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Awards Received July 1, 2020 - June 30, 2021

COVID-19 award - 12 -

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Dr. Eugene Olevsky, Dean

Office of the Dean Dr. Eugene Olevsky Total: $560,000 University of California Office of the President: “2020-2021 MESA Engineering Program (MEP) $10,000 2021-2022 MESA Engineering Program (MEP),” $10,000; “Math, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) MESA Schools Program (MSP) - Jeanette Ramos,” $360,000; “Math, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) MESA Schools Program (MSP) - Luis Topete,” $180,000

Aerospace Engineering Dr. Ahmad Bani Younes Total: $50,000 Space Micro Inc: “Modeling of Pointing, Acquisition and Tracking (PAT) System for Laser Communication Terminal,” $50,000 Dr. Gustaaf Jacobs Total: $103,827 U.S. Department of Defense Air Force Office of Scientific Research: “Learning in Multi-Scale Models with Stochastic Source Coupling,” $103,827 Dr. Xiaofeng Liu Total: $667,162 U.S. Department of Defense Office of Naval Research: “Pressure Reconstruction of a Planar Turbulent Flow Field with Inner Void Areas of Arbitrary Boundary Shapes,” $25,460 U.S. Department of Defense U.S. Army: “Equip and Establish the Laboratory of Experimental Fluid Dynamics at SDSU with Full Range Measurement and Analysis Capabilities in Particle Image Velocimetry,” $599,702 National Aeronautics and Space Administration: “Prandtl-D Aerodynamic Load and Induced Thrust Validation Using Time-Resolved Stereoscopic Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) Wind Tunnel Measurements (Fellow - Brad Zalenko),” $42,000 Dr. Ping Lu Total: $50,000 National Aeronautics and Space Administration: “Advanced Aeroassist and Powered Guidance Technology for Human Planetary Missions,” $50,000 Dr. Pavel Popov Total: $110,000 American Chemical Society: “A New Class of Probability Density Functions for Turbulent Combustion Modeling,” $110,000 Dr. Satchi Venkataraman Total: $15,897 M4 Engineering: “Design Tools for Advanced Tailorable Composites,” $15,897

Civil & Environmental Engineering Dr. Reza Akhavian Total: $738,503 National Science Foundation: “CAREER: Co-Adaptation and Trust in Worker-Robot Interaction Toward Scalable Adoption of Collaborative Robots in Construction,” $691,328 University of California Merced: “Caltrans Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Safety Management System (USMS),” $47,175

2020-2021 SDSU Awards Listing


Dr. Robert Dowell and Dr. Julio Valdes Total: $256,052 General Dynamics NASSCO: “Fatigue Testing of Full-Scale Swage Panels for Ships,” $74,708; “Fatigue Testing of Full-Scale Swage Panels for Ships,” $181,344 Dr. Alicia Kinoshita Total: $192,252 Colorado School of Mines: “Fuel Treatments and Hydrologic Implications in the Sierra Nevada,” $74,788

Alicia Kinoshita measures streamflow in the Sierra Nevada. PI: Alicia Kinoshita Photo courtesy of Jonathan Smith

National Science Foundation: “Coupling Post-fire Vegetation and Volumetric Sediment Regimes in Urban Mediterranean Systems,” $113,124 Southern California Coastal Water Research Project: “Watershed Modeling of the San Diego River and Tijuana River Watersheds,” $4,340 Dr. Marta Miletic Total: $136,319 The San Diego Foundation: “Sustainable Leadership Academy: Exposing Girls and Underrepresented Students to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Careers,” $136,319 Dr. Victor Ponce and Dr. Matthew Verbyla Total: $140,473 Michigan State University: “Knowledge-to-Practice – K2P: Mapping and Implementing Knowledge to Practice Utilizing the Global Water Pathogen Project (GWPP),” $140,473 Dr. Hassan Tavakol-Davani Total: $349,999 National Science Foundation: “Sustainable Water Infrastructure for Adapting to Coastal Climate Change,” $349,999 Dr. Julio Valdes Total: $5,882 New Mexico State University: “Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) Advancing Regolith-Related Technologies and Education (MARRTE),” $5,882



Dr. Matthew Verbyla Total: $99,653 Water Research Foundation: “Demonstration of Pathogen Removal Credits for Wastewater Treatment,” $99,653 Mr. Thomas Zink Total: $544,630 U.S. Department of Defense Army Corps of Engineers: “San Clemente Island Botany Program Implementation,” $544,630

Electrical & Computer Engineering Dr. Baris Aksanli and Dr. Huu Nguyen Total: $248,779 U.S. Department of Defense Office of Naval Research: “Training Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) in Cybersecurity, Sensor Processing, Communication Technology, and Artificial Intelligence at San Diego State University,” $248,779 Dr. Sunil Kumar Total: $249,993 U.S. Department of Defense Air Force Research Laboratory: “Mobility-Adaptive Cross-Layer Protocols for Airborne Networks with Single-/Multi-Beam Directional Antennas,” $200,000 PAR Government Systems Corporation: “Novel Adaptive Multicast Routing in Directional Airborne Networks,” $49,993

Communication challenges in UAV networks PI: Sunil Kumar

Photo courtesy of Kumar Lab

Dr. Chunting Mi and Dr. Kevin Wood Total: $2,837,672 CA State Energy Commission: “Cost-Effective Integration of Second-life Batteries with Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Systems for Commercial Buildings,” $2,837,672 Dr. Christopher Paolini Total: $249,999 U.S. Department of Defense Office of Naval Research: “Training Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Students in the Development and Deployment of FPGA Accelerated Network Intrusion Detection Systems for Identifying Indicators of Cyber Attack,” $249,999 Dr. Satish Sharma Total: $280,000 U.S. Department of Defense Office of Naval Research: “Agile Antenna for Troposcatter Communications,” $150,000 Fuse Integration: “Resilient Directional Mesh Enhanced Tactical Airborne Networks,” $80,000 National Aeronautics and Space Administration: “Applicability of Hybrid-Beamforming Based Massive MIMO Antenna Arrays Concepts for 5G Millimeter Wave Applications to SmallSats Platforms,” $50,000 Dr. Lal Tummala Total: $249,900 Department of California Highway Patrol: “Testing Services for Police Traffic Radar and Laser Speed Measuring Devices,” $249,900



Dr. Junfei Xie Total: $227,025 National Science Foundation: “CAREER: Towards Networked Airborne Computing in Uncertain Airspace: A Control and Networking Facilitated Distributed Computing Framework,” $227,025

Mechanical Engineering Dr. John Abraham Total: $19,937 U.S. Department of Defense Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC): “Senior Capstone Project: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Launcher and Multi-UAV Deployment System,” $9,937 National Institute of Aerospace: “2021 NASA RASC-AL Moon to Mars Ice Prospecting - Materials Stipend,” $10,000 Dr. Asfaw Beyene Total: $25,000 U.S. Department of Energy: “Industrial Assessment Centers, SDSU,” $25,000 Dr. Subrata Bhattacharjee Total: $85,000 National Aeronautics and Space Administration: “Residence Time Driven Flame Spread Over Solid Fuels,” $85,000 Dr. Joaquin Camacho Total: $41,580 National Science Foundation: “INTERN DCL: Synergistic Project on Flame Spray Pyrolysis for Energy Storage Electrodes Supporting Shruthi Dasappa at Argonne National Lab,” $41,580

PhD student Shruthi Dasappa and Dr. Joaquin Camacho in front of a high-temperature carbon synthesis setup where extra hot flames are used to produce nano-crystalline carbon nanoparticles. PI: Joaquin Camacho Photo courtesy of Camacho Lab

Dr. Randall German and Dr. Eugene Olevsky Total: $60,000 National Aeronautics and Space Administration: “Multi-Scale Modeling and Experimentation on Liquid Phase Sintering in Gravity and Microgravity Environments,” $60,000 Dr. Samuel Kassegne Total: $26,595 University of Washington: “National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Neurotechnology (CNT),” $26,595 Dr. Karen May-Newman Total: $75,000 The San Diego Foundation: “BELIEVE: Black Empowered Learners in Innovative Engineering EnVironmEnts,” $75,000 Dr. Fletcher Miller Total: $110,000 National Aeronautics and Space Administration: “Developing the Narrow Channel Apparatus as a NASA Standard Material Flammability Test – Flight Experiment,” $110,000



Dr. Zahra Nili Ahmadabadi Total: $25,000 StarNav LLC: “Swarm of Intelligent Agents for Unpredictable, Scalable, and Adaptable Search of Uncertain GPS-Denied Environments,” $25,000 Dr. Eugene Olevsky Total: $200,000 U.S. Department of Defense U.S. Army: “Advanced Sintering Processing Techniques for Consolidation of Novel Nanocrystalline Metals & Ceramics,” $150,000 National Science Foundation: “I-Corps: Load Bearing Ceramic Bone Scaffolds Produced via 3D Printing,” $50,000

Dr. Olevsky with PhD students Maricruz Carrillo and Donovan Olumor discussing an innovative design of a 3D-printer in the SDSU Powder Technology Laboratory. PI: Eugene Olevsky Photo courtesy of Padma Nagappan

Dr. Eugene Olevsky and Dr. Wenwu Xu Total: $110,017 National Science Foundation: “ECCENTRIC: A Mechanism of Flash Sintering of Ionic Ceramics,” $110,017 Dr. Sung-Yong Park Total: $407,786 National Science Foundation: “Optofluidic Solar Indoor Lightning Towards Sustainable Buildings,” $407,786

Electrowetting-driven solar indoor lighting (e-SIL): an optofluidic approach towards sustainable buildings.

PI and photo: Sung-Yong (Sean) Park



Dr. George Youssef Total: $35,000 PPG Industries: “Fundamental Insights into Individual and Composite Coatings,” $35,000

Ph.D. candidate Nha UyenHuynh (right) and postdoctoral fellow Dr. Carlos Gamez discussing loading and

characterization protocol to investigate the mechanical response of various films provided by PPG Industries Inc.

PI: George Youssef Photo courtesy of Crystal Reina

Dr. Kevin Wood Total: $227,000 Hell's Kitchen Geothermal, LLC: “Improved Silica Removal for Enhanced Geothermal Plant Performance,” $177,000 National Science Foundation: “Improved Access to Respiratory Care Around the World Through Ultra-Low Cost Mechanical Ventilation,” $50,000

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