The Engineering Genesis Award for Multidisciplinary Research was presented to 29 Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) researchers and their teams during the Faculty Awards banquet on April 4.
The TEES researchers who secured significant research grants of $1 million or more received a brass casting of an egg representing the start of a big idea. Each project is anticipated to grow into a scientific breakthrough, new company or entirely new industry that will inspire additional ideas and educate the next generation of researchers.
The awards were presented to the following:
PI: Cindy Lawley, workforce development; Co-PIs: Hamid Parsaei, industrial and systems engineering; Randall Gorham and Dean Schneider, TEES
- “The Texas Defense Aerospace Manufacturing Community”
PI: Gerard Cote; Co-PIs: John Hanks, biomedical engineering; Keith Biggers, Texas A&M Center for Applied Technology; Jeffrey Cirillo, microbial pathogenesis and immunology; Nicolaas Deutz, Marielle Engelen and Gabriella Ten Have, health and kinesiology
- “Persistent Readiness through Early Prediction (PREP) Project”
PI: Eleftherios Iakovou, engineering technology and industrial distribution; Co-PIs: Thomas Ferris, industrial and systems engineering; Randall Gorham, TEES; Prabhakar Pagilla, mechanical engineering
- “Robotics and Automation Decision Framework for Agility and Resilience (RADAR)”
PI: Roozbeh Jafari, electrical engineering;Co-PIs: Arul Jayaraman, chemical engineering; Ivan Ivanov and Ranjana Mehta, biomedical engineering; Steven Riechman, kinesiology
- “Integrated fatigue analysis and prediction using breath analysis and wearable sensors referenced to neurophysiological fatigue indices”
PI: Felipe Guzman, aerospace engineering
- “21-IIP21-0014, compact optomechanical accelerometers for space geodesy”
PI: Dinakar Sagapuram, industrial and systems engineering;Co-PI: Prabhakar Pagilla, mechanical engineering
- “MetPeel: Novel clean energy alternative for steel strip production”
PI: John Hamilton, computer science and engineering
- “2021 NCAE-C-003 – Norwich University (SMC Cyber Grant Program 2021)”
PI: Timothy Jacobs, multidisciplinary engineering
- “Reducing compressor station methane emissions through advanced lean burn combustion employing radical ignition and feed-forward cycle controls”
PI: Bryan Rasmussen, mechanical engineering; Co-PIs: David Claridge and Heather Lewis, mechanical engineering; Juan Carlos Baltazar, multidisciplinary engineering, Carlos Yagua and James Eggebrecht, Energy Systems Laboratory
- “Texas A&M University Industrial Assessment Center”
PI: Bahman Yazdani, Energy Systems Laboratory; Co-PIs: Mehdi Azizkhani and Carlos Yagua, Energy Systems Laboratory; Juan Carlos Baltazar, multidisciplinary engineering; David Claridge, mechanical engineering
- “City of Houston – Implementation of UCRMs”
PI: Jason George, biomedical engineering
- “Understanding immune-specific cancer evasion to design optimal personalized therapy”
PI: Samuel Noynaert, petroleum engineering; Co-PI: Alan Palazzolo, mechanical engineering
- “Radjet technology analysis-Phase 1 proposal: Digitize, analyze, test design”
PI: Bahman Yazdani, Energy Systems Laboratory; Co-PI: Ahmet Ugursal, Energy Systems Laboratory
- “LOA 002: Commissioning of MLIT”
PI: Alexandra Walsh, biomedical engineering
- “Autofluorescence lifetime microscopy for label-free detection of cell metabolism for cell biology research”
PI: Qing Sun, chemical engineering
- “A deep learning and experiment integrated platform for stable mRNA vaccines development”
PI: Xuejun Zhu, chemical engineering
- “Discovery and development of drug cocktails evolved by nature”
PI: Perla Balbuena, chemical engineering; Co-PIs: Jorge Seminario, chemical engineering
- “Understanding and controlling interfacial instabilities”
PI: David Staack, mechanical engineering; Co-PIs: Daniel McAdams, mechanical engineering; Christopher Holshouser, Dean Schneider and Kiley Wren, TEES
- “4D Bio3 Fabrication in Austere Military Environments (FAME): Passive detection SARs-CoV-2 breathalyzer for operational medicine”
PI: Bahman Yazdani, Energy Systems Laboratory; Co-PI: Ahmet Ugursal, Energy Systems Laboratory
- “LOA 003: Commissioning of FIS”
PI: Pushkar Lele, chemical engineering
- “Biophysical determinants of chemotaxis in helicobacter pylori”
PI: Rodney Bowersox,aerospace engineering; Helen Reed, Nathan Tichenor and Edward White, aerospace engineering
- “TA-2, Task Order #2: Extension of multiscale modeling upgrades and validation, and hypersonic tunnel modernization”
PI: Jeetain Mittal, chemical engineering
- “Liquid-liquid phase separation in heterochromatin organization”
PI: Bahman Yazdani, Energy Systems Laboratory; Co-PI: Ahmet Ugursal, Energy Systems Laboratory
- “LOA #009 – Deferred maintenance – RFQ-RFP development and advertisement and selection process”
PI: Kyle Alfriend,aerospace engineering; Manoranjan Majji and Robert Skelton, aerospace engineering
- “Tensegrity In-Space Manufacturing and Engineering Systems (TIMES) Institute”
PI: Abhishek Jain, biomedical engineering
- “Determinants of COVID19-induced venous thrombosis and targeted therapy assessed with bioengineered vein-chip”
PI: Kiju Lee, engineering technology and industrial distribution; Co-PIs: Muthukumar Bagavathiannan, soil and crop sciences and Juan Landivar, AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi; Co-Investigators: John Cason, Texas A&M AgriLife Research; Robert Hardin, biological and agricultural engineering; Luis Tedeschi, animal science; and Dugan Um, mechanical engineering at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
- “NRI: CASS: Configurable, adaptive and scalable swarm of ground and aerial robots for collaborative smart agriculture”
PI: Srikanth Saripalli, mechanical engineering
- “Testing and evaluation of autonomous trucking”
PI: Guofei Gu,computer science and engineering; Co-PIs: Shaoming Huang and Chia-Che Tsai, computer science and engineering; Walter Magnussen, Texas A&M Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center
- “Resilient & Intelligent NextG Systems (RINGS): NextSec: Zero-trust, programmable and verifiable security transformation for NextG”
PI: Krishna Narayanan, electrical and computer engineering; Co-PIs: Jean-Francois Chamberland-Tremblay and Sebastian Hoyos, electrical and computer engineering; Sunay Palsole, engineering remote education
- “Resilient & Intelligent NextG Systems (RINGS): Resilient wireless systems for future uplink traffic through cell-free, loosely coordinated access”