, D.J. Burgess and F. Papadimitrakopoulos), Proceedings of the Gordon Research Conference, Biomaterials: Biocompatibility/Tissue Engineering, Holderness School, NH, 2009.

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“3-State Behavior of Quantum Dot Gate FETs with Lattice Matched Insulator,” (with S. Karmakar, M. Gogna, E.N. Suarez, F. Al-Amoody, E. Heller and J.A. Chandy), Proceedings of the 2009 Nanoelectric Devices for Defense and Security, Fort Lauderdale, FL, September 28-October 2, 2009.

“Self-Assembled Germanium Oxide Cladded Germanium Quantum Dot Gate Nonvolatile Memory,” (with M. Gogna, S. Karmakar, F. Al-Amoody and F. Papadimitrakopoulos), Proceedings of the 2009 Nanoelectric Devices for Defense and Security, Fort Lauderdale, FL, September 28-October 2, 2009.

“Protein Sensor Utilizing Functionalized Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Gate FETs,” (with R.A. Croce, Jr., R. Setya and P.-Y. Chan), Proceedings of the 2009 Nanodevice for Security Conference, Fort Lauderdale, FL, September 28-October 2, 2009.

“ZnxCd1-xSe/ZnyCd1-ySe Cladded Quantum Dot Based Electroluminescent and Nonvolatile Memory Devices,” (with F. Al-Amoody), Proceedings of the Nano-DDS Conference, FL, October 1, 2009.

“3-State Behavior in Quantum Dot Gate InGaAs FETs,” (with S. Karmakar, F. Al-Amoody, E.N. Suarez, M. Gogna, P.-Y. Chan, J.A. Chandy, B.I. Miller and E. Heller), Proceedings of the International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium, College Park, MD, December 9-11, 2009.

“Design of ADCs and DACs using 3-State Quantum DOT Gate FETs,” (with S. Karmakar, A.P. Suresh and J.A. Chandy), Proceedings of the International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium, College Park, MD, December 9-11, 2009.

“ZnxCd1-xSe/ZnyCd1-ySe Quantum Dot Floating Gate Nonvolatile Memory,” (with F. Al-Amoody, E.N. Suarez, A. Rodriguez, E. Heller and J.E. Ayers), Proceedings of the International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium, College Park, MD, December 9-11, 2009.

“Quantum Dot Gate 3-State InGaAs FETs for Multi-valued Logic Circuits and Advanced ADCs,” (with S. Karmakar, F. Al-Amoody, E.N. Suarez, M. Gogna, P.-Y. Chan, J. Chandy, B.I. Miller and E. Heller), Proceedings of the Government Microcircuit Applications & Critical Technology Conference, Reno, Nevada, March 22-25, 2010.

“Radiation Hardened Quantum Dot Floating Gate Nonvolatile Memory,” (with E.N. Suarez, M. Gogna, F. Al-Amoody, S. Karmakar, J.E. Ayers and E. Heller), Proceedings of the Government Microcircuit Applications & Critical Technology Conference, Reno, NV, March 22-25, 2010.

“Carbon Nanotube Gate Si-FETs for Protein Sensing Applications,” (with R.A. Croce, Jr., R. Setya and P.-Y. Chan), Proceedings of the Government Microcircuit Applications & Critical Technology Conference, Reno, NV, March 22-25, 2010.

“InGaAs Floating Quantum Dot Gate Non-volatile Memory Devices,” (with P.-Y. Chan, M. Gogna, E.N. Suarez, F. Al-Amoody, S. Karmakar, B.I. Miller and J.E. Ayers), Proceedings of the Material Research Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 5-9, 2010.

“Three State Quantum Dot Gate FETs for Multi-valued,” (with S. Karmakar and J.A. Chandy), Proceedings of the 19th Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Symposium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 7, 2010.

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“Design of an Amorphous Silicon and Crystalline Silicon Tandem Cell,” (with A. Suresh), Proceedings of the 19th Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Symposium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 7, 2010.

“Facile Fabrication of Sem-SWCNTs based Thin Film Transistors,” (with D.C. Abanulo, L. Qiang, R.A. Croce, Jr., R. Reinwald, J. Kahl and F. Papadimitrakopoulos), Proceedings of the 19th Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Symposium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 7, 2010.

“Exciton Dominated Quantum Wire Lasers Exhibiting Temperature Insensitivity of the Threshold Current Density,” (with W. Huang), Proceedings of the 19th Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Symposium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 7, 2010.

“Layer-by-Layer (LBL) Assemblies/Poly (Vinyl Alcohol) Hydrogel based Stacked Outer Membranes for Implantable Glucose Sensors,” (with S. Vaddiraju, I. Tomazos, D.J. Burgess and F. Papadimitrakopoulos), Proceedings of the 19th Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Symposium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 7, 2010. Also, appeared in the Proceedings of the 9th Annual Diabetes Technology Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2009 and Proceedings of the 37th North East Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Hartford, CT, 2009.

“Critical Layer Thickness and Strain Relaxation in Exponentially-graded Semiconductor Heterostructures,” (with B. Bertoli, S. Xhurxhi, D. Sidoti, S. Cheruku, T. Kujofsa, J. Reed, E.N. Suarez and J.E. Ayers), Proceedings of the 19th Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Symposium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 7, 2010.

“Plastic Flow in Semiconductor Heterostructures,” (with S. Cheruku, T. Kujofsa, S. Xhurxhi, D. Sidoti, J. Reed, B. Bertili, E.N. Suarez and J.E. Ayers), Proceedings of the 19th Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Symposium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 7, 2010.

“Site-specific Self Assemblies Germanium Quantum Dot Gate Indium Gallium Arsenide Based Non-volatile Memory Devices,” (with P.-Y. Chan, M. Gogna, E. Suarez, F. Al-Amoody, S. Karmakar, B.I. Miller and J.E. Ayers), Proceedings of the 19th Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Symposium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 7, 2010.

“Quantum Dot (QD) Floating Gate Nonvolatile Memories using Lattice Matched ZnS/ZnMgS/ZnS Gate Insulators,” (with E.N. Suarez, M. Gogna, F. Al-Amoody, S. Karmakar, J.E. Ayers and E. Heller), Proceedings of the 19th Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Symposium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 7, 2010.

Bahram Javidi “Speckle Reduction Techniques in Digital Holography,” (with D. Monaghan, D. Kelly and B. Hennelly), Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Information Optics, Paris, France, July 20-24, 2009. Also appeared in the Journal of Physics Conference Series, Vol. 206, ISSN 1742-6588 (print) ISSN 1742-6596 (online), doi:10.1088/1742-6596/206/1/012026, 2010.

“Parallel Phase-shifting Digital Holography Based on the Fractional Talbot Effect,” (with L. Martinez-Leon, M. Araiza, P. Andres, V. Climent, J. Lancis and E. Tajahuerce), Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Information Optics, invited, Paris, France, July 20-24, 2009. Also appeared in the Journal of Physics Conference Series, Vol. 206, ISSN 1742-6588 (print) ISSN 1742-6596 (online), doi:10.1088/17426596/206/1/012023, 2010.

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“Role of Spatial Correlation in Photon-counting Integral Imaging,” (with S.R. Narravula and M.M. Hayat), Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Information Optics, invited, Paris, France, July 20-24, 2009. Also appeared in the Journal of Physics Conference Series, Vol. 206, ISSN 1742-6588 (print) ISSN 1742-6596 (online), doi:10.1088/1742-6596/206/1/012005, 2010.

“Improved Design of Optical ID Tags for Remote Validation,” (with S. Horrillo, E. Perez-Cabre and M.S. Millan), Proceedings of the SPIE Annual Meeting, Vol. 7442, San Diego, CA, August 2009.

“Three-Dimensional Sensing, Visualization and Display by Integral Imaging,” (with M. Martinez-Corral, A. Stern and E. Watson), Proceedings of the Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science Conference 2009, invited, San Jose, CA, October 11-16, 2009.

“3D Passive Sensing and Multiview Imaging,” (with E.A. Watson and P.F. McManamon), Proceedings of the 2010 Applications of Lasers for Sensing and Free Space Communications Conference, invited, Optical Society of America, San Diego, CA, January 31-February 4, 2010.

“Integral-imaging Fluorescence Microscopy: 3D Images Captured in a Single Snapshot,” (with M. MartinezCorral, A. Tolosa, H. Navarro, R. Martinez-Cuenca and G. Saavedra), Proceedings of the Focus on Microscopy Conference, Peking University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, March 28-31, 2010.

“Underwater Multi-View Three-Dimensional Imaging with Passive Sensing,” (with R. Schulein and M. Cho), Proceedings of Volume 7700: Enabling Photonics Technologies for Defense, Security and Aerospace Applications VI, keynote address, (M.J. Hayduk, P.J. Defyett, Jr., A.R. Pirich and E.J. Donkor, eds.), April 2010.

“One-Shot Color Digital Holography Based on the Fractional Talbot Effect,” (with L. Martinez and E. Tajahuerce), Proceedings of the Digital Holography and Three-Dimensional Imaging 2010 Biomedical Optics and 3-D Imaging Optics and Photonics Congress, Optical Society of America, OSA Technical Digest, Miami, FL, April 2010.

“3-D Identification and Tracking of Biological Microorganisms Using Computational Microscopy,” (with M. Daneshpanah, I. Moon, S. Bagheri and A. Anand), Proceedings of the Digital Holography and ThreeDimensional Imaging 2010, Biomedical Optics and 3-D Imaging Optics and Photonics Congress, invited, Optical Society of America, Miami, OSA Technical Digest, Florida, April 2010.

“Optical Slicing of Large Scenes by Synthetic Aperture Integral Imaging,” (with H. Navarro, G. Saavedra, A. Molina, M. Martinez and R. Martinez), Proceedings of Volume 7690: Three Dimensional Imaging, Visualization and Display 2010 Conference, April 2010.

“Polarization Imaging of a 3D Object by Use of Digital Holography and its Application,” (with T. Nomura), Proceedings of Volume 7690: Three Dimensional Imaging, Visualization and Display 2010 Conference, invited, April 2010.

“Speckle-based Phase Retrieval Applied to 3D Microscopy,” (with A. Anand), Proceedings of Volume 7690: Three Dimensional Imaging, Visualization, and Display 2010 Conference, invited, April 2010.

“Axially Distributed 3D Imaging and Reconstruction,” (with M. Daneshpanah and R. Schulein), Proceedings of Volume 7690: Three Dimensional Imaging, Visualization, and Display 2010 Conference, April 2010.

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“Fresnel Patterns Insertions on Image for Data Encoding and Robust Perceptual Image Hashing,” (with T. Fournel, A. Rivoire and J.M. Becker), Proceedings of Volume 7690: Three Dimensional Imaging, Visualization, and Display 2010 Conference, April 2010.

“Extension of Depth of Field using Amplitude Modulation of the Pupil Function for Bio-imaging,” (with Z. Kavehvash, S. Bagheri and K. Mehrany), Proceedings of Volume 7690: Three Dimensional Imaging, Visualization, and Display 2010 Conference, invited, April 2010.

“Real-time Non-invasive Identification of Cells and Microorganisms using Digital Holographic Microscopy,” (with M. Daneshpanah, I.K. Moon, S. Bagheri and A. Anand), Proceedings of the Biomedical Optics and 3-D Imaging Optics and Photonics Congress, invited, Optical Society of America, Miami, FL, April 2010.

“Advances in Three Dimensional Sensing, Visualization, and Display by Integral Imaging,” (with M. Martinez), Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on 3D Systems and Applications, keynote address, Tokyo, Japan, May 19-21, 2010.

“3D Imaging and Visualization,” (with M. Cho), Proceedings of the 2010 International Workshop on 3D Information Technology, invited, Seoul, South Korea, May 26, 2010.

Peter B. Luh “Decoupled Load Flow and Its Feasibility in Systems with Dynamic Topology,” (with M. Li and Q.C. Zhao), Proceedings of the IEEE Power and Energy Society 2009 General Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, July 2009.

“Very Short-term Load Forecasting: Multilevel Wavelet Neural Networks with Data Pre-filtering,” (with C. Guan, M.A. Coolbeth, Y. Zhao, L.D. Michel, Y. Chen, C.J. Manville, P.B. Friedland and S.J. Rourke), Proceedings of the IEEE Power and Energy Society 2009 General Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, July 2009.

“Short-term Load Forecasting: Multi-level Wavelet Neural Networks with Holiday Corrections,” (with Y. Zhao, C. Bomgardner and G.H. Beerel), Proceedings of the IEEE Power and Energy Society 2009 General Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, July 2009.

“A Subgradient-based Cutting Plane Method to Calculate Convex Hull Market Prices,” (with C. Wang, P. Gribik, L. Zhang and T. Peng), Proceedings of the IEEE Power and Energy Society 2009 General Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, July 2009.

“Efficient Optimization of Building Emergency Evacuation Considering Social Bond of Evacuees,” (with P. Wang, S.C. Chang and K.L. Marsh), Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Conference on Automatic Science and Engineering, pp. 250-255, Bangalore, India, August 2009.

“A Rollout Algorithm for Multichain Markov Decision Processes with Average Cost,” (with T. Sun and Q. Zhao), Proceedings of the Third Positive Systems: Theory and Applications Conference, Valencia, Spain, September 2009.

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“Interacting Multiple Model Approach for Very Short-Term Load Forecasting and Confidence Interval Estimation,” (with C. Guan, L.D. Michel, Y. Bar-Shalom and P.B. Friedland), Proceedings of the Eighth World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Jinan, Shandong, China, June 2010.

“Achieving Equilibrium and Local Incentive Compatibility for Electricity Markets by Using Redundant Constraints,” (with B. Zhang, E. Litvinov, T. Zheng and F. Zhao), Proceedings of the Eighth World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Jinan, Shandong, China, June 2010.

“The Subgradient-Simplex Based Cutting Plane Method to Solve Linear Matrix Inequalities,” (with C. Wang), Proceedings of the Eighth World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Jinan, Shandong, China, June 2010.

Sung-Yeul Park “Performance Evaluation of High Voltage Super Junction MOSFETs for Zero-Voltage Soft-Switching Inverter Applications,” (with P. Sun, W. Yu and J.-S. Lai), Proceedings of the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference, Palm Springs, CA, February 21-25, 2010.

“Design and Analysis of a Directed Borohydride Fuel Cell DC-DC Converter for Portable Applications,” (with X. Zhou), Proceedings of the ASME 2010 8th International Fuel Cell Science and Technology Conference, Brooklyn, NY, June 14-16, 2010.

Krishna R. Pattipati “Model-based and Data-driven Prognosis of Automotive and Electronic Systems,” (with C. Sankavaram, B. Pattipati, A. Kodali, M. Azam and S. Kumar), Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Bangalore, India, August 2009.

“A Factorial Hidden Markov Model (FHMM)-based Reasoner for Diagnosing Multiple Intermittent Faults,” (with S. Singh and A. Kodali), Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Bangalore, India, August 2009.

“Optimization-based Decision support Algorithms for a Team-in-the-Loop Planning Experiment,” (with H. Bui, X. Han, S. Mandal and D.L. Kleinman), Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on SMC, San Antonio, TX, October 2009.

“Agent-based Distributed Framework for Collaborative Planning,” (with S. Mandal, X. Han and D.L. Kleinman), Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, March 2010.

“A Coupled Factorial Hidden Markov Model (CFHMM) for Diagnosing Coupled Faults,” (with A. Kodali and S. Singh), Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, March 2010.

“2D Location Estimation of Angle-Only Sensor Arrays using Targets of Opportunity,” (with D. Crouse, R. W. Osborne, III, P.K. Willett and Y. Bar-Shalom), Proceedings of SPIE, Orlando, FL, April 2010.

“Distributed Auction Algorithms for the Assignment Problem with Partial Information,” (with C. Park, W. An and D.L. Kleinman), Proceedings of the 15th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, Santa Monica, CA, June 2010.

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“An Integrated Asset Allocation and Path Planning Method to Search for Targets in a Dynamic Environment,” (with W. An, M. Mishra and C. Park), Proceedings of the 15th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, Santa Monica, CA, June 2010.

“Design of Command and Control Organizations: From Years of Modeling to Empirical Validation,” (with G. Levchuk and J. Hollenbeck), Proceedings of the 15th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, Santa Monica, CA, June 2010.

Helena Silva “Measurements of Liquid Silicon Resistivity on Silicon Microwires,” (G. Bakan, K. Cil, A.D. Cywar and A. Gokirmak), Proceedings of the Materials Research Society Symposium, Vol. AA06-06, p. 1178, August 2009.

Geoffrey W. Taylor “Overview of POET and its Applications,” Space Missile Command, Los Angeles, CA, February 2010.

Mohammad Tehranipoor “New Design Strategy for Improving Hardware Trojan Detection and Reducing Trojan Activation Time,” (with H. Salmani and J. Plusquellic), Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust, San Francisco, CA, July 2009.

“A Novel Architecture for On-Chip Path Delay Measurement,” (with X. Wang and R. Datta), Proceedings of the International Test Conference, Austin, TX, October 2009.

“Efficient Modeling of IR-Drop Using Dynamic SDF for Test and Diagnosis,” (with K. Peng, Y. Huang, and W.T. Cheng), Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on RTL and High Level Testing, Hong Kong, December 2009.

“Emulating and Diagnosing IR-Drop by Using Dynamic SDF,” (with K. Peng, Y. Huan, R. Guo and W.T. Cheng), Proceedings of ASP-DAC, Taipei, Taiwan, January 2010.

“Confronting the Hardware Trustworthiness Problem,” (with F. Koushanfar), IEEE Design and Test of Computers, Guest Editorial, January 2010.

“Novel Physical Unclonable Function Based on Process and Environmental Variations,” (with X. Wang), Proceedings of Design, Automation, and Test in Europe, Dresden, Germany, March 2010.

“High-Quality Pattern Selection for Screening Small-Delay Defects Considering Process Variations and Crosstalk,” (with K. Peng, M. Yilmaz and K. Chakrabarty), Proceedings of Design, Automation, and Test in Europe, Dresden, Germany, March 2010.

“Analysis of Power Consumption and Transition Fault Coverage for LOS and LOC Testing Schemes,” (with F. Wu, L. Dillio, A. Bosio, P. Girard, S. Pravossoudovitch, A. Virazel, J. Ma, W. Zhao and X. Wen), Proceedings of the DDECS, Vienna, Austria, April 2010.

“A Novel Hybrid Method for SDD Pattern Grading and Selection,” (with K. Peng, J. Thibodeau, M. Yilmaz and K. Chakrabarty), Proceedings of the IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, Santa Cruz, CA, April 2010.

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“Full-Circuit SPICE Simulation Based Validation of Dynamic Delay Estimation,” (with K. Peng, Y. Huang and W.T. Cheng), Proceedings of the European Test Symposium, Prague, CR, May 2010.

“Pattern Grading for Testing Critical Paths Considering Power Supply Noise and Crosstalk Using a LayoutAware Quality Metric,” (with J. Ma, J. Lee, N. Ahmed and P. Girard), Proceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, Providence, RI, May 2010.

Lei Wang “Way-Tagged Cache: An Energy-Efficient L2 Cache Architecture Under Write through Policy,” (with J. Dai), Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, pp. 159-164, October 2009.

“A Study of Side-Channel Effects in Reliability-Enhancing Techniques,” (with J. Dai), Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, pp. 236-244, October 2009.

“Manufacturing Yield of QCA Circuits by Untitled Synthesized DNA Self-Assembled Templates,” (with X. Ma, M. Hashempour, and F. Lombardi), Proceedings of the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, pp. 275280, May 2010.

Peter K. Willett “Set JPDA Algorithm for Tracking Unordered Sets of Targets,” (with L. Svensson and D. Svensson), Proceedings of FUSION 2009, Seattle, WA, July 2009.

“A Suspicious Look at the PMHT,” (with D. Crouse and M. Guerriero), Proceedings of FUSION 2009, Seattle, WA, July 2009.

“GM-CPHD and MLPDA Applied to the SEABAR07 and TNO-Blind Multi-static Sonar Data,” (with R. Georgescu and S. Schoenecker), Proceedings of FUSION 2009, Seattle WA, July 2009.

“Distributed Estimation with Data Association: Is the Nearest Neighbor the Most Informative?,” (with P. Braca, M. Guerriero, S. Marano and V. Matta), Proceedings of FUSION 2009, Seattle WA, July 2009.

“The Track Repulsion Effect in Automatic Tracking,” (with S. Coraluppi, C. Carthel, M. Dingboe, O. O’Neill and T. Luginbuhl), Proceedings of FUSION 2009, Seattle WA, July 2009.

“Maximum Likelihood Approach to HF Radar Performance Characterization,” (with C. Carthel, S. Coraluppi, M. Maratea and A. Maguer), Proceedings of FUSION 2009, Seattle WA, July 2009.

“Maximizing Expected Gain in Supervised Discrete Baysian Classification When Fusing Binary Valued Features,” (with R.S. Lynch, Jr.), Proceedings of FUSION 2009, Seattle WA, July 2009.

“Further Analysis of the Track Repulsion E-ect in Automatic Tracking,” (with S. Coraluppi and C. Carthel), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, San Diego, CA, August 2009.

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“Design of an Adaptive Passive Collision Warning System for UAVs,” (with R. Osborne, Y. Bar-Shalom and G. Baker), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, San Diego, CA, August 2009.

“Sensor Bias Estimation in the Presence of Data Association Uncertainty,” (with D. Crouse and Y. BarShalom), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, San Diego, CA, August 2009.

“Target Tracking Using Compressed Sensing for Multistatic Radar with Non-Cooperative Illumination by DAB/DVB-T,” (with S. Choi, C. Berger, D. Crouse and S. Zhou), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, San Diego, CA, August 2009.

“Removing Active Sonar Ping Timing Ambiguity via Multidimensional Assignment,” (with V. Ravindra, M. Guerriero and S. Coraluppi), Proceedings of the NATO Workshop on Data Fusion and Anomaly Detection for Maritime Situational Awareness, La Spezia, Italy, September 2009.

“Set JPDA Algorithm for Tracking Sonar Crossing Targets,” (with L. Svensson, M. Guerriero and D. Svensson), Proceedings of the NATO Workshop on Data Fusion and Anomaly Detection for Maritime Situational Awareness, La Spezia, Italy, September 2009.

“Iterative Sparse Channel Estimation and Decoding for Underwater MIMO-OFDM,” (with J. Huang, J.-Z. Huang, C.R. Berger and S. Zhou), Proceedings of OCEANS 2009, Biloxi, MS, October 2009.

“A Progressive Receiver for Underwater MIMI-OFDM,” (with J. Huang, J.-Z. Huang, C.R. Berger and S. Zhou), Proceedings of OCEANS 2009, Biloxi, MS, October 2009.

“Near-Shannon-Limit Linear-Time Encodable Nonbinary Irregular LDPC Codes,” (with J. Huang and S. Zhou), Proceedings of GlobeCom, Honolulu, HI, December 2009.

“The Role of the Ambiguity Function in Compressed Sensing Radar,” (with X. Song and S. Zhou), Proceedings of the ICASSP 2010, Dallas, TX, March 2010.

“Asymptotically Optimal Power-Constrained Distributed Estimation” (with M. Guerriero, S. Marano and V. Matta), Proceedings of the ICASSP 2010, Dallas, TX, March 2010.

“Comparison of Data Reduction Techniques Based on the Performance of SVM-type Classifiers,” (with R. Georgescu, C. Berger, M. Azam and S. Ghoshal), Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, March 2010.

“The JPDAF in Practical Systems: Approximations,” (with K. Romeo, D. Crouse and Y. Bar-Shalom), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, No. 7698, Orlando, FL, April 2010.

“Impact Point Prediction for Short Range Thrusting Projectiles,” (with T. Yuan, Y. Bar-Shalom and D. Hardimann), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, No. 7698, Orlando, FL, April 2010.

“The GM-CPHD Applied to Real and Realistic Multistatic Sonar Data,” (with R. Georgescu), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, No. 7698, Orlando, FL, April 2010.

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“Maximum Likelihood Probabilistic Data Association Filter Applied to Bistatic Sonar Data Sets,” (with S. Schoenecker and Y. Bar-Shalom), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, No. 7698, Orlando, FL, April 2010.

“The JPDAF in Practical Systems: Computation, Approximations and Snake Oil,” (with D. Crouse, K. Romeo and Y. Bar-Shalom), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, No. 7698, Orlando, FL, April 2010.

“Multipath Interference Mitigation for a Shard Spectrum MIMO Radar System” (with X. Song and S. Zhou), Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Radar Conference, Washington, DC, May 2010.

Shengli Zhou “Target Tracking for Multistatic Radar with Transmitter Uncertainty,” (with S. Choi, C.R. Berger, D. Crouse and P.K. Willett), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference, Vol. 7445, August 2009.

“Aqua-Sim: An NS-2 Based Simulator for Underwater Sensor Networks,” (with P. Xie, Z. Zhou, Z. Peng, H. Yan, T. Hu, J.-H. Cui, Z. Shi and Y. Fei), Proceedings of the MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference, Biloxi, MS, October 26-29, 2009.

“Iterative Sparse Channel Estimation and Decoding for Underwater MIMO-OFDM,” (with J. Huang, J.-Z. Huang, C.R. Berger and P.K. Willett), Proceedings of the MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference, Biloxi, MS, October 26-29, 2009.

“A Simple and Effective Noise Whitening Method for Underwater Acoustic OFDM,” (with C.R. Berger, W. Chen and J. Huang), Proceedings of the MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference, Biloxi, MS, October 26-29, 2009.

“Near-Shannon-Limit Linear-Time-Encodable Nonbinary Irregular LDPC Codes,” (with J. Huang and P.K. Willett), Proceedings of the Global Telecommunications Conference, Honolulu, HI, November 30-December 4, 2009.

“The Role of the Ambiguity Function in Compressed Sensing Radar,” (with X. Song and P.K. Willett), Proceedings of ICASSP, Dallas, TX, March 14-19, 2010.

“Waveform Interference Mitigation for a Shared Spectrum MIMO Radar System,” (with X. Song and P.K. Willett), Proceedings of the IEEE International Radar Conference, Washington, DC, May 10-14, 2010.

“Progressive Inter-Carrier Interference Equalization for OFDM Transmission Over Time-Varying Underwater Acoustic Channels,” (with J.-Z. Huang, J. Huang, C.R. Berger and P.K. Willett), Proceedings of the MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference, Sydney, Australia, May 24-27, 2010.

“Comparison of Basis Pursuit Algorithms for Sparse Channel Estimation in Underwater Acoustic OFDM,” (with J.-Z. Huang, C.R. Berger and J. Huang), Proceedings of the MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference, Sydney, Australia, May 24-27, 2010.

“DSP Implementation of SISO and MIMO OFDM Acoustic Modems,’ (with H. Yan, Z. Shi, J.-H. Cui, L. Wan, J. Huang and H. Zhou), Proceedings of the MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference, Sydney, Australia, May 24-27, 2010.

167

Quing Zhu “Photoacoustic Characterization of Human Ovaries,” (with A. Aguirre, Y. Ardeshirpour, M.M. Sanders and M. Brewer), Proceedings of the Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2010 Conference, Vol. 7564, No. 3G, pp. 1-7, San Francisco, CA, January 24-26, 2010.

“Effect of Ultrasound Transducer Face Reflectivity on the Light Fluence Inside a Turbid Medium in Photoacoustic Imaging,” (with B. Tavakoli, P.D. Kumavor and A. Aguirre), Proceedings of the Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2010 Conference, Vol. 7564, No. 3J, pp. 1-6, San Francisco, CA, January 24-26, 2010.

“A Miniature Prototype Hybrid Intraoperative Probe for Ovarian Cancer Detection,” (with Y. Yang, N.C. Biswal, P.D. Kumavor, T. Wang, M. Karemeddini, M. Sounders and M. Brewer), Proceedings of the Biomedical Optics Conference, No. BSuC7, pp. 1-3, Miami, FL, April 11-14, 2010.

“Improvement of NIR Diffuse Optical Tomography in Patients with Small Breast Tissue using a Two-layer Finite-element Model,” (with Y. Ardeshirpour), Proceedings of the Biomedical Optics Conference, No. JMA 79, pp. 1-3, Miami, FL, April 11-14, 2010.

“Improvement of NIR Diffuse Optical Tomography in Patients with a Small Amount of Breast Tissue by using Contrast Agents,” (with Y. Ardeshirpour), Proceedings of the Biomedical Optics Conference, No. JMA 88, pp. 1-3, Miami, FL, April 11-14, 2010.

“Nitroimidazole-Indocynine Green Conjugates for Breast Cancer Hypoxia Imaging,” (with N.C. Biswal, C. Pavlik, M. Smith, L.T. Kuhn and K.P. Claffey), Proceedings of the Biomedical Optics Conference, No. JMA 92, pp. 1-3, Miami, FL, April 11-14, 2010.

“Imaging Heterogeneous Absorption Distribution of Advanced Breast Cancers using Optical Tomography Guided by Ultrasound,” (with Y. Xu), Proceedings of the Biomedical Optics Conference, No. BSUD92, pp.

1-3, Miami, FL, April 11-14, 2010.

“Reduction of Secondary Echoes Generated from Ultrasound Transducer Face in Photoacoustic Imaging Implemented in Reflection Geometry,” (with P.D. Kumavor and A. Aguirre), Proceedings of the Biomedical Optics Conference, No. BSUD7, pp. 1-3, Miami, FL, April 11-14, 2010.

“Quantitative Recovery of Absorption Coefficient using DOT-assisted Photoacoustic Tomography for Breast Imaging,” (with C. Xu, P.D. Kumavor and A. Aguirre), Proceedings of the Biomedical Optics Conference, No. BSUD3, pp. 1-3, Miami, FL, April 11-14, 2010.

“Optical Tomography Using US Localization to Assess Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy,” (with P. DeFusco, S. Tannenbaum, B. Tavakoli, Y. Xu, Y. Ardeshirpour, A. Ricci, Jr., P. Hegde, E. Cronin and M. Kane), Proceedings of the Biomedical Optics Conference, No. BSUD7, pp. 1-3, Miami, FL, April 11-14, 2010.

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ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ACTIVE RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS 2009-2010 * ($) indicate expenditures for 2009-10 Mehdi Anwar “Develop Laser Improvements,” Naval Undersea Warfare Center, December 8, 2008 – December 31, 2010, $55,000 ($2,702).

“Collaborative Research: I/UCRC for Fuel Cell Research,” National Science Foundation, March 1, 2009 – February 28, 2011, $50,000 ($10,233).

Steven A. Boggs “Promotion of EPR Cable Technology,” DuPont, Dow, Exxon, Kerite, Okonite, Uniroyal, November 1, 1998 – December 31, 2009, $1,192,500 ($46,323).

“Processing and Surface Analysis of Interfaces in Hybrid Composites,” U.S. Department of Defense/Air Force, University Technology Corporation, February 1, 2008 – January 31, 2010, $95,701, ($8,177).

“Optimization of PD Data Acquisition and Analysis,” UTILX Corporation, August 1, 2008 – June 1, 2010, $114,727 ($66,236).

“Research into New Approaches to Partial Discharge/Analysis for Shielded PWR CA,” UTILX Corporation, August 1, 2008 – June 1, 2010, $145,287 ($54,325).

“Research in High Energy Density Capacitor Technology,” U.S. Department of Defense/Army Research Lab, September 4, 2008 – September 3, 2010, $120,000 ($61,347).

“Partial Discharge Detection and the Effect thereof on Insulation Materials,” LDIC/GMBH, January 1, 2009 – December 31, 2012, $280,000 ($49,143).

“Renewable Energy Surge Analysis in Hybrid System of Renewable Energy,” Vietnam Education Foundation, August 30, 2009 – September 1, 2010, $31,200 ($21,907).

“Fire Testing of Cable Fire Retardant Wraps,” Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., May 21, 2009 – October 31, 2009, $25,000 ($25,000).

“Effect of Silicone Rejuvenation on the Resistivity of Water Trees,” UTILX Corporation, September 23, 2009 – October 31, 2010, $45,000 ($37,023).

“Effect of Silicone Rejuvenation on Cable Properties Relevant to Diagnostic Tests,” UTILX Corporation, September 23, 2009 – January 15, 2011, $45,000 ($7,140).

“Analytical Methods for Application of External Gapped Line Surge Arresters,” Nonlinear Systems, Inc., December 1, 2009 – August 31, 2010, $12,000 ($8,533).

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“Manhole Event Effect of Air Flow Restriction on Manhole Event Evolution and Severity,” Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., December 4, 2009 – September 30, 2010, $60,000 ($17,595).

Rajeev Bansal “School of Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering Senior Design Project,” Mixed Sources, September 1, 2005 – December 31, 2010, $74,141 ($7,187).

Yaakov Bar-Shalom “Network Level Association and Fusion of Kinematic and Attribute Information,” U.S. Army, October 1, 2006 – September 30, 2010, $324,413 ($37,147).

“Advanced Ballistic Missile Tracking and Fusion Algorithms,” Missile Defense Agency, October 1, 2008 – September 30, 2011, $420,000, ($212,109).

“Estimation with Multisensor Fusion for Networked Systems,” Office of Naval Research, December 1, 2006 – January 31, 2010, $630,000 ($124,017).

“Data Association and Consistent Multisensor Tracking, Phase II,” Missile Defense Agency/ Technology Service Corporation, November 30, 2008 – September 30, 2010, $268,000 ($135,104).

“Information Extraction of Target Tracking Information from Remote Sensors,” Naval Undersea Warfare Center, February 1, 2010 – September 30, 2012, $100,000 ($41,970).

John Chandy “High End Computing: Active Storage Networks for High End Computing,” National Science Foundation, September 1, 2006 – August 31, 2010, $538,089 ($109,454).

“CI-ADDO-NEW: Storage System Trace Collection,” National Science Foundation, August 1, 2009 – July 31, 2011, $86,284 ($2,479).

“Graduate Assistants in Areas of National Need: Energy,” (with co-PIs: Y. Fei (13%), A. Kiayias (13%), Z. Shi (13%), A. Shvartsman (12%), M. Tehranipoor (12%), B. Wang (12%) and L. Wang (12%)), U.S. Department of Education, August 15, 2009 – August 14, 2012, $174,208 ($44,748).

“Active Object Storage to Enable Scalable and Reliable Parallel File Systems,” National Science Foundation, August 15, 2009 – July 31, 2012, $525,000 ($3,983).

“Bistable Quantum Dot Gate Field Effect Transistors Exhibiting Multi-State Operation: A Novel Approach to Reduce Device Count in ICs,” (with PI: F. Jain (34%) and co-PI: F.. Papadimitrakopoulos (33%)), National Science Foundation, September 1, 2006 – August 31, 2011, $240,000 ($61,637).

Eric Donkor “High Sensitivity Analog to Digital Converter,” MagiQ Technologies, Inc., June 15, 2009 – June 15, 2011, $31,977 ($16,980).

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John D. Enderle “Clinical Engineering Internship Program at Hartford Hospital,” Hartford Hospital, August 23, 1997 – August 22, 2010, $397,148 ($51,101).

“Clinical Engineering Internship Program at the Middlesex Memorial Hospital, Inc.,” Middlesex Memorial Hospital, Inc., June 16, 2006 – June 15, 2010, $102,255 ($27,143).

“Clinical Engineering Internship Program at the UMass Memorial Medical Center,” UMass Memorial Medical Center, August 23, 2003 – August 22, 2010, $232,361 ($61,854).

“Clinical Engineering Internship Program at Providence VA Medical Center,” Providence VA Medical Center, August 23, 2009 – August 22, 2010, $25,515 ($26,333).

“Clinical Engineering Internship Program at Connecticut VA Healthcare System,” Connecticut VA Healthcare System, October 1, 2009 – September 30, 2010, $112,107 ($64,718).

“Engineering Senior Design Projects to Aid Persons with Disabilities,” National Science Foundation, May 1, 2005 – April 30, 2011, $84,460 ($28,567).

“REU Supplement for Engineering Senior Design Projects for the Disabled,” National Science Foundation, May 1, 2005 – April 30, 2011, $18,000 ($4,258).

“An Annual Review of Engineering Senior Design Projects to Aid Persons with Disabilities,” National Science Foundation March 15, 2010 – February 28, 2015, $196,404.

“Clinical Engineering Internship Program at Baystate Medical Center,” Baystate Medical Center, LLC, August 23, 2006 – August 22, 2010, $48,300 ($47,528).

“Clinical Engineering Internship Program at UConn Health Center,” UConn Health Center, August 23, 2009 – August 22, 2010, $102,837 ($50,921).

“Clinical Engineering Internship Program at the Boston VA Hospital,” Boston VA Hospital, August 23, 2009 – May 22, 2010, $12,934 ($26,677).

“Annual Review of Engineering Senior Design Projects to Aid Persons with Disabilities, 2007,” National Science Foundation July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2011, $50,895 ($31,981).

“BME Internship: Clinical Engineering with Massachusetts General Hospital,” Massachusetts General Hospital, August 23, 2009 – August 22, 2014, $27,301($26,331).

Monty Escabi “Spectro-Temporal and Binaural Response Properties,” (with co-PI: H. Read (10%)) National Institution on Deafness and Communication Disorders, July 15, 2004 – May 31, 2011, $1,246,880 ($63,698).

171

Yunsi Fei “A Multi-Level/ Multi-Faceted Framework for Energy-Efficient Application-Specific Instruction Set Processor Synthesis,” National Science Foundation, CCF Foundations of Computing Processes and Artifacts Program, April 1, 2006 – March 31, 2011, $275,000 ($81,638).

“CAREER: Architectural Enhancement and Design Methodologies for Secure Processing in Embedded Systems,” National Science Foundation, September 1, 2009 – August 31, 2014, $405,000 ($21,594).

“ARTS: Adaptive, RobusT and Sustainable Networking for Undersea Distributed Systems,” Office of Naval Research, June 1, 2010 – May 13, 2012, $90,516.

“Collaborative Research: Developing a Novel Infrastructure for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks,” (with PI: J. H. Cui (19%) and co-PIs: S. Rajasekaran (9%), Z. Shi (9%), P. Willett (9%), S. Zhou (9%)), (Affiliations: UMass, WHOI), National Science Foundation – Computer & Information Science & Engineering, August 1, 2007 – July 31, 2010, $320,000.

“MRI: Development of Instrumentation for an Autonomous UW Sensor Network,” (with PI: J. H. Cui (18%) and co-PIs: I. Babb (8%), Z. Shi (8%), T. Torgerson (8%), S. Zhou (8%), and Senior Personnel: R.A. Ammar (5%), A. Bagtzoglou (5%), Y. Lei (5%), L. Lui (5%), S. Rajasekaran (5%), E. Shultz (5%), L. Wang (5%), B. Wang (5%) and P. Willett (5%)), National Science Foundation – Computer and Information Science and Engineering, August 1, 2008 – July 31, 2011, $500,000.

“Graduate Assistants in Areas of National Need: Energy,” (with PI: J. Chandy (13%) and co-PIs: A. Kiayias (13%), Z. Shi (13%), A. Shvartsman (12%), M. Tehranipoor (12%), B. Wang (12%) and L. Wang (12%)), U.S. Department of Education, August 15, 2009 – August 14, 2012, $174,208 ($44,748).

Ali Gokirmak “GOALI: Side Gated Ultra Narrow Channel Silicon MOSFETs and Transport Studies at Nanometer Scale,” National Science Foundation, August 1, 2008 – July 31, 2011, $199,644 ($51,843).

“REU: GOALI: Side Gated Ultra Narrow Channel Silicon MOSFETs and Transport Studies at Nanometer Scale,” National Science Foundation, August 1, 2008 – July 31, 2011, $12,000 ($11,989).

“Graduate Student Supplement for GOALI: Side Gated Ultra Narrow Channel Silicon MOSFETs and Transport Studies at Nanometer Scale,” National Science Foundation, August 1, 2008 – July 31, 2011, $31,831 ($7,501).

“Crystallization of Nanocrystalline Silicon Nanowires through Pulsed Current Self Heating,” University of Connecticut Faculty Large Grant, January 1, 2008 – December 31, 2009, $21,527 ($12,312).

“Tunable Photonic Nanostructures Exhibiting Plasmonic and Leaky-Mode Resonances,” (with PI: R. Magnusson (50%)), National Science Foundation/ENG ECCS, May 15, 2007 – April 30, 2011, $300,000 ($80,797).

“EXP-LA: Realtime, Compact and Ultrasensative Sensor Arrays for Explosives Vapor Detection,” (with PI: Y. Lei and co-PIs: C. Brueckner and Y. Yan), National Science Foundation – Explosives and RLTD Threats, September 1, 2007 – August 31, 2010, $780,404.

172

Faquir C. Jain “Bistable Quantum Dot Gate Field Effect Transistors Exhibiting Multi-State Operation: A Novel Approach to Reduce Device Count in ICs,” (with co-PIs: F. Papadimitrakopoulos (33%) and J. Chandy (33%)), National Science Foundation, September 1, 2006 – August 31, 2011, $240,000 ($61,637).

“Growth and Characterization of InGaAs-InP Devices and Optoelectronic Systems,” U.S. Army/AlcatelLucent Corporation, September 1, 2007 – August 31, 2009, $65,700 ($6,433).

“Bend Sensor Development,” Naval Undersea Warfare Center, June 15, 2009 – December 31, 2009, $14,417 ($13,889).

“Imaging Laser Radar and Optical Processor for Underwater Target Recognition Tracking,” Office of Naval Research, October 29, 2007 – May 22, 2010, $128,000 ($64,235).

“Device Processing Under the TB33 Program,” Naval Undersea Warfare Center, September 18, 2009 – September 18, 2010, $10,872 ($9,591).

“Information Theoretic Foundation of Molecular Computing: Performance Limits and Design Optimization,” (with PI: L. Wang (90%)), National Science Foundation – CCF-0621947, September 1, 2006 – August 31, 2010, $275,000 ($7,780).

“Miniaturized and Implantable Glucose Biosensors,” (with PI: D.J. Burgess (34%) and co-PI: F. Papadimitrakopoulos (33%)), U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command, September 12, 2007 – June 29, 2011, $399,891.

“Needle Implantable and Wireless Multi Sensor for Continuous Glucose Monitoring,” (with PI: D. Burgess and co-PI: F. Papadimitrakopoulos), National Institute of Health, September 20, 2009 – August 31, 2011, $250,000.

“Metabolic Monitoring Miniaturized Wireless Implantable Biosensors for Monitoring,” (with PI: D. Burgess and co-PI: F. Papadimitrakopoulos), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, September 30, 2009 – September 30, 2010, $700,000.

“Tracking the Health of Soldiers with Advanced Implantable Biosensors,” (with PI: F. Papadimitrakopoulos and co-PI: D. Burgess), U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command, September 11, 2009 – April 15, 2011, $1,000,000.

Bahram Javidi “Three-Dimensional Passive Sensing, Detection and Recognition of Objects Occluded by Clouds,” DARPA, September 27, 2007 – September 30, 2010, $280,000 ($63,845).

“New Imaging Paradigm Using Quantum Optics for Three Dimensional Visualization, Optical Compression and ATR,” U.S. Department of Defense/Air Force, May 13, 2009 – August 30, 2011, $300,000 ($43,602).

“Automated 3D Target Reconstruction and Classification Using Distributed Passive Sensors for Persistent Surveillance,” Office of Naval Research through Lockheed Martin Corporation, January 1, 2007 – March 30, 2010, $93,948 ($61,626).

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Peter B. Luh “Effective Methods to Solve the Dual Problems for Convex Hull Pricing of Electricity Markets,” Midwest ISO, July 15, 2008 – July 14, 2009, $58,556 ($7,439).

“Start-up and No-Load Pricing for Electricity Markets, Phases II and III,” ISO New England Inc., August 22, 2008 – August 21, 2010, $88,355 ($28,025).

“Achieving Quality and Coherent Configuration and Operations,” National Science Foundation, September 1, 2004 – August 31, 2009, $335,000 ($1,128).

“Two-Level Wavelet Decomposition for Short-Term Load Forecasting of Mid-West ISO,” EnvaPower, December 17, 2007 – August 31, 2009, $79,552 ($14,525).

“Simultaneous Optimal Auction and Unit Commitment for Deregulated Electricity Markets, Phase VI,” Southern California Edison Company, May 15, 2003 – December 31, 2010, $482,170 ($61,384).

“Very Short Term Prediction of Electric Power System 30 Minute Operating Reserve,” (with co-P: L. Michel (50 %)), ISO-New England, November 15, 2008 – December 31, 2009, $142,142 ($83,302).

“Electricity Auction: Optimization, Market Behaviors, and Comparative Studies,” National Science Foundation, September 1, 2006 – August 31, 2010, $239,999 ($13,837).

“Effective Methods to Solve the Dual Problem for Convex Hull Pricing of Electricity Markets,” Midwest ISO, October 1, 2009 – September 30, 2010, $56,230 ($27,417).

“Power Plant Boiler Modeling and Optimization, Phase IX,” Alstom Power Corporation, August 15, 2009 – May 31, 2010, $42,981 (39,748).

“Building Emergency Evacuation: Innovative Modeling and Optimization,” National Science Foundation, June 1, 2010 – May 31, 2013, $498,504.

“Participant Support: Building Emergency Evacuation: Innovative Modeling and Optimization,” National Science Foundation, June 1, 2010 – May 31, 2013, $7,500.

“Optimization Method: Dynamic Tool Allocation and Tool Sequencing Optimization,” Inotera Memories, Inc., January 1, 2010 – June 30, 2010, $25,000 ($16,863).

Robert Magnusson “Resonant Leaky-Mode Photonic-Crystal Devices with Engineered Spectra,” National Science Foundation, September 1, 2005 – August 31, 2009, $240,000 ($12).

“Tunable Photonic Nanostructures Exhibiting Plasmonic and Leaky-Mode Resonances,” (with co-PI: A. Gokirmak (50%)), National Science Foundation/ENG ECCS, May 15, 2007 – April 30, 2011, $300,000 ($80,797).

174

Sung-Yeul Park “Development of Power Converter and Communications for the Distributed Power System,” U.S. Department of Defense, March 10, 2010 – June 30, 2010, $14,000.

Krishna R. Pattipati “Coordination Mechanisms for ISR and MHQ/MOC,” Naval Postgraduate School, August 1, 2008 – August 31, 2009, $104,813 ($8,317).

“Event-Driven Data Mining Techniques for Test Fleet Fault Diagnosis,” General Motors India Science Lab, Bangalore, December 4, 2008 – December 3, 2009, $70,000 ($22,679).

“Decision Support Systems for Quantifying the Impact of Oceanographic Environment on Maritime Operations,” Aptima, Inc./ Office of Naval Research, March 2, 2009 – June 30, 2010, $80,000 ($74,369).

“Modeling and Analysis of Agile C2 Organizations for MHQ with MOC,” Office of Naval Research, October 1, 2008 – September 30, 2011, $479,999 ($215,011).

“Learning and Tracking Adaptive Networks,” Aptima, Inc., May 11, 2009 – May 1, 2011, $25,000 ($61,074).

“Algorithms for Organizational Identification and Automated Development of Action Plans for Adaptive Forces,” Aptima, Inc./DARPA, August 27, 2008 – August 26, 2010, $50,000 ($6,039).

“CPS: Small: Collaborative Research: Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis in a Network of Embedded Systems in Automotive Vehicles,” National Science Foundation, September 1, 2009 – August 31, 2012, $550,000 ($79,366).

“Impact of Oceanographic Environment on ASW Mission Planning and Risk Assessment,” Aptima, Inc., January 2, 2010 – January 31, 2012, $125,000 ($2,733).

Helena Silva “Side Gated Ultra Narrow channel Silicon Transistors,” University of Connecticut Faculty Large Grant, January 1, 2008 – December 31, 2009, $23,844 ($13,701).

“Fundamentals and Applications of Thermoelectric Transport in Nanometer Scale Phase Change Bridge Memory Devices,” National Science Foundation, September 15, 2009 – August 31, 2012, $302,079 ($1739).

“REU: Fundamentals and Applications of Thermoelectric Transport in Nanometer Scale Phase Change Bridge Memory Devices,” National Science Foundation, September 15, 2009 – August 31, 2012, $12,000 ($1,000).

Geoff Taylor “Development of Infrared Detectors,” Opel, Inc., January 1, 2008 – January 1, 2011, $370,000 ($182,174).

“Optoelectronic Directional Couplers for Optical Switching Fabrics,” Odis, Inc, 525510, January 27, 2010 – January 26, 2012, $147,172 ($98,420).

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Mohammad Tehranipoor “Timing-Aware ATPG for Maximizing Crosstalk/Signal Integrity on SOCs,” Semiconductor Research Corporation, April 1, 2007 – August 31, 2010, $282,000 ($87,694).

“Root Cause of Timing Defects,” Mentor Graphics, January 30, 2009 – January 30, 2011, $43,000 ($19,199).

“ARO Special Workshop on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust,” U.S. Department of Defense/Army Research Laboratory, June 12, 2009 – June 22, 2010, $25,000 ($7,760).

“Collaborative Research: Detection and Isolation of Malicious Inclusions in Secure Hardware (DIMINISH),” National Science Foundation, August 1, 2007 – July 31, 2011, $150,000 ($41,202).

“GOALI (Industry University Collaborative Project): Collaborative Research: Scalable Techniques for Detecting Small-Delay Defects in Nanometer Integrated Circuits,” National Science Foundation, September 1, 2008 – August 31, 2011, $164,659 ($18,127).

“CPA-DA: Dealing with Voltage Variations and Supply Noise During Performance Verification in Nanometer Technology Designs,” National Science Foundation, September 1, 2008 – August 31, 2011, $250,000 ($59,646).

“High Quality Delay Test for Nanometer Technology Designs,” LSI Logics, May 15, 2009 – May 14, 2012, $150,000 ($38,469).

“CAREER: Novel Techniques for Detecting and Localizing Hardware Trojans in Integrated Circuits,” National Science Foundation, June 1, 2009 – May 31, 2014, $400,000 ($53,867).

“Reliable Systems Design at Below 45nm Technologies,” Semiconductor Research Corporation, October 1, 2009 – September 30, 2010, $165,000 ($4,125).

“Silicon Design Authentication and Malicious Alteration Detection in Integrated Circuits Using Delay Analysis,” UConn Research Foundation, June 1, 2008 – May 31, 2010, $23,371 ($8,600).

“Collaborative Research CI-ADDO-NEW Trusthub: Design of Trust Benchmarks,” National Science Foundation, June 1, 2010 – May 31, 2012, $40,000.

“Graduate Assistants in Areas of National Need: Energy,” (with PI: J. Chandy (13%) and co-PIs: Y. Fei (13%), A. Kiayias (13%), Z. Shi (13%), A. Shvartsman (12%), B. Wang (12%) and L. Wang (12%)), U.S. Department of Education, August 15, 2009 – August 14, 2012, $174,208 ($44,748).

Lei Wang “Information Theoretic Foundation of Molecular Computing: Performance Limits and Design Optimization,” (with co-PI: F. Jain (10%)), National Science Foundation – CCF-0621947, September 1, 2006 – August 31, 2010, $275,000 ($7,780).

“CAREER: Embedded DSP with Alrernative Energy: Towards Sustainability for Cyber Physical Exploration,” National Science Foundation, March 1, 2010 – May 27, 2015, $89,801 ($7,146).

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“Developing Embedded DSP Systems Powered by Renewable Underwater Energy Sources,” University of Connecticut Research Foundation, December 16, 2009 – December 31, 2010, $23,494 ($12,280).

“MRI: Development of Instrumentation for an Autonomous UW Sensor Network,” (with PI: J. H. Cui (18%) and co-PIs: I. Babb (8%), Z. Shi (8%), T. Torgerson (8%), S. Zhou (8%), Senior Personnel: R.A. Ammar (5%), A. Bagtzoglou (5%), Y. Fei (5%), Y. Lei (5%), L. Lui (5%), S. Rajasekaran (5%), E. Shultz (5%), B. Wang (5%) and P. Willett (5%)), National Science Foundation – Computer and Information Science and Engineering, August 1, 2008 – July 31, 2011, $500,000.

“Graduate Assistants in Areas of National Need: Energy,” (with PI: J. Chandy (13%) and co-PIs: Y. Fei (13%), A. Kiayias (13%), Z. Shi (13%), A. Shvartsman (12%), M. Tehranipoor (12%) and B. Wang (12%)), U.S. Department of Education, August 15, 2009 – August 14, 2012, $174,208 ($44,748).

Peter K. Willett “Target Tracking Using Multi-Static & Networked Sensors: Collaboration with NU,” Office of Naval Research/NURC, December 1, 2006 – December 31, 2009, $252,340 ($36,954).

“The PMHT for Track-Before-Detect,” Missile Defense Agency/Vextraxx Inc., October 1, 2007 – March 15, 2010, $186,000 ($70,935).

“Sensor Networks for Multiple Target Tracking,” (with co-PI: S. Zhou (33.3%)), Office of Naval Research, January 16, 2007 – March 31, 2011, $534,006 ($32,093).

“MIMO Radar: Tracking, Compressed Sensing and OFDM,” Office of Naval Research, April 1, 2009 – March 31, 2012, $231,142 ($105,088).

“Data Reduction Techniques for Real Time Fault Detection and Diagnosis,” Qualitech Systems, Inc., December 14, 2009 – May 31, 2011, $180,000.

“Novel Approaches to Active Multi Static Target Tracking,” Office of Naval Research, January 1, 2010 – December 31, 2012, $75,000.

“MRI: Development of Instrumentation for an Autonomous UW Sensor Network,” (with PI: J. H. Cui (18%) and co-PIs: I. Babb (8%), Z. Shi (8%), T. Torgerson (8%), S. Zhou (8%), Senior Personnel: R. A. Ammar (5%), A. Bagtzoglou (5%), Y. Fei (5%), Y. Lei (5%), L. Lui (5%), S. Rajasekaran (5%), E. Shultz (5%), L. Wang (5%) and B. Wang (5%)), National Science Foundation – Computer and Information Science and Engineering, August 1, 2008 – July 31, 2011, $500,000.

Shengli Zhou “A Multicarrier Underwater Acoustic Modem with Precise-Ranging Capability,” National Science Foundation, September 1, 2007 – August 31, 2009, $274,026 ($48,398).

“The Next Milestone: A Multicarrier Acoustic MODEM with Channel- and Network-Adaptivity for Underwater Autonomous Distributed Systems,” Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program, June 1, 2007 – May 30, 2010, $359,998 ($105,847).

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“NeTS-NOSS Collaborative Research: SEA-Swarm: A Rapidly Deployable Underwater Sensor Network,” (with co-PI: J.H. Cui (50%)), National Science Foundation September 1, 2007 – August 31, 2010, $200,000 ($28,797).

“REU: NeTS-NOSS Collaborative Research: SEA-Swarm: A Rapidly Deployable Underwater Sensor Network,” (with co-PI: J.H. Cui (50%)), National Science Foundation July 15, 2009 – August 31, 2010, $16,000 ($12,086).

“Advancing Underwater Acoustic Communication for Autonomous Distributed Networks via Sparse Channel Sensing, Coding, and Navigation Support,” Office of Naval Research, April 1, 2009 – March 30, 2014, $999,998 ($135,597).

“Collaborative Research: Developing a Novel Infrastructure for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks,” (with PI: J. H. Cui (19%) and co-PIs: Y. Fei (9%), S. Rajasekaran (9%), Z. Shi (9%) and P. Willett (9%)), (Affiliations: UMass, WHOI), National Science Foundation – Computer & Information Science & Engineering, August 1, 2007 – July 31, 2010, $320,000.

“MRI: Development of Instrumentation for an Autonomous UW Sensor Network,” (with PI: J.H. Cui (18%) and co-PI: I. Babb (8%), Z. Shi (8%), T. Torgerson (8%), Senior Personnel: R.A. Ammar (5%), A. Bagtzoglou (5%), Y. Fei (5%), Y. Lei (5%), L. Lui (5%), S. Rajasekaran (5%), E. Shultz (5%), L. Wang (5%), B. Wang (5%) and P. Willett (5%)), National Science Foundation – Computer and Information Science and Engineering, August 1, 2008 – July 31, 2011, $500,000.

“Sensor Networks for Multiple Target Tracking,” (with PI: P. Willett (66.7%)), Office of Naval Research, January 16, 2007 – March 31, 2011, $534,006 ($32,093).

Quing Zhu “Hybrid Scintigraphy/OCT Intraoperative Probe for Ovarian Cancer Detection and Surgical Intervention,” Connecticut Public Health, July 1, 2007 – October 1, 2010, $308,292 (23,470).

“Photoacoustic Tomography for Breast Cancer Staging,” Connecticut Breast Cancer Initiative, February 1, 2009 – September 30, 2010, $35,000 ($32,319).

“Near Infrared Diffusive Light Imaging with Ultrasound Guidance,” National Institute of Health, September 1, 2002 – February 28, 2011, $1,840,554 ($324,042).

“Novel Imaging Devices for Diagnosis and Treatment of Breast Cancers,” Donaghue Medical Research Foundation, Achievement Award, January 1, 2007 – December 31, 2011, $595,791 ($101,184).

“Photoacoustic-Guided Diffuse Optical Tomography for Breast Cancer Detection and Diagnosis,” (with C. Xu (Post Doctorate Training Award)) U.S. Department of Defense/Army Medical Research and Material Command, June 1, 2009 – September 20, 2012, $293,570 ($55,374).

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ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT AWARDS, HONORS & PATENTS 2009-2010 Mehdi Anwar “Insulated Gate Silicon Nanowire Transistor and Method of Manufacture,” (with R.T. Webster), U.S. Patent No. 7,700,419 B2, April 20, 2010.

Steven A. Boggs IEEE Thomas W. Dakin “Distinguished Technical Contributions Award,” IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society, June 7, 2010.

Bahram Javidi Co-recipient, SPIE Defense and Security Symposium Best Paper Award, 2010.

Distinguished Alumni Scholar Award, George Washington University, 2010.

Peter B. Luh “Simultaneous Optimal Auctions Using Augmented Lagrangian and Surrogate Optimization,” (with J.H. Yan, G.A. Stern, W.E. Blankson, E. Ni, Y. Chen, F. Zhao and Y. Ma), U.S. Patent No. 7,599,866 B2, October 2009.

“A DC Power Flow Analysis Method for Systems with Dynamic Topology,” (with M. Li and Q. Zhao), Chinese Patent Number CN 101291062 B, June 2010.

Geoffrey W. Taylor “Method of Fabricating Semiconductor Devices Employing at Least One Modulation Doped Quantum Well Structure and One or More Etch Stop Layers for Accurate Contact Formation,” U.S. Patent No. 7,556,976, July 7, 2009.

“A Modulation Doped Thyristor and Complementary Transistor Combination for a Monolithic Optoelectronic Integrated Circuit,” China Patent No. ZL 02809313.5, August 19, 2009. Also, Korea Patent No. 10-912358, August 10, 2009.

“Optoelectronic Circuit Employing a Heterojunction Thyristor Device to Convert a Digital Optical Signal to a Digital Electrical Signal,” U.S. Patent No. 7,595,516, September 29, 2009.

Mohammad Tehranipoor Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation, 2009.

IEEE Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation, 2010.

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IEEE Computer Science TTTC Most Successful Technical Event for HOST 2008-2009 (awarded in 2010).

Lei Wang “Energy Efficient Clock Deskew Systems and Methods,” U.S. Patent No. 7,576,580, August 2009.

“Time Separated Signals,” (with L. Wang, R. Nettleton and T. Sullivan), U.S. Patent No. 7,620,920, November 2009.

Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation, March 2010.

Peter K. Willett M. Barry Carlton Award, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, January 2010.

Shengli Zhou “Space-time Coded Transmissions within a Wireless Communication Network,” (with G.B. Giannakis), U.S. Patent No. 7,609,782 B2, October 27, 2009.

“Bandwidth and Power Efficient Multicarrier Multiple Access,” (with G.B. Giannakis and P. Xia), U.S. Patent No. 7,672,384 B2, March 2, 2010.

Elected Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, May 2010.

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ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT MAJOR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2009-2010 Mehdi Anwar Overall Manager and Sound & Program Designer for The Power Within – An Entertainment Program, Harvard University, October 9, 2009.

Editor, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices.

Editor, Terahertz Physics, Devices, and Systems III: Advanced Application in Industry and Defense, Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 7311, ISBN: 9780819475770.

Conference Chair, Terahertz Physics, Devices and Systems: Advanced Applications in Industry and Defense, Orlando World Center Marriott Resort and Convention Center, Orlando, FL, April 2010.

Chair, NSF/URC Workshop, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, October 28-29, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, SPIE Europe: Security and Defense Conference, Berlin, Germany, August 31September 3.

Session Chair, Active and Passive Imagers, Image Sensing and Processing, September 3, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, Nanostructure Integration Techniques for Manufacturable Devices, Circuits, and Systems: Interfaces, Interconnects, and Nanosystems, DSS, Orlando, FL, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, Nanosensing Materials and Devices, DSS, Orlando, FL, 2010.

Presentations: “Green Research at UConn: Addressing Energy Challenges in Bangladesh,” Asia Pacific University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 28, 2009.

“GaN HFETs: Physics and Applications,” United International University and IEEE Electron Devices, Bangladesh Chapter, July 30, 2009.

“Sustainable Energy – The New Challenge,” keynote talk, East West University, August 2, 2009.

“GaN-based THz Quantum Cascade Lasers,” SPIE Europe: Security and Defense, Berlin, Germany, August 31-September 3, 2009.

“Energy Challenges for Bangladesh – A Roadmap for Sustainable Energy Solutions,” Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 9, 2009.

“NSF/Industry University Cooperative Research Center,” NSF/UCRC Workshop, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, October 28-29, 2009.

“Sustainable Energy Sources: Power Conditioning,” NSF/UCRC Workshop, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, October 28-29, 2009.

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“Research: Fundamental Contribution towards Knowledge,” Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation Program, keynote talk, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, January 22, 2010.

John Ayers Presentations: “Critical Layer Thickness and Strain Relaxation in Exponentially-Graded Semiconductor Heterostructures,” (with B. Bertoli, S. Xhurxhi, D. Sidoti, S. Cheruku, T. Kujofsa, J.P. Correa, E.N. Suarez and F.C. Jain), 19th Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Symposium, Storrs, CT, April 7, 2010.

“Plastic Flow in Semiconductor Heterostructures,” (with S. Cheruku, R. Kujofsa, S. Xhurxhi, D. Sidoti, J.P. Correa, B. Bertoli, E.N. Suarez and F.C. Jain), 19th Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Symposium, Storrs, CT, April 7, 2010.

“Site-Specific Self-Assembled Germanium Quantum Dot Gate Indium Gallium Arsenide Based NonVolatile Memory Devices,” (with P.-Y. Chan, M. Gogna, E.N. Suarez, F. Al-Amoody, S. Karmakar, B. I. Miller and F.C. Jain), 19th Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Symposium, Storrs, CT, April 7, 2010.

“Quantum Dot (QD) Floating Gate Nonvolatile Memories using Lattice-Matched ZnS/ZnMgS/ZnS Gate Insulators,” (with E.N. Suarez, M. Gogna, F. Al-Amoody, S. Karmakar, E. Heller and F.C. Jain), 19th Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Symposium, Storrs, CT, April 7, 2010.

Rajeev Bansal Associate Editor, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, 1987-present.

Associate Editor, IEEE Microwave Magazine, 2000-present.

Member, Peer Review Panel, NIH. Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of RF & Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering, 2004present.

Member, Editorial Board, IETE Technical Review, 2008-present.

Member, Technical Coordinating Committee, MTT-10 of the IEEE. MTT-S Delegate, IEEE-USA Medical Technology Policy Committee, 2002-present.

IEEE AP-S Liaison, COMAR, 2001-present.

Yaakov Bar-Shalom Marianne E. Klewin Endowed Professor in Engineering, 2004-present.

Session Chair, IEEE Aerospace Conference.

Vice-President for Publications, The International Society of Information Fusion, 2004-2009.

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Member, ISIF Board of Directors.

Presentation: Tutorial Workshop at the International Conference on Information Fusion, July 2009.

John A. Chandy Individual Submissions Editor, ACM Operating Systems Review.

Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Parallel Processing, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, IASTED International Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Engineering, 2010.

Session Chair, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, IEEE Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage, 2009.

Member, Review Panel, NSF-CISE. Presentations: “Parallel Data Sort Using Networked FPGAs,� (with J. Singaraju), IEEE Symposium on FieldProgrammable Custom Computing Machines, May 2010.

Anthony J. DeMaria Member, Laser-Fest Committee, Optical Society of America, The American Physical Society, SPIE and the IEEE Photonic Society 2010-2011.

Member, Prism Awards Committee, Society of Photography and Instrumentation Engineers and Lauren Publication, Inc., 2010-2011.

Honorary Member, Election Committee, Optical Society of America.

Eric Donkor Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.

Program Chair, SPIE Conference on Quantum Information and Computation VIII, No.7702, Orlando, FL, April 2010.

Program Chair, SPIE Conference on Enabling Photonics Technologies for Defense, Security and Aerospace VI, No. 7700, Orlando, FL, April 2010.

Session Chair and Proceedings Editor, SPIE Conference on Quantum Information and Computation VIII, No. 7702, Sessions 1 and 5, Orlando, FL, April 2010.

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Session Chair, SPIE Conference on Enabling Photonics Technologies for Defense, Security and Aerospace Applications VI, Session 5, April 2010.

Member, Review Panel, National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research.

Member, SPIE Symposium Planning Committee.

John D. Enderle Editor, Biomedical Engineering Book Series, Morgan & Claypool Publishing.

Member, Editorial Board, Academic Press Biomedical Engineering Book Series.

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal of Neural Systems.

Editor, The Open Biomedical Engineering Journal, Bentham Science Publishers, Ltd. Member, ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission.

Track Chair, 2009 World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering.

Chair, ABET Team, External Advisory Committee.

Chair, ASEE Fred Merryfield Award Committee.

Member, External Advisory Committee, University of Wyoming Neuroscience Center.

Member, AIMBE Academic Council.

Monty A. Escabi Presentations: “Hearing with Two Ears,” Latinos in Science Day, Connecticut Science Center, November 2009.

“Salience of Environmental Novelty: Theta Power, Frequency and Coherence within the Hippocampus and Entorhinal Cortex, (with S.C. Penley, J.R. Hinman, E.J. Markus and J.J. Chrobak), Society for Neuroscience, abstract, Vol. 192, p. 28, November 2009.

“Proportional Spike Timing Precision Underlies Efficient Temporal Processing of Sound Periodicity and Envelope Shape in the Inferior Colliculus,” (with Y. Zheng and H.L. Read), Society for Neuroscience, abstract, Vol. 258, p. 18, November 2009.

“Spectral and Temporal Sound Resolution Tradeoffs Suggest Parallel Ascending Auditory Pathways,” (with H.L. Read and F.A. Rodriguez), Society for Neuroscience, abstract, Vol. 258, p. 19, November 2009.

“Representation of Sound Level Cues in Two Ventral Belt Auditory Cortices of the Rat, “ (with H.L. Higgins, D.A. Storace and H.L. Read), Society for Neuroscience, abstract, Vol. 256, p. 14, November 2009.

“Sparse Distributed Code for Spectral and Temporal Sound Information,” New York University, Neuroscience Department, May 2010.

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Yunsi Fei Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Low Power Electronics.

Member, Review Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust, 2010.

Member, Review Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Application Specific Processors, 2010.

Ali Gokirmak Presentations: “Electrostatic Passivation of Peripheral Interface Trap Charges and Electrostatic Doping in Accumulated Body Transistors,” (with M.B. Akbulut, F. Dirisaglik and H. Silva), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, abstract, Vol. A5.5, 2009.

“Optical Observations of Strong Thermoelectric Thomson Effect on Self-heated Nanocrystalline Silicon Microwaves,” (with G. Bakan, N. Khan and H. Silva), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, abstract, Vol. CC1.5, 2009.

“Electrical Conduction and Heat Transfer Simulations of Nanocrystalline Silicon Microwires including the Thermoelectric Thomason Effect,” (with G. Bakan and H. Silva), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, abstract, Vol. LL5.22, 2009.

“Rapid Solid-liquid Phase-change Oscillations in Nanocrystalline Silicon Wires,” (with A.D. Cywar, G. Bakan, F. Dirisaglik, K. Cil and H. Silva), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, abstract, Vol. MM7.7, 2009.

“Crystallization of Patterned Nanocrystalline Micro-structures through Self-heating,” (with G. Bakan, A.D. Cywar, K. Cil, N.E. Williams and H. Silva), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, abstract, Vol. C2.3, 2009.

“Electron-phonon Interactions in Silicon Microwires under Extreme Electrical Stress,” (with H. Silva and G. Bakan), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, abstract, Vol. Z6.2, 2009.

“Electromigration of Liquid Silicon in Nanocrystalline Silicon Microwires During Phase-change Oscilliations,” (with A.D. Cywar, G. Bakan and H. Silva), Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, abstract, Vol. A8.5, 2010.

“Growth from Melt and Phase Change Oscilliations in Silicon Micro- and nano-wires,” (with G. Baken, A.D. Cywar, K. Cil, F. Dirisaglik, N. Khan, N.E. Williams, M.B. Akbulut and H. Silva), Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, abstract, Vol. P13.17, 2010.

“Temperature Dependent Electrical Characterization and Crystallization of Nanocrystalline Silicon,” (with N.E. Williams, E. Carpena, K. Cil and H. Silva), Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, abstract, Vol. A17.9, 2010.

“Controlling Peripheral Leakage Currents in Ultra-narrow MOSFETs Using a Penta-Gate Approach,” (with M.B. Akbulut, F. Dirisaglik and H. Silva), Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, abstract, Vol. 12.7, 2010.

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Faquir C. Jain Proceedings Editor, 19th Annual Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Consortium Symposium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 7, 2010.

Coordinator and Executive Program Committee Member, Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Consortium.

Member, Advisory Board, University of New Haven, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering Department, New Haven, CT. Treasurer, Connecticut Council for Interrel Understanding, Hartford, CT. Presentations: “Imaging Laser Radar,” ONR-ULI, 2009.

“Quantum Dot Gate 3-State and SWS FETs,” ONR, July 27, 2009.

“Implantable Wireless Glucose Sensors,” (with D.J. Burgess and F. Papadimitrakopoulos), U.S. Army Team, August 7, 2009.

“Quantum Dot Gate Bistable FETs,” ONR, September 10, 2009.

“Quanutm Dot Gate and SWS-FETs: Building Blocks for Novel Architectures, DARPA, November 28, 2009.

“Quantum Dot Date Si and InGaAs FETs: 3-state Devices and Nonvolatile Memories,” Helwan University, Egypt, December 27, 2009.

“SWS-FET based Architecture,” DARPA, Arlington, VA, January 2010.

Tandem Solar Cells,” Energy Forum, UConn, Storrs, CT, March 2010.

“Spatial Wavefunction Switched (SWS) Field-Effect Transistors: Computing Using More Than a Few Electrons,” (with J.A. Chandy and E. Heller), American Physical Society’s March Meeting, Portland, OR, March 2010.

“Enhanced Performance of Glucose Sensors: Addressing Biocompatibility Issues,” (with H. Singh, S. Vaddiraju, D.J. Burgess and F. Papadimitrakopoulos), Associates Program of Polymer Program Conference, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 2009.

“SWS-FETs for Quantum Computing,” DARPA, Arlington, VA, April 12, 2010.

“Unipolar Graphene Field-Effect Transistors in Single and Multiple Channel Structures,” DARPA, June 11, 2010.

“Enhanced Far Infrared MOS Imaging Using SWS Structures and Low Dislocation CdTe-on-Si Technology,” DARPA, June 11, 2010.

“Unipolar Graphene and InGaAs Field-Effect Transistors in Spatial Wavefunction Switched (SWS) Structures,” DARPA, June 11, 2010.

“Implantable Glucose Sensors,” (with F. Papadimitrakopoulos and D.J. Burgess), Fort Detrick, MD, June 15, 2010.

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U.S. Army Meeting,

Granted access to: MIT (MTL), Cornell Nanofabrication Facility; Harvard CNS-NNIN Facility; and Center for Microelectronic Material Research, Yale University.

Bahram Javidi Editor-in-Chief, Springer-Verlag Series on Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security, 2003-present.

Member, Editorial Board, Proceedings of the IEEE Journal, 2007-present.

Member, Editorial Board, IEEE Journal of Display, 2004-present.

Member, Editorial Board, SPIE International Symposium on Security and Defense, Orlando, FL, April 2010.

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of SPIE Reviews, 2008-present.

Organizer, Information Optics Workshop, Paris, France, 2009.

Visiting Professor, University of Stuttgart, Germany, Summer 2009.

Presentations: University of Stuttgart Optics Institute, Germany, Summer 2009.

“Three-dimensional Passive Sensing and Imaging with Photon Counting,” (with M.M. Hayat and S. Narravula), Photon Counting Applications and Techniques II Conference, Defense and Security Symposium, invited abstract, Orlando, FL, April 2010.

University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, May 2010.

Japan’s Womens University, (SPIE Traveling Lecturer), Tokyo, Japan May 2010.

Peter B. Luh Associate Editor, Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, 1999-present.

Associate Editor, ACTA Automatica Sinica, 2005-present.

Chair, Steering Committee, IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 2006-present.

Chair, Management Committee, IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 2007-present.

Member, Advisory Board, IEEE Systems Journal, 2006-present.

Member, Senior Editors Panel and Advisory Committee, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.

Member, Senior Editors Panel, IEEE Transactions on Robotics.

Member, Advisory Board, International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics, 2007-present.

Member, Advisory Board, International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications, 2006-present.

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Member, Steering Committee, 2009 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Bangalore India, August 2009.

Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Singapore, July 2009.

Member, Advisory Committee, The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics, Shenyang, China, August 2009.

Member, International Program Committee, The Seventh International Conference on Control and Automation, Christchurch, New Zealand, December 2009.

Member, International Advisory Committee, Second International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, Singapore, December 2009.

Member, Best of Automation Paper Award Committee, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2010.

Member, International Program Committee, The Eighth International Conference on Control and Automation, Xiamen, China, June 2010.

Vice-President for Publication Activities, Member, Financial Activities Board, Long Range Planning Committee, Electronic Products & Service Board and IEEE Liaison, TAB Periodicals Packages Committee, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, 2008-2011.

Member, Best Paper Committee, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, February 2010.

Member, Googol Best Application Paper Committee, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, February 2010.

Visiting Fellow, United Technologies Research Center, 2010.

Visiting Chair Professor, National Taiwan University, Department of Electrical Engineering, July 2009December 2009.

SNET Professor of Communications & Information Technologies, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2000-present.

Presentations: “Toward a New Framework for Population-Based Optimization Methods,� National Taiwan University, Department of Electrical Engineering, July 22, 2009. Also presented at: Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, August 31, 2009, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore, September 11, 2009 and Department of Electrical Engineering, ChungYuan Christian University, Chunli, Taiwan, October 22, 2009.

IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, plenary speaker, Changchun, China, August 2009.

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IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, plenary speaker, Bangalore, India, August 2009.

“Optimal Auctions for Deregulated Electricity Markets,” Institute of Industrial Engineering and Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, August 14, 2009.

“Modeling and Optimization of Building Emergency Evacuation,” United Technologies Research Center, Shanghai, China, June 7, 2010.

Sung-Yeul Park Member, Review Panel, NSF (Power, Controls & Adaptive Net), March 1-2, 2010.

Krishna R. Pattipati Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Istanbul, Turkey, October 2010.

Member, Fusion Technical Committee, 13th International Conference on Information Fusion, Edinburgh, UK, July 26-29, 2009.

Invited Session Organizer, “Prognostics and Diagnostics” sessions, 2009 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Bangalore, India, August 2009.

Member, Review Committee, Connecticut Academy of Sciences Energy Assurance and Planning Project Committee and Working Group, 2009-2010.

Member, Board of Directors, Aptima, Inc., Woburn, MA. Presentations: GM India Science Lab, August 2009.

Naval Meteorological and Oceanographic Center, Bay St., St. Louis, Mississippi, March 2010.

Office of Naval Research Review Meeting, May 2010.

Granted access to: Naval Meteorological and Oceanographic Center, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi; Naval Research Labs, Washington, DC; General Motors Research & Development, India Science Lab, Bangalore, India: and General Motors Research and Development, Warren, Missouri.

Helena Silva Presentations: “Electrostatic Passivation of Peripheral Interface Trap Charges and Electrostatic Doping in Accumulated Body Transistors,” (with M.B. Akbulut, F. Dirisaglik and A. Gokirmak), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, abstract, Vol. A5.5, 2009.

“Optical Observations of Strong Thermoelectric Thomson Effect on Self-heated Nanocrystalline Silicon Microwires,” (with G. Bakan, N. Khan and A. Gokirmak), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, abstract, Vol. CC1.5, 2009.

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“Electrical Conduction and Heat Transfer Simulations of Nanocrystalline Silicon Microwires including the Thermoelectric Thomson Effect,” (with G. Bakan and A. Gokirmak), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, abstract, Vol. LL5.22, 2009.

“Rapid Solid-liquid Phase-change Oscillations in Nanocrystalline Silicon Wires,” (with A.D. Cywar, G. Bakan, F. Dirisaglik, K. Cil and A. Gokirmak), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, abstract, Vol. MM7.7, 2009.

“Crystallization of Patterned Nanocrystalline Micro-structures through Self-heating,” (with G. Bakan, A.D. Cywar, K. Cil, N.E. Williams and A. Gokirmak), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, abstract, Vol. C2.3, 2009.

“Electron-phonon Interactions in Silicon Microwires under Extreme Electrical Stress,” (with G. Bakan and A. Gokirmak), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, abstract, Vol. Z6.2, 2009.

“Electromigration of Liquid Silicon in Nanocrystalline Silicon Microwires during Phase-change Oscilliations,” (with A.D. Cywar, G. Bakan and A. Gokirmak), Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, abstract, Vol. A8.5, 2010.

“Growth from Melt and Phase Change Oscilliations in Silicon Micro- and Nano-wires,” (with G. Baken, A.D. Cywar, K. Cil, F. Dirisaglik, N. Khan, N.E. Williams, M.B. Akbulut and A. Gokirmak), Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, abstract, Vol. P13.17, 2010.

“Temperature Dependent Electrical Characterization and Crystallization of Nanocrystalline Silicon,” (with N.E. Williams, E. Carpena, K. Cil and A. Gokirmak), Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, abstract, Vol. A17.9, 2010.

“Controlling Peripheral Leakage Currents in Ultra-narrow MOSFETs Using a Penta-Gate Approach,” (with M.B. Akbulut, F. Dirisaglik and A. Gokirmak), Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, abstract, Vol. 12.7, 2010.

Multiply Your Options – A Conference for 8th Grade Girls, April 8, 2010.

Eric P. Soulsby Delegate, New England Association of Schools and Colleges UConn Annual Meeting.

Member, Reinvention Center Assessment Network (including the E-portfolio, Rubric & Tools and the General Education Work Groups).

Presentations: “Assessment at UConn: Building A Culture of Inquiry,” University of Connecticut Division of Student Affairs Assessment Day, September 15, 2009.

“A Look at the National Survey of Student Engagement: UConn NSSE 2009 Results,” UEI, October 2009 and Council of Deans, January 2010.

Mohammad Tehranipoor “Extended Abstract Developing a Novel Quality Metric for Path-Delay Fault Pattern Evaluation,” (with J. Ma and J. Lee), Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Defect and Data Driven Testing, Austin, TX, October 2009.

Editor, TTTC Newsletter.

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Associate Editor, Journal of Electronics Testing: Theory and Applications.

Associate and Guest Editor, IEEE Design and Test of Computers.

Associate Editor, Journal of Low Power Electronics.

General Chair, D3T 2009.

General Chair, HOST 2009.

General Chair, DFTS 2009.

Chair, Steering Committee, HOST, 2009 and 2010.

Member, Program Committee and Review Committee, Design, Automation, and Test in Europe, 2009present.

Member, Program Committee, IEEE Asian Test Symposium, 2010.

Member, Program Committee, European Test Symposium, 2011.

Member, Program Committee and Session Chair, IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, 2009-present.

Member, Program Committee, ACM SIGDA Ph.D. DAC Forum, 2008-present.

Member, Program Committee, IEEE Workshop on RTL and High Level Testing, 2009-present.

Member, Program Committee, ACM Great Lake Symposium on VLSI, 2008-present.

Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service, 2008-present.

Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Workshop on Defect Based Testing, 2005-present.

Member, Program Committee, North Atlantic Test Workshop, 2004-present.

Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSO Systems.

Member, Program Committee, International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures, 2007-2009t.

Member, Program Committee, International Workshop on Impact of Low-Power Design on Test and Reliability, 2009.

Session Chair and Member, Review Committee, IEEE North Atlantic Test Workshop, 2009-2010.

Session Chair and Member, Review Committee, International Test Conference.

Member, Review Panel, Army Research Office, 2009.

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Member, Review Panel, NSF, 2009.

Member, Review Committee, IEEE Conference on VLSI, 2009-2010.

Member, Review Committee, IEEE Workshop on RTL Test, 2009-2010.

Member, Review Committee, ACM Great Lake Symposium on VLSI, 2009-2010.

Member, Review Committee, IEEE Communication Magazine, 2009-2010.

Member, Review Committee, Asian Test Symposium, 2009-2010.

Member, Review Committee, Design Automation Conference, 2009-2010.

Term Member of Graduate Faculty, Duke University, 2009-2012.

Presentations: “High-Quality and Low-Cost Delay Testing for VDSM Designs: Challenges & Solutions,” (with K. Chakrabarty), International Conference on VLSI, tutorial, 2009.

ARO Special Workshop on Hardware Assurance, invited, 2009.

Panelist, IEEE Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, 2009.

AMD, Santa Clara, CA, invited, July 2009.

Amirkabir University of Technology, invited, July 2009.

IBM-Austin Research Lab, invited, November 2009.

Panelist, International Test Conference, November 2009.

Panel Organizer, “Test and Diagnosis for Parametric Failures,” International Workshop on Defect and Data Driven Testing, November 2009.

“High Quality Tests for Screening SDDs,” (with K. Peng), VTS 2010, poster, 2010.

NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems, invited, 2010.

“Testing Low-Power Integrated Circuits: Challenges, Solutions, and Industry Practices,” (with S. Ravi and R. Kapur (Synopsys)), Design, Automation and Test in Europe, tutorial, 2010.

“Low-Cost On-Chip Structures for Measuring NBT1 Effects, Variations, Path Delay, and Noise,” (with X. Wang), SRC TECHCON, Poster Presentation, 2010.

“A Low-Cost Diagnostic Procedure for Parametric Failures Caused by Pattern-Induced Noises,” (with J. Ma), SRC TECHCON, Poster Presentation, 2010.

LSI Logic, invited, January 2010.

Information Security Council, Washington, DC, invited, January 2010.

University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA, invited, March 2010.

Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Consortium, invited, April 7, 2010.

IBM, (Dr. Phil Nigh), invited, May 2010.

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Lei Wang Track Chair, VLSI Circuits and Member, Technical Program Committee, ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2010.

Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures.

Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems.

Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE International SOC Conference.

Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design.

Peter K. Willett Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, January 2006-present.

General Co-Chair Emeritus, International Society for Information Fusion “FUSION 2008” Conference, Cologne, Germany, July 2011, Chicago, IL. Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, 2000-present.

Associate Editor, International Society for Information Fusion, Journal of Advances in Information Fusion, 2006-present.

Member, Program Committee, Fusion 2009 Conference.

Member, Program Committee, ICASSP 2010.

Program Committee, OCEANS 2010.

Session Organizer, 2010 IEEE Aerospace Conference.

Member, Board of Governors, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society, 2004-2009.

Technical Committee Member and Webmaster, IEEE Signal Processing Society’s “Sensor Array and Multichannel.”

UConn Representative, Air Force Research Laboratory “Information Institute.”

Session Chair, IEEE Aerospace Conference “Detection and Classification,” March 2010.

Session Chair, ICASSP “SAM-P2 – Detection, Estimation and Source Separation,” March 2010.

Presentations: “Track Swap Reduction via Single-Stage and Multi-Stage MHT,” (with S. Coraluppi and C. Carthel), NATO Undersea Research Centre Technical Report, November 2009.

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“Various Approaches to Data Association,” NATO Lecture Series, Bonn, Germany and La Spezia, Italy, April 2010 and Washington, DC and Halifax, Canada, May 2010.

“Issues in Target Tracking,” NATO Lecture Series, Bonn, Germany and La Spezia, Italy, April 2010 and Washington, DC and Halifax, Canada, May 2010.

“A Primer on Basic Data Association and Tracking,” FFI – The Norwegian Defense Research Establishment and The University of Naples, Il June 2010.

Chen Xu Presentation: “Quantitative Recovery of Absorption Coefficient using DOT Assisted Photoacoustic Tomography for Breast Imaging,” (with P. Kumavor, A. Aguirre and Q. Zhu), The Biomedical Optics Conference, Miami, FL, April 11, 2010.

Shengli Zhou Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, October 2008-present.

Associate Editor, IEEE Journal on Oceanic Engineering, May 2010-present.

Poster & Demo Chair and Member, Technical Program Committee, The Fourth ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks, November 3, 2009.

Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE Global Communications Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 30-December 4, 2009.

Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, September 20-23, 2009.

Invited Reviewer, SPCOM Technical Committee, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Dallas, TX, March 14-19, 2010.

UTC Associate Professorship in Engineering Innovation, 2008-2011.

Presentations: “Sparse Channel Estimation and Nonbinary LDPC Coding for Multicarrier Underwater Acoustic Communication,” invited colloquia, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, October 8, 2009.

“Aqua-f Modem: A Stand-alone Underwater Acoustic Modem Based on OFDM Technology,” demonstration and poster, (with Z. Shi, J.-H. Cui, H. Zhou, J. Liu and P. Carroll), the Fourth ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks, November 3, 2009.

“Towards a Practical Multicarrier Modem for Underwater Telemetry & Distributed Networks,” invited talk, Newington Amateur Radio League, August 4, 2009. Also invited talk, UConn (for visitors from IBM), August 26, 2009 and UConn (for visitors from BBN), March 23, 2010.

“Progressive Inter-carrier Interference Equalization for OFDM Transmission over Time-varying Underwater Acoustic Channels,” invited colloquia, Xiamen University, May 12, 2010. Also invited 194

colloquia, Chinese Academy of Sciences, May 13, 2010 and MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference, Sydney, Australia, May 24-27, 2010.

“Comparison of Basis Pursuit Algorithms for Sparse Channel Estimation in Underwater Acoustic OFDM,” MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference, Sydney, Australia, May 24-27, 2010.

“DSP Implementation of SISO and MIMO OFDM Acoustic Modems,” MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference, Sydney, Australia, May 24-27, 2010.

Quing Zhu “Monitoring Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy,” (with P. DeFusco, S. Tannenbaum, A. Ricci, Jr., P. Hegde, E. Cronin, M. Kane, B. Tavakoli, Y. Xu and Y. Ardeshirpour), Proceedings of the San Antonio Breast Symposium, December 12-16, 2009.

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics.

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Biomedical Optics.

Member, Editorial Board, The Open Breast Cancer Journal, www.bentham.org/open/tobcanj.

Member, SPIE Photons Plus Ultrasound Committee, Photonics West BIOS, San Francisco, CA, January 2010.

Member, SPIE Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy Committee, Photonics West BIOS, San Francisco, CA, January 2010 Member, Review Committee, NIH, August 31-September 2, 2009.

Member, Review Committee, DOD, June 20-22, 2010.

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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY 2009–2010 The 2009–2010 academic year has continued the department’s growth with expansion of our graduate and undergraduate programs and new faculty hires. Currently, the Mechanical Engineering department is home to 24 tenured/tenure track faculty and three professors in residence. The department’s research portfolio has a total value of $22.2 million in research projects, with research expenditures of $4.7 million. Between July 2009 and June 2010, faculty received new research grants and contracts with a total value of $9.36 million.

In this same period the Mechanical Engineering faculty published 90 journal articles and one monograph, and contributed 102 conference publications or presentations. Faculty members were inventors on two patents, and served on the editorial boards of 16 major journals and on 26 conference organizing committees.

Highlights of the year’s activities and accomplishments follow.

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM

In the 2009–2010 academic year the department’s undergraduate program had an enrollment of 462 students, a 10% increase over the last academic year, and the fall 2010 freshman enrollment is expected to be around 100 students. A total of 120 bachelor’s degrees were conferred in Mechanical Engineering between July 2009 and June 2010. The department faculty taught 46 undergraduate courses during the academic year, including five courses in the Management and Engineering for Manufacturing (MEM) program with a total enrollment of 64 students. The capstone Major Design Experience courses featured 37 senior design projects sponsored by 27 companies. Four projects were selected by a panel of judges and received cash awards ranging from $500 to $1,500. The results of several projects from last year were patented and directly implemented in the sponsors’ product lines, including a new modular extension for raceways by Wiremold Inc. The year’s senior design activities may be viewed at http://www.engr.uconn.edu/me/seniordemo. In conjunction with the School’s overall outreach and student recruitment efforts, the department participated in Engineering 2000 (a one-week residential program that engages high school students in engineering) as well as the da Vinci Project (designed to help math and science teachers in grades 7 to 12 learn more about the engineering opportunities available to their students).

The department has increased its support for undergraduate students engaged in summer research through the support of 13 students working in various research laboratories in the department. In this program, a faculty member funds an undergraduate student researcher at $1,500 or more for the summer, and the department provides the student with an additional $ 2,500. This program allows students to gain research experience and provides an introduction to graduate work. This academic year we also initiated a complete overhaul of the two undergraduate laboratory courses to enable better integration and coordination of the laboratory experience for our students. The department has allocated $120k for developing new experiments and purchasing new laboratory equipment and instrumentation.

GRADUATE PROGRAM AND RESEARCH

Thirty-seven new students joined our graduate program out of 188 applicants; a total of 115 students were enrolled in the graduate program. The department’s faculty served as major advisors to 17 graduating master’s students and five graduating Ph.D. students. Twenty-five graduate classes were taught by the department faculty, including seven on-site at UTC Pratt & Whitney. This year’s graduate research competition involved 14 graduate students presenting their research in a short seminar format to an audience of faculty, students, and a panel of judges. Four students (Swetaprovo Chaudhuri, Mark Majewski, Yi Lu and Mark Bacon) received cash awards ranging from $1,500 to $3,000 for their top performance in the 196

competition. Twenty of our 37 new graduate students were co-sponsored by a department initiative for new graduate recruits that matches faculty member’s funding of graduate research assistants.

During this reporting period, Mechanical Engineering faculty brought in research grants and contracts worth $9.36 million. Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies, designated UConn as one of their six academic centers of excellence (CoE). The UConn CoE is in the area of Advanced Diagnostics, Sensing and Control of Propulsion Systems. Currently, our faculty members serve as principal investigators on seven of the eight projects sponsored by Pratt & Whitney, with a funding level of $410k. Additionally, the Hamilton Sundstrand division has funded three projects totaling $414k.

In order to improve our research and educational infrastructure, major laboratory renovations were undertaken with the establishment of a state-of-the-art combustion and optical diagnostics laboratory (2,270 sq. ft.), a laboratory for computational engineering housing a computer server room for high performance computing (1,200 sq. ft.) and upgrades to our undergraduate teaching laboratories.

FACULTY AND STAFF

Drs. Hanchen Huang and Chih-Jen Sung joined our department in fall 2009 as School of Engineering Professors in Sustainable Energy. Prof. Huang was a professor of mechanical and nuclear engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles. He has worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a post-doc and later as a staff scientist, and taught at Hong Kong Polytechnic University as an assistant and associate professor. Prof. Huang’s research focuses on interface processing including synthesis and structure evolution under mechanical deformation and radiation damage. Prof. Sung was a professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Case Western Reserve University prior to joining UConn. Prof. Sung holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University and his areas of research include chemical kinetics of conventional and alternative fuels, aerodynamic and chemical structure of flames, catalytic combustion, fuel reforming, ignition and flame stabilization, supersonic combustion, and laser diagnostics. Dr. Yen-Lin Han joined our department as Assistant Professor-in-Residence from the University of Southern California. She holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at USC as well as an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from Cal State. Mrs. Kelly Tyler joined our departmental staff as a financial assistant. Prof. John Bennett retired after 29 years of service in our department.

FACULTY HONORS AND SCHOLARSHIP

Prof. Robert Gao was elected to membership in the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. The Mechanical Engineering department’s teaching and research excellence awards were presented to Profs.

Horea Ilies and Eric Jordan, respectively.

EXTERNAL RELATIONS AND OUTREACH

On September 3, 2009, an event was held to rededicate the UTC building lobby with a display of various products and technologies of UTC divisions. This event was attended by senior management of UTC’s Pratt & Whitney and Hamilton Sundstrand divisions as well as members of UConn’s upper administration. The department’s external advisory board met November 30, 2009 to discuss the department’s progress in education, research and outreach. The board currently consists of eight people from industry and academia representing a broad spectrum of industries and perspectives. Our outreach efforts continue with on-site Master of Engineering degree programs offered at several large Connecticut corporations and industries, as well as the expansion of senior design project sponsorship to a larger and more diverse group of companies.

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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ARCHIVAL TECHNICAL JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS: 2009-2010 Theodore L. Bergman “Investigating Mixing in a Multi-Dimensional Rotary Mixer: Experiments and Simulations,” (with S.S. Manickam, R. Shah, J. Tomei and B. Chaudhuri), Powder Technology, Vol. 201, pp. 83-92, 2010.

“A Comprehensive Numerical Model for the Melting with Natural Convection,” (with S. Wang and A. Faghri), International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 53, pp. 1986-2000, 2010.

“High Temperature Heat Pipe Thermal Energy Storage,” (with H. Shabgard, A. Faghri and N. Sharif), International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 53, pp. 2979-2988, 2010.

Zbigniew M. Bzymek “Vibrations Representation in Grinding Wheels’ Virtual Truing and Dressing Model,” (with G.M. Duzy and R.B. Mindek Jr.), Key Materials, Vol. 76-78, pp. 169-174, doi: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.76-78.169, 2009.

Chengyu Cao “Adaptive Vision-Based Guidance Law with Guaranteed Performance Bounds for Tracking a Ground Target with Time-Varying Velocity,” (with L. Ma, N. Hovakimyan, V. Dobrokhodov and I. Kaminer), AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 834-852, 2010.

“Verifiable Adaptive Flight Control: UCAV and Aerial Refueling,” (with J. Wang and N. Hovakimyan), AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 75-87, 2010.

“Fast Estimation for Range Identification in the Presence of Unknown Motion Parameters,” (with L. Ma, N. Hovakimyan, C. Woolsey and W. Dixon), IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, Vol. 75, No. 2, pp. 165-189, doi: 10.1093/imamat/hxq008, 2010.

“3D Path Following for Small UAVs Using Commercial Autopilots Augmented by L1 Adaptive Control,” (with I. Kaminer, A. Pascoal, E. Xargay, N. Hovakimyan and V. Dobrokhodov), AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 550-564, 2010.

“Stability Margins of L1 Adaptive Control Architecture,” (with N. Hovakimyan), IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 480-487, 2010.

Baki M. Cetegen “Review of Modeling of Liquid Precursor Droplets and Particles Injected into Plasmas and High Velocity Oxy-fuel (HVOF) Flame Jets for Thermal Spray Applications,” (with S. Basu), Journal of Thermal Spray Technology, Vol. 18, No. 5-6, pp. 769-793, doi: 10.1007/s11666-009-9365-7, 2009.

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“Technique of Laser Calibration for Wavelength Modulation Spectroscopy with Application to Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Measurements,” (with R. Sur, T.J. Boucher and M.W. Renfro), Applied Optics, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 1-11, 2010.

“In-situ Measurements of Water Vapor Partial Pressure and Temperature Dynamics in a PEM Fuel Cell,” (with R. Sur, T.J. Boucher and M.W. Renfro), Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Vol. 157, No. 1, pp.

B45-B53, 2010.

“Blowoff Dynamics of Bluff Body Stabilized Turbulent Premixed Flames,” (with S. Chaudhuri, S. Kostka and M.W. Renfro), Combustion and Flame, Vol. 157, pp.

790-802, doi: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2009.10.020, 2010.

“Effect of Surfactant Addition on Boiling Heat Transfer in a Liquid Film Flowing in a Diverging Open Channel,” (with G. Quinn and B.M. Cetegen), International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 53, pp.

245-253, 2010.

“Investigation of Heat Transfer and Bubble Dynamics in a Boiling Thin Liquid Film Flowing over a Rotating Disk,” (with G. Quinn), International Journal of Thermal Science, Vol. 49, pp. 643-652, 2010.

Wilson K.S. Chiu “In Celebration: Professor Yogesh Jaluria on his 60th Birthday,” (with Y. Bayazitoglu, V.P. Carey, S. Garimella, M. Gupta, M.K. Jensen, Y. Joshi, M.V. Karwe, S.H.-K. Lee, W.J. Minkowycz, J.Y. Murthy, G.P. Peterson, V. Prasad and K.-T. Yang), International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 52, No. 23-24, pp. 5283-5284, doi: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2009.07.005, 2009.

“Modeling and Verification of Steady State Operational Changes on the Performance of a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell,” (with E.S. Greene, A.A. Burke, M.G. Medeiros and L.G. Carreiro), ASME Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 041001-4, 2009.

“The Role of Surface Species in Chemical Vapor Deposited Carbon Nanotubes,” (with A.C. Lysaght), Nanotechnology, Vol. 20, No. 11, 6 pages, doi: 10.1088/0957-4484/20/11/115605, 2009.

“Ionic Equilibrium and Transport in the Alkaline Anion Exchange Membrane,” (with K.N. Grew and D. Chu), Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Vol. 157, No. 7, pp. B1024-B1032, 2010.

“Nondestructive Nanoscale 3D Elemental Mapping and Analysis of a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Anode,” (with K.N. Grew, Y.S. Chu, J. Yi, A.A. Peracchio, J.R. Izzo, Jr., F. De Carlo and Y. Hwu), Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Vol. 157, No. 2, pp. B783-B792, 2010.

“Impact of Thermophoresis on Carbon Nanotube Growth by Chemical Vapor Deposition,” (with A. Lysaght), ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 132, pp. 084501-1 - 084501-4, 2010.

“Performance of an Integrated Micro-Tubular Fuel Reformer and Solid Oxide Fuel Cell System,” (with J.R. Izzo, Jr. and A.A. Peracchio), ASME Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp.

031017-1 - 031017-9, doi: 10.1115/1.3211098, 2010.

“Pore-Scale Investigation of Mass Transport and Electrochemistry in a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Anode,” (with K.N. Grew, A.S. Joshi and A.A. Peracchio), Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 195, No. 8, pp. 2331-2345, 2010.

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“A Dusty Fluid Model to Predict Hydroxyl Anion Conductivity in Alkaline Anion Exchange Membranes,” (with K.N. Grew), Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Vol. 157, No. 3, pp. B327-B337, 2010.

“Lattice Boltzmann Modeling of Three-Dimensional, Multicomponent Mass Diffusion in a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Anode,” (with A.S. Joshi, K.N. Grew, J.R. Izzo, Jr. and A.A. Peracchio), ASME Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 011006-1-011006-8, doi: 10.1115/1.3117251, 2010.

Mun Y. Choi “Fuel Dependent Effects on Droplet Burning in Microgravity,” (with S.L. Manzello, A.Yozgatligil and S.H. Park), Energy and Fuels, Vol. 23, pp. 3586-3591, 2009.

“Nanostructure of Soot Collected in Ethanol Droplet Flames in Microgravity,” (with S.H. Park and A. Yozgatligil), Combustion Science and Technology, Vol. 181, pp. 1164-1186, 2009.

Amir Faghri “Performance Characteristics of a Vapor Feed Passive Miniature Direct Method Fuel Cell,” (with G. Jewett and Z. Guo), International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 52, pp. 4573-4583, 2009.

“A Comprehensive Numerical Model for the Melting with Natural Convection,” (with S. Wang and T.L. Bergman), International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 53, pp. 1986-2000, 2010.

“Analysis of Heat and Mass Transfer in a Miniature Passive and Semi-Passive Liquid-Feed Direct Methanol Fuel Cell (DMFC),” (with B. Xiao and H. Bahrami), Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 195, pp. 2248-2259, 2010.

“Water Transport Characteristics in a Passive Liquid-Feed DMFC,” (with C. Xu), International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 53, pp. 1951-1966, 2010.

“Transport Phenomena in a Semi-Passive Direct Methanol Fuel Cell (DMFC),” (with H. Bahrami), International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 53, No. 11-12, pp. 2563-2578, 2010.

“High Temperature Heat Pipe Thermal Energy Storage,” (with H. Shabgard, T.L. Bergman and N. Sharif), International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 53, pp. 2979-2988, 2010.

Tai-Hsi Fan “Growth of Primary Embryo Cells in a PDMS Microsystem,” (with M. Villa, S. Pope and J. Conover), Biomedical Microdevices, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 253-261, doi: 10.1007/s10544-009-9380-y, 2010.

“Hydrodynamic Interaction of Two Colloids in Nonadsorbing Polymer Solutions,” (with R. Tuinier), Soft Matter, Vol. 6, pp. 647-654, doi: 10.1039/b918614j, 2010.

“Hydrogel Functionalization with DNA Aptamers for Sustained PDGF-BB Release,” (with B. Soontornworajit, J. Zhou, M.T. Shaw and Y. Wang), Chemical Communications, Vol. 46, pp. 1857-1859, doi: 10.1039/b924909e, 2010.

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Robert Gao “Wavelet Transform: A Mathematical Tool for Non-stationary Signal Processing,” (with R. Yan), IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine, Vol. 12, No. 5, pp. 35-44, 2009.

“Base Wavelet Selection for Bearing Vibration Signal Analysis,” (with R. Yan), International Journal of Wavelets, Multi-resolution, and Information Processing, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 411-426, 2009.

“Experimental Evaluation of a Unified Time-scale-frequency Technique for Bearing Defect Feature Extraction,” (with R. Yan and C. Wang), ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, Vol. 131, No. 4, 10 pages, 2009.

“A Module-based Software System for Spindle Condition Monitoring,” (with R. Yan, L. Zhang and K. Lee), International Journal of Mechatronics and Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 2, No. 5-6, pp. 532-551, 2009.

“Online Simulation-based Process Control for Injection Molding,” (with S. Johnston and D. Kazmer), Journal of Polymer Engineering and Science, Vol. 49, No. 12, pp. 2482-2491, doi: 10.1002/pen.21481, 2009.

“Performance Enhancement of Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition,” (with J. Zhang, R. Yan and Z. Feng), Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, pp. 1-20, doi: 10.1016/j.ymssp.2010.03.003, 2010.

“Harmonic Wavelet Filtering for Enhanced Machine Defect Identification,” (with R. Yan), Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 329, No. 15, pp. 3203-3217, doi: 10.1016/j.jsv.2010.02.005, 2010.

“Effect of Clearance and Embedding Depth of Force Sensors for Integrated Forming Process Monitoring,” (with S. Sah), Transactions of the North American Manufacturing Research Institution, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Vol. 38, pp. 639-646, 2010.

Hanchen Huang “Twin Cu Nanowires Using Energetic Beams,” (with Y.F. Zhang), Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 95, No. 11, pp. 111914-111914-3, doi: 10.1063/1.3232240, 2009.

“Diffusion and Formation Energies of Adatoms and Vacancies on Magnesium Surfaces,” (with C.G. Johansen and T.M. Lu), Computational Materials Science, Vol. 47, pp. 121-127, 2009.

“Stress Control in Polycrystalline Thin Films — Reduction in Adatoms Diffusion into Grain Boundaries via Surfactants,” (with Y. Yang, S.K. Xiang and E. Chason), Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 96, No. 21, 3 pages, doi:10.1063/1.3435473, 2010.

“Binding of In and Pb Surfactants on Cu{111} Surfaces,” (with S.K. Xiang), Surface Science, Vol. 604, No. 9-10, pp. 868-871, 2010.

Horea Ilies “Residue Level Three-dimensional Workspace Maps for Conformational Trajectory Planning of Proteins,” (C. Madden, P. Bohnenkamp and K. Kazerounian), International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 450-463, 2009.

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“Distance Functions and Skeletal Representations of Rigid and Non-Rigid Planar Shapes,” (with A. Eftekharian), Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 41, No. 12, pp. 865-876, 2009.

“Hydrogen Bonds and Kinematic Mobility of Protein Molecules,” (with Z. Shahbazi and K. Kazerounian), ASME Transactions, Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, Vol. 2, No. 2, 9 pages, 2010.

“A Kinematic Observation and Conjencture for Creating Stable Constructs of a Peptide Nanoparticle,” (with Z. Shahbazi, T.A.P.F. Pimentel, K. Kazerounian and P. Burkhard), Advances in Robot Kinematics, Issue on Motion in Man and Machine, ISBN 978-90-481-9261-8, Springer Science+Business Media, June 2010.

Eric H. Jordan “Solution Precursor High-velocity Oxy-fuel Spray Ceramic Coatings,” (with D. Chen, M. Gell and X. Ma), Journal of the European Ceramic Society, Vol. 29, No. 16, pp. 3349-3353, 2009.

“Phase Homogeneity in MgO-ZrO2 Nanocomposites Synthesized by a Combined Sol-Gel/ Thermal Decomposition Route,” (with C. Muoto, M. Gell and M. Aindow), Journal of American Ceramics Society, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2010.03821.x, 2010.

“The Solution Precursor Spray Coatings Influence of Solvent Type,” (with D. Chen and M. Gell), Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 111-119, 10.1007/s11090-009-9200-4, 2010.

Kazem Kazerounian “Residue Level Three-dimensional Workspace Maps for Conformational Trajectory Planning of Proteins,” (with C. Madden, P. Bohnenkamp and H. Ilies), International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 450-463, 2009.

“Using LEDs and Phosphorescent Materials to Teach High School Students Quantum Mechanics: A GuidedInquiry Laboratory for Introductory High School Chemistry,” (with W.P. Green, A. Trotochaud, J. Sherman and E.W. Faraclas), Journal of Chemical Education, Vol. 86, No. 3, pp. 340-342, 2009.

“A Kinematic Observation and Conjecture for Creating Stable Constructs of a Peptide Nanoparticle,” (with Z. Shahbazi, T.A.P.F. Pimentel, H. Ilies and P. Burkhard), Advances in Robot Kinematics, Issue on Motion in Man and Machine, ISBN 978-90-481-9261-8, Springer Science+Business Media, June 2010.

“Hydrogen Bonds and Kinematic Mobility of Protein Molecules,” (with Z. Shahbazi and H. Ilies), ASME Transactions, Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, Vol. 2, No. 2, 9 pages, 2010.

Shiva P. Kotha “A New Streaming Potential Chamber for Zeta Potential Measurements of Particulates,” (with N. Guzelsu and C. Wienstien), Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 81, No. 1, 6 pages, doi:10.1063/1.3284510, 2010.

Tianfeng Lu “Multiple Criticality and Staged Ignition of Methane in the Counterflow,” (with W. Liu and C.K. Law), International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, Vol. 41, No. 12, pp. 764-776, 2009.

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“Three-dimensional Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Lifted Hydrogen / Air Jet Flame in Heated Coflow: An Explosive Mode Analysis,” (with C.S. Yoo, J.H. Chen and C.K. Law), Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 652, No. 1, pp. 45-64, 2010.

Kevin D. Murphy “A Bayesian Approach to Identifying Structural Nonlinearity Using Free-Decay Response: Application to Damage Detection in Composites,” (with J.M Nichols, W.A. Link and C.C. Olson), Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 329, pp. 2995-3007, 2010.

“The Evolution of Stiction Repair for MEMS Cantilevers Using Periodic Excitation,” (with A.A. Savkar), Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 329, pp. 189-201, 2010.

“Modeling and Detection of Delamination in a Composite Beam: A Polyspectral Approach,” (with J.M. Nichols), Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Vol. 24, pp. 365-378, 2010.

“Impact Dynamics of RF MEMS Switches,” (with R.P. LaRose), Nonlinear Dynamics, Vol. 60, pp. 327-339, 2010.

Nejat Olgac “Stability Analysis of LTI Systems with Three Independent Delays – A Computationally Efficient Procedure,” (with R. Sipahi and H. Fazelinia), ASME – Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurements and Control, Vol. 131, No. 5, pp. 1-9, 2009.

“Discussion on: ‘Stability Analysis of Time Delayed System with Coefficient Uncertainty and Time Delay Uncertainty,’” European Journal of Control, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 14-15, 2010.

Ugur Pasaogullari “A Transient Analysis of a Micro-tubular Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC),” (with M.F. Serincan and N.M. Sammes), Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 194, No. 2, pp. 864-872, doi:10.1016/j.jpowsour.2009.06.036, 2009.

“Influence of Ammonia on Membrane-electrode Assemblies in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells,” (with X. Zhang and T. Molter), International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 34, No. 22, pp. 9188-9194, doi: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2009.08.099, 2009.

“Influence of Formic Acid Impurity on Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Performance,” (with X. Zhang, H.M. Galindo, H.F. Garces, P. Baker, X. Wang, S.L. Suib and T. Molter), Journal of Electrochemical Society, Vol. 157, pp. B409-B414, 2010.

“Thermal Stresses in an Operating Micro-tubular Solid Oxide Fuel Cell,” (with M.F. Serincan and N.M. Sammes), Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 195, No. 15, pp. 4905-4914, 2010.

Michael W. Renfro “Heat Release and Flame Structure Measurements of Self-Excited Acoustically-Driven Premixed Methane Flames,” (with K.M. Kopp-Vaughan, S.G. Tuttle and G.B. King), Combustion and Flame, Vol. 156, pp.

1971-1982, 2009.

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“Singular Spectrum Analysis Applied to Time-Series Measurements in a Self-Excited Tube Combustor,” (with A.C. Noble, K.K. Venkatesan, G.B. King and N.M. Laurendeau), Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 25, pp. 1148-1151, 2009.

“Comparison of Line-Center and Line-Scanning Excitations in Two-Color Laser-Induced Fluorescence Thermometry of OH,” (with S. Kostka, S. Roy, P.J. Lakusta, T.R. Meyer, J.R. Gord and R. Branam), Applied Optics, Vol. 48, pp. 6332-6343, 2009.

“Technique of Laser Calibration for Wavelength Modulation Spectroscopy with Application to Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Measurements,” (with R. Sur, T.J. Boucher and B.M. Cetegen), Applied Optics, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 1-11, 2010.

“In-situ Measurements of Water Vapor Partial Pressure and Temperature Dynamics in a PEM Fuel Cell,” (with R. Sur, T.J. Boucher and B.M. Cetegen), Journal of Electrochemical Society, Vol. 157, No. 1, pp. B45B53, 2010.

“Blowoff Dynamics of Bluff Body Stabilized Turbulent Premixed Flames,” (with S. Chaudhuri, S. Kostka and B.M. Cetegen), Combustion and Flame, Vol. 157, pp.

790-802, doi: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2009.10.020, 2010.

Wei Sun “In-vitro Stretches of the Mitral Valve Anterior Leaflet under Edge-to-edge Repair Condition,” (with Z. He, B. Gao, S. Bhattacharya, T. Harrist and S. Mathew), Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, Vol. 131, No. 11, pp. 111012-5, doi: 10.1115/1.4000111, 2009.

“Simulated Thin Pericardial Bioprosthetic Valve Leaflet Deformation under Static Pressure-only Loading Conditions: Implications to Percutaneous Valves,” (with K Li), Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 38, No. 8, pp. 2690-2701, doi: 10.1007/s10439-010-0009-3, 2010.

Chih-Jen Sung “Heat Transfer of Aviation Kerosene at Supercritical Conditions,” (with F.Q. Zhong, X.J. Fan, G. Yu and J.G. Li), Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 543-550, 2009.

“Autoignition of Methylcyclohexane at Elevated Pressures,” (with G. Mittal), Combustion and Flame, Vol. 156, No. 9, pp. 1852-1855, 2009.

“Catalyzed Ignition of Methane/Hydrogen/Oxygen Mixtures in a Platinum Microtube for Microthruster Applications,” (with C.A. Mento, A.F. Ibarreta and S.J. Schneider), Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 25, No. 6, pp. 1203-1210, 2009.

“Catalytic Cracking and Heat Sink Capacity of Aviation Kerosene under Supercritical Conditions,” (with X.J. Fan, F.Q. Zhong, G. Yu and J.G. Li), Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 25, No. 6, pp. 1226-1232, 2009.

“A Mechanistic Study of Soret Diffusion in Hydrogen-Air Flames,” (with F. Yang, C.K. Law and H.Q. Zhang), Combustion and Flame, Vol. 157, No. 1, pp. 192-200, 2010.

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“An Experimental Study of the Autoignition Characteristics of Conventional Jet Fuel/Oxidizer Mixtures: JetA and JP-8,” (with K. Kamal), Combustion and Flame, Vol. 157, No. 4, pp. 676-685, 2010.

Jiong Tang “Design of Linear-motion Dual Stage Actuation System for Precision Control,” (with W. Dong and Y. ElDeeb), Smart Materials and Structures, Vol. 18, No. 9, 11 pages, 2009.

“Development of a Classification System for Engineering Student Characteristics Affecting College Enrollment and Retention,” (with Q. Li and H. Swaminathan), Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 98, No. 4, pp. 361-376, 2009.

“Damage Detection Using Piezoelectric Impedance Approach with Inductive Circuitry,” (with X. Wang), Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Vol. 21, No. 7, pp. 667-676, 2010.

“An Enhanced Piezoelectric Impedance Approach for Damage Detection with Circuitry Integration,” (with X. Wang), Smart Materials and Structures, Vol. 19, No. 4, 10 pages, 2010.

“Aggressive Data Reduction for Damage Detection in Structural Health Monitoring,” (with C. Park and Y. Ding), Structural Health Monitoring, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 59-74, 2010.

“Robust Calibration for Localization in Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks,” (with J.J. Cho, Y. Ding and Y. Chen), IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 81-95, 2010.

Bi Zhang “Measurement of YAG Laser Absorptance by Artificial Diamond and Cubic Boron Nitride,” (with L.F. Mei, G.Y. Chen, G.G. Chen and K. Huang), Optics and Lasers Technology, Vol. 47, pp. 770-777, 2009.

“Specific Energy in Grinding of Tungsten Carbides of Various Grain Sizes,” (with Y.H. Ren and Z.X. Zhou), Annals of the CIRP, Vol. 58, pp. 299-302, 2009.

“Effect of SiC Particles on the Machining of Aluminum/SiC Composite,” (with G.F. Zhang, Y.Q. Tan and Z.H. Deng), Materials Science Forum, Vol. 626-627, pp. 219-224, 2009.

“Grinding of Nanostructured WC Coatings with Single Fibrous-Abrasive Wheel,” (with G.F. Zhang, Z.H. Deng and Y.Q. Tan), Key Engineering Materials, Vol. 416, pp. 482-486, 2009.

“Study on Surface Integrity of Nanostructured WC-Co Subjected to Precision Grinding,” (with Y.H. Ren and Z.X. Zhou), Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 20, No. 8, pp. 896-901, 2009.

“Experiment and Numerical Simulation Study on Laser Truing and Dressing of Bronze-Bonded Diamond Wheel,” (with G.Y. Chen, L.F. Mei, C.R. Yu and K.J. Shun), Optics and Lasers in Engineering, Vol. 48, pp.

295-304, 2010.

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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT BOOKS, BOOK CHAPTERS, BOOK SECTIONS & EDITED VOLUMES 2009-2010 Amir Faghri Advanced Heat and Mass Transfer, (with Y. Zhang and J.R. Howell), Global Digital Press, 974 pages, ISBN-13: 978-0984276004, 2010.

Kevin D. Murphy

“Static and Dynamic Structural Modeling Analysis of Atomic Force Microscope,” (with Y. Zhang), Scanning Probe Microscopy in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp.

225-257, ISBN: 978-3-642-03534-0, 2010.

Nejat Olgac “Robust Control for Multiple Time Delay MIMO Systems with Delay Decouplability Concept,” (with K. Turkoglu), Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Springer, doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-02897-7, Vol. 388, pp. 37-47, 2009.

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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS 2009-2010 Thomas J. Barber “Prediction of the Heat Transfer Characteristics of Turbine Rotor Pedestal Arrays,” (with G. Philbrick and D. Gindraux), Proceedings of the 48th American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando, FL, ISBN-10: 1600867391, Vol. 15, No. 1, January 4-7, 2010.

Theodore L. Bergman “Mixing Study in a Multi-Dimensional Motion Mixer,” (with R. Shah, S.S. Manickam, J. Tomei and B. Chauduri), Powders and Grains 2009: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Micromechanics of Granular Media, American Institute of Physics, Golden, CO, Vol. 1145, pp. 683-686, July 13-17, 2009.

Zbigniew M. Bzymek “Inventive Problem Solving in Engineering Education,” Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Advances in Production Engineering (APE 2010), Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, pp.

460-465, 2010.

Chengyu Cao “L1 Adaptive Controller in the Presence of Input Saturation,” (with D. Li and N. Hovakimyan), Proceedings of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Chicago, IL, Paper No. AIAA-2009-6064, August 10-13, 2009.

“L1 Adaptive Augmentation of Gain-Scheduled Controller for Racetrack Maneuver in Aerial Refueling,” (with J. Wang and N. Hovakimyan), Proceedings of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Chicago, IL, Paper No. AIAA-2009-5739, August 10-13, 2009.

“L1 Adaptive Control Design for NASA AirSTAR Flight Test Vehicle,” (with I. Gregory, E. Xargay, N. Hovakimyan and X. Zou), Proceedings of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Chicago, IL, Paper No. AIAA-2009-5738, August 10-13, 2009.

“Experimental Validation of a Metrics Driven L1 Adaptive Control in the Presence of Generalized Unmodeled Dynamics,” (with I. Kitsios, V. Dobrokhodov, I. Kaminer, K. Jones, E. Xargay, N. Hovakimyan, M. Lizarraga, I. Gregory, N. Nguyen and K. Krishnakumar), Proceedings of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Chicago, IL, Paper No. AIAA-2009-6188, August 10-13, 2009.

“Quantum Numerical Optimal Control of Nucleon and Meson Dissipative Dynamics Model,” (with Q. Wang), Proceedings of the European Control Conference 2009, Budapest, Hungary, Paper No. MoA5.1, August 23-26, 2009.

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“Quantum Optimal Control on Meson Exchange Effect,” (with Q. Wang and J. Luo), Proceedings of the 8th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Conference on Control & Automation (IEEEICCA’09), Christchurch, New Zealand, Paper No. FrMPo5.5, December 9-11, 2009.

“Flight Validation of a Metrics Driven L1 Adaptive Control in the Presence of General Unmodeled Dynamics,” (with E. Xargay, V. Dobrokhodov, I. Kitsios, I. Kaminer, K. Jones, N. Hovakimyan, M. Lizarraga and I. Gregory), Proceedings of the 8th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Conference on Control & Automation (IEEE-ICCA’09), Christchurch, New Zealand, Paper No. FrMPo5.13, December 9-11, 2009.

“Simulation of a Novel Ultrasound Generator-Receiver on a Single Optical Fiber,” (with X. Wang, C. Liu, N. Wu, W. Wang, C. Guthy and Y. Tian), Proceedings of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Defense, Security, and Sensing Conference, Orlando, FL, doi: 10.1117/12.852590, April 59, 2010.

“Adaptive Engine Control in the Presence of Output Limits,” (with A. Thompson and J. Hacker), Proceedings of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Infotech@Aerospace Conference 2010, Atlanta, GA, Paper No. AIAA-2010-3492, April 20-22, 2010.

“L1 Adaptive Flight Control System: Flight Evaluation and Technology Transition,” (with E. Xargay, V. Dobrokhodov, I. Kaminer and I. Gregory), Proceedings of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Infotech@Aerospace Conference 2010, Atlanta, GA, Paper No. AIAA-2010-3365, April 20-22, 2010.

“L1 Adaptive Controller for Time-Varying Reference Systems in the Presence of Unmodeled Nonlinear Dynamics,” (with E. Kharisov, N. Hovakimyan and J. Wang), Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Baltimore, MD, pp. 886-891, June 30-July 2, 2010.

“L1 Adaptive Controller for Multi-Input Multi-Output Systems in the Presence of Nonlinear Unmatched Uncertainties,” (with E. Xargay and N. Hovakimyan), Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Baltimore, MD, pp. 874-879, June 30-July 2, 2010.

“L1 Adaptive Controller for a Class of Systems with Unknown Nonlinearities,” (with J. Luo and N. Hovakimyan), Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Baltimore, MD, pp. 1659-1664, June 30July 2, 2010.

“Decentralized L1 Adaptive Control for Large-Scale Systems with Unknown Time-Varying Interaction Parameters,” (with S. Yoo and N. Hovakimyan), Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Baltimore, MD, pp. 5590-5595, June 30-July 2, 2010.

“L1 Adaptive Controller for Systems with Hysteresis Uncertainties,” (with X. Zou and N. Hovakimyan), Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Baltimore, MD, pp. 6662-6667, June 30-July 2, 2010.

Brice Cassenti “Nuclear Thermal Propulsion for Robotic and Piloted Titan Missions,” Proceedings of the 45th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit, Paper No. AIAA 2009-5310, 7 pages, Denver, CO, August 2-5, 2009.

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Baki M. Cetegen “Instantaneous and Time-resolved Blowoff Transition Measurements for Two-dimensional Bluff-body Stabilized Flames in Vitiated Flow,” (with S.G Tuttle, S. Kostka, S. Chaudhuri, M. Kulakhmetov and M.W. Renfro), Proceedings of the 2009 Eastern States Section Meeting of the Combustion Institute, College Park, MD, Paper No. A-08, October 18-21, 2009.

“Understanding Blowoff Dynamics of Bluff-body Stabilized Turbulent Flames in a Prototypical Combustor,” (with S. Chaudhuri, S. Kostka, S.G Tuttle and M.W. Renfro), Proceedings of the 2009 Eastern States Section Meeting of the Combustion Institute, College Park, MD, Paper No. A-07, October 18-21, 2009.

“Computational Analysis of Dry Purge in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel,” (with A. Roy, U. Pasaogullari and M.W. Renfro), Proceedings of the 216th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Vienna, Austria, pp. 333-344, 2009.

“Transitional Blowoff Behavior of Wake-stabilized Flames in Vitiated Flow,” (with S.G. Tuttle, S. Chaudhuri, S. Kostka and M.W. Renfro), Proceedings of the 48th American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition, Orlando, FL, Paper No. AIAA 2010-220, January 4-7, 2010.

“Blowoff Dynamics of V-shaped Bluff Body Stabilized, Turbulent Premixed Flames in a Practical Scale Rig,” (with S. Chaudhuri, S. Kostka, S.G. Tuttle and M.W. Renfro), Proceedings of the 48th American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition, Orlando, FL, Paper No. AIAA 2010-1337, January 4-7, 2010.

“Validation and Calibration of a Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Model against Transient Experimental Data,” (with A. Roy, U. Pasaogullari and M.W. Renfro), Proceedings of the ASME 2010 8th International Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology Conference, Brooklyn, NY, Paper No. FuelCell2010-33336, June 14-16, 2010.

Wilson K. S. Chiu “Reactor Scale Model of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Growth in a Tube Flow Chemical Vapor Deposition Reactor,” (with J.J. Lombardo), Proceedings of the ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, San Francisco, CA, Paper No. HT09-88124, July 19-23, 2009.

“Nondestructive Imaging and Analysis of Transport Processes in the Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Anode,” (with K.N. Grew, A.A. Peracchio and J.R. Izzo, Jr.), Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC-XI) 216th Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting, Vienna, Austria, Paper No. 1325, pp. 1861-1870, October 4-9, 2009.

“Water Transport and Polarizations in an Alkaline Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell,” (with K.N. Grew, A.A. Peracchio and D. Chu), Proceedings of the 216th Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting, Vienna, Austria, Paper No. 366, October 4-9, 2009.

“Examination of Water Diffusion Process within a Low Temperature Polymer Fuel Cell Membrane,” (with T.D. Myles, K.N. Grew and A.A. Peracchio), Proceedings of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Lake Buena Vista, FL, Paper No. IMECE2009-11341, November 1319, 2009.

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“Reaction Kinetics and Transport Phenomena of an Excess Moisture Oxidant Stream in the YSZ-LSM Composite SOFC Cathode,” (with J.R. Izzo, Jr., K.N. Grew, A.A. Burke and L.G. Carreiro), Proceedings of the 44th Power Sources Conference, Las Vegas, NV, Paper No. 16.1, pp. 397-400, June 14-17, 2010.

“Water Transport in Alkaline Anion Exchange Membranes,” (with M. Kiss, W.M. Harris, T.D. Myles, K.N. Grew and A.A. Peracchio), Proceedings of the 44th Power Sources Conference, Las Vegas, NV, Paper No. P3, pp. 227-230, June 14-17, 2010.

“X-ray Computed Tomography of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrodes for Non-destructive Phase Reconstruction and Analysis,” (with J.R. Izzo Jr., K.N. Grew and G.J. Nelson), Proceedings of the 9th European Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) Forum, Lucerne, Switzerland, June 29-July 2, 2010.

“SOFC Ni/YSZ Anode and LSM/YSZ Cathode Microstructure Characterization,” (with S. Kerrache, A. Faes, P. Tanasini, Z. Wuillemin, A. Hessler-Wyser, C. Comninellis, J. Van herle, K.N. Grew, J.R. Izzo Jr., A.A. Peracchio and G.J. Nelson), Proceedings of the 9th European Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) Forum, Lucerne, Switzerland, June 29-July 2, 2010.

Amir Faghri “Effect of the Structure Design on the Performance of a Passive Vapor-Feed DMFC Fed with Concentrated Methanol,” Proceeding of the ASME Eighth International Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology Conference FuelCell2010, Brooklyn, NY, Paper No. FuelCell-2010-33094, June 14-16, 2010.

Tai-Hsi Fan “On the Geometric Characteristics of Cell Membrane Using Rotationally Oscillating Drill (Ros-Drill©,” (with J. Diaz, M-K. Jedi, N. Olgac and A.F Ergenc), Proceedings of the 2009 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Hollywood, CA, Paper No. TuBT2.2, October 12-14, 2009.

“Investigation of Oocyte Deformability Using Micropipette Aspiration Method,” (with M. Karzar-Jeddi, J. Diaz and N. Olgac), Proceedings of 16th U.S. National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, State College, PA, Paper No. USNCTAM2010-1119, June 27-July 2, 2010.

“Dynamic Properties of Micropipette Vibration in a Viscous Fluid during ICSI,” (with M. Karzar-Jeddi and N. Olgac), Proceedings of 16th U.S. National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, State College, PA, Paper No. USNCTAM2010-1130, June 27-July 2, 2010.

Robert X. Gao “Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition for Machine Health Diagnosis,” (with J. Zhang and R. Yan), Proceedings of the Damage Assessment of Structures VII Conference - Key Engineering Materials, Special Edition, Beijing, China, pp. 167-174, doi: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.413-414.167, August 2009.

“Wavelet Selection for Bearing Defect Diagnosis,” (with R. Yan), Proceedings of the Damage Assessment of Structures VII Conference - Key Engineering Materials, Special Edition, Beijing, China, pp. 575-582, doi: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.413-414.575, August, 2009.

“Development of Statistical Regression Models for Ventilation Estimation,” (with S. Liu, Q. He, J. Staudenmayer and P. Freedson), Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Minneapolis, 210

MN, pp. 1266-1269, September 2-6, 2009.

“Midpoint-based Empirical Decomposition for Nonlinear Trend Estimation,” (with Q. He and P. Freedson), Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Minneapolis, MN, pp. 2228-2231, September 2-6, 2009.

“Information Theoretic Measure for Wavelet Selection in Non-stationary Vibration Analysis,” (with R. Yan), Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford University, San Francisco, CA, pp. 1202-1209, September 9-11, 2009.

“Position-sensitivity Analysis of the EMD Algorithm,” (with J. Zhang, R. Yan and Z. Feng), Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford University, San Francisco, CA, pp.

1405-1412, September 9-11, 2009.

“Integrated Sensing of Pressure Distribution at the Workpiece-tool Interface in Sheet Metal Stamping,” (with S. Sah), Proceedings of the 2009 ASME International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, Paper No. MSEC2009-84342, October 4-7, 2009.

“Multi-Time Scale Modeling Strategy for Bearing Life Prognosis,” (with S. Sah), Proceedings of the 2009 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Hollywood, CA, Paper No. DSCC2009-2680, October 1214, 2009.

“Self-energized Acoustic Wireless Sensor for Pressure-temperature Measurement in Injection Molding Cavity,” (with Z. Fan and D. Kazmer), Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Sensors Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, pp. 65-68, October 25-28, 2009.

“Design of an Impulse Wavelet for Structural Defect Identification,” (with R. Yan), Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Prognostics & System Health Management Conference, Macau, China, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/PHM.2010.5414567, January 12-14, 2010.

“Wavelet Packet Base Selection for Gearbox Defect Severity Classification,” (with Q. He and R. Yan), Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Prognostics & System Health Management Conference, Macau, China, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/PHM.2010.5413489, January 12-14, 2010.

“A New Sensing Method for Electrical Capacitance Tomography,” (with Z. Fan), Proceedings of the 2010 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Austin, TX, pp. 48-53, doi: 10.1109/IMTC.2010.5488269, May 3-6, 2010.

“An Adaptive Sampling Scheme for Improved Energy Utilization in Wireless Sensor Networks,” (with T. Kurp and S. Sah), Proceedings of the 2010 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Austin, TX, pp. 93-98, doi: 10.1109/IMTC.2010.5488247, May 3-6, 2010.

“Variable Word Length Coding for Energy-aware Signal Transmission,” (with A. Kadrolkar and W. Gong), Proceedings of the 2010 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Austin, TX, pp. 87-92, doi: 10.1109/IMTC.2010.5488249, May 3-6, 2010.

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Horea Ilies “Path Planning in Topologically Evolving Planar Environments,” (with A. Eftekharian), Proceedings of the ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) & Computers and Information in Engineering (CIE) Conference, San Diego, CA, Paper No. DETC2009-87470, August 30September 2, 2009.

“On Hydrogen Bonds and Mobility of Protein Molecules,” (with Z. Shahbazi and K. Kazerounian), Proceedings of the ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) & Computers and Information in Engineering (CIE) Conference, San Diego, CA, Paper No. DETC2009-87607, September 2, 2009.

“Fast Hierarchical Discretization of Parametric Boundary Representations,” (with M. Frank), Proceedings of Tools and Methods for Competitive Engineering Conference (TMCE 2010), Ancona, Italy, pp. 331-342, April 12-16, 2010.

“Curve Skeletons in Planar Domains,” (with A. Eftekharian), Proceedings of Computer Aided Design Conference (CAD'10), Dubai, UAE, Paper No. CAD 083, June 21-25, 2010.

Eric H. Jordan “Y2O3-MgO-ZrO2 High Performance Optical Ceramics for Infrared Windows,” (with J. Wang and M. Gell), Proceedings of the 34th International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Daytona, FL, Paper No. ICACC-S4-P010-2010, January 24-29, 2010.

“Functional NanoComposites Made by Plasma Spray Process,” (with M. Gell, C. Muoto, J. Wang, D. Chan and J. Roth), Proceedings of the 34th International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Daytona, FL, Paper No. ICACC-S7-039-2010, January 24-29, 2010.

“Synthesis and Performance of Thermographic Phosphor,” (with M.W. Renfro, C. Kelley, M.S. Majewski and M. Gell), Proceedings of the 34th International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Daytona Beach, FL, Paper No. ICACC-S11-017-2010, January 24-29, 2010.

“Chemical Reaction Effects in Solution Precursor Plasma Spray,” (with C. Muoto, M. Gell and M. Aindow), Proceedings of the International Thermal Spray Conference, Singapore, SG, May 3, 2010.

Kazem Kazerounian “On Hydrogen Bonds and Mobility of Protein Molecules,” (with Z. Shahbazi and H. Ilies), Proceedings of the ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) & Computers and Information in Engineering (CIE) Conference, San Diego, CA, Paper No. DETC2009-87607, September 2009.

Shiva Kotha “Disruption and Re-polymerization Kinetics of f-actin Cytoskeleton in Bone Cells Subjected to Dynamic Mechanical Stimulus,” (with R.S.A. Nesbitt, J.M. Macione, M. Eschbach, Y. Roberts and A. Debroy), Proceedings of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE) World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Munich, Germany, pp. 297-299, September 13212

18, 2009.

“Modeling the Point Spread Function of Paired Angle Multiplicative Compounding in Ultrasound,” (with J.M. Macione, S. Contreras, Z. Yang, T. Chiu and M. Fox), Proceedings of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE) World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Munich, Germany, pp. 857-859, September 13-18, 2009.

Tianfeng Lu “The Role of Chemical Explosive Mode in Flames,” (with C.S. Yoo and J.H. Chen), 2009 Fall Technical Meeting, Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, Paper No. A-19, October 18-21, 2009.

“An Experimental and Kinetic Modeling Study of Methyl Decanoate Combustion,” (with S.M. Sarathy, S.M. Thomson and W.J. Pitz), Proceedings of the Spring 2010 Western States Section of the Combustion Institute Meeting, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, Paper No. 10S-43, March 22-23, 2010.

George Lykotrafitis “Coherent Gradient Sensing Microscopy: Microinterferometric Technique for Quantitative Cell Detection,” (with M. Budyansky and C. Madormo), Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Indianapolis, IN, Paper No. 209, June 79, 2010.

“Characterization of Erythrocytes from Healthy Individuals and from Patients with the Sickle Cell Trait,” (with J. Maciaszek), Proceedings of the 16th U.S. National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Paper No. 1161, June 27-July 2, 2010.

“A Coarse-grain Molecular Dynamics Model for Sickle Hemoglobin Fibers and their Interactions,” (with H. Li), Proceedings of the 16th U.S. National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Paper No. 763, June 27-July 2, 2010.

Kevin D. Murphy “The Effects of Crack Size on Crack Identification in a Freely Vibrating Plate Using Bayesian Parameter Identification,” (with E.Z. Moore and J.M. Nichols), Proceedings of the 5th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Sorrento, Italy, 6 pages, June 29-July 2, 2010.

Nejat Olgac “Swarm Coordination under Conflict and Use of Enhanced Lyapunov Control,” (with D. Sierra, P. McCullough and E. Adams), Proceedings of the ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC), San Diego, CA, pp. 1945-1954, August 30-September 9, 2009.

“Full-State Feedback Control Design with Delay Scheduling for Cart-pendulum Dynamics,” (with E. Cavdaroglu), Proceedings of the International Federation of Automatic Control Workshop on Time Delayed Systems 2009, Sinaia, Romania, CD-ROM, September 1-3, 2009.

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“A Lyapunov Treatment of Swarm Coordination under Conflict,” (with P. McCullough, M. Bacon, D. Sierra and R. Gomez), 2009 Proceedings of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Hollywood, CA, Paper No. WeBT1.1, October 12-14, 2009.

“On the Geometric Characteristics of Cell Membrane Using Rotationally Oscillating Drill (Ros-Drill©,” (with J. Diaz, M-K. Jedi, T.-H. Fan and A.F Ergenc), Proceedings of the 2009 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Hollywood, CA, Paper No. TuBT2.2, October 12-14, 2009.

“Investigation of Oocyte Deformability Using Micropipette Aspiration Method,” (with M. Karzar-Jeddi, J. Diaz and T.H. Fan), Proceedings of 16th U.S. National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, State College, PA, Paper No. USNCTAM2010-1119, June 27-July 2, 2010.

“Dynamic Properties of Micropipette Vibration in a Viscous Fluid during ICSI,” (with M. Karzar-Jeddi and T.H. Fan), Proceedings of 16th U.S. National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, State College, PA, Paper No. USNCTAM2010-1130, June 27-July 2, 2010.

Ugur Pasaogullari “An Investigation of Thermally-induced Water Transport in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells with Neutron Radiography Imaging Technique,” (with R.S. Fu, J.S. Preston, Y. Tabuchi, T. Shiomi, A.S. Hussey and D.L. Jacobson), Proceedings of the 216th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Meeting, Vienna, Austria, pp. 543552, October 4-9, 2009.

“Heat and Mass Transfer in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells in Ultra-low Humidity Operation,” (with R.S. Fu and X. Zhang), Proceedings of the 216th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Vienna, Austria, pp. 323-332, October 4-9, 2009.

“Computational Analysis of Dry Purge in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel,” (with A. Roy, B.M. Cetegen and M.W. Renfro), Proceedings of the 216th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Vienna, Austria, pp. 333-344, 2009.

“Performance of a Direct Borohydride Fuel Cell,” (with S. Towne, M. Carella, W.E. Mustain, V. Viswanathan, P. Rieke and P. Singh), Proceedings of the 216th Electrochemical Society Meeting, pp. 19511958, October 4-9, 2009.

“An Updated Look at the Role of Micro-porous Layer on Liquid Water Distribution in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells,” (with J.S. Preston, R.S. Fu, D.S. Hussey and D.L. Jacobson), ECS Transactions, Paper No. 1633, 2009.

“Influence of Formic Acid Impurity on Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Performance,” (with X. Zhang, H.M. Galindo, H.F. Grace, P. Baker, X. Wang, S.L. Suib and T. Molter), Proceedings of the 216th Electrochemical Society Meeting, pp. 1633-1644, 2009.

“Contamination of Membrane-electrode Assemblies by Ammonia in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells,” (with X. Zhang, M.F. Serincan, T. Molter), ECS Transactions, Paper No. 1565, 2009.

“Computational Analysis of Dry Purge in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel,” (with A. Roy and M.W. Renfro), Proceedings of the Electrochemical Society Meeting, Vienna, Austria, pp. 333-344, 2009.

“Validation and Calibration of a Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Model against Transient Experimental Data,” (with A. Roy, B.M. Cetegen and M.W. Renfro), Proceedings of the ASME 2010 8th 214

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“Effect of Liquid Water Saturation on Oxygen Transport in Gas Diffusion Layers of Polymer Electrolye Fuel Cells,” (with T. Shiomi, R.S. Fu, Y. Tanuchi, S. Miyazaki, N. Kubo, K. Shinohara, D.S. Hussey and D.L. Jacobson), Proceedings of the ASME 2010 Eighth International Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology Conference, Fuel Cell 2010, Paper No. FuelCell2010-33225, Brooklyn, NY, June 14-16, 2010.

Michael W. Renfro “Comparison of Line-Peak and Line-Scanning Excitation in Two-Color Laser-Induced Fluorescence Thermometry of OH,” (with S. Kostka, S. Roy, T.R. Meyer, J.R. Gord, P. Lakusta and R. Branam), Proceedings of the 5th Dayton Engineering Sciences Symposium, Dayton, OH, Paper # DESS09-0089, October 26, 2009.

“Computational Analysis of Dry Purge in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells,” (with A. Roy, U. Pasaogullari and B.M. Cetegen), Proceedings of the Electrochemical Society Meeting, Vienna, Austria, pp. 333-344, October 4-9, 2009.

“Flame Structure of Non-Forced Acoustically Driven Flames Using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition,” (with K.M. Kopp-Vaughan), Proceedings of the 2009 Technical Meeting of the Eastern States Section, The Combustion Institute, College Park, MD, Paper # B-25, October 18-21, 2009.

“Instantaneous and Time-resolved Blowoff Transition Measurements for Two-dimensional Bluff-body Stabilized Flames in Vitiated Flow,” (with S.G. Tuttle, S. Kostka, S. Chaudhuri, M. Kulakhmetov and B.M. Cetegen), Proceedings of the 2009 Eastern States Section Meeting of the Combustion Institute, College Park, MD, Paper No. A-08, October 18-21, 2009.

“Understanding Blowoff Dynamics of Bluff-body Stabilized Turbulent Flames in a Prototypical Combustor,” (with S. Chaudhuri, S. Kostka, S.G. Tuttle and B.M. Cetegen), Proceedings of the 2009 Eastern States Section Meeting of the Combustion Institute, College Park, MD, Paper No. A-07, October 18-21, 2009.

“Transitional Blowoff Behavior of Wake-stabilized Flames in Vitiated Flow,” (with S.G. Tuttle, S. Chaudhuri, S. Kostka and B.M. Cetegen), Proceedings of the 48th American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition, Orlando, FL, Paper No. AIAA 2010-220, January 4-7, 2010.

“Blowoff Dynamics of V-shaped Bluff Body Stabilized, Turbulent Premixed Flames in a Practical Scale Rig,” (with S. Chaudhuri, S. Kostka, S.G. Tuttle and B.M. Cetegen), Proceedings of the 48th American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition, Orlando, FL, Paper No. AIAA 2010-1337, January 4-7, 2010.

“Synthesis and Performance of Thermographic Phosphor,” (with E.H. Jordan, C. Kelley, M.S. Majewski and M. Gell), Proceedings of the 34th International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Daytona Beach, FL, Paper No. ICACC-S11-017-2010, January 24-29, 2010.

“Validation and Calibration of a Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Model against Transient Experimental Data,” (with A. Roy, U. Pasaogullari and B.M. Cetegen), Proceedings of the ASME 2010 8th International Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology Conference, Brooklyn, NY, Paper No. Fuel Cell2010-33336, June 14-16, 2010.

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Wei Sun “Computational Analysis of Hemolysis Induced by a Bioprosthetic Heart Valve,” (with E. Sirois), Proceedings of the 2009 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, Paper No. 2254, October 7-10, 2009.

“Computational Modeling of Patient-specific Aortic Root,” (with K. Li), Proceedings of the 2009 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, Paper No. 2320, October 7-10, 2009.

“Comparison of Two Dimensional Versus Three Dimensional Measuring Techniques on a Porcine Aortic Root Sinus,” (with S. Teterichko, E. Sirois, Q. Wang, K. Li and T. Pham), Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 36th Northeast Bioengineering Conference, New York, NY, Paper No. ABS-091, March 26-28, 2010.

“Mechanical Property Disparity between Porcine and Aged Human Aortic Tissues: Implication of Animal Models in Percutaneous Aortic Valve Replacement,” (with C. Martin and T. Pham), Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 36th Northeast Bioengineering Conference, New York, NY, Paper No. ABS-065, March 26-28, 2010.

“Biomechanical Properties of Human Coronary Sinus for Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Repair,” (with T. Pham), Proceedings of the ASME 2010 Summer Bioengineering Conference, Grande Beach Resort, Naples, FL, Paper No. SBC2010-19638, June 16-19, 2010.

“Modeling the Interaction between the Coronary Sinus and the Proximal Anchor Stent in Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Annuloplasty,” (with M. DeHerrera), Proceedings of the ASME 2010 Summer Bioengineering Conference, Grande Beach Resort, Naples, FL, Paper No. SBC2010-19715, June 16-19, 2010.

Chih-Jen Sung “Injection of Supercritical Aviation Kerosene into a Quiescent Atmospheric Environment,” (with W. Gao, H.S. Liang, Q.H. Xu and Y.Z. Lin), Proceedings of the Forty-Fifth AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Denver, CO, AIAA Paper No. 2009-4927, August 2-5, 2009.

“Thermal Cracking and Heat Sink Capacity of Aviation Kerosene under Supercritical Conditions,” (with F.Q. Zhong, X.J. Fan, J. Wang, G. Yu and J.G. Li), Proceedings of the Forty-Fifth AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Denver, CO, AIAA Paper No. 2009-5267, August 4, 2009.

“Skeletal Mechanism Generation of Surrogate Fuels Using Directed Relation Graph with Error Propagation and Sensitivity Analysis,” (with K.E. Niemeyer and M.P. Raju), Proceedings of the Forty-Fifth AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Denver, CO, AIAA Paper No. 2009-5495, August 5, 2009.

“Catalytic Cracking of Aviation Kerosene under Supercritical Conditions,” (with X.J. Fan, F.Q. Zhong, G. Yu and J.G. Li), Third International Workshop on Non-Equilibrium Flows in Conjunction with the Second International Symposium on Computational Mechanics (ISCM II), Tsimshatsui, Hong Kong, Paper No. ISCM2-279, November 30-December 3, 2009.

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“Skeletal Mechanism Generation of Surrogate Jet Fuels for Aeropropulsion Modeling,” (with K.E. Niemeyer), Third International Workshop on Non-Equilibrium Flows in Conjunction with the Second International Symposium on Computational Mechanics (ISCM II), Paper No. ISCM2-513, November 30December 3, 2009.

“A Jet Fuel Surrogate Formulated by Real Fuel Properties,” (with S. Dooley, S.H. Won, M. Chaos, J. Heyne, Y. Ju, F.L. Dryer, K. Kamal, H. Wang, M.A. Oehlschlaeger, R.J. Santoro and T.A. Litzinger), Proceedings of the Technical Meeting of the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute, Boulder, CO, March 2223, 2010.

Jiong Tang “An Enhanced Piezoelectric Impedance Approach for Damage Detection with Circuitry Integration,” (with X. Wang), Proceedings of the ASME 2009 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, Vol. 19, 10 pages, Paper No. SMASIS2009-1412, doi: 10.1088/0964-1726/19/4/045001, September 21-23, 2009.

“Damage Detection Using Impedance Measurement with Magnetic Transducer,” (with X. Wang), Proceedings of the ASME 2009 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, Oxnard, CA, Paper No. SMASIS2009-1414, doi: 10.1115/SMASIS2009-1414, September 21-23, 2009.

“An Electro-mechanical Periodic System with Piezoelectric Transducers and Coupled Circuitry: Dynamic Analysis and Applications,” (with Y. Lu), Proceedings of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Smart Structures/NDE Conference, San Diego, CA, Vol. 7643, doi: 10.1117/12.847754, March 7-11, 2010.

“Anomaly Amplification in Dynamic Response of Damaged Periodic Structures Using Piezoelectric Networking,” (with J. Zhao), Proceedings of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Smart Structures/NDE Conference, San Diego, CA, Vol. 7643, doi: 10.1117/12.847760, March 7-11, 2010.

“Damage Detection Using Magnetic Impedance Approach with Circuitry Integration: Sensor Optimization,” (with X. Wang), Proceedings of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Smart Structures/NDE Conference, San Diego, CA, Vol. 7647, doi: 10.1117/12.847763, March 7-11, 2010.

“Non-contact Structural Damage Detection Using Magnetic Admittance Approach with Circuitry Tuning,” (with X. Wang), Proceedings of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Smart Structures/NDE Conference, San Diego, CA, Vol. 7648, doi: 10.1117/12.847766, March 7-11, 2010.

“Efficient Order Reduction in Vibration Analysis of Periodic Structures with Uncertainties,” (with Z. Xia), Proceedings of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Smart Structures/ NDE Conference, San Diego, CA, Vol. 7649, doi: 10.1117/12.847772, March 7-11, 2010.

“Damage Identification of a Structure with Significant Subsystem Variability,” (with J. Lew and J. Juang), 51st AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, Orlando, FL, Paper No. AIAA-2010-2800, April 12-15, 2010.

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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ACTIVE RESEARCH GRANTS & CONTRACTS 2009-2010 Thomas J. Barber “Senior Design Projects,” (with all department faculty), various corporate supporters (ongoing), $244,000.

Theodore L. Bergman “Novel Thermal Energy Storage for Concentrating Solar Power,” (with A. Faghri (40%) and R. Pitchumani (20%)), U.S. Department of Energy, 9/30/09-6/30/12, $1,290,362.

Zbigniew M. Bzymek “Creation of a Laboratory for Research and Teaching of Industrial Modeling,” (with M. Nunez (50%)), U.S. Department of Defense/Architecture Framework/Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, 4/14/0812/31/09, $44,200.

Chengyu Cao “Adaptive Control Logic for Turbo-Fan Engines,” Pratt & Whitney, 2/1/10-12/31/10, $45,000.

“Adaptive Control for Fast Engine Response,” NASA/Pratt & Whitney, 4/15/10-12/31/10, $45,021.

“Adaptive Control for Air Management Systems,” (with J. Tang (50%)), United Technologies Corp.

Hamilton Sundstrand, 2/1/10-12/31/10, $91,691.

“Adaptive Augmentation of Existing Servo-System,” Hermes Microvision, Inc, 10/15/09-11/30/10, $20,000 “Application of Adaptive and Model Based Controls in New Generation Power Plants,” Alstom Power Corporation, 5/31/09-8/31/10, $49,635.

“Adaptive Control with a priori Guaranteed Performance Bounds and Robustness/Stability Margins,” NASA/University of Illinois, 9/1/08-9/30/11, $288,369.

“Fast-Response Engine Research (FastER) Adaptive Control,” NASA/Pratt & Whitney, 3/9/09-12/31/09, $100,000.

“Smart Home Cages,” National Institute of Health/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute/AFASCI, 11/3/08-6/30/10, $10,000.

“Turbofan Engine Modeling and Adaptive Control,” United Technologies Corp. Pratt & Whitney, 6/1/0912/31/09, $30,000.

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Brice Cassenti “Single Crystal Material Thermo-viscoplastic Creep and Fracture of Single Crystal Materials,” U.S. U.S. Department of Defense/Air Force Research Laboratory/Pratt & Whitney, 4/27/10-8/30/09, $40,000.

Baki M. Cetegen “Partially-Premixed Bluff-Body Flame Dynamics and Acoustic Coupling in Vitiated Flows,” (with M.W. Renfro (50%)), National Science Foundation, 6/1/10-05/31/13, $325,000.

“Dynamics of Bluff-Body Stabilized Premixed and Partially-Premixed Flames near Blowoff,” (with M.W. Renfro (50%)), Pratt & Whitney, 1/1/10-12/31/10, $60,000.

“Dynamics of Bluff-Body Stabilized Premixed and Partially-Premixed Flames near Blowoff,” (with M.W. Renfro (50%)), Pratt & Whitney, 1/1/09-12/31/09, $100,000.

“Innovative Optical Diagnostic Tools for Fuel Cell Development and Operation Control,” (with M.W. Renfro and T. Molter (33%)), Connecticut Innovations and UTC Power, 8/1/07-8/21/10, $264,000.

“Investigations of Continuous Rotating Detonations for Propulsion Applications,” Air Force Research Laboratories/ISSI Inc., 9/1/09-8/30/10, $60,389.

Wilson K. S. Chiu “EFRC: Science Based Nano-Structure Design and Synthesis of Heterogeneous Functional Materials for Energy Systems,” U.S. Department of Energy/University of Southern California, 8/1/09-7/31/14, $929,279.

“High Pressure Electrolyzer Membrane Mass Transport,” UTC/Hamilton Sundstrand, 1/1/10-12/30/12, $239,663.

“GOALI: Pore-Scale Understanding of Ohmic Polarization in Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrodes,” National Science Foundation, 10/1/08-9/30/09, $90,000.

“Carbon Nanotube Synthesis by Open-air Laser-induced Chemical Vapor Deposition,” National Science Foundation, 9/1/07-8/30/11, $382,284.

“Fuel Cell Performance Using Hydrogen Peroxide Reformate as the Oxidant,” Office of Naval Research, 1/1/07-2/28/11, $260,000.

“Effects of Impurities on Fuel Cell Performance and Durability,” (with T.M. Molter (79%), S. Suib (8%), M. Aindow (5%) and U. Pasaogullari (3%)), U.S. Department of Energy, 11/1/05-10/31/10, $1,900,000.

Mun Y. Choi “FLEX Droplet Combustion Experiments in Microgravity,” NASA, 1/1/08-1/31/13, $550,000.

“GAANN in Sustainable Energy,” Department of Education, 7/1/09-7/31/12, $522,624.

“Energy and Nano-Electronics Program Development,” King Abdulaziz University, 7/1/09-6/30/10, $107,069.

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“New GK-12: Ingenuity Incubators Develop NSF Fellow Potential and Prepare Tech Students for Engineering,” (with D. Cooper (40%), K. Kazerounian (40%) and R. Washington (5%)), National Science Foundation, 3/15/10-2/28/15, $2,721,405.

Amir Faghri “Novel Thermal Energy Storage for Concentrating Solar Power,” (with T. Bergman (40%) and R. Pitchumani (20%)), U.S. Department of Energy, 9/30/09-6/30/12, $1,290,362.

“Transport Phenomena in Micro-Miniature Passive Feed Direct Alcohol Fuel Cells,” National Science Foundation, 9/1/07-8/30/11, $300,342.

“Graduate Fellowship in Alternative/Renewable Energy Conversion Technologies,” U.S. Department of Education, Gannon Program, 8/1/07-8/15/10, $383,643.

Tai-Hsi Fan “CAREER: The Role of Mobility in Antibody Aggregation,” National Science Foundation, 2/1/10-1/31/15, $400,000.

“New Concepts in Fluidics and Cellular Mechanics for Controlled Microinjection,” (with N. Olgac (50%)), National Science Foundation, 8/15/08-7/31/11, $200,000.

Robert Gao “EFRI: Event Driven Sensing for Enterprise Reconfigurability and Optimization,” National Science Foundation, 8/23/08-10/31/11, $400,102.

“Integrated Sensing for Stamping Monitoring,” National Science Foundation, 12/1/08-8/31/11, $57,926.

“GEI: Development of an Integrated Measurement System to Assess Physical Activity,” National Institutes of Health, 08/23/08-07/31/11, $328,205.

“Health Diagnosis and Prognosis of Drilling Equipment,” Canrig Drilling Technology Ltd., 9/1/08-8/31/10, $267,109.

“Enhanced Electrical Capacitance Tomography for Combustion Visualization,” Pratt & Whitney, 7/1/0912/31/09, $58,082.

“Electrical Capacitance Tomography for Fluid-Air Visualization,” Pratt & Whitney, 7/13/09-12/31/09, $45,000.

“Enhanced Electrical Capacitance Tomography for Combustion Visualization,” Pratt & Whitney, 1/1/1012/31/10, $52,000.

“Electrical Capacitance Tomography for Fluid-Air Visualization,” Pratt & Whitney, 1/1/10-6/30/10, $45,000.

“Probabilistic Dynamic Analysis of Integrally Bladed Rotor,” (with J. Tang (66%)), Pratt & Whitney, 6/1/0912/31/09, $20,000.

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Hanchen Huang “Collaborative Research: Atomistic Mechanisms of Stabilizing Oxide Nanoparticles in Oxide-dispersion Strengthened Structural Materials,” (with J. Lian (57%)), National Science Foundation (DMR), 8/1/097/31/12, $497,000.

“Workshop on Atomistic Interfaces 2009 – Ionic Solids,” U.S. Army Research Office, 7/1/9-4/30/10, $23,500.

“A Self-Consistent Multiscale Method for Modeling the Effects of Neutron Irradiation on the Mechanical Properties of BCC and FCC Metals,” (with S. De (53%)), U.S. Department of Defense, Threat Reduction Agency, 6/1/09-5/30/12, $1,000,000.

“A New Characteristic Length Scale on Surfaces,” National Science Foundation (CMMI), 7/1/09-6/30/12, $280,000.

“Control of New Kinetic Barriers and Design of Nanorods Amount,” U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Science, 3/1/08-2/28/11, $510,000.

“Computational Materials Science Network on Nuclear Materials,” U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Science, 9/1/09-4/30/10, $64,000.

“Composite Technologies,” (with E. Jordan (50%)), Hamilton Sundstrand, 1/1/10-12/31/10, $83,000.

Horea Ilies “MRI: Development of a Gesture Based Virtual Reality System for Research in Virtual Worlds,” National Science Foundation - Computer and Information Science and Engineering, 7/15/2009-7/14/2012, $782,039.

“Geometric Skeletons for Topologically Evolving Domains,” National Science Foundation - Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation, Engineering Design and Innovation Program, 8/1/09-7/31/12, $319,933.

“A Mechanics Framework for the Analysis and Design of Protein Based Nano Machines,” (with K. Kazerounian (40%), A. Anderson (10%) and P. Burkhard (10%)), National Science Foundation, 8/1/097/31/12, $325,108.

“Assessment of UGS Digital Manufacturing Solutions,” Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, $100,528, 7/1/08-12/31/09.

“CAREER: Geometric Singularities in Engineering Design and Manufacturing: a Generic Spacetime Approach,” National Science Foundation - CMMI, Engineering Design Program, 8/1/07-7/31/12, $400,000.

“COGEM: Constrained Geometric Morphing of Product Families of Mechanical Designs,” National Science Foundation - CMMI, 3/1/06-2/28/10, $370,000.

221

Eric H. Jordan “GOALI: Development of Temperature Sensing Doped Particles for Plasma Deposition Diagnostics,” (with M.W. Renfro (50%)), National Science Foundation, 9/15/06-8/31/10, $349,850.

“Remaining Life Estimation of Realistically Contaminated Turbine Blades by Oxide Fluorescence Measurements,” (with M.W. Renfro (50%)), Rolls Royce, Inc., 6/1/08-10/31/09, $80,921.

“Barrier Layers to Improve the Durability of Thermal Barrier Coatings,” (with M. Gell (50%)), Center for Science and Innovation, 5/15/09-5/31/11, $50,000.

“Engineered Nano-Composite Oxides for High Durability Missile Domes Phase II,” (with M. Gell (15%)), Department of Defense/DARPA/Raytheon Co., 4/16/07-7/15/11, $580,000.

“Composite Technologies,” (with H. Huang (50%)), Hamilton Sundstrand, 1/1/10-12/31/10, $83,000.

“Deposition of Thermographic Thermal Barrier Coatings,” Ohio Aerospace Institute, 4/15/10-4/14/2012, $10,000.

“Thin, Dense Ceramic Layers To Improve Thermal Barrier Coating Performance, Durability and Reliability,” (with M. Gell (50%)), U.S. Office of Naval Research, 4/15/09-10/14/10, $50,000.

“Life Prediction for Ceramic Coatings,” Pratt & Whitney, 1/1/10-12/31/10, $60,000.

Kazem Kazerounian “New GK-12: Ingenuity Incubators Develop NSF Fellow Potential and Prepare Tech Students for Engineering,” (with D. Cooper (40%), M.Y. Choi (15%) and R. Washington (5%)), National Science Foundation, 3/15/10-2/28/15, $2,721,405.

“A Mechanics Framework for the Analysis and Design of Protein Based Nano Machines,” (with H. Ilies (40%), A. Anderson (10%) and P. Burkhard (10%)), National Science Foundation, 8/1/09-7/31/12, $325,108.

“Detailed Design and Proof of Various Massage Equipment,” OSIM International Ltd., 7/1/03-6/30/10, $177,331.

“Developing a Robotic Conformance Grinding System,” New Dimension Technologies Corporation, 12/15/06-1/6/11, $281,918.

“Development of a Knowledge Based Expert System for Robotic Grinding,” New Dimension Technologies Corporation, 8/1/09-7/31/14, $257,030.

“MRI: Development of a Gesture-Based Virtual Reality System for Research in Virtual Worlds,” (with H. Ilies (60%), A. Anderson (10%), K. Nowak (10%) and K. Marsh (10%)), National Science Foundation, 7/15/09-9/30/12, $782,039.

“RET Site: The Joule Fellows – Teachers in Sustainable Energies Research Laboratories,” (with M. Wood), National Science Foundation, 5/15/09-4/30/12, $450,000.

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Shiva Kotha “Device for Tooth Cleaning in the Elderly,” (with R. Lalla (30%)), National Institutes of Health, 8/1/097/31/11, $451,862.

“Device for Tooth Cleaning in the Disabled,” (with J. Enderle (15%)), National Science Foundation, 8/1/097/31/11, $220,000.

“CAREER: Hierarchies of Repair in Damaged Bone – A Role for Osteocytes,” National Science Foundation, 6/1/09-5/30/10, $430,000.

“Importance of Beta-Catenin Signaling in Osteocytes Associated with Anabolic Load,” (with D. Rowe (17%) P. Maye (17%) and M. Johnson (20%)), National Institutes of Health, 8/1/08-7/31/13, $1,700,000.

Tianfeng Lu “Reduction of Detailed Mechanisms for Surrogate Fuels,” Princeton University/Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 11/1/08-11/30/10, $34,000.

“Automated Reduction for Alternative Fuels,” Pratt & Whitney, 7/1/09-6/30/10, $61,000.

“Collaborative Research: Petascale Computing, Visualization, and Science Discovery of Turbulent Sooting Flames,” National Science Foundation, 9/1/09-8/30/12, $262,000.

Kevin D. Murphy “Collaborative Research: Improving MEMS Performance by Structural Vibrations,” National Science Foundation, 8/1/08-7/31/11, $49,997.

“Predicting Structural Integrity of Naval Vessels Using a Bayesian Approach: Modeling and Practical Implementations,” Office of Naval Research, 5/1/09-5/31/11, $159,967.

Nejat Olgac “The Development of Control for Hybrid Projectiles,” U.S. Department of Defense/Association of Research Libraries/University of Hartford, 6/1/10-12/31/10, $40,000.

“New Concepts in Fluidics and Cellular Mechanics for Controlled Microinjection,” (with T.H. Fan (50%)), National Science Foundation, 8/15/07-7/31/11, $200,000.

“Fully Automated Micro-injection Procedures for ICSI,” National Institute of Health, Harvard Medical School and UC Davis, 6/15/05-5/31/10, $347,000.

“Novel Framework for Optimizing Non-Uniform Pitch Milling,” National Science Foundation, 6/15/055/31/10, $260,000 (with $6,000 REU Supplement).

“International Collaboration Grant, Novel Framework for Optimizing Non-Uniform Pitch Milling,” National Science Foundation - International Research in Education and Engineering (IREE), 10/1/06-6/30/10, $14,500.

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“Swarm Behavior During Conflicts: From Biological to Engineered Systems,” (with E. Adams (33%)), U.S. Army Research Office, 8/1/07-7/31/11, $271,000.

Ugur Pasaogullari “Hydrogen Reclamation System,” Sustainable Innovations, LLC/NASA, 1/1/10-12/31/11, $30,213.

“Two-Phase Water Transport in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells,” NISSAN Motor Co., 2/1/10-1/31/11, $72,845.

“Direct Boron Fuel Cell Feasibility,” (with P. Singh (50%)), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory/U.S. Army, 2/13/09-8/31/10, $51,000.

“Transient Dynamics of Two-Phase Transport in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells,” NISSAN Motor Co., 2/1/09-1/31/10, $65,127.

“CAREER: Role of Interfaces on Transport Phenomena in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells,” National Science Foundation, 2/1/08-1/31/13, $400,000.

“Effects of Impurities on PEM Fuel Cell Performance and Durability,” (with T. Molter (80%), et al.), U.S. Department of Energy, 1/1/07-12/31/10, $1,985,533.

Michael W. Renfro “Partially-Premixed Bluff-Body Flame Dynamics and Acoustic Coupling in Vitiated Flows,” (with B.M. Cetegen (50%)), National Science Foundation, 6/1/10-5/31/13, $325,000.

“Dynamics of Bluff-Body Stabilized Premixed and Partially-Premixed Flames near Blowoff,” (with B.M. Cetegen (50%)), Pratt & Whitney, 1/1/10-12/31/10, $60,000.

“GOALI: Development of Temperature Sensing Doped Particles for Plasma Deposition Diagnostics,” (with E.H. Jordan (50%)), National Science Foundation, 9/15/06-8/31/10, $349,850.

“Remaining Life Estimation of Realistically Contaminated Turbine Blades by Oxide Fluorescence Measurements,” (with E.H. Jordan (50%)), Rolls Royce, Inc., 6/1/08-10/31/09, $80,921.

“Dynamics of Bluff-Body Stabilized Premixed and Partially-Premixed Flames near Blowoff,” (with B.M. Cetegen (50%)), Pratt & Whitney, 1/1/09-12/31/09, $100,000.

“Innovative Optical Diagnostic Tools for Fuel Cell Development and Operation Control,” (with B.M. Cetegen (33%) and T. Molter (33%)), Connecticut Innovations and UTC Power, 8/1/07-7/31/09, $264,000.

Wei Sun “Development of Biomechanical Models for Analyzing Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Annuloplasty,” American Heart Association National Scientist Development Grant, 1/1/09-12/31/12, $308,000.

“Biomechanical Study to Host Tissue-Implant Interactions in Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacements,” Connecticut Department of Public Health, 7/1/09-2/28/11, $290,304.

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Chih-Jen Sung “Comprehensive Chemical Kinetics of Conventional and Alternative Jet Fuels for Aeropropulsion Combustion Modeling,” NASA, 11/1/09-11/30/10, $105,000.

“MURI: Generation of Comprehensive Surrogate Kinetic Models and Validation Database for Simulating Large Molecular Weight Hydrocarbon Fuels,” U.S. Department of Defense/Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 8/1/09-4/30/12, $761,500.

“Energy Frontier Research Center for Combustion Science,” U.S. Department of Energy, 8/1/09-7/31/14, $900,000.

“Autoignition Chemistry of Gasoline Surrogates Relevant to HCCI Operating Conditions,” National Science Foundation, 9/1/09-8/31/12, $299,999.

“Microchannel Thermo-catalytic Ignition for Advanced Mono- and Bipropellants,” NASA/Plasma Processes, Inc., 0/15/10-1/14/11, $40,000.

Jiong Tang “Efficient Probabilistic Approach Using Order Reduction and Hybrid Models – A New Paradigm for Structural Dynamic Analysis,” National Science Foundation, 9/1/09-8/31/12, $200,000.

“Understanding and Controlling Variation Propagation in Periodic Structures: From Geometry to Dynamic Response,” National Science Foundation, 6/1/09-5/31/12, $143,333.

“Multifunctional Adaptive Piezoelectric Sensory System for Structural Damage Detection,” National Science Foundation, 8/15/05-7/31/10, $117,000.

“DDDAS: A Framework for the Dynamic Data-driven Fault Diagnosis of Wind Turbine Systems,” National Science Foundation, 6/1/06-5/31/11, $212,250.

“Highly Sensitive and Robust Damage Detection of Periodic Structures with Piezoelectric Networking,” Air Force Office of Scientific Research/University of Michigan, 12/15/06-5/31/10, $135,963.

“Modeling and Control Improvement for High Precision Optical Manufacturing,” Gerber Scientific Inc., 11/1/05-6/30/10, $279,198.

“Probabilistic Dynamic Analysis of Integrally Bladed Rotor,” (with R. Gao (33%)), Pratt & Whitney, 6/1/0912/31/09, $20,000.

“Integrated Sensing and Control System for Highway Bridges,” (with R. Christenson (50%)), Department of Homeland Security, National Transportation Security Center of Excellence (NTSCOE), 6/1/09-5/31/10, $100,000.

“Adaptive Control for Air Management Systems,” (with C. Cao (50%)), United Technologies Hamilton Sundstrand, 1/1/10-12/31/10, $91,691.

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Bi Zhang “Software-Supported High Efficiency Grinding,” Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, 6/1/0712/31/09, $67,172.

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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT AWARDS, HONORS, PATENTS 2009-2010 Theodore L. Bergman Elected Member, Scientific Council, International Center for Heat and Mass Transfer, 2010.

Zbigniew M. Bzymek Student Section Advisor Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2010.

Wilson K. S. Chiu Alumni Medal of Excellence, School of Engineering, Rutgers University, 2010.

Amir Faghri Elsevier Certificate of Award, highly-cited article in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (20052009), 2009.

“Vapor Feed Fuel Cells with a Passive Thermal-Fluids Management System,” (with Z. Guo), U.S. Patent No. 7625649, December 1, 2009.

Tai-Hsi Fan Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation, 2010.

Robert Gao Elected Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE), 2010.

“Multi-scale Enveloping Spectrogram Signal Processing for Condition Monitoring and the Like,” U.S. Patent No. 7602985, October 13, 2009.

Hanchen Huang Royal Society of London KTP Visiting Professorship, 2010.

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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT MAJOR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2009-2010 Thomas J. Barber Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

Member, ASME Computational Fluid Dynamics Technical Committee.

Member, AIAA Professional Education Technical Committee.

Organizer, 2nd International Capstone Design Conference, Boulder, CO, June 2010.

Theodore L. Bergman Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Program Director, Thermal Transport Processes Program, Directorate for Engineering, Chemical Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems Division, U.S. National Science Foundation.

Interim Program Director, Combustion, Fire and Plasma Systems Program, Directorate for Engineering, Chemical Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems Division, U.S. National Science Foundation.

Interim Program Director, Particulate and Multiphase Processes Program, Directorate for Engineering, Chemical Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems Division, U.S. National Science Foundation.

Member, Scientific Council, International Center for Heat and Mass Transfer.

Zbigniew M. Bzymek Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Associate Member, Engineering Committee of the Polish Academy of Science.

Member, Pi Tau Sigma Honorary Society.

Member, New York Academy of Sciences.

Session Chair, International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, (IMECE), 2009.

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Presentation: “Problem Solving and Conceptual Engineering Design in the Integrated Manufacturing,” plenary, International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Lake Buena Vista, FL, November 13-19, 2009.

Chengyu Cao Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Associate Editor, IEEE Control System Society Conference.

Associate Editor, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, AIAA contributed papers.

International Committee Member, 3rd International Symposium on Systems and Control in Aeronautics and Astronautics, June 2010.

Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Presentations: “L1 Adaptive Control with its Applications in Aerospace Systems,” plenary, 3rd International Symposium on Systems and Control in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Harbin, China, June 9, 2010.

“Adaptive Control of Turbofan Engines,” invited, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, IL, June 22, 2010.

Brice Cassenti Presentations: “High Temperature Cyclic Creep, Plasticity, and TMF of a Single-Crystal Superalloy: Application to Turbine Airfoils,” (with A. Staroslesky), Propulsion – Safety and Affordable Readiness (P-SAR), March 16-18, Jacksonville, FL, 2010.

“Dislocation Dynamics Modeling in High Temperature Single Crystal Superalloy Ciscoplasticity: Application to Turbomachinery,” (with A. Staroslesky), European Conference on Computational Mechanics, Paris, France, May 16-21, 2010.

Baki Cetegen Presentation: “Transitional Blowoff Behavior of Wake-stabilized Premixed Flames in Unvitiated and Vitiated Flows,” Augmentor Design Systems Conference, Session 17, Paper No. 2, Jacksonville, FL, March 17-19, 2010.

Wilson K. S. Chiu Guest Editor, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, 2009-2010.

Associate Editor, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 2007-present.

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Member, Editorial Board, The Open Energy and Fuels Journal, 2007-present.

Member, Editorial Board, The Open Renewable Energy Journal, 2008-present.

Executive Committee Member (since 2009), ASME Advanced Energy Systems Division, 2009-present.

Chair, ASME Heat Transfer Division K-15 Technical Committee on Transport Phenomena in Manufacturing and Materials Processing, 2009-present.

Vice Chair, ASME Advanced Energy Systems Division Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Technology Technical Committee, 2008-present.

Member, ASME Advanced Energy Systems Division Systems Analysis and Fuel Cell Technical Committee, 2006-present.

Executive Committee Member, ASME International Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology Conference, 2009-present.

Member, The Electrochemical Society Energy Technology Division, 2008-present.

Track Organizer, Track 7: Energy Systems: Analysis, Thermodynamics and Sustainability, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, 2010.

Conference Co-Organizer, 8th ASME International Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology Conference, 2010.

Heat Transfer Division K-15 Technical Committee Representative (KCR), AIAA/ASME Joint Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference, 2010.

Session Organizer, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, 2009.

Session Chair, 7th ASME International Fuel Cell Science, Engineering & Technology Conference, 2009.

Organizer, NSF Panel on Challenges and Opportunities in Manufacturing and Materials Processing, San Francisco, CA, July 21, 2009.

Topic Organizer, Computational Study of Nanostructures and MEMS, MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) Division, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, 2009.

Topic Organizer, Heat Transfer Division K-15 Technical Committee, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, 2009.

Track Co-Organizer, Advanced Energy Systems Division, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, 2009.

Topic Co-Organizer, Systems Analysis and Fuel Cell Technical Committee, Advanced Energy Systems Division, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, 2009.

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Track Co-Chair, Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Energy Technologies, ASME 3rd International Conference on Energy Sustainability, 2009.

Track Chair, ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, 2009.

Session Chair, 14th International Heat Transfer Conference, 2010.

Session Chair, Alkaline Electrochemistry in Fuel Cells, 216th Electrochemical Society Meeting, 2009.

Member, Oversight Committee, UConn School of Engineering Booth Engineering Center for Advanced Technologies, 2009-present.

Member, UConn School of Engineering Academic Information Technology Working Group on High Performance Computing, 2010-present.

Member, UConn School of Engineering Multiscale Computational Science and Engineering Working Group, 2010-present.

Presentations: “Non-Destructive Imaging and Analysis of Electrochemical Reaction Interfaces in a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell,” invited, ARO Workshop Atomistic Interfaces ’09: Ionic Solids, Storrs, CT, August 24-26, 2009.

“Non-Destructive 3-D Structural Imaging and Characterization of Heterogeneous Functional Materials (HeteroFoaMs) for Energy Systems,” invited, National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, February 8, 2010.

“Nondestructive 3-D Imaging and Analysis of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells at sub-50 nm Resolution,” invited, University of South Carolina – Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia, SC, February 12, 2010.

“Nondestructive 3-D Imaging and Analysis of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells,” invited, Symposium on Optical Science and Emerging Energy Technologies, 239th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Francisco, CA, March 21-25, 2010.

“Nondestructive 3-D Imaging and Analysis of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells,” invited, Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Society of Japan, Tokyo, Japan, April 19, 2010.

“Nondestructive 3-D Imaging and Analysis of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells,” invited, Kyoto University & New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, Kyoto, Japan, April 21, 2010.

“X-Ray Imaging and Analysis of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells,” invited, SPring-8 Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, April 22, 2010.

“Elemental Mapping and Analysis of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells by Transmission X-ray Microscopy,” invited, National Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, June 2, 2010.

Mun Y. Choi Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Member, American Society of Engineering Educators (ASEE).

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Member, The Combustion Institute.

President, International Pi Tau Sigma Mechanical Engineering Honor Society.

Member, POSTECH Advisory Council.

Symposium Organizer, Green Science and Technology for U.S. Korea Conference (UKC), Raleigh, NC, 2009.

Symposium Organizer, Global Smart Grid for U.S. Korea Conference (UKC), Seattle, WA, 2010.

Amir Faghri Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE).

Honorary Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.

Editor-in-Chief, Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer.

Editor-in-Chief, Frontiers in Heat Pipes.

Honorary Member, Editorial Advisory Board, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer.

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Heat Transfer Research.

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Applied Thermal Engineering.

Executive Editor, Heat Transfer Engineering Journal (Thermal Storage & Heat Pipes).

North American Editor, Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer.

Member, College of Engineering Council of Advisors, University of California, Riverside.

Member, Board of Directors, Roller Bearings of America, Co. Presentation: “Innovative Passive Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Technologies for Portable Power Applications,� plenary talk, Proceedings of the 7th International Fuel Cell Science, Engineering & Technology Conference, Newport Beach, CA, June 8-10, 2009.

Tai-Hsi Fan Proposal Reviewer, CBET Biomedical Engineering Program, National Science Foundation, June 2010.

Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Member, American Physical Society (APS).

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Presentation: “Modeling of Fluid Membrane Interaction at the Cellular Level,” invited, Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series, University of Massachusetts - Lowell, September 24, 2009.

Robert Gao Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, December 2009-present.

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement, June 2010-present.

Associate Editor, Journal of Mechatronics, June 2008-present.

Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Manufacturing Research, 2006-present.

Co-Chair, IEEE: Technical Committee on Built-in-Test and Self-Test, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, 1999-present.

Scientific Committee Member, North American Manufacturing Research Conference, 2008-2010.

International Program Committee Member, Journal of Metrology and Measurement Systems, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2008-present.

Society Fellow, IEEE Electron Devices Society Review Committee.

Hanchen Huang Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Member, Materials Research Society (MRS).

Member, U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM).

Member, American Society of Materials International (ASM).

Member, Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS).

Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Materials Engineering and Technology, 2009-present.

Member, Editorial Board, Advances in Applied Plasma Science (IAP, Japan), 2001-present.

Co-editor, Philosophical Magazine: Defects in Materials (Special Issue in Honor of Prof. Nasr Ghoniem), 2010.

Chair of Review Committee, Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Reference, Early Researcher Award (ERA), Government of Ontario’s Ministry of Research and Innovation, Canada, 2009.

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Panelist, Early Career Award at the Materials Science and Engineering Program, Office of Basic Energy Science, Department of Energy, 2009.

Guest co-Editor, MRS Bulletin: Atomistic Simulations of Mechanics of Nanostructures, 2009.

Chair, Executive Committee, Atomistic Interfaces Network, 2008-present.

Member, Scientific Committee, Third International Conference of Heterogeneous Materials Mechanics, Shanghai, China, May 22-26, 2011.

Track Co-organizer, Nanoengineering for Energy, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Vancouver, Canada, November 12-18, 2010.

Session Chair, Office of Basic Energy Science Department of Energy Contractors’ Meeting, Airlie Conference Center, VA, October 24-28, 2009.

Chair, Army Research Office (ARO) Sponsored Workshop on Atomistic Interfaces 2009 - Ionic Solids, Storrs, CT, August 24-26, 2009.

Senior Member (Fellow), Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, 2001 - present.

Executive Committee Member, 7th International Symposium on Applied Plasma Science (ISAPS ’09), Hamburg, Germany, August 31-September 4, 2009.

Advisory Committee Chair and Co-founder, Atomistic Interfaces Network Advisory Committee.

Chair, Award Committee of ICCES Young Investigator Award in Experimental Science, 2007-2009.

Chair/Co-Chair, Nanotechnology Committee, U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics, 2003-present.

Member, Expert Committee of Materials Division, Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, 2000-present.

Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Second International Symposium on Computational Mechanics (ISCM II) and the Twelfth International Conference on the Enhancement and Promotion of Computational Methods in Engineering and Science (EPMESC XII), Hong Kong and Macao, November 30-December 3, 2009.

Presentations: “Kinetics-dictated Nanoscale Materials Processing,” invited, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, July 22, 2009.

“Atomistic Simulations of Radiation Damage in Nanograins,” invited, Symposium on Ion Beam and Materials, Materials Research Society Meeting; also XVIII International Materials Research Congresses, Cancun, Mexico, August 16-20, 2009.

“Surface Characteristic Length Scale During Growth,” invited, ARO Workshop on Atomistic Interfaces Ionic Solids, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, August 24-26, 2009.

“Kinetics-dictated Nanoscale Materials Processing,” invited, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin at Madison, WI, September 24, 2009.

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“Twin Boundaries in Nanowires: Knowledge-based Fabrication & Mechanics,” invited, International Conference on Mechanical Property of Materials (ICMPM), Hangzhou, China, May 24-28, 2010.

“Synthesis and Mechanics of Nanostructures,” invited, School of Mechanical Science and Engineering Seminar, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, June 8, 2010.

“Old Fashioned Surface Science in Nanosynthesis,” invited, Institute of Metal Research Seminar, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Shenyang, China, June 10, 2010, “Atomistic Simulations and Modeling of Nanowires - Fabrication and Mechanics,” invited, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Electronic and Information Engineering Joint Seminar, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, June 21, 2010.

“Atomistic Simulations and Modeling of Nanowires - Fabrication and Mechanics,” invited, School of Physics and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Shenyang, China, June 24, 2010.

Horea Ilies Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Associate Editor, Computer Aided Design and Applications, 2010-present.

Executive Committee Member, Design Automation Conference, ASM/International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE), 2010present.

Program Committee Member, ICED International Conference on Engineering Design, 2009.

Program Committee Member, Design Automation Conference, ASME / IDETC & CIE, 2009.

Panel Reviewer, National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation and National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems, 2009.

Session Chair, Design Automation Conference, ASME/IDETC & CIE, International Symposium on Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering, 2010.

Session Chair, IDETC/Design Automation Conference, San Diego, CA, 2009.

Invited Seminar, Iowa State University, Virtual Reality and Applications Center (VRAC).

Session Chair, International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers/Design Automation Conference, San Diego, CA, 2009.

Session Co-chair, Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering, Ancona, Italy, 2010.

Member, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

Eric Jordan Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.

Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

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Member, American Ceramic Society.

Member, Materials Information Society.

Shiva Kotha Member, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES).

Member, Orthopaedic Research Society.

Presentations: “Relationship between in-vivo Mechanical Loading and Activation of Wnt Signaling in Bone,” (with S. Nesbitt, J. Macione, A. Debroy and Y. Roberts), IV European Conference in Computational Mechanics, Solids, Structures and Couple Problems in Engineering, Mechanobiology of Bone Remodeling and Adaptation Mini-Symposium, Abstract 1025, Paris, France, 2010.

“Site of Failure Changes with Magnitudes of Load during Cyclic Loading of Whole Bone,” (with J. Macione, R. Knapp, R. Sterling and M. Eschbach), IV European Conference in Computational Mechanics, Solids, Structures and Couple Problems in Engineering, Mechanobiology of Bone Remodeling and Adaptation Mini-Symposium, Abstract 1032, Paris, France, 2010.

“Changes in Elastic Modulus during Cyclic Loading Measured using Ultrasound – Implications for Fragility Fracture Detection,” (with J. Macione, M. Eschbach, X.-Y. Qin and R. Knapp), Transactions of the Orthopaedic Research Society, Abstract 0635, Vol. 35, New Orleans, LA, 2010.

“Magnitude of Loads Influences the Site of Failure in Whole Bone,” (with J.M. Macione, R. Knapp, R. Sterling, M. Eschbach), Transactions of the Orthopaedic Research Society, Abstract 0619, Vol. 35, New Orleans, LA, 2010.

Tianfeng Lu Senior Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

Member, Combustion Institute.

Session Chair, Fall Technical Meeting of the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, October 18-21, 2009.

George Lykotrafitis Member, Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM).

Session Chair, 16th U.S. National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.

Presentation: “A Coarse-grain Model for Erythrocyte Membrane,” invited, Physics Department Colloquium Series, Clark University, Worcester, MA, December 2, 2009.

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Kevin D. Murphy Co-organizer, 10th International Conference on Recent Advances in Structural Dynamics, Southampton, U.K., 2010.

Nejat Olgac Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE).

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Vibration and Control, 2005-present.

Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Mechatronics and Manufacturing Systems, 2006-present.

Chairman, 2012 IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2010.

Program Chair, ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Hollywood, CA, 2009.

Member, ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division Conference Committee, 2007-2010.

Member, ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division Advisory Committee, 2007-2010.

International Program Committee Member, 2009 IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems, Sinaia, Romania, September, 2009.

Member, Program Committee, Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2010.

Member, ASME Dynamic, Systems and Control Division Advisory Committee, 2007-2010.

Member, ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division Conference Committee, 2007-2010.

Elected Member and Technical Publication Organizer, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Conference of Divisions (ASME-COD), 2008-2011.

Member, Systems and Design Group Operating Board, ASME, 2009-2012.

Member, International Federation of Theory of Machines and Mechanisms (IFToMM), Mechatronics Committee.

Member, International Federation on Automatic Control (IFAC), Linear Systems Technical Committee.

Program Chair, Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (ASME-DSCC), Los Angeles, CA, 2009.

Presentations: “Controls Research Overview at UConn and Practical Applications,” invited, Naval Submarine Medical Research Labs, Groton, CT, March 29, 2010.

“Time Delayed Systems, Bridging between Theory and Realistic Applications,” plenary, IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems,” Prague, Czech Republic, June 8, 2010.

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“Time Delay Systems Research in ALARM Lab, UConn,” invited, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic, June 10, 2010.

“Advances in Time Delay Systems and Research at ALARM Lab, UConn,” invited, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic, June 11, 2010.

“Research Highlights in ALARM Lab, UConn,” invited, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 16, 2010.

Ugur Pasaogullari Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Editor, Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry: Modeling and Diagnostics of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells, Vol. 49, 394 pages, ISBN 978-0-387-98067-6, 2010.

Presentation: “Transport Phenomena in Fuel Cells,” invited, The 2nd International Forum on Multidisciplinary Education and Research for Energy Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology Global COE Program, Okinawa, Japan, December 12-16, 2009.

Michael W. Renfro Member, Executive Board, Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute.

Member, Combustion Institute.

Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

Session Chair, Fall Technical Meeting of the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute.

Session Chair, Augmentor Design Systems Conference.

Presentations: “Local Measurements of Flame Propagation and Extinction via Laser Diagnostics,” FM Global, Norwood, MA, October 6, 2009.

“Application of Two-Color Laser-Induced-Fluorescence Thermometry of OH in an Ultra-Compact Combustor, ” (with S. Kostka, S. Roy, J.R. Gord and R. Branam), 35th Dayton-Cincinnati Aerospace Sciences Symposium, Dayton, OH, March 9, 2010.

“Two-Color OH Laser-Induced Fluorescence for Planar Thermometry in Combustors and Augmentors,” (with S. Kostka, R. Branam, J.R. Gord and S. Roy), Augmentor Design Systems, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, March 18, 2010.

“Transitional Blowoff Behavior of Wake-Stabilized Premixed Flames in Unvitiated and Vitiated Flow, ” (with S.G. Tuttle, S. Chaudhuri, S. Kostka and B.M. Cetegen), Augmentor Design Systems, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, March 18, 2010.

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Wei Sun Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineer (ASME).

Member, American Heart Association (AHA).

Member, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES).

Member, American Society of Biomechanics (ASB).

Member, American Heart Association (AHA) Clinical Bioengineering Grant Peer Review Committee, 2010.

Co-Chair, Cardiac Mechanics, ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference, 2010.

Presentations: “Heart Valve Disease and Treatment,” Glastonbury Senior Community Center, Glastonbury, CT, February 9, 2010.

“Comparison of Mechanical Properties of Porcine and Aged Human Aortic Root: Implication for Animal Trials in Transcatheter Valve Intervention,” (with C. Martin and T. Pham), Valves in the Heart of the Big Apple VI: Evaluation & Management of Valvular Heart Disease 2010, New York, NY, April 15-17, 2010.

“Biomechanics and Modeling of Transcatheter Valve Intervention,” FDA/NHLBI/NSF Workshop on Computer Methods for Cardiovascular Devices, Rockville, MD, June 10-11, 2010.

Chih-Jen Sung Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Member, Combustion Institute.

Presentations: “The Role of Combustion in Green and Sustainable Aviation,” Institute of Thermal Power Engineering, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China, September 25, 2009.

“The Role of Chemical Kinetics in Green Combustion,” Department of Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, February 15, 2010.

“An Evaluation of the Ignition Propensity of Hydrogen in the Presence of Metal Surfaces,” Building and Fire Research Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, May 18, 2010.

Jiong Tang Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics.

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.

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Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Engineering under Uncertainty.

Conference Editorial Board Member, Annual ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, 2009-2010.

Editorial Board Member, Annual American Control Conference, 2009-2010.

Vice Chair, Technical Committee on Vibration and Control of Smart Structures, Dynamic Systems and Control Division, ASME. Bi Zhang Member, International Institution for Production Engineering Research (CIRP), 1997-present.

Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1993-present.

Member, Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), 1992-present.

Member, American Society for Precision Engineering (ASME), 1993-present.

Member, Japan Society for Precision Engineering (JSPE), 1987-present.

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TAYLOR L. BOOTH ENGINEERING CENTER FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY 2009-2010 The center’s theme is High Performance Computation and its Applications. Its mission is to enable research, development and outreach aligned with this theme. BECAT recognizes the rapid rate of technological change and the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of research, and hence promotes and supports collaboration within and beyond the University. BECAT provides opportunities for interdisciplinary high performance computing research among faculty and students by providing shared facilities and software and by offering algorithmic, technical and administrative support.

LARGE PROPOSALS

BECAT submitted a significant number of large multidisciplinary proposals during the year. A selection of those submitted is summarized below: • National Science Foundation Academic Research Infrastructure program (NSF ARI) - This proposal involves the installation of a dedicated 10 gig network connection linking the University of Connecticut’s main campus in Storrs and the University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) in Farmington. PIs from the two campuses participated in this proposal.

• NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program -- This proposal focuses on High Performance Computing and involves participants from several universities in the Northeast including UConn, Dartmouth College, UMass Amherst, Eastern Connecticut State University and others. The proposal was ranked competitive; however, an institutional limit on submissions prevented BECAT from resubmitting the proposal in the second year.

• NSF Science Masters Program (SMP) – This multidisciplinary proposal centers on the development of an education and training program leading to a Science Master’s degree in Computational Sciences, and focuses on development of a skilled workforce for the biotechnology, renewable and sustainable energy, financial/insurance and other industries that rely on computational sciences.

• NSF Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) program – The BECAT team commenced steps to submit a $22M proposal; however, a key industry partner opted to withdraw late in the proposal-writing process. BECAT plans to submit this proposal in the next competition.

• National Institutes of Health Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) program - BECAT played a major role in a recent CTSA resubmission. BECAT will help in such crucial areas as Super and Grid Computing, Data Warehousing and Data Mining, etc. Dr. Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, BECAT Director, will be an Assistant Director of CTSA’s Biomedical Informatics.

• National Institute of Science & Technology (NIST) – BECAT also participated in a proposal to NIST entitled “Center for Precision Measurement & Multi-scale Computation.” This is a multidisciplinary project for precision measurements, modeling and high performance computing. Dr. Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, BECAT Director, was a co-PI on this proposal.

BECAT faculty enjoyed impressive success in securing U.S. Department of Education GAANN (Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need) awards. Two GAANN proposals submitted in the fall of 2009 received funding. One, led by Dr. John Chandy involves Advanced Computing Security; the other, led by Dr. Reda Ammar, involves Advanced Computing. A GAANN proposal submitted in spring 2010 was selected for funding as well. This project is on Cloud Computing and is led by Dr. Rajasekaran. GAANN programs seek to train U.S. students to conduct research and teaching in areas deemed strategically important to the nation’s competitiveness.

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AWARDS

During the year, faculty and students associated with BECAT were honored with various prestigious awards.

Dr. Shengli Zhou, a United Technologies Corporation Professor in Engineering Innovation, was elected to membership in the prestigious Connecticut Academy of Engineering (CASE). He is co-director of the UConn Underwater Sensor Network (UWSN) Lab located in BECAT. Dr. Zhou conducts research involving underwater acoustic communications and networking. Dr. Rajasekaran, the UTC Chair Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Director of BECAT, was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). AAAS is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world. Fellows are elected by their peers in recognition of their scientific contributions. Dr. Rajasekaran was selected based on his distinguished contributions in the fields of applied algorithms, randomized computing, parallel computing and bioinformatics. He is the first faculty member from the UConn School of Engineering to receive this distinction. Dr. Yaakov Bar-Shalom, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, was reappointed to a second fiveyear term as the Marianne E. Klewin Professor in Engineering. The evaluation committee applauded his superior record of scholarly publications, his strong doctoral student mentorship and his original tracking algorithms, which are used by government, private and public installations across the globe. Dr. Ramamurthy ("Rampi") Ramprasad, an associate professor in the Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering Department, has been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Foundation Fellowship enabling him to conduct research at the Fritz-Haber-Institut of the famed Max Planck Society, in Berlin, Germany. Yasaman Ardeshirpour, a doctoral candidate in the Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) Department, working in Dr. Quing Zhu’s BECAT Lab (Optical & Ultrasound Imaging), was awarded a $1,000 scholarship by the Society of Women Engineers at UConn. Her thesis involves diffuse optical tomography using near infrared (NIR) light in imaging of breast cancers and monitoring chemotherapy response. Three BECAT members received National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards: Dr. Lei Wang, assistant professor of ECE, , received a five-year, $486,919 award for research aimed at enhancing the sustainability of cyber-aquatic systems; Dr. Yufeng Wu, an assistant professor of Computer Science & Engineering, received a five-year award totaling nearly $500,000 to conduct research aimed at developing efficient algorithms that will enable accurate inferences to be made from massive data collected in population genomics studies; Dr. Yunsi Fei, assistant professor of ECE, received a five-year, $405,000 award for her research aimed at developing superior computer architectures and designs for secure processing in embedded systems.

INSTITUTIONAL EFFORTS

BECAT submitted a revised application to become a University Research Center. Traditionally, BECAT has had the heaviest participation from departments within the School of Engineering. With a focus on enabling technologies in high performance computing and informatics, BECAT is exceptionally positioned to develop interdisciplinary programs across the departments at UConn and the UConn Health Center (UCHC). With the charter and mandate of a University Center, BECAT would further promote the participation and contribution from numerous departments at UConn and UCHC. BECAT has been instrumental in starting a working group on Multiscale Computational Science and Engineering. An organizational meeting was held on May 7, 2010 to discuss individual areas of expertise and plan objectives to promote cross fertilization, and to identify faculty strengths and strategic advancement.

Collaboration with researchers at the UCHC has resulted in an agreement with the Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling (CCAM) to merge the CCAM supercomputing facilities with those in BECAT. Researchers at both facilities will benefit from the combined computing resources and obtain technical expertise on the best way to employ high performance computation. Another agreement is in place between BECAT and the Institute for Public Health Research (IPHR) to foster collaboration on interdisciplinary research projects. A number of seminars have been planned for this summer and fall to foster high performance computing.

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During the year, BECAT co-sponsored the International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA) 2010.

STAFF AND MEMBERSHIP

BECAT’s organizational structure consists of: Director - Dr. Rajasekaran (CSE); Associate Directors - Drs. Leslie Loew (UCHC) and. Peter Willett (ECE); Administrative Coordinator - Ms. Sandi Lizee; and Technical Support Administrator - Justin Neumann.

BECAT has 62 affiliated members, with faculty from Chemical, Material & Biomolecular Engineering (CMBE), Chemistry, Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE), Computer Science & Engineering (CSE), Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE), Mechanical Engineering (ME), Statistics, and the UConn Health Center (UCHC).

BECAT Oversight Committee Members include: Mike Accorsi, CEE; Reda Ammar, CSE; Robert Aseltine, IPHR; Yaakov Bar-Shalom, ECE; Robert Birge, CHEM; Molly Brewer, UCHC; Wilson Chiu, ME; Steve Demurjian, CSE; Yusuf Khan, UCHC; Leslie Loew, UCHC; Peter Luh, ECE; Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, CSE (Chair); Ranjan Srivastava, CMBE; Peter Willett, ECE; Mun Choi, Dean SoE, (Ex officio); and Charles Lowe, PSY, (Ex officio).

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CENTER FOR CLEAN ENERGY ENGINEERING ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY 2009-2010 During the past fiscal year, the Center for Clean Energy Engineering (C2E2) – formerly known as the Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center (CGFCC) – has expanded its mission and vision to broaden the research and development in transforming “Science to Systems” related to advanced energy conversion systems ranging from highly efficient fuel cell systems to clean utilization of bio-fuels and renewable energy resources. Building upon the core scientific and engineering knowledge of fuel cell technologies, the center has broadened its focus such that it now serves as a nexus for activities involving fundamental and applied research in a variety of clean and efficient energy systems (from energy conversion to fuels to power management) as well as training of 21st century scientists and engineers. With its expanded mission, C2E2 operates as a multi-disciplinary research, education and outreach center focusing on sustainable energy engineering leadership to address and meet the emerging “energy and climate” challenges at the national and global levels.

The center’s efforts are geared toward catalyzing the transformation of science-to-systems for a global “Sustainable Energy Economy” through academic research and industrial development of cost-effective solutions to current and emerging technologies. Advanced energy conversion technologies, fuels and fuel processing, energy storage, power management and smart grid and conservation of natural resources with a focus on water are all part of our larger research and educational portfolio. This expanded vision is enhanced by the skills and knowledge of new, multidisciplinary faculty hired through the Sustainable Energy Initiative, the incorporation of which better equips the center to provide solutions to global energy and environmental challenges.

EXPANDED RESEARCH SCOPE

To better address emerging global concerns, C2E2 has expanded its research scope to address a wider range of sustainable energy interests, including the development of pioneering technologies that harness renewable sources of energy, improve existing energy production methods for fossil fuels, and integrate these sources for universal implementation through power conversion systems. The inclusion of faculty, researchers, and students from various engineering and science disciplines enables the C2E2 to pursue this multifaceted approach.

The center continues to build on its established leadership in advanced fuel cell research by focusing on improving long-term stability, performance degradation mechanisms, component materials, and stack/systems design. In addition, C2E2’s scope of energy research has expanded in the following areas: • • •

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Advanced Energy Materials, Processes and Systems - Improving the efficiency and durability while reducing the cost of high- and low- temperature fuel cells and other power conversions devices.

Combustion Science and Technology – Creating novel techniques for chemical conversion of fuels; improving the quality of emissions and increasing the efficiency of existing methods of conversion.

Energy Storage and Power Management - The storage and conversion of energy obtained from fossil fuels, bio-fuels, fuel cells, solar, wind, and hydroelectric sources for distributed generation applications through the development of enabling technologies for the “smart grid.”

Fuels and Fuel Processing - Improving hydrogen production, catalysis, and heat integration for fuel reformation; improving waste heat recovery and reducing CO2 emissions in coal refineries; thermochemical and hybrid cycles; gasification and extracting energy from sources of organic material such as coal, petroleum, bio-fuel and biomass.

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EMINENT FACULTY INITIATIVE IN SUSTAINABLE ENERGY

The ongoing Eminent Faculty Initiative in Sustainable Energy continues to be supported by a permanent $2 million annual sum from the Connecticut General Assembly, paired with matching support from three industrial partners during the first year of operation: FuelCell Energy of Danbury, CT, the Northeast Utilities Foundation, and UTC Power of South Windsor, CT. The Initiative seeks to establish a program aimed at advanced research, education and training in sustainable “green” energy.

Building on the successful hiring of the previous school year, three new core researchers were hired who bring with them key experience in diverse energy areas, such as power conditioning and smart grid technology, solar energy, fuel reformation and waste emission reduction. Two of these new faculty members, Drs. Sung-Yeul Park and Alexander Agrios, came in the fall of 2009. Dr. Park (Ph.D. Virginia Polytechnic Institute) joined the department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, and his research interests include power conditioning and conversion of different energy sources to be used in a “Smart Grid” power system.

Dr. Agrios (Ph.D. Northwestern University), who joined the department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, has research expertise in the general area of solar technologies, specifically in titanium dioxide nanoparticulates as applied in the reduction of environmental pollution and in implementation as semiconductors to dye-sensitized solar cells. A third faculty member, Dr. Georgios Bollas (Ph.D. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), joined the department of Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering in January 2010. Dr. Bollas’ research interests include hydrogen production, developing efficient catalysts for energy refinery operations, and processes such as chemical looping for power production and waste emissions capture.

In addition, for the fall 2010 term, C2E2 will welcome four new faculty members hired through the Eminent Faculty Initiative in Sustainable Energy: Drs. Chris Cornelius, Radenka Maric and Ashish Mhadeshwar, who will join the Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering (CMBE) department; and Dr. Peng Zhang, who will join the Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) department. These faculty will help to increase the center’s expanding expertise on materials structure and composition for increased efficiency and reduced cost for fuel cell performance; power quality, energy storage, and smart grid integration; and fuel reformation, energy production, and waste emissions reduction.

ENERGY RESEARCH PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

C2E2 serves as one of the major hubs for activities associated with the sustainable energy initiative, pioneering new energy technologies, training the energy workforce, and fostering innovative spinoff opportunities. The center is committed to its mission to promote fundamental and applied research in sustainable energy in collaboration with Connecticut and national academic and industrial partners, with funding from diverse private and federal entities. Since its inception, research expenditures for the C2E2 total over $14 million. For the fiscal period 2009-10, the C2E2 forecasts expenditures of approximately $1.5 million. The center’s expenditures reflect approximately 75% from federal sources and 25% from industrial funding. Our federal partners included the National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Naval Research (ONR), Pacific Northwest National Labs/Battelle Memorial Institute and Idaho National Laboratory. Our regional, state and industrial partners include Connecticut Innovations, the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund, UTC Power, FuelCell Energy, the UTC Research Center, Rolls Royce, Siemens, Northeast Utilities and others. Research highlights from a few of the major programs are as follows:

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Associated mitigation strategies for long-term stable operation will be developed and verified through bench top tests. Technology gaps will be identified through close collaboration with industrial partners.

Environmental impact ranging from air to water quality (pre- and post- conversion processes) will be studied. A systems based approach will be taken to understand the overall degradation processes.

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Recent research has examined the effects of certain commonly-occurring hydrocarbon species on fuel cell performance using standardized tests developed in collaboration with other DOE contractors. This has included the development of analytical chemistry techniques to determine the impurity content in the fuel stream as well as the development of membrane characterization techniques. We have also examined the effects of cationic contaminants on the physiochemical properties of proton exchange 246

membranes using new test protocols developed by C2E2. Modeling activities have been conducted to help explain the performance impact on PEM fuel cells. Future research will investigate the role of airborne contaminants – such as air pollutants from transportation and industry, natural occurrences, roadside and environmental contamination –on the long-term operability and performance stability of low temperature fuel cells in real-world commercial applications.

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NSF CAREER: “Role of Interfaces on Transport Phenomena in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells” – PI: Dr. Ugur Pasaogullari This project deals with micro- and nano-scale interfaces and their role on transport phenomena in polymer electrolyte fuel cells. Last year, in collaboration with the NIST Physics Laboratory and using the Neutron Imaging Facilities at NIST’s Center for Neutron Research, Dr. Pasaogullari and his graduate 247

students, Josh Preston and Richard Fu, proved the role of micro-scale interfaces and developed numerical models that closely predict the neutron radiography measurements. Work on nano-scale interfaces is ongoing.

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NSF: “Electrochemical Reactor for Spontaneous Power Generation and CO2 Capture” - PI: Dr. William Mustain This program focuses on understanding the underlying mechanisms of creating carbonate selective oxygen reduction catalysts under fully hydrated conditions, the influence of carbonate anions on anion exchange membrane stability and the feasibility of oxidizing both hydrogen and methanol with carbonate anions. Since its inception in February 2010, this work has yielded three submitted publications and four accepted conference presentations. Research results demonstrate that carbonate is – surprisingly – a more efficient oxidizer than hydroxide. Also, operating anion exchange membranes on carbonate significantly improves durability compared with OH-. Finally, we have demonstrated a room temperature carbonate fuel cell. Our future efforts will focus on enhancing the efficiency and selectivity of this fuel cell.

Faculty members and researchers associated with the C2E2 have, collectively, published 3 books, 21 book chapters, 176 archival journal articles, 155 peer reviewed conference proceedings, and 116 presentations through employment of 125 graduate students and 30 undergraduates in research projects.

FACILITIES EXPANSION

To meet the needs of the expanded research and development activities in the field of energy, the center has enhanced its technical capabilities by adding numerous key research facilities in the areas of fuels and catalysis, structural and functional materials, energy conversion systems, energy storage, and power conditioning. This expansion of capabilities complements the university’s existing resources and provides added value to students in conducting timely research. In keeping with this role, the facility has just completed upgrades in terms of the receipt and planning of new complementary equipment and the implementation of additional safety features for the handling of various commonly used gases. In the past year, the center has installed the following equipment: distributed hydrogen system that allows for hydrogen to be metered into each research laboratory, FEI Environmental SEM, Bruker High temperature X-Ray Diffractometer, Netzsch dynamic high pressure heat flow differential scanning calorimeter, Netzsch simultaneous thermal analyzer, Micromeritics high performance adsorption analyzer, LabConco glove box for material processing and an Arbin test stand and Diablo real time gas analyzer The addition of the above equipment greatly enhances the resources available for energy researchers and complements capabilities already present on the campus. These additional unique capabilities will allow the center and the University of Connecticut to further develop and expand collaborations with industry, state and federal entities, academia and national laboratories as our focus broadens to one of expanded energy technologies.

ENERGY EDUCATION AND OUTREACH HIGHLIGHTS

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Visits by numerous state, national and international partners, some of whom presented seminars highlighting their scope of work to facilitate a broader understanding of activities within the technical community. These included: o State: Connecticut Clean Energy Fund and Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology.

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Federal: Idaho National Laboratory; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; U.S. Department of Energy; U.S. Army Engineering, Research and Development Center; Army Research Laboratory; NASA, and Naval Undersea Warfare Center.

Academic: POSTECH, Rutgers University, St. Andrews University, Indian Institute of Science, KIST, and others.

Various center personnel actively participated in the planning for the 8th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology, to be held June 14-16, 2010 in New York City. The conference is sponsored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Dr. Singh is the conference technical chair and Dr. Wilson Chiu and Ms. Patricia Bergman both serve as conference co-chairs.

Education and outreach activities - In April 2010, the center hosted two visits consisting of over 90 middle school students participating in the Connecticut Kids Fueling the Future program, which involves students from six New Haven, CT middle schools. The students enjoyed an introductory presentation followed by demonstrations of biodiesel production, solar energy, water purification and osmosis, power electronics and butanol fermentation and fuel cells.

Professional training – The C2E2 began a training partnership with Connecticut-based HABCO Inc. Throughout the summer and into the fall of 2009, C2E2 personnel are providing full-day training to business development and engineering employees.

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CONNECTICUT TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY 2009-2010 During the past year, the Connecticut Transportation Institute (CTI) has been very active in its mission to conduct transportation related research, outreach and technology transfer. CTI personnel and affiliated faculty members have continued to serve on national, regional and state committees that have increased CTI’s prominence at all levels.

CTI relocated to a different facility on the UConn Depot Campus, a move that enabled CTI to consolidate all of its operations into one building.

CTI serves as a focal point for transportation research in Connecticut. Throughout the past year, CTI/UConn personnel met repeatedly with Connecticut legislators to discuss ways to improve Connecticut’s transportation system and to reduce the negative economic consequences arising from inadequate attention to the State’s transportation infrastructure. The need for a highly skilled transportation workforce has been identified as one of the biggest challenges facing both Connecticut and the nation. This has become especially urgent as a significant portion of the current transportation workforce approaches retirement age.

CTI’s continued success and growth are indicative of the important mission CTI plays in meeting the transportation needs of Connecticut and the nation.

The following continuing programs operate within the institute: the Connecticut Advanced Pavement Laboratory, the Center for Transportation and Livability, the Connecticut Technology Transfer Center, and the Connecticut Cooperative Transportation Research Program.

Research and educational projects currently underway within CTI are funded by a diverse set of agencies: the Connecticut Department of Transportation, U.S. Department of Transportation – including the Federal Highway Administration – the New England University Transportation Center, NorthEast Transportation Technician Certification Program and the six New England states through the New England Transportation Consortium. CTI has continued to enjoy strong partnerships with industry, non-profit and government agencies while at the same time developing new strategic partnerships whenever possible. CTI’s main programs include strong advisory committees that ensure the programs are fulfilling each program’s mission.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

Center for Transportation and Livability (CTL) • Funded continuing second-year work on four research projects: (1) Assessing the Impact of Light Rail Transit on Land Values and Tax Revenues; (2) Green Modes of Transportation for Connecticut's Mixed Use Developments; (3) Reversing Urban Sprawl: A Reclaimability Index Approach for Reviving Downtown Brownfields; and (4) Public Transit Design for Smart Growth: Using Choice Experiments to Quantify Tradeoffs, Values and Funding Implications.

• Reviewed seven new project proposals submitted for 2010-11 funding.

• CTL graduate student, Craig Yannes, was selected University Transportation Center Outstanding Student of the Year.

Connecticut Technology Transfer (T2) Center • Provided 66 training sessions and special events to over 3,000 participants in the areas of safety, infrastructure management and workforce development.

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Honored 69 transportation professionals who completed the Connecticut Road Master, Road Scholar and Legal Traffic Authority Certificate Programs.

Partnered with the Connecticut Department of Transportation to develop a series of training programs via streaming media to build a library of web based training resources, Presented Connecticut Creative Solution Awards to the Town of Bloomfield and the Connecticut Department of Transportation.

Donna Shea, Program Director, served as the Chair of the 2009 National LTAP/TTAP Conference planning committee.

Partnered with the Connecticut Highway Street Supervisors Association (CHSSA) to host the Technology Transfer Expo with more than 60 vendors and 500 participants.

Developed a series of Debris Management and Operational Safety training programs for the public works community to support emergency management educational efforts in Connecticut.

Coordinated educational sessions for the Connecticut Association of State Highway Officials (CASHO) for their 2010 Equipment and Technical Show.

Partnered with the Connecticut Construction Industries Association and the Connecticut DOT to host the 2010 Connecticut Paving Conference.

Developed a training partnership with the Connecticut Chapter of the American Planning Association.

Actively participated on the Connecticut Work Zone Highway Safety Council.

Connecticut Advanced Pavement Laboratory (CAP Lab) • Presented certificate and educational programs to transportation technicians and consultants from throughout the United States and Canada.

• Completed multiple studies with the Connecticut Department of Transportation to improve the longterm performance of construction materials. These studies focused on: o Reducing the number of traffic levels used in asphalt pavement mixture design. o The effect on concrete’s freeze-thaw durability when using a dolomitic limestone sand in Portland cement concrete.

• Began work on a pilot project to reduce the required temperatures for asphalt pavement. This will reduce fuel consumption during production while also reducing emissions.

• Began work to develop an asphalt surface treatment to increase friction at the tire-pavement interface. This will enhance automotive safety by increasing traction.

Connecticut Cooperative Transportation Research Program (CCTRP) • Completed work and submitted final reports for two projects: Designing Roads that Guide Drivers to Choose Safer Speeds and Evaluation of Stormwater Quality Associated with Milling of HMA Surfaces.

• Funded work on five continuing projects: (1) Structure and Properties of Ionomer Modified Asphalt; (2) Assessing and Quantifying Public Transportation Access; (3) Experimental Testing of Controllable Damping Devices toward Extending the Lifespan of Existing Highway Bridges; (4) Improving Surveying Accuracy and Efficiency in Connecticut: An Accuracy Assessment of GEOID03; and (5) Incorporating Wet Pavement Friction into Traffic Safety Analysis.

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CENTER FOR RESILIENT TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY 2009-2010 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Transportation Security Center of Excellence (NTSCOE) was established in the School of Engineering (SOE) in July 2008 and is currently nearing completion of its second program year. The mission of the center is to provide research, education and outreach programs that address DHS needs in the area of transportation infrastruc..ture protection and security. The focus of UConn’s efforts within the NTSCOE has been on modeling and simulation of vulnerability in complex transportation networks, development of advanced materials for protection of infrastructure subjected to extreme events, modeling and simulation of infrastructure under extreme loads and development of sensor networks to monitor the behavior of structures.

Dr. Michael Accorsi (Civil & Environmental Engineering) assumed the directorship of the center in May 2009. His expertise in structural engineering, modeling and simulation and advanced materials coincides closely with the center’s theme and mission. The center was renamed the Center for Resilient Transportation Infrastructure (CRTI) in May 2009 to better reflect the scope of its work. Amy Smith joined CRTI in March 2010 as the Center’s Administrative Services Specialist to assist with proposal development, budgeting and education and outreach activities.

During the second program year, 14 faculty members, 14 graduate students and eight undergraduate students associated with four engineering departments (Civil & Environmental Engineering; Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering; Computer Science & Engineering; and Mechanical Engineering) performed research on five DHS projects supported by approximately $1M in DHS funding. The project areas included: • Strengthening and modeling of earth embankments under high loads (M. Chrysochoou, D. Basu and A. Bagtzoglou); • Modeling and sensor deployment for transportation network vulnerability (R. Ammar, S. Rajasekaran and N. Lownes); • Characterization and modeling of ultra-high performance concrete for resilient transportation infrastructure (A. Zofka, M. Accorsi and J. Mahoney); • Integrated sensing and control system development for bridge structures (R. Christenson and J. Tang); and • Impact resistant multifunctional composite sensors for structural monitoring (R. Hebert, B. Huey, G. Rossetti and J.H. Kim).

In February 2010, a multidisciplinary team of UConn faculty members (R. Hebert, B. Huey, G. Rossetti, J.H. Kim) – joined by colleagues from Rutgers University (R. Riman) and the University of Rhode Island (A. Shukla) – received an additional, two-year DHS grant ($865k) to develop and test new advanced composite materials for blast and fire resistance.

In May 2010, the work of CRTI was recognized at the National Security Innovation Competition (organized by the Colorado Homeland Defense Alliance) where three of the center’s graduate students (Z. Jiang, E. Lovejoy and X. Wang) won second place for their work involving the development of a symbiotic structural health monitoring and control system for resilient highway bridges under the guidance of Drs. R. Christenson and J. Tang.

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Announcement of new research projects for the third program year were made by DHS in June 2010 after a competitive selection process conducted by DHS. The three new UConn projects are: • RISK, Resilience and Response Models with Applications to High-Speed Rail Transportation Corridors (N. Lownes, R. Ammar, S. Rajasekaran and J. Ivan) • Rapid and Robust Evaluation of Bridge Load Carrying Capacity after Damaging Event (R. Christenson and J. Tang) • Advanced Concrete and Geo-Materials for Resilient Transportation Infrastructure: Material Level to System Level Integrated Design (D. Basu, M. Chrysochoou, A. Bagtzoglou, A. Zofka and M. Accorsi) In the upcoming year, CRTI will continue to perform innovative research to address DHS needs in transportation infrastructure security and will strengthen transition of its research products to practical application. The CRTI will focus on leveraging DHS support for transportation security research by pursuing additional external support from other agencies. New initiatives to link the private sector with CRTI activities will also be created.

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CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION AND LIVABLE SYSTEMS ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY 2009-2010 The Center for Transportation and Livable Systems (CTLS) was established in 2005 as one of 66 University Transportation Centers (UTC) in the SAFETEA-LU transportation legislation. CTLS supports research, education and outreach activities that fall under its thematic focus “Sustainable, Livable and Secure and Livable Transportation Systems,” which includes ideas and topics associated with transportation for smart growth. The next year will bring a new transportation bill and with it a new national focus in transportation on inter-disciplinary collaboration and green engineering. The center will work diligently to ensure that CTLS is part of this national conversation.

Dr. Nicholas Lownes (Civil & Environmental Engineering) assumed the directorship of CTLS in March of 2010. As an active researcher in traffic engineering and simulation as well as public transportation systems and transportation economics, his interest and expertise mesh well with the focus and direction of the center.

In the summer of 2010 the center was renamed (CTLS was formerly the Center for Transportation and Urban Planning, CTUP) to better allow us to leverage the research and technical expertise at UConn within and beyond the School of Engineering toward addressing the pressing national transportation issues and research needs.

During the third program year, 13 faculty members, 15 graduate students and nine undergraduate students associated with four departments (Civil & Environmental Engineering; Economics; Geography; and Landscape Architecture) performed research on four CTLS projects supported by approximately $250,000 in U.S. Department of Transportation and matching funding. The project areas included: • Assessing the Impact of Light Rail Transit on Land Values and Tax Revenues (C. Atkinson-Palombo, J. Clapp, N. Lownes and R. Cromley) • Green Modes of Transportation for Connecticut’s Mixed Use Developments (P. Miniutti, E. Yegir and D. Dimov) • Public Transit Design for Smart Growth: Using Choice Experiments to Quantify Tradeoffs, Values and Funding Implications (N. Lownes, R. Johnston, N. Garrick and E. Jackson) • Reversing Urban Sprawl: A Reclaimability Index Approach for Reviving Downtown Brownfields (M. Chrysochoou, N. Garrick, K. Segerson and A. Bagtzoglou) 2009-10 saw the continuation of many exciting research projects, resulting in impactful publications and presentations across the country. CTLS chose graduate student Craig Yannes as Student of the Year, for which he was formally recognized at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) annual meeting.

Enhancements to our dynamic transportation laboratory offer visitors a prime view of exciting hands-on research and also demonstrate its use as a high-tech classroom, giving transportation faculty the opportunity to introduce software and interactive content into their courses.

New research projects for the fourth program year were announced by CTLS in May 2010 following a competitive external review and selection process conducted by the center. The five new UConn projects are: •

Quantifying Transit‐Oriented Development’s Potential Contribution to Federal Policy Objectives on Transportation‐Housing‐Energy Interactions (PI: C. Atkinson-Palombo)

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Effect of Low‐Impact Sustainable Transportation Design as a Strategy for Alleviating Stormwater Runoff and Reducing GHG Emissions (PI: J. Bushey) Assessing the Relationship between Transportation Mode Choice and Transportation Land Consumption (PI: N. Garrick) Developing an Index for Comparing Sustainability of Statewide Transportation Systems (PI: N. Garrick) Transportation System Sustainability and Adaptation Using Physarum Polycephalum (PI: N. Lownes)

CTLS will pursue many useful, interesting and engaging activities in the coming year. A revamped website will be publicly launched soon, connecting our researchers with prospective and current partners, students, transportation officials and funding agencies across the world. A variety of workshops, presentations and other opportunities will also be conducted to engage and appeal to a broad array of stakeholders. The exciting and diverse challenges within transportation systems and community development will provide excellent opportunities to showcase the research and educational excellence of CTLS and UConn researchers in the years to come.

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BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING PROGRAM ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY 2009-2010 Biomedical Engineering (BME) activities at UConn have a rich 45-year history of success and accomplishment. The BME Program is located at the main campus in Storrs and the UCHC in Farmington.

The School of Engineering offers B.S., M.S. (Plan A and B) and Ph.D. degree programs in BME, and participates in the combined BME B.S. and MD/DMD degree program. The undergraduate curriculum offers tracks in the following areas: biochemical engineering, biofluid biomechanics, bioinformatics, bioinstrumentation, biomaterials, and biosolid biomechanics. By combining studies of engineering science and engineering design with core courses offered in other programs, the BME B.S. degree program ensures graduates are prepared for the unpredictable, team-centered workplace or for graduate studies in engineering or a medical professional program. In addition to core science and math coursework, students are immersed in biomedical engineering, biomechanics, biomaterials, and a variety of biomedical design and measurement courses.

The BME Program participates in the sequential B.S.-to-MD/DMD program, one of several programs that provide selected students guaranteed admission to the UConn Health Center, providing that: •

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All academic standards and contingencies (including maintaining a 3.2 GPA throughout the undergraduate years) are fulfilled to the satisfaction of either medical or dental schools at the UCHC; and The student successfully completes the B.S. degree program in Biomedical Engineering.

Students must apply to this program when they apply for admission to the University and the School of Engineering.

Beyond the traditional M.S. program option, graduate students may choose a two-year 30-credit hour Clinical Engineering Internship M.S. program that permits graduate students to gain an in-depth exposure to medical technology in the following medical institutions: Hartford Hospital, the University of Connecticut Health Center, UMass General Hospital in Worcester, West Haven VA Medical Center, Providence VA Medical Center, Middlesex Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Boston VA Hospital, Brigham & Women’s in Boston and the Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA. Graduate students may also choose from another option, a BME Industrial Engineering Internship that permits students to gain in-depth exposure to the conception, design and manufacturing of health care products.

Dr. John Enderle is the BME Program Director and Dr. Donald Peterson is the BME Graduate Program Director. Approximately 50 faculty members contribute to the interdisciplinary BME program, representing engineering, biomedical sciences, materials sciences, chemistry, physics, medicine, and dental medicine.

The BME faculty are leaders in their fields, have published widely in scholarly journals and proceedings, are significantly involved in their professional societies, and receive substantial financial support from industry, foundations and government funding agencies, including the NIH and NSF. Details on publications, service and external research support appear in the departmental submissions.

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS HIGHLIGHTS

During the academic year 2009-2010, the program graduated three Ph.D. and 21 M.S. degree graduate students, and 38 B.S. degree students (including nine Honors Program students). Enrollment for the 2009-10 period stood at approximately 300 undergraduates. The BME graduate program has approximately 60 256

master’s students and 25 Ph.D. candidates. Seventy-five percent of the graduate students are full-time, and approximately 85% of the full-time students are supported via a graduate assistantship. Approximately 90 students, roughly 35% of our undergraduate population, are in the University Honors Program.

The National Biomedical Engineering Honor Society (Alpha Eta Mu Beta) at UConn was created in 20082009 as the 24th chapter. Twenty-three students were inducted into the Honor Society in 2008-2009, and approximately 20 in 2009-2010.

The BME Mentoring Program is a service organized by the students in BME Student Society. Freshmen and sophomores are paired with upper-classmen, who serve as academic mentors. Undergraduate BME students also serve as Undergraduate Teaching Assistants in the BME laboratories.

The IEEE-EMBS student branch chapter and Biomedical Engineering student chapter hosted the 5th annual BME Career Fair for the northeast region on February 4, 2010. Exhibitors were interested in candidates for the full spectrum of positions, from full-time employment to internships and co-ops. Among the employers attending the fair were Covidien, Philips Respironics, the Veterans Health Administration, National Instruments, the Hartford Hospital Department of Biomedical Engineering, the Association for Women in Science (AWIS), Massachusetts General Hospital, Teleflex Medical, Yonsei University of Seoul, Korea – which was recruiting students to its study abroad program – and UConn, which has a clinical engineering internship position available.

Except for the senior design lab that was recently moved to the Castleman building, all other undergraduate BME labs are located in two large laboratories in the Bronwell Building: the Biomechanics and Biomaterials activities are in room 215, and the Biomeasurements, Biosystem Analysis and Freshman Biomedical Engineering activities are located in room 212. Two other labs in LabView are offered in the Engineering Computer Cluster. All of the undergraduate labs are based on virtual instruments using National Instruments hardware and LabView. With these two courses and the BME laboratories, BME students are eligible to receive LabView certification from our partners Bloomy Controls and National Instruments when they graduate. Our program is the only one in the world with this certification.

An educational objective of the UConn BME program is to train global leaders. Participating in study abroad is the first step toward achieving this goal. The program has 14 study abroad agreements with BME programs around the world, and another seven in process. In partnership with the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, the BME program offers a dual degree in BME and French, German, Spanish or Italian.

The dual degree program supports our efforts to prepare global leaders in BME. The BME program offers students a special degree option to secure a B.S. and M.S. degree in just five years.

It is available to UConn BME undergraduate students only.

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ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING PROGRAM ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY 2009-2010 STUDENTS AND GRADUATES

The Environmental Engineering (ENVE) Program has 12 M.S. and 21 Ph.D. graduate students and 55 undergraduate ENVE majors. A number of undergraduate students enrolled in other engineering degree programs and non-engineering majors are also pursuing minors in ENVE. The vast majority of graduate students are full-time and financially supported. During the year, the ENVE Program graduated three M.S. and three environmental engineering undergraduates. Fifty-seven graduate applications were received for the fall 2010 semester: of these, 51 were offered admission into the program and 11 have accepted admission, bringing our projected total of graduate students to 44 for fall 2010. In addition, three post-doctoral researchers are associated with the ENVE Program.

FACULTY

Detailed activities of the ENVE faculty can be found in the annual reports of their home departments.

However, as an indicator of their high level of collective scholarly activity it can be mentioned that the core of the ENVE faculty (i.e., those with primary appointment in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering) published 41 journal articles, one book, and three book chapters; authored 19 full-paper conference proceedings; and made 41 presentations during this past year.

Dr. Thomas Torgersen (Marine Science) is on a one-year leave, serving as the Director of the Hydrological Science Program at NSF. Dr. Nelly Abboud (CEE) is on long-term disability leave. Dr. Emmanouil Anagnostou was named the Northeast Utilities Foundation Endowed Chair in Environmental Engineering, and Dr. Guiling Wang was appointed the Al Geib Professor in Environmental Engineering Research and Education.

Across the program, external funding continues to be strong, with research expenditures of nearly $880,000 and more than 44 active intramural and extramural grants totaling more than $1.1 million (for core ENVE faculty only), including prestigious national research awards such as NSF Early Career Development (CAREER) and NASA New Investigator Program (NIP) awards. Our ENVE faculty hold many positions of administrative authority. Dr. Kenneth Noll of Molecular & Cellular Biology (MCB) is Chair of the graduate program in Microbiology. Dr. John Clausen (NRME) is co-Chair of the Environmental Sciences program and chair of the Senate Executive Committee. Dr. Baki Cetegen, Head of Mechanical Engineering (ME), is a member of the Combustion Institute’s executive board and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Dr. Glenn Warner (NRME) is the Director of the Connecticut Institute of Water Resources. Dr. Michael Willig (EEB) is the Director of the Center of Environmental Sciences & Engineering. Dr. Amvrossios Bagtzoglou (CEE) is Head of the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department. Dr. Wang (CEE) is the Director of the Environmental Engineering Program.

Dr. Anagnostou (CEE) serves on NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission peer review committee and the International Precipitation Conference Steering Committee. Dr. Bagtzoglou (CEE) is a member of the AGU Hydrology Section Groundwater Technical Committee, the ASCE Groundwater Hydrology Committee, the IAEG Commission 14 (Underground Disposal of Waste), and the Science and Technical Advisory Committee for the EPA Long Island Sound Study. Dr. Baikun Li is an Editorial Board member for Water Journal and Clean-Water, Soil, Air; Dr. Mekonnen Gebremichael is an Editorial Board member for Remote Sensing; and Dr. Bagtzoglou is an Editorial Board member for Environmental Forensics, The Open 258

Civil Engineering Journal, The Open Environmental Engineering Journal and Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. Drs. Anagnostou, Wang, Bagtzoglou, Gebremichael, and Lanbo Liu (all of CEE) serve as associate editors for the Journal of Hydrology, Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences, the Open Environmental Engineering Journal, Atmospheric Research, and Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, respectively. Dr. Xiusheng Yang (NRME) serves as editor-inchief for Advances in Agricultural Science and Technology. Dr. Gebremichael (CEE) serves as UConn’s representative to the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science (CUAHSI). Dr. Anagnostou was elected to membership with the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE).

Dr. Li won the Women of Innovation award from the Connecticut Science Council for research innovation and leadership.

At the international level, Dr. Anagnostou (CEE) serves as an advisor to the National Observatory of Athens, a Leader of a European Union Marie Curie Excellence Team at the Hellenic Center for Marine Research, and is a member of the International Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) and the International Science Steering Committee of HyMEX Project. As in previous years, the ENVE faculty had significant involvement in international conferences, including the AGU Fall and Spring Meetings and numerous other international conferences. In addition to more than 45 multi-disciplinary proposals submitted this year, our faculty continued to develop several new international research proposals with colleagues from Denmark, Israel, Greece, France, Italy, Ethiopia, China and the United Kingdom. Faculty members (Drs. Gebremichael, Wang, Anagnostou and Bagtzoglou) in the ENVE program led the development of the strategic plan for a 10-year “Ethiopian-U.S. Partnership in Sustainable Water Resources,” which has been recommended for funding by USAID-HED. Drs. Gebremichael and Bagtzoglou led the development of an educational proposal for development of online graduate programs for the Ethiopian Ministry of Education.

OUTREACH

ENVE faculty participated in many outreach activities and events for the undergraduate program. These activities included school career fairs, the Explore Engineering summer program, the ENGR 1000 environmental workshop, the Northeast Regional Science Bowl, the Connecticut Invention Convention, and visits to high schools throughout the state. Dr. Allison MacKay (CEE) continues to be involved with the Society of Women Engineers student chapter. The program was well represented at the fall and spring open houses. Drs. Bagtzoglou and Gebremichael (CEE) worked closely with the newly formed UConn chapter for Engineers without Borders (EWB). Drs. Gebremichael and Bagtzoglou serve as primary and secondary faculty advisors of the UConn EWB chapter, respectively.

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The ENVE program participated in a variety of important activities at the University and School levels: the National Research Council survey, high-profile fundraising events (e.g., IBM, Hamilton Sundstrand, Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, XEROX, U.S. Department of Homeland Security), the Provost’s Academic Plan Committee, and the INTD Courses & Curriculum Committee. The weekly seminar series continues to be a success, as evidenced by high and steady attendance. It is a forum that fosters interactions and enhances visibility. The ENVE graduate program has been ranked by the UConn Committee for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Programs to have the potential to achieve national distinction.

This evaluation was based on externally derived data for our program’s quality and performance. It is one of only two graduate programs within the School of Engineering and only one of eight graduate programs in UConn (out of almost 70) to receive this distinction. ENVE received the highest rank (79th percentile) among these programs. Moreover, it was highly ranked in journal publications per faculty, and median time to degree.

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Significant participation of ENVE faculty and students in national and international conferences, high-profile publications in archival journals and book chapters, professional accreditation, and involvement in seminars and collaborative research continue to offer the ENVE Program national recognition and respect.

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MANAGEMENT & ENGINEERING FOR MANUFACTURING PROGRAM ANNUAL REPORT 2009-2010 The Management & Engineering for Manufacturing (MEM) program continued its development during the year. With a program requiring 139 credits of coursework for the degree, the MEM program is the most demanding undergraduate program.

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

MEM senior design projects were again sponsored by Connecticut industry. There were seven projects for this year, and the majority involved teams of two students. Sponsors included Dymax, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, Sikorsky Aircraft, Frito Lay and DRS. Enrollment remains stable over the four years. The 2009-10 freshman class had 27 students. Thirteen students graduated in May 2010.

The MEM Society once again provided help for the two engineering Open Houses. It also held the annual spring banquet with current students and many alumni in attendance.

Employment opportunities were again strong both for graduates and students seeking summer internships.

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UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS OFFICE ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY 2009-2010 During the 2009-2010 academic year, the School of Engineering Undergraduate Program continued to grow toward the overall goal of 2,000 enrolled students by fall 2011. The fall 2009 entering class of 425 students represented a modest increase compared with the fall 2007 entering class of 415; however, we continue to surpass the goal of enrolling a minimum of 400 entering students per year. The undergraduate student body has increased to 1,896, a 9% increase compared to the fall 2007 data. Enrollments in our Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering programs continue to show the largest growth. The academic quality of the entering engineering students continues to improve, due in part to our challenging and well respected programs. The average SAT score of entering freshman students was 1,278, which is approximately 80 points higher than the average SAT score of freshman students entering UConn’s other programs. The School of Engineering’s first-year promotion rate ranges from 86% to 92% by class.

Additionally, the School of Engineering is promoting the experiential learning achieved through Cooperative Education-Work Program (CO-OP) and global engineers by making the study abroad opportunities more available. The School of Engineering joined the Global Engineering Education Exchange (Global E3) in 2008.

UNDERGRADUATE DEMOGRAPHICS

The School of Engineering’s undergraduate student population is 83% male and 17% female. Female enrollment has increased by 26% since fall 2007. Over the same period of time the ethnic diversity of the School’s undergraduate population has experienced a similar change. The African American student enrollment has increased by 13% and the Hispanic/Puerto Rican student enrollment has increased by 54%.

The number of students in the category labeled ‘other ethnicity/no indication’ has increased from 275 students to 353 during this time frame. The new federal ethnicity requirements will allow students to more accurately define their ethnicity. The introduction of these new categories will make future comparisons between previous years more challenging until the data base is populated with the newer classification data.

The University of Connecticut has an excellent Honors Program that enriches the undergraduate experience for qualified students throughout the four-year curriculum. The School of Engineering continues to have the highest proportion of Honors students (12% of its undergraduate population) among the eight schools and colleges at UConn granting bachelor’s degrees. The average proportion of Honors students in each unit is 7.9% of the programs’ total undergraduate population. The Assistant Dean’s involvement as a member of the College of Technology advisory board to the 12community college system has resulted in a significant increase of diverse transfer students from this 12-campus state system. The number of enrolled internal and external transfer students continues to grow in number due to the outreach efforts at the State’s 12 community and technical colleges and to the Academic Center for Exploratory Students. This is just one indication of our strong academic and outreach programs.

The six-year graduation rate for engineering students is approximately 50 percent. Most of students who left engineering, graduate from one of the other schools within UConn and are included in the overall University’s graduation rate of approximately 74% over a six-year span. This year, 341 students graduated from the School of Engineering. In spring 2010, the School of Engineering awarded more than $352,263 in scholarships to 240 continuing students.

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The School of Engineering (SoE) continues to support various outreach/recruiting initiatives throughout the year. In addition to the highly successful fall Open House and spring Visitation Day involving faculty, students and staff, the SoE conducts outreach to students and teachers in middle and high schools throughout the State and region. Our largest external event hosted this year was the Connecticut Invention Convention.

This was our 12th year supporting this state-wide event where students solve problems through discovery of information and invention. Over 700 K-8th grade students representing 110 schools brought their inventions to Gampel Pavilion to be judged by more than 180 professionals and to be seen by more than 4,000 spectators.

The link between skillful chess play and a student’s proficiency in engineering and math is generally acknowledged within the educational community. This relationship is at the heart of a novel effort by the School of Engineering to attract more students who are keen competitors in the chess world. The School continued to host regional chess tournaments and hosted the State Championship this year where over 100 K through 12th grade students competed for top honors.

As an outreach activity focused on bringing talented high school students to the SoE, for the fifth consecutive year the School of Engineering organized, sponsored and hosted the 2010 Northeast Science Bowl (NESB) for high school students. The NESB drew 36 science bowl teams and nine solar cell car teams from across Connecticut as well as New York, Rhode Island and New Hampshire. The 2010 champion team from Glastonbury High School claimed the winner’s laurels and the honor of representing the region at the National Science Bowl tournament, which took place in Washington, DC. The da Vinci Project, a one-week program for middle and high school mathematics, science and technology teachers, continues to be highly regarded. In July 2009, eight teachers attended this residential program and participated in a variety of research areas such as biofuels and nanotechnology. In 2009, SoE introduced the Joule Fellows Program, a NSF funded Research for Teachers (RET) program. The five-week summer program hosted 11 middle and high school science and math teachers from Connecticut and Massachusetts.

During this program each teacher, with a faculty and graduate student mentor, participated in a series of workshops, facility tours, and guided research in a lab whose research is focused on sustainable energy. Our one-week Explore Engineering residential program—which introduces participating high school juniors and seniors to engineering disciplines via a variety of hands-on experiments and allows them to focus in a particular engineering discipline—continues to be popular. Attendees are nominated by their high school math and science teachers. This year we had 95 students from seven states attend this residential program.

Twenty six percent of our high school participants were female, which has helped to increase the number of undergraduate women in engineering to 17%.

Our Director of Advising participated in the Middlesex County Career Expo held at Wesleyan University on April 29, 2010. This expo was attended by 800 diverse high school students from 10 high schools in Middlesex County. Additionally, the Director of Advising makes several counseling visits to UConn’s Regional Campuses to educate and recruit students in academic transition into engineering and participated in an engineering panel at Conard High School.

DIVERSITY

Recruitment of ethnically, culturally and gender-diverse populations of faculty, staff and students is critical to a successful academic program. The School’s Diversity Director, Kevin McLaughlin, is the primary contact and coordinator of all Engineering Diversity Program (EDP) activities. Our Saturday morning fall and spring semester Pre-Engineering Program (PEP) for under-represented students in grades 7-9 – targeting primarily inner-city (urban) school districts – remains stable at 50–59 students. In 2009-10, PEP relied upon 263

19 engineering undergraduate student mentors who guided the PEP students with their hands-on bi-weekly projects and served as the younger students’ mentors, role models and confidants. Our 16th annual all-day Multiply Your Options (MYO) Conference for 8th grade girls, which featured 24 different workshops/panel discussions, was attended by over 220 students and their teachers. Each workshop presenter was a female engineering undergraduate or a professional from an area of engineering, math or science.

The Engineering Diversity Program (EDP) conducted its BRIDGE program, a five-week residential summer program for our newly admitted underrepresented freshman population. Populations underrepresented in the school of engineering included females and traditional minorities. The program “primes” the students for the demands of the engineering curriculum through classes in calculus, chemistry, physics and computer programming, and includes study sessions, group activities and on-site industry visits. Twenty four students completed last year’s 22nd annual BRIDGE program.

A number of our professional student chapters remained active and committed to the recruitment and retention efforts of the EDP. The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) and Society of Women Engineers (SWE) student chapters have continued their recruiting activities in Hartford, East Hartford, Middletown, Bridgeport and Bloomfield. Members of the NSBE student chapter sponsored weekly study sessions, conducted biweekly technical seminars and current event discussions for all students, raised scholarship funds and hosted an annual NSBE awards banquet.

ACADEMIC RESOURCES

The School of Engineering continues to offer academic resources to increase promotion and retention of enrolled students. These include: 84+ hours of peer tutoring weekly for lower division courses in mathematics, chemistry, computer programming and physics; peer mentoring through the Mentoring, Advising and Tutoring (MAT) Center; weekly tutoring from discipline-specific professional honor society members; COOP and internship placement personnel; career fairs (2 annually); and faculty advising.

Additionally, tutoring services are offered in upper division engineering courses. These academic resources have improved our freshmen promotion rate to approximately 90%. Thanks to a sustaining grant from an anonymous alumnus, we have been able to expand our tutoring to include upper division courses in the junior year of many majors.

ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

As the demand for well educated engineers increases and plays a more significant role in obtaining an entry level position, the school has created two new minor programs and individual degree programs have identified areas of concentration within majors that reflect leading edge technologies within the major.

These minors and concentrations reflect the change in corporate expectations and include a minor in Electronics and Systems and a joint minor in Engineering Management with the School of Business. As new faculty members are hired under the Eminent Faculty initiative, the School is able to offer certificates and concentrations in emerging energy fields. The School has joined an international group, Global Engineering Education Exchange (Global E3), which enables our students to more easily participate in a study abroad and enroll in classes covering content that we are unable to provide.

For the academic year 2009-10, we admitted 17 valedictorians and salutatorians to the School of Engineering. At our annual awards banquet in April 2010, 240 continuing students were awarded $352,000 in scholarships. Forty-six students are members of the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, and eightythree undergraduates are members of the individual major honor societies. The Dean’s List acknowledged 410 continuing students with a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 3.533 in the fall ‘09 and 418 continuing students in the spring ‘10 with a CGPA of 3.550.

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