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College Announces First-Quarter Top Grantees
12/07/07
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Hamid Sharif-Kashani receives his award from Dean David Allen and Associate Dean for Research Namas Chandra. |
Eleven College of Engineering faculty were honored Friday at the inaugural Dean's Research Recognition Breakfast.
The event recognized the top grantees from the first quarter of the 2007-08 fiscal year. Honorees received a clock inscribed with the words "Research on the Move."
This quarter's top grant recipients and their awards are:
Bing Chen, computer and electronics engineering - "Silicon Prairie Initiative on Robotics in IT (Phase II)," National Science Foundation.
Yuris Dzenis, Joseph Turner and Ruquiang Feng, engineering mechanics - "NIRT: Nanomanufacturing and Analysis of Active Hierarchical Nanofilamentary Nanostructures," National Science Foundation.
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Faculty who were recognized at the inaugural breakfast included Joseph Turner, Laurence Rilett, Bing Chen, Hamid Sharif-Kashani and Carl Nelson. They are pictured with Dean David Allen. |
Shane Farritor, mechanical engineering; Carl Nelson, mechanical engineering; Hamid Sharif-Kashani, computer and electronics engineering; and Joseph Turner, engineering mechanics - "Track Stability Assessment and Data Transmission," U.S. Department of Transportation.
Laurence Rilett, civil engineering - "Region 7 University Transportation Center," U.S. Department of Transportation.
William Velander and Kevin Van Cott, chemical and biomolecular engineering - "cGMP Recombinant FIX and Oral Hemophilia B Therapy," Department of Health and Human Services National Heart Lung and Blood Institute.
Brent Wilson, mechanical engineering, and Joseph Turner, engineering mechanics - "Development of Improved Product Performance Through Optimization and Modeling of Engineering Materials, Processing, and Function," Brenco/Amsted Industries.




