 The Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center was officially designated as a "Vertical Lift Rotorcraft Center of Excellence" by the Vertical Flight Foundation. The program, supported by the U.S. Army, Navy and NASA at a total of about $7 million over a period of five years, will advance fundamental understanding and predictive and design optimization capabilities in rotorcraft science and engineering.
 A joint research team led by two structural engineering professors – Chung C. Fu and Yunfeng Zhang in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)–has recently been awarded a research project with a total budget worth $2.67 million by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration. The project aims to develop a “smart bridge” condition-monitoring system that features a number of technology innovations, including remote-sensing capability, piezo paint acoustic emission sensors, wind- and solar-based energy harvesting devices to power sensor networks, high-speed wireless sensing ability and advanced data analysis methods for remaining-life estimation of aging bridges.
 The Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory (CATT Lab), under the direction of CEE’s Michael L. Pack, has received two separate Urban Area Security Initiative grants totaling $2.3 million. Both grants are awarded by the Department of Homeland Security and will last approximately two years. These projects aim to strengthen information sharing and collaboration capabilities within the national capital region by expanding upon the existing Regional Integrated Transportation Information System and creating tools that can be used by regional officials to help make collaborative decisions regarding work-release, evacuations, etc. The project team members also include the North Carolina State University and URS Corporation.
Associate Professor Nuno Martins (electrical and computer engineering [ECE]/Institute for Systems Research [ISR]) is the principal investigator of a new National Science Foundation Cyber-Physical Systems grant, “Remote Imaging of Community Ecology via Animal-borne Wireless Networks.” The research will develop autonomous systems that monitor and protect endangered animal species. The four-year, $1.8 million grant is a collaborative proposal with the National Geographic Society and ECE/ISR alumna Naomi Leonard at Princeton University. Leonard's Ph.D. advisor at the Clark School was Professor P.S. Krishnaprasad (ECE/ISR).
Fischell Department of Bioengineering (BioE) associate professor Helim Aranda-Espinoza is part of an international team recently awarded a three-year, $1.35 million Human Frontier Science Program research grant for a proposal to study cell migration in complex environments.
A proposal to advance the development of a system for regenerating large areas of bone in patients with serious injuries has received a four-year, $1.35 million grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health. Clark School Associate Professor and Associate Chair John Fisher (BioE) is the lead investigator on the project, which seeks to provide cultured tissue with a better blood supply and more structural support after implantation.
Associate Professor Benjamin Shapiro (BioE/ISR) is a co-PI on a new National Science Foundation grant to develop tools that could mass-produce revolutionary materials for future technologies such as optical computing, energy harvesting, sub-diffraction limit imaging and invisibility cloaking. “First-Principles Based Control of Multi-Scale Meta-Material Assembly Processes” is a four-year, $1.2 million Collaborative Research Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation Type II grant that focuses on precisely controlling ensembles of nanoparticles to create defect-free crystals for optoelectronic metamaterials, in a way that has the potential to scale up to fabrication.
Professor John Baras (ECE/ISR) is the principal investigator for a $1 million cooperative agreement with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). A research team led by Baras will help NIST develop and deploy standards, test methods, and measurement tools to support consistently reliable performance of new smart systems. Associate Professor Mark Austin (CEE/ISR) and ISR postdoctoral researcher Shah-An Yang are co-principal investigators on the agreement.
Canon U.S. Life Sciences, Inc., a subsidiary of Canon U.S.A., Inc., and the Clark School have launched a new research collaboration to develop a highly automated system providing rapid infectious disease diagnosis. Utilizing Canon U.S. Life Sciences’ proprietary genetic analysis system, the project aims to expedite the delivery of infectious disease test results while also simplifying the test process to allow a variety of clinical staff to perform automated disease diagnosis.
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