Grants: Awarded, pending and denied

Proposal Year Description of the Proposal Funding agency and amount Involvement Outcome
2008
1)Membrane Technology for Produced Water in Lea County
2)Prototype Design of Zeolite Membrane Reverse Osmosis Desalination Unit - Ongoing
3)White paper on Bridge Inspection and Related Structural Work
US Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory ($1,790,000)
Office of Naval Research (ONR) ($586,000)
New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT), Bridge Division ($162,510)
Co-PI
Co-Pi
Collaborated with Civil Engineering Department of University of New Mexico
A 13% improvement from Fall 07
New Course Developed and taught.
MENG 300
2007
1)Standards for Tire-Bale Erosion Control and Bank Stabilization – Engineering Validation of Existing Practice and Implementation
2)Prototype Design of Zeolite Membrane Reverse Osmosis Desalination Unit - Ongoing
3)Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI): Explosives Engineering Laboratory for Undergraduates (EELU)
4)Space Technology Research, Analysis, Integration, and Testing (STRAIT)
5)Movers & Shakers
6)Algae Produced Biodiesel
7)Development and Demonstration of an Innovative Biomass Culture Method for Algae in produced Water/Potash Evaporation Ponds
8)Development of Multifunctional carbon Nanotube Biosensor
9)Reactive Concepts for Structures
New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) ($150,000)
Office of Naval Research (ONR) ($586,000)
National Science Foundation (NSF), $149,802
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) – A need based proposal.
New Mexico Tech summer camp
Governor’s Energy Innovative Fund, New Mexico
DOE + USDA
WERC seed grant
Department of Homeland Security
PI
Co-Pi
Part of the team
Part of the winning contracting team (Team Schafer)- as subcontractor
Team member
Co-Pi
PI
PI
Team member
Funded for 2 years Will support 2 students and 5 faculty partially
Ongoing: Supports 1 graduate and 6 undergraduate students.
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-
Summer 2009
Not funded
Not funded
Not funded.
Pending
2006
1)Prototype Design of Zeolite Membrane Reverse Osmosis Desalination Unit
2)Demonstration of the Proof of Concept of Carbon Nanotube Flow Sensors
3)MURI White paper on Bio-inspired Cellular Design for Multifunctional Characteristics
4)Two sub-tasks for the white paper submitted to EPSCoR program under “Center for Structures and Devices for Space Systems”
5)Development of Multifunctional Carbon Nanotube Biosensor
Office of Naval Research (ONR) ($586,000)
NSF EPSCoR Nanoscience minigrant
ONR (BAA06-028) ($1,100,000)
NSF EPSCoR
WERC seed grant ($10,000)
Co-PI
PI
PI
Team member
PI
Funded
Funded
Not Funded
Not Funded
Not Funded
2005
1)Membrane Technology for Produced Water in Lea County
2)Prototype Design of Zeolite Membrane Reverse Osmosis Desalination Unit - Ongoing
3)White paper on Bridge Inspection and Related Structural Work
An EPSCoR Nano science minigrant
Proposal white paper for BAA 06-003
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PI
PI
Co-PI
Funded Partially supported one graduate and one undergraduate student.
Not funded
Not funded
2004
1)Investigate Human Skull And Mimic its Multifunctional Characteristics
2)Research, design, and Develop an Innovative, Environmentally Friendly, Non-Isotropic Building Panel for both New and Retrofit Construction, Applicable to DOE’s Zero-energy Concept
3)Research and Development of a Resilient Multi-functional Composite Using Forest wastes
Proposal white paper for BAA 04-021 For MURI program
DOE
WERC
PI
Team member
PI
Not funded
Not funded
Not funded