Volume 16 / Year 2009
In academic year 2007-08, sponsors awarded $19,453,060 to
SMU for direct and indirect costs of research and sponsored
projects. Totals in the three previous years were: $20,534,253
in 2006-07; $15,454,165 in 2005-06; and $14,675,605 in 2004-05.
Funding sources were federal agencies, $11,719,352; corporations,
$6,330,032; foundations, $1,126,855; state and local
governments, $265,821; and other, $11,000.| Alfredo Armendariz, Environmental and Civil Engineering, “Control of Workplace Diesel Exhaust Particulate,” Centers for Disease Control Grant, Department of Health and Human Services | Marc Christensen, Gary Evans and Jerome Butler, Electrical Engineering, “High Performance Coherent Fiber-Optic Link – Photonic Phase-Locked Loop (Modification 1, University of Texas at Dallas/Drexel University/Office of Naval Research),” U.S. Navy | Richard Gunst and William Schucany, Statistical Science, “Biostatistical Research Interns,” UTSMC |
| David Blackwell and Maria Richards, Geological Sciences, “Geothermal Resource Assessment of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands,” U.S. Department of the Interior | Gary Evans and Jerome Butler, Electrical Engineering, “Integratable-Optical-Waveguide Isolators Using a Resonate Layer Effect (U.S. Army, RDECOM),” U.S. Army | Eugene Herrin and Paul Golden, Geological Sciences, “Operation and Maintenance of TXAR Array (AFTAC),” U.S. Air Force; “Operation and Maintenance of Three IMS Primary Seismic Arrays,” Comprehensive Testban Treaty Organization;” and “Analysis of Infrasound Signals from Rocket Explosion Calibration Experiments at White Sands Missile Range (University of Mississippi/Army),” U.S. Army. |
| Ronald Butler, Statistical Science, “Saddlepoint and Bootstrap Methods in Stochastic Systems and Related Fields, National Science Foundation (NSF) | Ping Gui and Jingbo Ye, Electrical Engineering, “ATLAS Maintenance and Operations (Columbia University/NSF),” NSF | Yildirim Hurmuzlu, Mechanical Engineering, “Multiphase Flowmeter and Specifications,” ARAMCO Services Company |
| Marc Christensen, Electrical Engineering, “Active Illumination with Micro-Mirror-Arrays for Computational Adaptive Multi-Resolution Sensing (AIM-CAMS),” U.S. Army | Richard Gunst and William Schucany, Statistical Science, “Gulf War Neuroimaging Core Statistical Innovations Subcore (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSMC)/ U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs),” USVA | Bonnie Jacobs and Neil Tabor, Geological Sciences, “A Geosystems Approach to Paleobotany, Isotope Geochemistry and Paleoecology of the Late Oligocene Chilga Deposits, Northwest Ethiopian Plateau,” NSF |
| Ernest Jouriles and Renee McDonald, Psychology, “Reducing Mental Health Problems Among Children Exposed to Domestic Violence,” U.S. Department of Justice | Volkan Otugen, Mechanical Engineering, “Development of a Micro-Optical Shear Stress Sensor for Fluid Mechanic Research (Polytechnic University Transfer Award),” NSF | David Willis, Mechanical Engineering, “Laser Machining Research,” Southwest Research Institute |
| Robert Kehoe, Physics, “Software Infrastructure for ATLAS Online Monitoring,” U.S. Department of Energy | Dinesh Rajan, Electrical Engineering, “Power Efficient Design of Wireless Networks with Delay Guarantees,” NSF | David Wills and Paul Krueger, Mechanical Engineering, “Research Experience for Undergraduates Site: Experimental Methods in Mechanical Engineering,” NSF |