Current Sponsored Projects

Heng Ban

INL - NGNP: Thermophysical Propery Measurement on Nuclear Fuels and Materials

INL - Electromotive Force Measurements

DOE/NSUF - Irradiation Effect on Thermophysical Properties of H3Al-Al Composite: A Concept for Fast Neutron Testing at ATR

NNSA - Viscosity Measurement Technique for Metal Fuels

INL - Development of Thermal Effusivity Measurement Techniques

DOE/NEUP - Scholarship & Fellowship Support

DOE/NEUP - Infrastructure Upgrade (Co-PI: Bob Spall)

French Government - Chateaubrian Fellowship: Collaborative Research with Relms University in Nanoscale Heat Transfer

NRC - Nuclear Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program (NEGFP)

Steve Folkman

Utah DOT - Monitoring of Pipes Installed in Rich County

EBAA Iron Inc. - Pressure Cycling Tests of DR-18 PVC Pipes Using EBAA Iron Joint Restraints

UNI-BELL PVC - Watermain Break Rates for the USA & Canada for 2010

Thomas Fronk

SDL - Bonded Joints of Dissimilar Materials at Cryogenic Temperatures

Rees Fullmer

Erasmus Mundus - Spacemasters

SDL - Improvements of SDL CUBESAT Attitude Determination Systems CADS

SDL - Accuracy Modeling of Small Satellite Attitude Measurements Using Magnetometer and Sun Sensor Data

China Lake - LADAR Pointing Accuracy Calibration

David Geller

NASA - Rapid GN&C Analysis for Space Missions

SDL - SmallSat Carrier Concepts With In-Space Refueling

SDL - Optical-Based Pose Estimation for Uncooperative Space Objects

Christine Hailey

NSF - The Influence of MESA Activities on Underrepresented Students

NSF - Online Learning Forums for Improved Engineering Student Outcomes in Calculus, (PI: Angela Minichiello)

NSF - Community-based Engineering Design Challenges for Adolescent English Learners, (PI: Amy Alexandra Wilson; Co-PI: Dan Householder)

Steve Hansen

INL - Design of Mars Hopper CO2 Pump and Fuel Specimen

AFOSR - Capstone Design Challenge (Co-PI: Byard Wood)

NSF - Engineering Design to Aid Aging Persons (Co-PI: Byard Wood)

Aaron Katz

DOD/ARO - Integration of Strand-based CFD Solution Procedures for Rotorcraft Aerodynamics Simulations

 Leijun Li

NSF - Radioactive Materials Processing Center Planning Grant (Co-PI: Heng Ban)

National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) - Program Support: Near-blackbody, Enclosed Particle Receiver Integrated with Fluidized-bed Heat Exchanger (PI: Heng Ban)

USU VPR - RC program: Accelerated Creep Test Method Development

Aquilex Inc. Miniature Mechanical Testing of Service Exposed Alloys

Barton Smith

NEUP -  Transient Mixed Convection Validation for NGNP (Co-PI Robert Spall)

INL - Quantification of PIV Uncertainty for MIR Facility

NEUP - Validation Experiments for Spent-Fuel Dry-Cask In-Basket Convection

Bob Spall

US Fish & Wildlife Service - Hydrodynamic Modeling of the Mattole Estuary

UofU - ARRA: EPSCoR II C2 Support to HPC Research Network

Tony Whitmore

NASA - Development of an Exploration Systems Mission Directorate Senior Design Course

NASA EPSCoR - Development of the Aerospike Rocket and Thruster

Utah Office of Economic Development - Digital Fabrication of Hybrid Rocket Fuel Grains

SDL IR&D - Development of a Hydrocarbon-Seeded Nitrous-Oxide Gas Generation Cycle for CubeSat-Scale Thruster Applications

SDL IR&D - Technology Development for a Hybrid CubeSat ProPulsion System (HyCupps)

NASA MSFC Cooperative Agreement - Applications of Robotic Manufacturing for Hybrid Rocketry Components

Byard Wood

NRC - Faculty Development Program (Co-PI: Bob Spall)

USTAR - Biogas Cleaning and the Production of Liquid Fuels from Digester Biogas (Co-PI: Conly Hansen)

DOE - Multifunction Solar Energy (Co-PI: Jeff Muhs)

Wenbin Yu

Utah Governor's Office for Economic Development - VABS Software for Modeling Composite Beams

Groen Brothers Aviation - Analysis of Composite Rotor Blades & Aircraft Structures

Georgia Institute of Technology - Efficient High Fidelity . . .

USAF - Unified Theory for Nonlinear, Dynamic, Thermo-Mechanical Analysis with Multiphysics Structural Mode

Advanced Dynamics - VABS-Enabled Integrated Design Environment

Advanced Dynamics - Cross-Sectional Design and Analysis of Composite Rotor Blades and Wings

Universal Technology Corp - Efficient High-Fidelity Modeling of Integrate Thermal Protection Systems

Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse - Homogenization Method to Design Core of Heat Exchanger