January 2020 Awards

New Awards

Amount Title Agency PI & Co-PIs (Dept.)
$186,471 SD BOR R&D Innovation Grant: Acquisition of X-ray Diffraction and Ion Beam Milling Systems to Support Advanced Materials Characterization in the Engineering and Mining Experiment Station (EMES) 
State of South Dakota - South Dakota Board of Regents 
PI: Duke, Edward; Co-PIs: Crawford, Grant; Groven, Lori; Kellar, Jon; Petersen, Jacob; Soeder, Daniel; Winter, Robb (EMES)  
$25,000 UAV-based Hyperspectral Sensing (UHS) solution for agricultural soil monitoring 
State of South Dakota - Governors Office of Economic Development 
PI: Ragi, Shankarachary (EE)  
$45,000 Solid State Additive Repair of Inconel 625 Thin Walled Components 
U.S. Dept. of Defense - Air Force Research Lab (Subaward from VRC Metal Systems, Inc.) 
PI: Jasthi, Bharat (AMP)  
$568 Science, Technology, and Society Film Festival 
National Endowment for the Humanities (Subaward from South Dakota Humanities Council) 
PI: Kremmel, Laura (HUM) 
$40,000 Additive Repair of Fastener Holes by Cold Spray 
U.S. Dept. of Defense - Navy (Subaward from VRC Metal Systems, Inc.) 
PI: Jasthi, Bharat (AMP) 
$345,908 RII Track-1: Building on the 2020 Vision: Expanding Research, Education & Innovation in South Dakota 
State of South Dakota - South Dakota Board of Regents 
PI: Winter, Robb; Co-PIs:  Sani, Rajesh; Gadhamshetty, Venkata; Jasthi, Bharat; Salem, David (CBE) 
$123,566 US DL Counterfeit market 
IDEMIA (Subaward from Dakota State University) 
PI: Kellar, Jon; Co-PIs: Crawford, Grant; Petersen, Jacob (SPACT) 
$7,500 Fabricate novel anode based on Si alloy for Li-ion battery using cold spray technique 
U.S. Dept. of Defense - Air Force (Subaward from VRC Metal Systems) 
PI: Hong, Haiping (EE) 
$64,333 Metal-organic Framework Encapsulation of Biomolecules for Ultra-stable Diagnostic Assays and Sensors in Resource-limited Settings 
Dept. of Health and Human Services - National Institute of Health 
PI: Wang, Congzhou (BioSNTR) 
$50,000 Multifractal and Multiscale Data Analytics for Biofilm Rheology Prediction 
National Science Foundation (Subaward from South Dakota Board of Regents) 
PI: Ragi, Shankarachary; Co-PIs: Kalimuthu, Jawahar; Walker, Travis; Chilkoor, Gavand (EE) 
$7,500 Conductive Coatings eliminate static discharge risk on aircraft 
U.S. Dept. of Defense - Air Force (Subaward from H.F. Webster) 
PI: Hong, Haiping (EE) 
$50,000 Radio frequency transparent coating solution for preventing microbial corrosion on antennas in harsh environments 
National Science Foundation (Subaward from South Dakota Board of Regents) 

PI: Roy, Sayan; Co-PIs: Gadhamshetty, Venkata; Chilkoor, Govind (EE) 

Additional Awards

Amount Title Agency PI & Co-PIs (Dept.)
$50,625.95 Fluoride-Ion Battery Prototype Development 
Trion Energy Systems 
PI: Salem, David; Co-PIs: Hong, Haiping; Zhu, Zhengtao; Brady, Andrew; Mannhalter, Bert; Ahrenkiel, Phil (CAPE) 
$560,000 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) 
$45,559.45 Fluoride-Ion Battery Prototype Development 
Trion Energy Systems 
PI: Salem, David; Co-PIs:  Hong, Haiping; Zhu, Zhengtao; Brady, Andrew; Mannhalter, Bert; Ahrenkiel, Phil (CAPE)
$5,000 Composite and Nanocomposite Advanced Manufacturing Center (CNAM Center) 
Other 

PI: Salem, David (CAPE)