August 2019 Awards

New Awards

Amount Title Agency PI & Co-PIs (Dept.)
$40,000 Recommendations for Revision of AASHTO M 295 Standard Specification to Include Marginal and Unconventional Source Coal Fly Ashes 
Federal Highway Administration - National Academy of Sciences 
PI: Shearer, Christopher (CEE)  
$39,005.05 Development of Explosive Feedback for Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) 3D Printers 
U.S. Dept. of Defense - Navy (Subaward from Lynntech, Inc.) 
PI: Groven, Lori (CBE) 
$149,999 More than Piezoelectricity: Harnessing Electroactive Materials for Functional Energetics 
U.S. Dept. of Defense - U.S. Air Force - Air Force office of Scientific Research 
PI: Groven, Lori (CBE) 
$90,000 Development of Strain-Annealable Processes and Alloy Compositions for Iron-Based Amorphous Magnetically Soft Inductor Cores 
 South Dakota Board of Regents 
PI: Bruno, Nickolaus (MECH) 
$25,000 Understanding the Mantle Carbon Budget: Insights from Melt Inclusions 
South Dakota Board of Regents 
PI: Ustunisik, Gokce (GEOL) 
$25,000 Towards science-driven design of coordinated green and gray infrastructure 
South Dakota Board of Regents 
PI: Geza Nisrani, Mengistu (CEE) 
$100,000 NASA Space Life and Physical Sciences and Research Applications Space Biology Request 2 - Experiments and Simulations of Microbial Growth in Rotating Bioreactor 
NASA 
PI: Walker, Travis (CBE) 
$45,000 Nanoparticle-Enhanced Plasma-Electrolytic-Oxidation of Al and Ti Alloys for Hard Chrome Replacement 
U.S. Dept. of Defense - Air Force (Subaward from NanoCoatings, Inc.) 
 PI: Crawford, Grant; Co-PI: Thompson, Forest (AMP) 
$19,941 Perform research to develop Fault Identification and Risk Management (FIRM) Intelligent Health Monitoring for Critical Structural and Electro-Mechanical Systems of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles Using Deep Learning 
 U.S. Dept. of Defense - Naval Undersea Warfare Center 
PI: Fekrmandi, Hadi (MECH)

Additional Awards

Amount Title Agency PI & Co-PIs (Dept.)
$50,000 Fluoride-Ion Battery Prototype Development 
Trion Energy Solutions 
PI: Salem, David; Co-PIs: Hong, Haiping; Zhu, Zhengtao; Brady, Andrew; Mannhalter, Bert; Ahrenkiel, Phil (CAPE) 
$50,000 Fluoride-Ion Battery Prototype Development
Trion Energy Solutions 
PI: Salem, David; Co-PIs: Hong, Haiping; Zhu, Zhengtao; Brady, Andrew; Mannhalter, Bert; Ahrenkiel, Phil (CAPE) 
$109,583 Development of Additive Manufacturing Technologies for Energetic Materials 
U.S. Department of Defense - DOD Ordnance Technology Consortium (Subaward from Advanced Technology International) 
PI: Groven, Lori; Co-PI: Salem, David (CBE)
$35,000 Creating Corn Premiums through Precision Conservation and Sustainability Documentation 
Corn Utilization Council (Subaward from South Dakota State University) 
PI: Stone, James; Co-PI: Sieverding, Heidi (CEE)
$10,000 Stormwater Management and Ecosystem Health: The Complimentary Role of Green Infrastructure in Urban Environments 
U.S. Dept. of Interior - U.S. Geological Survey (Subaward from South Dakota State University - Water Resource Institute) 
PI: Stone, James; Co-PI: Sieverding, Heidi (CEE)
$12,500 Education to Promote Smart Growth 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - SD Dept. of Environmental and Natural Resources (Subaward from South Dakota Discovery Center) 
PI: Kenner, Scott (CEE)
$30,000 ARL-HFWES - Additive Manufacturing and Advanced Materials Processing 
U.S. Dept. of Defense - Army Research Laboratory (Subaward from HF Webster Engineering Services, Inc.) 
PI: Hong, Haiping (AMP) 
$15,000 Time-resolved photoluminascence measurements of natural vascular scaffold 
Alumend LLC 
PI: Smith, Steve (BioSNTR)
$42,827.37

Fluoride-Ion Battery Prototype Development 
Trion Energy Solutions 
PI: Salem, David; Co-PIs: Hong, Haiping; Zhu, Zhengtao; Brady, Andrew; Mannhalter, Bert; Ahrenkiel, Phil (CAPE)
$10,853 GP CESU: Document Significant Fossil Localities within Sharps Formation Badlands National Park (BADL) 
U.S. Dept. of Interior - National Park Service 
PI: Pagnac, Darrin (GEOL)  
$3,000,000 RII Track-2 FEC: Building Genomes-to-Phenome Infrastructure for Regulating Methane in Deep and Extreme Environments (BuG ReMeDEE) 
National Science Foundation
 PI: Sani, Rajesh; Co-PI Gadhamshetty, Venkata (CBE)