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UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ANNUAL REPORT

2007-08

TABLE OF CONTENTS SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING Annual Report Summary……………………………………………………….. 3

DEPARTMENTS

Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering Annual Report Summary…………………………………………………….. 9 Archival Technical Journal Publications……………………………………. 13 Published Books, Book Chapters, Book Sections & Edited Volumes……….. 23 Conference Proceedings & Other Publications……………………………….. 25 Active Research Grants and Contracts………………………………………... 29 Awards, Honors, Patents………………………………………………….…... 37 Major Professional Activities………………………………………………… 39

Civil & Environmental Engineering Annual Report Summary………………………………………………………55 Archival Technical Journal Publications……………………………………… 59 Published Books, Book Chapters, Book Sections & Edited Volumes……….. 65 Conference Proceedings & Other Publications……………………………….. 67 Active Research Grants and Contracts……………………………………….. 71 Awards, Honors, Patents………………………………………………….….. 77 Major Professional Activities………………………………………………….79

Computer Science & Engineering Annual Report Summary……………………………………………………… 89 Archival Technical Journal Publications……………………………………… 93 Published Books, Book Chapters, Book Sections & Edited Volumes………... 97 Conference Proceedings & Other Publications……………………………….. 99 Active Research Grants and Contracts……………………………………….. 109 Awards, Honors, Patents………………………………………………….…... 117 Major Professional Activities…………………………………………………. 119

Electrical & Computer Engineering Annual Report Summary……………………………………………………… 135 Archival Technical Journal Publications………………………………………137 Published Books, Book Chapters, Book Sections & Edited Volumes……….. 145 Conference Proceedings & Other Publications……………………………….. 147 Active Research Grants and Contracts……………………………………….. 159 Awards, Honors, Patents………………………………………………….…... 169

Major Professional Activities…………………………………………………. 171

Mechanical Engineering Annual Report Summary……………………………………………………… 185 Archival Technical Journal Publications……………………………………… 187 Conference Proceedings & Other Publications……………………………….. 193 Active Research Grants and Contracts……………………………………….. 201 Awards, Honors, Patents………………………………………………….…... 207

Major Professional Activities………………………………………………… 209

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CENTERS Booth Engineering Center for Advanced Technology……………………………. 217 Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center……………………………………………… 219 Connecticut Transportation Institute……………………………………………… 223

PROGRAMS

Biomedical Engineering…………………………………………………………... 227 Environmental Engineering Program…………………………………………….. 229 Management and Engineering for Manufacturing………………………………… 231 Undergraduate Programs Office…………………………………………………... 233

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SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY

2007-2008 The 2007-08 fiscal year was characterized by significant growth and progress on several strategic fronts. UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS & OUTREACH

During the year, overall undergraduate enrollments rose to 1669 in fall 2007. Freshman enrollments rose 10 percent during the same 12-month period. The average SAT score (cumulative math and verbal scores) of incoming engineering freshmen was 1292. The student-to-faculty ratio remained stable at 19:1. The mechanical engineering program enjoys the largest undergraduate population, at 347, followed by civil engineering, whose undergraduate population totals 218. The biomedical engineering program has an enrollment of 211. The fall 2007 freshman class included seven valedictorians and eight salutatorians. We continued to enjoy one of the largest percentages of Honors Program students throughout campus; of the roughly 1,660 UConn undergraduates enrolled in the Honors Program, 226 were enrolled in Engineering – roughly 14 percent of the total. In contrast, the School’s undergraduate population is approximately 10 percent of the total UConn undergraduate pool. This provides ample evidence that some of the best students are selecting UConn because of their interests in engineering. In October, following two years of preparation and extensive reporting, the School hosted evaluators from the Accreditation Board for Engineering & Technology (ABET), who reviewed 11 of our B.S. degree programs. In addition, the Computer Accreditation Commission reviewed the School’s degree programs in computer science, computer engineering and computer science & engineering. The School’s programs were last reviewed for accreditation in 2001-02. At that time, the six bachelor’s degree programs reviewed – Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering – received the maximum six-year accreditation. The newer undergraduate degree programs were ineligible for evaluation at that time. The two-day ABET review process proceeded smoothly, and final results will be announced during summer 2008. The Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) department landed a prestigious grant in January, through the National Science Foundation (NSF), to support a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) special educational program that pairs 10 college students each summer with departmental faculty to participate in ongoing research programs. Beginning in summer 2008, the three-year REU will convene participating students at the UConn campus for eight intensive weeks of research in the area of biogrid initiatives. The REU will be directed by associate professor and principal investigator Chun-Hsi Huang. Student participants will be recruited from colleges and universities throughout the nation who are interested in exploring the use of modern grid computing infrastructure to biomedical and biological challenges. Commencement activities took place over the May 10-11 weekend. On May 10th, the School feted 84 M.S. and 55 Ph.D. students who completed their degrees during AY07-08. On May 11, the School honored 311 students who completed their B.S.E. and B.S. degrees in AY07-08. The Sunday event included remarks by two guest speakers: UConn School of Business graduate and technology leader Kevin Bouley (B.S. '80), president and CEO of Nerac, Inc. of Tolland, CT, and Paul Adams, Senior Vice President of Engineering at Pratt & Whitney, East Hartford. Graduating senior (Chemical Engineering '08) Christine Endicott also spoke. The School surveyed its graduating seniors for the first time. Interesting findings included: 17% are proceeding immediately into full-time graduate programs; 70% of graduates entering the workforce will

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earn starting salaries of between $50,000-$60,000, and 26% will earn starting salaries of greater than $60,001; 93% reported that our program exceeded or met their expectations; and 58% reported that they had gained experience through industry internships during their undergraduate years. STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

Research

The School of Engineering enjoys depth and breadth in a number of strategic research areas, including sustainable energy/engineering, secure technologies, imaging, environment and climate, nanotechnology and biomedical imaging and materials. Increasingly, we seek to develop interdisciplinary expertise in transformative areas. During the year, we sought to augment our existing core strengths and to apply them in novel ways. During a September joint press conference held at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford, UConn formally unveiled an ambitious new research campaign, the Eminent Faculty Initiative in Sustainable Energy, which will reside in the School of Engineering. The press conference was triggered by UConn’s successful efforts in securing matching funds from industry partners and in establishing a program aimed at advanced research, education and training in renewable energies. The initiative is the result of a unique partnership between UConn, the Connecticut General Assembly, and the industrial partners who are committed to propelling Connecticut onto the international stage in the development of sustainable “green” energy. The industrial partners include FuelCell Energy of Danbury, the Northeast Utilities Foundation, and UTC Power of South Windsor. A national search was initiated immediately to recruit a core research team of 10 tenure-track faculty members who will form an interdisciplinary, integrated team working in the strategic areas of fuel cells or other alternative energy technologies and applications. In conjunction with this recruiting effort, the School hosted a seminar series called “Challenges for a New Energy Frontier” that brought 15 internationally-recognized leaders in sustainable energy technologies/research to campus to discuss their research. The search remains ongoing. In February ‘08, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that the School of Engineering had been named the research lead among seven newly-crowned national Centers of Excellence in Transportation Security. UConn received $500,000 in first-year funding; in ensuing years, this funding is expected to grow substantially, and UConn will hold budgetary authority over funds distributed for targeted research by its six academic partners: the Mack-Blackwell National Rural Transportation Study Center at the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville), the National Transit Institute at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ), Texas Southern University (Houston), Tougaloo College (Jackson, MS) and the Homeland Security Management Institute at Long Island University (Brooklyn, NY). In fulfilling its varied research and leadership mission, the School will draw upon expertise residing within the Connecticut Transportation Institute, the Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center, the Booth Engineering Center for Advanced Technologies and the School’s five engineering departments. In May, the School hosted a site visit by DHS personnel Dr. Mary Ellen Hynes, Milagros Kennett and Michael Tobia. During the year, the School identified several transdisciplinary areas as of strategic importance to the future. Two half-day forums allowed faculty from the School of Engineering, chemistry, physics and the UConn Health Center to provide brief overviews of their research in the areas of nanotechnology and bioengineering, and to dialogue with potential research partners. Both well-attended forums included 30 or more presentations and opened the door to future collaborative research. The School of Engineering posted direct research expenditures of $11,268,586 during the year. The total research expenditures, including indirect costs, were $14,989,403. The School submitted a number of interdisciplinary pre-proposals, proposals and white papers during the year aimed at securing funding for specialized educational and research programs. These included:

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o NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERTs) submitted as lead organization in Sustainable Energy and Multi-Scale Biomechanics and as a co-lead organization for two other proposals

o NSF Emerging Frontiers in Research & Innovation (EFRI) pre-proposals submitted in (i) Brain Models & Their Impact in Algorithm Design; and (ii) Integrated Secure Energy, Transportation, Water & Communication Systems

o White papers submitted: (i) Sustainable Development; and a (ii) Center for Imaging, which would involve interdisciplinary research between the UCHC and the School of Engineering

o NSF Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) pre-proposal for Joule Fellows: Teachers in Sustainable Energies Research Laboratories

o A white paper in nanotechnology submitted to the State of Connecticut The Dean of Engineering and Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Education testified before the Connecticut General Assembly on several occasions to make legislators aware of the critical need for State support of nanotechnology initiatives. During the fall, the senior administration met with the members of the External Advisory Board to discuss the School’s strategic activities and gather insights from the members, who comprise industry, government, policy and academic leaders. Following his formally accepting the duties of Dean, Mun Y. Choi established several Faculty Advisory Committees and charged them to investigate and report on three major challenges: Promotion & Sustainment of Research, the on-site Master of Engineering (MENG) program, and International Development. The committees presented their findings and recommendations during a May 7th faculty meeting. HONORS & AWARDS

During the year, two faculty members garnered NSF CAREER Awards, Bing Wang of Computer Science & Engineering and Ugur Pasaogullari of Mechanical Engineering. Both joined the University of Connecticut in 2005. Dr. Pasaogullari’s CAREER research will build upon his fuel cell activities involving polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs). Dr. Wang’s CAREER research will focus on fault management of wireless networks with the objective of assuring greater stability and longer service life. The School of Engineering now boasts 18 CAREER Award recipients. Augmenting her 2007 NSF CAREER Award, Computer Science & Engineering assistant professor Jun-

Hong Cui received an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award for her proposed work involving the use of underwater sensor networks (UWSNs) for critical Navy applications, such as anti-submarine warfare, mine countermeasures, and battle space environmental monitoring. Her YIP, which entails a $340,000 grant, was selected in the area of “ocean battlespace sensing” and builds upon her existing body of work in reliable underwater acoustic sensor networks. Mekonnen Gebremichael, of Civil & Environmental Engineering, won a NASA New Investigator Program (NIP) award of more than $357,000 for research aimed at determining how well NASA’s current global hydrologic models predict actual processes taking place over portions of the North American and African continents. In addition, several distinguished faculty members were presented laurels at the national/international level. In Electrical & Computer Engineering, Yaakov Bar-Shalom, Bahram Javidi and John Enderle received honors. Dr. Bar-Shalom was selected by IEEE’s Board of Directors to receive the 2008 IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications. Dr. Javidi received a 2008 Helmholtz-Humboldt Research Award for senior U.S. scientists, Germany's highest research award for senior U.S. scientists and scholars. He also received the 2008 International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) Technology Achievement Award; the 2008 Fellow Award from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial

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Foundation in recognition of his work on real-time 3D optical imaging and identification; and the 2008 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize (with his co-authors) for the best overview or survey paper among all (over 130) IEEE transactions, journals, and magazines. Dr. Enderle was presented the ASEE National Fred Merryfield Design Award. UTC Professor of Advanced Materials & Processing Robert Weiss was honored with the Society of Plastics Engineers’ International Award in recognition of his lifetime achievements in plastics research. Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, the UTC Chair Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Director of the Booth Engineering Center for Advanced Technology, was among 295 senior IEEE members worldwide selected by the IEEE Fellow Committee for elevation to the rank of IEEE Fellow. Department Heads Michael Accorsi (Civil & Environmental Engineering) and Baki Cetegen (Mechanical Engineering), along with ME professor Kazem Kazerounian were among 19 individuals state-wide elected to membership in the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) in honor of their career accomplishments.

A number of faculty members won large grants to pursue cutting-edge research. These included Yong

Wang and Lei Zhu of Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering (CMBE), who captured a $450,000 NSF grant to develop artificial antibodies capable of locating and destroying tumors. Their CMBE colleague, Yu Lei, secured nearly $800,000 in funding from NSF to develop real-time, ultra-sensitive sensor arrays capable of sniffing out even trace quantities of explosives. He is joined by University of Connecticut (UConn) colleagues Christian Brückner (Chemistry), Ali Gokirmak (Electrical & Computer Engineering), and a University of California - Riverside colleague. A multidisciplinary team headed by PI Eric Jordan of ME won a $1.47 million subcontract from Raytheon Company (DARPA larger contract) to assist in the development of engineered nanocomposites for optical applications. Dr. Jordan is joined by UConn research scientist Maurice Gell (CMBE), with assistance from Dr. Cetegen of ME and Mark Aindow (CMBE) in partnership Inframat Corporation of Farmington, CT and researchers from MIT and the University of Michigan. Dr. Bar-Shalom of ECE also secured a large $630,000 award from DOD to develop practical multi-target tracking and multi-sensor data fusion algorithms that will aid the U.S. military in accurate detection and characterization of targets in the field. ENGINEERING/INDUSTRY INTERACTIONS

The Eminent Faculty Initiative enjoyed substantial ($2 million) financial support from industrial partners FuelCell Energy, the Northeast Utilities Foundation, and UTC Power, as described earlier. During the year, the School’s leadership and selected faculty members hosted visitors from Alstom Power, Electric Boat, FuelCell Energy, Hamilton Sundstrand, IBM, Tyco, Xerox and Raytheon. In addition, visitors from the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund, the Department of Homeland Security and colleges in Baden-Württemberg Germany, toured the School of Engineering facilities. The Engineering leadership and selected faculty also toured the facilities of a number of Connecticut companies and conducted discussions aimed at increasing the School’s research interactions with industry. These companies included Pratt & Whitney, United Technologies Research Center, IBM, FuelCell Energy, the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT), Phonon Corporation and Fuss & O’Neill. The latter two visits also resulted in company profiles appearing in the School’s news publications, because both companies are home to large numbers of UConn Engineering alumni. In September 2007, FuelCell Energy celebrated the successful demonstration of a novel distributed generation hydrogen production technology called Electrochemical Hydrogen Separator (EHS) at the Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center (CGFCC). FuelCell Energy brought its EHS unit to the CGFCC for testing during 2007 as part of a successful industry/university/government collaboration that also involved the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund and the U.S. Department of Defense. The unit was refined and tested in anticipation of propelling it toward commercialization.

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The School initiated discussions with counterparts in the School of Business to expand the capstone Senior Design Experience. In particular, the School is interested in integrating business and entrepreneurship facets into the senior design curriculum. Ideas under consideration include (i) inviting School of Business faculty or industry leaders to present lectures on opportunity generation, creativity and innovation, and business plan development for commercialization, (ii) including entrepreneurially-oriented Business students to join senior design team, and (iii) inviting MBA students and/or Business faculty to partner with senior design teams to develop business plans and commercialize their novel products/processes. PERSONNEL

The School of Engineering was pleased to welcome new Dean Mun Young Choi in January. Erling Smith, who served as Interim Dean from early June 2006 until December 31, 2008, returned to his home department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. Dr. Choi received his M.A. (’89) and Ph.D. (’92) degrees from Princeton University, in the field of mechanical and aerospace engineering. He previously served as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Engineering, and as Department Head of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, both at Drexel University, Philadelphia. Before joining Drexel in 2000, Dr. Choi held academic and administrative appointments at the University of Illinois in Chicago. He also conducted post-doctoral research as a National Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD from 1992-93. Dr. Choi’s research interests focus on the effects of sooting and radiation on droplet combustion, and soot diagnostic techniques. The School conducted faculty searches that culminated in the successful hiring of nine new faculty members, including one new endowed chair faculty member, for the fall ’08 and spring ’09 terms. Dipanjan Basu (Ph.D. Purdue) joins the CEE as an assistant professor; the CMBE Department will welcome George A. Rossetti, Jr. (Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University), Brian G. Willis (Ph.D. MIT), William Mustain (Ph.D. Illinois Institute of Technology), and Jeffrey McCutcheon (Ph.D. Yale); the ME Department recruited Robert Gao (Ph.D. Technical University of Berlin, Germany) – who joins the department as the Pratt and Whitney Endowed Chair, Tianfeng Lu (Ph.D. Princeton University), George

Lykotrafitis (Ph.D. National Technical University of Athens, and Caltech), and Chengyu Cao (Ph.D. MIT). The Office of the Dean welcomed five new professional staff members. Brian Schwarz joined the School in August 2007 as Director of Advising. He held similar positions in the College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, most recently as Director of the Career and Student Development Center. With the departure of our Director of Development, Joe Hanrahan – who accepted a position with the UConn Health Center – the School and UConn Foundation recruited two new development officers: Christopher Joliat and Michael McCarthy. Mr. Joliat, who serves as Director of Development, worked previously as Vice President of Development with the Legion of Christ, an international Catholic not-for-profit organization. Mr. McCarthy will assist Mr. Joliat in the capacity of Assistant Director of Development. He worked previously at the UConn Foundation as program director of Leadership Gifts and, earlier in his career, in the financial services sector. Ed Swindelles joined the Engineering Computing Services unit in March as a Systems Administrator providing assistance in managing the technical infrastructure of systems such as e-mail and supporting the School of Engineering community in the use of technology. Kerrie Alberts joined the School in May as Grants Development Officer. Ms. Alberts will assist faculty in the preparation of interdisciplinary research programs and proposal submissions. The School of Engineering lost two of its senior faculty members with the retirements of Civil & Environmental Engineering professor John DeWolf (35 years at UConn) and Mechanical Engineering associate professor Robert Jeffers (40 years at UConn). In addition, former Department Head of ECE Robert Magnusson, will leave UConn this summer for an endowed chair at the University of Texas - Arlington.

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ALUMNI

In April, the School celebrated its annual awards banquet and inducted three alumni into the Academy of Distinguished Engineers: Wayne A. Eckerle (Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, ‘85), Dr. Jorge L. González-Velázquez (Ph.D. Metallurgy, ‘90) and Thomas W. Prete (B.S. Mechanical Engineering, ‘85). Dr. Eckerle is Vice President of Corporate Research and Technology at Cummins Inc., Columbus, IN. Dr. González-Velázquez is a professor of Metallurgy & Materials Engineering at the Instituto Politecnico Nacional (IPN) and founder and Director of the Pipeline Integrity Assessment Group. Mr. Prete is Program Chief Engineer, Military Engines at Pratt & Whitney, East Hartford, where he is responsible for the safety, airworthiness, life management, product improvements and technology insertion of engines powering front-line military aircraft. In the spring, alumnus Kumares C. Sinha (M.S. Municipal Engineering, ’66; Ph.D. Civil Engineering, ’68) was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, “For contributions to the advancement of highway infrastructure engineering and management and to the education of transportation professionals worldwide.” He is the Edgar B. & Hedwig M. Olson Distinguished Research Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the Joint Transportation Research Program at Purdue University. The School held its annual alumni holiday reception December 6th at the Bushnell in Hartford. The event was attended by 73 alumni in addition to Engineering faculty, administrators and selected students. OTHER

Enhancing the research reputation of the School of Engineering remained an important goal during the year. The engineering communications team continued to produce its printed magazine, upgraded and expanded its website to incorporate more expansive job/internship/co-op matching for students; more expansive coverage of research opportunities and sponsored programs links; links to fellowship opportunities; and other upgrades intended to make the website more dynamic and useful. In addition, the team transformed the School website into a format that is consistent with the University’s standard template requirements. The electronic news page was produced throughout the year, on the order of every three weeks, and transmitted to alumni, students, faculty; industry friends; University leadership; and legislators.

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CHEMICAL, MATERIALS & BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY

2007-2008 The first permanent Department Head of the Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering Department (CMBE), Dr. C. Barry Carter, commenced his term at the beginning of this academic year. Prior to joining UConn, Dr. Carter was the 3M Harry Heltzer Endowed Chair in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (1991-present) and a professor in the Chemical Physics Program at the University of Minnesota. He earned his D. Phil. in Metallurgy & Science of Materials at Oxford University in 1975, and in 2005 he received the Sc.D. degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University. Dr. Carter assumed the reigns from Dr. Montgomery Shaw, who served as Interim Head during the transition year following the merger of the formerly separate Chemical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering departments. The units were joined officially on July 1, 2006; however, during the first year they continued to function as parallel, independent units, with each overseen operationally by a unit Program Director. The Department Head has worked to foster a cohesive culture that integrates the units, and linkages are becoming apparent. Dr. Mark Aindow, Program Director for the Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) program, will complete his three-year term at the end of 2008; Dr. Richard Parnas, Chemical Engineering (ChE) Program Director, will step down prior to the start of the fall 2008 semester to begin sabbatical leave. A new mode of operation is being developed that defines the roles of the Program Directors and the Undergraduate and Graduate Committee chairs of the two programs so that the tasks of each are better articulated, afford greater scope for creativity, and foster leadership experience. RESEARCH

Scholarly research remained strong during the year. The department’s total research expenditures for this period amounted to $2,331,319. The table below summarizes performance metrics from 2002 through June 2008 for the CMBE faculty members. A review of these figures reveals that MSE faculty members are progressing well in the time since the department was merged (2005-06), while the performance metrics of ChE faculty members have remained largely stable. With the infusion of new faculty members to the ChE program beginning in fall ’08, in coming years the program is expected to regain its previous level of vigor.

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Undergrad Students

Graduate Students Advised

Graduate Students Advised

Journal Articles

Conference Papers

Active Research Grants

ChE MSE ChE MSE PhD MS PhD MS ChE MSE ChE MSE ChE MSE

2008 31.5 19 27 32 33 53 53 79 46 43 2007 37 13 34.5 17 25 27 67 43 59 68 32 33 2006 35 13 33 22 16 22 40 60 63 59 30 27 2005 42 22 60 23 15 22 79 61 132 60 64 26 2004 28 11 77 20 17 24 54 66 151 71 74 36 2003 20 9 71 20 22 25 52 52 110 82 86 28 2002 17 6 59 20 19 20 45 58 88 63 67 30

Drs. Aindow, Lei Zhu and Carter are collaborators on a proposal for a new transmission electron microscope (TEM), which received funding from UConn Provost Peter Nicholls and will be added to the IMS Electron Microscopy Facility. Dr. Aindow was a co-principal investigator on a Defense University

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Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) proposal to bring the first focused ion beam (FIB) microscope to UConn. Drs. Yu Lei and Yong Wang landed a $450,000 grant to develop artificial antibodies capable of locating and destroying tumors. Dr. Ranjan Srivastava received a breakthrough first NIH grant in spring 2008. Dr. Yu Lei serves as PI on a large (nearly $800,000), multidisciplinary National Science Foundation grant aimed at developing real-time, ultra-sensitive sensor arrays capable of sniffing out even trace quantities of explosives. He is joined by UConn colleagues, Drs. Christian Brückner (Chemistry) and Ali Gokirmak (Electrical & Computer Engineering), and several others. UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS

The department had a two-in-one critical success in fall ’07: the B.S. degree programs for both ChE and MSE were given favorable reviews by ABET accreditation reviewers and appear poised for the maximum six-year accreditation. The ABET final report will be issued in July 2008. This successful outcome arises from the dedicated efforts of Drs. Douglas Cooper and Hal Brody, respectively. Notably, the ABET reviewers have indicated their intention to backdate the MSE program, which was evaluated for the first time, for the maximum two years. CMBE graduating seniors enjoyed many post-graduation opportunities, including acceptance to superb graduate programs and exciting job offers. Among those ChE graduates who were proceeding to doctoral degree programs, our students were accepted at Cornell, MIT, the University of Delaware and Penn State University, among others. MSE graduated its largest class yet, at 14. Of these, half will pursue graduate studies at UConn, the University of Massachusetts or the University of Virginia. The remainder have accepted positions in local industry with employers that include Hamilton Sundstrand, Ulbrich New England (a unit of Ulbrich Stainless Steels & Special Metals, Inc.), and Atlantic Wire. The UConn chapter of Materials Advantage hosted the first annual Northeast Regional Material Advantage Conference. Three $250 prizes (sponsored by the Journal of Materials Science) were awarded for the best posters. The Undergraduate Category was won by UConn MSE student James Bosse, for his poster concerning “Efficient Large Area AFM Imaging.” Over 20 MSE majors participated in undergraduate research in one of three modes: (i) for credit as independent study students; (ii) non-credit as research assistants working within the research groups of individual faculty members; or (iii) as part of an NSF-sponsored REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) program. CMBE boasts one of the largest shares of UConn Honors Program students across the university. The ChE undergraduate population alone includes 42 Honors Program students; Drs. Ben Wilhite and Ranjan Srivastava served as faculty advisors. GRADUATE PROGRAMS

Dr. I. Burc Misirlioglu, who recently completed his doctoral degree with Dr. Pamir Alpay, was honored with receipt of the School of Engineering’s Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, which was presented at the annual engineering banquet in April 2008. STAFF & FACULTY

Drs. Yehia Khalil and Tom Anderson (now retired) assisted the department as adjunct faculty members the CMBE seeks to fill a number of vacant tenure-track positions. Professor Emeritus G. Michael Howard continued to assist in the ChE Senior Lab. Professor Emeritus Donald Potter again ran the MSE Materials Characterization Lab. Dr. Robert Weiss was named to a chair position, the UTC Professor of Advanced Materials and Processing. Dr. Bryan Huey was selected as the MSE program’s Outstanding Faculty Member for 2007 in recognition of his exceptional contributions to research, teaching and outreach missions of the program.

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Drs. Alpay, Mei Wei and Lei Zhu were all in their first year as tenured Associate Professors. Drs. Luke Achenie and Can Erkey left UConn for positions at Virginia Tech and Koç University, Istanbul. Dr. Erkey was appointed an Adjunct Professor in CMBE. In the administrative area, Ms. Katrice Duell joined CMBE to assist, in part, with the development of our newsletters and web sites. Mr. Eric Anderson accepted a position as Researcher in Residence with a new three-year appointment, and Mr. Richard Kozel returned part-time to assist with the ChE Senior Lab. Ms. Susan Soucy celebrated her 15-year anniversary at UConn, while Dr. Montgomery Shaw observed his 30-year anniversary. Dr. Cooper chaired a search committee that successfully recruited two new faculty members, Drs. William Mustain (Ph.D. Illinois Institute of Technology, ‘06) and Brian Willis (Ph.D. MIT, ‘99), who will join the CMBE department as ChE faculty in fall ’08. A second ChE search, led by Dr. Shaw with active participation of Dr. Michael Willig (Director, Center for Environmental Science & Engineering), resulted in the hiring of Dr. Jeff McCutcheon (Ph.D. Yale, ’07). Dr. McCutcheon will join the ChE faculty in August and will also be a member of the Center for Environmental Science & Engineering (CESE). The MSE search culminated in the hiring of Dr. George A. Rossetti, Jr. (Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University), who will join CMBE in fall ’08. Dr. Rossetti has worked as a research professor in the Institute of Materials Science at UConn since 2006. Our search for two ChE faculty members with expertise in environmental fields is continuing. PROGRAM OUTREACH

Visibility at national meetings continues to grow: the Materials Advantage Student Chapter (Faculty Advisor: Rainer Hebert) won a “Chapter of Excellence” award at the Materials Science & Technology Conference meeting, which was attended by 11 undergraduate members of the UConn chapter. The new Materials Research Society student chapter (Faculty Advisor: Bryan Huey) received its charter in fall 2007. Undergraduate members of the UConn chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) attended the annual AIChE meeting in Salt Lake City (Faculty Advisor: Yu Lei). Four assistant professors, along with professor emeritus Michael Cutlip and Dr. Carter also participated in meeting. Dr. Carter also participated in the two meetings of the University Materials Council and the AIChE Heads meeting in Salt Lake City. Dr. Huey was a key member of the State’s Nanotechnology Education program, which developed and delivered classes for high school teachers from across Connecticut. With the aim of increasing undergraduate enrollments in ChE, Dr. Srivastava hosted a number of informational/social events at which ChE students enrolled in the Honors Program interacted with attendees. In April, Dr. Rainer Hebert led the department’s efforts in the annual Connecticut Invention Convention and hosted the New England Association of Chemistry Teachers (NEACT). Two separate one-page fliers were mailed to alumni and colleagues in other schools in June. A departmental newsletter is planned for late July.

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CHEMICAL, MATERIALS & BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ARCHIVAL TECHNICAL JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

2007-2008 Mark Aindow “Shape Evolution of Single-crystalline Mn2O3 Using a Solvothermal Approach,” (with W.N. Li, L.C. Zhang, J.K. Yuan, X.F. Shen, S. Sithambaram and S.L. Suib), Journal of Physical Chemical, Vol. C 111: pp. 14694-14697, 2007. “Behavior of H2 Chemisorption on Ru/TiO2 Surface and its Application in Evaluation of Ru Particle Sizes Compared with TEM and XRD Analyses,” (with X.F. Shen, L.J. Garces, Y.S. Ding, K. Laubernds, R.P. Zerger, E.J. Neth and S.L. Suib), Applied Catalysis, A 335: pp. 187–195. 2008. “Pt-Based Electrocatalysts for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells Prepared by a Supercritical Deposition Technique,” (with A. Bayrakçeken, A. Smirnova, U. Kitkamthorn, L. Türker, İ. Eroğlu and C. Erkey), Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 179, pp. 532–540, 2008. “Grain Growth and Particle Pinning in a Model Ni-based Superalloy,” (with K. Song), Materials Science

and Engineering A, Vol. 470, pp. 365–372, 2008. “Microstructures and Mechanical Properties of Nb-Ti-C Alloys,” (with H. Jiao and I.P. Jones), Materials

Science and Engineering A, Vol. 485, pp. 359–366, 2008. S. Pamir Alpay “Influence of Mechanical Boundary Conditions on the Electrocaloric Properties of Ferroelectric Thin Films,” (with G. Akcay, G.A. Rossetti, Jr. and J.F. Scott), Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 103, Art. # 024104, 2008. “A Comparative Ab Initio Study of Ferroelectric Behavior in KNO3 and CaCO3,” (with M.K. Aydinol and J.V. Mantese), Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 19, Art. # 496210, 2007.

“Growth of V2O3 Thin Films on a-plane (110) and c-plane (001) Sapphire via Pulsed Laser Deposition,” (with B.S. Allimi, D. Goberman, T. Huang, J.I. Budnick, D.M. Pease and A.I. Frenkel), Journal of

Material Research, Vol. 22, pp. 2825-2831, 2007.

“The Fabrication and Material Properties of Compositionally Multilayered Ba1-xSrxTiO3 Thin Films for Realization of Temperature Insensitive Tunable Phase Shifter Devices,” (with M.W. Cole, E. Ngo, S. Hirsch, J.D. Demaree and S. Zhong), Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 102, Art. # 034104, 2007.

“Dielectric and Pyroelectric Properties of Barium Strontium Titanate Films on Orthorhombic Substrates with (110)//(100) Epitaxy,” (with G. Akcay and I.B. Misirlioglu), Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 101, Art. # 104110, 2007. “Comment on ‘Simulation of Interface Dislocations Effect on Polarization Distribution of Ferroelectric Thin Films,” (with I.B. Misirlioglu and V. Nagarajan,), Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 90, Art. # 236101, 2007.

“Microwave Dielectric Properties of Graded Barium Strontium Titanate Films,” (with M.W. Cole, C.V. Weiss, E. Ngo, S. Hirsch and L.A. Coryell), Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 92, Art. # 182906, 2008.

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“Dielectric Properties of MgO-doped Compositionally Graded Multilayer Barium Strontium Titanate Films,” (with M.W. Cole, E. Ngo, S. Hirsch and M.B. Okatan), Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 92, Art. # 072906, 2008.

“Enhanced Piezoelectric Response from Barium Strontium Titanate Multilayer Films,” (with R. Nath, S. Zhong, B.D. Huey and M.W. Cole), Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 92, Art. # 012916, 2008.

“Strain Induced Internal Potentials of Compositionally Graded Epitaxial Ferroelectric Thin Films,” (with G. Akcay, S. Zhong, B.S. Allimi and J.V. Mantese), Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 91, Art. # 012904, 2007.

“Magnitude of the Intrinsic Electrocaloric Effect in Ferroelectric Perovskite Thin Films at High Electric Fields,” (with G. Akcay, J.V. Mantese and G.A. Rossetti, Jr.), Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 90, Art. # 252909, 2007. Harold D. Brody “Measurements for Cu and Si Diffusivities in Al-Si-Cu Alloys by Diffusion Couples,” (with D. Zhang and J.E. Morral), Materials Science and Engineering A, pp. 217-221, 2007. “A Compact Design of a Temperature Gradient Furnace for Synchrotron Microradiography,” (with B. Li, D.R. Black, H. Burdette and C. Rau), Measurement Science and Technology, Vol. 17, pp. 1883-1887, 2006. “Real Time Observation of Dendritic Segregation in Alloys by Synchrotron Microradiography,” (with B. Li, D.R. Black, H. Burdette and C. Rau), Journal of Physics D - Applied Physics, Vol. 39, pp. 4450-4456, 2006. C. Barry Carter “Photosensitization of ZnO Nanowires with CdSe Quantum Dots for Photovoltaic Devices,” (with K.S. Leschkies, R. Divakar, J. Basu, E. Enache-Pommer, J.E. Boercker, U.R. Kortshagen, D.J. Norris and E.S. Aydil), Nano Letters, Vol. 7, No. 6, pp. 1793-1798, 2007. “Compressive Stress Effects on Nanoparticle Modulus and Fracture,” (with W.M. Mook, J.D. Nowak, C.R. Perrey, R. Mukherjee, S.L. Girshick, P.H. McMurry and W.W. Gerberich), Physical Review B, Vol. 75, pp. 214112-1-10, 2007. “Air-stable Full-visible-spectrum Emission from Silicon Nanocrystals Synthesized by an All-gas-phase Plasma Approach,” (with X.D. Pi, R.W. Liptak, J.D. Nowaj and N.P. Wells), Nanotechnology, Vol. 19, pp. 245603, 2008. Douglas J. Cooper “Graphical Technique for Modeling Integrating (Non-Self Regulating) Processes without Steady-State Process Data,” (with J. Arbogast and R. Rice), Chemical Engineering Communications, Vol. 194, pp. 1566, 2007. “Improve Control of Liquid Level Loops,” (with R. Rice), Chemical Engineering Progress, Vol. 104, pp. 54, 2008.

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Puxian Gao “Multi-colored ZnO Nanowire Architectures on Trenched Silicon Substrates,” (with J.L. Lee and Z.L. Wang), Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 111, Art. # 13763, 2007. “Bridged ZnO Nanowires Across Trenched Electrodes,” (with J. Liu, J.L. Lee and Z.L. Wang), Applied

Physics Letters, Vol. 91, Art. # 142108, 2007. Maurice Gell “Thermal and Crystallization Behavior of Zirconia Precursor Used in the Solution Precursor Plasma Spray Process,” (with D. Chen and E.H. Jordan), Journal of Materials Science 2007, Vol. 42, Issue 14, pp. 5576-5580, 2007. “Thermal Stability of Air Plasma Spray and Solution Precursor Plasma Spray Thermal Barrier Coatings,” (with D. Chen, E.H. Jordan, E. Cao and X. Ma), Journal of American Ceramic Society, Vol. 90 Issue 10, pp. 3160-3166, 2007. “Dense Alumina-Zirconia Coatings Using the Solution Precursor Plasma Spray Process,” (with D. Chen, E.H. Jordan and X. Ma), Journal of American Ceramic Society, Vol. 91, Issue 2, pp. 359-365, 2008. “Apatite Formation on Alkaline Treated Dense Titania Coatings Deposited Using the Solution Precursor Plasma Spray Process,” (with D. Chen, E.H. Jordan and M. Wei), Acta Biomaterialia, Vol. 4, Issue 3, 2008, 553-559. “Thermally Grown Oxide Growth Behavior and Spallation Lives of Solution Precursor Plasma Spray Thermal Barrier Coatings,” (with F. Wu, E.H. Jordan and X. Ma), Surface and Coatings Technology, Vol. 202, Issue 9, pp. 1775-1779, 2008. “Effect of Solution Concentration on Splat Formation and Coating Microstructure Using the Solution Precursor Plasma Spray Process,” (with D. Chen and E.H. Jordan), Surface and Coatings Technology, Vol, 202, Issue 10, pp. 2132-2138, 2008. “Thermal Barrier Coatings Made by the Solution Precursor Plasma Spray Process,” (with E.H. Jordan, M. Teicholz, B.M. Cetegen, N.P. Padture, L. Xie, D. Chen X. Ma and J. Roth), Journal of Thermal Spray

Technology, Vol. 17, Issue 1, pp. 124-135, 2008. Rainer Hebert “Effect of Intense Rolling and Folding on the Phase Stability of Al-Y-Fe Amorphous Alloys,” (with J.H. Perepezko), Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, ISSN pp. 1073-5623 (Print) pp. 1543-1940 (Online), December 2007. Bryan Huey “Ultra Sharp and High Aspect Ratio Carbon Nanotube AFM Probes for Enhanced Surface Potential Imaging,” (with M. Zhao, V. Sharma, H. Wei, R.R. Birge, J.A. Stuart and F. Papadimitrakopoulos), Nanotechnology, Vol. 19, Issue 23, pp. 235704-10, 2008. “Control of Length and Spatial Functionality of Single-wall Carbon Nanotube AFM Nanoprobes,” (with H. Zhao, S.-Y. Ju, H.L. Marcus and F. Papadimitrakopoulos), Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 29, Issue 8, pp. 2793-2801, 2008.

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“Patterned Forest-assembly of Single-wall Carbon Nanotubes on Gold Using a Non-thiol Functionalization Technique,” (with H. Wei, S. Kim, S.N. Kim, F. Papadimitrakopoulos and H.L. Marcus), Journal of Materials Chemistry, Vol. 17, pp. 4577–4585, September 2007. “Enhanced Piezoelectric Response from Barium Strontium Titanate Multilayer Films,” (with R. Nath, S. Zhong, S P. Alpay and M.W. Cole), Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 92, Art. # 012916, 2008. Yu Lei “Real-time Nitrophenol Detection Using Single-walled Carbon Nanotube Sensors,” (with N.Y. Liu, X.P. Cai, Q. Zhang and M. Chan), Electroanalysis, Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 558-562, 2008. Harris L. Marcus “Patterned Forest-assembly of Single-wall Carbon Nanotubes on Gold Using a Non-thiol Functionalization Technique,” (with H. Wei, S. Kim, S.N. Kim, B.D. Huey and F. Papadimitrakopoulos), Journal of Materials Chemistry, Vol. 17, pp. 4577-4585, September 2007. “The Influence of Pulse Parameters on the Laser Drilling of Hastelloy X,” (with R. Bright, P. Jacobs, and M. Aindow), Laser Journal, paper #1201, July, 2007. “Creating Line Defects with a Single Micro-sphere Width in a DNA-linked 2D Colloidal Crystal Array Using a Pulsed Laser,” (with P. Yu, S. Kim and F. Papadimitrakopoulos), Journal of Materials Science, Vol. 43, pp. 803-812, 2008. Arthur J. McEvily “Analysis of the Effect of Cold-working of Rivet Holes on the Fatigue Life of an Aluminum Alloy,” (with P.F.P de Matos, P.M.G.P. Moreira and P.M.S.T. Castro), International Journal of Fatigue, Vol. 29, pp. 575-586, 2007. “On the Sharp Bend of the S-N Curve and the Crack Propagation Behaviour of Extruded Magnesium Alloy,” (with Z. Nan, S. Ishihara, H. Shibata and K. Komano), Scripta Materialia, Vol. 56, pp. 649-652, 2007. “On One- and Two-parameter Analyses of Short Fatigue Crack Growth,” (with S. Ishihara, M. Endo, H. Sakai and H. Matsunaga), International Journal of Fatigue, Vol. 29, Issue 12, pp. 2237-2245, December 2007. Richard Parnas “Imaging and Thermal Studies of Wheat Gluten/Poly(vinyl alcohol) and Wheat Gluten/Thiolated Poly(vinyl alcohol) Blends,” (with J. Dong, R.M. Dicharry, E. Waxman and A.D. Asandei), Biomacromolecules, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 568-73, 2008. “Investigation of the Thermal, Mechanical, and Fracture Properties of Alumina – Epoxy Composites,” (with L.M. McGrath, S.H. King, J. L. Schroeder, D.A. Fischer and J.L. Lenhart), Polymers, Vol. 49, pp. 999-1014, 2008. Ramamurthy Ramprasad “Local Properties of Interfaces in Nanodielectrics: An Ab Initio Computational Study,” (with N. Shi), IEEE Transaction Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, Vol. 15, Art. # 170, 2008.

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“Stability and Electronic Structure of CdSe Nanorods from First Principles,” (with T. Sadowski), Physics

Review B, Vol. 76, Art. # 235310, 2007.

“Diffusion of O Vacancies Near Si:HfO2 Interfaces: An Ab Initio Investigation,” (with C. Tang and B.R. Tuttle), Physics Review B, Vol. 76, Art. # 073306, 2007.

“Effect of UV Treatment on the Dielectric Strength of BOPP Films,” (with J. Ho and S. Boggs), IEEE

Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, Vol. 14, Art. # 1295, 2007.

“Multishell Carrier Transport in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Thin Films,” (with S. Agrawal, M.S. Raghuveer and G. Ramanath), IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, Vol. 6, Art. # 722, 2007. “A Study of Hf Vacancies at Si:HfO2 Interfaces,” (with C. Tang), Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 92, Art. # 182908, 2008. “Oxygen Defect Accumulation at Si:HfO2 Interfaces,” (with C. Tang), Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 92, Art. # 152911, 2008.

“Local Dielectric Permittivity of HfO2 Based Slabs and Stacks: A First Principles Study,” (with N. Shi), Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 91, Art. # 242906, 2007. Leon L. Shaw “Probing the Reaction Pathway of Dehydrogenation of the LiNH2 + LiH Mixture Using In Situ 1H NMR Spectroscopy,” (with J.Z. Hu, J.H. Kwak, Z.G. Yang, W. Osborn and T. Markmaitree), Journal of Power

Sources, Vol. 181, pp. 116-119, 2008. “Comparative Studies of Reaction Rates of NH3 with LiH and MgH2,” (with T. Markmaitree and W. Osborn), Journal of Power Sources, Vol.180, pp. 535-538, 2008. “Crystallite Sizes of LiH Before and After Ball Milling and Thermal Exposure,” (with A. Ortiz, W. Osborn and T. Markmaitree), Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Vol. 454 [1-2], pp. 297-305, 2008. “Strengthening via Deformation Twinning in Nickel Alloys,” (with J. Villegas, J.-Y. Huang and S. Chen), Materials Science and Engineering A, Vol. 480, pp. 75-83. 2008. “The Reaction Pathway and Rate-Limiting Step of Dehydrogenation of LiHN2 + LiH Mixture,” (with W. Osborn, T. Markmaitree and X. Wan), Journal of Power Sources, Vo. 177, pp. 500-505, 2008. “Interrogation of the Microstructure and Residual Stress of a Nickel-Base Alloy Subjected to Surface Severe Plastic Deformation,” (with A.L. Ortiz, J.W. Tian, J.C. Villegas and P.K. Liaw). Acta Materialia, Vol. 56 [3], pp. 413-426, 2008. “Effects of Mechanical Activation on Dehydrogenation of the Lithium Amide and Hydride System,” (with R. Ren, T. Markmaitree and W. Osborn), Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Vol. 448, pp. 263-271, 2008. “Morphology-Enhanced Low Temperature Sintering of Nanocrystalline Hydroxyapatite,” (with J. Wang), Advanced Materials, Vol. 19, pp. 2364-2369, 2007.

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“Study the Effects of Mechanical Activation on Li-N-H Systems with 1H and 6Li Solid-State NMR,” (with C. Lu, J. Hu, J.H. Kwak, Z.G. Yang, R. Ren and T. Markmaitree), Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 170, pp. 419-424, 2007. “Evaluation of the Hydrogen Storage Behavior of a LiNH2-MgH2 System with a 1:1 Ratio,” (with W. Osborn and T. Markmaitree), Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 172, pp. 376-378, 2007. “Effects of Powder Manufacturing Methods on Microstructure and Wear Performance of Plasma Sprayed Alumina-Titania Coatings,” (with M. Wang), Surface and Coatings Technology, Vol. 202, pp. 34-44, 2007. “A Study of the Effect of Nanostructured Surface Layers on the Fatigue Behavior of a C-2000 Alloy,” (with J.W. Tian, J.C. Villegas, W. Yuan, D. Fielden, P.K. Liaw and D.L. Klarstrom), Materials Science

and Engineering A, Vol. 468-470, pp. 164-170, 2007. “Comparison between Shot Peening and Surface Nanocrystallization and Hardening Processes,” (with K. Dai), Materials Science and Engineering A, Vol. 463 [1-2], pp. 46-53, 2007. “Hall-Petch Relationship of a Nano-Twinned Alloy,” (with A.L. Ortiz and J. Villegas), Scripta

Materialia, Vol. 58, pp. 951-954, 2008. “Formation of a Leucite-Free Zone in Laser-Sintered Dental Porcelains,” (with X. Li), Materials Letters, Vol. 61, pp. 3946-3950, 2007. Montgomery T. Shaw “Magnetic Ion Exchange Nanoparticles and Their Application in Proton Exchange Membranes,” (with S.B. Brijmohan), Journal of Membrane Science, Vol. 303, pp. 64-71, 2007. “Ionic Crosslinking of Polymer Electrolyte Membranes Using Barium Cations,” (with J.V. Gasa and R.A. Weiss), Journal of Membrane Science, Vol. 304, pp. 173-180, 2007. “Rheological Characterization of Asphalt in a Temperature-gradient Combinatorial Squeeze-flow Setup,” (with Y.P. Patil, A. Senador and P.T. Mather), Rheology Acta, Vol. 46, pp. 1075-1082, 2007. “Detection of Multiple Flow Regimes in Capillary Flow at Low Stress,” Journal of Rheology, Vol. 51, pp. 1303-1318, 2007. “Fabrication of Novel Calcium Phosphate/Poly(lactic acid) Fiber Composites,” (with C. Kothapalli, J. Olsen and M. Wei), Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B: Applied Biomaterials, Vol. 84B, pp. 89-97, 2008. “Reversible Thermal Gelation of Soft Semi-crystalline Polyethylene Microparticles with Surface Interactions in Squalane,” (with G.H. Ling), Polymer Engineering & Science, Vol. 48, pp. 329-335, 2008. “Solvent-specific Gel-like Transition via Complexation of Polyelectrolyte and Charged Nanoparticles in Binary Fluid Mixtures: A Rheological Study,” (with C. Kothapalli and M. Wei), Soft Matter, Vol. 4, pp. 600-605, 2008. “Structured Polymer Electrolyte Blends Based on Sulfonated Polyetherketoneketone (SPEKK) and a Poly (ether imide) (PEI),” (with J.V. Gasa and R.A. Weiss), Journal of Membrane Science, online version published April 26, 2008.

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“Membranes and Membrane Electrode Assemblies Based on Sulfonated Poly(ether ketone ketone) and Heteropolyacids for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells,” (with V. Ramani, S. Swier, R.A. Weiss, H.R. Kunz and J.M. Fenton), Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Vol. 155, pp. B532-B537, 2008. Alevtina L. Smirnova “Physical and Electrochemical Characterization of Bi2O3-doped Scandia Stabilized Zirconia,” (with B. Bai and N.M. Sammes), Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 176, No.1, pp.76-81, 2008. “Yttrium-doped Barium Zirconates as Ceramic Conductors in the Intermediate Temperature Range,” (with S. Higgins, N. Sammes, J.A. Kilner and G. Tompsett), Journal of Fuel Cell Science and

Technology, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 027001, 2008. “Pt-based Electrocatalysts for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells Prepared by Supercritical Deposition Technique,” (with A. Bayrakceken, U. Kitkamthorn, M. Aindow, L. Turker, I. Eroglu and C. Erkey), Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 179, No. 2, pp.532-540, 2008. “Synthesis and Properties of Nano-composites with Mixed Ionic-electronic Conductivity on the Basis of Oxide Phases with Perovskite and Fluorite Structures,” (with V. Sadykov, Y. Borcher, G. Alikina, A. Lukashevich, N. Mezenzeva, V. Muzykantov, E. Moroz, V. Rogov, V. Zaikovskii, D. Zyuzin, N. Uvarov, A. Ishenko and V. Zyryanov), Glass Physics and Chemistry, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp.320-334, 2007. “Modeling and Analysis of a Micro-tubular Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) Operating at Intermediate Temperatures, (with M.F. Serincan and N. Sammes), Electrochemical Society Transactions, Vol.7, No.1, pp.1955-1965, 2007. “Comparison and Characterization of CeO2 doped ScSZ and Bi2O3 Doped ScSZ as IT-SOFC Electrolytes,” (with B. Bai, W. McPhee and N. Sammes), Electrochemical Society Transactions, Vol. 7, No.1, pp. 2213-2221, 2007. “Mechanical Properties of Ceria-doped Scandia-stabilized Zirconia Electrolyte Coatings for SOFCs,” (with X. Zhang, N. Sammes, E. Brodnikovskii and O. Vasylyev), Electrochemical Society Transactions, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 2233-2238, 2007. “Mechanical Properties of Anode-Supported Micro-Tubular Solid Oxide Fuel Cells,” (with A. Mohammadi, J. Pusz and N. Sammes), Electrochemical Society Transactions, Vol. 7, No.1, pp.1409-1418, 2007. “Fracture Strength of Micro-tubular Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Anode in Redox Cycling Experiments,” (with J. Pusz, A. Mohammadi and N.M. Sammes), Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 163, No. 2, pp. 900-906, 2007. Ranjan Srivastava “Systems Biology of Mucosal Injury in Cancer Patients,” (with D.E. Peterson, J.R. White, R.V. Lalla and L.M .Loew), Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol. 26, p. 9634, 2008.

“Mucositis in Cancer Patients: Prototypic Semi-Mechanistic Kinetic Model,” (with D.E. Peterson, R.V. Lalla and L.M. Loew), Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol. 25, No. 18S, p. 19617, 2007.

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Mei Wei “Coating of Poly(lactic acid) Fibers with Calcium Phosphate Using a Cyclic Precipitation Technique,” (with C. Kothapalli, M.T. Shaw and J.R. Olson), Journal of Biomedical Materials Research: Part B, Vol. 84B, pp. 89-97, 2008. “Improvement of Adhesive Strength of Biomimetically Coated Titanium Implants,” (with H. Qu), Journal of Biomedical Materials Research: Part B, Vol. 84B, pp. 436-443, 2008. “Solvent-specific Gel-like Transition via Complexation of Polyelectrolyte and Hydroxyapatite Nanoparticles Suspended in Water-Glycerin Mixtures: A Rheological Study,” (with C.R. Kothapalli and M.T. Shaw), Soft Matters, Vol. 4, pp. 600-605, 2008. “Apatite Formation on Alkaline Treated Dense Titania Coatings Deposited Using the Solution Precursor Plasma Spray Process,” (with D. Chen, E.H. Jordan and M. Gell), Acta Biomaterialia, Vol. 4, Issue 3, pp. 553-559, 2008. Robert A. Weiss “Viscoelastic Properties of Poly(styrene-co-vinylphosphonate) Ionomers,” (with Q. Wu), Polymer, Vol. 48, pp. 7558-7566, 2007. “Ionic Crosslinking of Polymer Electrolyte Membranes using Barium Cations,” (with J.V. Gasa and M.T. Shaw), Journal of Membrane Science, Vol. 304, pp. 173-180, 2007. “Synthesis and Thermal Properties of Telechelic Poly(lactic acid) Ionomers,” (with A. Ro and S.J. Huang), Polymer, Vol. 49, pp. 422-431, 2008. “Structured Polymer Electrolyte Blends Based on Sulfonated Polyetherketoneketone (SPEKK) and a Poly (ether imide) (PEI),” (with J. Gasa and M.T. Shaw), Journal of Membrane Science, online version published April 26, 2008. “Nanoparticle-Textured Surfaces from Spin-Coating. Langmuir,” (with X. Zhai and A.V. Dobrynin), Langmuir, Vol. 24, pp. 5218-5220, 2008. “Membranes and Membrane Electrode Assemblies Based on Sulfonated Poly(ether ketone ketone) and Heteropolyacids for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells,” (with V. Ramani, S. Swier, M.T. Shaw, H.R. Kunz and J.M. Fenton), Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Vol. 155, pp. B532-B537, 2008. “New Design of Shape Memory Polymers: Mixtures of an Elastomeric Ionomer and Low Molar Mass Fatty Acids and Their Salts,” (with E. Izzo and S. Mandelbaum), Macromolecules, Vol. 41, pp. 2978-2980, 2008. Benjamin Wilhite “Continuous-Flow Preparation of Biodiesel Using Microwave Heating,” (with T.M. Barnard, N.E. Leadbeater, M.J. Boucher and L. M. Stencel), Energy and Fuels, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 1777-178, 2007.

“A MEMS Singlet-Oxygen Generator – Part I: Device Fabrication and Proof of Concept Demonstration,” (with L.F. Velasquez, T.F. Hill, W.T. Rawlins, S. Lee, K F. Jensen, A.H. Epstein and C. Livermore), Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 16, No. 6, pp. 1482-1491, 2007.

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“A MEMS Singlet-Oxygen Generator – Part II: Experimental Exploration of the Performance Space,” (with T.F. Hill, L.F. Velasquez-Garcia, W.T. Rawlins, S. Lee, K.F. Jensen, A.H. Epstein and C. Livermore), Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 16, No. 6, pp. 1492-1505, 2007. Lei Zhu “Self-assembly and Chain-folding in Hybrid Coil-coil-cube Triblock Oligomers of Polyethylene-b-poly(ethylene oxide)-b-polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane,” (with J. Miao, L. Cui, H.P. Lau and P.T. Mather), Macromolecules, Vol. 40, pp. 5460-5470, 2007. “Crystalline Morphology and Phase Transitions in Electrospun Nylon 6 Nanofibers,” (with Y. Liu, L. Cui, F. Guan, Y. Gao, N.E. Hedin and H. Fong), Macromolecules, Vol. 40, pp. 6283-6290, 2007. “Self-assembling Semicrystalline Polymer into Highly Ordered, Microscopic Concentric Rings by Evaporation,” (with M. Byun, S.W. Hong and Z. Lin), Langmuir, Vol. 24, pp. 3525-3531, 2008. “Hydrogen-bonding Assisted Self-assembly in Poly(vinyl pyrrolidone)/nanocrystalline Polydiacetylene Blends Showing Reversible Thermochromism,” (with Y. Gu, W. Cao, D. Chen and M. Jiang), Macromolecules, Vol. 41, pp. 2299-2303, 2008. “Conformation Transformation Determined by Different Self-assembled Phases in a DNA Complex with Cationic Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane Lipid,” (with L. Cui and D. Chen), ACS Nano, Vol. 2, pp. 921-927, 2008.

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CHEMICAL, MATERIALS & BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT BOOKS, BOOK CHAPTERS, BOOK SECTIONS AND EDITED VOLUMES

2007-2008 S. Pamir Alpay “Functionally Graded Polar Heterostructures: New Materials for Multifunctional Devices,” (with D. Jena and J.V. Mantese), Polarization Effects in Semiconductors: from Ab Initio Theory to Device Applications, (D. Jena and C. Wood, eds.), Springer, pp. 307-368, 2007. Douglas J. Cooper Practical Process Control e-Textbook, (portions with A. Houtz), www.controlguru.com, Rev. with 55 pages new content. Harris L. Marcus Proceedings of Sixteenth Solid Freeform Fabrication International Symposium, (with D.L. Bourell, J.J. Beaman, R.H. Crawford and K.L. Wood, eds.), The University of Texas, August 2007. Richard Parnas “Fracture Toughness and Rheology of Alumina-Filled Epoxy Composites,” (with L.M. McGrath, J.L. Lenhart and S.H. King), ACS Symposium Series on Polymer Durability and Radiation Effects, Vol. 978, pp. 328, 2008.

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CHEMICAL, MATERIALS & BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS

2007-2008 Mark Aindow “The Influence of Pulse Parameters on the Laser Drilling of Hastelloy X,” (with R. Bright, P. Jacobs and H.L. Marcus), CD, Proceedings of ICALEO 2007, Orlando, FL, October 2007. “Devitrification of Al-Y-Ni Glasses,” (with A.L.Vasiliev), Proceedings of EMMM-2007, Moscow – Russia, September 2007, AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 999, pp. 257-267, 2008. Douglas J. Cooper “Controller Performance Monitoring at Constant Set Point Using Autocorrelation,” (with R. Howard), Proceedings of the Tenth IASTED International Conference on Control and Applications, (C.A. Rabbath, ed.), ACTA Press, Vol. 194, Calgary, Canada, 2008.

“Controller Tuning for Performance and Robust Stability,” (with J.E. Arbogast and B.M. Beauregard), Proceedings of the ISA Expo 2007, www.isa.org, ISBN TP07EXPO055, Houston, TX, 2007. “Sample Time is a Fundamental Parameter for Controller Design and Tuning,” Proceedings of the ISA

Expo 2007, www.isa.org, ISBN TP07EXPO036, Houston, TX, 2007. Puxian Gao “Synthesis and Characterization of Large Scale ZnMgO Nanowire Architectures,” (with P. Shimpi, D. Golberman and D.F. Jian), Nanotechnology 2008: Microsystems, Photonics, Sensors, Fluidics, Modeling,

and Simulation - Technical Proceedings of the 2008 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show, Vol. 3, pp. 130-133, June 2008. “A Review of Growth and Characterization of ZnO Nanostructures for Various Optical Applications” (with A.K. Sood, Y.R. Puri, C.S. Lao, W.J. Mai, S. Xu, Z.L. Wang, D.L. Polla, M.B. Soprano and N.K. Dhar), Proceedings of SPIE, Fall 2007, Boston, MA, Vol. 6768, pp. 676803, September 9, 2007. Rainer Hebert “Accumulative Roll Bonding Processing of Metallic Multilayers” (with G. Marathe and J. Suri), Proceedings of 2008 NSF Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, Vol. 39A, pp. 1804-1811, 2008. Bryan Huey “High Speed Piezo Force Microscopy: Nanoscale and Nanosecond Direct Observations of Domain Switching,” (with R. Nath, N. Polomoff, J. Bosse, Y.H. Chu and R. Ramesh), Proceedings of the

International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics, Santa Fe, NM, Art. # CH001, 2008.

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Harris Marcus “Fabrication and Immobilization of 2D Colloidal Photonic Crystals,” (with R. Asmatulu, S. Kim, R. Bright and F. Papadimitrakopoulos), IMECE 2007-44092, ASME Seattle Congress, November 2007. Richard Parnas “Electrospinning of Thiolated Poly(vinylalcohol)/Wheat Gluten Fibers,” (with J. Dong and A. Asandei), Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering, Vol. 97, pp. 522, 2007. Montgomery T. Shaw “Hydroxyapatite-polylactide Composite for Bone Repair,” (with S.-P. Sun, M .Wei and J.R. Olson), Proceedings of the 66

th Annual Technical Conference, Society of Plastics Engineers, Paper #0944, May 4-

7, 2008. “Fully Absorbable Orthopedic Composites via a Modified Pultrusion Process,” (with S.-P. Sun, M. Wei and J.R. Olson), Proceedings of the Polymer Processing Society, Paper #S11-879, CD-ROM, Salerno, Italy, June 15-19, 2008.

Alevtina L. Smirnova “Modeling of Deformational Behavior and Determining the Loading Capacity of a Planar Design SOFC under Influence of Operational Temperature,” (with R. Hasanov, O. Vasilyev, A. Gulgazli, R. Jamalov, and M. Kazimov), Proceedings of the Special Workshop on Advanced Numerical Analysis of Shell-like

Structures, Zagreb, Croatia, September 26-28, 2007. “Structure, Mechanical and Conductive Properties of Gadolinia Doped Ceria Electrolytes,” (with L. Ushkalov, O.Vasylyev, V.Melakh, I.Brodnikovskyi, A.Zyrin, V.Redko, M.Brychevskyi and A.Kotko), Proceedings of the 2

nd European Fuel Cell Technology and Applications Conference EFC2007, (A.

Moreno, et al., eds.), ASME, Rome, Italy, pp. 143-144, December 11-14, 2007. “10Sc1CeSZ Powders and Electrolytes: Mechanical, Electric, and Catalytic Properties,” (with O. Vasylyev, M. Brychevskyi, I. Brodnykovskyi, L. Dubykivskyi, V. Vereschak, V. Chedryk, R. Steinbrech, J. Malzbender, J. Irvine, C. Savaniu, I. Kosacki and V. Sadykov), Proceedings of the 2

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European Fuel Cell Technology and Applications Conference (EFC2007), (A. Moreno et al., eds.), ASME, pp. 1-2, Rome, Italy, December 11-14, 2007. “Modelling of Shell-like Cylindrical Macrocomposite Construction Deformational Behavior,” (with A.S. Gulgazli, A.D. Vasilyev, R.A. Hasanov and M. Kazimov), Advanced Numerical Analysis of Shell-like

Structures (ANNAS-2007), Zagreb, Croatia, 2007. “Materials Characterization and Electrochemical Performances of Gd0.5 Sr0.5CoO3 Cathode for IT-SOFCs,” (with J. Pusz, N.M. Sammes and V. Sadykov), Proceedings of the IMPRES Innovative

Materials for Processes in Energy System, Kyoto, Japan, 2007. “Mechanical Behavior and Conductivity of Gadolinia Doped Ceria Electrolyte,” (with O. Vasylyev, L. Ushkalov, V. Melakh, D. Brodnykovs'kyi, A. Zyrin and V. Red’ko), Proceedings of the International

Conference on Fuel Cells, Ukraine, Kiev, 2007.

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“Doped Nanocrystalline Pt-promoted Ceria-Zirconia as Anode Catalysts for IT SOFC: Synthesis and Properties,” (with V. Sadykov, N. Mezentseva, V. Muzykantov, G. Alikina, L. Batuev, A. Lukashevich, O. Bobrenok, N. Uvarov, V. Zyryanov, E. Politova, J. Kilner and C. Argirusis), MRS Symposium,

Proceedings, Vol. 1023, 2007. Mei Wei "Fully Absorbable Orthopedic Composites via a Modified Pultrusion Process,” (with S.-P. Sun, J.R. Olson and M.T. Shaw), Conference Proceedings of the Polymer Process Society, CD-ROM, Salerno, Italy, Paper #S11-879, June 15-18, 2008. “Improvement of Biomimetic Coating,” (with S. Seal), Proceedings of NSF CMMI Engineering Research

and Innovation Conference, Knoxville, TN, January 7-11 2008. Robert A. Weiss “Conductive Polypyrrole/Polyurethane Composite Foams as Sensors for Volatile Organic Chemicals,” (with Y. Wang and G.A. Sotzing), American Chemical Society Polymer Preprints, CD-ROM, Boston, MA, 2007. “Conductive Polypyrrole/Polymer Composites as Sensors for Volatile Organic Chemicals,” (with G.A. Sotzing, Y.-B. Wang and C. DeJesus), Smart Coatings 2008, CD-ROM, Orlando, FL, 2008. “Wetting Behavior of Ionomers on Silica,” (with X. Zhai, S. Swier and R.G. Schmide), Annual Technical

Conference of the Society of Plastics Engineers, CD-ROM, Milwaukee, WI, 2008. Lei Zhu “Supramolecular Self-assembly in a Disk-cube Dyad Molecule Based on Triphenylene and Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane (POSS),” (with L. Cui and J.P. Collet), Polymeric Materials: Science and

Engineering Preprint, Vol. 97, pp. 408-409, 2007. “Tailoring Onion-like Morphology in Polylactide-containing Block Copolymers,” (with L. Sun, L. Rong and B.S. Hsiao), Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering Preprint, Vol. 97, pp. 172-173, 2007. “Miscibility and Crystallization Behaviors of PEO and PLA, PLLA or PLLA/PDLA Stereocomplex Blends,” (with W. Cao and L. Sun), Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering Preprint, Vol. 97, pp. 380-381, 2007. “Patternable Electroactive Polymer Actuators Incorporating Titanium Oxide Core-poly(butyl acrylate) Shell Nanoparticles,” (with A. Maliakal, J. Cui, I. Kretzschmar and W. Cao), Polymeric Materials:

Science and Engineering Preprint, Vol. 98, pp. 169-170, 2008.

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CHEMICAL, MATERIALS & BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ACTIVE RESEARCH GRANTS & CONTRACTS

2007-2008 Mark Aindow “The Effects of Impurities on Fuel Cell Performance and Durability,” (with PI: T. Molter (90%)), U.S. Department of Energy, 3/1/07 - 2/28/11, $1,868,580. “Engineered Nano-Composite Oxides for High Durability Missile Domes,” (with PI: E. Jordan (75%)), U.S. Department of Defense/DARPA, sub-contract from Raytheon, 4/16/07 - 10/15/10, $2,808,000. “Support for the Application of Lasers to Materials Processing,” (with PI: H.L. Marcus (50%)), Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, 6/01/07 - 5/31/08, $200,000. “Self-Healing, High-Reliability Electrical Contacts for Military Applications,” (with PI: S.P. Alpay (50%)), U.S. Army Research Office, 6/1/07 - 5/31/10, $398,375. “TEM Characterization of SAM Al,” Pratt & Whitney, 9/5/07-12/31/08, $40,000. “Microstructural Characterization in Support of Fuel Cell Catalyst Development,” UTC Power, 10/1/07 - 12/31/08, $201,303. “Acquisition of a Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope for Research, Education and Outreach in Materials Science,” (with co-PIs: C.B. Carter and L. Zhu), Provost’s Instrumentation Fund, University of Connecticut, 11/15/07 - 6/30/08, $500,000. “Dual Beam FIB/SEM System for Nano Materials Research and other DOD-Related Activities,” (with PI: E. Jordan (80%)), U.S. Department of Defense, 6/01/08 - 5/31/09, $727,093. S. Pamir Alpay “Theoretical Analysis and MOSD of BST Multilayers, Subcontract from Frequency-Agile, Functionally Graded Ka-band Filters,” SMI Inc., NJ (U.S. Department of Defense, Army STTR), 7/2/07 - 1/1/08, $30,000. “Self-Healing, High-Reliability Electrical Contacts for Military Applications,” (with co-PI: M. Aindow (50%)), U.S. Army Research Office, 6/01/07 - 6/01/10, $398,375. “Highly Tunable, Temperature Insensitive Ferroelectric Films for Joint Tactical Radio System Manpack and Handheld Radios,” U.S. Army Research Office, 9/15/05 - 12/31/08, $266,237. “Dislocations in Thin Films of Ferroic Oxides,” American Chemical Society, The Petroleum Research Fund, 7/01/05 - 5/30/08, $80,000. Harold D. Brody “Sub-micron Precipitates in Segregated Al-Si-Cu-Mg Cast and Aged Alloys,” Distinguished Professor Discretionary Account, Provost, 7/1/07 - 6/30/08, $36,000.

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C. Barry Carter “Acquisition of a Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope for Research, Education and Outreach in Materials Science,” (with PI: M. Aindow and co-PI: L. Zhu), Provost’s Research Equipment Competition, University of Connecticut, 12/01/07 – 06/30/08, $500,000. Douglas J. Cooper Unrestricted Grant, Control Station, Inc., 7/1/07 – 6/30/08, $51,217. “Emerging Technologies,” Mixed Industries, 7/1/07 – 6/30/08, $38,387. “Continuous Improvement in Co-Gen Plant Operation,” University of Connecticut, 7/1/08 – 6/30/09, $73,000. Puxian Gao “Dendrite Composite Nano-catalysts for Auto-emission Control,” Honda Motor HIG 2007, 12/1/07 -11/31/08, $50,000. “Synthesis of Inorganic Nanostructures as Field Emitters,” United Technologies Corp., 6/4/07 - 12/31/08, $39,544. “Large Scale Synthesis of Heterojunction Semiconductor Nanowires for Electronics and Optoelectronics Applications,” Research Foundation Large Grant, University of Connecticut, 1/1/08 - 12/31/08, $23,884. Rainer Hebert “Accumulative Roll Bonding Processing of Bulk Nanolaminate Materials,” National Science Foundation-CMMI, 5/15/07 - 4/30/10, $290,000. “Synthesis and Microstructure Control of Cu-based Bulk Metallic Glasses,” Research Foundation, University of Connecticut, 6/01/07 - 12/31/08, $26,116. “REU - Accumulative Roll Bonding Processing of Bulk Nanolaminate Materials - REU FOR 524498,” 5/15/07 - 4/30/20, National Science Foundation-CMMI, $5,625. Bryan Huey “Mechanical Response of Individual Living Epithelial and Endothelial Cells to in situ Biochemical Signal Exposure and Direct Drug Delivery,” National Science Foundation NanoBioMechanics, 9/1/06 - 8/31/09, $257,694. “REU: Integrated Molecular Separation and Nanoscale Patterning,” National Science Foundation NanoBioMechanics, 9/1/06 - 8/31/09, $10,800. “Development of Nanoparticle Characterization Techniques,” Loctite/Henkel, 9/07 – 5/08, $5,000. “AFM Characterization of Fuel Cell Catalyst Particles,” United Technologies Research Center, 9/07 – 5/08, $5,600.

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Yu Lei “Biosensor and Bioaccumulation for Heavy Metals Using Genetically Engineered Caulobacter

crescentus,” Office of Research and Graduate Education, University of Connecticut, 1/1/07 - 12/31/08, $27,000. “Exp-La: Realtime, Compact, & Ultra-Sensitive Sensor Arrays for Explosives,” (with C. Brueckner (29.95%) and A. Gokirmak (3.13%)), National Science Foundation, 9/1/07 - 8/31/10, $780,404. “Rapid and Sensitive Detection of Total Coliforms and E. coli Using SWNT Membrane,” U.S. Geological Survey, through Connecticut Institute of Water Resources, 3/1/08 - 2/28/10, $49,726. Harris L. Marcus “Center for Advanced Deployable Nanosensors,” (with PI: F. Papadimitrakopoulos and co-PIs: B. Huey, J. Rusling and K. Noll), U.S. Army Research Office, 9/1/02 - 1/31/08, $2,955,000. “Tracking the Health of Soldiers with Advanced Implantable Nano-Sensors,” (with PI: F. Papadimitrakopoulos), U.S. Army Research Office, 1/1/08 - 6/30/10, $1,600,000. “Support for the Application of Lasers to Materials Processing,” (with co-PI: M. Aindow (50%)), Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, 6/01/07 - 5/31/08, $200,000. “Improving Steel Saw Blades Using Ion Implantation and Fundamental First Principles Computational Modeling,” (with co-PI: R. Ramprasad (20%)) Lenox Saws, 1/16/07 - 1/16/09, $171,576. Richard Parnas “Investigation of Wheat Gluten for Industrial Composites,” (with co-PI: A. Asandei), U.S. Department of Agriculture-CSREES, 9/1/05 – 8/30/08, $354,000. “Polymers Gels,” U.S. Department of Energy, Sandia Corporation, 2/2/04 - 9/30/07, $178,000. “Certificate in Renewable Energy Strategies,” (with co-PI: B. Wilhite), Center for Continuing Studies Academic Partnership, 6/1/07 - 5/31/09, $25,000. “Biofuels – Support of the Undergraduate Biodiesel Educational Laboratory,” Pratt & Whitney, 7/1/07 – 6/30/08, $10,000. Ramamurthy Ramprasad “Computational Support of the ONR Capacitor Program,” (with co-PI: S. Boggs (50%)), Office of Naval Research, 1/01/08 - 12/31/10, $480,000. “Electrical Degradation in High-k Dielectrics Based Devices: A Computational Study,” National Science Foundation, 8/01/07 - 7/31/10, $270,000. “CIEG Supplement: Electrical Degradation in High-k Dielectrics Based Devices: A Computational Study,” National Science Foundation, Summer 2008, $12,500. “Binary and Ternary Semiconductor Quantum Rods: A Computational Route to Next-generation All-Inorganic Photovoltaic Materials,” National Science Foundation, 1/1/08 - 12/31/10, $199,968.

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“Improving Steel Saw Blades Using Ion Implantation and Fundamental First Principles Computational Modeling,” (with PI: H. Marcus (80%)), Lenox Saws, 1/16/07 - 1/16/09, $171,576. “Computational Study of Conduction and Breakdown Mechanisms in Metal Oxide Dielectric Insulators,” ACS Petroleum Research Fund, 9/1/05 - 8/31/08, $88,000. “Molecular and Nano Composite Dielectrics for High Energy Density Capacitors for Pulsed Power and Power Conditioning Applications,” (with PI: L. Zhu (40%) and co-PIs: A. Asandei (10%) and S. Boggs (20%)), Office of Naval Research, 2/1/05 - 12/31/07, $800,000. “Computational Investigation of XLPE with SiO2 Nanofiller,” (with co-PI: S. Boggs (6%)), Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI), 9/1/06 - 12/31007, $85,000.

“Nanocomposite Dielectrics for High Power Capacitors,” (with PI: S. Boggs (94%)), Air Force SBIR – Phase I, 1/1/07 - 12/31/07, $85,000 (UConn share). Leon L. Shaw “Effects and Mechanisms of Mechanical Activation on Hydrogen Sorption/Desorption of Nanoscale Lithium Nitrides,” (with co-PI: Z.G. Yang, PNNL (25%)), U.S. Department of Energy, 12/9/04 - 12/8/09, $2,000,000. “Preparation & Sintering of Nano-SiC from Waste Silica Fume via an Integrated Mechanical and Thermal Activation Process,” National Science Foundation/U.S.-Egypt Joint Board, 9/1/05 - 8/31/08, $28,500. “Solid-State Spray Forming of Nanostructured WC/Co Coatings for Improved Wear Resistance,” National Science Foundation/Innovative Technology, Inc., 4/1/07 - 3/31/09, $47,040. Montgomery T. Shaw “Fabrication of Multi-Functional Composites for Load-Bearing Skeletal Applications,” (with PI: M. Wei (60%) and co-PI: J. Olson), National Science Foundation (GOALI), 1/1/05 - 5/31/08, $375,000. “Delivery of Growth Factors Using a Novel Composite for Bone Repair,” (with PI: M. Wei (60%) and co-PI: M. Freilich), Connecticut Innovations, Inc., 9/1/05 - 8/31/07, $295,365. “Match Account for NSF GOALI: Fabrication of Multi-functional Composites for Load-bearing Skeletal,” (with PI: M. Wei (60%)), 9/1/05 - 8/31/08, $75,000. “Delivery of Growth Factors Using a Novel Composite for Bone Repair,” (with PI: M. Wei (60%)), Teleflex – CT Devices, Inc., 9/1/05 - 8/30/08, $295,365. “Manufacture of Controlled Microstructure Proton Exchange Membranes,” (with PI: R. Weiss (60%)), National Science Foundation-NPM, 9/1/07 - 8/31/10, $453,888. “Conductive Nanoparticle-filled Membranes Structured for Optimum Performance,” Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, 10/1/07 - 5/31/08, $24,658. Alevtina L. Smirnova “Synthesis of Metal Alloy Aerogel Based Catalysts for PEMFCs,” UTC Power, 5/1/08-9/31/08, $40,000.

“Synthesis of Resorcinol-formaldehyde Carbon Aerogels,” UTC Power, 6/1/08 - 9/31/08, $2,500.

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“Carbon Supported Non-Noble Metal Catalysts Based on Self-Organized Organic Macrocycles; Source,” National Science Foundation, 9/1/07 - 9/31/08, $49,500. “Solid Oxide Fuel Cells for Energy Security (Administrative Account),” NATO, 3/1/05 - 3/31/09, $31,000. “Solid Oxide Fuel Cells for Energy Security,” NATO, 3/1/05 - 3/31/09, $3,000. “Solid Oxide Fuel Cells for Energy Security,” (with co-PI: N. Sammes (50%)), NATO, 3/1/05 - 3/31/09, $14,956. “Testing of the Catalysts for PEMFC Application Using RDE,” UTC Power, 9/21/07 - 12/15/07, $21,750. “Development of the Novel Cathode Catalysis for Intermediate Temperature SOFCs,” (with co-PI: N. Sammes (50%)), United Technologies Research Center, 7/1/07 - 6/30/10, $75,750. Ranjan Srivastava “Automatic Generation of Genome-scale Flux Balance Models,” National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine, 5/1/08 - 4/30/10, $152,000. “Development of a Preliminary Mucositis Model,” University of Connecticut Health Center, 6/4/07 - 12/31/10, $4,496. “Engineering of Escherichia coli’s Metabolism to Increase Electron Output for Microbial Fuel Cell Applications,” University of Connecticut Center for Environmental Sciences & Engineering, 6/1/07 - 9/1/07, $5,000. Yong Wang “Development of Multivalent RNA Nanostructures on the Surface of Dendrimer,” Office of Research and Graduate Education, University of Connecticut, 1/1/07 - 8/23/08, $27,000. “Multivalent ‘Artificial Antibody’ Based on RNA/Dendrimer-Like Star Polymer Hybrid Nanomaterials,” (with L. Zhu (50%)), National Science Foundation, 7/1/07 - 6/30/08, $450,000. “REU Supplement, Multivalent ‘Artificial Antibody’ Based on RNA/Dendrimer-Like Star Polymer Hybrid Nanomaterials,” National Science Foundation, 5/23/08 - 6/30/09, $6000. Mei Wei “NSF GOALI: Fabrication of Multi-functional Composites for Load-bearing Skeletal,” National Science Foundation, 9/1/05 - 8/31/09, $375,000. “Match Account for NSF GOALI: Fabrication of Multi-functional Composites for Load-bearing Skeletal,” (with co-PI: M. Shaw (40%)), 9/1/05 - 8/31/08, $75,000. “Collaborative Research: A Novel Approach to Improve the Interfacial Strength of Hydroxyapatite Coated Implants for Orthopedic and Dental Applications,” (with co-PI: S. Seal), National Science Foundation, 9/1/05 - 8/31/09, $180,000.

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“GOALI: Multi-Functional Composites for Load-Bearing Skeletal Applications,” National Science Foundation, 9/1/05 - 8/31/09, $3,000. “IREE: Delivery of Growth Factors Using a Novel Hydroxyapatite/Polymer Fibrous Scaffold Coating on Metallic Implants,” National Science Foundation, 9/1/06 - 8/31/09, $23,850. “Delivery of Growth Factors using a Novel Composite for Bone Repair,” Yankee Ingenuity Technology Competition, 12/1/05 - 12/31/08, $295,365. “Delivery of Growth Factors Using a Novel Composite for Bone Repair,” Teleflex – CT Devices, Inc., 9/1/05 - 8/31/08, $50,000. “HA Coated Implants: A Novel Approach to Improve the Interfacial Strength of Hydroxyapatite,” 9/1/05 - 8/31/09, $110,000. “Optimizing Mesoderm Derived Bone Cell Differentiation from hES Cells,” State of Connecticut Stem Cell Initiative, 4/5/07 - 4/4/09, $28,850. “IREE Supplement for FRS #523989 - HA Coated Implants: A Novel Approach to Improve the Interfacial Strength of Hydroxyapatite,” National Science Foundation, 9/5/05 - 8/31/09, $6,000. “REU for FRS 523989 - HA Coated Implants: A Novel Approach to Improve the Interfacial Strength of Hydroxyapatite,” National Science Foundation, 6/1/08 - 8/31/09, $6,000. “REU Supplement to GOALI grant-524987,” National Science Foundation, 9/1/05 - 8/31/09, $3,000. Robert A. Weiss “Control of Wetting Behavior of Thin Polymeric Films on Inorganic Substrates,” National Science Foundation, 2003-2006, $380,000. “Functional Polymers From Renewable Resources – Itaconic and Lactic Acids (TSE03-B),” (with S.J. Huang), National Science Foundation, 2003-2007, $360,000. “Development of Fluoro-oligomers for Sealants for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Stacks,” (with M.T. Shaw, A. Asandei and K. Reifsneider), Connecticut Innovations, Inc., 2004-2007, $300,000. “Manufacture of Controlled Microstructure Proton Exchange Membranes,” (with co-PI: M. Shaw (40%)), National Science Foundation, 2007-2010, $453,888. “Development of High Capacity Regenerable Solid Amine Sorbents for CO2 Removal,” Hamilton Sundstrand (subcontract on NASA grant), 2005-2007, $150,000. “New England Green Chemistry Consortium,” University of Massachusetts, 2005-2009, $208,150. “Structure and Properties of Ionomer Modified Asphalts (IMAs),” Connecticut Transportation Institute, 2008-2010, $102,827. “Synthesis of PLA Ionomers,” Green Chemistry Institute, Petroleum Research Fund American Chemical Society, 2008-2010, $55,911. “REU Supplement,” National Science Foundation, 5/1/08 - 8/31/10, $11,750. .

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“Control of the Wetting Behavior of Thin Polymeric Films on Inorganic Substrates,” National Science Foundation, 12/1/06 - 11/30/07, $5,913.

Benjamin Wilhite “Heat Integrated Hydrogen Production from Liquid Fuels,” Young Investigator Program, Office of Naval Research, 6/1/07 - 5/31/10, $299,010. DuPont Young Professor Grant Competition, DuPont, 9/1/07 - 8/31/10, $75,000. “Integrated Ceramic Membrane Networks for Hydrogen Extraction,” Office of Research and Graduate Education Large Grant Competition, University of Connecticut, 1/01/07 - 12/31/07, $16,024. “Certificate in Renewable Energy Strategies,” (with co-PI: R. Parnas), Center for Continuing Studies Academic Partnership, University of Connecticut, 6/1/07 - 5/31/09, $25,000. “Hydrogen from Ethanol via Integrated Ceramic Microchannel Membrane Networks,” National Science Foundation, 9/1/07 - 8/31/2010, $239,867. “Analysis of Hydrogen Purification Membranes for Use in Fuel Cell-Based,” Office of Naval Research, 12/18/07 - 12/19/08, $97,055. Lei Zhu “CAREER: Tailoring the Nanostructure and Morphology of Hydrogen-bonded Supramolecular Liquid Crystals using Immiscible Polymer Side Chains,” National Science Foundation, 1/01/04 - 12/31/08, $430,000. “Functional Soft Materials at Nanoscales,” 3M University Nontenured Faculty Grant, 12/01/04 -11/30/07, $45,000. “Molecular and Nano Composite Dielectrics for High Energy Density Capacitors for Pulsed Power and Power Conditioning Applications,” (with co-PIs: A. Asandei (10%), S. Boggs (20%) and R. Ramprasad (30%)), Office of Naval Research, 2/01/05 - 9/30/07, $800,000. “Supramolecular Lipid/DNA/Carbon Nanotube Self-Assembly for Advanced Organic Electronics,” DuPont Young Professor Grant, DuPont, 5/1/05 - 4/30/08, $75,000. “AFRL Research Project: Coatings Technology Development for Active Spectral Response (ASR) of Surfaces,” subcontract from South Dakota School of Mines, 5/15/07 - 6/14/08, $25,000. “Multivalent ‘Artificial Antibody’ Based on RNA/Dendrimer-Like Star Polymer Hybrid Nanomaterials,” (with PI: Y. Wang (50%)), National Science Foundation, 7/15/07 - 6/14/10, $450,000. “REU Supplement: CAREER: Tailoring the Nanostructure and Morphology of Hydrogen-Bonded Supramolecular Liquid Crystals Using Immiscible Polymer Side Chains,” National Science Foundation, 6/25/07 - 8/18/07, $8,000. “Phase II: Nanodielectrics for High Power Capacitors and Passive Applications,” (with co-PI: A. Dobrynin (50%)), Air Force Office of Scientific Research, STTR subcontract from Agiltron, Inc., 8/15/07 - 8/14/09, $225,000.

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“Acquisition of a Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope for Research, Education and Outreach in Materials Science,” (with PI: M. Aindow and co-PI: C.B. Carter), Provost’s Research Equipment Competition, University of Connecticut, 12/01/07 - 6/30/08, $500,000.

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CHEMICAL, MATERIALS & BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT AWARDS, HONORS, PATENTS

2007-2008 Puxian Gao “Nanoscale Junction Arrays,” (with Z.L. Wang), U.S. Patent No. 7,220,310, May 22, 2007. Junior Faculty Summer Fellow, University of Connecticut, 2008. Bryan Huey Outstanding Faculty Member, Materials Science & Engineering Program, University of Connecticut, 2007. Richard Parnas Certificate of High Merit, Pioneering Nanotechnology Competition, 2007. Ranjan Srivastava Summer Faculty Fellowship, Office of Naval Research, 2007. Author: a Top 10 Most Accessed Article of 2007, Biotechnology Progress.

Robert A. Weiss International Award, Society of Plastics Engineers, 2008. Benjamin Wilhite Office of Naval Research, Young Investigator Award, 2007. DuPont Young Professor Award, 2007.

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CHEMICAL, MATERIALS & BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT MAJOR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2007-2008 Mark Aindow Fellow, Institute of Physics, London, 2000 -. Fellow, Institute of Materials, London, 2002 -. Deputy Editor-in-Chief (January ’08 – date) and Editor (July ’04 – January ‘08), Journal of Materials

Science. Member, Editorial Board, Research Letters in Materials Science, 2007 - date. Member, Editorial Board, Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, 2008 - date. Member, Fellowship Panel, Institute of Physics. Corresponding Member, Publications Committee, Institute of Materials. Member, Executive Committee, ASM Hartford. Invited Visiting Professor: National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Birmingham, England.

Presentations:

“Preparation and Characterization of Pt-based Electrocatalysts for PEM Fuel Cells by Using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Deposition,” (with A. Bayrakçeken, A. Smirnova, U. Kitkamthorn, L. Türker, I. Eroğlu and C. Erkey), International Hydrogen Energy Congress and Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2007.

“Volume Fraction Dependence of Zener Pinning in a Model Ni-based Superalloy,” (with K. Song), MS&T 2007, Detroit, MI, September 2007.

“Processing Parameters Impact on Microstructure of Laser-Drilled Waspaloy and Hastelloy X,” (with R. Bright, J.K. McGuinness, C. Weiss, and H. Marcus), MS&T 2007, Detroit MI, September 2007.

“Characterization of the HAZ and Recast Microstructures in Laser-Drilled Superalloys,” (with J.K. McGuinness, R. Bright and H. Marcus), MS&T 2007, Detroit, MI, September 2007.

“Journal of Materials Science - History, Opportunities for Publishing, and Relationship with Brazilian MRS,” (with M.G. Norton), invited, 6th Brazilian MRS Meeting, Natal, Brazil, October 30, 2007.

“Grain Growth Phenomena in Ni-Based Superalloys,” (with K. Song), invited, 6th Brazilian MRS Meeting, Natal, Brazil, October 31, 2007.

“Modification of Carbon Aerogel Supports for PEMFC Catalysts,” (with A. Smirnova, T. Wender, Y.L. Hu, J. McCartney, P. Menard, D. Goberman, X. Dong and W. Rhine), UConn 2008 Sustainable Energy Symposium, Storrs, CT, March 2008.

“Surface Modification of Carbon Aerogel Supports for PEMFC Catalyst,” (with A.L. Smirnova, W. Taylor, Y.-L. Hu, P. Menard and N.M. Sammes), invited, ASME 6th Annual Fuel Cell Science, Engineering & Technology Conference, Denver, CO, June 16, 2008.

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S. Pamir Alpay Guest Co-editor, focus issue on multiferroic materials, Journal of Materials Research, August 2007. Session Chair, XVII International Materials Research Congress, Symposium on Ferroelectricity and Piezoelectricity, Cancun, Mexico, October 2007. International Advisory Board Member, 2nd International Workshop on Smart Materials & Structures, Kiel, Germany, August 2007. Symposium Co-organizer, XVII International Materials Research Congress, Symposium on Ferroelectricity and Piezoelectricity, Cancun, Mexico, October 2007. Presentations:

“Dielectric Permittivity and Tunability of Graded/Multilayer Ferroelectrics,” invited, Structured Materials, Inc., Piscataway, NJ, September 2007.

“Temperature Insensitive Low Loss High Tunability PerovskiteOxide Thin Films for Tunable Device Applications,” (with M.W. Cole, S. Zhong, E. Ngo, S. Hirsh, W. Nothwang, J.D. Demaree and G. Martin), invited, Materials Science & Technology 2007 Conference and Exhibition, Symposium on Electronic and Magnetic Properties: Ferroelectrics and Multiferroics, Detroit, MI, September 2007.

“Epitaxial V2O3 Thin Films on a-Plane (110) and c-Plane (001) Al2O3 via Pulsed Laser Deposition Technique,” (with B. Allimi), Materials Science & Technology 2007 Conference and Exhibition, Symposium on Processing and Product Manufacturing: Innovative Processing and Synthesis of Ceramics, Glasses and Composites, Detroit, MI, September 2007.

“The Intrinsic Electrocaloric Response of Ferroelectric Thin Films,” (with G. Akcay, J.V. Mantese, G.A. Rossetti, Jr. and J.F. Scott), invited, XVI International Materials Research Congress, Symposium on Ferroelectricity and Piezoelectricity, Cancun, Mexico, October 2007.

“Piezoelectric Properties of Compositionally Graded and Multilayer Ferroelectrics,” (with S. Zhong, R. Nath, B.D. Huey, J.V. Mantese and M.W. Cole), invited, XVI International Materials Research Congress, Symposium on Ferroelectricity and Piezoelectricity, Cancun, Mexico, October 2007.

“Novel Thin Film Material Design to Enable Enhanced Performance Microwave Frequency Tunable Devices: Experiment and Theory,” (with M.W. Cole, E. Ngo, S. Hirsch, S. Zhong and L.A. Coryell), invited, XVI International Materials Research Congress, Symposium on Ferroelectricity and Piezoelectricity, Cancun, Mexico, October 2007.

“Enhanced Dielectric Tunability and Temperature Stability in Compositionally Stratified BaxSr1-xTiO3 Thin Films,” (with M.W. Cole, E. Ngo, S. Hirsch and S. Zhong), invited, 7th Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology, Symposium on Emerging Advances in Electronic, Optical, Magnetic, and Elastic Ferroics, Shanghai, China, November 2007.

“The Effect of Mechanical Boundary Conditions on the Electrocaloric Response of Ferroelectric Thin Films,” (with G. Akcay, G.A. Rossetti, Jr. and J.F. Scott), invited, 17th International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics (ISAF 08), Santa Fe, NM, February 2008.

“Modeling of Graded and Multilayer Ferroelectrics: Dielectric and Piezoelectric Response,” invited,

17th International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics (ISAF 08), Santa Fe, NM, February 2008.

“An Enabling Material Design To Promote Highly Tunable, Low Loss, Performance Consistent BST Thin Films For Tunable Device Applications,” (with M.W. Cole, E. Ngo, S. Hirsch and S. Zhong), invited, 17th International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics (ISAF 08), Santa Fe, NM, February 2008.

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“Theoretical Modeling of Functional Materials and Thin Film Deposition,” (with G.A. Rossetti, Jr.), invited, United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, CT, March 2008.

“Barium Strontium Titanate Thin Films for Application in Microwave Tunable Devices,” (with C.V. Weiss), 17th Connecticut Symposium on Microelectronics and Optoelectronics, Storrs, CT, April 2008.

Harold D. Brody Fellow, ASM International, 1993 -. Fellow, Connecticut Academy for Education, 1999 -. Granted access to: NSF-Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, A-2; and Argonne National Lab, Synchrotron, NIST Consortium. C. Barry Carter Fellow, American Ceramic Society Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Materials Science.

Member, Editorial Board, Materials Characterization.

Member, Editorial Board, Microscopy & Microanalysis.

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Microscopy.

General Secretary, IFSM (the International Federation of Societies for Microscopy). Chairman, International Symposium on the Reactivity of Solids, 2007-2010. Member, Awards Committee, Materials Research Society. Presentations:

“The Effect of Morphology on Contacts Between Nanoparticles,” (with J.D. Nowak), abstract, Microscopy & Microanalysis 2007 Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, August 5-9, 2007.

“Characterization of Ytterbium Silicide Thin Films,” (with J.D. Nowak, S. Song and S.A. Campbell), abstract, Microscopy & Microanalysis 2007 Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, August 5-9, 2007.

“Hydrothermal Synthesis of Cuboidal Nanocrystalline Ceria,” (with R. Divakar and J. Basu), abstract, Microscopy & Microanalysis 2007 Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, August 5-9, 2007.

“TEM Characterization of CdSe Quantum Dot Sensitized ZnO Nanowires,” (with R. Divakar, J. Basu, K. S. Leschkies, U.R. Kortshagen, E.S. Aydil and D.J. Norris), abstract, Microscopy & Microanalysis 2007 Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, August 5-9, 2007.

“Using Electron Microscopy in the Quest for Improved Energy Production and Storage,” CIASEM 2007, Cuzco, Peru, September 23-28, 2007.

“Nanoparticles” invited, 57th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference (CSChE 2007), Edmonton, AB, Canada, October 28-31, 2007.

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“Kinetics and Stability of Interfaces,” Chemistry and Thermodynamics of Grain Boundaries Session (in honor of Rowland Cannon), ACerS 32nd International Conference & Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Daytona Beach, FL, January 27 - February 1, 2008.

“Ceramic Nanomaterials,” 2nd International Symposium on Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnologies: Development and Applications, ACerS 32nd International Conference & Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites Daytona Beach, FL, January 27 - February 1, 2008.

“A Few of My Favorite Things: Reflections on TEM, SEM, STM, AFM and VLM,” invited,

Connecticut Microscopy Society Spring Meeting, Yale University Medical School, May 22, 2008. Douglas J. Cooper Member, Energy Review Committee and Economic Development Committee, Connecticut Academy of Science & Engineering. Member: Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering; Automation Division, Instrument Society of America (ISA); Education Section and Computing & System Technology Section, American Institute of Chemical Engineers; Chemical Engineering Division, American Society for Engineering Education; and Connecticut Section, Sigma XI – The Scientific Research Society. Presentation:

“Controller Performance Monitoring at Constant Set Point Using Autocorrelation,” Tenth IASTED International Conference on Control and Applications, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, May 26, 2008.

Puxian Gao Presentations:

“Nanogenerators and Nano-Piezotronics,” (with Z.L. Wang, J. Song, X. Wang, J. Zhou, J. Liu, and J.- H. He), Microscopy & Microanalysis 2007 Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, August 8, 2007.

“Superelasticity and Nanofracture Mechanics of ZnO Nanohelices,” (with W.J. Mai and Z.L. Wang), American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 21, 2007.

“A Review of Growth and Characterization of ZnO Nanostructures for Various Optical Applications,” (with A.K. Sood, Y.R. Puri, C.S. Lao, W.J. Mai, S. Xu, Z.L. Wang, D.L. Polla, M.B. Soprano and N.K. Dhar), Conferences of SPIE: Nanomaterials Synthesis, Interfacing, and Integrating in Devices, Circuits, and Systems II, Boston, MA, September 9, 2007.

“Substrate Tailored Assembly of Nanowire/Nanobelt Architectures,” invited, Chemical Engineering Program, Department of Chemical, Materials and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, October 2, 2007.

“Novel Copper Oxide Nano and Microstructures,” (with E. Reitz, W.Z. Jia, P. Shimpi and Y. Lei), poster, 2007 AIChE Annual Meeting, November 5, 2007.

“Substrate Tailored Assembly of Nanowire/nanobelt Architectures,” invited, Connecticut Microscopy Society Fall Meeting 2007, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, November 7, 2007.

“Dendrite Composite Nano-Catalysts for Auto-emission Control,” invited, Honda Initiation Grant 2007 Frontier Symposium, Mountain View, CA, November 15, 2007.

“Bridged ZnO Nanowires Across Trenched Electrodes,” (with J. Liu, J.L. Lee and Z.L. Wang), poster, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November 26, 2007.

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”Multi-colored ZnO Nanowire Architectures on Trenched Silicon Substrates,” (with J.L. Lee and Z.L. Wang), poster, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November 29, 2007.

“Hierachical Nanostructure Assembly for Energy, Environmental and Sensing Applications,” Nanotechnology Research Forum, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, March 5, 2008.

“Anomalous Physical Properties of Superlattice-structured Nanohelices,” invited, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 2, 2008.

“Synthesis and Characterization of Large Scale ZnMgO Nanowire Architectures,” (with P. Shimpi, D. Goberman and D.F. Jian), poster, NSTI Nanotech Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, June 2008.

Rainer Hebert Board Member, ASM Hartford Chapter. Member, TMS Solidification Committee. Summer 2008 Fellowship, Office of Naval Research. Organizer, meeting of New England Association of Chemistry Teachers, Institute of Materials Science/University of Connecticut, April 2008. Organizer, Symposium on Phase Transformations and Microstructural Changes during Sustained Mechanical Forcing, Materials Science & Technology 2008 Conference & Exhibition (MS&T’08), Pittsburgh, PA, October 5-9, 2008 . Granted access to Naval Research Lab - Synthesis and Characterization Equipment for Metallic Glasses. Presentations:

“Synthesis and Properties of Cu-based Bulk Metallic Glasses,” (with A. Mubarak), Materials Science & Technology 2007 Conference & Exhibition (MS&T’07), Detroit, MI, September 16-20, 2007.

“Thermal and Elastic Response of Cu-based Bulk Metallic Glasses to Cyclic Elastic Deformation,” (with A. Mubarak), TMS Annual Meeting ’08, New Orleans, LA, March 9-13, 2008.

“Synthesis of Bulk Metallic Multilayers with Accumulative Roll Bonding,” (with G. Marathe and J. Suri), TMS Annual Meeting ’08, New Orleans, LA, March 9-13, 2008.

“Phase Stability of Amorphous Alloys under Driven Conditions,” invited, Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC, May 2008.

Bryan Huey Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Scanning Probe Microscopy. Chair, Session on Nanofabrication and Manipulation, Materials Research Society Annual Fall Meeting, 2007. Chair, Session on Scanning Probe Microscopy, Materials Science and Technology Annual Meeting, 2007. Instructor, “Advanced Scanning Probe Microscopy,” Lehigh University Microscopy School, 6/8/08-6/12/08. Organizer, Symposium on NanoCharacterization, Materials Science and Technology 2007 Annual International Meeting, October 2007.

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Presentations:

“A High Speed Piezo Force Microscopy Study of Nanoscale Ferroelectric Domain Switching Dynamics: Nucleation Versus Domain Wall Motion Controlled Kinetics,” (with R. Nath, N. Polomoff, E. Chu, and R. Ramesh), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, 2007.

“High Speed Piezo Force Microscopy for Novel Studies of Dynamic Ferroelectric Domain Switching,” (with N. Polomoff, R. Nath, E. Chu and R. Ramesh), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, 2007.

“High Speed Surface Property Mapping: Continuous Image Acquisition in 1 Second or Less,” (with R. Nath, N. Polomoff, K. Bagnoli, D. Shuman and M. Zhao), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, 2007.

“Incorporating Nanotechnology into Connecticut High School Science Classes: 5 Hands-on Modules, 17 Teachers, Reaching 400+ Students,” (with K. Bagnoli, A. Langston, J. Bosse and R. Veith), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, 2007.

“Combining High Aspect Ratio Carbon Nanotube AFM Probes with Attractive Mode Imaging for High Resolution Surface Potential Mapping,” (with M. Zhao, V. Sharma and F. Papadimitrakopoulos), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, 2007.

“Influence of EGF on HaCaT (Human Epithelial) Cells by Simultaneous AFM and 3-D Optical Deconvolution,” (with K. Bagnoli and B. Aneskevicz), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, 2007.

“Temperature Insensitive High Tunability and Piezoelectric Response from Ferroelectric Multilayers,” (with S. Zhong, S.P. Alpay, R. Nath, M.W. Cole, E. Ngo, S. Hirsch and J.D. Demaree), IEEE, August 2007.

“Ultra Resolution Surface Potential Imaging via High Aspect Ratio CNT AFM Probes,” (with M. Zhao, and R. Geer), Seeing at the Nanoscale, August 2007.

“4-D SPM: Simple NanoMechanical Mapping,” (with D. Shuman, R. Nath, N. Polomoff, K. Bagnoli and M. Zhao), Materials Science and Technology Annual Meeting, 2007.

“High Speed Scanning Property Mapping,” (with N. Polomoff, R. Nath, D. Shuman, K. Bagnoli and M. Zhao), Materials Science and Technology Annual Meeting, 2007.

“Nanoscale Ferroelectric Domain Dynamics via 10 Frame/sec SPM Imaging,” (with R. Nath, N. Polomoff, K. Bagnoli, D. Shuman and M. Zhao), Materials Science and Technology Annual Meeting, 2007.

“Efficient Large Area AFM Imaging,” (with J. Bosse and A. Langston), poster, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, November 2007.

“Advanced Scanning Probe Microscopy,” invited, UConn Physics Club, University of Connecticut, February 20, 2008.

“High Speed Piezo Force Microscopy: Nanoscale and Nanosecond Direct Observations of Domain Switching,” invited, International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics, February 26, 2008.

“High Speed Scanning Probe Microscopy,” invited, SPM Users Workshop, Harvard Center for Nanoscale Systems, February 2008.

“Novel Nanoscale Materials Characterization,” Nanotechnology Forum, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, March 2008.

“Materials and Energy Efficiency and Production,” invited, Focus the Nation, March 31, 2008.

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“Mechanical Properties of Individual Living Cells,” Bioengineering Forum, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 2008.

“Sensors for Threat Detection and Energy Harvesting,” Department of Homeland Security Workshop, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, May 2008.

“High Speed Ferroelectric Switching Dynamics,” (with N. Polomoff), poster, NASA Connecticut Space Grant Annual Meeting, May 2008.

Yu Lei Guest Editor (with X.W. Sun and Z.L. Dong), special issue on Nanotechnology in Singapore, International Journal of Nanotechnology, Volume 4, Issue 4, 2007. Presentations:

“Novel Large-scale Production of Genetically Engineered Elastin-loke-biopolymer and Endotoxin-binding Peptide Fusion for Neutralization of Endotoxin,” (with W. Jia), American Chemical Society, August 2007.

“Fluorescence Detection of TNT and other Nitroaromatics Using a Library of Structurally Diverse Porphyrinoids,” (with J. Akhigbe, W. Jia and C. Bruckner), American Chemical Society, August 2007.

“Differentiation of Nitroaromatics by a Library of Porphyrinoids – Towards an Electronic Nose,” (with G. Zarate, J. Akhigbe and C. Bruckner), SACNAS National Conference, Kansas City, MO, October 2007

“Glucose Sensor Using Non-woven Single-walled Carbon Nanotube Films,” (with W. Jia), American Institute of Chemical Engineers, November 2007.

“Novel Copper Oxide Nano and Microstructures,” (with E. Reitz, W. Jia, P. Shimpi and P. Gao), American Institute of Chemical Engineers, November 2007.

“Bionanotechnology for Remediation and Detection of Organophosphorus Pesticides,” invited,

Department of Animal Science, University of Connecticut, March 21, 2008. Richard Parnas Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Polymer Composites

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Composites Part A: Applied Science & Manufacturing.

Chair, Session in Biofuels Symposium, American Chemical Society August meeting, Boston, MA, 2007.

Organizer, Sustainable Energy Symposium, University of Connecticut, March 31, 2008. Biodiesel production workshop, April 1, 2008. Presentations:

“Biodiesel R&D at the University of Connecticut with an Engineering Perspective,” invited, Northeast Joint Summer Meeting of Northeastern Regional Association of State Agricultural Experiment Station Directors (NERA), the Northeast Extension Directors (NEED), Northeast Academic Heads (AHS), members of the Council for Agricultural Research, Extension and Teaching (CARET), Providence, RI, July 9, 2007.

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“Soybean Oil Transesterification Kinetic Study,” (with M.B. Boucher, S.Y. Li, C. Weed, B. Wilhite and J. Stuart), American Chemical Society 234th National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 2007.

“The Biofuels Revolution, Does CT have a Role?,” invited, Suffield Town Public Forum, October 10, 2007.

“Biofuels Initiative at UConn and Further Afield, Materials Science & Engineering Program,” invited, University of Connecticut, October 24, 2007.

“Biofuels in Connecticut: A Once in a Lifetime Opportunity,” invited, UConn/Mansfield Climate Change Conference, University of Connecticut, November 1, 2007.

“The UConn Biofuels Consortium with Emphasis on Chemical Engineering,” invited, Winchester High School, Winchester, MA, January 3, 2008.

“Biofuels in New England: A Once in a Lifetime Opportunity,” invited, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Boston Chapter, January 10, 2008.

“Composite Structures at Several Length Scales,” invited, Air Force Research Laboratory, Edwards Air Force Base, CA, February 28, 2008.

“Green Polymers and Sustainable Energy,” invited, Eastern Connecticut State University, April 16, 2008.

“Enhanced PEMFC Cathode Kinetics at 120C and Low Relative Humidity Using Heteropolyacid Additives,” (with P. Brooker, L. Bonneville and R. Kunz), Electrochemical Society, Phoenix, AZ, May 2008.

“Enhanced PEMFC Performance Using Heteropolyacid Additives,” (with P. Brooker, L. Bonneville and R. Kunz), Electrochemical Society, Phoenix, AZ, May 2008.

Ramamurthy Ramprasad Organizer and Session Chair, Focused Session on Optical Properties of Nanostructures, American Physical Society, New Orleans, LA, March 2008. Presentations:

“Nanodielectrics from 1st Principles,” invited, IUMRS Beijing, China, September 2007.

“Ab Initio Study of the Stability and Electronic Structure of CdSe Nanowires,” (with T. Sadowski), MS&T, Detroit, MI, September 2007.

“Correlation Between Electron-phonon Coupling and Dielectric Breakdown Strength in Polymer-oxide Nanocomposite Dielectrics: An Ab Initio Computational Study,” (with N. Shi and S. Boggs), Materials Research Society, Boston, MA, December 2007.

“Ab Initio Study of the Stability and Electronic Structure of CdSe Nanowires,” (with T. Sadowski), MS&T, Boston, MA, December 2007.

“Computational Study of Polymer Nanocomposite Dielectrics with Inorganic Oxide Fillers: The Role of Interfaces,” (with N. Shi and S. Boggs), Materials Research Society, Boston, MA, December 2007.

“Effects of Oxygen Defect Chemistry at HfO2:Si Interfaces,” (with C. Tang), Materials Research Society, Boston, MA, December 2007.

“Oxygen Pressure Dependence of HfO2 Stoichiometry: An Ab Initio Thermodynamic Investigation,” (with C. Tang), Materials Research Society, Boston, MA, December 2007.

“Nanomaterials Design for Increased Efficiency,” invited, UConn Solar Energy Symposium, Storrs, CT, March 2008.

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“Nanomaterials Design through Ab Initio Simulation,” invited, Arizona State University, March 2008.

“Local Electronic Properties of Si/HfO2 Interfaces: An Ab Initio Computational Study,” (with N. Shi), Materials Research Society, San Francisco, CA, March 2008.

“CdSe, CdTe and Core-shell CdSe-CdTe Nanowires: A Density Functional Study,” (with T. Sadowski), Materials Research Society, San Francisco, CA, March 2008.

“Segregation of O Defects in Si:HfO2 Heterojunctions: A First Principles Investigation,” (with C. Tang), Materials Research Society, San Francisco, CA, March 2008.

“A First Principles Study of Si Doping of HfO2,” (with C. Tang), Materials Research Society, San Francisco, CA, March 2008.

“CdSe, CdTe and Core-shell CdSe-CdTe Nanowires: A Density Functional Study,” (with T. Sadowski), American Physical Society, New Orleans, LA, March 2008.

“Segregation of O Defects in Si:HfO2 Heterojunctions: A First Principles Investigation,” (with C. Tang), American Physical Society, New Orleans, LA, March 2008.

“Excitonic Effects in Optical Absorption Spectrum of CdS/ZnSe Core-shell Nanostructures,” (with K. Palandage, G. Fernando and J. Davenport), American Physical Society, New Orleans, LA, March 2008.

“Segregation of Multiple O Defects in Si:HfO2 Heterojunctions: A First Principles Investigation,” (with C. Tang), Connecticut Symposium on Microelectronics & Optoelectronics, Storrs, CT, April 2008.

Leon L. Shaw Fellow, World Academy of Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, Poland, 2005 - . Fellow, ASM International, 2004 - . Member, Engineering Ceramics Division, American Ceramic Society; TMS Mechanical Metallurgy Committee; TMS Composite Materials Committee; TMS Powder Metallurgy Committee. Member, Executive Committee, ASM Nanomaterials Task Force. Chair, ASM-MSCTS Materials Synthesis & Processing Committee.

Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, 2006 - . Organizer, Symposium on Nanostructured Materials, THERMEC’2009, Berlin, Germany, August 25-29, 2009. Session Chair, Symposium on Fuel Cells: Materials, Processing, Manufacturing and Power Management Technologies, MS&T 2007 Conference, Detroit, MI, September 16-20, 2007. Session Chair, Symposium on Materials in Clean Power Systems III: Fuel Cells, Hydrogen-, and Clean Coal-Based Technologies, TMS 2008 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 9-13, 2008.

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Presentations:

“Long-Term Cyclic Stability of Lithium Amide and Hydride Systems for Hydrogen Storage Applications,” (with W. Osborn, T. Markmaitree and Z. Gary Yang), Symposium on Fuel Cells: Materials, Processing, Manufacturing and Power Management Technologies, MS&T 2007 Conference in Detroit, MI, September 16-20, 2007.

“Nano-SiC from Silica Fume via an Integrated Mechanical and Thermal Activation Process,” (with M. Manjarres and M. Zawrah), Symposium on Nanostructured Ceramic Materials: Science and Technology, MS&T 2007 Conference in Detroit, MI, September 16-20, 2007.

“Enhancement of Wear Resistance of A Nickel-Based Alloy via Surface Nanocrystalization,” (with M. Manjarres and R. DeCrescenzo), Symposium on Journal of Undergraduate Materials Research, MS&T 2007 Conference in Detroit, MI, September 16-20, 2007.

“Morphology-Enhanced Low Temperature Sintering of Nanocrystalline Hydroxyapatite,” (with J. Wang), Symposium on Next Generation Biomaterials: Advanced Processing, Characterization and Modeling of Materials for Medical Devices, MS&T 2007 Conference in Detroit, MI, September 16-20, 2007.

“Comparisons Between MgH2- and LiH-Containing Systems for Hydrogen Storage Applications,” (with T. Markmaitree and W. Osborn), Symposium on “Materials and Technology for Hydrogen Storage,” MRS 2007 Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November 26-30, 2007.

“Low Temperature Milling of the Lithium Hydride and Amide Hydrogen Storage System,” (with W. Osborn, T. Markmaitree, J. Hu and Z.G. Yang), Symposium on Materials and Technology for Hydrogen Storage, MRS 2007 Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November 26-30, 2007.

“The Reaction Pathway and Rate-Limiting Step of Dehydrogenation of the LiHN2 + LiH Mixture,” (with W. Osborn, T. Markmaitree and X. Wan), Symposium on Materials and Technology for Hydrogen Storage, MRS 2007 Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November 26-30, 2007.

“Grain Refinement and Mechanical Properties of Two-Phase Cu-Zn Alloys Subject to Constrained Groove Pressing,” invited, (with K.-P. Peng, L. Su and K-W. Qian), Fifth International Symposium on Ultrafine Grained Materials, TMS 2008 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 9-13, 2008.

“The Effects of Surface Nanocrystallization and Hardening Process on the Mechanical Behaviors of Zr-based Bulk-metallic Glasses,” (with J.W. Tian, Y. Yokoyama and P.K. Liaw), Symposium on Bulk Metallic Glasses V, TMS 2008 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 9-13, 2008.

“Hydrogen Uptake and Release Behavior of Lithium Amide and Hydride Systems for Hydrogen Storage Applications,” (with W. Osborn, T. Markmaitree, X. Wan and Z. Gary Yang), Symposium on Materials in Clean Power Systems III: Fuel Cells, Hydrogen-, and Clean Coal-Based Technologies, TMS 2008 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 9-13, 2008.

“A Comparative Study on Fatigue Behavior of Shot Peened and Surface Severe Plastically Deformed Nickel Alloys,” (with J.W. Tian, J.C. Villegas, K. Dai, A.L. Ortiz, R. Ren, M. Manjarres, P.K. Liaw and D.L. Klarstrom), Symposium on Hael Mughrabi Honorary Symposium: Plasticity, Failure and Fatigue in Structural Materials - from Macro to Nano, TMS 2008 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 9-13, 2008.

“Effects and Mechanisms of Mechanical Activation on Hydrogen Sorption/Desorption of Nanoscale Lithium Nitrides,” invited, (with T. Markmaitree, W. Osborn, X. Wan, K. Crosby, Z.G. Yang, J.Z. Hu, and J.H. Kwak), FreedomCAR and Fuel Hydrogen Storage Technical Team Meeting, Detroit, MI, May 14, 2008.

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Montgomery T. Shaw Fellow, Society of Plastics Engineers. Associate Editor, IEEE Transaction on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation.

Treasurer, Society of Rheology. Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. Executive Committee, Society of Rheology. Society Treasurer Committee, American Institute of Physics. Presentations:

“Rheological Behavior of Polycaprolactone Containing Rod-like Hydroxyapatite Nano Particles,” (with S-P. Sun, M. Wei and J. Olson), Paper SC-33, 79th Annual Meeting, The Society of Rheology, Salt Lake City, UT, October 10, 2007.

“Hydroxyapatite-polylactide Composite for Bone Repair,” (S-P. Sun, M. Wei and J.R. Olson), Annual Meeting, Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE ANTEC), Paper #0944, Milwaukee, WI, May 5, 2008.

Alevtina L. Smirnova Presentations:

“Pt-based Electrocatalysts for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells Prepared by Supercritical Deposition,” (with A. Bayrakceken, U. Kitkamthorn, M. Aindow, L. Turker, I. Eroglu and C. Erkey), invited, International Hydrogen Energy Congress and Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey, July 13-15, 2007.

“Nanoscale Catalysts as Promising Materials for Fuel Cell Application,” (with N. Sammes), invited,

4th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT), Singapore, July 2007.

“Complex Perovskites and Their Composites with Doped Ceria as Advanced Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Cathodes and Membranes,” invited, (with V. Sadykov, N. Mezentseva, V. Muzykantov, G. Alikina, L. Batuev, A. Lukashevich, O. Bobrenok, N. Uvarov, V. Zyryanov, E. Politova, J. Kilner and C. Argirusis), Europacat VIII, Turku /Åbo Finland, August 26-31, 2007.

“Novel Cathode Materials for Intermediate Temperature SOFCs,” (with V. Sadykov, J. Kilner and O. Vasylyev), invited, Second European Fuel Cell Technology and Application Conference, Rome, Italy, December 11-14, 2007.

“Cathode Materials for Intermediate Temperature,” (with V. Sadykov and N. Sammes), invited, International Symposium on Innovative Materials for Processes in Energy Systems, Kyoto, Japan, October 28-31, 2007.

“Modeling and Analysis of Microtubular IT-SOFC Based on Doped Cerates and Zirconates,” invited,

NEDO, 2nd Symposium on Advanced Ceramic Reactor 2007, Tokyo, Japan, 2007.

“Surface Modification of Carbon Aerogel Supports for PEMFC Catalyst,” (with W. Taylor, Y.-L. Hu, P. Menard, N. Sammes and M. Aindow), invited, ASME 6th Annual Fuel Cell Science, Engineering & Technology Conference, June 16-18, 2008

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“Mechanical Properties of LSGM as an Electrolyte for SOFCs,” (with A. Mohammadi and N. Sammes), invited, ASME 6th Annual Fuel Cell Science, Engineering & Technology Conference, June 16-18, 2008.

“An Investigation of Doped Perovskites Based on la, Pr, Sm Ferrites as Cathode Materials for SOFCs,” (with A. Lassman and N. Sammes), invited, ASME 6th Annual Fuel Cell Science, Engineering & Technology Conference, June 16-18, 2008.

Ranjan Srivastava Chair, “Biomolecular Evolutions and Revolutions: DNA, RNA, and Proteins” session, ECI Biochemical Engineering XV, Quebec, Canada, July 15, 2007. Symposia Organizer, “Emerging Technologies,” ACS 2007 Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007. Chair, “Paradigms in Systems Biology - Invited Session,” American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2007 Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 7, 2007. Co-Chair, “Systems Biotechnology” session, American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2007 Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 8, 2007. Organizer, Systems Biology Topical Conference (6 sessions), American Institute of Chemical Engineers National Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2007. Program Chair, Biochemical Technology Division (44 sessions), American Chemical Society National Meeting, August 17-22, 2008. Access granted: (i) Naval Medical Research Center and (ii) Walter Reed Army Institute Research Facilities. Member, Executive Committee, Biochemical Technology Division, American Chemical Society. Presentations:

“Genome-scale Metabolic Analysis of Rickettsia prowazekii: An In Silico Approach,” invited, Department of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, MD July 12, 2007.

“Metabolic Impact of MS2 Bacteriophage Infection on Escherichia coli,” ECI Biochemical Engineering XV, Quebec, Canada, July 17, 2007.

“Genome-scale Metabolic Analysis of Bacteriophage Infected Escherichia coli,” ACS 2007 Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, August 22, 2007.

“A Metabolic Engineering Approach to Microbial Energy Production,” invited, SRI International, Harrisonburg, VA, October 29, 2007.

“Biochemical Network Analysis of Mucosal Injury in Cancer Patients,” Neag Cancer Center Research Retreat, Westbrook, CT, November 2, 2007.

“Parameter Estimation with Validated Methods for Initial Value Problems,” American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2007 Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 5, 2007.

“Systems Biology & Informatics,” invited, Neag Cancer Center Research Retreat, Westbrook, CT, November 3, 2007.

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Yong Wang Guest Editor, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology.

Presentations:

“Feeder Cell Immobilization for Stem Cell Culture,” American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2007.

“Engineering Nanomedicines: Virus or Smaller Viral Component?,” invited, University of Albany, November 30, 2007.

Mei Wei Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Biomimetics, Bioinformatics, and Biocomputing. Member, Board of Review, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A. Member, Editorial Board, ASAIO Journal. Presentations:

“Multi-Functional Composites for Load-Bearing Skeletal Applications,” (with F. Peng), 2007 NSF Grantee Conference on International Research and Education in Engineering, Purdue University, IN, October 30-November 1, 2007.

“Rheological Behavior of Polycaprolactone Containing Rod-like Hydroxyapatite Nano Particles,” (with S. Sun, M. Shaw and J. Olson), Paper SC-33, 79th Annual Meeting, The Society of Rheology, Salt Lake City, UT, October 10, 2007.

“Novel Composites for Bone Repair,” invited, Teleflex Medical, Mansfield, MA, December 2007.

“Biomaterials for Tissue Regeneration,” 2nd Annual New England Musculoskeletal Institute (NEMSI) Research Day, Farmington, CT, January 2008.

“Improvement of Biomimetic Coating,” (with S. Seal), National Science Foundation CMMI Engineering Research and Innovation Conference 2008, Knoxville, TN, January 7-10, 2008.

Robert A. Weiss Fellow, North American Thermal Analysis Society. Fellow, American Physical Society. Fellow, Society of Plastics Engineers. Fellow, Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering Division, American Chemical Society. Editor-in-Chief , Polymer Engineering and Science.

Editor-in-Chief, Polymer Composites.

Member, International Advisory Board, Polymer and Polymer Composites.

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Applied Polymer Science.

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Macromolecules.

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Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Chemistry Central Journal.

Member, Publications Committee and Education Award Committee, Society of Plastics Engineers. Member, Intersociety Committee, Division of Polymer Chemistry, American Chemical Society. Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. Presentations:

“Fundamental Study of the Degradation of PFSA Membrane in Fenton’s Reagent,” (with H. Zhao and X. Huang), American Chemical Society Fuel Preprints, Boston, MA, 2007.

“New Concepts in the Design of Fuel Cell Membranes,” Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, October 2007.

“Rheology of Oligomeric Ionomers,” International Congress on Rheology, Monterey, CA, 2008.

“Conductive Polypyrrole/Polymer Composites as Sensors for Volatile Organic Chemicals,” invited, Smart Coatings 2008, Orlando, FL, February 2008.

“Evolution of Golf Ball Design and Materials,” invited, American Chemical Society National Meeting, Committee on Education Symposium, New Orleans, LA, March 2008.

“Melt Intercalation of Polymer/Sodium Montmorillonite Nanocomposites Using Ionomer Compatibilizers,” Marquette University, WI, March 2008.

“Ionomers: They are Not Just for Golf Balls Anymore,” Institute Distinguished Lecture, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 2008.

“The Role of Strong Inter-and Intra-Molecular Interactions on the Phase Behavior and Morphology of Polymer Blends,” University of Akron, OH, June 2008.

“Rheology of Ionomers,” Goodyear, June 2008. Benjamin Wilhite Guest Editor, “5th Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology Conference,” ASME Journal of Fuel

Cell Science and Technology dedicated issue, expected fall 2008. Guest Editor, “Fuel Processing for Hydrogen Production,” Catalysis Today dedicated issue, expected fall 2008. Organizer, “Symposium on Hydrogen Reforming,” American Chemistry Society (ACS) Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, 2007. Planning Vice-Chair, Division 20b (Chemical Reaction Engineering) of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 2007. Chair, “Small-Scale Hydrogen Generation: Status and Future Challenges,” 234th American Chemistry Society National Meeting, Boston MA, 2007. Co-Chair, “Perspectives on Hydrogen Generation,” 234th American Chemistry Society National Meeting, Boston MA, 2007.

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Chair, “Fuel Cells: Fuel Processing,” American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 2007. Planning Chair, Division 20b (Chemical Reaction Engineering) of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 2008. Member, Scientific Committee, 21st International Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering (ISCRE-21), Philadelphia, PA, 2010.

Presentations:

“Kinetics of Soybean Oil Transesterification in a Batch System,” (with M. Boucher, C. Weed, S.-Y. Li, J.D. Stuart and R.S. Parnas), 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, FUEL 032, 2007.

“Modeling of a Micro-Scale Heat Exchanger Reactor for Portable Hydrogen Production,” (with A. Moreno), American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 37a, 2007.

“Microchemical Systems for Portable Biofuels Reforming: Revisiting and Rethinking Chemical Reaction Engineering Analysis,” presented in honor of Arvind Varma’s 60th birthday, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, November 5, 2007.

“Microchemical Systems for Portable Biofuels Reforming,” Department of Chemical Engineering, West Virginia University, WV, February 22, 2008.

“Fuel Cells: Powering a Sustainable Future,” Sustainable Energy Symposium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, March 31, 2008.

Lei Zhu Access granted to National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory. Presentations:

“Tailoring Onion-like Morphology in Polylactide-containing Block Copolymers,” invited, Suzhou University, China, July 10, 2007.

“Supramolecular Self-assembly in Novel DNA-Cationic Lipid Complexes,” invited, Nanjing University, China, July 12, 2007.

“Inorganic Nanoparticles as New Platform for Functional Polymer Composites,” invited, Alcatel-Lucent, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ, August 8, 2007.

“Tailoring Onion-like Morphology in Polylactide-containing Block Copolymers,” invited talk, 50 Years after the Discovery of Polymer Single Crystals Symposium, American Chemical Society Meeting, Boston, MA, August 20, 2007.

“Supramolecular Self-Assembly in a Disk-Cube Dyad Molecule Based on Triphenylene and Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane (POSS),” contributed poster (with L. Cui and J.P. Collet), 234th American Chemical Society Meeting, Boston, MA, August 21, 2007.

“Miscibility and Crystallization Behaviors of PEO and PLA, PLLA or PLLA/PDLA Stereocomplex Blends,” contributed poster (with W. Cao and L. Sun), 234th American Chemical Society Meeting, Boston, MA, August 21, 2007.

“Role of Noncentrosymmetry in Supramolecular Self-assemblies,” invited, Rensselaer Polytechnic University, September 24, 2007.

“Self-Assembled Biodegradable Block Copolymers and DNA Lipoplexes as Potential Delivery Systems,” invited, Northeastern University, January 25, 2008.

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“Molecular and Nanocomposites for High Energy Density Capacitors for Pulsed Power Applications,” invited, 2008 ONR Capacitor Review Meeting, Hilton Head Island, March 4, 2008.

“Crystal Size Effect on Dielectric Property of PVDF at High Electric Field and its Effect on Energy Storage and Discharging Behaviors,” contributed poster (with F. Guan, J. Wang and S.A. Boggs), APS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 10, 2008.

“Reducing Dielectric Loss by PVDF-CTFE Graft Copolymers,” contributed poster (with Z. Yuan, J. Wang, F. Guan and S.A. Boggs), APS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 10, 2008.

“Self-Assembly and Chain-Folding in Hybrid Coil-Coil-Cube Triblock Oligomers of Polyethylene-b-Poly(ethylene oxide)-b-Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane,” contributed talk (with L. Cui and J. Miao), APS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 11, 2008.

“Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Protoporphyrin-Based Oligomers,” contributed poster (with J. Miao), APS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 12, 2008.

“Self-Assembled Biodegradable Block Copolymers as Potential Delivery Systems,” contributed sound-bites, 34th New England Complex Fluids Conference, Yale University, New Haven, CT, March 21, 2008.

“Self-Assembled Biodegradable Block Copolymers as Potential Nanomedicines and Polymer Dielectric Films for High Energy Density Capacitors,” invited, Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, April 1, 2008.

“Self-Assembled Biodegradable Block Copolymers and DNA Lipoplexes as Potential Nanomedicines,” invited, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, April 11, 2008.

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CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY

2007-2008 The collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis last August focused our country’s attention on the declining state of the nation’s infrastructure. Indeed, many of the headlines from 2007-2008 dealt with national and global challenges where civil and environmental engineers are actively engaged – including global climate change, water crises, transportation planning and land use. The Civil & Environmental Engineering Department continues to address these global challenges through its educational and research missions. We educate and prepare engineers to face major societal challenges, and our faculty perform cutting-edge research to develop new solutions to global problems. FACULTY & STAFF

The department welcomed four new faculty members in fall 2007. Dr. Joseph Bushey earned his Ph.D. in environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in 2003. His expertise is in water quality engineering and his research interests include the transport of metals and toxins within natural systems. Dr. Maria Chrysochoou earned her Ph.D. in environmental engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology in 2006. Her research interests include geo-environmental and geo-chemical characterization of soil, waste, industrial by-products and complex media. Dr. Nicholas Lownes earned his Ph.D. in 2007 at the University of Texas-Austin in transportation engineering. Dr. Lownes brings expertise in traffic engineering - including highway safety, human factors and cost-benefit analysis - traffic micro-simulation, network analysis and public transportation systems. Dr. Adam Zofka received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 2007 in civil engineering. Dr. Zofka's research interests include pavement engineering - particularly the characterization, testing and modeling of bituminous materials; asphalt mixtures, asphalt binders, and reclaimed asphalt pavements; pavement performance and non-destructive testing. The department also welcomed Ms. Tiffiny Thibodeau who joined the department in spring 2008 as an Administrative Services Specialist II. Ms. Thibodeau was previously employed as the Program Assistant for the Environmental Engineering program. Ms. Althea Lozefski also joined the department in May 2008 as Program Assistant for the Environmental Engineering Program. The department hired one new faculty member during 2007-2008 who will join the university in fall 2008. Dr. Dipanjan Basu earned his Ph.D. in 2006 from Purdue University. His research expertise is in geo-mechanics and geotechnical engineering, foundations, soil-structure interaction, soil dynamics, earthquakes, ground improvement and geo-environmental engineering. There were two faculty promotions within the department, both effective fall 2008. Assistant Professor Guiling Wang was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure, and Associate Professor Ross Bagtzoglou was promoted to Full Professor. After 35 years of outstanding service to the university, Professor John DeWolf retired after the Spring 2008 semester. Professor DeWolf has received numerous awards for his excellence in teaching and was named a University of Connecticut Teaching Fellow in 2006. His pioneering research in bridge monitoring has brought national recognition to the department. He has been a long-term member of the University Senate and has been the Chair of the University Senate Executive Committee for the past two years. Jack Stephens, Professor Emeritus of Civil & Environmental Engineering, passed away in August 2007. Professor Stephens was a faculty member in the department for 39 years and was instrumental in

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establishing many of the programs within the Connecticut Transportation Institute. He was inducted into the School of Engineering’s Academy of Distinguished Engineers in 2007.

UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

Undergraduate enrollments in the Civil & Environmental Engineering programs continued to increase during the last year with combined enrollments reaching 260 students in spring 2008. Both programs underwent highly successful ABET accreditation visits in fall 2007. Professor John Ivan, Associate Head of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Associate Professor Ross Bagtzoglou, Director of the Environmental Engineering Program, served as the ABET coordinators for the Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering programs, respectively.

The department adopted and began implementation of an Undergraduate Computing Plan in spring 2008 that outlines the integration of computer-aided-engineering tools throughout the curriculum to better prepare our graduates for the workforce. The plan addresses continuous development from the freshman year through Senior Design covering multiple subdisciplines that include advanced programming skills, geomatics, fluid mechanics, decision analysis, geotechnical engineering, site design and structural analysis and design.

Professor John DeWolf was this year’s recipient of the C.R. Klewin Award for Excellence in Teaching. The award recipients are chosen each year by the graduating senior class for their unique contributions to undergraduate teaching. RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP

The department’s research activities and scholarship remained very strong during the last year with $1.8 million in research expenditures generated from 81 active grants from a wide variety of funding sources including the National Science Foundation, NASA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) and ConnDOT, United States Army and Office of Naval Research. Department faculty published 48 journal articles, 37 full length conference papers and 53 conference proceedings in the past year. Assistant Professor Mekonnen Gebremichael was selected to receive a NASA New Investigator Program (NIP) grant in Earth Sciences. He was one of just 18 recipients nationwide. This is only the second NASA NIP award in UConn’s history; his colleague, Associate Professor Emmanouil “Manos” Anagnostou received one in 1999. The focus of his research will be to evaluate the accuracy of NASA’s current global hydrologic models in predicting the actual hydrological processes over portions of the North American and African continents. The department’s international research programs continued to develop last year with major activities in water resources and natural hazards mitigation. Associate Professor Anagnostou continued his work on establishing an excellence team to study the global water cycle under a Marie Curie Excellence grant. The team will consist of 5 to 7 researchers who will be jointly hosted by UConn and the Hellenic Center for Marine Research in Greece. Assistant Professor Gebremichael and several of his students returned to Ethiopia this summer to continue his NSF funded project to monitor water resources in the Nile River basin. Under other NSF funding, Assistant Professor Christenson and his students will return to Japan and Thailand this summer to study the response of structures to natural hazards such as earthquakes.

The Center for Transportation and Urban Planning, directed by Associate Professor Norman Garrick, began its first year of operations after approval of its strategic plan last fall. Funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation, the theme of the center is Transportation for Smart Growth. Within this theme, the center's research and educational activities will focus on evaluating the impact of various transportation and land use systems on economic, environmental and societal sustainability and developing protocols and designs that maximize the efficiency and competitiveness of green modes of

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transportation. Nineteen research pre-proposals were submitted this spring from multi-disciplinary teams across the university for funding consideration under the center’s Research Grant Program. Professor Michael Accorsi, Head of Civil & Environmental Engineering, was elected to membership in the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering in May 2008 in recognition of his fundamental work in computational mechanics and its applications to Connecticut industry. Most recently, he has collaborated with Pioneer Aerospace (South Windsor, CT) on design of the parachute decelerator system for the Mars Phoenix Mission. STUDENT ACTIVITIES

The department’s undergraduate student organizations continued to be highly active during the past year. The ASCE Student Chapter hosted its 9th annual Civil Engineering Career Fair which attracted a record 56 companies to the Rome Ballroom in the spring semester. The event highlighted the strong demand for civil and environmental engineers in the regional workforce.

The Steel Bridge Team placed third in the Northeast Regional Steel Bridge Competition in April, securing a position in the national competition at the University of Florida in May. Under the enthusiastic guidance of alumnus Michael Culmo (B.S. Civil Engineering, M.S. Structural Engineering ’83, ’86), Vice President of Transportation and Structures for CME Associates, the team has made the national competition five times during the last eight years and has dominated the northeast regional competitions.

The UConn chapter of Engineers Without Borders gained official recognition from the national organization during the past year. Drs. Bagtzoglou, Gebremichael, Chrysochoou and Garrick serve as advisors to the student chapter. During the last year, the student chapter began a major remediation project to improve the lives of impoverished people in rural Nicaragua.

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CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ARCHIVAL TECHNICAL JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

2007-2008 Michael Accorsi “Permeability of Deformable Soft Aggregated Earth Materials: from Single Pore to Sample Cross Section,” (with C.G. Eggers, M. Berli and D. Or), Water Resources Research, Vol. 43, No. 8, Article No. W08424, August 2007. Emmanouil N. Anagnostou “Comparison of Raindrop Size Distribution Estimates from X-band and S-band Polarimetric Observations,” (with M.N. Anagnostou, J. Vivekanandan and F. Ogden), IEEE Geosciences and Remote

Sensing Letters, Vol. 4, pp. 1-5, 2007. “The Ionian Sea Rainfall Experiment,” (with J.A. Nystuen, E. Amitai and M.N. Anagnostou), The

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 119, No. 5, pp. 3226-3227, 2007. “African Lightning: Indicator of Tropical Atlantic Cyclone Formation,” (with T.G. Chronis, E. Williams, and W. Petersen), Eos Transactions Feature Article, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 88 (40), pp. 397-398, 2007. “Evidence of Tropical Forcing of the 6.5 Day Wave from Lightning Observations over Africa,” (with T.G. Chronis and E. Williams), Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Vol. 64, No. 10, pp. 3717-3721, 2007. “Evaluation of Canopy Interception Schemes in Land Surface Models,” (with D. Wang and G. Wang), Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 347, pp. 308-318, 2007. “Comparison of Two Raindrop Size Distribution Retrieval Algorithms for X-Band Dual Polarization Observations,” (with M.N. Anagnostou, J. Vivekananda and F.L. Ogden), Journal of Hydrometeorology, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 589-600, 2008. “Spatial Averaging of Oceanic Rainfall Variability Using Underwater Sound: Ionian Sea Rainfall Experiment 2004,” (with J.A. Nystuen, E. Amitai and M.N. Anagnostou), The Journal of the Acoustical

Society of America, Vol. 123, No. 4, pp. 1952-1962, 2008. Amvrossios C. Bagtzoglou “Geostatistically Based Zonal Management of Arsenic Contaminated Ground Water in Shallow Wells of Bangladesh,” (with F. Hossain and J. Hill), Water Resources Management, Vol. 21 No. 7, pp. 1245-1261, 2007. “Application of a Steady-State Nutrient Model and Inferences for Load Reduction Strategy in Two Public Water Supply Reservoirs in Eastern Connecticut,” (with F. Nadim, G.E. Hoag, F.L. Ogden, G.S. Warner and D.M. Soballe), Lake and Reservoir Management, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 264-278, 2007. “Water Quality Characteristics of Two Reservoir Lakes in Eastern Connecticut,” (with F. Nadim, G.E. Hoag, F.L. Ogden and G.S. Warner), Lakes and Reservoirs: Research and Management, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 187-202, 2007.

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“Satellite-Based Flood Modeling Using TRMM-Based Rainfall Products,” (with A. Harris, S. Rahman, F. Hossain, L. Yarborough and G. Easson), Sensors, Vol. 7, No. 12, pp. 3416-3427, 2007. “Innovative Remediation Technologies for Pollution Abatement,” (with G.A. Sorial), Water, Air, and Soil

Pollution: Focus, Vol. 8, No. 3-4, pp. 253-255, 2008. “An Interdisciplinary Study of the Effects of Groundwater Extraction on Freshwater Fishes,” (with R.A. Jacobson, G.S. Warner, P. Parasiewicz and F.L. Ogden), International Journal of Ecological Economics

& Statistics, Vol. 12, No. F08, pp. 7-25, 2008. “Comparison of Microscopic and Macroscopic Modeling Approaches for Subsurface Contaminant Transport,” (with D. Kim), Water, Air, and Soil Pollution: Focus, Vol. 8, No. 3-4, pp. 267-274, 2008. Richard E. Christenson “Optimal Design Strategy of Connected Control Method for Two Dynamically Similar Structures,” (with K. Makita, K. Seto and T. Watanabe), ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 133, pp. 1247, 2007. “A Resetting Stiffness Dynamic Controller and its Bench-Scale Implementation,” (with J. Erramouspe, P.D. Kiousis and T. Vincent), Engineering Structures, Vol. 29, No. 10, pp. 2602-2610, 2007. “Large-Scale Experimental Verification of Semiactive Control through Real-Time Hybrid Simulation,” (with Y.Z. Lin, A.T. Emmons and B. Bass), ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol. 134, No. 4, pp. 522-535, 2008. Maria Chrysochoou “Remediation of Chromite Ore Processing Residue Using Ferrous Sulfate and Calcium Polysulfide?,” (with M. Wazne, D.H. Moon, S.C. Jagupilla, S.C. Jagupilla, C. Christodoulatos and D. Dermatas), Geosciences Journal, Vol.11, No. 2, pp. 105-110, 2007. “Phosphate Treatment of Firing Range Soils: Pb Fixation or P Release?,” (with D. Dermatas, D.G. Grubb and X. Xu), Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol. 37, pp. 47-56, 2008. John T. DeWolf “Effect of Temperature on Modal Variability of a Curved Concrete Bridge under Ambient Loads,” (with C. Liu), Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 133, No. 12, pp. 1742-1751, 2007.

“Passive Structural Health Monitoring of Connecticut’s Bridge Infrastructure,” (with J.K. Olund), Journal

of Infrastructure Systems, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 330-339, 2007.

“Performance Evaluation through Field Testing of Century-Old Railroad Truss Bridge,” (with M.R. DelGrego and M.P. Culmo), Journal of Bridge Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 132-138, 2008. Howard I. Epstein “Block Shear Equations Revisited…Again,” (with L. Aleksiewicz), The American Institute of Steel

Construction Engineering Journal, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 5-12, First Quarter 2008.

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Mekonnen Gebremichael “An Application of Copulas to Modeling Temporal Sampling Errors in Satellite-derived Rainfall Estimates,” (with W.F. Krajewski), Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 404-408, July-August 2007. “Spatial Sampling Uncertainty in SMEX04 Soil Moisture Fields: A Data-based Resampling Experiment,” (with E.R. Vivoni), Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 112, No. 2, pp. 326-336, February 2008. “Comparison of Ground-based and Remotely-sensed Surface Soil Moisture Estimates over Complex Terrain During SMEX04,” (with E.R. Vivoni, C.J. Watts, R. Bindlish and T.J. Jackson), Remote Sensing

of Environment, Vol. 112, No. 2, pp. 314-325, February 2008. “Scaling of Tropical Rainfall as Observed by TRMM Precipitation Radar,” (with W.F. Krajewski, T.M. Over, Y.N. Takayabu, P. Arkin and M. Katayama), Atmospheric Research, Vol. 88, Nos. 3-4, pp. 337-354, June 2008. John N. Ivan “A Decision Support System for Predicting the Likely Benefits of Left-turn Lane Installations,” (with S. Ranade and A. Sadek), Transportation Research Record, Vol. 2023, pp. 28-36, 2007. “Crash Prediction Models for Intersections on Rural Multilane Highways: Differences by Collision Type,” (with T. Jonsson and C. Zhang), Transportation Research Record, Vol. 2019, pp. 91-98, 2007. Jeong-Ho Kim “Interaction Integrals for Thermal Fracture of Functionally Graded Materials,” (with A. KC), Engineering

Fracture Mechanics, Vol. 75, No. 8, pp: 2542-2565, May 2008. Baikun Li “The Role of Nitrogen Dissimilation and Assimilation in Biological Nitrogen Removal Treating Low/Mid/High Concentrated Wastewater,” (with S. Irvin), Journal of Environmental Engineering &

Science, Vol. 6, pp. 483-490, 2007. “The Variation of Nitrifying Bacterial Population in a SBR Treating Low/Mid/High Concentrated Wastewater,” (with S. Irvin and K. Baker), Journal of Environmental Engineering & Science, Vol. 6, pp. 651-653, 2007. “Hydrogen Production from Diluted Molasses by Anaerobic Hydrogen Producing Bacteria in an Anaerobic Baffled Reactor (ABR),” (with J. Li, G. Zhu, N. Ren, L. Bo and J. He), The International

Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 32, No. 15, pp. 3274-3283, 2007. “Use of a Flat Surface pH Electrode as an Approach to Assess Mixing Uniformity and Potential for Odor Generation During Storage of Lime Stabilized Biosolids,” (with B. Burns, K. Krach, H. butler, J. Mangus and C. Cole), The Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, Vol. 57, pp. 794-802, 2007. “Odor Control for Land Application of Lime Stabilized Biosolids,” (with K. Krach, B. Burns, A. Shuler, C. Cole and Y. Xie), Water, Air & Soil Pollution: Focus, Vol. 8, pp. 369-378, 2007.

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“Biological Removal of Nitrogen from Wastewater,” (with G. Zhu, Y. Peng, J. Guo, Q. Yang and S. Wang), Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Vol. 192, pp. 159-195, 2008. Lanbo Liu “Wave Interferometry Applied to Borehole Radar: Virtual Multi-offset Reflection Profiling,” (with K. He), IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 45, No. 8, pp. 2554-2559, August 2007. “Fundamental and Higher Mode Inversion of Dispersed GPR Waves Propagating in an Ice Layer,” (with J. van der Kruk and A. Arcone), IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 45, No. 8, pp. 2483-2491, August 2007. “The Effect of Scatterer Position Changes on Acoustic Refocusing in Time Reversal Processing in an Urban Environment,” (with D. Albert and D.K. Wilson), Journal of Geophysics and Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 276-284, 2007. “Strong Ground Motion Simulation for Seismic Hazard Assessment in Urban Area,” (with Z. Zhao, Z. Zhao, J. Xu and R. Kubota), Journal of Geophysics and Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 308-316, 2007. “Evaluation of Grout Behind Lining of Shield Tunnel Using Ground Penetrating Radar in Shanghai Metro Line, China,” (with X. Xie, Y. Liu, H. Huang, J. Du and F. Zhang), Journal of Geophysics and

Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 253-261, 2007. Ramesh Malla “Resilient Modulus Prediction Models Based on Analysis of LTPP Data for Subgrade Soils and Experimental Verification,” (with S. Joshi), Journal of Transportation Engineering, Vol. 133, No. 9, pp. 491-504, September 2007. “A Special Fiber Optic Sensor for Measuring Wheel Loads of Vehicles on Highways,” (with A. Sen and N.W. Garrick), Sensors Journal, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 2551-2568, April 2008. Guiling Wang “Modeling the Dynamic Root Water Uptake and its Hydrological Impact at the Reserva Jaru site in Amazonia,” (with Z. Zheng), Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences, Vol. 112, G04012, doi:10.1029/2007JG000413, December 2007. “Validation of Canopy Hydrological Schemes in Land Surface Models,” (with D. Wang and E.N. Anagnostou), Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 347, pp. 308-318, December 2007. “Potential Future Changes of the Terrestrial Ecosystem Based on Climate Projections by Eight General Circulation Models,” (with C. Alo), Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences, Vol. 113, G01004, doi:10.1029/2007JG000528, January 2008. Adam Zofka “Validation of Superpave Fine Aggregate Angularity Criterion for Asphalt Concrete,” (with E. Johnson, X. Li, M. Marasteanu and T. Clyne), Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1998, pp. 75-81, 2007.

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“Recycled Asphalt Shingles in Hot Mix Asphalt,” (with J. McGraw, D. Krivit, J. Schroer, R. Olson and M. Marasteanu), Journal of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists, Vol. 76, pp. 235-274, 2007. “The Use of Asphalt Mixture Stiffness Predictive Models,” (with T. Pellinen, M. Marasteanu and N. Funk), Journal of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists, Vol. 76, pp. 575-626, 2007. “Investigation of Asphalt Mixture Creep Compliance at Low Temperatures,” (with M. Marasteanu and M. Turos), Road Materials and Pavement Design, Vol. 9, pp. 269-286, 2008.

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CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT PUBLISHED BOOKS, BOOK CHAPTERS, BOOK SECTIONS & EDITED VOLUMES

2007-2008 Emmanouil N. Anagnostou “Performance of Algorithms for Rainfall Retrieval from Polarimetric X-band Radar Measurements,” (with M.N. Anagnostou), chapter in Precipitation: Advances in Measurement, Estimation and Prediction, (S. Michaelidis, ed.), Springer Academic Publishers, pp. 313-337, 2008. “Precipitation Dynamic and Microphysical Retrievals from Satellite Active and Passive Observations,” (with M. Grecu), chapter in Precipitation: Advances in Measurement, Estimation and Prediction, (S. Michaelidis, ed.), Springer Academic Publishers, pp. 219-228, 2008. Richard E. Christenson “Real-Time Hybrid Simulation of a Seismically Excited Structure with Large-Scale Magneto-Rheological Fluid Dampers,” (with Y.Z. Lin), chapter in Hybrid Simulation Theory, Implementations and

Applications, (V.E. Saouma and M.V. Sivaselvan, eds.), Taylor and Francis NL, ISBN: 978-0-415-46568-7, 2008. John T. DeWolf Mechanics of Materials, Fifth Edition, (with F.P. Beer, E.R. Johnston and D.F. Mazurek), McGraw-Hill, Inc., 790 pages, 2009

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CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS

2007-2008 Michael L. Accorsi “A User Material Subroutine for Progressive Failure Analysis of Woven Polymer-Based Composites Subjected to Dynamic Loading,” (with D. Hufner) Proceedings of the Abaqus Users Conference, pp, 346-359, Newport, RI, May 19-22, 2008. Emmanouil N. Anagnostou “Evaluation of Underwater Rainfall Measurements: Ionian Sea Rainfall Experiment 2004,” (with M.N. Anagnostou, J.A. Nystuen, E.I. Nikolopoulos and E. Amitai), Proceedings of the IEEE International

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, pp. 2087-2091, Barcelona, Spain, July 23-27, 2007. “Evaluation of X-Band Polarimetric Radar Estimates of Drop Size Distributions From Coincident S-Band Polarimetric Estimates and Measured Raindrop Spectra,” (with M.N. Anagnostou, G. Vulpiani, M. Montopoli, F.S. Marzano and J. Vivekananda), Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and

Remote Sensing Symposium, pp. 3575-79, Barcelona, Spain, July 23-27, 2007 “Processing Disdrometer Raindrop Spectra Timeseries From Various Climatological Regions Using Estimation and Autoregressive Methods,” (with M. Montopoli, G. Vulpiani, M.N. Anagnostou and F.S. Marzano), Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, pp. 2268-72, Barcelona, Spain, July 23-27, 2007. “Bayesian Classification of Hydrometeors from Polarimetric Radars at S and X-Band: Algorithm Design and Experimental Comparisons,” (with F.S. Marzano, D. Scaranari, M. Montopoli, G. Vulpiani and M.N. Anagnostou), Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, pp. 4156-4160, Barcelona, Spain, July 23-27 2007. “Rainfall Data Ingestion into the Land Surface Scheme of a Meteorological Model and its Impact on Simulations of Convective Mesoscale Systems,” (with E. Serpetzoglou and A. Papadopoulos), Proceedings of the 9

th National-International Conference of Meteorology-Climatology and Atmospheric

Physics, pp. 235-242, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 28-31, 2008. “Evaluation of Underwater Acoustic Estimates of Raindrop Size Distribution through Comparison with Dual-Polarization Radar Measurements,” (with M.N. Anagnostou, J. Nystuen, E. Nikolopoulos, E. Amitai and A. Papadopoulos), Proceedings of the 9

th National-International Conference of Meteorology-

Climatology and Atmospheric Physics, pp. 11-18, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 28-31, 2008. “Rainfall Measurements with Weather Radar in Complex Terrain,” (with J. Kalogiros, M.N. Anagnostou and A. Papadopoulos), Proceedings of the 9

th National-International Conference of Meteorology-

Climatology and Atmospheric Physics, pp. 75-82, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 28-31, 2008. Amvrossios C. Bagtzoglou “Enhanced Radar Calibration Using Physically Based Image Restoration Methods,” (with E.N. Anagnostou, J.M. Niedzialek and F.L. Ogden), Inverse Problems, Design and Optimization, (M.J. Colaço, H.R.B. Orlande and G.S. Dulikravich, eds.), Vol. II, pp. 714-721, 2007.

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“Hydrologic Model Calibration with Particle Tracking as a Groundwater Age Proxy,” (with J.M. Niedzialek and F.L. Ogden), Inverse Problems, Design and Optimization, (M.J. Colaço, H.R.B. Orlande and G.S. Dulikravich, eds.), Vol. II, pp. 707-713, 2007. “Scalable Localization with Mobility Prediction for Underwater Sensor Networks,” (with Z. Zhou and J.-H. Cui), CD Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM’08, Phoenix, AZ, pp. 21, 2008. Richard E. Christenson “System Identification of a 200 kN Magneto-Rheological Fluid Damper for Structural Control in Large-Scale Smart Structures,” (with B.J. Bass), Proceedings of the 2007 American Control Conference, pp. 2690-2695, New York, NY, July 2007.

Maria Chrysochoou “Reductive Treatment of Chromite Ore Processing Residue: Lessons from a Field Study,” (with D. Dermatas, D.H. Moon and C. Christodoulatos), Proceedings of Geocongress 2008, Vol. 177, pp. 748-755, March 2008. “Current Knowledge on Heaving Mechanisms of Chromite Ore Processing Residue,” (with D. Dermatas, D.H. Moon. M. Kaouris, J. Morris and C. French), Proceedings of Geocongress 2008, Vol. 177, pp. 391-398, March 2008. “Assessment of Brownmillerite and Periclase Hydration in Chromite Ore Processing Residue at Elevated Temperature,” (with D. Dermatas, D.H. Moon. A. Sanchez, M. Wazne and D.G. Grubb), Proceedings of

Geocongress 2008, Vol. 177, pp. 375-382, March 2008. “Dredged Material Stabilization: the Role of Mellowing on Cured Properties,” (with D.G. Grubb and C.J. Smith), Proceedings of Geocongress 2008, Vol. 177, pp. 772-779, March 2008. “Geoenvironmental Characterization to Assess Waste Stabilization/Solidification Treatment Performance and Sustainability,” (with D. Dermatas and D.H. Moon), Proceedings of Geocongress 2008, Vol. 177, pp. 660-667, March 2008. John T. DeWolf “Development and Implementation of a Solar Powered Wireless Monitoring System on a Truss Bridge in Connecticut,” (with J.K. Olund, A.J. Cardini, G.P. Troiano, C. Liu, E. Feldblum and P. D’Attilio), CD

Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford University,

Stanford, CA, 2007. “The Long-term Structural Health Monitoring of Bridges in the State of Connecticut,” (with J.K. Olund, A.J. Cardini and C. Li), CD Proceedings from the Structures Congress, American Society of Civil Engineers, Long Beach, CA, 2007. “Field Strain Monitoring to Evaluate Unexpected Cracking in a Non-Redundant Steel Plate Girder Bridge,” (with G.P. Troiano, P. D’Attilio and J.K. Olund), CD Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of

Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, 2008. Norman W. Garrick “Applicability of Space Syntax to Bicycle Facility Planning,” (with C. McCahill), Transportation

Research Board Annual Meeting, Paper No. 08-2653, Washington, DC, 2008.

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“Reassessing On-Street Parking,” (with W. Marshall and G. Hansen), Transportation Research Board

Annual Meeting, Paper No. 08-2926, Washington, DC, 2008. John N. Ivan “Using Vehicle-Time-Spent-Following as Exposure for Predicting Same-direction Collisions on Two-Lane Rural Roads,” (with C. Zhang and N. Ravishanker), Transportation Research Board Annual

Meeting, Paper No. 08-0938, Washington, DC, January 2008. Jeong-Ho Kim “Computational Fracture Modeling of Functionally Graded Materials under Thermal Loads,” (with A. KC), Proceedings of the Ninth U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Vol. 1, pp. 73, San Francisco, CA, July 23-26, 2007. Baikun Li “Initial Bacterial Adhesion on Electrodes in Microbial Fuel Cells (MFC),” (with D. Jiang), CD

Proceedings of the American Society of Chemistry (ACS) Annual Conference, Boston, MA. August 2007. “Optimization of Hydrogen Production in Anaerobic Acidogenic Phase,” (with Y. Sharma), CD

Proceedings of the American Society of Chemistry (ACS) Annual Conference, Boston, MA. August 2007. “Hydrogen Production in Acidogenic Phase in Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment,” (with J. Li and N. Ren), CD Proceedings of the 80

th WEFTEC Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, October 2007.

“Sustainable Energy Production in Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment,” (with M. Curtis, Y. Sharma and D. Jiang), CD Proceedings of the Water Environment Federation (WEF) Sustainability Annual Conference. Baltimore, MD, June 2008. Lanbo Liu “Assessment of the Imaging Quality in Breast Cancer Electrical Impedance Tomography with FEM Modeling,” (with L. Soutter), CD Proceedings of the COMSOL Conference 2007, Boston, MA, October 4-6, 2007. Editorial: “Sustainable Urban Development and Geophysics,” (with L.S. Chan), Journal of Geophysics

and Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 243-244, 2007. “Staggered-grid Pseudospectral Time Domain (PSTD) Method Using Real Fourier Transform for 2.5D Electromagnetic Wave Propagation,” (with B. Barrows and Z. Zhao), Proceedings of the Progress in

Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2008), pp. 1238-1244, Hangzhou, China, March 24-28, 2008. “Characterizing Submarine Ground-water Discharge Using Marine Electrical Resistivity and Fiber-optic Distributed Temperature Sensing,” (with R. Henderson, F. Day-Lewis, J. Lane Jr. and C. Harvey), CD Proceedings of the Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental

Problems (SAGEEP ‘08), April 6-10, 2008. “Integrity Assessment of the Shielding Machine Sealing with GPR in the Crossing-Yangtze Highway Tunnel,” (with X. Xie, Y. Zhao and K. He), Proceedings of the 12

th International Conference on Ground

Penetrating Radar (GPR ‘08), Birmingham, UK, June 16-19, 2008.

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“Subsurface Characterization with GPR for Detecting Archaic Archaeological Features in Highland Michoacán, Mexico,” (with T. Gabany-Guerrero, S. Arcone and S. Hackenberger), Proceedings of the

12th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR ‘08), Birmingham, UK, June 16-19,

2008. “Rough Surface Scattering Loss Analysis for Surface GPR: Field Data and Numerical Simulations,” (with S. Arcone, E. Rohrbach and D.C. Finnegan), Proceedings of the 12

th International Conference on Ground

Penetrating Radar (GPR ‘08), Birmingham, UK, June 16-19, 2008. Nicholas E. Lownes “Commuter Rail Circulator Route Design and its Implications for Transit Accessibility,” (with R.B. Machemehl), Proceedings of the 87

th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Paper No.

08-1031, January 2008. “Carsharing: A Dynamic Vehicle Allocation Decision Making Problem,” (with W. Fan and R.B. Machemehl), Proceedings of the 87

th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Paper No.

08-0553, January 2008. Ramesh B. Malla “Dynamic Analysis of a 3-D Frame Membrane Structure Subjected to Impact,” (with D. Chaudhuri), CD

Proceedings, Earth & Space 2008 – 11th ASCE Aerospace Division International Conference on

Engineering, Science, Construction and Operations in Challenging Environments, Long Beach, CA, March 3-5, 2008. Adam Zofka “Determination of Asphalt Mixture Creep Compliance at Low Temperatures Using Thin Beam Specimens,” (with M. Marasteanu and M. Turos), CD Proceedings of the 87

th Annual Meeting of the

Transportation Research Board, Paper No. 08-2361, January 2008. “Integration of Laboratory Testing, Field Performance Data, and Numerical Simulations for the Study of Low-Temperature Cracking,” (with E.V. Dave, A.F. Braham, W.G. Buttlar and G.H. Paulino), Proceedings of the Sixth RILEM (Réunion Internationale des Laboratoires et Experts des Matériaux)

International Conference on Cracking in Pavements, Chicago, IL, June 16-18, 2008.

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CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ACTIVE RESEARCH GRANTS & CONTRACTS

2007-2008 Michael L. Accorsi “IPA for Advanced Parachute Simulations 2005,” U.S. Army Natick Soldier Systems Center, January 1, 2005-August 31, 2007, $60,022, ($15,438). “Progressive Failure of Polymer-Based Composite Materials and Structures Under Dynamic Loading,” (with co-PI: K. Reifsnider 65%), Department of Defense/Office of Naval Research, January 1, 2005-May 31, 2008, $365,880, ($29,291). “Development of Four Computational Simulation Capabilities for Airdrop Systems,” U.S. Army Natick Soldier Systems Center, June 1, 2006-August 31, 2007, $68,026, ($11,194). “Validation Study of Computational Structural Models for Simulation of Airdrop Systems,” DOD/Army Natick Soldier Center, May 1, 2007-December 31, 2007, $57,286, ($33,561). “Development and Application of Airdrop Simulation Capabilities,” DOD/Army Natick Soldier Center, April 1, 2008-December 31, 2008, $58,301, ($0). CCHRP Agreement, Work Program for 2007-2008, JHRAC, Connecticut Department of Transportation, May 23, 2007-May 22, 2008, $311,082 ($213,739). CCHRP Agreement, Work Program for 2008-2009, JHRAC, Connecticut Department of Transportation, May 23, 2008-May 22, 2009, $312,207 ($9,848). Emmanouil N. Anagnostou “Better Understanding of the Spatio-temporal Characteristics of Deep Convection in the Tropics Using Satellite Data and Continuous Long-range Lightning Observations,” NASA, August 23, 2008-September 14, 2007, $72,000 ($573). “Cyclones from Africa: The Transition of African Easterly Waves from Continent to Ocean,” NASA, June 6, 2006-June 5, 2008, $120,000 ($4,164). “Estimation of Precipitation and Sea Surface Parameters from Passive Microwave Satellite Observations and Continuous Assimilation in the POSEIDON Oceanographic System,” OCEANOR S.A., July 1, 2006-June 30, 2008, $397,000 ($195,044). “Defining Optimality Criteria for the Effective Use of Satellite Precipitation Datasets in Land Surface Hydrology and Water Cycle Studies,” NASA, (with co-PI: A.C. Bagtzoglou (30%)), January 12, 2007-January 11, 2010, $432,070 ($13,782). “Understanding the Use of Satellite Rainfall in Flood Prediction for Complex Terrain Basins,” NASA, August 3, 2007-August 2, 2008, $84,000 ($22,201).

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Amvrossios C. Bagtzoglou “Detailed Hydraulic Assessment Using a High-Resolution Piezocone Coupled to the GeoVis: Statistical, Modeling, and Tracer Support Activities at the NETTS, Port Hueneme, California,” (with co-PI: G. Robbins (65%)), Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center, ESTCP Project CU-0421, May 19, 2006-December 31, 2007, $60,700 ($0). “Hydrogeologic Characterization and Modeling at the Naval Base Ventura County, Port Hueneme, California,” (with co-PI: G. Robbins (50%)), Naval Facilities Engineering Command, ESTCP Project CU-0421, Contract N47408-04-C-7514, January 1, 2008-April 30, 2009, $199,977 ($9,551). “Defining Optimality Criteria for the Effective Use of Satellite Precipitation Datasets in Land Surface Hydrology and Water Cycle Studies,” (with co-PI: E. Anagnostou (70%)), NASA, January 12, 2007 –January 11, 2010, $433,000 ($5,906). “Integration of Global Precipitation Measurement Data Product with the Hydrologic Engineering Center-Hydrologic Modeling System,” NASA, Subcontract with University of Mississippi and Tennessee Technological University, May 15, 2007-January 15, 2008, $11,000 ($6,857). “Collaborative Research: Developing a Novel Infrastructure for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks,” NSF/CISE, (with co-PIs: J.-H. Cui, S. Rajasekaran, Z. Shi, P. Willett, S. Zhou; Senior Personnel: R. Ammar, A. Bagtzoglou, Y. Fei, T. Torgersen and B. Wang), Collaboration with UMass (B. Levine and J. Kurose) and WHOI (L. Freitag), 08/2007–07/2010, $320,000 ($3,837). Richard E. Christenson “NEES Experimental Project for Verifying Full-Scale Semiactive Control of Nonlinear Structures,” National Science Foundation, January 1, 2006-September 30, 2007, $93,407 ($24,751). “IRES: Research and Education Experiences for Students to Examine Earthquake Hazard Mitigation Utilizing the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation,” National Science Foundation, January 1, 2006-August 31, 2008, $104,825 ($28,796). “Extending the Lifespan of Existing Highway Bridges through Controllable Stiffness and Damping Devices,” Connecticut Cooperative Research Program JHRAC, May 23, 2007-May 22, 2008, $84,453 ($43,776). “Deployment and Integration of Instructional Shake Tables using the NEES Cyberinfrastructure,” National Science Foundation, September 15, 2006-August 31, 2008, $169,500 ($18,101). “Experimental Testing of Controllable Damping Devices Toward Extending the Lifespan of Existing Highway Bridges,” Connecticut Cooperative Research Program JHRAC, May 23, 2008-May 22, 2009, $110,526 ($11,506). “Distributed Real-Time Hybrid Simulation,” University of Connecticut Research Foundation Faculty Large Research Grant, June 1, 2008-May 31, 2009, $23,500 ($0). Maria Chrysochoou “LaFarge-Dominion Portland Cement-Fly Ash-Dredged Material Blend Evaluation,” Schnabel Engineering, August 31, 2007-April 30, 2008, $12,000 ($7,676).

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“Investigation of Cr(VI) Speciation via Micro-XANES, Micro-XRF and Micro-XRD Analyses,” University of Connecticut Foundation, October 25, 2007-October 23, 2008, $1,000 ($1,000). “Soil-cement Blending Study, Greenport, NY,” Schnabel Engineering, January 18, 2008-February 29, 2008, $4,500 ($1,572). “Cr-treatability Study at the National Chromium Facility,” National Chromium Inc., February 15, 2008-August 15, 2008, $7,500 ($1,020). “Analysis of Al-rich Powders,” Schnabel Engineering, March 10, 2008-May 15, 2008, $6,200 ($618). John T. DeWolf “Network of Continuous Computer-Based Bridge-Monitoring Systems in the State of Connecticut,” Connecticut Department of Transportation, July 1, 2006-June 30, 2007, $182,442 ($33,822). “Short-Term Bridge Monitoring,” Connecticut Department of Transportation, July 1, 2006-June 30, 2007, $76,043 ($27,069). “Expansion and Refinement of a Bridge Monitoring Network in Connecticut,” Connecticut Department of Transportation, July 1, 2007-June 30, 2011, $206,431 ($115,914). “Short-Term Bridge Monitoring and Evaluation,” Connecticut Department of Transportation, July 1, 2007-June 30, 2008, $125,318 ($54,199). Norman W. Garrick “Designing Roads that Guide Drivers to Choose Safer Speeds,” (with co-PI: J. Ivan (60%)), Cooperative Research Program, May 23, 2007-May 22, 2008, $100,000 ($0). “Value Pricing in Connecticut: Policy Simulations and Economic Impact,” Cooperative Research Program, May 23, 2007-May 22, 2008, $100,000 ($25,740). “Strategies for Extending the Bicycle Network in Older Cities,” U.S. Department of Transportation-New England University Transportation Center, September 1, 2005-August 31, 2008, $64,000 ($11,561). “University Transportation Center,” U.S. Department of Transportation (RITA), August 10, 2005-September 30, 2010, $2,000,000 ($118,154). “Community Design and Transportation Safety Towards a ‘Vision Zero’ Road,” U.S. Department of Transportation/New England University Transportation Center, September 1, 2007-August 31, 2008, $95,000 ($30,877). “Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship,” U.S. Department of Transportation, September 1, 2007-September 1, 2009, $61,000 ($27,092). “University Transportation Center Graduate Fellowship – Year 19,” MIT, September 1, 2006-August 31, 2007, $17,000 ($2,000).

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Mekonnen Gebremichael “A U.S.-Ethiopia Collaboration on Hydrological Studies of Semiarid Regions,” National Science Foundation, Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE), May 8, 2007-June 30, 2010, $141,173 ($55,518).

“Assessing the Potential and Utility of Satellite Rainfall Estimates in Hydrologic Modeling,” University of Connecticut Research Foundation: Large Faculty Grant (UCRF), June 1, 2007-May 31, 2008, $28,290 ($27,847). John N. Ivan “Methodology to Predict the Safety Performance of Rural Multilane Highways,” National Cooperative Highway Research Program, July 1, 2004-November 30, 2007, $500,000 ($26). “Identification of Crash-Prone Traffic Flow States on Freeways Using Real-Time Surveillance Data,” New England University Transportation Center (USDOT), September 1, 2005-May 31, 2008, $64,244 ($14,269). “Warrants for Exclusive Left Turn Lanes at Unsignalized Intersections and Driveways.” New England Transportation Consortium, Phase 1: May 23, 2006-November 22, 2007, $100,000 ($43,601); and Phase 2: November 23, 2007-July 31, 2008, $7,999 ($6,193). “Differences in Gap Acceptance of Elderly Drivers and the Impact on Traffic Simulation Modeling,” New England University Transportation Center (USDOT), September 1, 2006-August 31, 2008, $64,244 ($19,579). “Year 20 NEUTC Fellowships,” U.S. Department of Transportation/MIT, September 1, 2007-August 31, 2008, $32,000 ($32,000). “Incorporating Wet Pavement Friction into Traffic Safety Analysis,” (with co-PI: N. Ravishankar (50%)), Cooperative Research Program (ConnDOT), May 23, 2008-May 22, 2009, $88,500 ($3,366). “Designing Roads that Guide Drivers to Choose Safer Speeds,” (with co-PI: N. Garrick (40%)), Cooperative Research Program, May 23, 2007-May 22, 2008, $100,000 ($0). Jeong-Ho Kim “CAREER: An Integrated Research and Education on Functionally Graded Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Modeling and Experiments,” National Science Foundation CMMI-Division, August 1, 2006-July 31, 2011, $400,000 ($61,465). “Fracture Behavior of A Functionally Graded Proton Exchange Membrane: Modeling and Experiments,” University of Connecticut Research Foundation Large Faculty Grant, January 1, 2008-December 31, 2009, $23,884 ($0). Baikun Li “The Collaborative Research on the Application of Molecular Biology,” National Science Foundation, August 1, 2006-September 30, 2008, $40,000 ($9,958).

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“Integrated Study of the Interactions between Bacteria and Electrodes in Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) to Improve Power Generation,” University of Connecticut Research Foundation Large Faculty Grant, January 1, 2008-December 31, 2008, $23,884 ($0). “Optimization of Acidogenic Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment with the Potential for Water Reclamation,” U.S. Department of the Interior/U.S. Geological Survey, February 29, 2008-February 28, 2011, $25,053 ($0). Lanbo Liu “Wide-area UXO Assessment,” Sky Research/Army, March 1, 2005-September 30, 2007, $64,132 ($285). “UConn-USGS Cooperative Agreement,” U.S. Department of the Interior, June 1, 2002-May 31, 2007, $220,904 ($15,641). “Advanced Numerical Simulation of Electromagnetic Wave Propagation with Multi-region, Pseudospectral Time Domain Method for Surface and Subsurface Sensing,” U.S. Army, July 1, 2007-April 30, 2010, $132,243 ($26,271). “Cooperative Hydrogeophysics and Water Resources Research,” U.S. Department of the Interior/U.S. Geological Survey, June 1, 2007-May 31, 2012, $52,927 ($10,959). Nicholas E. Lownes “Assessing and Quantifying Public Transportation Access,” Connecticut Cooperative Highway Research Program (CCHRP), May 23, 2008-May 22, 2009, $43,339 ($8,864).

“Connecticut Transportation Asset Management and Life-Cycle Cost Analysis,” (with co-PI: A. Zofka (20%)), Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE), November 1, 2007-October 31, 2008, $19,000 ($10,366).

“Innovative Recruitment Initiatives,” (with co-PIs: N. Garrick (0%), J. Ivan (0%), A. Zofka (0%) and C. Atkinson-Palombo (0%)), University of Connecticut Graduate Student Recruitment Pilot Program, March 5, 2008-February 28, 2010, $5,750 ($44). Allison A. MacKay “Evaluating Stormwater Quality Associated with Milling of HMA Surfaces,” (with co-PI: J. Mahoney (50%)), Connecticut Cooperative Highway Research Program, May 23, 2007-May 22, 2008, $41,718 ($3,637). “Seasonal Controls of Arsenic Transport across the Groundwater-Surface Water Interface at a Closed Landfill Site,” (with co-PI: B. Smets (50%)), Environmental Protection Agency/Johns Hopkins University, October 1, 2001-September 30, 2007, $273,966 ($20,881). “Pharmaceutical Sorption to Model Soil Components,” (with co-PI: D. Vasudevan, Duke University (40%)), National Science Foundation/BES, April 1, 2003-March 31, 2008, $378,000 ($106,183). Ramesh B. Malla “A Frame-membrane Composite Structure for Lunar Base,” University of Hartford, March 1, 2006-July 31, 2007, $13,000 ($850).

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Guiling Wang “Exploring the Impact of Vegetation Feedback on Climate Predictions using a Regional Climate Model,” University of Connecticut Large Faculty Grant, June 1, 2007-May 31, 2008, $13,436 ($13,157). “Understanding the Dynamic Land-atmosphere System: Multiple Equilibrium States and Climate Variability,” National Science Foundation/GEO, September 1, 2005-August 31, 2008, $365,000 ($55,934). “Response of the Land Climate System to Hydrologic and Radiactive Forcings,” Georgia Institute of Technology/NASA, January 1, 2004-December 31, 2007, $120,000 ($12,157). “Impact of Dynamic Root Water Uptake and Seasonal Vegetation Variation on Surface Hydrological Processes,” NASA, September 15, 2004-September 14, 2007, $135,000 ($15,718). “Use of Hydrological Models to Provide Loss Prevention Solution,” FM Global, May 29, 2007-July 27, 2007, $10,320 ($8,768). Adam Zofka “Connecticut Transportation Asset Management and Life-Cycle Cost Analysis,” (with co-PI: N. Lownes (80%)), Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE), November 1, 2007-October 31, 2008, $19,000 ($2,591).

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CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT AWARDS, HONORS AND PATENTS

2007-2008 Michael L. Accorsi Elected to membership, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, May 2008. John N. Ivan Best Paper Award (with S. Ranade and A. Sadek), Transportation Research Board Committee on Operational Effects of Geometrics, Annual Meeting, 2007.

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2007-2008 Emmanouil N. Anagnostou Associate Editor, Journal of Hydrology. Co-convener, IS24 - HS2.4/NP3.10 “Precipitation: from Measurement to Modeling and Application in Catchment Hydrology” session, 2008 European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 13-18, 2008. Co-organizer, H21E “Rain Gauge-Radar (NEXRAD) Rainfall Data Relationships: Emerging Data Quality Issues, Concepts, and Applications for Hydrologic Modeling” session, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 10-14, 2007. Keynote presentation, “Advances in Short Term Weather Prediction,” the Hydrologic Prediction: Modeling, Observation and Data Assimilation International Symposium, January 9-11, 2008. Melbourne, Australia [http://arcness.mq.edu.au/fileadmin/general/docs/194_-_CahmdaIII.pdf]. Granted unlimited access, NASA’s Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Branch’s Special Sensor Microwave Imager archived data. Member, NASA Precipitation Science Team. Member, International Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS). Member, Precipitation Committee, American Geophysical Union. Member, Hydrologic Sciences Committee, European Geophysical Union. Presentations:

“Improving Convective Precipitation Forecasting through Assimilation of Data-Forced Land Surface Parameters,” (with E. Serpetzoglou and A. Papadopoulos), American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2007, 88(52), Abstract H42D-04, San Francisco, CA, December 10-14, 2007.

“Can We Use Satellite-Rainfall to Predict Floods in Small Mountainous Basins?” (with E. Nikolopoulos, M. Gebremichael and E. Vivoni), American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2007, 88(52), Abstract H33A-0977, San Francisco, CA, December 10-14, 2007.

“Comparison of Four Global Satellite Rainfall Data Products over the United States against WSR-88D Radar Rainfall Data,” (with F. Hossain), American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2007, 88(52), Abstract H32A-06, San Francisco, CA, December 10-14, 2007.

“Experimental Results on Rainfall Estimation in Complex Terrain with a Mobile X-Band Polarimetric Radar,” (with J. Kalogiros, M.N. Anagnostou, M. Tarolli, M. Borga and A. Papadopoulos), International Symposium on Weather Radar and Hydrology, Grenoble, France, March 10-12, 2008.

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“Performance of Rainfall Algorithms from Mobile X-Band Dual-polarization Radar over Complex Terrain: Result from the 2006-2007 Hydrate Project,” (with M.N. Anagnostou, M. Tarolli, J. Kalogiros, A. Papadopoulos, M. Borga and F. Zanon) European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 10, Vienna, Austria, April 13-18, 2008.

“The Response of a NWP Model to the Ingestion of Observed Precipitation Data on its Different Land Surface Schemes in Cases of Flash-flood Inducing Storms,” (with E. Serpetzoglou and A. Papadopoulos), European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 10, Vienna, Austria, April 13-18, 2008.

“Hydrologic Analysis of Flash Floods in a Mountainous Basin,” (with E.I. Nikolopoulos, M. Borga and E.R. Vivoni), European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 10, Vienna, Austria, April 13-18, 2008.

“Evaluation of Underwater Acoustic Estimates of Raindrop Size Distribution through Comparison with Dual-Polarization Radar Measurements,” (with M.N. Anagnostou, J. Nystuen, E.I. Nikolopoulos, E. Amitai and A. Papadopoulos), European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 10, Vienna, Austria April 13-18, 2008.

“The Use of Remotely Sensed Rainfall to Predict Floods in Mountainous Basins,” (with E.I. Nikolopoulos, M. Gebremichael and M. Borga), European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 10, Vienna, Austria, April 13-18, 2008.

Amvrossios C. Bagtzoglou Environmental Engineering Topical Editor, Encyclopedia of Earth. Editor, Water, Air, and Soil Pollution: Innovative Remediation Technologies for Pollution Abatement. Associate Editor, Journal of the American Water Resources Association. Associate Editor, Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering.

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Environmental Forensics.

Member, Editorial Board, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. Member, Editorial Board, The Open Civil Engineering Journal. Member, Editorial Board, The Open Environmental Engineering Journal.

Member, Advisory Board, Connecticut Institute of Water Resources.

Member, New York State Academy of Sciences. Visiting Professorship, Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse de l’Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, for Ph.D. dissertation defense (2008). Presentations:

“Investigating Satellite Rainfall Based Flood Modeling in Anticipation of GPM: Understanding the Worth of Spatial Downscaling and Satellite Rainfall Uncertainty,” (with S. Rahman, L. Yarbrough and F. Hossain), EOS: Transactions of the AGU, Vol. 88, No. 52, Abstract IN43B-1176, 2007.

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“Verification of Chaotic Advection Enhanced Mixing in Porous Media Using Real Time Imaging,” (with A. Dathe and P. Zhang), EOS: Transactions of the AGU, Vol. 88, No. 52, Abstract H42C-05, 2007.

“Mass Flux Distribution Using the High-Resolution Piezocone and GMS,” (with M. Kram, N. Jones, J. Chau and G. Robbins), 6th International Conference on Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds, Monterey, CA (Paper in D3 – Innovative Site Assessment and Performance Monitoring Tools), 2008.

“Mass Flux Distribution Using the High-Resolution Piezocone and GMS and Innovative Cost-Effective Ground-Water Monitoring Well Design,” (with M. Kram, N. Jones, J. Chau, G. Robbins, J. Farrar and T. Dalzell), North American Environmental Field Conference and Exposition, Tampa, FL (Paper in Advances in Environmental Site Characterization, Monitoring, Sampling & Remediation Technology), 2008.

“Scalable Localization with Mobility Prediction for Underwater Sensor Networks,” (with Z. Zhou and J.-H. Cui), CSE Technical Report: UbiNet-TR07-01, University of Connecticut, pp. 21, 2008.

“Environmental Challenges of Nanoparticles and Research Opportunities,” (with B. Li), Nanotechnology Research Forum, Storrs, CT, March 5, 2008.

“Measuring Soil Bacteria Diversity across a Range of Soil Textures,” (with J. Chau and M. Willig), Connecticut Conference on Natural Resources, Storrs, CT, 2008.

“Multi-Dimensional Marching-Jury Backwards Beam Equation Method with Uncertainty in Transport Parameters,” (with D.F. Cornachiulo), NGWA Conference on Eastern Regional Ground Water Issues, Ronkonkoma, NY, 2008.

Joseph T. Bushey Presentations:

University of Massachusetts - Lowell, Department of Biological Sciences, invited, April 16, 2008.

University of Connecticut, Department of Marine Sciences, invited, November 14, 2007.

Mercury Biocomplexity Group, Syracuse, NY, December 17-18, 2007.

“Mercury Transport Following Storm Events from a Northern Forest Landscape,” (with C.T. Driscoll, M.J. Mitchell, P. Selvendiran and M.R. Montesdeoca), American Chemical Society Northeast Regional Meeting, June 29-July 2, 2008.

“Mercury Transport Following Storm Events from a Northern Forest Landscape,” (with C.T. Driscoll, M.J. Mitchell, P. Selvendiran and M.R. Montesdeoca), Connecticut Conference on Natural Resources, March 10, 2008.

“Mercury Transport Following Storm Events from a Northern Forest Landscape,” (with C.T. Driscoll, M.J. Mitchell, P. Selvendiran and M.R. Montesdeoca), American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2007.

“The Effect of Elevated Runoff Events on Mercury Cycling within Gwynns Falls, an Urban Watershed in Baltimore, MD,” (with C.T. Driscoll, P.M. Groffman, E.F. Mason, C.B. Fuss and G.T. Fisher), Biannual Conference for the Association of Environmental Science and Engineering Professors, July 28-August 1, 2007.

Richard E. Christenson Member, Program Committee, 2009 American Control Conference.

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Organized and Chair, “Real-Time Hybrid Simulation of 200 kN Magneto-Rheological Fluid Dampers” session and Chair, “Structural Control and Health Monitoring” session, Inaugural International Conference of the Engineering Mechanics Institute – ASCE, EM08 May 2008. Organizer and Chair (with J. Lynch, University of Michigan), “Control and Monitoring of Large Structural Systems” session, 2007 American Control Conference June 2007. Member at Large, ASCE Structural Control Committee. Maria Chrysochoou Organizer (with D. Dermatas), “Stabilization/Solidification of Contaminated Wastes, Soil and Sediments I: Characterization and Treatment Evaluation,” session, Geocongress 2008, New Orleans, LA. Session Organizer (with D. Dermatas), “Stabilization/Solidification of Contaminated Wastes, Soil and Sediments II: Remediation and Sustainability,” Geocongress 2008, New Orleans, LA. Granted Access, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Advanced Light Source, October 2007 and February 2008. John T. DeWolf Associate Editor, Structural Health Monitoring.

Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers. Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. Member, Board of Examiners for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors (appointed by Governor). Howard I. Epstein Presentations:

“Structural Failures – Part II – Corrosion,” invited, Torello Engineers Continuing Education Seminar Series: Manchester (9/11/07), New Haven (9/18), Westport (9/25), Uncasville (10/9) and Torrington (10/16).

“New Welding Requirements,” invited, Torello Engineers Continuing Education Seminar Series: New Haven (3/25/08), Manchester (4/1), Westport (4/15), Uncasville (4/22) and New Preston (4/29).

Radio Interview: Interviewed on WILI radio’s morning show hosted by Wayne Norman, 7:00-9:00 a.m., January 8, 2008 – Topic: Engineering Ethics. Norman W. Garrick Member, Board of Directors, Congress for the New Urbanism. Co-Chair, Transportation Task Force, Congress for the New Urbanism. Conference Organizer, Transportation Summit, Congress for the New Urbanism, London, England, November 2007.

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Conference Organizer, Transportation Summit, Congress for the New Urbanism, Charlotte, NC, November 2008. Presentations:

“New Urbanism and Climate Change,” Congress for the New Urbanism Transportation Summit, November 2007, London, England.

“Transportation, Cultural Transference and Urban Transformation in Kingston, Jamaica,” The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, London, UK, November 2007.

“Applicability of Space Syntax to Bicycle Facility Planning,” Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, (08-2653), Washington, DC, 2008.

“Reassessing On-Street Parking,” (with W. Marshall, G. Hansen), Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, (08-2926), Washington, DC, 2008.

“Transportation for a Green and Prosperous Kingston,” Jamaica Chamber of Commerce Planning Forum, Kingston, Jamaica, March 2008.

“Shared Space and New Urbanism,” Congress for the New Urbanism XV, Austin, TX, April 2008.

“Report on the Project for Transportation Reform,” Congress for the New Urbanism XV, Austin, TX, April 2008.

“Urbanism and Parking Demand,” (with W. Marshall), Congress for the New Urbanism XV, Austin, TX, April 2008.

“The Impact of Transportation and Urban Planning on Carbon Emissions: a Case Study of Cambridge, MA,” (with C. McCahill), Congress for the New Urbanism XV, Austin, TX, April 2008.

Newspaper Editorials: “What On-street Parking Can Do for Downtowns,” The Hartford Courant, May 18, 2008 (op-ed); “Healing the Divide,” The Hartford Courant, April 13, 2008 (op-ed). Newspaper Interviews: “Preston Struggles to Retain Rural Roots,” Norwich Bulletin, May 4, 2008; “Poor Road Development Practices Drive Congestion,” Jamaica Gleaner, March 11, 2008; “Faculty Discuss Climate Change,” The Daily Campus, February 1, 2008; “Drivers More Cautious on Busy Roads,” The

Daily Campus, October 17, 2007; “Streetwise,” Governing, August 2007; “UConn Study Touts Benefits of On-Street Parking,” Stamford Advocate, October 7, 2007; “Study Finds On-Street Parking Helps Town Centers,” Waterbury Republican-American, October 4, 2007; “Congestion Grows, Even If State Doesn't,” Connecticut Post, September 18, 2007; “Path of Diminished Potential: Highway’s Place in Rail Plan Will Make Tyson’s Transition Tougher,” Washington Post, June 27, 2007; “New London’s Noisy Nightlife May be Too Much of a Good Thing,” New London Day, August 12, 2007. TV Interview: “The Warming of Connecticut,” Connecticut Public Television, Documentary, June 2007. Radio Interviews: “On-Street Parking Boon,” Mornings with Ray and Diane, WTIC, 1080, Hartford, October 5, 2007; “Where We Live,” WNPR - Connecticut Public Radio, July 2, 2007. Mekonnen Gebremichael Session Organizer (with E. Amitai, E. Habib, F. Testik and J. McCollum), “Rainfall Measurement, Estimation, and Validation: Advances and Hydrologic Applications,” American Geophysical Union Fall 2007 Session, San Francisco, CA, December 2007. Session Chair (with J. McCollum), “Rainfall Measurement, Estimation, and Validation: Advances and Hydrologic Applications,” American Geophysical Union Fall 2007 Session, San Francisco, CA, December 2007.

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Session Organizer (with E. Amitai, E. Habib, F. Testik and J. McCollum), “General Session on Precipitation,” American Geophysical Union Spring 2008 Session, Fort Lauderdale, FL, May 2008. UConn’s Representative, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science (CUAHSI). Presentations:

“Evaluating Satellite Rainfall Products at Different Space-Time Scales and their Impacts in Hydrologic Model Simulations,” (with D.A. Zeweldi), 9th International Precipitation Conference, Paris, France, November 12-14 2007.

“Evaluating Satellite Rainfall Products and Their Impacts in Hydrologic Model Simulations,” (with D.A. Zeweldi), abstract, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2007, Vol. 88, No. 52, San Francisco, CA, December 2007.

“What is the Ability of Distributed Hydrologic Models to Reproduce Observed Spatial Soil Moisture Field?,” (with E.R. Vivoni), abstract, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2007, Vol. 88, No. 52, San Francisco, CA, December 2007.

“Can We Use Satellite-rainfall to Predict Floods in Small Mountainous Basins?” (with E.I. Nikolopoulos, E.N. Anagnostou and E.R. Vivoni), abstract, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2007, Vol. 88, No. 52, San Francisco, CA, December 2007.

“Evaluating Satellite Rainfall Products for Hydrological Applications,” (with D.A. Zeweldi), IPWG Workshop on the Evaluation of High Resolution Precipitation Products, Geneva, Switzerland, December 2007.

“Are the Space-time Patterns of Hydrological Fields Scale Invariant?” MIT, February 2008.

“The Use of Remotely Sensed Rainfall to Predict Floods in Mountainous Basins,” (with E.I. Nikolopoulos, E.N. Anagnostou and M. Borga), abstract, European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 10, EGU2008-A-10466, SRef-ID: 1607-7962/gra/EGU2008-A-10466,Vienna, Austria, April 2008.

John N. Ivan Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Accident Analysis & Prevention. Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Transportation Safety and Security.

Member, Research Advisory Board, Southeastern Transportation Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Session Organizer (with F. LaTorre), “Accident Prediction Model Transferability and Accident Modification Factors,” Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 2008. Newspaper Editorial: “What’s the Real Danger on Route 44?” The Hartford Courant, September 23, 2007, pp: C1, C6 (op-ed).

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Jeong-Ho Kim Presentation:

“Three-dimensional Fracture and Damage Modeling for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells,” Vancouver to Northeast USA Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Cluster Connection Workshop, Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation, National Research Council, Vancouver, Canada, March 17-18, 2008.

Baikun Li Section Coordinator, International ASME Fuel Cell Science and Technology Conference, NY, June 2007. Poster Section Chair, Water Environmental Federation Annual Conference, October 2007. Presentations:

University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, invited, November 2007.

Connecticut Clean Energy Foundation, invited, Hartford, CT, December 2007.

Regional Science Consortium at EPA, invited. Boston, MA, March 2008.

New England Water Environment Association (NEWEA) Bioenergy Conference, invited, Lowell, MA, April 2008.

Lanbo Liu Associate Editor, Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics. Guest Editor, Special Issue on Sustainable Durban Development and Geophysics, Journal of Geophysics

and Engineering. Member, Engineering Geology Committee, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council. Presentations:

Seismological Society of America 2008 Annual Meeting, invited, Sante Fe, NM.

“Earthquake Strong Ground Motion Scenarios at the 2008 Olympic Games Site Beijing Based on Historic Records,” (with Q. Chen, K. He and P. Hu), The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics General Assembly (IUGG '2007), Perugia, Italy, July 2-13, 2007.

“TI: Near-Surface Site Characterization Using a Combination of Active and Passive Seismic Arrays,” (with L. Lane, Y. Chen and E. White), abstract, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2007, Vol. 84, No.46, Abstract H13M-04, San Francisco, CA, 2007.

“Microtremor Array Measurement in Metropolitan Beijing,” (with W. Wang, Q. Chen and E. Rohrbach), abstract, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2007, Vol. 84, No. 46, Abstract NS11D-0800, San Francisco, CA, 2007.

“Analysis of the Two-Dimensional Effect in the H/V Spectral Ratio Method for Bedrock Depth Estimation,” (with L. Zhu and J.W. Lane), abstract, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2007, Vol. 88, No. 52, Abstract H21A-0187, San Francisco, CA, 2007.

“Towards Tomographic Imaging with Microtremor Arrays: the Application of Hilbert-Huang Transform,” (with Y. Chen and R. Mehl), abstract, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2007, Vol. 88, No. 52, Abstract S43B-1312, San Francisco, CA, 2007.

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“Tomographic Imaging with Microtremor Arrays: the Application of Hilbert-Huang Transform,” (with R. Mehl and Y. Chen), invited abstract, Seismological Research Letters, Vol. 79 No. 2, Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting, SSA08 Abstract: 08-291, 2008.

Nicholas E. Lownes Member, Board of Directors, Intelligent Transportation Society of Connecticut. Session Moderator, “Developments in Road Pricing and Toll Technology: Panel Discussion,” Intelligent Transportation Society of Connecticut (ITS-CT), May 22, 2008. Presentations:

“Carsharing: A Dynamic Vehicle Allocation Decision Making Problem,” (with W. Fan and R.B. Machemehl), 2007 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, October 2007.

“How Warm is the Warm Start? Some Computational Insights on the Optimal Bus Transit Route Network Design Problem,” (with W. Fan and R.B. Machemehl), 2007 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, October 2007.

“The Commuter Rail Circulator Network Design Problem: Formulation, Solution Methods, and Applications,” invited, SWUTC Research Program Showcase, College Station, TX, December 11, 2007.

“Tenure Track: The First 100 Days,” invited, The University of Texas Student ITS Chapter, Austin, TX, December 13, 2007.

“Performance of Exact and Heuristic Methods for Public Transit Circulator Design,” INFORMS Southwest Regional Conference, College Station, TX, April 18, 2008.

Ramesh B. Malla Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Aerospace Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers. Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Space Structures, U.K. Member, Steering Committee, Earth & Space 2008 – 11th ASCE Aerospace Division International Conference on Engineering, Science, Construction and Operations in Challenging Environments, Long Beach, CA, March 3-5, 2008. Member, Executive Board, Technical Activities Committee, American Society of Civil Engineers, October 2006-present. Chair, American Society of Nepalese Engineers, September 2007-present. Member, Control Group: Technical Committee on Advanced Materials and Structures; and Technical Committee on Dynamics and Controls, Aerospace Division, American Society of Civil Engineers. Member: Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Liaison Committee; and Technical Committee on Space Engineering and Construction, Aerospace Division, American Society of Civil Engineers. Member, Progressive Collapse Committee, Structural Engineering Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers. Member, Structural Dynamics Technical Committee, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

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Member, Granular Committee, Engineering Mechanics Division, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007-present. Chair, “Lunar/Mars Surface Architectures: Habitats” session, Earth & Space 2008 – 11th ASCE Aerospace Division International Conference on Engineering, Science, Construction and Operations in Challenging Environments, Long Beach, CA, March 3-5, 2008. Chair, “Modeling of Regolith Mechanics” session, Earth & Space 2008 – 11th ASCE Aerospace Division International Conference on Engineering, Science, Construction and Operations in Challenging Environments, Long Beach, CA, March 3-5, 2008. Chair, “Dynamics of Plates and Shells” session, AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials (SDM) Conference, Schaumburg, IL, June 7-10, 2008. Presentations:

“Mechanical Behavior of Activated Alumina packed in a Cylinder for Space Life Support Applications,” (with G. Anandakumar), poster, NASA Orion Space Exploration Community Event, Hartford, CT, October 2007.

“Structural Analysis of a Proposed Lunar Habitat,” (with D. Chaudhuri), poster, NASA Orion Space Exploration Community Event, Hartford, CT, October 2007.

“Lunar Engineering and Construction – A New and Challenging Frontier for Civil Engineers to Lead,” invited seminar, Joint Engineering Societies Meeting/Engineers Week, Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers (CSCE), Berlin, CT, February 19, 2008.

“Dynamic Analysis of a 3-D Frame Membrane Structure Subjected to Impact,” (with D. Chaudhuri), invited, Earth & Space 2008 – 11th ASCE Aerospace Division International Conference on Engineering, Science, Construction and Operations in Challenging Environments, Long Beach, CA, March 3-5, 2008.

“Ecologically Sustainable Building Design,” (with J. Moriarty), poster, Frontiers in Undergraduate Research, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 11-12, 2008.

“Development of Bridge Joint Monitoring,” invited seminar, AI Engineers, Middletown, CT, May 8, 2008.

Erling Smith Founding Member, Editorial Board, International Journal for Space Structures. Guiling Wang Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences. Presentations:

“Modeling the Dynamic Root Water Uptake and its Hydrological Impact at the Reserva Jaru Site in Amazonia,” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2007.

“On the Hydrological Impact of Future Climate-Induced Vegetation Changes,” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2007.

“Vegetation Dynamics: the Ecohydrological Perspectives,” invited, Woods Institute of Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, April 2008.

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Adam Zofka Presentations:

“Determination of Asphalt Mixture Creep Compliance at Low Temperatures using Thin Beam Specimens,” Transportation Research Board Meeting, Washington, DC, January 14-16, 2008.

“Investigation of Asphalt Mixture Creep Compliance at Low Temperatures,” European Asphalt Technology Association, Lyon, France, April 14-15, 2008.

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COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY

2007-2008 The Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) Department has had another exemplary year in terms of national recognition, with the receipt of a new NSF Early Career Development Award (CAREER) grant and the first Office Naval Research Young Investigator Program grant, bringing the departmental total to nine CAREER awards (seven active) and one ONR young investigator grant since 2000. Senior faculty also added a good number of new research projects with continued funding in others. As a result, the CSE Department has attained a very good level in research funding for FY2008 that reflects the continued success of all CSE faculty. Graduate enrollment continues to grow in response to our strong funding profile and our comprehensive outreach activities (approximately 100 M.S. and Ph.D. students). During the fall, the Department hosted accreditation personnel from ABET and EAC, who reviewed our three undergraduate programs (Computer Science, Computer Science & Engineering and Computer Engineering). The accreditation decisions will be formally announced in July 2008. Finally, Reda Ammar was reappointed for three more years as the Department Head with overwhelming support from CSE faculty and staff. EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS HIGHLIGHTS

During the summer and the beginning of the fall 2007, our accreditation team of Department Head Reda Ammar, Associate Professor Alexander Russell, and Ruth Simons—along with all faculty and staff—prepared for the accreditation visit. Associate Professor Robert McCartney was in charge of accreditation preparation for the entire School of Engineering and has been assisting in our departmental preparation. The visit went very smoothly for the Computer Engineering program; however, the evaluators requested better assessment processes for the program objectives for both the Computer Science and the Computer Science & Engineering programs. Following the visit, we responded to the evaluators’ comments, and developed and implemented the new assessment process. We reported the new procedures and survey results to both of EAC and CAC. The decision will be made in July of 2008. We began to observe an increase in freshman enrollments in response to our recruiting efforts. We are currently investigating and developing plans to retain our freshmen and sophomores. These plans include modifications to our curriculum and enhanced access to tutorial and other assistance for our students during their first two years. Robert McCartney and Reda Ammar are serving on a School of Engineering (SoE) Special Task Force to develop a new version of CSE 1100 (Introduction to Computing) that benefits all engineering students during their study. We have approximately 100 M.S. and Ph.D. students in our graduate programs. Several of our faculty participated in different IGERT programs to recruit domestic graduate students. We continued to recruit high quality funded international graduate students and to establish exchange programs for graduate students and faculty with foreign universities. Dean Mun Choi selected Reda Ammar to chair the SoE task force for international development. The committee work is ongoing and has developed a roadmap plan of internationalization. Graduate education is one of the most important components of this roadmap. FACULTY

Our junior faculty received two new prestigious awards. Bing Wang was awarded the NSF CAREER Award and Jun-Hong Cui received the ONR Young Investigator Award. Effective fall 2008, Drs. Cui, Swapna Gokhale, Ion Mandoiu and Laurent Michel will be promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. We were joined by a new faculty member this year, Assistant Professor Yufeng Wu, from the University of California – Davis, who brings expertise in bioinformatics. We are conducting a search for a new position in Biomedical Engineering/Bioinformatics. CSE will be the home department for the new faculty member.

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STRATEGIC PLAN

The CSE Department has developed a detailed strategic plan with a focus on the continued growth in research and graduate education, undergraduate education, and outreach, and with the objective of exploring new opportunities in: multi-dimensional collaborations (large-scale research initiatives, synergistic collaborations with other UConn units, and international collaboration); focused strategic growth in Bioinformatics/Biomedical Informatics, Information Security, and Networking and Grid Computing; and increased cooperation and partnership with State government and industry. RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Our research productivity continues to increase with both ongoing and new funding efforts. For 2007-08 our research expenditure was $1,627,230. CSE faculty, working alone or in teams, have submitted numerous proposals to the major funding agencies that are currently under the review process at NSF, NIH, and other national and state funding agencies. Their efforts in the past year have resulted in many new and continuing results. Of particular note are: the receipt of a prestigious new NSF CAREER Award by Dr. Bing Wang in the area of wireless and sensor networks and the receipt of an ONR Young Investigator Award by Dr. Cui in the area of underwater sensor networks. This latter award is in addition to Dr. Cui’s 2007 NSF CAREER Award. Dr. Thomas Peters received Phase I funding of an NSF-SBIR in the area of topologically encoded animation. Dr. Alex Shvartsman, in collaboration with MIT, received a new grant from NSF in the area of the timed I/O automata. Dr. Dong-Guk Shin received a new NIH grant in the area of musculoskeletal microCT images. Dr. Aggelos Kiayias received an NSF-SGER grant in the area of secure and auditable privacy contracts. Dr. Laurent Michel received a grant from ISO New England in the area of short-term load forecasting. In a major, multi-investigator effort, Drs. Cui (PI), Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, Zhijie Shi and Ammar are collaborating – with other faculty from UConn and the University of Massachusetts – Amherst – on a new grant for underwater acoustic sensor networks, awarded by NSF/CRI. Drs. Ian Greenshields, Ammar and Rajasekaran received a grant from NSF to organize the first workshop on High Performance Computing in Remote Sensing and Weather Modeling held on May 13-16, 2008 in Egypt. Funding from various State of Connecticut agencies and industry continues to grow. Drs. Steven Demurjian and Shin continued to receive substantial funding from the State of Connecticut Insurance Department; Drs. Shvartsman, Kiayias, Michel and Alex Russell secured additional funding from the Connecticut Secretary of State for their voting technology center; Drs. Swapna Gokhale, Ammar and Demurjian received new funding from the Department of Information Technology; and Drs. Yoo-Ah Kim, Shin and Demurjian received new funding from the Department of Children and Families. In industry, Drs. Ammar and Rajasekaran received a grant from AVETeC in the area of High Performance Computing, and Drs. Kiayias, Rajasekaran, Demurjian and Ammar received an SBIR Phase II grant from the Department of Homeland Security (Sonalysts, Inc., lead) on botnet detection and mitigation. This year, our faculty collectively published more than 100 archival journal and conference papers. Several CSE faculty are writing scholarly books and others are editing books or journal special issues. Of particular note, Dr. Shvartsman co-authored (with Chryssis Georgiou) the book, Do-All Computing in

Distributed Systems: Cooperation in the Presence of Adversity, published by Springer Verlag; Dr. Mandoiu co-edited Bioinformatics Algorithms: Techniques and Applications, published by John Wiley & Sons, and Dr. Rajasekaran co-edited the book, Handbook of Parallel Computing: Models, Applications

and Algorithms, published by CRC Press. Our faculty continued their leadership as officers of professional societies, members of editorial boards, and members of steering committees and program chairs for international conferences. Dr. Ammar was appointed the new president of the International Society on Computers and Their Applications, as well as general chair of PDCS 2007; Dr. Cui was named chair of the Steering Committee

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of WUWNet'08; Dr. Gokhale was appointed a workshop co-chair of ISSRE; Dr. Chun-Hsi Huang was selected General Chair of the BioGrid Workshop at the 6th International Health-Grid Conference; Dr. Kiayias was selected program chair of ACM-DRM; Dr. Mandoiu was named general chair of SLIP and program co-chair of the ISBRA, SAWN and BIBM conferences; Dr. Peters was named organizer of the Mathematics in Industry conference; and Dr. Shvartsman was named program chair of SIROCCO 2008. Faculty members have also been invited to present their research directions and results, including keynote addresses in several major international and national conferences and at top ranked institutes. Finally, two centers at UConn, BECAT and BIBCI, in which many CSE faculty participate, were successfully reviewed for continuation. BECAT is being considered for an upgrade to the status of a university-wide center. In addition, the CSE Department will play a major role in UConn’s to-be-formed Connecticut Institute of Clinical and Translational Science (CICaTS). This center’s biomedical informatics focus will be overseen by Dr. Demurjian. CONCLUDING REMARK

The Computer Science & Engineering Department continues on an impressive growth path. We have a balanced faculty with full professors and associate professors with tenure, and a strong core of junior faculty. Our high quality faculty generated nine NSF CAREER Awards and one ONR Young Investigator Award since 2000. Our undergraduate and graduate educational programs are well developed, but we continue to fine-tune them, to serve the State and the nation. With the new research grants awarded during 2007-08, our research accomplishments are exemplary. We are growing at a very rapid pace in terms of research funding, publications, and national and international service and recognition.

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COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ARCHIVAL TECHNICAL JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

2007-2008

Reda A. Ammar “Architecture-Based Software Reliability Analysis Incorporating Concurrency,” (with R. El-Kharboutly and S.S. Gokhale), International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 479-499, October 2007. “UML-based Methodology for Reliability Analysis of Concurrent Software Applications,” (with R. El-Kharboutly and S.S. Gokhale), International Journal of Computers and Their Applications, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 250-259, December 2007. “Architecture-based Reliability Analysis of Continuously Running Concurrent Software Applications,” (with R. El-Kharboutly and S.S. Gokhale), International Journal of Software Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 43-65, January 2008. Jun-Hong Cui “Sampling Large Internet Topologies for Simulation Purposes,” (with V. Krishnamurthy, M. Faloutsos, M. Chroboak, L. Lao and A. Percus), Elsevier Journal of Computer Networks, Vol. 51, No. 15, pp. 4284-4302, 2007. Swapna S. Gokhale “Availability Analysis of Multi-tiered Web Applications,” (with J. Lu), International. Journal of

Performability Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 385-387, July 2007. “POSAML: A Visual Modeling Language for Middleware Provisioning,” (with A. Gokhale, D. Kaul, A. Kogekar and J. Gray), Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, Elsevier, Vol. 18, pp. 359-377, August 2007. “An Analytical Approach to Performance Analysis of an Asynchronous Web Server,” (with U. Praphamontripong, A. Gokhale and J. Gray), Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and

Simulation International, Vol. 83, No. 8, pp. 359-377, August 2007. “Architecture-Based Software Reliability Analysis Incorporating Concurrency,” (with R. El-Kharboutly and R.A. Ammar), International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 479-499, October 2007. “System Availability Analysis Considering Failure Severities,” (with J.R. Crigler and W. Farr), International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 467-480, October 2007. “UML-based Methodology for Reliability Analysis of Concurrent Software Applications,” (with R. El-Kharboutly and R.A. Ammar), International Journal of Computers and Their Applications, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 250-259, December 2007. “Architecture-based Reliability Analysis of Continuously Running Concurrent Software Applications,” (with R. El-Kharboutly and R.A. Ammar), International Journal of Software Engineering, Vol. 1, No.1, pp. 43-65, January 2008.

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Chun-Hsi Huang “Biomedical Computations on the Grid,” (with A. Konagaya, V. Lanza and P. Sloot), IEEE Transactions

on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 133-137, 2008. “HealthGrid: Towards Collaborative and On-Demand Health-care,” (with V. Lanza), Journal of the

Society for Computing and Technology in Anaesthesia (SCATA), pp. 10-11, 2008. Aggelos Kiayias “Decoding Interleaved Reed Solomon Codes over Noisy Channels,” (with D. Bleichenbacher and M. Yung), Theoretical Computer Science Journal, Elsevier, Vol. 379, No. 3, pp. 348-360, June 2007. “Cryptanalyzing the Polynomial-Reconstruction Based Public-Key System Under Optimal Parameter Choice,” (with M. Yung), Designs Codes and Cryptography Journal, Springer. Vol. 43, No. 2-3, pp. 61-78, June 2007. Ion I. Mandoiu “Efficient Algorithms for Degenerate Primer Search,” (with S. Balla and S. Rajasekaran), International

Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, Vol. 18, pp. 899-910, 2007. “Highly Scalable Genotype Phasing by Entropy Minimization,” (with A. Gusev and B. Pasaniuc), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Vol. 5, pp. 252-261, 2008. Robert D. McCartney “Successful Students’ Strategies for Getting Unstuck,” (with A. Eckerdal, J.E. Moström, K. Sanders and C. Zander), SIGCSE Bulletin, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 156-160, September 2007. “Student Understanding of Object-Oriented Programming as Expressed in Concept Maps,” (with K. Sanders, J. Boustedt, A. Eckerdal, J.E. Mostrom, L. Thomas and C. Zander), SIGCSE Bulletin, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 332-336, March 2008. “It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time,” (with J. Boustedt, J. Tenenberg, S.D. Anderson, C.M. Eastman, D.D. Garcia, P.V. Gestwicki and M.S. Menzin), SIGCSE Bulletin, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 528-529, March 2008. Thomas J. Peters “Reliable Implementation of Real Number Algorithms: Theory and Practice,” (with L. Miller, E.L.F. Moore, T.J. Peters and A.C. Russell), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5045, pp. 1-7, 2007. Sanguthevar Rajasekaran “Efficient Algorithms for Degenerate Primer Search,” (with S. Balla and S. Rajasekaran), International

Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (IJFCS), Vol. 18, pp. 899-910, 2007. “Fast and Practical Algorithms for Planted (l, d) Motif Search,” (with J. Davila and S. Balla), ACM/IEEE

Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB), pp. 544-552, 2007.

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“Optimal and Practical Algorithms for Sorting on the PDM,” (with S. Sen), IEEE Transactions on

Computer, Vol. 57, No. 4, pp. 547-561, 2008. Alexander C. Russell “Failure-Sensitive Analysis of Parallel Algorithms with Controlled Memory Access Concurrency,” (with C. Georgiou and A.A. Shvartsman), Parallel Processing Letters, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 153-168, 2007. “The Power of Strong Fourier Sampling: Quantum Algorithms for Affine Groups and Hidden Shifts,” (with C. Moore, D. Rockmore and L. Schulman), SIAM Journal on Computing, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 938-958, 2007. “For Distinguishing Conjugate Hidden Subgroups, the Pretty Good Measurement is as Good as it Gets,” (with C. Moore), Quantum Information Processing, Vol. 7, No. 8, pp. 752-765, 2007. “The Symmetric Group Defines Strong Fourier Sampling,” (with C. Moore and L. Schulman), SIAM

Journal on Computing, Vol. 37, No. 6, pp. 1842-1864, 2008. Dong-Guk Shin “High-Throughput Phosphotyrosine Profiling using SH2 Domains,” (with K. Machida, C.M. Thompson, K. Dierck, K. Jablonowski, S. Kärkkäinen, B. Liu, H. Zhang, P.D. Nash, D.K. Newman, P. Nollau, T. Pawson, G.H. Renkema, K. Saksela, M.R. Schiller and B.J. Mayer), Molecular Cell, Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 899-915, 2007. Alexander A. Shvartsman “Failure-Sensitive Analysis of Parallel Algorithms with Controlled Memory Access Concurrency,” (with C. Georgiou and A.C. Russell), Parallel Processing Letters, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 153-168, 2007. “Long-Lived Rambo: Trading Knowledge for Communication,” (with C. Georgiou and P.M. Musial), Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 383, No. 1, pp. 59-85, 2007. Bing Wang “Application-layer Multipath Data Transfer via TCP: Schemes and Performance Tradeoffs,” (with W. Wei, J. Kurose, D. Towsley, K.R. Pattipati, Z. Guo and Z. Peng), Performance Evaluation, Vol. 64, No. 9-12, pp. 965-977, October 2007. “Multimedia Streaming via TCP: An Analytic Performance Study,” (with J. Kurose, P. Shenoy and D. Towsley), ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications

(TOMCCAP), Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 16:1-16:22, April 2008. Yufeng Wu “Algorithms to Distinguish the Role of Gene-Conversation from Single-Crossover Recombination in the Derivations of SNP Sequences in Populations,” (with Y. Song, Z. Ding, D. Gusfield and C. Langley), Journal of Computational Biology,, Vol. 14, No. 10, pp. 1273-1286, 2007. “A New Recombination Lower Bound and The Minimum Perfect Phylogenetic Forest Problem,” (with D. Gusfield), Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, special issue of COCOON 2007, DOI: 10.1007/s10878-007-9129-6, January 2008.

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COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT PUBLISHED BOOKS, BOOK CHAPTERS, BOOK SECTIONS & EDITED VOLUMES

2007-2008 Reda A. Ammar “Hierarchical Performance Modeling and Analysis of Distributed Software,” chapter 12 in Handbook of

Parallel Computing: Models, Algorithms, and Applications, (S. Rajasekaran and J.H. Reif, eds.), pp. 12-1-12-22, Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, December 2007. Aggelos Kiayias Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management, (with A-R. Sadehi, eds.), Digital Rights Management Workshop 2007, ACM, ISBN 978-1-59593-884-8, Alexandria, VA, October 29, 2007. Yoo-Ah Kim “Data Migration,” chapter in Encyclopedia of Algorithms, (M.Y. Kao, eds.), pp. 217-219, Springer-Verlag, 2008. Ion I. Mandoiu Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, (with X. Hu, Z. Obradovic and J. Xia, eds.), 444 pages, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2007. Bioinformatics Algorithms: Techniques and Applications, (with A.Z. Zelikovsky, eds.), John Wiley & Sons, 2008. Proceedings of the 4

th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (with R.

Sunderraman and A. Zelikovsky, eds.), Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 4983, 510 pages, 2008. “Algorithms for Multiplex PCR Primer Set Selection with Amplification Length Constraints,” (with K.M. Konwar, A.C. Russell and A.A. Shvartsman), chapter in Bioinformatics Algorithms: Techniques and

Applications, (I.I. Mandoiu and A.Z. Zelikovsky, eds.), pp. 241-258, Wiley, 2008. Robert D. McCartney “Threshold Concepts in Computer Science: a Multi-National Investigation,” (with C. Zander, J. Boustedt, A. Eckerdal, J.E. Moström, M. Ratcliffe and K. Sanders), chapter in Threshold Concepts Within the

Disciplines, (R. Land, J.H.F. Meyer and J. Smith, eds.), Sense Publishers: Rotterdam, pp. 105-118, April 2008. Sanguthevar Rajasekaran Handbook of Parallel Computing: Models, Applications and Algorithms, (with J.H. Reif, eds.), 1224 pages, CRC Press, 2008. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing Special Issue on Parallel Techniques for Information

Extraction, Vol. 68, No. 1, 2008.

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“Sorting and FFT Based Techniques,” (with S. Balla and J. Davila), chapter in Discovery of Biopatterns, (I.I. Mandoiu and A. Zelikovsky, eds), Bioinformatics Algorithms: Techniques and Application, Wiley Book Series on Bioinformatics (Y. Pan and A.Y. Zomaya, series eds.), pp. 93-115, 2008. “Randomized Packet Routing, Selection and Sorting on the POPS Network,” (with J. Davila) chapter in Handbook of Parallel Computing: Models, Algorithms, and Applications, CRC Press, pp. 13.1-13.14, 2008. “Deterministic and Randomized Sorting Algorithms for Parallel Disk Models,” chapter in Handbook of

Parallel Computing: Models, Algorithms, and Applications, CRC Press, pp. 6.1-6.18, 2008. Alexander C. Russell “Algorithms for Multiplex PCR Primer Set Selection with Amplification Length Constraints,” (with K.M. Konwar, I.I. Mandoiu and A.A. Shvartsman), chapter in Bioinformatics Algorithms: Techniques and

Applications, (I.I. Mandoiu and A.Z. Zelikovsky, eds.), pp. 241-258, Wiley, 2008. Alexander A. Shvartsman “Distributed Algorithms,” (with B. Englert, D. Kowalski and G. Malewicz), chapter in Algorithms of

Informatics, Vol. 2, pp. 591-642, 2007.

Do-All Computing in Distributed Systems – Cooperation in the Presence of Adversity, (with C. Georgiou), Springer Verlag, 219 pages, 22 illustrations, ISBN: 978-0-387-30918-7, 2008. “Algorithms for Multiplex PCR Primer Set Selection with Amplification Length Constraints,” (with K.M. Konwar, I.I. Mandoiu and A.C. Russell), chapter in Bioinformatics Algorithms: Techniques and

Applications, (I.I. Mandoiu and A.Z. Zelikovsky, eds.), pp. 241-258, Wiley, 2008.

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COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS

2007-2008 Reda A. Ammar “Efficient Scheduling of Real-time Tandem Task Graphs on Heterogeneous Clusters with Network Limitations,” (with S. Rajasekaran, A. Hussein and A. Hamdy), Proceedings of the 12

th IEEE Symposium

on Computers and Communication, pp. 227-232, Aveiro, Portugal, July 1-4, 2007. “A Performance-Effective Task Scheduling Algorithm for Multiprocessor Computing Systems,” (with E.A. Maksoud), Proceedings of the 20

th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing

Systems, pp. 13-18, Las Vegas, NV, September 24-26, 2007. “Performance-Based Multi-channel Clustered Web Application Servers,” (with K. Sobh and A. Sameh), Proceedings of the 20

th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, pp. 91-

96, Las Vegas, NV, September 24-26, 2007. “Dynamic Mapping and Deployment of Independent Tasks on Distributed Systems Using Residual Execution Time,” (with A. Khalifa, T.A. Fergany and M. Tolba), Proceedings of the 20

th International

Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, pp.139-144, Las Vegas, NV, September 24-26, 2007. “A Performance-Driven Clustering Approach to Minimize Coupling in a DOO System,” (with S. Hamad, A. Raouf and M. Khalifa), Proceedings of the 20

th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed

Computing Systems, pp. 267-272, Las Vegas, NV, September 24-26, 2007. “A Block JRS Algorithm for Highly Parallel Computation of SVDs,” (with M.I. Soliman), Proceedings of

the International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), Springer-Verlag LNCS, pp. 346-357, Houston, TX, September 26-28, 2007. “Surface-Level Gateway Deployment for Underwater Surface Networks,” (with S. Ibrahim and J.-H. Cui), Proceedings of IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM'07), CDROM, pp. 1-7, Orlando, FL, October 29-31, 2007. “A Preemptive Min-Min Heuristic for Dynamically Mapping Meta-tasks on a Distributed Heterogeneous Environment,” (with A. Khalifa, T. Fergany and M. Khalifa), Proceedings of the 6

th International

Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), pp. 537-542, Cairo, Egypt, December 2007. “Mapping Distributed Object-Oriented Software to Architecture with Limited Number of Processors,” (with S. Hamad, T. Fergany and S. Solit), Proceedings of the 6

th International Symposium on Signal

Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), pp. 531-536, Cairo, Egypt, December 2007. “A Multistep Approach for Restructuring and Mapping Distributed Object-Oriented Software onto a Multiprocessor System,” (with S.H. Hamad, M.E. Khalifa and A. El-Dessouky), Proceedings of the 6

th

International Conference in Informatic and Systems, pp. PAR19-PAR23, Cairo, Egypt, March 27-29, 2008.

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“Two Migratory Algorithms for Mapping Meta-Tasks to a Mixed-Machine HC Environment,” (with A.S. Khalifa, T.A. Fegrany and M.F. Tolba), Proceedings of the 6

th International Conference in Informatic and

Systems, pp. PAR66-PAR73, Cairo, Egypt, March 27-29, 2008. “Architecture-specific Implementation of Haar-based MAD Denoising,” (with S. Ibrahim, I.R. Greenshields and H.A. Sholl), Proceedings of the ISCA 23

rd Conference on Computers and Their

Applications, pp. 102-107, Cancun, Mexico, April 9-11, 2008. “Time/Performance Tradeoffs in Hard Real-Time Denoising of US Signals,” (with S. Ibrahim, I.R. Greenshields and H.A. Sholl), Proceedings of the ISCA 23

rd Conference on Computers and Their

Applications, pp. 113-118, Cancun, Mexico, April 9-11, 2008. “Architecture-Based Performance and Reliability Analysis of Concurrent Applications with Hyper-exponential Component Execution Times,” (with R.A. El-Kharboutly and S.S. Gokhale), Proceedings of

the ISCA 23rd

Conference on Computers and Their Applications, pp. 148-154, Cancun, Mexico, April 9-11, 2008. Jun-Hong Cui “R-MAC: An Energy-Efficient MAC Protocol for Underwater Sensor Networks,” (with P. Xie), Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications

(WASA'07), CD-ROM, pp. 1-9, Chicago, IL, August 1-3, 2007. “An FEC-based Reliable Data Transport Protocol for Underwater Sensor Networks,” (with P. Xie), Proceedings of the 16

th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks

(ICCCN'07), CD-ROM, pp. 1-7, Honolulu, HI, August 13-16, 2007. “Scalable Peer-to-Peer File Sharing with Efficient Complex Query Support,” (with Y. Li, J. Ahuja and L. Lao), Proceedings of the 16

th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks

(ICCCN'07), CD-ROM, pp. 1-7, Honolulu, HI, August 13-16, 2007. “An Underwater Network Testbed: Design, Implementation and Measurement,” (with Z. Peng, B. Wang, K. Ball and L. Freitag), Proceedings of WUWNET'07 (ACM International Workshop on UnderWater

Networks), pp. 65-72, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, September 14, 2007. “Surface-Level Gateway Deployment for Underwater Sensor Networks,” (with S. Ibrahim and R. Ammar), Proceedings of the IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM'07), CD-ROM, pp. 1-7, Orlando, FL, October 29-31, 2007. “Energy-Efficient Cooperative Communication based on Power Control and Selective Relay in Wireless Sensor Networks,” (with Z. Zhou, S. Zhou and S. Cui), Proceedings of the IEEE Military

Communications Conference (MILCOM'07), CD-ROM, pp. 1-7, Orlando, FL, October 29-31, 2007. “Adaptive Routing in Underwater Delay/Disruption Tolerant Sensor Networks,” (with Z. Guo, G. Colombo, B. Wang, D. Maggiorini and G.P. Rossi), Proceedings of Wireless on Demand Network

Systems and Services (WONS 2008), pp. 31-39, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, January 23-25, 2008. “Characterizing and Modelling Clustering Features in AS-Level Internet Topology,” (with Y. Li, D. Maggiroini and M. Faloutsos), Proceedings of 27

th IEEE INFOCOM'08, CD-ROM, pp. 1-9, Phoenix, AZ,

April 13-18, 2008.

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“Scalable Localization with Mobility Prediction for Underwater Sensor Networks,” (with Z. Zhou and A. Bagtzoglou), Proceedings of 27

th IEEE INFOCOM'08, CD-ROM, Mini-Conference, pp. 1-5, Phoenix,

AZ, April 13-18, 2008. “DBR: Depth-based Routing for Underwater Sensor Networks,” (with H. Yan and J-H. Cui), Proceedings

of IFIP Networking 2008, pp. 72-86, Singapore, May 5-9, 2008. “Energy Efficient Multi-Path Communication for Time-Critical Applications in Underwater Sensor Networks,” (with Z. Zhou), Proceedings of MobiHoc’08, CD-ROM, pp.1-10, Hong Kong, China, May 27-30, 2008. Steven A. Demurjian “Data Verification Using Model-Driven Architecture,” (with M. Price, H. Sen, M Saleem and S. Berhe), Proceedings of Model-Driven Engineering, Verification and Validation, (co-located with MODELS 2007), Electronic Proceedings, http://www.modeva.org/2007/modevva07.pdf, Nashville, TN, October 2, 2007. “Enhancing UML to Model Custom Security Aspects,” (with J. Pavlich-Mariscal and L. Michel), Proceedings of the 11

th International Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Modeling, (co-located with

MODELS 2007), Electronic Proceedings, http://www.aspect-modeling.org/models07/papers/ pavlich.pdf, Nashville, TN, October 2, 2007. Swapna S. Gokhale “Adequacy of Composite Parametric Software Reliability Models,” (with L. Fiondella), Proceedings of

the 19th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 07), pp.

643-648, Boston, MA, July 9-11, 2007. “Multi-Level Anomaly Detection with Application-Level Data,” (with J. Lu), Proceedings of the 19

th

International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 07), pp. 718-723, Boston, MA, July 9-11, 2007. “Performance Analysis of Active Object Pattern in Middle-ware,” (with P.J. Vandal and A. Gokhale), Proceedings of the 19

th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

(SEKE 07), pp. 730-735, Boston, MA, July 9-11, 2007. “Performance Analysis of CORBA Replication Models,” (with B. Dasarathy), Proceedings of the 3

rd

IEEE International Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (DASC 07), pp. 100-107, Columbia, MD, September 25-27, 2007. “Rollout Strategies for Hidden Markov Model (HMM)-based Dynamic Sensor Scheduling,” (with H. Lee, S. Singh, W. An, K. Pattipati and D.L. Kleinman), Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on

Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC 07), pp. 553-558, Montreal, Canada, October 7-10, 2007. “Architecture-Based Performance and Reliability Analysis of Concurrent Applications with Hyper-exponential Component Execution Times,” (with R.A. El-Kharboutly and R.A. Ammar), Proceedings of

the ISC 23rd

Conference on Computers and Their Applications, pp. 148-154, Cancun, Mexico April 9-11, 2008.

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Ian R. Greenshields “Architecture-specific Implementation of Haar-based MAD Denoising,” (with S. Ibrahim, R.A. Ammar and H.A. Sholl), Proceedings of the ISCX 23

rd Conference on Computers and Their Applications, pp.

102-107, Cancun, Mexico, April 9-11, 2008. “Time/Performance Tradeoffs in Hard Real-Time Denoising of US Signals,” (with S. Ibrahim, R.A. Ammar and H.A. Sholl), Proceedings of the ISCX 23

rd Conference on Computers and Their Applications,

pp. 113-118, Cancun, Mexico, April 9-11, 2008. “Low FM: A Robust Non-Blocking Low Frequency Messaging Checkpoint for Parallel/Grid Applications,” (with G. El-Sayed), Proceedings of the ISCX 23

rd Conference on Computers and Their

Applications, pp. 154-158, Cancun, Mexico, April 9-11, 2008. Chun-Hsi Huang “Health-Grid: Towards Collaborative and On-Demand Health-care,” (with V. Lanza), Proceedings of the

2007 Annual Meeting of the Society of Computing and Technology in Anaesthesia (SCATA), pp. 10-11, Anaesthetists, London, UK, November 21-23, 2007. “Towards On-Demand Biomedical Knowledge Extraction,” (with V. Lanza and M. Cascio), Proceedings

of the 2008 International Conference on Health Informatics (HealthInf), pp. 102-109, Funchal, Madeira-Portugal, January 28-31, 2008. Aggelos Kiayias “Trading Adaptive for Static Security in Universally Composable Zero-Knowledge,” (with H-S. Zhou), Proceedings of the 34

th International Colloquium in Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP

2007), Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Wroclaw, Poland, pp. 316-327, July 9-13, 2007. “An Authentication and Ballot Layout Attack against an Optical Scan Voting Terminal,” (with L.D. Michel, A.C. Russell, N. Shashidar, A. See and A.A. Shvartsman), Proceedings of the 2007

USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT ’07), pp. 13-18, Boston, MA, August 6, 2007. “Pirate Evolution: How to Make the Most of your Traitor Keys,” (with S. Pehlivanoglu), Proceedings of

the 27th Annual International Cryptology Conference (CRYPTO 2007), Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in

Computer Science, pp. 448-465, Santa Barbara, CA, August 19-23, 2007. “Robust Key Generation From Signal Envelopes In Wireless Networks,” (with B. Azimi-Sadjadi, A. Mercado and B. Yener), Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications

Security (CCS 2007), (P. Ning, S. De Capitani di Vimercati and P.F. Syverson, eds.) pp. 401-410, Alexandria, VA, October 28-31, 2007. “Group Encryption,” (with Y. Tsiounis and M. Yung), Proceedings of the 13

th Annual International

Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security (ASIACRYPT 2007), (K. Kurosawa, ed), Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4833, Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 181-199, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, December 2-6, 2007.

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“Tampering with Special Purpose Trusted Computing Devices: A Case Study in Optical Scan E-Voting,” (with L.D. Michel, A.C. Russell, N. Shashidhar, A. See, A.A. Shvartsman and S. Davtyan), Proceedings

of the 23rd

Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2007), Proceedings by IEEE, pp. 30-39, Miami Beach, FL, December 10-14, 2007. “Equivocal Blind Signatures and Adaptive UC-Security,” (with H-S. Zhou), Proceedings of Theory of

Cryptography, Fifth Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC 2008), (R. Canetti, ed.), Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4948, pp. 340-355, New York, NY, March 19-21, 2008. Yoo-Ah Kim “SDP-based Approach for Channel Assignment in Multi-radio Wireless Networks,” (with H. Dinh, B. Wang, S. Lee and M. Shin), Proceedings of DIAL M-POMC (Workshop on Foundation of Mobile

Computing), pp. 1-8, Portland, OR, August 2007. “Soft Edge Coloring,” (with C. Kari, S. Lee, A.C. Russell and M. Shin), Proceedings of the 10

th

International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems

(APPROX), pp. 189-203, Princeton, NJ, August 20-22, 2007. “Designing Infrastructure-based Overlay Networks for Delay-sensitive Group Communications,” (with S. Yang and B. Wang), Proceedings of IEEE Globecom, pp. 565-570, Washington, DC, November 26-30, 2007. Ion I. Mandoiu “Genotype Error Detection using Hidden Markov Models of Haplotype Diversity,” (with J. Kennedy and B. Pasaniuc), Proceedings of the 7

th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI 2007), pp. 73-84,

Philadelphia, PA, September 7-9, 2007. “Primer Selection Methods for Detection of Genomic Inversions and Deletions via PAMP,” (with B. Dasgupta and J. Jun), Proceedings of the 6

th Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC2008), pp.

353-362, Kyoto, Japan, January 14-17, 2008. Robert D. McCartney “Through the Eyes of Instructors: a Phenomenographic Investigation of Student Success,” (with P. Kinnunen, L. Murphy and L. Thomas), Proceedings of the 2007 International Workshop on Computing

Education Research (ICER ’07), pp. 61-72, Atlanta, GA, September 15-16, 2007. “From Limen to Lumen: Computing Students in Liminal Spaces,” (with A. Eckerdal, J.E. Mostrom, K. Sanders, L. Thomas and C. Zander), Proceedings of the 2007 International Workshop on Computing

Education Research (ICER 07), pp. 123-132, Atlanta, GA, September 15-16, 2007. “Commonsense Computing (Episode 3): Concurrency and Concert Tickets,” (with G. Lewandowski, D. Bouvier, K. Sanders and B. Simon), Proceedings of the 2007 International Workshop on Computing

Education Research (ICER 07), pp. 133-144, Atlanta, GA, September 15-16, 2007. Laurent D. Michel “Synthesis of Constraint-Based Local Search Algorithms from High-Level Models,” (with P. Van Hentenryck), Proceedings of the 22

nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’07), pp. 273-281,

Vancouver, British Columbia, July 22-26, 2007.

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“An Authentication and Ballot Layout Attack against an Optical Scan Voting Terminal,” (with A. Kiayias, A.C. Russell, N. Shashidar, A. See and A.A. Shvartsman), Proceedings of the 2007

USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT ’07), pp. 13-18, Boston, MA, August 6, 2007. “Coherent Modeling and Effective Coordination for Building Emergency Evacuation,” (with B. Xiong, P. Luh, S.-C. Chang and A. See), Proceedings of the 3

rd annual Conference on Automation Science and

Engineering (IEEE CASE 2007), pp. 670 - 677, Scottsdale, AZ, September 22-25, 2007. “Parallelizing Constraint Programs Transparently,” (with A. See and P. Van Hentenryck), Proceedings of

the 13th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP’07), pp.

514-528, Providence, RI, September 23-27, 2007. “Model-Driven Visualizations of Constraint-Based Local Search,” (with G. Dooms and P. Van Hentenryck), Proceedings of the 13

th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint

Programming (CP’07), pp. 271-285, Providence, RI, September 23-27, 2007. “Tampering with Special Purpose Trusted Computing Devices: A Case Study in Optical Scan E-Voting,” (with A. Kiayias, A.C. Russell, N. Shashidhar, A. See, A.A. Shvartsman and S. Davtyan), Proceedings of

the 23rd

Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2007), Proceedings by IEEE, pp. 30-39, Miami Beach, FL, December 10-14, 2007. “Tempo: A Toolkit for the Timed Input/Output Automata Formalism,” (with N. Lynch and A.A. Shvartsman), First International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications,

Networks and Systems (SIMUTools 2008), Industrial Track: Simulation Works, CD-ROM, paper 3105, 8 pages, Marseilles, France, March 4-7, 2008. “Optimal Deployment of Eventually-Serializable Data Services,” (with A.A. Shvartsman, E. Sonderegger and P. Van Hentenryck), Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Integration of AI and OR

Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problem (CPAIOR 2008), pp. 188-202, Paris, France, May 20-23, 2008. Sanguthevar Rajasekaran “Efficient Scheduling of Real-time Tandem Task Graphs on Heterogeneous Clusters with Network Limitations,” (with R.A. Ammar, A. Hussein and A. Hamdy), Proceedings of the 12

th IEEE International

Conference on Computers and Communications (ISCC), pp. 227-232, Aveiro, Portugal, July 1-4, 2007. “Fast Cryptographic Multi-Party Protocols for Computing Boolean Scalar Products with Applications to Privacy-Preserving Association: Rule Mining in Vertically Partitioned Data,” (with D. Trinca), Proceedings of the Industrial Conference on Data Mining, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4597, pp. 418-427, Leipzig, Germany, July 14-18, 2007. “Fast Cryptographic Multi-party Protocols for Computing Boolean Scalar Products with Applications to Privacy-Preserving Association Rule Mining in Vertically Partitioned Data,” (with D. Trinca), Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK) 2007, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 418-427, Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007. “Fast Algorithms for Selecting Specific siRNA in Complete mRNA Data,” (with J. Davila and S. Balla), Proceedings of the International Workshop on Algorithms for Bioinformatics (WABI), Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics 4645, pp. 302-309, Philadelphia, PA, September 8-9, 2007.

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“Parallel Algorithms for Motif Search,” Proceedings of the ISCA International Conference on Parallel

and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS), pp. 175-180, Las Vegas, NV, September 24-27, 2007. “A Block JRS Algorithm for Highly Parallel Computation of SVDs,” (with M.I. Soliman and R.A. Ammar), Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing and

Communications (HPCC), Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 346-357, Houston, TX, September 26-28, 2007. “Self-Optimizing Parallel Algorithms for Haplotype Reconstruction and Their Evaluation on the JPT and CHB Genotype Data,” (with D. Trinca), Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on

Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE), pp. 1294-1298, Boston, MA, October 14-17, 2007. “Extending the Four Russian Algorithm to Compute the Edit Script in Linear Space,” (with V. Kundeti), Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 893-902, Perugia, Italy, June 30 - July 3, 2008. Alexander C. Russell “On the Value of Good Advice: The Complexity of A∗ Search with Accurate Heuristics,” (with H. Dinh and Y. Su), Proceedings of the 22

nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2007), Vancouver, British

Columbia, pp. 140–145, July 22-26, 2007. “An Authentication and Ballot Layout Attack against an Optical Scan Voting Terminal,” (with A. Kiayias, L.D. Michel, N. Shashidar, A. See and A.A. Shvartsman), Proceedings of the 2007

USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT ’07), pp. 13-18, Boston, MA, August 6, 2007. “Soft Edge Coloring,” (with C. Kari, S. Lee, Y. Kim and M. Shin), Proceedings of the 10

th International

Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (APPROX 2007), pp. 189-203, Princeton, NJ, August 20-22, 2007. “Tampering with Special Purpose Trusted Computing Devices: A Case Study in Optical Scan E-Voting,” (with L.D. Michel, A. Kiayias, N. Shashidhar, A. See, A.A. Shvartsman and S. Davtyan), Proceedings of

the 23rd

Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2007), Proceedings by IEEE, pp. 30-39, Miami Beach, FL, December 10-14, 2007. Zhijie Shi “A DSP Implementation of OFDM Acoustic Modem,” (with H. Yan, S. Zhou and B. Li), Proceedings of

the Second ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNET), pp. 89-92, Montreal, Quebec, September 14, 2007. “Compiler-directed Architecture Support for Program Code Integrity Monitoring in Application-specific Instruction Set Processors,” (with H. Lin, X. Guan and Y. Fei), Proceedings of 25

th International

Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2007), pp. 187-193, Santander, Spain, October 3-5, 2007. “An Efficient Window-Based Countermeasure to Power Analysis of ECC Algorithms,” (with F. Zhang), Proceedings of International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG 2008), pp. 120-126, Las Vegas, NV, April 7-9, 2008. “Chord-based Key Establishment Schemes for Sensor Networks,” (with F. Zhang and B. Wang), Proceedings of International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG 2008), pp. 731-737, Las Vegas, NV, April 7-9, 2008.

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“DBR: Depth-based Routing for Underwater Sensor Networks,” (with H. Yan and J.-H. Cui), Proceedings of IFIP Networking 2008, pp. 72-86, Singapore, May 5-9, 2008. Dong-Guk Shin “Bayesian Pathways Studies Using Microarray Data,” (with L. Kuo, W. Xie, F. Yu, Y. Zhao, M-H Chen and D. Rowe), 2007 Joint Statistical Meeting Proceedings, Bayesian Statistical Science Section, American Statistical Association, CD-ROM, pp. 1303-1309, Alexandria, VA, July 29-August 2, 2007. Alexander A. Shvartsman “An Authentication and Ballot Layout Attack against an Optical Scan Voting Terminal,” (with A. Kiayias, L.D. Michel, N. Shashidar, A. See and A.C. Russell), Proceedings of the 2007

USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT ’07), pp. 13-18, Boston, MA, August 6, 2007. “Tampering with Special Purpose Trusted Computing Devices: A Case Study in Optical Scan E-Voting,” (with L.D. Michel, A. Kiayias, N. Shashidhar, A. See, A.C. Russell and S. Davtyan), Proceedings of the

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Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2007), Proceedings by IEEE, pp. 30-39, Miami Beach, FL, December 10-14, 2007. “Tempo: A Toolkit for the Timed Input/Output Automata Formalism,” (with N. Lynch and L.D. Michel), First International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and

Systems (SIMUTools 2008), Industrial Track: Simulation Works, CD-ROM, paper 3105, 8 pages, Marseilles, France, March 4-7, 2008. “Optimal Deployment of Eventually-Serializable Data Services,” (with L.D. Michel, E. Sonderegger and P. Van Hentenryck), Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Integration of AI and OR

Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, (CPAIOR 2008), pp. 188-202, Paris, France, May 20-23, 2008. Bing Wang “SDP-based Approach for Channel Assignment in Multi-radio Wireless Networks,” (with H. Dinh, Y-A. Kim, S. Lee and M. Shin), Proceeding of the 4

th ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS International Workshop on

Foundation of Mobile Computing (DIAL M-POMC 2007), Workshop on Foundation of Mobile Computing, pp. 1-8, Portland, OR, August 16, 2007. “An Underwater Network Testbed: Design, Implementation and Measurement,” (with Z. Peng, J-H. Cui, K. Ball and L. Freitag), Proceedings of WUWNET'07 (ACM International Workshop on UnderWater

Networks), pp. 65-72, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, September 14, 2007. “Application-layer Multipath Data Transfer via TCP: Schemes and Performance Tradeoffs,” (with W. Wei, J. Kurose, D. Towsley, K. Pattipati, Z. Guo and Z. Peng), Proceedings of the 26

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Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements, and Evaluations (Performance 2007), pp. 965-977, Cologne, Germany, October 2-5, 2007. “Passive Online Rogue Access Point Detection Using Sequential Hypothesis Testing with TCP ACK-Pairs,” (with W. Wei, K. Suh, Y. Gu, J. Kurose and D. Towsley), Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM

Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2007), pp. 365-378, San Diego, CA, October 24-26, 2007.

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“Designing Infrastructure-based Overlay Networks for Delay-sensitive Group Communications,” (with S. Yang and Y.-A. Kim), Proceedings of IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom 2007), pp. 565-570, Washington, DC, November 26-30, 2007. “Multipath Live Streaming via TCP: Scheme, Performance and Benefits,” (with W. Wei, Z. Guo and D. Towsley), Proceedings of CoNEXT 2007, pp. 1-12, New York, NY, December 10-13, 2007. “Adaptive Routing in Underwater Delay/Disruption Tolerant Sensor Networks,” (with Z. Guo, G. Colombo, J.-H. Cui, D. Maggiorini and G.P. Rossi), Proceedings of Wireless on Demand Network

Systems and Services (WONS 2008), pp. 31-39, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, January 23-25, 2008. “Chord-based Key Establishment Schemes for Sensor Networks,” (with F. Zhang and Z. Shi), Proceedings of International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG 2008), pp. 731-737, Las Vegas, NV, April 7-9, 2008. Yufeng Wu “Improved Algorithms for Inferring the Minimum Mosaic of a Set of Recombinants,” (with D. Gusfield), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2007), pp. 150-161, London, Ontario, Canada, July 9-11, 2007. “A New Recombination Lower Bound and the Minimum Perfect Phylogenetic Forest Problem,” Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference

(COCOON 2007), pp. 16-26, Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 16-19, 2007.

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2007-2008 Reda A. Ammar “Efficient Scheduling Strategies for Real-Time Applications in Cluster Environments with Possible Processor Failure,” (with co-PI: A. El-Dousky (Egypt)), September 2004-August 2007, $59,904. “Integrate Bioinformatic Center of Cellular Biology,” (with PI: D.-G. Shin), National Institutes of Health, May 2002-April 2009, $1,103,812. “ITR: Information Extraction from Massive Data Set,” (with PI: S. Rajasekaran and co-PIs: T. Cormen, C.-H. Huang and S. Sahni), National Science Foundation, September 2003-August 2009, $1,206,003. “Real-Time Architecture for High Speed Inspection,” (with co-PIs: I.R. Greenshields and H.A. Sholl), DAPCO, September 2001-August 2008 $250,047. “Advanced Multicore Microserver Project,” (with co-PI: S. Rajasekaran), Pratt & Whitney, September 2006-December 2007, $25,000. “Performance-Based Restructuring of Distributed Object-Oriented Computations for Cluster,” Egyptian Cultural and Educational Bureau, June 2006-May 2008, $15,000. “Deployment of Distributed Applications in High Performance Computer Environment,” Egyptian Cultural and Educational Bureau, September 2006-August 2008, $15,000. “An Advanced Multi-Core Micro-Server Development System,” (with co-PI: S. Rajasekaran), Advanced Virtual Engine Test Cell, Inc., March 2007-May 2008, $100,000. “U.S.-Egypt Cooperative Research: Perform Based Restructing of Distributed Object,” U.S. Egypt Joint Science and Technology Board/National Science Foundation, February 2007-January 2009, $32,845. “U.S.-Egypt International Workshop on Supercomputing Applications in Climate Sciences and Remote Sensing, March 17-19, Cairo, Egypt,” (with PI: I.R. Greenshields and co-PI: S. Rajasekaran), National Science Foundation/Department of Agriculture, October 2007-September 2008, $47,721. “Effects of Impurities on Fuel Cell Performance and Durability,” (with PI: T. Molter and co-PI: S. Rajasekaran), U.S. Department of Energy, January 2007-February 2011, $1,900,000. “Botnet Detection and Mitigation,” (with PI: A. Kiayias and co-PIs: S.A. Demurjian and S. Rajasekaran), Department of Homeland Security/Sonalysts, Phase II SBIR, July 2007-May 2009, $229,004. “Reverse Engineering DCP2S Requirements,” (with PI: S.S. Gokhale and co-PI: S.A. Demurjian), State of Connecticut Department of Information Technology, July 2007-January 2008, $36,648. “Collaborative Research: Developing a Novel Infrastructure for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks,” (with PI: J.-H. Cui and co-PIs: S. Rajasekaran, Z. Shi, P. Willett and S. Zhou; Sr. Personnel: A. Bagtzoglou, Y. Fei, T. Torgersen and B. Wang), UConn (lead) with UMass and WHOI; National Science Foundation/CISE Computing Research Infrastructure, August 2007-July 2010, UConn total: $320,000.

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“Women in Development,” (with co-PIs: B. Bravo-Ureta and E. Mehan), ALO (USAID), September 2005-September 2007, $192,000. Jun-Hong Cui “Collaborative Research: Over-Probe: a Toolkit for the Management of Overlay Networks with Mobile Users,” (with PI: M. Gerla and co-PIs: M. Sanadidi and G. Pau, UCLA) UCLA (lead) with UConn, National Science Foundation/NeTS, September 2004-September 2008, Total: $900,000, UConn: $240,000. “CAREER: Tackling Fundamental Networking Problems in Underwater Acoustic Networks,” National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award, January 2007-December 2011, $400,000. “Collaborative Research: Developing a Novel Infrastructure for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks,” (with co-PIs: S. Rajasekaran, Z. Shi, P. Willett and S. Zhou; Sr. Personnel: R.A. Ammar, A. Bagtzoglou, Y. Fei, T. Torgersen and B. Wang), UConn (lead) with UMass and WHOI; National Science Foundation/CISE Computing Research Infrastructure, August 2007-July 2010, UConn total: $320,000. “Collaborative Research: SEA-Swarm: A Rapidly Deployable Underwater Sensor Network,” (with PIs: S. Zhou (UConn), M. Gerla (UCLA) and G. Caire (USC)), USC (lead) with UCLA and UConn, National Science Foundation/NOSS, September 2007-August 2010, Total: $600,000, UConn: $200,000. “ACM WUWNet Workshop 2007: Student Travel Awards,” National Science Foundation/ENG, September 2007-August 2008, $5,000. “A Networking Perspective: Towards Reliable Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks,” Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award, June 2008-May 2011, $340,000. Steven A. Demurjian “Feasibility Study of Information System Reengineering, Parts VII, VIII, and IX,” (with co-PI: D.-G. Shin), State of Connecticut Insurance Department, June 2005-June 2009, $1,910,836. “PDA Applications for Medical Education,” Public Health Service/University of Connecticut Health Center, March 2008-June 2008, $10,000. “Strategic Planning for HIT in Community Health Organizations, Planning Grant, Connecticut Health Foundation,” (limited faculty participant, with PIs: J. Fifield, T. Agresta and R. Crowell), July 2007-June 2009, $381,000; Demurjian portion $4,000. “Botnet Detection and Mitigation,” (with PI: A. Kiayias and co-PIs: R.A. Ammar and S. Rajasekaran), U.S. Department of Homeland Security/Sonalysts, Phase II SBIR, July 2007-May 2009, $229,004. “Reverse Engineering DCP2S Requirements,” (with PI: S.S. Gokhale and co-PI: R.A. Ammar), State of Connecticut Department of Information Technology, July 2007-January 2008, $36,648. “Design and Development of a Web-based Application for Youth Services Survey,” (with PI: Y.-A. Kim and co-PI: D-G. Shin), Connecticut Department of Children and Families, May 2008-January 2009, $37,950.

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Swapna S. Gokhale “A Model-Driven Performance Analysis Framework for Distributed, Performance-Sensitive Software Applications,” UConn (lead) with Vanderbilt University and University of Alabama Birmingham, National Science Foundation, CSR program, September 2005-August 2008, UConn portion $125,666. “A Structure-Based Methodology for Reliability Analysis of Software Applications,” University of Connecticut Research Foundation, June 2005-May 2008, $30,000. “Design of Agile Command and Control Organizations for Innovative Command Structures,” (with PI: K. Pattipati), Office of Naval Research, October 2005–October 2008, $720,540. “CAREER: Architecture-Based Assessment of Software Reliability,” National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award, January 2007–December 2011, $400,000. “Reverse Engineering DCP2S Requirements,” (with co-PIs: S.A. Demurjian and R.A. Ammar), State of Connecticut Department of Information Technology, July 2007-January 2008, $36,648. “System Software Reliability,” Qualtech, May 2007-November 2007, $30,408. Ian R. Greenshields “Real-Time Architecture for High Speed Inspection,” (with co-PIs: A. Ammar and H.A. Sholl), DAPCO, September 1998-August 2007, $250,047. “U.S.-Egypt International Workshop on Supercomputing Applications in Climate Sciences and Remote Sensing, March 17-19, Cairo, Egypt,” (with co-PIs: R.A. Ammar and S. Rajasekaran), National Science Foundation/Department of Agriculture, October 2007-September 2008, $47,721. Chun-Hsi Huang “Computing Infrastructure for the UConn HealthGrid Initiatives,” National Science Foundation - CISE, March 2006-February 2009, $50,000. “REU for Computing Infrastructure for the UConn HealthGrid Initiatives,” National Science Foundation – Computer & Information Science and Engineering, March 2006-February 2009, $12,000. “ITR: Information Extraction from Massive Data Set,” (with co-PIs: S. Rajasekaran, R.A. Ammar, T. Cormen and S. Sahni), National Science Foundation, September 2003-August 2008, $1,206,003. “Workshop on Biomedical Computations on the Grid,” (with co-PI: S. Rajasekaran), Public Health Service-National Institutes of Health/National Library of Medicine, January 2005-January 2010, $100,000. “Building Motif Lexicons,” (with PI: M. Schiller (UCHC) and co-PIs: S. Rajasekaran, M. Gryk (UCHC) and M. Maciejewski (UCHC)), Public Health Service-National Institutes of Health (NIGM/NLM), May 2007-April 2011, $1,100,000. “REU BioGRID Initiatives for Interdisciplinary Research & Education,” National Science Foundation/CISE, March 2008-February 2011, $72,000. “BioGRID Initiatives for Interdisciplinary Research & Education,” National Science Foundation/CISE, March 2008-February 2011, $213,000.

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Aggelos Kiayias “CAREER: Cryptographic Aspects of Digital Rights Management,” National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award, January 2005-December 2009, $400,000. “Voting Technology Research Center,” (with PI: A.A. Shvartsman and co-PIs: L.D. Michel and A.C. Russell), State of Connecticut, Secretary of the State, May 2006-August 2008, $543,457. “SGER: Collaborative Research: Secure & Audible Privacy Contracts,” National Science Foundation/CISE, October 2007-September 2008, $50,000. “Botnet Detection and Mitigation,” (with co-PIs: R.A. Ammar, S.A. Demurjian and S. Rajasekaran), Department of Homeland Security/Sonalysts, Phase II SBIR, July 2007-May 2009, $229,004. Yoo-Ah Kim “Fast Data Migration in Heterogeneous and Dynamic Storage Systems,” University of Connecticut Research Foundation Large Faculty Grant, January 2007-January 2009, $16,024. “Design and Development of a Web-based Application for Youth Services Survey,” (with co-PIs: S.A. Demurjian and D.-G. Shin), Connecticut Department of Children and Families, May 2008-January 2009, $37,950. Ion I. Mandoiu “CAREER: Combinatorial Algorithms for High-Throughput Collection and Analysis of Genomic Diversity Data (IIS-0546457),” National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award, January 2006-December 2010, $554,572. “Bioinformatics Tools Enabling Large-Scale DNA Barcoding,” National Science Foundation, July 2006-June 2009, $399,622. Laurent D. Michel “A Framework for Modeling and Analyzing Distributed Systems,” STTR: DARPA/Veromodo, Inc., August 2005-August 2008, $100,000. “Achieving Quality and Coherent Configuration and Operations,” (with PI: P.B. Luh and co-PI: G. Santos), National Science Foundation, September 2004-August 2008, $335,000. “Voting Technology Research Center,” (with PI: A.A. Shvartsman and co-PIs: A. Kiayias and A.C. Russell), State of Connecticut, Secretary of the State, May 2006-August 2008, $543,457. “CAREER: Synthesis of Search Procedures for Constraint Programs,” National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award, January 2007-December 2011, $525,000. “Short-term Load Forecasting: Wavelet-Based Similar-Day Neural Networks,” ISO-New England, December 2007-December 2008, $62,447. “Extending the Power and Applicability of Timed Input/Output Automata Framework,” (with PI: A.A. Shvartsman) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, $177,713, June 2007–May 2010.

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Thomas J. Peters “Computational Topology for Surface Approximation,” (with co-PIs: K. Abe and A.C. Russell), National Science Foundation, September 2004-August 2008, $255,000. “Computational Topology for Surface Approximation (REU Program to Include Undergraduate Research),” (with co-PIs: K. Abe and A.C. Russell), National Science Foundation, September 2004-August 2008, $12,000. Sanguthevar Rajasekaran “ITR: Information Extraction from Massive Data Set,” (with co-PIs: R.A. Ammar, T. Cormen, C.-H. Huang and S. Sahni), National Science Foundation, September 2003-August 2009, $1,225,000. “ITR: Information Extraction from Massive Data Set (REU Program),” (with co-PIs: R.A. Ammar, T. Cormen, C.-H. Huang and S. Sahni), National Science Foundation, April 2005-August 2009 $12,000. “Workshop on Biomedical Computations on the Grid,” Public Health Service-National Institutes of Health/National Library of Medicine, (with PI: C.-H. Huang), January 2005-January 2010, $100,000. “Advanced Multicore Microserver Project,” (with co-PI: R.A. Ammar), Pratt & Whitney, September 2006-December 2007, $25,000. “An Advanced Multi-Core Micro-Server Development System,” (with co-PI: R.A. Ammar), Advanced Virtual Engine Test Cell, Inc., March 2007-May 2008, $100,000. “Effects of Impurities on Fuel Cell Performance and Durability,” (with PI: T. Molter and co-PI: R.A. Ammar), Department of Energy, January 2007-February 2011, $1,900,000. “U.S.-Egypt International Workshop on Supercomputing Applications in Climate Sciences and Remote Sensing, March 17-19, Cairo, Egypt,” (with PI: I.R. Greenshields and co-PI: R.A. Ammar), National Science Foundation/Department of Agriculture, October 2007-September 2008, $47,721. “Collaborative Research: Developing a Novel Infrastructure for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks,” (with PI: J.-H. Cui and UConn co-PIs: Z. Shi, P. Willett and S. Zhou; Sr. Personnel: R.A. Ammar, A. Bagtzoglou, Y. Fei, T. Torgersen and B. Wang), UConn (lead) with UMass and WHOI; National Science Foundation/CISE Computing Research Infrastructure, August 2007-July 2010, UConn total: $320,000. “Botnet Detection and Mitigation,” (with PI: A. Kiayias and co-PIs: R.A. Ammar and S.A. Demurjian), Department of Homeland Security/Sonalysts, Phase II SBIR, July 2007-May 2009, $229,004. “Building Motif Lexicons,” (with co-PI: C.-H. Huang), National Institutes of Health, May 2007-April 2011, $1,152,000. “U.S.-Egypt Cooperative Research: High Performance Techniques for Remote Sensing,” National Science Foundation, January 2008-December 2009, $89,989. Alexander C. Russell “ITR: Communication and Data Sharing in Dynamic Distributed Systems,” (with co-PI: A.A. Shvartsman), National Science Foundation (subcontract through MIT), September 2001-August 2007, $463,421.

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“Collaborative Research: Distributed Collaborative Computing and Adversity,” (with co-PI: A.A. Shvartsman), National Science Foundation, July 2003-July 2007, $150,000. “Computational Topology for Surface Approximation,” (with PI: T.J. Peters and co-PI: K. Abe), National Science Foundation, September 2004-August 2008, $255,000. “Computational Topology for Surface Approximation (REU Program to Include Undergraduate Research),” (with PI: T.J. Peters and co-PI: K. Abe), National Science Foundation, September 2004-August 2008, $12,000. “Collaborative Research QnTM: The Quantum Complexity of Algebraic Problems,” National Science Foundation, September 2005-August 2008, $120,000. “QnTM: Quantum Information Processing with Quantum Random Walks,” (with PI: R. Cote), National Science Foundation, September 2005-August 2008, $300,000. “Quantum Algorithms for Algebraic Problems,” (with University of Mexico), U.S. Department of Defense/Army, May 2005-June 2008, $287,989. “Voting Technology Research Center,” (with PI: A.A. Shvartsman and co-PIs: L.D. Michel and A. Kiayias), State of Connecticut, Secretary of the State, May 2006-August 2008, $543,457. Zhijie Shi “Applications of Bit Permutation Operations in Fast Cipher Designs,” University of Connecticut Research Foundation, June 2005-December 2007, $30,000. “Collaborative Research: Developing a Novel Infrastructure for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks,” (with PI: J.-H. Cui and co-PIs: S. Rajasekaran, P. Willett and S. Zhou; Sr. Personnel: R.A. Ammar, A. Bagtzoglou, Y. Fei, T. Torgersen and B. Wang), UConn (lead) with UMass and WHOI; National Science Foundation/CISE Computing Research Infrastructure, August 2007-July 2010, UConn total: $320,000. “Novel Primitives and Side-Channel Countermeasures in the Design and Implementation of Cryptographic Algorithms,” National Science Foundation Career Award, August 2008-August 2012, $400,000. Dong-Guk Shin “Osteoprogenitor Lineage Study: Project 4,” National Institutes of Health, September 2002-July 2007, $546,252. “Integrated Bioinformatics Center for Cellular Biology,” (with co-PI: L. Loew (UCHC)), National Institutes of Health, May 2002-April 2009, $1,103,813. “Feasibility Study of Information System Reengineering, Parts VII, VIII, and IX,” (with co-PI: S. Demurjian), State of Connecticut Insurance Department, June 2005-June 2009, $1,910,836. “A High-Multiplexed Phosphototyrosine Profiling Assay,” (with PI: B. Mayer (UCHC)), National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute, September 2005-August 2008, $278,565. “Planning Frameworks Automation of Strategic Planning Frameworks,” Department of Defense/Sonalysts, September 2007-March 2008, $30,000.

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“Microarray and Genetic Networks/Stem Cell,” University of Connecticut Health Center, April 2007-April 2008, $125,032. “Computational Analysis of Musculoskeletal MicroCT Images,” University of Connecticut Health Center/Department of Defense, July 2007-July 2008, $278,565. “Design and Development of a Web-based Application for Youth Services Survey,” (with PI: Y.-A. Kim and co-PI: S.A. Demurjian), Connecticut Department of Children and Families, May 2008-January 2009, $37,950. Alexander A. Shvartsman “ITR: Communication and Data Sharing for Dynamic Distributed Systems,” (with co-PI: A.C. Russell), National Science Foundation (subcontract with MIT), August 2001-August 2007, $463,000. “Collaborative Research: Distributed Collaborative Computing and Adversity,” (with co-PI: A.C. Russell), National Science Foundation, July 2003-July 2007, $155,000. “Voting Technology Research Center,” (with co-PIs: L.D. Michel, A. Kiayias and A.C. Russell), State of Connecticut, Secretary of the State, May 2006-August 2008, $543,457. “Extending the Power and Applicability of Timed Input/Output Automata Framework,” (with co-PI: L.D. Michel), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2007-May 2010, $177,713. Bing Wang “Efficient Application-level Multipath Data Transfer via TCP,” University of Connecticut Research Foundation Large Faculty Grant, January 2007-December 2007, $16,024. “Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) for Afloat Information Technology (IT) and Network Services,” U.S. Department of Defense/SBIR/Qualtech Systems Inc, June 2007-January 2008, $15,000. “CAREER: Automating Wireless Network Management: Lessons from Managing,” National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award, February 2008-January 2012, $449,996. “Collaborative Research: Developing a Novel Infrastructure for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks,” (with PI: J.-H. Cui and co-PIs: Z. Shi, S. Rajasekaran, P. Willett and S. Zhou; Sr. Personnel: R.A. Ammar, A. Bagtzoglou, Y. Fei and T. Torgersen), UConn (lead) with UMass and WHOI; National Science Foundation/CISE Computing Research Infrastructure, August 2007-July 2010, UConn total: $320,000. Yufeng Wu “Algorithms and Applications of Inferring the Mosaic Patterns in Populations,” University of Connecticut Research Foundation Large Faculty Grant, January 2008-December 2008, $15,000.

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2007-2008 Jun-Hong Cui Young Investigator Program Award, Office of Naval Research, 2008-2011. Ion I. Mandoiu Best Poster Award, “Genotype Error Detection and Imputation using Hidden Markov Models of Haplotype Diversity,” (with J. Kennedy and B. Pasaniuc), 4th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA), Atlanta, GA, May 6-9, 2008. Sanguthevar Rajasekaran Elected Fellow, IEEE, January 2008. Zhijie Shi Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation, 2007-2012. Bing Wang Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation, 2008-2013.

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2007-2008 Reda A. Ammar Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Computers and Their Applications. Associate Editor, Computing Letters (CoLe).

Associate Editor, International Journal on Software Engineering.

Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Information Sciences.

Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Software Engineering.

Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Software Architectures (IJSA).

Member, Editorial Board, Advances in Software Engineering.

President, International Society of Computers and Their Applications. Registration & Finance Chair, IEEE Symposium on Computer and Communication, Portugal, July 2007.

Registration & Finance Chair, IEEE Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Egypt, December 2007.

General Chair, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS), Las Vegas, NV, September 2007. Member, Steering Committee, IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications. Member, Steering Committee, IEEE Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology. Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE). Registration & Finance Chair, 7th IEEE Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Vancouver, Canada, August 2007. Member, Program Committee, IEEE Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Vancouver, Canada, August 2007. Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, Portugal, July 2007. Member, Program Committee, IEEE Symposium on Computer and Communication, Portugal, July 2007. Session Chair, IEEE Symposium on Computer and Communication, Portugal, July 2007. Session Chair, Parallel Processing and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS), Las Vegas, NV, September 2007

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Session Chair, IEEE Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Egypt, December 2007. Session Chair, ISCA 23rd Conference on Computers and Their Applications, Cancun, Mexico, April 2008. Session Chair, First workshop on High Performance Computing on Remote Sensing and Weather Modeling, Egypt, May 2008. Evaluator, National Ranking Committee (NRC Ranking). President, Board of Directors, the Islamic Center of the University of Connecticut (ICUC). Member, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM); IEEE Computer Society; International Society on Computers and Their Applications (ISCA); Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the National Computer Science Honorary Society, AARC, AUSR Society. Coordinator between the University of Connecticut and Ain Shames University, Egypt; Egyptian Cultural and Education Bureau in USA; Helwan University, Egypt; and Menoufia University, Egypt. Presentations:

“UConn-Egyptian Universities Collaboration (Current and Future),” Helwan University, Egypt, July 15, 2007.

“High Performance Modeling and Simulation of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology,” Nanotechnology Research Forum, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, March 5, 2008.

“History of UConn Graduates in Egypt,” reception for UConn Alumni living in Egypt, Ain Shames University, Egypt, March 18, 2008.

“Grammatical Formalisms for RNA Secondary Structure Analysis,” Bioengineering Research Forum, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 22, 2008.

“Micro-Threading on the Cell Broadband Engine,” IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, April 29, 2008.

“International Development Task Force (Study Report),” School of Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, May 7, 2008.

“Micro-Threading Framework on the Cell Broadband Engine,” National Science Foundation-U.S. Department of Agriculture International Workshop on Supercomputing Applications in Climate Sciences and Remote Sensing, May 14, 2008.

Jun-Hong Cui Member, Editorial Board, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, December 2007 – present. Guest Editor, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, special issue on underwater networks, September 2006 – August 2008. Chair, Steering Committee, 2nd ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet’07), in conjunction with ACM MobiCom’07, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, September 14, 2007. Chair, Steering Committee, 3rd ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet’08), in conjunction with ACM MobiCom’08, San Francisco, CA, September 15, 2008.

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Member, Steering Committee, International Workshop on Underwater Networks (WUWNet), December 2006 – present. Member, Technology Committee, Marine Communications, IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society, November 2006 – present. Member, Program Committee, Second ACIS International Workshop on Self-Assembling Wireless Networks (SAWN’07), Qingdao, China, July 30 - August 1, 2007. Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA’07), Chicago, IL, August 1-3, 2007. Member, Program Committee, Wireless Sensor Network Symposium, International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC’07), Honolulu, HI, August 12-16, 2007. Co-chair, Program Committee, Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks Track, 16th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, Honolulu, HI, August 13-15, 2007. Member, Program Committee, Fourth International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine’07), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 14-17, 2007. Member, Program Committee, 2nd ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet'07), in conjunction with ACM MobiCom'07, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, September 14, 2007. Member, Program Committee, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM’07), Washington, DC, November 26-30, 2007. Member, Program Committee, 1st IEEE International Workshop on Opportunistic Networking (WON’08), in conjunction with IEEE AINA 2008, GinoWan, Okinawa, Japan, March 25-28, 2008. Member, Program Committee, 27th Conference on Computer Communication (INFOCOM’08), Phoenix, AZ, April 13-18, 2008. Member, Program Committee, 7th IFIP International Conference on Networking (Networking’08), Singapore, May 5-9, 2008. Member, IEEE; IEEE Computer Society; IEEE Communications Society; IEEE Women in Engineering; ACM SIGCOMM (Special Interest Group on Data Communications), ACM SIGMOBILE (Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing). Presentations:

“Void Avoidance in Mobile Underwater Sensor Networks,” (with P. Xie), poster, 2nd ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet’07), Montreal, Canada, September 14, 2007.

“Adaptive Routing in Underwater Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networks,” (with Z. Guo, G. Colombiy, B. Wang and D. Maggiorini), poster, 2nd ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet’07), Montreal, Canada, September 14, 2007.

“Scalable Localization with Mobility Prediction for Underwater Sensor Networks,” (with Z. Zhou and A. Bagtzoglou), poster, 2nd ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet’07), Montreal, Canada, September 14, 2007.

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“Web-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) for Aqua-Lab,” (with Z. Peng, G. Fostine and B. Wang) extended abstract, 2nd ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet’07), Montreal, Canada, September 14, 2007.

“Underwater Sensor Networks: Applications and Challenges,” invited, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Delaware, April 23, 2008.

Steven A. Demurjian Member, Program Committee, IFIP WG 11.3 XXI Conference on Data and Applications Security, Redondo Beach, CA, July 8-11, 2007. Member, Program Committee, 2nd International Conference on Software Engineering Advances, Cap Estereal, French Riviera, France, August 2007. Member, Program Committee, 6th International Workshop on Web Semantics (WebS 2007), Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007. Member, Scientific/Program Committee, IADIS International WWW/Internet 2007 Conference, Real, Portugal, October 5-8, 2007. Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST), Funchal, Madeira – Portugal, May 2008. Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2008), Oporto, Portugal, July 5-8, 2008. Member, Program Committee, IFIP WG 11.3 XXII Conference on Data and Applications Security, London, UK, July 13-16, 2008. Member, Program Committee, 7th International Workshop on Web Semantics (WebS 2008), Turin, Italy, September 1-5, 2008. Member, Scientific/Program Committee, IADIS International WWW/Internet 2008 Conference, Freiburg, Germany, October 13-15, 2008. Member, Program Committee, 3rd International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2008), Sliema, Malta, October 26-31, 2008. Member, Program Committee, 2nd International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM), Valencia, Spain, October 2008. Member: Association of Computing Machinery (ACM); IEEE Computer Society; IEEE Computer Society Technical Committees on Database Engineering and Software Engineering; Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the National Computer Science Honorary Society. Member, International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP), Working Group (WG11.3) on Database Security. Gerald L. Engel Endowed Chair, Fredrick H. Leonhardt Computer Science Chair. Fellow, CSAB.

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Fellow, IEEE. Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery. Member, Editorial Board, Computer Science Education. Vice President, International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). Vice President, IEEE Society on the Social Implications of Technology (SSIT). Member: Board of Governors, IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology, Executive Committee, CSAB, IFIP Executive Board, U.S. Representative, IFIP General Assembly, IEEE Technical Activities Board, IEEE Publications Services and Products Board, IEEE Fellows Committee, IEEE Conferences Committee, IEEE Computer Society Intersociety Cooperation Committee, IEEE Society Constitution and Bylaws Committee, IFIP Strategic Planning Committee, IFIP Conferences Committee, IFIP Publication Committee. Chair, IEEE Conferences Committee, CSAB Awards Committee, CSAB International Committee. Co-chair, CSAB Grants Committee, CSAB History Committee. Swapna S. Gokhale Member, Editorial Board, Open Software Engineering Journal. Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering, 2007-present. Session Chair, International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 07), Boston, MA, July 9-11, 2007. Member, Program Committee, International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 07), Trollhattan, Sweden, November 5-9, 2007. Workshop Co-chair, International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 08), Seattle/Redmond, WA, November 11-14, 2008. Senior Member, IEEE Computer Society. Presentation:

“Architecture-Based Assessment of Software Reliability,” (with V.B. Mendiratta), International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, Sweden, November 2007.

Ian Greenshields Presentations:

“Computing and Collaboration via the Grid,” National Science Foundation-U.S. Department of Agriculture International Workshop on Supercomputing Applications in Climate Sciences and Remote Sensing, Cairo, Egypt, May 13-16, 2008.

“Integrating Active Components into an E-Learning System,” abstract, International Conference on E-Learning in the Workplace, New York, NY, June 12-1, 2008.

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Chun-Hsi Huang Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 2008. Member, Editorial Board, Medical Informatics Insights, Libertas Academica, 2007-present. Member, Executive Committee, IEEE Task Force on Scalable Computing (TCSC), 2006- present. Member, Program Committee, 4th International Workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models (GECON) at the 13th European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par), Rennes, France, August 28, 2007. Member, Program Committee, 4th International Symposium for Life Science Grid (LSGrid), University of Glasgow, Scotland, September 6-7, 2007. Member, Program Committee, 7th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT), Aizu, Japan, October 16-19, 2007. Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Health Informatics (HealthInf), Funchal, Madeira-Portugal, January 28-31, 2008. Member, Program Committee, 8th IEEE Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid), Lyon, France, May 19-22, 2008. Member, Program Committee, 6th European Conference on HealthGrid, Chicago, IL, June 2-4, 2008. General Chair, 6th BioGrid Workshop at the 6th International Health-Grid Conference, Chicago, IL, June 2, 2008. Member, Program Committee, 2nd International Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Development (BIRD), Vienna, Austria, July 7-9, 2008. Member, Program Committee, 8th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT), Sydney, Australia, July 8-11, 2008. Member, Program Committee, 2008 European Congress of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (MBEC), Antwerp, Belgium, November 23-27, 2008. Member, National Institutes of Health, NIBIB Study Section 2007/01 ZEB1 OSR-A(J2). Member, NSF Office of Cyber-Infrastructure, 2007. Member: International Society of Computational Biology, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Association of Computing Machinery. Granted access: Center for Computational Research (CCR), Buffalo, NY. Accesses to (1) a 128 processor SGI Origin 3800, (2) a 64-processor IBM SP2, and (3) a 64-processor SUN Cluster. Presentations:

“Cyber-infrastructure for Biomedical Computing and Learning,” (with V. Lanza), 15th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), Vienna, Austria, July 21-25, 2007.

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“Health-Grid: Towards Collaborative and On-Demand Healthcare,” invited, 2007 Annual Meeting of the Society for Computing and Technology in Anaesthesia (SCATA), Royal College of Anaesthetists, London, UK, November 21-23, 2007.

“Towards an e-Learning and Telemedicine Network for Better Quality of Patient Care,” invited, International Year of Science and Technology for Africa: The Role of Telemedicine Against Diseases and in Health Promotion, International Institute of Tele-medicine, Rome, Italy, November 30, 2007.

Aggelos Kiayias Member, Steering Committee, ACM Digital Rights Management Workshop, 2006-08. Member, Program Committee, the 1st International Workshop on Group-Oriented Cryptographic Protocols (GOCP’07), Wroclaw, Poland, July 9, 2007. Member, Program Committee, the 4th IASTED International Conference on Communication, Network, and Information Security – CNIS, Berkeley, CA, September 24-26, 2007. Member, Program Committee, the 3rd Workshop on Secure Network Protocols, Beijing, China, October 16, 2007. Member, Program Committee, the 10th Information Security Conference (ISC’2007), Valparaiso, Chile, October 9-12, 2007. Chair, Program Committee, 7th ACM Workshop 2007, Alexandria, VA, October 29, 2007. Rump Session Chair, 13th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology & Information Security (ASIACRYPT 2007), Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, December 2-6, 2007. Session Chair, 6th International Conference Cryptology and Network Security, Singapore, December 8-10, 2007. Member, Program Committee, the 34th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Novy Smokovec, High Tatras, Slovakia, January 19-25, 2008. Member, Program Committee, the 12th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, Cozumel, Mexico, January 28-31, 2008. Member, Program Committee, TRUST 2008, Villach, Austria, March 11-13, 2008. Member, Program Committee, the 3rd ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), Tokyo, Japan, March 18-20, 2008. Member, Program Committee, CT-RSA 2008, RSA Conference 2008, Cryptographs’ Track, San Francisco, CA, April 8-11, 2008. Member, Program Committee, the 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Beijing, China, June 17-20, 2008. Member, Program Committee, the 13th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP), Wollongong, Australia, July 7-9, 2008. Member, Program Committee, European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), Malaga, Spain, October 6-10, 2008.

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Member, Program Committee, the 2nd International Conference on Provable Security (ProvSec), Shanghai, China, October 30 – November 1, 2008. External Reviewer, invited, U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF). External Reviewer, invited, Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS), Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE) for the Mathematical Sciences, Canada. Presentations:

“Security Aspects of Optical Scanners and the Adder E-Voting System - Frontiers of E-Voting,” invited, Dagstuhl, Germany, August 2007.

“How to Collect a Function?” invited, DIMACS, BSF/DIMACS/DyDAn Workshop on Data Privacy, February 2008.

“Botnet Detection and Mitigation,” invited, Department of Homeland Security Principal Investigator Meeting, March 2008.

“Cryptographic Aspects of Digital Rights Management,” invited, National Science Foundation, Cybertrust Program Principal Investigator Meeting, March 2008.

Yoo-Ah Kim Member, Program Committee, the 17th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2008), St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, August 3-7, 2008. Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3 2008), Noida, Japan, August 7-9, 2008. Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications (WASA 2008), Dallas, TX, October 26-28, 2008. Member, Program Committee, the 4th International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN’08), Wuhan, China, December 10-12, 2008. Member, Association of Computing Machinery, ACM Special Interest Group – Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT). Presentations:

“SDP-based Approach for Channel Assignment in Multi-radio Wireless Networks,” Workshop on Foundation of Mobile Computing, Portland, OR, August 2007.

“Soft Edge Coloring and its Application in Wireless Networks,” invited, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, December 2007.

“Soft Edge Coloring and its Application in Wireless Networks,” invited, KAIST, Teajon, Korea, December 2007.

Ion I. Mandoiu Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications, 2006-2007.

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Guest Editor (with Y. Pan and A. Zelikovsky), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and

Bioinformatics, special section on 3rd International Workshop on Bioinformatics Research and Applications. Co-chair, 3rd ACIS International Workshop on Self-Assembling Wireless Networks (SAWN), Qingdao, China, July 30-August 1, 2007. Program Committee Member, 2nd VLDB Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (VLDB-DBM 2007), Vienna, Austria, September 23, 2007. Member, Program Committee, 7th IEEE International Symposium on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (BIBE 2007), Boston, MA, October 14-17, 2007. Co-chair, Program Committee, 1st IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), San Jose, CA, November 2-4, 2007. General Chair, 10th ACM Workshop on System-Level Interconnect Prediction (SLIP), Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, April 5-6, 2008. Session Chair, 10th ACM Workshop on System-Level Interconnect Prediction (SLIP), Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, April 5-6, 2008. Co-chair, Program Committee, 4th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA), Atlanta, GA, May 6-9, 2008. Session Chair (2 sessions), 4th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA), Atlanta, GA, May 6-9, 2008. Member, Program Committee, 3rd International Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology (ICCGI 2008), Athens, Greece, July 27-August 1, 2008. Co-organizer (with A. Allen, D. Nicolae, Y. Pan, and A. Zelikovsky), DIMACS Workshop on Computational Issues in Genetic Epidemiology, Rutgers University, Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), August 21-22, 2008. Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications (WASA 2008), Dallas, TX, October 26-28, 2008. Presentations:

“A Comparison of Algorithms for Species Identification Based on DNA Barcodes,” (with A. Gusev, S. Kentros, J. Lindsay and B. Pasaniuc), invited talk abstract, 2nd International Barcode of Life Conference, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, September 17-21, 2007.

“Primer Selection Methods for Detection of Genomic Inversions and Deletions via PAMP,” (with B. Dasgupta and J. Jun), abstract, 1st RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Computational Cancer Biology, San Diego, CA, September 18-20, 2007.

“Algorithms for Biochip Design and Optimization,” Adjacency Lecture Series, Cadence Research Laboratories, Berkeley, CA, November 1, 2007.

“Optimal Testing of Digital Microfluidic Biochips: A Multiple Traveling Salesman Problem,” (with R. Garfinkel, B. Pasaniuc and A. Zelikovsky), abstract, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, November 4-7, 2007.

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“Rational DNA Sequence Design for Molecular Nanotechnology,” Nanotechnology Research Forum, UCONN School of Engineering, March 5, 2008.

“Computational Challenges in Whole-Genome Association Studies,” Bioengineering Research Forum, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 22, 2008.

“PrimerHunter: A Primer Selection Tool for Avian Influenza Subtype Identification,” (with J. Duitama, M. Khan, D. Nair and C. Nelson), poster, 4th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, pp. 33-36, May 6-9, 2008.

“Genotype Error Detection and Imputation Using Hidden Markov Models of Haplotype Diversity,” (with J. Kennedy and B. Pasaniuc), poster, 4th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, pp. 48-51, May 6-9, 2008.

Robert D. McCartney Co-Editor-in-Chief, ACM Journal on Educational Resources in Computing. Session Chair and Discussant, 2007 International Workshop on Computing Education Research ICER ‘07, “What are the goals of the students?,” Atlanta, GA, September 2007. NSF-Sponsored Workshop on the Feasibility of a Data Repository for Computing-Education Research, Portland, OR, March 12, 2008.

Member, ITICSE Working Group on Contributing Student Pedagogies, Madrid, Spain, June 28 - July 3, 2008. Member, Program Committee, 8th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, Koli National Park, Finland, November 2008. Presentations:

“It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time,” presented and moderated session, 39th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Portland, OR, March 2008.

“DCER: Related Work,” NSF-Sponsored Workshop on the Feasibility of a Data Repository for Computing-Education Research, Portland, OR, March 12, 2008.

“Checkers! A Team Machine Learning Team Project for an Intro to AI Course,” NSF-Sponsored Workshop on Machine Learning Projects in AI Courses, Miami, FL, May 13-14, 2008.

“A Multi-National Institutional Project on Threshold Concepts in Computer Science: Results and Implications,” Threshold Concepts Conference 2008, Kingston, Ontario, June 2008.

Laurent D. Michel Area Editor, Constraint Programming Letters (CPL). Chair, 13th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP’07), Providence, RI, September 10-12, 2007. Member, Program Committee, 13th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP’07), Providence, RI, September 10-12, 2007. Member, Program Committee, 5th International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (CP-AI-OR’08), Paris, France, May 20-23, 2008.

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Member, National Science Foundation – IIS Review Panel, 2007. Thomas J. Peters Organizer, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 3rd Conference on Mathematics in Industry, Philadelphia, PA, October 9-10, 2007. Member, Technical Assessment Board and Technical Advisory Board, National Research Council, Army Research Laboratory. Research Access: IBM Blue Gene Supercomputer, IBM, Cambridge, MA. Presentations:

“Simulation Topology – An Overview,” invited mini-symposium, introductory talk, (with L.E. Miller, A.C. Russell and E.L.F. Moore), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Mathematics for Industry, Philadelphia, PA, October 9-11, 2007.

“Implementing the Projected Polyhedron Algorithm for NURBS Curves Intersections,” (with J.P. Bisceglio), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Mathematics for Industry, Philadelphia, PA, October 9-11, 2007.

“Reconstructing Surfaces with Envelopes: A Study Between Theory and Practice,” (with J.P. Bisceglio and K. Abe), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Mathematics for Industry, Philadelphia, PA, October 9-11, 2007.

“Adaptive Approximations of Curves,” (with L.E. Miller and A.C. Russell), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Mathematics for Industry, Philadelphia, PA, October 9-11, 2007.

Inaugural Graphics Conference for Movie Industry and Academia, keynote speaker, Kerner Graphics Seminar San Rafael, CA, May 16, 2008.

“Geometric Modeling Computational Motion and Topology,” plenary lecture, Dagstuhl Seminar, International Conference, Dagstuhl, Germany, May 26-30, 2008

Sanguthevar Rajasekaran UTC Chair Professor of Computer Science & Engineering. Associate Editor, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. Associate Editor, International Journal of Computers and Their Applications. Associate Editor, Computing Letters. Fellow, IEEE. Member, IASTED Technical Committee on Biomedical Engineering. Member, Program Committee, 6th IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (BioMED 2008) St. Petersburg, FL, March 16-19, 2008. Member, Program Committee, 10th Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computational Models (APDCM), Miami, FL, April 14-18, 2008.

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Member, Program Committee, International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA), Atlanta, GA, May 6-9, 2008. Member, Program Committee, 11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC’08), Marrakech, Morocco, July 6-9, 2008. Co-chair, Algorithms Track, International Conference on Contemporary Computing, August 7-9, 2008. Member, Program Committee, 5th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS), Singapore, August 29-31, 2008. Member, Program Committee, International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, December 16-19, 2008. Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE), 2005-present. Member: IEEE Computing Society, Association of Computing Machinery, Association for the Advancement of Science. Presentations:

International Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Technology (ACST), keynote, Langkawi, Malaysia, April 2-4, 2008.

“Sequential and Parallel Algorithms for Motif Search,” tutorial, International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA), Atlanta, GA, May 8, 2008.

Alexander C. Russell Associate Editor-in-Chief, Theory of Computation, 2005-10. Member, Program Committee, the 6th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA07), Cambridge, MA, July 2007. Member, Program Committee, the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA08), Cambridge, MA, July 2008. Member, Program Committee, the 12th Annual Workshop on Quantum Information Processing (QIP2009), Santa Fe, NM, January 2009. Member, NSF Panel, February 14-15, 2008. Member, Review Committee, Smithsonian Review Committee for Indo-US Science and Technology Forum. Member, Association of Computing Machinery/Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory, American Mathematical Society, Mathematical Association of America. Presentations:

“Low Discrepancy Sets for Efficient Computation on Manifolds,” invited, SIAM Conference on Mathematics for Industry (MI07), Philadelphia, PA, October 9-11, 2007.

“The Spectra of Random Cayley Graphs,” invited, Joint (AMS/MAA) Mathematics Meeting, Santa Barbara, CA, January 6-9, 2008.

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“An Introduction to Topological Quantum Field Theories and Manifold Invariants,” invited, Department of Mathematics Colloquium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, March 20, 2008.

Zhijie Shi Program Chair, Emerging Information and Technology Conference (EITC) 2007, SoC track, Princeton, NJ, August 9-10, 2007. Member, IEEE Computer Society and Association of Computing Machinery. Presentations:

“A DSP Implementation of OFDM Acoustic Modem,” (with H. Yan), poster, 2nd ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet’07), Montreal, Canada, September 14, 2007.

“Compiler-directed Architecture Support for Program Code Integrity Monitoring in Application-specific Instruction Set Processors,” (with H. Lin), International Conference on Computer Design, Lake Tahoe, CA, October 7-10, 2007.

Dong-Guk Shin Member, Editorial Board, Bioinformatics and Biology Insights, Libertas Academica. Member, National Institutes of Health, Neuroinformatics/Imaging MDCN-K(51) Study Section, Washington DC, July 18-20, 2007. Member, National Institutes of Health, Neuroinformatics/Imaging and Neurotech/Engineering Special Emphasis Panel Section, MDCN-K(50), Bethesda, MD, November 14-15, 2007. Member, National Institutes of Health, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Neurobiological Small Business Applications, ZRG1 MDCN-L (10), Washington, DC, March 5, 2008. Member, IASTED International Association of Science and Technology for Development, Human-Computer Interaction Conference, Program Committee, Innsbruck, Austria, March 14-19, 2008. Member, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, R13 Conference Grant Application Review Committee, April 28, 2008. Member, National Institutes of Health, Neurotechnology (NT) Study Section, San Francisco, CA, June 3-4, 2008. Member, National Institutes of Health, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Neurobiological Small Business Applications, ZRG1 ETTN-D (13) B, June 18, 2008. Member, IEEE Computer Society and Korean Scientists and Engineers in America. Alexander A. Shvartsman Guest Editor, Theoretical Computer Science, Elsevier, 2008. Co-Editor, Distributed Computing, Springer Special Issue, 2007-08. Member, Editorial Board, Studia Informatica Universalis, International Journal of Information Technology, 2000 – present.

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Member, Program Committee, the 6th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA07), Cambridge, MA, July 12-14, 2007. Chair, Steering Committee, the 21st International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC2007), Lemesos, Cyprus, September 24-26, 2007. Chair, Program Committee, 11th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS’2007), Guadeloupe, French West Indies, December 17-20, 2007. Chair, Program Committee, 15th International Colloquium on Structure of Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO’2008), Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, June 17-20, 2008. Member, Program Committee, the 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDSC 2008), Beijing, China, June 17-20, 2008. Member, Program Committee, the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA08), Cambridge, MA, July 10-12, 2008. Member, Program Committee, 10th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2008), Detroit, MI, November 21-23, 2008. Reviewer, Israeli Research Foundation, 2007. Access to PlanetLab. Presentations:

“A Formal Treatment of an Abstract Channel Implementation using Java Sockets and TCP,” (with Ch. Georgiou, P.M. Musial and E.L. Sonderegger), ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2007), pp. 334-335, Portland, OR, August 12-15, 2007.

“Reconfigurable Consistent Memory in Dynamic Systems,” invited, University of Paris, November 6, 2007.

“Distributed Cooperation in the Presence of Adversity - Future Trends in Distributed Computing,” invited, University of Rennes, France, November 22, 2007.

Bing Wang Session Chair, the 27th Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE Infocom 2008), Phoenix, AZ, April 13-18, 2008. Member, Program Committee, IEEE Infocom 2008, Phoenix, AZ, April 15-17, 2008. Member, Program Committee, the 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2008), Beijing, China, June 17-20, 2008. Member, Program Committee, 17th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, August 3-7, 2008. Member, Program Committee, 2008 Third International Conference on Communications and Networking in China, Hangzhou, China, August 25-27, 2008.

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Member, Association of Computing Machinery (SIGCOMM), IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communication Society. Presentations:

“Passive Online Rogue Access Point Detection Using Sequential Hypothesis Testing with TCP ACK-Pairs,” ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2007), October 26, 2007.

“Designing Infrastructure-based Overlay Networks for Delay-sensitive Group Communications,” IEEE Globecom 2007, November 28, 2007.

“Multipath Live Streaming via TCP: Scheme, Performance and Benefits,” ACM Sigcomm Conext 2007, December 11, 2007.

“Probabilistic Inference of Lossy Links Using End-to-End Data in Sensor Networks,” (with W. Zeng and K. Pattipati), poster, CoNEXT 2007, New York, NY, December 2007.

“Automating Fault Management in Wireless Networks,” invited, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, February 27, 2008.

“Automating Fault Management in Wireless Networks,” invited, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rhode Island, February 27, 2008.

“Fault Tolerance and Diagnosis in Computer Networks, invited, United Technologies Research Center, March 14, 2008.

“Constructing Multipath Transport Services: An Application-level Approach on top of TCP,” invited, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, April 2, 2008.

“Automating Fault Management in Wireless Networks,” invited, Computer Science Department, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, May 21, 2008.

Yufeng Wu Member, Program Committee, 1st IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), San Jose, CA, November 2-4, 2007. Member, Program Committee, International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA), Atlanta, GA, May 6-9, 2008. Presentations:

“Inferring Genealogical History and its Application to Association Mapping of Complex Traits,” SoE-UCHC Bioengineering Research Forum, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 22, 2008.

“New Methods for Genealogical Network Inference Based on Local Tree Topologies with a Set of SNP Sequences in Populations,” Mathematics and Informatics in Evolution and Phylogeny, Montpellier, France, June 12, 2008.

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ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY

2007-2008 UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

The Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) department offers undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering (EE), Computer Engineering (CompE, offered jointly with the Computer Science & Engineering Department), and Engineering Physics (jointly with the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences). In fall 2007, 137 students were enrolled in Electrical Engineering, 60 in Computer Engineering, and 29 in Engineering Physics. During the year, we awarded 38 B.S.E. degrees in EE, 11 degrees in CompE, and five in Engineering Physics. ABET

Both the Electrical Engineering (EE) and Computer Engineering (CompE) programs underwent successful accreditation visits during AY 07-08. The ECE ABET committee led by Dr. Rajeev Bansal produced substantial self-study volumes for the EE program (seeking re-accreditation) as well as for the CompE program (seeking first accreditation), the latter in collaboration with CSE colleagues. These self-study reports were submitted at the start of summer 2007 to the ABET evaluation team. Two industrial visitors representing ABET visited our programs in early fall 07. The visitors examined curricular materials and the assessment data compiled about the programs, visited the facilities, and talked with students, faculty, alumni, and members of our Industrial Advisory Boards. While the formal vote to accredit the programs will take place in June 2008, the feedback provided by the ABET visitors during the exit interviews was uniformly positive. RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP

The ECE faculty conducts funded research in fields including systems and energy, communications and signal/image processing, biomedical engineering, microelectronics, optoelectronics, electromagnetics and photonics, nanotechnology, VLSI computer engineering, and homeland security. Scholarly productivity stimulated by research remains strong. The faculty published numerous papers, including 97 refereed journal articles, 5 book chapters, and 146 full conference proceedings papers. They developed five software packages, offered numerous professional short courses, were keynote speakers at 11 international conferences, and delivered 63 invited talks. The faculty worked on 106 sponsored grants with annual expenditures estimated to be $3.5 million. During the year, the ECE faculty advised 134 graduate students; of these, 11 successfully completed their Ph.D. degrees and 26 students garnered their M.S. degrees. Dr. Geoffrey Taylor was awarded five patents; Dr. Anthony DeMaria secured three; Dr. Faquir Jain garnered two; and Drs. Krishna Pattipati, Mohammad Tehranipoor and Shengli Zhou were awarded one patent each. FACULTY HONORS

As innovators in their fields, ECE faculty members receive many prestigious awards. The major awards obtained during the year are summarized as follows: Dr. Yaakov Bar-Shalom received the 2008 IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for radar target tracking in clutter. Dr. Bahram Javidi received the 2008 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize, 2008 Alexander von Humboldt Prize and the 2008 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow Award for real-time 3D optical imaging and identification. Dr. Shengli Zhou received a 2007 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator award, and Dr. Quing Zhu received a 2007 Connecticut Women of Innovation Award. The faculty members are also leaders in many professional societies/organizations. Drs. Bar-Shalom, DeMaria, Taylor and Javidi – along with Drs. Steven Boggs, John Enderle, Peter Luh, Krishna Pattipati and Peter Willett – are IEEE Fellows. Drs. Enderle and Javidi are American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Fellows. Drs. DeMaria, Javidi and

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Magnusson are Optical Society of America Fellows and – along with Dr. Eric Donkor – are also SPIE Fellows. Dr. Enderle is an American Society of Engineering Education Fellow. Dr. Bansal is a Fellow of the Electromagnetic Academy, and Dr. DeMaria is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Many of our faculty are elected members of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering: Drs. Bansal, Bar-Shalom, DeMaria (who is a co-founding member), Donkor, Enderle, Jain, Javidi, Luh, Magnusson, Pattipati, Taylor and Zhu. Dr. DeMaria is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences. ECE faculty members held 10 major journal editorships, 18 associate editorships or conference chair posts, and 36 other editorial or conference-planning appointments. In particular, Drs. Enderle, Javidi, Luh and Willett were Editors-in Chief, while Drs. Anwar, Chandy, Bansal, Donkor, Enderle, Javidi, Luh, Magnusson and Tehranipoor served as Editors and/or Associate Editors of professional journals. Dr. Zhu was promoted to full professor and Dr. Chandy received tenure as well as promotion to associate professor. Dr. Magnusson will be leaving us at the end of the summer. He has accepted the Texas Instruments Distinguished University Chair in Nanophotonics at the University of Texas at Arlington. He has been a prolific contributor to the department (serving as the Head from 2001 to 2006) and plans to continue his research collaboration with the ECE faculty. We wish him great success in his new position. INDUSTRIAL CONNECTIONS

The ECE Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) provides input on ECE curricula, courses, and strategies. Industrial feedback is essential in maintaining high-quality, relevant programs and is a major link in the ABET accreditation process. Additionally, the affiliated companies participate in collaborative research, sponsor senior design projects, provide internship opportunities for our students, and often hire them permanently. The companies represented on the IAB this year are Aptima, BAE Systems, C-COR, Coherent, General Electric Company, Hamilton Sundstrand, The Hartford, ISO New England, JDS Uniphase, Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Pfizer, Phonon Corporation, Pratt & Whitney, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Toyota Technical Center USA, TranSwitch and TRUMPH, Inc. The Department is also active in collaborative research and development projects with many other companies. STUDENT ACTIVITIES

Members of the UConn student branch of the IEEE (faculty advisor: Dr. Yunsi Fei) conducted monthly meetings as well as a number of professional seminars. A well-attended picnic in September served to advertise and promote IEEE and to gather faculty and students together. The branch reached out to the University of New Haven IEEE Chapter for a workshop on signal processing. UConn’s chapter of SPIE (faculty advisor: Dr. Zhu) drew a number of distinguished seminar speakers including Dr. Brian Culshaw, the 2007-2008 President of SPIE. The chapter activities were highlighted in the Hartford Business

Journal. The chapter, along with IEEE, co-founded the Connecticut Optics and Photonics Association. UConn’s chapter of Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) inducted 10 new members during 2007-2008 and elected new officers in the spring semester. Dr. Marty Fox is the faculty advisor for the chapter.

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2007-2008 John E. Ayers “Multiple Critical Layer Thicknesses in Retro-Graded Heterostructures,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 92, pp. 102104-102106, 2008. “X-ray Characterization of Dislocation Density Asymmetries in Heteroepitaxial Semiconductors,” (with B. Yarlagadda, A. Rodriguez, P. Li, R. Velampati, J.F. Ocampo, E.N. Suarez, P.B. Rago, D. Shah and F.C. Jain), Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 92, pp. 202103-202105, 2008. “Overshoot Graded Layers for Mismatched Heteroepitaxy,” (with J.F. Ocampo, E. Suarez and F.C. Jain), Journal of Electronic Materials, Vol. 37, pp. 1035-1043, 2008. “Critical Layer Thickness in Compositionally-graded Semiconductor Layers with Non-zero Interfacial Mismatch,” Semiconductor Science Technology, Vol. 23, pp. 045018-045023, 2008. Rajeev Bansal “Thermal Therapy-Part III: Ablation Techniques,” (with R.W.Y. Habash, D. Krewski and H.T. Alhafid), Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 35, No. 1-2, pp. 37-121, 2007. “Thermal Therapy-Part IV: Electromagnetic and Thermal Dosimetry,” (with R.W.Y. Habash, D. Krewski and H.T. Alhafid), Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 35, No. 1-2, pp. 123-182, 2007. “Thermal Therapy, Part 1: An Introduction to Thermal Therapy,” (with R.W.Y. Habash, D. Krewski and H.T. Alhafid), Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 34, No. 6, pp. 459-489, 2006; printed in July 2007. “Thermal Therapy, Part 2: Hyperthermia Techniques,” (with R.W.Y. Habash, D. Krewski and H.T. Alhafid), Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 34, No. 6, pp. 491-542, 2006; printed in July 2007. “Performance of Circular Yagi-Uda Arrays for Beamforming Applications using Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm,” (with K.R. Mahmound, M.I. El-Adawy, S.M.M. Ibrahem and S.H. Zainud-Deen), Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, Vol. 22, No. 2-3, pp. 353-364, 2008. “Investigating the Interaction Between a Human Head and a Smart Handset for 4g Mobile Communication Systems,” (with K.R. Mahmoud, M.I. El-Adawy, S.M.M. Ibrahem and S.H. Zainud-Deen), Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, Vol. 2, pp. 169-188, 2008. “Analysis of Uniform Circular Arrays for Adaptive Beamforming Applications Using Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm,” (with K.R. Mahmoud, M.I. El-Adawy, S.H. Zainud-Deen and S.M.M. Ibrahem), International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 42-52, January 2008.

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Yaakov Bar-Shalom “Hierarchical Track Association and Fusion for a Networked Surveillance System,” (with J. Areta, M. Levedahl and K.R. Pattipati), Journal of Advances in Information Fusion, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 140-157, December 2006; published in July 2007. “Application of the Kalman-Levy Filter for Tracking Maneuvering Targets,” (with A. Sinha and T. Kirubarajan), IEEE Transactions on Aerospace Electronic Systems, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 1099-1107, July 2007. “Track-to-Track Association for Tracks with Features and Attributes,” (with H. Chen), Journal of

Advances in Information Fusion, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 49-59, July 2007. “Estimation Near ‘Zero Information’ Points: Angle of Arrival Near the Endfire,” (with E. Bashan and A. J. Weiss), IEEE Transactions on Aerospace Electronic Systems, Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 1250-1264, October 2007. “ML-PDA: Advances and a New Multitarget Approach,” (with W. Blanding and P.K. Willett), EURASIP

Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Article ID No. 260186, January 2008. “Directed Subspace Search ML-PDA with Application to Active Sonar Tracking,” (with W. Blanding, P.K. Willett and R. Lynch), IEEE Transactions on Aerospace Electronic Systems, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 201-216, January 2008. “Tracking of Spawning Targets with Multiple Finite Resolution Sensors,” (with H. Chen and T. Kirubarajan), IEEE Transactions on Aerospace Electronic Systems, Vol. AES-44, No. 1, pp. 2-14, January 2008. “Quickest Detection and Tracking of Spawning Targets Using Monopulse Radar Channel Signals,” (with A. Isaac and P.K. Willett), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 56, No. 3, pp. 1302-1308, March 2008. Steven Boggs “PD Pulse Propagation in Shielded Power Cable for Symmetric and Asymmetric PD Pulses,” (with N. Oussalah and Y. Zebboudj), IEEE Transactions on DEI, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 1264-1270, October 2007. “Effect of Alteration of Antioxidant by UV Treatment on the Dielectric Strength of BOPP Capacitor Film,” (with J. Ho and R. Ramprasad), IEEE Transactions on DEI, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 1295-1301, October 2007. “PD Pulse Propagation in Shielded Power Cable and Implications for Detection Sensitivity,” (with N. Oussalah and Y. Zebboudj), IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine, Vol. 23, No. 6, pp. 5-10, November/December 2007. “Dispersion and PD Detection in Shielded Power Cable,” (with E.W. Shu), IEEE Electrical Insulation

Magazine, Vol. 24 No. 1, pp. 25-29, January/February 2008. “Transient Finite Element Computation of the Temperature Rise in Metallized Film Capacitor End Connections Caused by Underdamped Discharge,” (with X. Qi), IEEE Transactions on DEI, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 277-283, February 2008.

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“High Frequency Loss from Neutral Wire-Shield Interaction in Shielded Power Cable,” (with C. Xu), IEEE Transactions on PD-23, No. 2, pp. 531-526, April 2008. John A. Chandy “Dual Actuator Logging Disk Architecture and Modeling,” Journal of Systems Architecture, Vol. 53, No. 12, pp. 913-926, December, 2007. “FPGA Based String Matching for Network Processing Applications,” (with J. Singaraju), Microprocessors and Microsystems, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 210-222, June 2008.

Eric Donkor “Demonstration of Self-Synchronized Polyphase Sampling and Demultiplexing Scheme for Radio-Frequency Analog Signals,” (with C. Villa and P. Kumavor), IEEE Photonic Letters, Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 452-454, April 2008. John D. Enderle “Design versus Research in BME Accreditation,” (with J. Gassert), IEEE EMB Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 80-85, March 2008. Monty A. Escabi “Early Cortical Damage in Rat Somatosensory Cortex Alters Acoustic Feature Representation in Primary Auditory Cortex,” (with N.C. Higgins, A.M. Galaburda, G.D. Rosen and H.L. Read), Neuroscience, Vol. 150, No. 4, pp. 970-983, 2007. “Illusory Spectrotemporal Ripples Created with Binaurally Correlated Noise,” (with R. Nassiri), Journal

of Acoustic Society of America, Vol. 123, No. 4, pp. 92-98, 2008. “Spectral Processing Deficits in Belt Auditory Cortex Following Early Postnatal Lesions of Somatosensory Cortex,” (with N.C. Higgins, G.D. Rosen, A.M. Galaburda and H.L. Read), Neuroscience, Vol. 153, No. 2, pp. 535-549, 2008. Yunsi Fei “Energy-optimizing Source Code Transformations for Operating System Driven Embedded Software,” (with S. Ravi, A. Rahunathan and N.K. Jha), ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Vol. 7, No. 1, December 2007. “An Energy-aware Framework for Dynamic Software Management in Mobile Computing Systems,” (with L. Zhong and N.K. Jha), ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Vol. 7, No. 3, April 2008. Ali Gokirmak “Accumulated Body Ultranarrow Channel Silicon Transistor with Extreme Threshold Voltage Tunability,” (with S. Tiwari), Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 91, No. 243504, 2007.

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Faquir C. Jain “X-Ray Characterization of Dislocation Density Asymmetries in Heteroepitaxial Semiconductors,” (with B. Yarlagadda, A. Rodriguez, P. Li, R. Velampati, J.F. Ocampo, E.N. Suarez, P.B. Rago, D. Shah and J.E. Ayers), Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 92, No. 21, pp. 202103-1-3, May 2008. “Overshoot Graded Layers for Mismatched Heteroepitaxial Devices,” (with J.F. Ocampo, E.N. Suarez and J.E. Ayers), Journal of Electronic Materials, Vol. 37, No. 8, pp. 1035-1063, May 2008. Bahram Javidi “3D Object Sensing and Recognition using Multi-wavelength Computational Holography,” (with S. Yeom, P. Ferraro, D. Alfieri, S. De Nicola and A. Finizio), Journal of Optics Express, Vol. 15, No. 15, pp. 9394-9402, July 2007. “Object Recognition by Use of Polarimetric Phase-shifting Digital Holography,” (with T. Nomura), Journal of Optics Letters, Vol. 32, No. 15, pp. 2146-2148, July 23, 2007. “Resistance of the Doubt Random Phase Encryption Against Various Attacks,” (with Y. Frauel, A. Castro and T. Naughton), Journal of Optics Express, Vol. 15, No. 16, pp. 10253-10265, August 2007. “Integral Imaging with Large Depth of Field Using an Asymmetric Phase Mask,” (with A. Castro and Y. Frauel), Journal of Optics Express, Vol. 15, No. 16, pp. 10266-10273, August 2007. “Tracking Biological Microorganisms in Sequence of 3D Holographic Microscopy Images,” (with M. DaneshPanah), Journal of Optics Express, Vol. 15, pp. 10761-10766, August 2007. “A Hybrid Compression Method for Integral Images using Discrete Wavelet Transform and Discrete Cosine Transform,” (with E. Elhara, A. Stern and O. Hadar), IEEE Journal of Display Technology, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 321-325, September 2007. “Random Projections Imaging with Extended Space-bandwidth Product,” (with A. Stern), IEEE/OSA

Journal of Display Technology, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 315-320, September 2007. “3D Nano Object Recognition Based on Phase Measurement Technique,” (with D. Kim, B. Joon Baek and Y.D. Kim), Journal of the Optical Society of Korea, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 1-5, September 2007. “Multifocus Holographic 3D Image Fusion using Independent Component Analysis,” (with C. Do), IEEE

Journal of Display Technology, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 326-332, September 2007. “3D Nano Object Recognition Based on Phase Measurement Technique,” (with D. Kim, B. Joon Baek and Y.D. Kim), Journal of the Optical Society of Korea, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 108-112, September 2007. “Performance of 3D Internal Imaging with Position Uncertainty,” (with B. Tavakoli, M. DaneshPanah and E. Watson), Journal of Optics Express, Vol. 15, No. 19, pp. 11889-11902, September 5, 2007. “Infrared Multifactor Identification Tags,” (with E. Perez-Cabre and M. Sagrario Millan), Optics Express, Vol. 15, No. 23, pp. 15615-15627, November 12, 2007. “Enhanced Viewing-angle Integral Imaging by Multiple-axis Telecentric Relay System,” (R. Martinez-Cuenca, H. Navarro, G. Saavedra and M. Martinez-Corral), Optics Express, Vol. 15, No. 24, pp. 16255-16260, November 21, 2007.

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“Photon-counting Passive 3D Image Sensing for Reconstruction and Recognition of Occluded Objects,” (with S. Yeom and E. Watson), Journal of Optics Express, Vol. 15, No. 24, pp. 16189-16195, November 21, 2007. “Three-dimensional Computational Holographic Imaging and Recognition using Independent Component Analysis,” (with C. Do), Proceedings of the Royal Society A, UK Academy of Science, pp. 409-422 and 464, published online November 27, 2007; printed February 2008. “Space-bandwidth Conditions for Efficient Phase-shifting Digital Holographic Microscopy,” (with A. Stern), Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Vol. 25, No. 25, pp. 736-741, January 2008. Also appeared in Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics, Optical Society of America, Vol. 3, No. 4, April 23, 2008. “Synthetic Aperture Single-exposure On-axis Digital Holography,” (with L. Martinez), Journal of Optics

Express, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 161-169, January 7, 2008. “Full Color 3-D Imaging by Digital Holography and Removal of Chromatic Aberrations,” (with P. Ferraro, S. Grilli, L. Miccio, S. Alfieri, S. DeNicola and A. Finizio), IEEE Journal of Display

Technology, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 97-100, March 2008. “Passive Near Infrared 3D Sensing and Computational Reconstruction with Synthetic Aperture Integral Imaging,” (with Y. Hwang), IEEE Journal of Display Technology, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 3-5, March 2008. “Three Dimensional Visualization by Photon Counting Computational Integral Imaging,” (with B. Tavakoli and E. Watson), Journal of Optics Express, Vol. 16, No. 7, pp. 4426-4436, March 17, 2008. “Extension of Depth of Field Using Amplitude and Phase Modulation of the Pupil Function,” (with S. Bagheri), Journal of Optics Letters, Vol. 33, No. 7, pp. 757-759, April 1, 2008. “Three Dimensional Integral Imaging with Randomly Distributed Sensors,” (with M. DaneshPanah and E. Watson), Journal of Optics Express, Vol. 16, No. 9, pp. 6368-6377, April 21, 2008. “Underwater Multi-view Three-dimensional Imaging,” (with R. Schulein), IEEE Journal of Display

Technology, Vol. 4, No. 2, June 2008. Peter B. Luh “Incremental Value Iteration for Time-aggregated Markov-decision Processes,” (with T. Sun and Q. Zhao), IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 52, No. 11, pp. 2177-2182, November 2007. “Payment Cost Minimization vs. Bid Cost Minimization for ISO Markets,” (with J.H. Yan, G.A. Stern and F. Zhao), IEEE Power & Energy Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 24-36, March/April 2008. “Group Elevator Scheduling with Advance Information for Normal and Emergency Modes,” (with B. Xiong and S.C. Chang), IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 245-258, April 2008. “Payment Minimization Auction for Deregulated Electricity Markets with Transmission Capacity Constraints,” (with F. Zhao, J.H. Yan, G.A. Stern and S.C. Chang), IEEE Transactions on Power

Systems, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 532-544, May 2008.

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Robert Magnusson “Widely Tunable Guided-Mode Resonance Nanoelectromechanical RGB Pixels,” (with M. Shokooh-Saremi), Optics Express, Vol. 15, pp., 10903-10910, www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-15-17-10903, 2007. “Physical Basis for Wideband Resonant Reflectors,” (with M. Shokooh-Saremi), Optics Express, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 3456-3462, www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-16-5-3456, March 2008. Krishna R. Pattipati “Hierarchical Track Association and Fusion for a Networked Surveillance System,” (with J. Areta, Y. Bar-Shalom and M. Levedahl), Journal of Advances in Information Fusion, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 140-157, December 2006; printed July 2007. “Fault Detection, Diagnosis and Data-driven Modeling in HVAC Chillers,” (with M. Namburu, J. Luo, M. Azam and K. Choi), IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 469-473, July 2007. “A Lagrangian Relaxation Algorithm for Finding the MAP Configuration in QMR-DT,” (with F. Yu. F. Tu and H. Tu), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Part A - Systems and Humans, Vol. 37, No. 5, pp. 746-757, September 2007. “Application-Layer Multipath Data Transfer via TCP: Schemes and Performance Tradeoffs,” (with B. Wang, W. Wei, J. Kurose, D. Towsley, Z. Guo and Z. Peng), Performance Evaluation, Vol. 64, No. 9-12, pp. 965-977, October 2007. “An Integrated Diagnostic Development Process for Automotive Engine Control Systems,” (with J. Luo, L. Qiao and S. Chigusa), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Part C – Applications

and Reviews, Vol. 37, No. 6, pp. 1163-1173, November 2007. “A Markov Decision Process Approach to Goal Attainment in Organizations,” (with C. Meirina, Y.N. Levchuk, G.M. Levchuk and D.L. Kleinman), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Part

A – Systems and Humans, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 116-133, January 2008. Geoffrey W. Taylor “CW Gain Characteristics of Linear Optical Amplifiers,” (with W. Zheng), IEEE Journal of Quantum

Electronics, Vol. 43, No. 8, pp. 714-721, 2007. Mohammad Tehranipoor “Low-Transition Test Pattern Generation for BIST-based Applications,” (with M. Nourani and N. Ahmed), IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 57, No. 3, pp. 303-315, March 2008. “Evaluating Area and Performance of Hybrid FPGAs with Nanoscale Clusters and CMOS Routing,” (with R. Rad), ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems, Vol. 3, No. 3, November 2007. “Securing Designs Against Scan-Based Side-Channel Attacks,” (with J. Lee, C. Patel and J. Plusquellic), IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Vol. 4, No. 4, October-December 2007.

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Lei Wang “Low-Complexity Analysis of Repetitive Regularities for Biometric Applications,” (with N. Patel), Journal of Computers, Vol. 2, pp. 56-64, August 2007. Peter K. Willett “Multistatic Sensor Placement: A Tracking Approach,” (with O. Erdinc and S. Coraluppi), Journal of

Advances in Information Fusion, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 22-34, June-July 2007. “MCMC Methods for Tracking Two Closely Spaced Targets Using Monopulse Radar Channel Signals,” (with A. Isaac and Y. Bar-Shalom), IET Proceedings on Radar, Sonar and Navigation, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 221-229, July 2007. “Submarine Location Estimation via a Network of Detection-Only Sensors,” (with S. Zhou), IEEE

Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 55, No. 7, pp. 3104-3115, July 2007. “Asymptotic Design of Quantizers for Decentralized MMSE Estimation,” (with S. Marano and V. Matta), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 55, No. 11, pp. 5485-5496, November 2007. “A Likelihood Based Multiple Access for Estimation in Sensor Networks,” (with S. Marano, V. Matta and L. Tong), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 55, No. 11, pp. 5155-5166, November 2007. “Practical Fusion of Quantized Measurements via Particle Filtering,” (with Y. Ruan, A. Marrs, S. Marano and F. Palmieri), IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 15-29, January 2008. “Directed Subspace Search ML-PDA with Application to Active Sonar Tracking,” (with W. Blanding, Y. Bar-Shalom and R. Lynch), IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 201-216, January 2008. “Distributed Estimation in Large Wireless Sensor Networks via a Locally Optimum Approach,” (with S. Marano, V. Matta and L. Tong), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 748-756, February 2008. “Quickest Detection and Tracking of Spawning Targets Using Monopulse Radar Channel Signals,” (with A. Isaac and Y. Bar-Shalom), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 56, No. 3, pp. 1302-1308, March 2008. “Multi-carrier Communication over Underwater Acoustic Channels with Nonuniform Doppler Shifts,” (with B. Li, S. Zhou, M. Stojanovic and L. Freitag), IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 101-112, April 2008. Shengli Zhou “Improving the UWB Pulseshaper Design Using Non-Constant Upper Bounds in Semi-definite Programming,” (with C.R. Berger, M. Eisenacher and F. Jondral), IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in

Signal Processing: Special Issue on Performance Limits of Ultra-Wideband Systems, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 396-404, October 2007. “Multi-carrier Communication over Underwater Acoustic Channels with Non-uniform Doppler Shifts,” (with B. Li, M. Stojanovic, L. Freitag and P.K. Willett), IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Vol. 33, No. 2, April 2008.

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Quing Zhu “Minimization of Geometric-Beam-Broadening in a Grating Based Time-Domain Delay Line for Optical Coherence Tomography Application,” (with Z. Jiang and D. Piao), Journal of the Optical Society of

American A, Vol. 24, Issue 12, pp. 3808-3818, 2007. “Curved Array Photoacoustic Tomographic System for Small Animal Imaging,” (with J. Gamelin, A. Aguirre, A. Maurudis, F. Huang, D. Castillo and V.L. Wang), Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 24007-24010, March/April 2008.

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ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT PUBLISHED BOOKS, BOOK CHAPTERS, BOOK SECTIONS & EDITED VOLUMES

2007-2008 Anthony J. DeMaria “Nanophotonics: Accessibility and Applications,” (with T. Taylor), National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., February 2008, ISBN-10: 0-309-10722-9, ISBN-13: 978-0-309-10722-8. Eric Donkor SPIE Proceedings, (ed.), Vols. 5814 and 5815, April 2008. John D. Enderle National Science Foundation 2006 Engineering Senior Design Projects to Aid Persons with Disabilities, (with B. Hallowell, eds.), Creative Learning Press, Inc., 385 pages, Mansfield Center, CT, 2007. Faquir Jain Proceedings of the 17

th Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Consortium, (ed.), April 9,

2008. Bahram Javidi “Three Dimensional Video and Display: Systems and Devices,” (with F. Okano and J.Y. Son, eds.), Proceedings of SPIE, SPIE Press, Bellingham, WA, 2007. Krishna R. Pattipati “An Integrated Diagnostic Process for Automotive Systems,” (with A. Kodali, J. Luo, K. Choi, S. Singh, C. Sankavaram, S. Mansal, W. Donat, S. Namburu, S. Chigusa and L. Qiao), Studies in Computational

Intelligence, (D. Prokhorov, ed.), Vol. 132, pp. 191-218, 2008. Mohammad Tehranipoor “Test and Defect Tolerance for Nanoscale Crossbar-based Circuits,” System on Chip Test Architectures:

Nanometer Design for Testability, (L.T. Wang, C. Stroud and N. Touba, eds.), Elsevier, 2007. Nanometer Technology Designs: High-Quality Delay Tests, (with N. Ahmed), Springer, November 2007. Emerging Nanotechnologies: Test, Defect Tolerance, and Reliability, (ed.), Vol. 37 in Frontiers in Electronic Testing series, Springer Verlag, 2008, ISBN: 978-0-387-74746-0. “Defect Tolerance for Reconfigurable Nanoscale Architectures,” Emerging Nanotechnologies: Test,

Defect Tolerance, and Reliability, Springer Verlag, 2008. Quing Zhu “Optical Tomography with Ultrasound Localization for Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Monitoring,” Chapter 17, Emerging Technologies in Breast Imaging, pp. 303-316, 2008.

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2007-2008 Rajeev Bansal “AP-S Turnstile,” contributed column in IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, Vol. 49: August, October and December 2007; Vol. 50: February, April and June 2008. “Microwave Surfing,” contributed column in IEEE Microwave Magazine, Vol. 8: August, October and December 2007; Vol. 9: February, April and June 2008. “Optimized Design and Fabrication of a Fragmented Wire Antenna,” (with E. Merulla), IEEE Sarnoff

Symposium, Princeton, NJ, April 28-30, 2008. Yaakov Bar-Shalom “Tracking of Divers in a Noisy Background Using a Bubble Model,” (with A. Rodningsby), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, #6699-07, San Diego, CA, August 2007. “Robust Tracking for Very Long Range Radars, Part I: Algorithm Comparisons,” (with X. Tian), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, #6699-15, San Diego, CA, August 2007. “A Multiple Model Filter for Impact Point Prediction,” (with V. Ravindra), Proceedings of the SPIE

Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, #6699-45, San Diego, CA, August 2007. “Robust Tracking for Very Long Range Radars, Part II: Measurement Conversion and Derivations,” (with X. Tian), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, #6699-55, San Diego, CA, August 2007. “Track Association and Fusion with Heterogeneous Local Trackers,” (with H. Chen), Proceedings of the

46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA, December 2007.

“Detecting and Tracking Separating Objects Using Direct Monopulse Measurements,” (with A. Isaac and P.K. Willett), Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/AIAA Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, March 2008. “Sequential Track-to-Track Fusion Algorithm: Exact Solution and Approximate Implementation,” (with X. Tian), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, #6969-31, Orlando, FL, March 2008. “The Probability of Misassociation Between Neighboring Targets,” (with J. Areta), Proceedings of the

SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, #6969-41, Orlando, FL, March 2008. “Surveillance by Multiple Cooperative UAVs in Adversarial Environments,” (with X. Tian and K.R. Pattipati), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, #6969-47, Orlando, FL, March 2008. “Two Counterintuitive Phenomena in Track-to-Track Fusion and Association,” (with X. Tian), Proceedings of the 11

th International Conference on Information Fusion, Cologne, Germany, June 2008.

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“Sliding Window Test vs. Single Time Test for Track-to-Track Association,” (with X. Tian), Proceedings

of the 11th International Conference on Information Fusion, Cologne, Germany, June 2008.

“Multitarget Tracking in the Presence of Wakes,” (with A. Rodningsby, O. Hallingstad and J. Glattetre), Proceedings of the 11

th International Conference on Information Fusion, Cologne, Germany, June 2008.

Steven Boggs “Energy Storage in Polmer Films with High Dielectric Constant Fillers,” (with L. An and J.P. Calame), Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Power Modulator Conference, Las Vegas, NV, May 2008. “Implications of Advanced Capacitor Dielectrics for Performance of Metalized Film Windings,” (with J. S. Ho and R. Jow), Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Power Modulator Conference, Las Vegas, NV, May 27-31, 2008. John A. Chandy “Parity Redundancy in a Parallel File System,” (with S. Narayan), Proceedings of the International

Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os, pp. 15-22, September 2007. “Multiple Valued Logic Using 3-State Quantum Dot Gate FETs,” (with F.C. Jain), Proceedings of the

International Symposium on Multiple Valued Logic, pp. 186-190, May 2008. “A Generalized Replica Placement Strategy to Optimize Latency in a Wide Area Distributed Storage System,” Proceedings of International Workshop on Data Aware Distributed Computing, pp.49-53, June 2008. Eric Donkor “Non-destructive Quantum Measurement Scheme for Quantum States in Superposition,” (with P. Kumavor), SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 6976, p. 6976-10, March 2008. “Demonstration of an All-Optical Flip-Flop using Lyot Filter and Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Arrangement, (with C. Emmons and P. Kumavor), SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 6975, p. 6975-04, March 2008. “Optically Synchronized Decoder and Multiplexer Scheme for Interleaved Photonics Analog to Digital Conversion,” (with C. Villa and P. Kumavor), SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 6975, p. 6975-14, March 2008. “40 GHz High Speed Optoelectronic Polyphase Scheme for Sampling/Demultiplexing RF Analog Signals,” SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 6975, p. 6975-16, March 2008. Monty A. Escabi “Theta Coherence Varies Across Areal Subdivisions of the Entorhinal Cortex and Between Hippocampal and Entorhinal Regions,” (with S.C. Penley, J.G. Bunce, E.M. Markus and J.J. Chrobak), Society for

Neuroscience Abstracts, Vol. 305, No. 9, November 2007. “Oscillations of Local Field Potentials in the Rat Dorsal Hippocampus, Dorsal Striatum and Nucleus Accumbens: Comparing Place & Response Trials,” (with B. Schmidt, S.C. Penley, J.R. Hinman, T.K. Jacobson, J. Fairchild, B. Fruenbaum and E.J. Markus), Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Vol. 640, No. 7, November 2007.

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“Distinct Roles for Onset and Sustained Activity in the Neuronal Code for Temporal Periodicity and Acoustics Envelope Shape,” (with Y. Zheng and H.L. Read), Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Vol. 504, No. 3, November 2007. “The Contribution of Onset and Sustained Activity in the Neuronal Code for Temporal Periodicity and Acoustic Envelope Shape,” (with Y. Zheng and H.L. Read), Association in Research for Otolaryngology

Abstracts, February 2008. Yunsi Fei “A Hardware/Software Cooperative Approach for Reducing Memory Traffic in Application-specific Instruction Set Processors,” (with H.D. Lin and X. Guan), Proceedings of the IEEE International Midwest

Symposium on Circuits & Systems, pp. 1269-1272, August 2007. “Compiler-assisted Architectural Support for Program Code Integrity Monitoring in Application-specific Instruction Set Processors,” (with H. Lin, X. Guan and Z.J. Shi), Proceedings of the IEEE International

Conference on Computer Design, pp. 187-193, October 2007. “Harnessing Horizontal Parallelism and Vertical Instruction Packing of Programs to Improve System Overall Efficiency,” (with H. Lin), Proceedings of the IEEE Design Automation and Test in Europe

Conference, pp. 758-763, March 2008. “Thermal-aware Design Considerations for Application-specific Instruction Set Processor,” (with H. Lin, G. Sun, Y. Xie and A. Sivasubramaniam), Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Application Specific

Processors, pp. 63-68, June 2008. Faquir C. Jain “Dynamic Redundancy Allocation for Reliable and High-Performance Nanocomputing,” (with S. Wang and L. Wang), Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures, pp. 1-6, October 2007. “Analysis of Defect Tolerance in Molecular Electronics Using Information-Theoretic Measures,” (with J. Dai and L. Wang), Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures, pp. 21-26, October 2007. “Investigation of Various Amperometric Modes for Implantable Glucose Sensors,” (S. Vaddiraju, R. Tipnis, D. Burgess and F. Papadimitrakopoulos), Proceedings of the 7

th Annual Meeting of the Diabetes

Technology Society, San Francisco, CA, October 23-25, 2007. “Photonic Crystal Based DeMultiplexing Using Alternating-Defect Coupled-Cavity Waveguides,” (with J.W. Zeller), International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium Digest, College Park, MD, December 12-15, 2007. “Device and Circuit Modeling using Novel 3-State Quantum Dot Gate FETs,” (with J. Chandy, E. Heller and S. Karmakar), Proceedings of the International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium, College Park, MD, December 12-15, 2007. “Pseudo Quantum Dot Behavior Due to Excitonic Transitions in Wide Gap Quantum Wire Lasers: InGaN-AlGaN and ZnCdSe-ZnMgSSe Material Systems,” (with W. Huang), Proceedings of the

International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium, College Park, MD, December 12-15, 2007.

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“Heterojunction n-ZnMgS-pSi Solar Cells,” (with E. Suarez and J.E. Ayers), Proceedings of the 17th

Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Symposium, p. 44, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 9, 2008. “Quantum Dot Gate Field-Effect Transistors Configured as 3-State FETs and Nonvolatile Memory Devices for Mixed Signal Circuits,” (with R. Velampati, A. Rodriguez, M. Gogna, F. Al-Amoody, J. Chandy, E. Heller, E.-S. Hasaneen, B.I. Miller and F. Papadimitrakopoulos), Proceedings of the

Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Symposium, p. 9, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 9, 2008. “Capacitance – Voltage Characteristics and Site Specific Self Assembly of GeOx-Cladded Ge Dots to Form Quantum Dot for Nanoscale Devices,” (with M. Gogna and F. Al-Amoody), Proceedings of the 17

th

Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Symposium, p. 63, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 9, 2008. “Overshoot Graded Layers for Defect Engineering in Heteroepitaxial Semiconductor Structures,” (with J. F. Ocampo, E.N. Suarez, P.B. Rago, D. Shah and J.E. Ayers), Proceedings of the 17

th Connecticut

Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Symposium, p. 15, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 9, 2008. “Tandem Structure ZnS-Si/Ge Solar Cell,” (with R. Setya and A. Flores), Proceedings of the 17

th

Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Symposium, p. 66, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 9, 2008. “Programmable Threshold Voltage Using Quantum Dot Transistors for Low-Power Mobile Computing,” (with S. Wang, J. Dai, L. Wang and E. Hasanin), Proceedings of the International Symposium on Circuits

and Systems, pp. 3350-3353, May 2008. “Multiple Valued Logic Using 3-State Quantum Dot Gate FETs,” (with J. Chandy), Proceedings of the

38th International Symposium on Multiple Valued Logic, p. 186, May 2008.

“Improved Methodology to Nucleate ZnxCd1-xSe Cladded ZnyCd1-ySe Quantum Dots using PMP-MOCVD for Lasers and Electroluminescent Phosphors,” (with F. Al-Amoody, A. Rodriguez, E. Suarez and W. Huang), Proceedings of Nanotech 2008, CD only, M82.204, Boston, MA, June 1-5, 2008. “Imaging Laser Radar and Optical Processor for Underwater Target Recognition and Tracking System,” (with E. Suarez), Proceedings of the ONR-ULI Conference, CD only, Arlington, VA, June 3-5, 2008. Bahram Javidi “Optical Resources for Highly Secure Remote Object Authentication,” (with M. Millan and E. Perez), Proceedings of SPIE, Application of Digital Image Processing XXX, Vol. 6696, pp. 66961P1-66961P12, SPIE Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, August 2007. “Optical Encryption,” (with E. Tajahuerce), Proceedings of The 12

th International Congress for

Stereology 2007, invited, special session on “Anti-counterfeiting Image Analysis Methods,” Saint Etienne, France, August 30-September 7, 2007. “Three-dimensional Tracking of Objects in Holographic Imaging,” (with M. DaneshPanah), Proceedings

of SPIE Optics East, Vol. 6778, Boston, MA, September 9-12, 2007. “Analysis of Synthetic Aperture Integral Imaging,” (with B. Tavakoli, M. DaneshPanah and E. Watson), Proceedings of SPIE Optics East, Vol. 6778, Boston, MA, September 9-12, 2007.

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“Three-dimensional Distortion-tolerant Object Classification using Photon-counting Linear Discriminant Analysis,” (with S. Yeom and E. Watson), Proceedings of SPIE Optics East, invited, Vol. 6778, Boston, MA, September 9-12, 2007. “Improved Resolution Synthetic Aperture Holographic Imaging,” (with L. Martinez-Leon), Proceedings

of SPIE Optics East, invited, Vol. 6778, Boston, MA, September 9-12, 2007. “Real Time Automated Three Dimensional Recognition of Micro/Nano Biological Organisms,” (with I. Moon), Proceedings of SPIE Optics East, Vol. 6778, Boston, MA, September 9-12, 2007. “Single-shot Compressive Imaging,” (with A. Stern and Y. Rivenson), Proceedings of SPIE Optics East, invited, Vol. 6778, Boston, MA, September 9-12, 2007. “New Application of Integral Imaging,” (with Y. Hwang), Proceedings of SPIE Optics East, invited, Vol. 6778, Boston, MA, September 9-12, 2007. “Independent Component Analysis based Multi-focus Holographic Image Fusion,” (with C. Do), Proceedings of SPIE Optics East, Vol. 6778, Boston, MA, September 9-12, 2007. “Relay Optics for Enhanced Integral Imaging,” (with R. Martinez-Cuenca, G. Saavedra and M. Martinez-Corral), Proceedings of SPIE Optics East, keynote address, Vol. 6778, Boston, MA, September 9-12, 2007. “Improved Performance 3D Sensing and Imaging,” (with M. Martinez, G. Saavedra, A. Stern, E. Watson and P. McManamon), Proceedings of Optical MicroSystem 07, sponsored by European Optical Society, IEEE LEOS and IoP, plenary address, Capri, Italy, September 30, October 2, 2007. “New Paradigms for Active and Passive 3D Remote Object Sensing, Visualization, and Recognition,” (with P.F. McManamon, E. Watson, M. Daneshpanah and R. Schulein,” Proceedings of SPIE Defense

and Security 2008, keynote address, Vol. 6967, Orlando, FL, April 2008. “Photon-counting Passive 3D Image Sensing and Processing for Automatic Target Recognition,” (with S. Yeom and E. A. Watson), Proceedings of SPIE Defense and Security 2008, keynote address, Vol. 6963, Orlando, FL, April 2008. “Optically Compressed Image Sensing using Random Aperture Coding,” (with A. Stern and Y. Rivenson), Proceedings of SPIE Defense and Security 2008, keynote address, Vol. 6975, Orlando, FL, April 2008. “Optical ID Tags for Automatic Vehicle Identification and Authentication,” (with E. Perez and M. Millan), Proceedings of SPIE Defense and Security 2008, keynote address, Vol. 6977, Orlando, FL, April 2008. “Extension of Depth of Field in Integral Imaging using Amplitude and Phase Modulation of the Pupil Function,” (with S. Bagheri), Proceedings of SPIE Defense and Security 2008, invited, Vol. 6983, Orlando, FL, April 2008. “3D Integral Imaging with Optical Processing,” (with M. Martinez-Corral, R. Martinez-Cuenca and G. Saavedra), Proceedings of SPIE Defense and Security 2008, invited, Vol. 6983, Orlando, FL, April 2008. “New Application of Integral Imaging,” (with Y.S. Hwang), Proceedings of SPIE Defense and Security

2008, Vol. 6983, Orlando, FL, April 2008.

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“3D Optical Microscopy using Digital Holography,” (with A. Stern), Proceedings of SPIE Defense and

Security 2008, invited, Vol. 6983, Orlando, FL, April 2008. “Three Dimensional Sensing, Visualization and Display,” (M. DaneshPanah, I. Moon, M. Martinez-Corral, G. Saavedra and R. Martinez), Proceedings of IEEE 3D TV Conference, keynote address, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2008. Peter B. Luh “Coherent Modeling and Effective Coordination for Building Emergency Evacuation,” (with B. Xiong, S.-C. Chang, L. Michel and A. See), Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Conference on Automation Science

and Engineering, pp. 670-677, Scottsdale, AZ, September 2007. “Short-Term Load Forecasting: Similar Day-based Wavelet Neural Networks,” (with Y. Chen and S.J. Rourke), Proceedings of the Seventh World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Chongqing, China, June 2008. Robert Magnusson “Resonance Effects in Nanopatterned Photonic-Crystal Films and their Application in Biosensors, Tunable Filters, and Displays,” invited, Proceedings of the Texas Nano Summit, August 7-8, 2007. “Single-Layer Guided-Mode Resonance Polarizer,” (with K.J. Lee and R. LaComb), Proceedings of the

Optical Society of America’s Frontiers in Optics, OSA’s 91st Annual Meeting, Paper JWC27 on Technical Digest CD, San Jose, CA, September 16-20, 2007. “Guided-Mode Resonance Devices Fabricated in UV Curable Polymers,” (with K.J. Lee), Proceedings of

the Optical Society of America’s Frontiers in Optics, OSA’s 91st Annual Meeting, Paper JWC38 on Technical Digest CD, San Jose, CA, September 16-20, 2007. “Tunable Nanoelectromechanical RGB Pixels,” (with M. Shokooh-Saremi), Proceedings of the Optical

Society of America’s Frontiers in Optics, OSA’s 91st Annual Meeting, Paper FThC4 on Technical Digest CD, San Jose, CA, September 16-20, 2007. “Silicon Membrane-Based Narrow Bandpass Leaky-Mode Resonance Filter,” (with M. Shokooh-Saremi), Proceedings of the Optical Society of America’s Frontiers in Optics, OSA’s 91st Annual Meeting, Paper FWR5 on Technical Digest CD, San Jose, CA, September 16-20, 2007. “Guided-Mode Resonance Sensors for Biochemical Screening,” (with D. Wawro), Proceedings of the

IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting, invited, pp. 228-229, Lake Buena Vista, FL, October 21-25, 2007. “Enabling Technology Based on Leaky-Mode Resonance Effects in Periodic Films,” (with M. Shokooh-Saremi, K.J. Lee and D. Wawro), Proceedings of the Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, CD, Boston, MA, November 26-30, 2007. “Tunable Leaky-Mode MEMS Filters for Multispectral Imaging Applications,” (with M. Shokooh-Saremi), Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference, Paper No. 5.0402 on CD, Big Sky, MT, March 1-8, 2008. “Silicon-on-Insulator based Resonant Leaky-Mode Broadband Reflectors,” (with M. Shokooh-Saremi), Proceedings of the 17

th Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Consortium Symposium, pp. 3-

4, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April, 9, 2008.

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“Fabrication and Characterization of a Guided-Mode Resonance Polarizer,” (with K.J. Lee and M. Shokooh-Saremi), Proceedings of the 17

th Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Consortium

Symposium, pp. 46-47, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April, 9, 2008. “Fabrication of Patterned Resonance Elements by Nanoscale Imprint Method,” (with Y. Hu, K.J. Lee, M. Shokooh-Saremi, S. Platzer and A.K. Nebioglu), Proceedings of the 17

th Connecticut Microelectronics

and Optoelectronics Consortium Symposium, p. 47, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April, 9, 2008. “Properties of Nanostructured Resonant Leaky-Mode Photonic Devices,” Proceedings of CIMTEC 2008:

3rd

International Conference on Smart Materials, Structures, and Systems, Symposium on Smart Optics, pp. 43-44, Sicily, Italy, June 8-13, 2008. Krishna R. Pattipati “A Probabilistic Computational Model for Identifying Organizational Structures from Uncertain Message Data,” (with F. Yu, G.M. Levchuk and F. Tu), Proceedings of Fusion 2007, pp. 1-8, ISBN: 978-0-662-45804-3, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, July 2007. “Novel Classifier Fusion Approaches for Fault Diagnosis in Automotive Systems,” (with K. Choi, S. Singh, J.W. Sheppard, S.M. Namburu, S. Chigusa, D.V. Prokhorov and L. Qiao), Proceedings of IEEE

AUTOTESTCON, pp. 260-269, ISBN: 978-1-4244-1239-6, September 17-20, 2007. “Dynamic Fusion of Classifiers for Fault Diagnosis,” (with S. Singh, K. Choi, A. Kodali, S.M. Namburu, S. Chigusa, D.V. Prokhorov and L. Qiao), Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems,

Man, and Cybernetics, pp. 2467-2472, ISBN: 978-1-4244-0991-4, Montreal, Canada, October 2007. “Rollout Strategy for Hidden Markov Model (HMM)-based Dynamic Sensor Scheduling,” (with H. Lee, S. Singh, W. An, S. Gokhale and D.L. Kleinman), Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pp. 553-558, ISBN: 978-1-4244-0991-4, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 2007. “Application-Layer Multipath Data Transfer via TCP: Schemes and Performance Tradeoffs,” (with B. Wang, W. Wei, J. Kurose, D. Towsley, Z. Guo and Z. Peng), Proceedings of Performance 2007, Vol. 64, No. 9-12, pp. 965-977, Cologne, Germany, October 2007. “Surveillance by Multiple Cooperative UAVs in Adversarial Environments,” (with X. Tian and Y. Bar-Shalom), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, Vol. 6969, No. 47, pp. 69691E-69691E-12, Orlando, FL, March 2008. “Dynamic Set Covering for Real-Time Multiple Fault Diagnosis,” (with A. Kodali, S. Singh, K. Choi, S. M. Namburu, S. Chigusa, D.V. Prokhorov and L. Qiao), Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference, pp. 1-11, DOI: AERO.2008.4526617, Big Sky, MT, March 2008. “Compressed Sensing – a Look Beyond Linear Programming,” (with C. Berger, J. Areta and P.K. Willett), Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal

Processing, pp. 3857-3860, ISBN: 978-1-4244-1483-3, Las Vegas, NV, March 30-April 4, 2008. Geoffrey W. Taylor “Corrections to ‘CW Gain Characteristics of Linear Optical Amplifiers,’” (with W. Zheng), IEEE Journal

of Quantum Electronics, Vol. 44, No. 1, p. 108, 2008.

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Mohammad Tehranipoor “Transition Delay Fault Test Pattern Generation Considering Supply Voltage Noise in a SOC Design,” (with N. Ahmed and V. Jayaram), Proceedings of the 2007 Design Automation Conference, 2007. “Supply Voltage Noise Aware ATPG for Transition Delay Faults,” (with N. Ahmed and V. Jayaram), Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, 2007. “Test Pattern Grading for Small Delay Defects,” (with M. Yilmaz and K. Chakrabarty), Proceedings of

the 2007 International Workshop on Defect-Based Testing, October 2007. “Small Delay Defect Detection Using Self-Relative Timing Bounds,” (with R. Helinski and J. Plusquellic), Proceedings of the 2007 International Workshop on Defect-Based Testing, October 2007. “Layout-aware, IR-drop Tolerant Transition Fault Pattern Generation,” (with J. Lee, S. Narayan and M. Kapralos), Proceedings of Design, Automation, and Test in Europe, March 2008. “Path-RO: On-Chip Critical Path Delay Measurement Under Process Variations,” (with X. Wang and R. Datta), Proceedings of the IEEE North Atlantic Test Workshop, May 2008. “Test Pattern Generation for Open Defects in Power Distribution Networks,” (with J. Ma, J. Lee and A. Crouch), Proceedings of the IEEE North Atlantic Test Workshop, May 2008. “Low-Power Transition-Delay Fault Pattern Generation,” (with J. Lee and S. Narayan), Proceedings of

the IEEE North Atlantic Test Workshop, May 2008. “LS-TDF: Low Switching Transition Delay Fault Test Pattern Generation,” (with J. Lee), Proceedings of

the 2008 IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, May 2008. “Test Grading and Pattern Selection for Small Delay Defects,” (with M. Yilmaz and K. Chakrabarty), Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, May 2008. “Taxonomy of Malicious Inclusions in Secure Hardware and Methods of Detection,” (with X. Wang and J. Plusquellic), Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust

Conference, June 2008. “Regional Power Supply Transient Signal Calibration and Analysis for Hardware Trojan Detection and Localization,” (with R. Rad and J. Plusquellic), Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Hardware-

Oriented Security and Trust Conference, June 2008. Lei Wang “Dynamic Redundancy Allocation for Reliable and High-Performance Nanocomputing,” (with S. Wang and F.C. Jain), Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures, pp. 1-6, October 2007. “Analysis of Defect Tolerance in Molecular Electronics Using Information-Theoretic Measures,” (with J. Dai and F.C. Jain), Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures, pp. 21-26, October 2007. “Design of Error-Tolerant Cache Memory for Multithreaded Computing,” (with S. Wang), Proceedings

of the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 1850-1853, May 2008.

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“Programmable Threshold Voltage Using Quantum Dot Transistors for Low-Power Mobile Computing,” (with S. Wang, J. Dai, F.C. Jain and E. Hasan), Proceedings of the International Symposium on Circuits

and Systems, pp. 3350-3353, May 2008. Peter K. Willett “Feature-Aided Tracking for Marine Mammal Detection and Classification,” (with O. Gerard, C. Carthel and S. Coraluppi), Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Detection and Classification of

Marine Mammals Using Passive Acoustics, CD only, Boston, MA, July 2007. “Gaussian Mixture Cardinalized PHD Filter for Ground Moving Target Tracking,” (with M. Ulmke and O. Erdinc), Proceedings of FUSION 2007, CD only, Quebec City, Canada, July 2007. “Multi-Frame Assignment PMHT That Accounts for Missed Detections,” (with W. Blanding, R. Streit and D. Dunham), Proceedings of FUSION 2007, CD only, Quebec City, Canada, July 2007. “MHT Tracking for Crossing Sonar Targets,” (with T. Luginbuhl and E. Giannopoulos), Proceedings of

the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, CD only, San Diego, CA, August 2007. “Consistent Covariance Estimation for the PMHT,” (with W. Blanding, R. Streit and D. Dunham), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, CD only, San Diego, CA, August 2007. “MIMO-OFDM over an Underwater Acoustic Channel,” (with B. Li, S. Zhou, M. Stojanovic, L. Freitag and J. Huang), Proceedings of OCEANS, CD only, Vancouver, Canada, September 2007. “The Problem of Test Latency in Machine Diagnosis,” (with O. Erdinc, C. Brideau and T. Kirubarajan), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 88-92, January 2008. “Detecting and Tracking Separating Objects Using Direct Monopulse Measurements,” (with A. Isaac and Y. Bar-Shalom), Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference, CD only, Big Sky, MT, March 2008. “Target Detection in Sensor Network Using a Zamboni and Scan Statistics,” (with M. Guerriero and J. Glaz), Proceedings of ICASSP 2008, pp. 2425-2428, Las Vegas, NV, March 2008. “Speedier Sequential Tests via Stochastic Resonance,” (with M. Guerriero, S. Marano and V. Matta), Proceedings of ICASSP 2008, pp. 3901-3904, Las Vegas, NV, March 2008. “Compressed Sensing: A Look Beyond Linear Programming,” (with C. Berger, J. Areta and K.R. Pattipati), Proceedings of ICASSP 2008, pp. 3857-3860, Las Vegas, NV, March 2008. “Optimal Memoryless Relays with NonCoherent Modulation,” (with D. Crouse, C. Berger and S. Zhou), Proceedings of the Conference on Information Science and Systems, CD only, Princeton, NJ, March 2008. “Analysis of Scan and Batch Processing Approaches to Static Fusion in Sensor Networks,” (with M. Guerriero and S. Coraluppi), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of

Small Targets, March 2008. “Aspect Aware UAV Localization,” (with C. Berger and S. Zhou), Proceedings of the SPIE Conference

on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, March 2008.

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“Using Measured RCS in a Serial Decentralized Fusion Approach to Radar Target Classification,” (with A. Register and W.D. Blair), Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference, CD only, Big Sky, MT, March 2008. “Efficient GLRTs via SPRTs,” (with S. Marano and V. Matta), Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace

Conference, CD only, Big Sky, MT, March 2008. “Structure of Non-Binary Regular LDPC Cycle Codes,” (with J. Huang and S. Zhou), Proceedings of

ICASSP 2008, pp. 2961-2964, Las Vegas, NV, March 2008. “Scalable OFDM Design for Underwater Acoustic Communications,” (with B. Li, S. Zhou and J. Huang), Proceedings of ICASSP 2008, pp. 5304-5307, Las Vegas, NV, March 2008. “Contact Fusion in Large Sensor Networks: Operational Performance Analysis,” (with S. Coraluppi and M. Guerriero), Proceedings of the NATO RTO SET Panel Symposium on Sensors and Technology for

Defense Against Terrorism, CD only, Mannheim, Germany, April 2008. “Detection, Synchronization, and Doppler Scale Estimation with Multicarrier Waveforms in Underwater Acoustic Communication,” (with S. Mason, C. Berger and S. Zhou), Proceedings of OCEANS, CD only, Kobe, Japan, April 2008. “Nonbinary LDPC Coding for Multicarrier Underwater Acoustic Communication,” (with J. Huang and S. Zhou), Proceedings of OCEANS, CD only, Kobe, Japan, April 2008. Shengli Zhou “A DSP Implementation of OFDM Acoustic Modem,” (with H. Yan, Z. Shi and B. Li), Proceedings of

the ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, September 14, 2007. “MIMO-OFDM Over an Underwater Acoustic Channel,” (with B. Li, M. Stojanovic, L. Freitag, J. Huang and P.K. Willett), Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, September 29-October 4, 2007. “Cross-layer Resource Allocation for Heterogeneous Traffic in Multi-user OFDM Based on a New QoS Fairness Criterion,” (with H. Hou, W. Zhou and J. Zhu), Proceedings of the IEEE Virtual Technology

Conference, Baltimore, MD, September 30-October 3, 2007. “Energy-Efficient Cooperative Communications based on Power Control and Selective Relay in Wireless Sensor Networks,” (with Z. Zhou, J. Cui and S. Cui), Proceedings of MILCOM, Orlando, FL, October 29-31, 2007. “Aspect Aware UAV Localization,” (with C. Berger and P.K. Willett), Proceedings of the SPIE

Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, March 2008. “Optimal Memoryless Relays with Non-coherent Modulation,” (with D.F. Crouse, C.R. Berger and P.K. Willett), Proceedings of CISS, Princeton, NJ, March 19-21, 2008. “Scalable OFDM Design for Underwater Acoustic Communications,” (with B. Li, J. Huang and P.K. Willett), Proceedings of ICASSP, Las Vegas, NV, March 30-April 4, 2008.

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“Structure of Non-Binary Regular LDPC Cycle Codes,” (with J. Huang and P.K. Willett), Proceedings of

ICASSP, Las Vegas, NV, March 30-April 4, 2008. “Non-binary LDPC Coding for Multi-carrier Underwater Acoustic Communication,” (with J. Huang and P.K. Willett), Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference, Kobe, Japan, April 8-11, 2008. “Detection, Synchronization and Doppler Scale Estimation with Multi-carrier Waveforms in Underwater Acoustic Communication,” (with S. Mason, C.R. Berger and P.K. Willett), Proceedings of MTS/IEEE

OCEANS Conference, Kobe, Japan, April 8-11, 2008. “Designing a Three-Node Underwater Acoustic Relay Network,” (with K. Jusufi, R. Behymer and M. Hoyer), Proceedings of the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Ocean City, MD, April 10-12, 2008. Quing Zhu “Investigation of Photoacoustic Guidance of Diffusive Optical Tomography,” (with J.K. Gamelin, A. Maurudis and A.S. Aguirre), Proceedings of SPIE Photonics West, Vol. 6856, No. 31, pp. 1-6, San Jose, CA, January 2008. “Feasibility Study of Three-dimensional Co-registered Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Imaging for Cancer Detection and Visualization,” (with A.S. Aguirre, J.K. Gamelin, P. Guo and S.K. Yan), Proceedings of

SPIE Photonics West, Vol. 6856, No. 83, pp. 1-6, San Jose, CA, January 2008. “Small Animal Imaging Using a Curved Array Photoacoustic Tomography System,” (with J.K. Gamelin, A.S. Aguirre, A. Maurudis, F. Huang, D. Castillo and L. Wang), Proceedings of SPIE Photonics West, Vol. 6856, pp. 1-6, San Jose, CA, January 2008. “Tumor Angiogenesis of Carcinoma in situ, Early-Stage Invasive and Large Breast Cancers Imaged by Optical Tomography with Ultrasound Localization,” (with C. Xu, M. Kane, Y. Ardeshirpour, L. Mariano, N. Baccaro, M. Lyers, P. Hegde, S. Tannenbaum, S. Kurtzman and P. Deckers), Technical Digest of OSA

Optics and Photonics Congress, Vol. BTUD5, pp. 1-3, Florida, March 2008. “Shadow Effect of Large Lesions in Optical Tomography Breast Imaging,” (with C. Xu), Technical

Digest of OSA Optics and Photonics Congress, Vol. BSuE23, pp. 1-3, Florida, March 2008. “Mechanism of the Ultrasonic Modulation of Fluorescence in Turbid Media,” (with B. Yuan and J.K. Gamelin), Technical Digest of OSA Optics and Photonics Congress, Vol. BSuE5, pp. 1-3, Florida, March 2008. “Effect of Chest-wall on Breast Lesion Reconstruction,” (with Y. Ardeshipour and M.M. Huang), Technical Digest of OSA Optics and Photonics Congress, Vol. BSuE21, pp. 1-3, Florida, March 2008. “A Fast 512-Channel System for Real-Time Photoacoustic Imaging of Small Animals,” (with A. Maurudis, J.K. Gamelin, A. Aguirre, N. White, M. Khalil, R. Shah, D. Castillo, F. Huang and L.V. Wang), Technical Digest of OSA Optics and Photonics Congress, Vol. BWG1, pp. 1-3, Florida, March 2008.

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2007-2008 John E. Ayers “Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education: Development of Introductory and Advanced Theory and Laboratory Courses in Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics,” (with PI: F.C. Jain (16%) and co-PIs: F. Papadimitrakopoulos (12%), R. Magnusson (12%), R. Bansal (12%), G. Sotzing (12%), B. Sinkovic (12%) and Q. Kessel (12%)), National Science Foundation, July 1, 2004 - June 30, 2008, $100,000 ($893). “Bistability in 500+GHz Sub-22nm Quantum Dot Gate InGaAs-InP FETs for Next Generation Analog and Digital Circuits for Advanced Radars and Communication Systems,” (with PI: F.C. Jain (20%) and co-PIs: R. Bansal (20%), J. Chandy (20%) and F. Papadimitrakopoulos (20%)), Office of Naval Research, October 1, 2005 - September 30, 2008, $420,087 ($18,229). Rajeev Bansal “Microwave Imaging for Breast Cancer,” University of Connecticut Research Foundation, January 1, 2003 - August 31, 2007, $12,989 ($64). “Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education: Development of Introductory and Advanced Theory and Laboratory Courses in Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics,” (with PI: F.C. Jain (16%) and co-PIs: F. Papadimitrakopoulos (12%), R. Magnusson (12%), J. Ayers (12%), G. Sotzing (12%), B. Sinkovic (12%) and Q. Kessel (12%)), National Science Foundation, July 1, 2004 - June 30, 2008, $100,000 ($893). “Analyze Robust, Reconfigurable, Netcentric, Sensor Network IAW,” (with co-PI: J. Chandy (50%)), Department of Defense/Navy/Naval Undersea Warfare Center, August 7, 2007 - June 30, 2008, $10,000 ($772). “Antenna Analysis/Optimization Techniques,” Egyptian Cultural & Educational Bureau, September 1, 2006 - August 31, 2008, $15,000 ($7,261) “Bistability in 500+GHz Sub-22nm Quantum Dot Gate InGaAs-InP FETs for Next Generation Analog and Digital Circuits for Advanced Radars and Communication Systems,” (with PI: F.C. Jain (20%) and co-PIs: J. Ayers (20%), J. Chandy (20%) and F. Papadimitrakopoulos (20%)), Office of Naval Research, October 1, 2005 - September 30, 2008, $420,087 ($18,229). “Graduate Research Program in Applied Electromagnetics,” United Technologies Research Center, November 1, 1988 – December 31, 2008, $18,000, ($10,427). “School of Engineering Electrical & Computer Engineering Senior Design Project,” Mixed Sources, September 1, 2005 – December 31, 2008, $54,141 ($9,070). Yaakov Bar-Shalom “Tracking with a Swarm of GMTI Equipped UAVs,” U.S. Air Force (AFOSR FA9550-04-1-0141), March 1, 2004 – August 31, 2007, $299,806 ($2,590).

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“Multisensor Surveillance and Tracking,” Office of Naval Research (ONR N00014-04-1-0079), October 1, 2003 - September 30, 2007, $299,000 ($11,899). “Multisensor Surveillance and Tracking for BMD,” Office of Naval Research (ONR N00014-06-1-0875), May 30, 2006 - September 30, 2007, $96,628 ($9,506). “Data Association and Consistent Multisensor Tracking,” MDA STTR with Technology Service Corporation, August 31, 2007 - February 28, 2008, $33,040 ($29,060). “Network Level Association and Fusion of Kinematic and Attribute Information,” U.S. Army (ARO W911NF-06-1-0467), October 1, 2006 - December 31, 2008, $179,991 ($87,073). “Estimation with Multisensor Fusion for Networked Systems,” Office of Naval Research (ONR N00014-07-1-0131), December 1, 2006 - November 30, 2009, $425,600 ($117,125). Steven A. Boggs “Analysis of 138kv Cable System Operated for 10 Days without Solid Ground,” Consolidated Edison of New York, Inc., July 5, 2007 - October 31, 2007, $12,500 ($10,382). “Capacitor Analysis: Testing of Capacitor Films,” U.S. Department of Defense/Army, August 29, 2001 - December 29, 2007, $410,032 ($61,766). “Development of Improved Film Dielectrics for High Energy Density Capacitors,” U.S. Department of Defense/Army/TACOM, October 1, 2002 - December 29, 2007, $158,869 ($124). “Partial Discharge Diagnostics for Separable Connectors – Feasibility Study,” Consolidated Edison of New York, Inc., April 1, 2007 - February 29, 2008, $65,000 ($43,509). “Experimental Investigation of Secondary Cable Degradation,” Consolidated Edison of New York, Inc., December 8, 2006 - August 31, 2008, $258,000 ($82,815). “Promotion of EPR Cable Technology,” DuPont/Dow/Exxon/Kerite/Okonite/Uniroyal, November 1, 1998 - December 31, 2008, $1,192,500 ($38,672). “Issues Related to Silicon-Injected Cable,” UTILX, April 2, 2008 - December 31, 2008, $50,000 ($1,309). “Processing and Surface Analysis of Interfaces in Hybrid Composites,” U.S. Department of Defense/Air Force, University Technology Corporation, February 1, 2008 - January 31, 2010, $47,852 ($1,110). John A. Chandy “Analyze Robust, Reconfigurable, Netcentric Sensor Network IAW,” (with PI: R. Bansal (50%)), U.S. Department of Defense/Navy/Naval Undersea Warfare Center, August 7, 2007 – June 30, 2008, $10,000 ($772). “Bistability in 500+GHz Sub-22nm Quantum Dot Gate InGaAs-InP FETs for Next Generation Analog & Digital Circuits for Advanced Radars and Communication Systems,” (with PI: F.C. Jain (20%) and co-PIs: J.E. Ayers (20%), R. Bansal (20%) and F. Papadimitrakopoulos (20%)), Office of Naval Research, October 1, 2005 – September 30, 2008, $420,087 ($18,229).

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“Active Storage Networks for High End Computing,” National Science Foundation, September 1, 2006 - August 31, 2009, $538,089 ($99,462). “Bistable Quantum Dot Gate Field-Effect Transistors Exhibiting Multi-State Operation: A Novel Approach to Reduce Device Count in ICs,” (with PI: F.C. Jain (34%) and co-PI: F. Papadimitrakopoulos (33%)), National Science Foundation, September 1, 2006 – August 31, 2011, $285,000 ($17,213). Eric Donkor “12-bit 10GSPS Optical Analog-to-Digital Converter,” U.S. Air Force/Agiltron, Inc., August 15, 2007 - May 14, 2008, $34,039 ($22,718). “REU: Undergraduate Research Scholars in Electrical and Computer Engineering,” (with co-PI: R. Magnusson (50%)), National Science Foundation, June 1, 2004 – May 31, 2008, $286,476 ($4,713). John D. Enderle “Clinical Engineering Internship Program at Baystate Medical Center,” Baystate Medical Center, August 23, 1997 - August 22, 2007, $390,971 ($0). “Clinical Engineering Internship Program at UConn Health Center,” University of Conneticut Health Center, August 24, 1997 - August 23, 2007, $299,323 ($0). “Clinical Engineering Internship Program at Premier, Inc.,” Premier, Inc., August 24, 2005 - August 23, 2007, $48,607 ($503). “Clinical Engineering Internship Program at Connecticut VA Healthcare System,” Connecticut VA Healthcare System, April 1, 2007 – September 30, 2007, $43,614 ($27,393). “Clinical Engineering Internship Program at Providence VA Medical Center,” Providence VA Medical Center, October 16, 2006 - October 15, 2007, $22,538 ($5,060). “Clinical Engineering Internship Program at the Middlesex Memorial Hospital, Inc.,” Middlesex Memorial Hospital, Inc., June 16, 2006 - June 15, 2008, $53,927 ($24,179). “University of Connecticut RERC on Accessible Medical Instrumentation,” (with PIs: J. Winters and M. Follette Story, U.S. Department of Education/Marquette University), subcontract to University of Connecticut (PI: J. Enderle) November 1, 2002 - July 31, 2008, $314,259 ($82,500). “Clinical Engineering Internship Program at Hartford Hospital,” Hartford Hospital, August 23, 1997 - August 22, 2008, $397,148 ($46,064). “Clinical Engineering Internship Program at the UMass Memorial Medical Center,” University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center, August 23, 2003 – August 22, 2008, $132,510 ($46,064). “Clinical Engineering Internship Program at Technology Management Solutions, LLC,” Technology Management Solutions, LLC, August 23, 2006 - August 22, 2008, $19,707 ($0). “Clinical Engineering Internship Program at the Lifespan (Rhode Island Hospital, Miriam Hospital and Newport Hospital),” Lifespan, August 24, 2004 – August 23, 2008, $82,854 ($26,728). “Clinical Engineering Internship Program at Providence VA Medical Center,” Providence VA Medical Center, October 1, 2007 – September 30, 2008, $28,557 ($9,227).

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“Clinical Engineering Internship Program at Providence VA Medical Center,” Providence VA Medical Center, October 1, 2007 - September 30, 2008, $28,557 ($9,247). “Clinical Engineering Internship Program at Connecticut VA Healthcare System,” Connecticut VA Healthcare System, October 1, 2007 - September 30, 2008, $80,303 ($42,668). “Editor-in-Chief of EMB Magazine,” IEEE-EMBS, January 1, 2007 - December 31, 2008, $70,000 ($34,230). “Engineering Senior Design Projects to Aid Persons with Disabilities,” National Science Foundation, May 1, 2005 - April 30, 2009, $100,000 ($43,021). “REU Supplement for Engineering Senior Design Projects for the Disabled,” National Science Foundation, May 1, 2005 - April 30, 2009, $15,000 ($1,183). “An Annual Review of Engineering Senior Design Projects to Aid Persons with Disabilities,” National Science Foundation, August 1, 2003 - July 31, 2009, $330,524 ($40,384). “Supplement to an Annual Review of Engineering Senior Design Projects to Aid Persons with Disabilities,” National Science Foundation, August 1, 2005 - July 31, 2009, $3,000 ($0). “Clinical Engineering Internship Program at Baystate Medical Center,” Baystate Medical Center, LLC, August 23, 2006 - August 22, 2009, $110,332 ($59,011). “Clinical Engineering Internship Program at UConn Health Center,” University of Connecticut Health Center, August 23, 2007 - August 22, 2009, $118,513 ($47,023). Monty A. Escabì “Organization of Spectro-Temporal and Binaural Response Properties in the Inferior Colliculus,” (with co-PI: H.L. Read (30%)), National Institutes of Health/National Institutes of Deafness and other Communication Disorders, July 15, 2004 – May 31, 2009, $1,246,880 ($165,173). Yunsi Fei “Coordinated Management of Mobile Computer Systems: Balancing Quality-of-Service (QoS) and Energy Efficiency,” University of Connecticut Faculty Large Grant, April 26, 2006 – April 30, 2008, $32,000 ($29,832). “A Multi-Level/Multi-Faceted Framework for Energy-Efficient Application-Specific Instruction Set Processor Synthesis,” National Science Foundation CCF Foundations of Computing Processes and Artifacts (CPA) Program, April 1, 2006 – March 31, 2009, $275,000 ($38,023). “Collaborative Research: CRI: IAD: Developing a Novel Infrastructure for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks,” (with PI: J.-H. Cui (19%) and co-PIs: S. Zhou (9%), P. Willett (9%), S. Rajasekaran (9%), R. Ammar (9%), A. Bagtzoglou (9%), B. Wang (9%), Z. Shi (9%) and T. Torgersen (9%)), National Science Foundation/CISE, August 1, 2007 – July 31, 2010, $319,998 ($3,920).

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Ali Gokirmak “Crystallization of Nanocrystalline Silicon Nanowires through Pulsed Current Self Heating,” University of Connecticut Faculty Large Grant, January 1, 2008 - December 31, 2008, $21,527 ($5,348). “Tunable Photonic Nanostructures Exhibiting Plasmonic and Leaky-Mode Resonances,” (with PI: R. Magnusson (50%)), National Science Foundation, May 15, 2007 - April 30, 2010, $300,000 ($32,643). “EXP-LA: Realtime, Compact and Ultrasensative Sensor Arrays for Explosives Vapor Detection,” (with PI: Y. Lei (33%) and co-PIs: C. Brueckner and Y. Yan (3.13%)), National Science Foundation/ENG CBET – Explosives & RLTD Threats Exp., September 1, 2007 - August 31, 2010, $555,103 ($81). Faquir C. Jain “Growth and Characterization of InGaAs-InP Devices and Optoelectronic Systems,” U.S. Army/Alcatel-Lucent Corporation, August 1, 2007 - January 31, 2008, $76,990 ($46,808). “Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education: Development of Introductory and Advanced Theory and Laboratory Courses in Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics,” National Science Foundation, (with co-PIs: J. Ayers (12%), F. Papadimitrakopoulos (12%), R. Bansal (12%), G. Sotzing (12%), B. Sinkovic (12%), Q. Kessel (12%) and R. Magnusson (12%)), July 1, 2004 - June 30, 2008, $100,000 ($1,190). “High-speed Spatial Light Modulator Based Optical Processor for a Real Time Target Recognition and Tracking System,” Office of Naval Research, March 1, 2005 - August 31, 2008, $192,000 ($26,596). “Re-configurable Nano-Architecture Using Sub-22nm Devices for Advanced Computing,” Intel Corporation, September 1, 2007 - August 31, 2008, $19,565 ($17,074). “Miniaturized Wireless Implantable Biosensors for Multiple Analyte Monitoring,” (with PI: D. Burgess (34%) and co-PI: F. Papadimitrakopoulos (33%)), U.S. Army Medical Research Materiel Command, September 12, 2007 - September 11, 2008, $199,891 ($39,010). “Miniaturized Wireless Implantable Biosensors for Metabolic Monitoring,” (with PI: D. Burgess (34%) and co-PI: F. Papadimitrakopoulos (33%)), National Institutes of Health, September 30, 2007 - September 29, 2008, $700,000 ($35,205). “Bistability in 500+GHz Sub-22nm Quantum Dot Gate InGaAs-InP FETs for Next Generation Analog and Digital Circuits for Advanced Radars and Communication Systems,” (with co-PIs: J. Ayers (20%), R. Bansal (20%), J. Chandy (20%) and F. Papadimitrakopoulos (20%)), Office of Naval Research, N00014-06-1-0016, October 1, 2005 - September 30, 2008, $420,087 ($18,229). “Imaging Laser Radar and Optical Processor Underwater Target Recognition and Tracking,” U.S. Department of Defense/Office of Naval Research, October 29, 2007 - October 28, 2008, $64,000 ($11,828). “Information Theoretic Foundation of Molecular Computing: Performance Limits and Design Optimization,” (with PI: L. Wang (75%)), National Science Foundation, September 1, 2006 - August 31, 2009, $275,000 ($19,288). “Bistable Quantum Dot Gate Field-Effect Transistors Exhibiting a Multi-State Operation: A Novel Approach to Reduce Device Count in ICs,” (with co-PIs: J. Chandy (33%) and F. Papadimitrakopoulos (33%)), National Science Foundation, September 1, 2006 - August 31, 2011, $285,000 ($17,734); School of Engineering match, September 1, 2006 - August 31, 2009, $13,500 ($7,663).

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Bahram Javidi “Three Dimensional Reconstruction of Occluded Objects,” Lockheed Martin Corporation, February 1, 2007 - December 10, 2007, $54,677 ($54,677). “Passive Photon Counting 3D Sensing, Imaging and Object Recognition,” U.S. Air Force and Anteon Corporation, June 15, 2005 - December 31, 2007, $180,676 ($31,667). “Image Segmentation for Leather Hide Defects,” Gerber Scientific, Inc./Gerber Technology, January 7, 2008 – March 30, 2008, $10,000 ($5,569). “3D Passive Sensing, Detection and Recognition of Objects Occluded by Cloud,” DARPA, September 27, 2007 - January 26, 2009, $155,000 ($27,959). Peter B. Luh “EPNES: Robustness, Efficiency, and Security of Electric Power Grids in a Market Environment,” (with co-PI: D. Pepyne), National Science Foundation ECS-0323685, September 3, 2003 - August 31, 2007, $467,544 ($10,143). “Editor-in-Chief Support - IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering,” IEEE, January 1, 2007 - December 31, 2007, $63,431 ($33,714). “Power Plant Boiler Modeling and Optimization, Phase V,” Alstom Power Corporation, August 23, 2007 - May 21, 2008, $61,253 ($34,837). “Power Plant Boiler Modeling and Optimization, Phase III,” Alstom Power Corporation, September 1, 2006 - May 31, 2008, $30,043 ($0). “Start-Up and No-Load Pricing for Electricity Markets,” ISO-New England Inc., May 1, 2007 - October 31, 2008, $50,000 ($23,734). “Two-level Wavelet Decomposition for Short-Term Load Forecasting/Mid-West ISO,” Envapower, Inc., December 17, 2007 - November 30, 2008, $22,177 ($6,210). “Simultaneous Optimal Auction and Unit Commitment for Deregulated Electricity Markets,” Southern California Edison, May 15, 2003 - December 31, 2008, $339,848 ($53,222). “Achieving Quality and Coherent Configuration and Operations,” National Science Foundation DMI-0423607, September 1, 2004 - August 31, 2009, $335,000 ($44,093). “Improved Short-Term Load Forecasting,” ISO New England, Inc., October 1, 2005 - December 31, 2008, $131,168 ($29,767). “Electricity Auction: Optimization, Market Behaviors, and Comparative Study,” National Science Foundation ECS-0621936, September 1, 2006 - August 31, 2009, $239,999 ($24,973). Robert Magnusson “Environmental Sensor for Autonomous UAVs,” U.S. Army Phase I SBIR issued to Milsys Technologies, LLC, November 5, 2007 - April 5, 2008, $11,000 ($4,614).

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“REU Site-Undergraduate Research Scholars in Electrical & Computer Engineering,” (with PI: E. Donkor (50%)), National Science Foundation, June 1, 2004 - May 31, 2008, $286,476 ($4,713). “Multispectral Polarization Imager,” Air Force Office of Scientific Research Phase I SBIR issued to Milsys Technologies, LLC, October 1, 2007 - June 14, 2008, $42,000 ($23,591). “Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education: Development of Introductory and Advanced Theory and Laboratory Courses in Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics,” (with PI: F.C. Jain (16%) and co-PIs: F. Papadimitrakopoulos (12%), J. Ayers (12%), R. Bansal (12%), G. Sotzing (12%), B. Sinkovic (12%), and Q. Kessel (12%)), National Science Foundation, July 1, 2004 - June 30, 2008, $100,000 ($893). “Development of Nanoscale Imprint Technology for Efficient Fabrication of Resonant Photonic-Crystal Devices,” Connecticut Office for Workforce Competitiveness/CCAT/CT Nanotechnology Fellowship Bridge Program, October 15, 2007 - September 30, 2008, $54,638 ($45,008). “Resonant Leaky-Mode Photonic-Crystal Devices with Engineered Spectra,” National Science Foundation, September 1, 2005 - August 31, 2009, $240,000 ($50,894). “Tunable Photonic Nanostructures Exhibiting Plasmonic and Leaky-Mode Resonances,” (with co-PI: A. Gokirmak (50%)), National Science Foundation, May 15, 2007 - April 30, 2010, $300,000 ($32,643). Krishna R. Pattipati “Hybrid Data-driven and Model-based Classifier Fusion for Engine Health Monitoring,” Pratt & Whitney, January 4, 2007 - December 31, 2007, $32,213 ($7,020). “Intelligent Vehicle Diagnostics,” Toyota Technical Center, February 1, 2003 - August 31, 2008, $690,505 ($103,487). “Design and Analysis of Agile Command and Control Organizations in Support of Navy Command Concepts,” (with co-PI: S. Gokhale (30%)), (N000-14-06-1-0080) Office of Naval Research, October 15, 2005 - October 14, 2008, $720,540 ($196,332). “Machine Learning Techniques to Identify Patterns in Sparse Data,” U.S. Air Force/NSI, Inc., March 1, 2008 - December 31, 2008, $10,000 ($0). Helena Silva “Side Gated Ultra Narrow Channel Silicon Transistors,” University of Connecticut Research Foundation Faculty Large Grant, January 1, 2008 - December 31, 2008, $23,884 ($6,212). Geoff W. Taylor “Thyristor Based Transponders for Satellite Data Interfaces,” OPEL Inc., June 1, 2005 - September 15, 2008, $170,000 ($11,816). “Development of Transponder GAAs Integrated Circuits High Bandwidth OE Data Interfaces,” OPEL Inc., June 15, 2005 - September 15, 2008, $300,000 ($46,646). “Development of Infrared Detectors,” OPEL, Inc., January 1, 2008 – January 1, 2009, $82,000 ($25,718).

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Mohammad Tehranipoor “Detection and Isolation of Malicious Inclusions in Secure Hardware (DIMINISH),” National Science Foundation/CISE, August 1, 2007 - July 31, 2008, $35,536 ($23,028). “At-Speed Transition Fault Testing Using Low Cost Testers,” Semiconductor Research Corporation, October 1, 2006 - September 30, 2008, $103,218 ($57,205). “Timing-Aware ATPGs for Maximizing Crosstalk/Signal Integrity Effects on SoCs,” Semiconductor Research Corporation, April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2009, $182,096 ($46,235). “Silicon Hardware Authentication Using Delay Analysis of Integrated Circuits,” University of Connecticut Research Foundation Faculty Large Grant, June 1, 2008 - May 31, 2009, $23,371 ($0). Lei Wang “Information-Theoretic Foundation of Molecular Computing: Performance Limits and Design Optimization,” (with co-PI: F. Jain (25%)), National Science Foundation, September 1, 2006 - August 31, 2009, $275,000 ($57,863). Peter K. Willett “Deep-Memory Tracking of Unresolved Sonar Targets,” Naval Underwater Warfare Center, (N66604-06-1-3617), August 17, 2006 - August 15, 2007, $29,904 ($9,408). “Data Reduction Techniques for Real-Time Fault Detection & Isolation (FDI) and Multiple Fault Inference with Imperfect Tests,” NASA STTR with Qualtech Systems, Inc., January 18, 2008 - December 31, 2008, $16,717 ($11,435). “The PMHT for Track-Before-Detect,” VECTRAXX, Inc./Missile Defense Agency, October 1, 2007 - September 18, 2009, $186,000 ($18,851). “Target Tracking Using Multi-Static and Networked Sensors: Collaboration with NUWC,” Office of Naval Research (N0014-07-1-0055), December 1, 2006 - October 31, 2009, $165,173 ($67,137). “Sensor Networks for Multiple Target Tracking,” (with co-PI: S. Zhou (33%)), Office of Naval Research (N0014-07-1-0429), January 16, 2007 - January 15, 2010, $385,559 ($73,440). “Collaborative Research: CRI: IAD: Developing a Novel Infrastructure for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks,” (with PI: J.-H. Cui (19%) and co-PIs: S. Zhou (9%), Y. Fei (9%), S. Rajasekaran (9%), R. Ammar (9%), A. Bagtzoglou (9%), B. Wang (9%), Z. Shi (9%) and T. Torgersen (9%)), National Science Foundation/CISE, August 1, 2007 - July 31, 2010, $319,998 ($3,920). Shengli Zhou “UConn Research Foundation FY07 Interdisciplinary Seminar Series,” September 15, 2006 - September 14, 2007, $1,499 ($219). “Advancing Underwater Acoustic Communication: A Shift from Single-Carrier to Multi-Carrier Paradigms,” University of Connecticut Research Foundation, April 26, 2006 - April 30, 2008, $28,000 ($4,495).

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“Collaborative Research: CRI: IAD: Developing a Novel Infrastructure for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks,” (with co-PI: J.-H. Cui (50%)), National Science Foundation/CISE, September 1, 2007 - August 31, 2008, $66,666 ($9,052). “A Multicarrier Underwater Acoustic Modem with Precise-Ranging Capability,” National Science Foundation/ENG, September 1, 2007 - August 31, 2009, $274,026 ($43,536). “Sensor Networks for Multiple Target Tracking,” (with PI: P. Willett (67%)), Office of Naval Research (N0014-07-1-0429), January 16, 2007 - January 15, 2010, $385,559 ($36,172). “The Next Milestone: A Multicarrier Acoustic MODEM with Channel- and Network- Adaptivity for Underwater Autonomous Distributed Systems,” Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program (YIP), June 01, 2007 - May 31, 2010, $191,586 ($96,363). “Collaborative Research: CRI: IAD: Developing a Novel Infrastructure for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks,” (with PI: J.-H. Cui (19%) and co-PIs: P. Willett (9%), Y. Fei (9%), S. Rajasekaran (9%), R. Ammar (9%), A. Bagtzoglou (9%), B. Wang (9%), Z. Shi (9%) and T. Torgersen (9%)), National Science Foundation/CISE, August 1, 2007 - July 31, 2010, $319,998 ($3,920). Quing Zhu “3D Near Infrared Diffuse Wave Imaging with Ultrasound Localization,” U.S. Department of Defense-Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (DAMD17-03-1-0690), (Mentor, Pre Doc Training Award), September 1, 2003 - March 30, 2008, $89,457 ($7,166). “Functional Brain Imaging by Laser Induced PAT (Thermoacoustic Tomography),” National Institutes of Health R01, NS46214-01, (with PI: L. Wang, Washington University at St. Louis), August 5, 2006 - July 31, 2008, $191,719 ($86,721). “Problems and Solutions of Optical Tomography Using Ultrasonic Anatomic Information,” U.S. Department of Defense-Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (W81XWH-05-1-0299) (Mentor, Pre Doc Training Award), February 21, 2005 - September 15, 2008, $90,000 ($18,580). “Near Infrared Diffusive Light Imaging with Ultrasound Guidance,” PHS-National Institutes of Health/NCI, September 1, 2002 - February 28, 2009, $1,509,311 ($199,589). “Hybrid Scintography/OCT Intraoperative Probe for Ovarian Cancer Detection and Surgical Procedures,” Connecticut Department of Public Health, July 1, 2007 – February 28, 2009, $315,563 ($119,377). “Near Infrared Diffusive Wave Imaging with Ultrasound Guidance,” University of Connecticut Research Foundation Faculty Large Grant, April 26, 2006 - April 30, 2009, $24,000 ($10,654). “Novel Imaging Devices for Diagnosis and Treatment of Breast Cancers,” Donaghue Foundation, January 1, 2007 - December 31, 2011, $224,400 ($67,421).

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2007-2008 Yaakov Bar-Shalom Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications, IEEE, 2008. Anthony J. DeMaria “Dielectric Coupled Slab Laser,” (with C.J. Shackleton, P.J. Gardner, V. Seguin and J.T. Kennedy), U.S. Patent No. 7,260,134, August 21, 2007. “Dielectric Coupled CO2 Slab Lasers,” (with C.J. Shackleton, P.J. Gardner, V. Seguin and J.T. Kennedy), U.S. Patent No. 7,263,116, August 28, 2007. “Injection Locking Q-Switched and Q-Switched Cavity Dumped CO2 Lasers for EUV Generation,” (with R. Henschke and J. Fontanella), U.S. Patent No. 7,327,769, February 5, 2008. Elected member, Optical Society of America’s Presidential Advisory Committee, 2008-2010. John D. Enderle Fellow, American Society of Engineering Educators, 2008. Faquir C. Jain “Scanning Localized Evaporation Method (SLEM),” (with F. Papadimitrakopoulos), U.S. Patent No. 7,326,303 B2 (OSC-1), February 5, 2008. “Site-specific Self-assembly of Nanomaterial,” (with F. Papadimitrakopoulos), U.S. Patent No. 7,368,370 B2, May 8, 2008. Bahram Javidi Fellow Award, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2008. Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2007. Donald G. Fink Paper Prize, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2008. Technology Achievement Award, International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), 2008. Best Paper Award, Information Optics Workshop, 2007. Krishna R. Pattipati “Intelligent Model-based Diagnostics for System Monitoring, Diagnosis and Maintenance,” (with J. Luo, L. Qiao and S. Chigusa), U.S. Patent No. 7,260,501 B2, August 21, 2007.

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NASA Space Act Award for Real-Time Update of Fault-Test Dependencies of Dynamic Systems/A Comprehensive Toolset for Model-Based Health Monitoring and Diagnostics, 2008. Geoffrey W. Taylor “Image Array using Thyristor-based Pixel Elements,” U.S. Patent No. 7,247,892, July 24, 2007. “THz Detection Employing Doped Quantum Well Device Structures,” U.S. Patent No. 7,262,429, August 28, 2007. “Optoelectronic Clock Generator Producing High Frequency Optoelectronic Pulse Trains with Variable Frequency and Variable Duty Cycle and Low Jitter,” (with R. Dehmubed and D.C. Upp), U.S. Patent No. 7,333,733, February 19, 2008. “Multifunctional Optoelectronic Thyristor and Integrated Circuit and Optical Transceiver Employing Same,” (with R. Demubed), U.S. Patent No. 7,333,731, February 19, 2008. “Optoelectronic Circuit Employing a Heterojunction Thyristor Device to Convert a Digital Optical Signal to a Digital Electrical Signal,” (with J. Cai), U.S. Patent No. 7,332,752, February 19, 2008. Mohammad Tehranipoor Best Paper Award, IEEE North Atlantic Test Workshop, 2008. Peter K. Willett Best Paper Award, “Gaussian Mixture Cardinalized PHD Filter for Ground Moving Target Tracking,” (with M. Ulmke and O. Erdinc), FUSION 2007 Conference, Quebec City, Canada, July 2007. Shengli Zhou “Wireless Communication System Having Error-Control Coder and Linear Precoder,” (with G.B. Giannakis and Z. Wang), U.S. Patent No. 7,251,768, July 31, 2007.

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2007-2008 Mehdi Anwar Editor, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. Conference Chair, Terahertz Physics, Devices, and Systems II, Optics East, Boston, MA, September 2007. Tutorial Chair, 51st IEEE International MWSCAS 2008, Tennessee, August 10-13, 2008. Editor, Terahertz Physics, Devices and Systems II, SPIE, ISBN-978-0-08194-6932-8, Boston, MA, September 11-12, 2007. Member, State of Connecticut Nanotechnology Committee. John E. Ayers Presentation:

“Overshoot Graded Layers for Defect Engineering in Heteroepitaxial Semiconductor Structures,” (with J.F. Ocampo, E. Suarez, D. Shah, P.B. Rago and F.C. Jain), Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Symposium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, April 9, 2008.

Rajeev Bansal Associate Editor, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, 1987-present. Associate Editor, IEEE Microwave Magazine, 2000-present. Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering, 2004-present. Member, Editorial Board, Progress in Electromagnetics Research (PIER online). Chair, Technical Coordinating Committee, MTT-10 of the IEEE. MTT-S Delegate, IEEE-USA Medical Technology Policy Committee, 2002-present. IEEE AP-S Liaison, COMAR, 2001-present. Yaakov Bar-Shalom Vice-President for Publications, The International Society of Information Fusion, 2004-2008. Member, Board of Directors, The International Society of Information Fusion, 1998-2008. Session Chair, IEEE Aerospace Conference, March 2008. Session Chair, IEEE Radar Conference, May, 2008.

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Member, U.S. Department of Defense Single Integrated Air Picture Task Force, 2003-2008. Member, Blue Ribbon Panel for Review of the MDA Track Processing, 2006-2008. IEEE AESS Distinguished Lecture “Target Tracking and Fusion: How to Get the Most out of Your Sensors,” joint meeting of the IEEE Atlanta Chapters of IEEE AES, SP, GRS and COM Societies. Member, Program Committee, FUSION 2008. Member, Board of Directors Executive Committee, ISIF. Presentations:

“The CRLB in the Presence of False Measurements with Application to Track Detection and Estimation for Low Observable Targets,” colloquium, University of Rhode Island, October 2007.

“Recent Tracking Results,” U.S. Army Research Laboratory Collaborative Technology Alliances Workshop, May 2008.

Multitarget Tracking and Multisensor Fusion Workshop, FUSION Conference, July 2007 and June 2008.

Advanced Multitarget Tracking for Missile Defense Workshop, GTRI, February 2008. Steven Boggs Contributing Editor, IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine. Adjunct Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 1991-present. Advisory Professor, Southwest Jiaotong University, Changdu, China, November 2003-present Presentations:

“Applications of Nonlinear Analysis in Power Engineering,” invited, Four Hour Short Course, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, August 16, 2007.

“Transient Nonlinear Finite Element Computations for ZnO Arresters,” invited, Toshiba Corporation, Hamakawasaki Operations, Kawasaki, Japan, August 22, 2007.

“Applications of Nonlinear Analysis to Dielectrics and ZnO,” invited, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kyushu, Japan, August 23, 2007.

“Transient Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis Computations for ZnO Arresters,” invited, Kyushu Electrical Power Company, Kyushu, Japan, August 24, 2007.

“Fundamentals of Partial Discharge Detection,” invited, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, September 9, 2007.

“Transient Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis for ZnO Arresters,” invited, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, September 10, 2007.

“Fundamentals of Partial Discharge Detection,” invited, High Voltage Testing, Monitoring, and Diagnostics Seminar, High Voltage Technologies, Inc., Alexandria, VA, September 10, 2007.

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“Failure, Diagnostics, and Rejuvenation,” invited, Intelligent Infrastructures: Workshop on Failure and Diagnostics of Underground Power Distribution Cable, University of California, Berkeley, CA, February 25, 2008.

“Fundamentals of Partial Discharge Detection,” invited, G & W Electric, Chicago, IL, January 25, 2008.

“High Field Phenomena in Insulation – What Makes Insulation Fail?,” invited, G & W Electric, Chicago, IL, January 25, 2008.

John A. Chandy Individual Submissions Editor, ACM Operating Systems Review. Member, Program Committee, IASTED International Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Technology, 2008. Presentations:

“Active Storage Networks for High End Computing,” High End Computing Interagency Working Group File Systems and I/O (FSIO) R&D Planning Workshop, Washington, DC, August 7, 2007.

“Reconfigurable Hardware for Active Storage Networks,” invited, Emerging Information and Technologies Conference, Princeton, NJ, August 9, 2007.

“Reliability Tradeoffs in Storage System Design,” invited, ECE Seminar, University of Rhode Island, March 12, 2008.

“Active Objects using OSD,” Intelligent Storage Workshop, Minneapolis, MN, May 13, 2008. Anthony J. DeMaria Chair, Terahertz Physics, Devices, and Systems II Conference (SPIE’s Photonics East Conference), Boston, MA, September 11-15, 2007. Co-Chair, National Research Council’s Study Committee on Nanophotonics, The Defense Intelligence Agency, June 2007-February 2008. “Counterfeiting Technologies,” National Academies Press Report, January 2008. Eric Donkor Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2004-present. Program Chair, SPIE Conference on Quantum Information and Computation IV Conference, No. 6244, Orlando, FL, March 2008. Program Chair, Enabling Photonics Technologies for Defense, Security, and Aerospace Applications II Conference, No. 6243, Orlando, FL, March 2008. Program Chair, SPIE Conference on Quantum Information and Computation VI, Orlando, FL, April 2008. Program Chair, SPIE Conference on Enabling Photonics, Technologies for Defense, Security, and Aerospace Applications IV, April 2008.

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Session Chair, SPIE Conference on Quantum Information and Computation VI, Conference No. 6976, Sessions 2, 3 and 7, Orlando, FL April 2008. Session Chair, SPIE Conference on Enabling Photonics, Technologies for Defense, Security, and Aerospace Applications IV, Sessions 2 and 5, April 2008. Member, Review Panel, NSF SBIR Phase I. Presentations:

“Emerging Trends in Engineering and Technology,” invited, University of Cape Coast, August 15, 2007.

“Photonic and Quantum Information Processing,” invited, Air Force - Rome Research Lab, Rome, NY, May 22, 2008.

John D. Enderle Editor-in-Chief, IEEE EMB Magazine. Editor, Biomedical Engineering Book Series, Morgan & Claypool Publishing. Member, Editorial Board, Academic Press Biomedical Engineering Book Series. Member, Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal of Neural Systems. Editor, The Open Biomedical Engineering Journal, Bentham Science Publishers, Ltd. Member, ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission. Chair, ABET Team, External Advisory Committee. Member, External Advisory Committee, University of Wyoming Neuroscience Center. Member, ASEE Fred Merryfield Award Committee. Support Facilitator, ABET PEV Training Workshop, Phoenix, Arizona, May 16-18, 2008. Member, IEEE EMBS Publications Committee. Member, Communications Committee, AIMBE Academic Council, Society Council. Moderator on Accreditation, BME Education Summit, Chicago, Illinois, June 16-17, 2008. Presentation:

Accreditation Workshop (with J. Gassert), BMES Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, September 26, 2007.

Yunsi Fei

Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Application Specific Processors (SASP), 2008.

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Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2008. Member, Program Committee, IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits (VLSI-SOC), 2008. Member, Program Committee, ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), 2008. Member, Program Committee, International Symposium on Circuits & Systems (ISCAS). Martin D. Fox Co-convenor, Working Group 10, Ultrasound Doppler Flow Measurement and Imaging Devices, International Electrotechnical Commission Technical Committee 87 Meeting, Medical Acoustics, Shonan, Japan, October 16-17, 2007. Presentations:

“UConn Sustainable Dwelling and Village,” invited, National Science Foundation/Office of Naval Research/EPRI Workshop on Reforming Power Engineering Education, Napa, CA, February 7-9, 2008.

“UConn Recruits 10 Tenure Track Faculty for its Initiative in Sustainable Energy,” invited, National Science Foundation/Office of Naval Research/EPRI Workshop on Reforming Power Engineering Education, Napa, CA, February 7-9, 2008.

“Passive Solar Opportunities,” invited, Alternative Energy Symposium, “Solar Energy, the Only True Renewable Energy,” University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, March 31, 2008.

“Interlaced Sampling for Improved Medical Imaging,” (with S.H. Contreras), 34th Northeast Bioengineering Conference, Brown University, Providence, RI, April 5, 2008.

“Combined Supercompounding and Deconvolutional Sharpening for Improved Ultrasonography,” (with D. Chiu), 34th Northeast Bioengineering Conference, Brown University, Providence, RI, April 5, 2008.

Ali Gokirmak Presentations:

“Composite Shallow Trench Isolation Using Silicon Nitride and Doped Polysilicon for Ultra-Low Power CMOS,” (with H. Silva), 212th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Washington, DC, October 7-12, 2007.

“Pulsed Current Annealing of Lithographically Defined Nano-Crystalline Si Nanowires for Low-Temperature High-Speed Roll-To-Roll Crystallization,” (with H. Silva and N. Henry), Materials Research Society Fall 2007 Meeting, Boston, MA, November 2007.

“Crystallization of Nanocrystalline Si Wires through Self-heating,” (with G. Bakan, M. Akbulut, C. Boztug, N. Henry and H. Silva), Materials Research Society Spring 2008 Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 2008.

“Crystallization of Amorphous Silicon Wires through Self-heating,” (with G. Bakan, M. Akbulut, C. Boztug, N. Henry and H. Silva), Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Symposium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 9, 2008.

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“Numerical Modeling of Electrothermal Effects in Silicon Nanowires,” (with C. Boztug, G. Bakan, M. Akbulut, N. Henry and H. Silva), Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Symposium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 9, 2008.

Granted access to: Cornell Nanoscale Science and Technology Facility, Ithaca, NY; Harvard University Center for Nanoscale Systems, Cambridge, MA; and IBM T. J. Watson Research Laboratory, Yorktown, NY. Faquir C. Jain Member, Nanotechnology Panel, National Science Foundation, August 2, 2007 and August 3, 2007. Member, Biomark Detection Panel, National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute, Topics 242 and 2430, Gaithersburg, MD, April 7, 2008. Member, Biomark Panel, National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute, Topic 249, Gaithersburg, MD, April 8, 2008. Presentations:

“QD Gate FETs,” Nanotechnology Forum, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, March 5, 2008.

“Advanced Sense Array Module Based Architecture Deployed for Monitoring Surface Transportation,” Department of Homeland Security, University of Connecticut, May 13, 2008.

Granted access to: Cornell Nanofabrication Facility; Harvard CNS-NNIN Facility; and Center for Microelectronic Material Research, Yale University. Bahram Javidi Editor-in-Chief, Springer-Verlag Series on Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security, 2003-present. Member, Editorial Board, IEEE Journal of Display, 2004-present. Member, Editorial Board, Proceedings of the IEEE Journal, 2007-present. Associate Editor, “Three Dimensional Video and Display: Systems and Devices,” SPIE Optics East 2007, Boston, MA, September 2007. Organizer, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Annual Meeting of Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, November 2007. Co-organizer, Information Optics Workshop, sponsored by IEEE LEOS, OSA, EOS, IoP, Annecy, France, June 2008. Organizer, International Symposium on Security and Defense, Orlando, FL, March 2008. Presentations:

IEEE Lasers Electro-Optics Society Distinguished Lecture, Capri, Italy, October 2007.

U.S. Air Force Sensors Directorate, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH, January 2008.

IEEE Lasers Electro-Optics Society Distinguished Lecture, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Boston, MA, February 2008.

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Optical Society of America sponsored Lecture, KOC University, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2008. Peter B. Luh SNET Professor of Communications & Information Technologies, 2000-present. Associate Editor, IIE Transactions on Design and Manufacturing, 1997-present. Associate Editor, Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, 1999-present. Associate Editor, ACTA Automatic Sinica, 2005-present. Member, Advisory Board, IEEE Systems Journal, 2006-present. Member, Senior Editors Panel and Advisory Committee, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and

Engineering. Member, Senior Editors Panel, IEEE Transactions on Robotics. Member, Advisory Board, International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics, 2007-present. Member, Advisory Board, International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications, 2006-present. Vice President for Publication Activities, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, 2008-2009. Founding Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2003-December 2007. General Chair, Seventh World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Chongqing, China, June 2008. Chair, Steering Committee, IEEE Conferences on Automation Science and Engineering, 2006-present. Chair, Management Committee, IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 2007-09. Member, Steering Committee, IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Scottsdale, AZ, September 2007. Member, Program Committee, 2007 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Diego, CA, October 2007. Member, Scientific Program Committee, 9th International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems, Goteborg, Sweden, May 2008. Member, Program Committee, Fifth International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Madeira, Portugal, May 2008. Member, Advisory Committee, IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, Chengdu, China, June 2008. Member, Best Paper Committee, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.

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Member, Googol Best Application Paper Committee, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. Member, Long Range Planning Committee and Fellow Evaluation Committee, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University, Department of Automation, 2001-present. Visiting Professor, Dalian University of Technology, 2006-present. Presentations:

The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics, plenary, Jinan, Shandong, China, August 2007.

Workshop on Intelligent and Networked Systems, Tsinghua University, June 2008. Robert Magnusson Associate Editor and Member, Board of Editors, Optical Engineering. Session Chair, Novel Lasers and Sensors, IEEE LEOS 2007 Annual Meeting, Lake Buena Vista, FL, October 21-25, 2007. Member, Technical Program Committee, Terahertz Physics Devices and Systems, SPIE’s Optics East, Boston, MA, September 9-12, 2007. Member, Technical Program Committee, Seventh Workshop on Information Optics, Annecy, France, June 1-5, 2008. Member, International Advisory Board, International Conferences on Materials and Technologies, 3rd International Conference on Smart Materials, Structures and Systems, Symposium on Smart Optics, Sicily, Italy, June 8-13, 2008. Member, Organizing Committee, 2008 International Conference on Optics-Photonics Design and Fabrication, Taipei, Taiwan, June 9-11, 2008. Member, Technical Program Committee, Optics and Photonics for Information Processing II, SPIE International Symposium on Optical Engineering and Applications, San Diego, CA, August 10-14, 2008. Member, Technical Program Committee, International Topical Meeting on Information Photonics 2008, Awaji, Hyogo, Japan, November 16-20, 2008. Member, Review Panel, National Science Foundation, Major Research Instrumentation, April 7-8, 2008. Presentations:

“Leaky-Mode Resonance Photonics: Principles and Applications,” Hanyang University, Physics Department, Seoul, Korea, August 29, 2007.

“Nanopatterned Resonance Elements and Their Applications,” Dymax Corporation, Torrington, CT, December 12, 2007.

“Photonic Resonance Effects in Period Films: Applications in Biosensors, Spectral Filters and Display Technology,” IEEE LEOS Forth Worth Section, January 15, 2008.

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“Development of Nanoscale Imprint Technology for Efficient Fabrication of Resonant Photonic-Crystal Devices, Connecticut Nanotechnology Advisory Council, Rocky Hill, CT, January 31, 2008.

“Nanostructured Resonant Leaky-Mode Photonic Devices,” University of Connecticut, School of Engineering Forum on Nanotechnology, Storrs, CT March 3, 2008.

Krishna R. Pattipati Member, Program Committee, 2008 IEEE SMC Conference, Singapore. Member, STRATCOM Strategic Multi-layer Analysis on Cyber Deterrence Committee. Member, STRATCOM Strategic Multi-layer Analysis on Nuclear Smuggling Fingerprinting via Statistical Data Analysis Committee. External Examiner, Roel Boumen, Eindhoven University, the Netherlands. Member, Board of Directors, Aptima, Inc., Woburn, MA. Presentations:

“Intelligent Diagnostics and Vehicle Health Management,” Toyota Technical Center, Ann Arbor, MI, October 2007.

“Combinatorial Optimization Algorithms for Fault Diagnosis in Complex Systems,” General Motors R&D Center, Warren, MI, October 2007.

SMA Workshop on Cyber Deterrence, January 2008.

“Systems Theory and Optimization Applications in Cyber Lab,” Tyco Corporation, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, February 2008.

SMA Workshop on Nuclear Smuggling Fingerprinting, March and April 2008.

“Modeling and Analysis of Agile C2 Organizations for MHQ with MOC,” Office of Naval Research A2C2 Program Review, Washington, DC, May 2008.

“International Conflict Early Warning System,” DARPA Program Review, Washington, DC and Rosslyn, Arlington, VA, February 2008 and May 2008.

Granted access to: Naval War College, Innovation Lab; and SPAWAR, San Diego, CA. Helena Silva Member, NSF Review Panel, Thermal Transport Processes, Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems, Arlington, VA, April 23-24, 2008. Presentations:

“Composite Shallow Trench Isolation Using Silicon Nitride and Doped Polysilicon for Ultra-Low Power CMOS,” (with A. Gokirmak), 212th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Washington, D.C., October 7-12, 2007.

“Pulsed Current Annealing of Lithographically Defined Nano-Crystalline Si Nanowires for Low-Temperature High-Speed Roll-To-Roll Crystallization,” (with A. Gokirmak and N. Henry), Materials Research Society Fall 2007 Meeting, Boston, MA, November 2007.

“Electrothermal Effects in Crystallization of Silicon Nanowires through Self-heating,” Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, February 21, 2008.

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“Crystallization of Nanocrystalline Si Wires through Self-heating,” (with G. Bakan, M. Akbulut, C. Boztug, N. Henry and A. Gokirmak), Materials Research Society Spring 2008 Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 2008.

“Crystallization of Amorphous Silicon Wires through Self-heating,” (with G. Bakan, M. Akbulut, C. Boztug, N. Henry and A. Gokirmak), Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Symposium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 9, 2008.

“Numerical Modeling of Electrothermal Effects in Silicon Nanowires,” (with C. Boztug, G. Bakan, M. Akbulut, N. Henry and A. Gokirmak), Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Symposium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 9, 2008.

Granted access to: Cornell Nanoscale Science and Technology Facility, Ithaca, NY; Harvard University Center for Nanoscale Systems, Cambridge, MA; and IBM T.J. Watson Research Laboratory. Eric P. Soulsby Member, Board of Directors, American Society for Engineering Education, Educational Research and Methods Division. Session Chair, American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference. Presentations:

“Feeling Your OATS: A Look at Assessment at the University Level,” Neag School of Education Spotlight on Assessment, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, October 15, 2007.

“Annual Assessment Reporting via the Web,” New England Educational Assessment Network Fall Forum, November 2, 2007.

Geoffrey W. Taylor Presentations:

“Overview of POET and its Applications,” Kirtland Air Force Base, NM, September 2007.

“Applications of Planar Optoelectronic Technology,” Space Missile Command, Los Angeles, CA, June 2008.

“High Frequency Optoelectronic Oscillators,” Advanced Microelectronics and Photonics for Satellites Conference, Lake Tahoe, NV, June 2008.

“Advanced Uncooled Image Sensors,” Advanced Microelectronics and Photonics for Satellites Conference, Lake Tahoe, NV, June 2008.

Mohammad Tehranipoor Associate Editor, Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications. Editor, TTTC Newsletter. Program Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Defect-Based Testing, 2007. General and Steering Committee Chair, 1st IEEE International Workshop on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust, 2008. Program Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Defect and Data Driven Testing, 2008.

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Co-Program Chair, International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance of VLSI Systems, 2008. Member, Program Committee, ACM SIGDA Ph.D. DAC Forum, 2008. Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service, 2008. Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Workshop on Defect Based Testing, 2005-present. Member, Program Committee, North Atlantic Test Workshop, 2004-present. Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, 2005-2007. Member, Program Committee, International Design and Test Workshop, 2006-2007. Member, Program Committee, International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures, 2007-2008. Panel Co-Organizer, International Workshop on Defect-Based Testing, October 2007. Sessions Chair, IEEE North Atlantic Test Workshop, May 2008. Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Computer Design, 2008. Session Chair, International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures, June 2008. Presentations:

International Test Conference, Magma Luncheon Event, invited, San Jose, CA, October 23, 2007.

Transwitch, invited, Bedford, MA, November 2007.

AMD, Boston, invited, MA, November 2007.

Analog Devices, invited, Boston, MA, November 2007.

Freescale, invited, Austin, TX, December 2007.

Texas Instruments, invited, Dallas, TX, December 2007.

“High-Quality Delay Tests for Nanotechnology Designs,” invited, SRC e-Workshop, February 2008.

Magma, invited, April 2008.

Lei Wang Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, 2008. Member, Technical Program Committee, ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, 2008. Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, 2008. Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE International SOC Conference, 2008.

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Presentations:

“Study of Reliability Issues in Nanoscale Systems,” NSF Workshop on Nanoelectronics: Circuits, Systems, and CAD Tools, October 2007.

“Performance Limits of Molecular Electronic Computing,” NSF Workshop on Nanoelectronics: Circuits, Systems, and CAD Tools, October 2007.

Peter K. Willett Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, January 2006-present. Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, June 2000-present. Associate Editor, International Society for Information Fusion Journal of Advances in Information

Fusion, 2006-present. Member, Editorial Board, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. Member, Program Committee, ISIF FUSION 2007 Conference. Member, Program Committee, ISIF FUSION 2008 Conference. Member, Program Committee, IEEE SAM 2008 Conference. Session Organizer, 2008 IEEE Aerospace Conference. Chair, Awards Committee, 2008 RADARCON, Rome, Italy. Member, Board of Governors, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society. Webmaster and Technical Committee Member, IEEE Signal Processing Society’s “Sensor Array and Multichannel.” UConn Representative, Air Force Research Laboratory, “Information Institute.” Session Chair, IEEE Aerospace Conference, “Detection of Classification,” March 2008. Session Chair, IEEE ICASSP “Sensor Networks 1,” April 2008. Presentations:

“Sequential and Quickest Detection with Application to Tracking and Multistatics,” Distributed Sensor Networks Workshop, Quebec City, Canada, July 2007.

“Gaussian Mixture Cardinalized Probability Hypothesis Density Filter Implementation on Sea-Trial Sonar Data,” ONR Active/Passive Program Review, Seattle, Washington, August 2007.

“Submarine Localization Using an Ad-hoc Network of Rapidly Deployed Simple Sensors,” (with C. Berger and S. Zhou), Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing Workshop, October 2007.

“On the Scalability of Multicarrier Underwater Acoustic Communication,” (with S. Zhou and B. Li), Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing Workshop, October 2007.

“Gaussian Mixture Cardinalized PHD Filter Performance on Multistatic Active Sonar Data,” (with O. Erdinc and S. Coraluppi), Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing Workshop, October 2007.

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“GM-CPHD Applied to SEABAR 2007,” 5th MSTWG Workshop, La Spezia, Italy, February 2008.

“Multistatic Sonar Simulation,” 5th MSTWG Workshop, La Spezia, Italy, February 2008.

“GMCPHD Results on MSTWG Data,” 5th MSTWG Workshop, La Spezia, Italy, February 2008.

“Multistatic Sensor Placement: A Tracking Perspective,” 5th MSTWG Workshop, La Spezia, Italy, February 2008.

“MIMO/OFDM Detection with Compressed Sensing,” Office of Naval Research/GTRI Peer Review, Williamsburg, VA, June 2008.

Shengli Zhou Member, Technical Program Committee, 16th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks: Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks Track, Turtle Bay Resort, Honolulu, HI, August 13-16, 2007. Finance and Proceedings Chair, Second ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks, September 14, 2007. Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Communications, Beijing, China, May 13-19, 2008. Presentations:

“Submarine Localization Using an Ad-hoc Network of Rapidly Deployed Simple Sensors,” (with C. Berger and P.K. Willett), Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing Workshop, October 2007.

“On the Scalability of Multicarrier Underwater Acoustic Communication,” (with S. Zhou and P.K. Willett), Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing Workshop, October 2007.

Quing Zhu Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. Member, SPIE Photons Plus Ultrasound Committee, Photonics West BIOS, San Jose, CA, January 2008. Member, SPIE Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy Committee, Photonics West BIOS, San Jose, CA, January 2008. Presentations:

Invited Platform Presentation at DOD Era of Hope Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, June 23-28, 2008.

Platform Presentation of San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (one of 5% selected from over 6000 abstracts). Presentation highlighted in April 2008 Oncology News Letters.

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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY

2007–2008

The 2007–2008 academic year has been an exciting time period for the department with the hiring of four new faculty members, the receipt of major research grants to our faculty, the graduation of a large number of students from our program and significant scholarship output of our faculty. In this period the Mechanical Engineering faculty published 70 refereed journal articles and one book chapter, and contributed 71 conference publications or presentations. Faculty members served on the editorial boards of 10 major research journals, including a chief editorship. The department’s total research expenditures for this period amounted to $3 million. Highlights of the year’s activities and accomplishments follow. UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM

In the 2007–2008 academic year the department’s undergraduate program had an enrollment of about 408 students and currently the fall 2008 freshman enrollment stands at 93 students. A total of 72 bachelor’s degrees were conferred in Mechanical Engineering. The department faculty taught 43 undergraduate courses during the academic year, including five courses in the Management & Engineering for Manufacturing (MEM) program with a total enrollment of 61 students. The capstone Major Design Experience featured 34 senior design projects sponsored by 22 companies. The year’s senior design activities may be viewed at http://www.engr.uconn.edu/me/seniordemo. The department underwent the ABET accreditation visit in fall 2007. The department expects to receive the full six years of accreditation based on the post-visit exit report. The ABET final decision will be obtained in July 2008. As part of outreach and student recruitment efforts, the department participated in E2K (a one-week residential program to engage high school students in engineering) as well as the da Vinci Project (designed to help grade 7 to 12 math and science teachers and administrators learn more about the engineering opportunities available to their students). In addition to continuous improvements in its undergraduate laboratories by the purchase of new experimental stations and new computers, the Mechanical Engineering Department initiated a new program to support undergraduate students engaged in research in faculty research laboratories. This program provides each student with $2,500 for summer, provided that faculty provides at least $1,500 from their research funds. Ten such positions were made available and to date seven students have taken advantage of this program. This program is intended to encourage students to engage in research and give them an opportunity to experience research work with some of them getting interested in graduate work. GRADUATE PROGRAM

The Mechanical Engineering graduate program ranked #7 among all public universities in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States in the 2008 U.S. News & World Report rankings. Nineteen students joined our graduate program out of 113 applicants; a total of 79 students were enrolled in the graduate program. The department’s faculty served as major advisors to 15 graduating master’s students and nine graduating Ph.D. students. Twenty three graduate classes were taught by the department faculty, including six on-site at Pratt & Whitney. The initiatives launched in 2004 to recruit quality students and to increase the diversity of our graduate population were continued during the 2007–2008 year, supported by additional competitive funding obtained during the year. This year’s graduate research competition involved nine doctoral students presenting their research in a short seminar format to an audience of faculty and students and a panel of judges. Four students (Kyle Grew, Swetaprovo Chaudhuri, Mark Majewski and Huseyin Erdim) received graduate pre-doctoral awards ranging from $3,000 to $1,250 for their top performances in the competition. A new department initiative was launched to provide half graduate research assistantships for those faculty who recruit new graduate students into their research programs. Five graduate students will be joining our department under this initiative.

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FACULTY AND STAFF

Two faculty members, Dr. Shiva Kotha and Dr. Wei Sun, joined our department in fall 2007. Dr. Nigel Sammes left the university to take up a position at Colorado School of Mines. Dean of Engineering Dr. Mun Y. Choi joined our department faculty in January 2008. Prof. Robert Jeffers decided to retire after 40 years on our department’s faculty. Four faculty searches were conducted during this academic year. The Pratt & Whitney Chair professor search concluded with Dr. Robert Gao joining our faculty in fall 2008. Three junior faculty positions were also filled. One of these was a new position in the fluid mechanics area, and Dr. Tianfeng Lu (Ph.D. Princeton, 2004) was selected to fill this position starting fall 2008. Dr. Georgios Lykotrafitis (Ph.D. Caltech, 2005) will join our faculty in spring 2009. His area of expertise is mechanics with biomedical applications. Dr. Chengyu Gao (Ph.D. MIT, 2004) joins our department in fall 2008. Dr. Cao’s area of expertise is system dynamics and control with applications to many engineering systems and devices. With these new faculty members, the department is home to 24 tenure-track or tenured faculty members. Additionally, two non-tenure-track faculty members and nine post-doctoral fellows participate in our research and educational activities. Two of the department’s faculty members hold endowed chair positions and one holds membership in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). FACULTY HONORS AND SCHOLARSHIP

The year was marked by several significant faculty honors and achievements. Dr. Ugur Pasaogullari received an NSF CAREER award to study water transport in proton exchange membrane fuel cell systems. Drs. Kazem Kazerounian and Baki Cetegen were elected to membership in the Connecticut

Academy of Science and Engineering for their accomplishments in their respective research fields of kinematics and combustion. Two newly established departmental awards were presented to Drs. Kevin Murphy and Nejat Olgac for teaching and research excellence, respectively. The department faculty remains very active in research, bringing in major grants from NSF, NIH and DoD and NASA.

EXTERNAL ADVISORY BOARD

The external advisory board met in November to discuss the department’s strategic plan and provide input on its current and future educational and outreach activities. The board currently consists of: Dr. Alan Eckbreth, President of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering; Mr. Stephen Heath, alumnus and President Emeritus of Pratt & Whitney UTC Commercial Engines; Prof. Mitchell Smooke, Strathcona Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering, Yale University; Mr. Paul Adams, Senior Vice President of Engineering at Pratt & Whitney; Prof. Jack Kerrebrock, Professor Emeritus of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT; Dr. Wayne Eckerle, alumnus and Vice President of Corporate Research and Technology at Cummins Corp.; Dr. Charles Kling, Manager of Nuclear Power Research and Development at Westinghouse Electric Corp.; and Mr. Joseph Adiletta, alumnus and President of Pallflex Products Corp. Recently, two new members are joining the board: Mr. Martin Seifert, President and CEO of Nufern Corporation, a specialty fiber optics and fiber optic laser manufacturer and Thomas Prete, Program chief engineer and engineering director for Operational Military Engines for Pratt & Whitney and UConn alumnus.

ALUMNI

Mechanical Engineering alumni Wayne Eckerle (Ph.D. ME, 1985) and Thomas Prete (B.S. ME, 1985) were inducted as 2008 members of the Academy of Distinguished Engineers for their engineering leadership roles in industry. Both are members of the Mechanical Engineering Advisory Board.

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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT ARCHIVAL TECHNICAL JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

2007-2008 Theodore L. Bergman “The Effect of Compressive Load on Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Stack Performance and Behavior,” (with N. Fekrazad), ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 129, pp. 1004-1013, 2007. “Bipolar Plate Thermal Response to PEM Fuel Cell Stack Compressive Load,” (with N. Fekrazad), ASME

Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 130, pp. 064503-1 - 064503-3, 2008. Zbigniew Bzymek “Solutions of the 21st Century–Teaching Computer-Aided Conceptual Design,” (with S. Vahidi and H. Spottiswoode), Computer-Aided Design & Applications, Vol. 4, No. 1-4, pp. 459-465, 2007. “Simulation of Machining Sequence Using Delmia/Quest Software,” (with M. Nunez, M. Li and S. Powers), Computer-Aided Design & Applications, Vol. 5, No. 1-4, pp. 401-411, 2008. Baki M. Cetegen “Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer of Liquid Precursor Droplets Injected into High Temperature Plasmas,” (with S. Basu and E.H. Jordan), Journal of Thermal Spray Technology, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 60-72, 2007. “Modeling of Ceramic Formation in Liquid Precursor Droplets Heated by Laser Irradiation,” (with S. Basu), ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 130, pp. 071501-071509, 2007. “Thermal Barrier Coatings Made by Solution Precursor Spray Process,” (with M. Gell, E.H. Jordan, N. Padture, L. Xie and M. Teicholz), Journal of Thermal Spray Technology, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 124-135, 2007. “Blowoff Characteristics of Bluff-body Stabilized Premixed Flames with Upstream Composition Gradients and Flow Oscillations,” (with S. Chaudhuri), Combustion and Flame, Vol. 153, No. 4, pp. 616-633, 2008. Wilson K. S. Chiu “Lattice Boltzmann Method for Multi-Component, Non-Continuum Mass Diffusion,” (with A.S. Joshi, A.A. Peracchio and K.N. Grew), Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Vol. 40, pp. 7593-7600, 2007. “Modeling of Gas Transport Through a Tubular Solid Oxide Fuel Cell and the Porous Anode Layer,” (with J.R. Izzo, Jr. and A.A. Peracchio), Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 176, pp. 200-206, 2007. “Radiative Properties of a Semitransparent Fiber Coated with a Submicron Absorbing Film,” (with W. Tian and W. Huang), ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 129, pp. 763-767, 2007. “Modeling of the Carbon Nanotube Chemical Vapor Deposition Process Using Methane and Acetylene Precursor Gases,” (with A.C. Lysaght), Nanotechnology, Vol. 19, pp. 165607-165615, 2008.

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“Nondestructive Reconstruction and Analysis of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Anodes Using X-ray Computed Tomography at Sub-50 nm Resolution,” (with J.R. Izzo, Jr., A.S. Joshi, A.A. Peracchio, K.N. Grew, A.T. Tkachuk, S.H. Wang and W. Yun), Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Vol. 155, pp. B504-B508, 2008. Amir Faghri “Analysis of Porous Wick Heat Pipes, Including Capillary Dry-out Limitations,” (with J. Rice), AIAA

Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 475-486, 2007. “A Three-dimensional Thermal–fluid Analysis of Flat Heat Pipes,” (with B. Xiao), International Journal

of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 51, pp. 3113-3126, 2008. “Advances and Unresolved Issues in Pulsating Heat Pipes,” (with Y. Zhang), Heat Transfer Engineering, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2008. “Analysis of a Passive Vapor Feed Direct Methanol Fuel Cell,” (with J. Rice), International Journal of

Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 51, pp. 948-959, 2008. “Development of a 1W Passive DMFC,” (with Z. Guo), International Communications in Heat and Mass

Transfer, Vol. 35, pp. 225-239, 2008. “Integration of Heat Pipe into Fuel Cell Technology,” (with Z. Guo), Heat Transfer Engineering, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 232-238, 2008. “Thermal and Start-up Characteristics of a Miniature Passive Liquid Feed DMFC System, Including Continuous /Discontinuous Phase Limitations,” (with J. Rice), ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 130, No. 6, 2008. “Transient Modeling and Analysis of Methanol Transport in a Passive Liquid Feed DMFC,” (with B. Xiao), International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 51, pp. 3127-3143, 2008. Tai-Hsi Fan “Asymptotic Analysis of Tracer Diffusivity in Nonadsorbing Polymer Solutions,” (with B. Xie and R. Tuinier), Physical Review E, Vol. 76, Art. No. 051405, 2007. “Scaling of Nanoparticle Retardation in Semi-dilute Polymer Solutions,” (with R. Tuinier), Soft Matter, Vol. 4, pp. 254-257, 2008. Horea Ilies “Detecting and Quantifying Envelope Singularities in the Plane,” (with H. Erdim), Computer Aided

Design, Vol. 39, No. 10, pp. 829-840, 2007. “Force Required to Luxate a Newly Placed Dental Implant in Bone: An in Vitro Pilot Study,” (with D. Flanagan, M. Raby and R. Stevenson), Journal of Oral Implantology, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 128-134, 2008. “Fatigue Life of Dental Implants: Performance and Prediction,” (with D. Flanagan, P. McCullough and S. McQuoid), ASME Transactions, Journal of Medical Devices, Vol. 2, No. 1, 011003-1 – 011003- 7, 2008. “Measurement of the Fatigue Life of Mini Dental Implants: A Pilot Study,” (with D. Flanagan, P. McCullough, and S. McQuoid), Journal of Implantology, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 7-11, 2008.

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“Measuring Luxation in Dental Implants,” (with D. Flanagan, M. Raby and R. Stevenson), ASME

Transactions, Journal of Medical Devices, Vol. 2, No. 1, 014501-1 – 014501- 4, 2008. Eric H. Jordan “Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer of Liquid Precursor Droplets Injected into High Temperature Plasmas,” (with S. Basu and B.M. Cetegen), Journal of Thermal Spray Technology, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 60-72, 2007. “Thermal and Crystallization Behavior of Zirconia Precursor Used in the Solution Precursor Plasma Spray Process,” (with D. Chen and M. Gell), Journal of Materials Science, Vol. 42, pp. 5576-5580, 2007. “Thermal Stability of Air Plasma Spray and Solution Precursor Plasma Spray Thermal Barrier Coatings,” (with D. Chen, M. Gell and X. Ma), Journal of American Ceramic Society, Vol. 90, pp. 3160-3166, 2007. “Apatite Formation on Alkaline-treated Dense TiO2 Coatings Deposited Using the Solution Precursor Plasma Spray Process,” (with F. Wu, X. Ma and M. Gell), Acta Biomaterialia, Vol. 4, pp. 553-559, 2008. “Dense Alumina-Zirconia Coatings Using the Solution Precursor Plasma Spray Process,” (with D. Chen, M. Gell and X. Ma), Journal of American Ceramic Society, Vol. 91, pp. 359-365, 2008. “Dense TiO2 Coating Using The Solution Precursor Plasma Spray,” (with D. Chen, M. Gell and X. Ma), Journal of American Ceramics Society, Vol. 91, pp. 865, 2008. “Effect of Solution Concentration on Splat Formation and Coating Microstructure Using the Solution Precursor Plasma Spray Process,” (with D. Chen and M. Gell), Surface Coating and Technology, Vol. 202, pp. 2132-2138, 2008. “Thermal Barrier Coatings Made by the Solution Precursor Plasma Spray Process,” (with M. Gell, M. Teicholz, B. Cetegen, N. Padture, L. Xie, D. Chen, X. Ma and J. Roth), Journal of Thermal Spray

Technology, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 124-135, 2008. Kazem Kazerounian “Barriers to Creativity in Engineering Education: A Study of Instructors and Students Perceptions,” (with S. Foley), ASME Journal of Mechanical Design: Special Issue on Design Engineering Education, Vol. 129, pp. 761-767, 2007. “Design Improvement of the Mechanical Coupling Diaphragms for Aerospace Applications,” (with L. Duong), Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 467-479, 2007. “Improved Molecular Model of a Peptide Unit for Proteins,” (with R. Subramanian), ASME Journal of

Mechanical Design, Vol. 129, No. 11, pp. 1130-1136, 2007. “Kinematic Mobility Analysis of Peptide Based Nano-Linkages,” (with R. Subramanian), Mechanisms

and Machine Theory, Vol. 42, No. 8, pp. 903-918, 2007. “Target Tracking and Manipulation Theories Applied to Force/Position Control in Peg-in-Hole Assembly Tasks,” (with D.J. Giblin and Y. Liu), International Journal of Robotics and Automation, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 3083-3141, 2008.

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Shiva Kotha “Properties of Silorane-based Dental Resins and Composites Containing a Stress-reducing Monomer,” (with J.D. Eick, C.C. Chappelow, K.V. Kilway, G.J. Giese, A.G. Glaros and C.S. Pinzino), Dental

Materials, Vol. 23, No. 8, pp. 1011-1017, 2007. “High Frequency Ultrasound Prediction of Mechanical Properties of Cortical Bone with Varying Amount of Mineral Content,” (with C. DePaula, A. Mann and N. Guzelsu), Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 630-637, 2008. “Reinforcement of Bone Cement Using Zirconia Fibers with and without Acrylic Coating,” (with C. Li, S. Schmid and J.J. Mason), Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, A, No. 10.1002/jbm.a.31783, 2008. Kevin D. Murphy “Crack Propagation in Structures Subjected to Periodic Excitation,” (with Y. Zhang), Acta Mechanica

Solida, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 236-246, 2007. Nejat Olgac “A New Perspective in the Stability Assessment of Neutral Systems with Multiple and Cross-Talking Delays,” (with T. Vyhlidal and R. Sipahi), SIAM, Journal of Control and Optimization, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 327-344, 2008. “Generalization of Cluster Treatment of Characteristic Roots for Robust Stability of Multiple Time Delayed Systems,” (with R. Sipahi and H. Fazelinia), International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear

Control, doi: 10.1002/rnc.1290, 20 pages, 2008. “Rotational Oscillating Drill (Ros-Drill©) for Mouse ICSI Without Using Mercury,” (with A. Ergenc, M.-W. Li, M. Toner, J.D. Biggers and K. Lloyd), Molecular Reproduction and Development, doi: 10.1002/mrd.20919, 9 pages, 2008. “Sign Inverting Control Logic for Time Delayed Systems, with Experiments,” (with H. Fazelinia and A. Ergenc), International Journal of Mechatronics and Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 68-82, 2008. Ugur Pasaogullari “Anisotropic Heat and Water Transport in a PEFC Cathode Gas Diffusion Layer,” (with P.P. Mukherjee, C.Y. Wang and K.S. Chen), Journal of Electrochemical Society, Vol. 154, No. 8, pp. B823-B834, 2007. Ranga Pitchumani “Flow Control Using Localized Induction Heating in a VARTM Process,” (with R.J. Johnson), Composites Science & Technology, Vol. 67, No. 3-4, pp. 669-684, 2007. “Numerical Studies on an Air-breathing Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cell,” (with Y. Zhang), International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 50, No. 23-24, pp. 4698-4712, 2007. “Numerical Studies on an Air-breathing Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cell Stack,” (with Y. Zhang and A. Mawardi), Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 173, pp. 264-276, 2007.

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“Numerical Simulations of an Optical Fiber Drawing Process under Uncertainty,” (with A. Mawardi), IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 26, No. 5, pp. 580-587, 2008. “Theoretical Analysis of Capillary-driven Nanoparticulate Slurry Flow during a Micromold Filling Process,” (with A. Mawardi and Y. Xiao), International Journal of Multiphase Flow, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 227-240, 2008. “Active Control of Reactive Resin Flow in a VARTM Process,” (with R.J. Johnson), Journal of

Composite Materials, Vol. 42, No. 12, pp. 1205-1229, 2008. Michael W. Renfro “Space-time Correlation Measurements in Partially Premixed Turbulent Opposed-jet Flames,” (with K.K. Venkatesan, J. Zhang, G.B. King and N.M. Laurendeau), Applied Physics B, Vol. 89, No. 1, pp. 129-140, 2007. “Two-point Time-series Measurements of Hydroxyl Concentration in a Turbulent Nonpremixed Flame,” (with J. Zhang, G.B. King and N.M. Laurendeau), Applied Optics, Vol. 46, pp. 5742-5754, 2007. Jiong Tang “An Optimal Sensitivity-enhancing Feedback Control Approach via Eigenstructure Assignment for Structural Damage Identification,” (with L.J. Jiang and K.W. Wang), Transactions of the ASME, Journal

of Vibration and Acoustics, Vol. 129, No. 6, pp. 771-783, 2007. “Granular Damping Analysis Using an Improved Discrete Element Approach,” (with X. Fang and H. Luo), Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 308, No. 1-2, pp. 112-131, 2007. “Damage Detection Using Piezoelectric Transducers and the Lamb Wave Approach: I System Analysis,” (with X. Wang and Y. Lu), Smart Materials and Structures, Vol. 17, No. 2, 15 pages, doi: 10.1088/0964-1726/17/2/025033, 2008. “Development of an Instrument to Measure Perspective of Engineering Education,” (with Q. Li, D.B. McCoach and H. Swaminathan), Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 97, No. 1, pp. 47-56, 2008. “Investigation of Granular Damping in Transient Vibrations Using Hilbert Transform Based Technique,” (with X. Fang and H. Luo), Transactions of the ASME, Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, Vol. 130, No. 3, 11 pages, 2008. “On the Tuning of Variable Piezoelectric Transducer Circuitry Network for Structural Damage Identification,” (with L.J. Jiang and K.W. Wang), Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 309, No. 3-5, pp. 695-717, 2008. Bi Zhang “Lapping of Electrical Discharge Machining Processed Tool Steel Surface Using Elliptical Tool Motion,” (with M. Mizuno, T. Iyama and S. Sugawara), ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol. 129, No. 3, pp. 502-512, 2007. “Cutting Mechanisms of Polycrystalline Diamond Compacts with a YAG Laser,” (with G.F. Zhang, Z.H. Deng and J.F. Cheng), Annals of the CIRP, Vol. 56, pp. 201-204, 2007.

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“Recent Advances in Electrochemical Micromachining,” (with H.P. Luo, Z.X. Zhou and Y.H. Ren), China Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 129, No. 3, pp. 502-512, 2007. “A Rotary Flexural Bearing for Micromanufacturing,” (with H.P. Luo and Z.X. Zhou), Annals of the

CIRP, Vol. 57, pp. 179-182, 2008. “Experimental Study on Clamping Pressure Distribution in PEM Fuel Cells,” (with X.T. Wang and Y. Song), Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 179, pp. 305-309, 2008. “Analysis of the Sawing Process with Abrasive Circular Saw Blades,” (with M. Mizuno and T. Iyama), ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol. 130, No. 1, pp. 011-012 – 011012-15, 2008. “Numerical Simulation Study on Truing and Dressing of Bronze-bonded Diamond Wheel with Pulsed Laser,” (with G.Y. Chen, L.F. Mei, D.J. Zhu and G.G. Chen), Journal of Key Engineering Materials, Vol. 359-360, pp. 166-170, 2008.

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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS

2007-2008 Thomas J. Barber “The Use of CFD in Capstone Senior Design Projects,” Proceedings of the 46

th American Institute of

Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, AIAA-2008-497, Reno, NV, January 7-10, 2008. John C. Bennett “Promoting Effective Student Problem Solving,” Proceedings of the 2007 American Society of

Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Paper IMECE2007-41028, Seattle, WA, November 11-15, 2007. Theodore L. Bergman “Effect of Non-Uniform Clamping Pressure on PEM Fuel Cell Stack Performance,” (with N. Fekrazad), Proceedings of the 2007 American Society of Mechanical Engineers and Japan Society of Mechanical

Engineers (ASME-JSME) Thermal Engineering Conference and Summer Heat Transfer Conference, HT2007-32076, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 8-12, 2007. Zbigniew Bzymek “A Search for Ideal Solutions in Engineering Problems (in Polish),” Proceedings of the LII Scientific

Conference of the Civil Engineering Committee of the Polish Academy of Science and the Committee of

Science of the Polish Society of Civil Engineers, Vol 3, pp. 437-444, Krynica-Bialystok, Poland, September 16-21, 2007. Baki M. Cetegen “Soot Topography in a Planar Diffusion Flame Wrapped by Interacting Line Vortices,” (with S. Basu and S. Chaudhuri), Proceedings of the 2007 Technical Meeting of the Eastern States Section of the

Combustion Institute, Paper No. B-14, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, October 21-24, 2007. “Temperature Measurements in the Stabilization Zone of Acoustically Modulated Turbulent Premixed Conical Flames by Emission Spectroscopy,” (with S. Chaudhuri), Proceedings of the 2007 Technical

Meeting of the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute, Paper No. B-19, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, October 21-24, 2007. “Fundamental Understanding of the Liquid Precursor Plasma Spray Process through Modeling and Experiments,” (with E.H. Jordan, M. Gell, D. Chen, S. Basu, M. Teicholz and X. Ma), Proceedings of the

International Thermal Spray Conference, Masstrich, Netherlands, June 1-3, 2008.

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Wilson K. S. Chiu “Characterization and Quantification of Charge and Heat Transfer in a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Anode,” (with K.N. Grew, A.S. Joshi and A.A. Peracchio), Proceedings of the American Society of Mechanical

Engineers and Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME-JSME) Thermal Engineering Summer

Heat Transfer Conference, Paper No. HT2007-32452, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 8-12, 2007. “Gas Transport and Electrochemistry in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Towards Optimal Electrode Structures,” keynote, (with K.N. Grew, A.S. Joshi and A.A. Peracchio), Proceedings of the 16

th Discrete Simulation of

Fluid Dynamics: Micro, Nano and Multiscale Physics for Emerging Technologies Conference, Banff, Canada, July 23-27, 2007. “Role of Surface Species in Chemical Vapor Deposited Carbon Nanotubes,” (with A.C. Lysaght), Proceedings of the EuroCVD 16 – Sixteenth European Conference on Chemical Vapor Deposition, Paper No. 69, Den Haag, Netherlands, September 16-21, 2007. “Coupled Reactor-Scale and Surface Chemistry Model for Chemical Vapor Deposition of Carbon Nanotubes,” (with A.C. Lysaght), Proceedings of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Paper No. IMECE2007-41413, Seattle, WA, November 11-15, 2007. “Non Invasive Multi-length Scale 3D Imaging of Functional Materials with Resolution from mm to sub 50 nm,” (with S.H. Lau, F. Garzon, A. Tkachuk, H. Ciu, H. Chang, M. Feser and W. Yun), Proceedings

of the 13th Israel Materials Engineering Conference, Haifa, Israel, December 9-10, 2007.

“Structural Imaging and Optimization of Microtubular Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrodes,” (with K.N. Grew, A.S. Joshi, J.R. Izzo, Jr., A.A. Peracchio and B. Chalifoux), Proceedings of the Army Research

Office (ARO) Workshop on Soldier-Portable Power Systems: Status Review and Research Needs, CD-ROM, College Park, MD, February 20-21, 2008. “Hydroxyl Ion Transport in Alkaline Anion Exchange Membranes: A Preliminary Study,” (with K.N. Grew and A.A. Peracchio), Proceedings of the Army Research Office (ARO) Workshop on Soldier-

Portable Power Systems: Status Review and Research Needs, College Park, CD-ROM, College Park, MD, February 20-21, 2008. “A Dusty Fluid Model to Predict Hydroxyl Ion Conductivity in Alkaline Anion Exchange Membranes,” (with K.N. Grew), Proceedings of the 213

th Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting, Paper No. 194,

Phoenix, AZ, May 18-23, 2008. “Nondestructive Reconstruction and Analysis of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Anodes Using X-ray Computed Tomography at sub-50 nm Resolution,” (with J.R. Izzo, Jr., A.S. Joshi, A.A. Peracchio, K.N. Grew, A.T. Tkachuk, S.H. Wang and W. Yun), Proceedings of the 213

th Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting,

Paper No. 274, Phoenix, AZ, May 18-23, 2008. “Impact of Electrochemical Reaction Mechanisms on Overpotentials in the Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Anode,” (with K.N. Grew and J.R. Izzo, Jr.), Proceedings of the 213

th Electrochemical Society (ECS)

Meeting, Paper No. 366, Phoenix, AZ, May 18-23, 2008.

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Mun Y. Choi “Influence of Oxygen Concentration on the Sooting Behavior of Ethanol Droplet Flames in Microgravity Conditions,” (A. Yozgatligil and S.H. Park), Proceedings of the International Symposium on Combustion

XXXI, pp. 2165-2173, 2007. Amir Faghri “Thermal and Start-up Characteristics of a Miniature Passive DMFC System,” (with J. Rice), Proceedings of the 2007 American Society of Mechanical Engineers and Japan Society of Mechanical

Engineers (ASME-JSME) Thermal Engineering Conference and Summer Heat Transfer Conference, HT2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 8-12, 2007. Tai-Hsi Fan “Nanoparticle Retardation in Semidilute Polymer Solutions,” (with R. Tuinier, J.K.G. Dhont and T. Taniguchi), Proceedings of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Conference, Mathematical and

Statistical Physics, Vol. 982, pp. 326-330, September 2007. “Prediction of Scaling Law for Particle Diffusion in Polymer Solutions,” (with R. Tuinier), Bulletin of the

American Physical Society Conference - the 60th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Vol.

52, No. 17, pp. 82, Salt Lake City, UT, November 18-20, 2007. Horea Ilies “A Comparison of Kinetostatic and Multibody Dynamics Models for Simulating Protein Structures,” (with H.-J. Su, J. Parker and K. Kazerounian), Proceedings of the Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, ASME IDETC 2007, Las Vegas, NV, September 2007. “A Point Membership Classification Test for Sweeping Solids,” (with H. Erdim), Proceedings of the

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Design Automation Conference, ASME IDETC 2007, Las Vegas, NV, September 2007. “Motion-Based Shape Morphing of Solid Models,” (with H. Erdim), Proceedings of the Design

Automation Conference, ASME IDETC 2007, Las Vegas, NV, September 2007. “Kinematic Tools in Uncovering Protein Conformation Pathways,” (with K. Kazerounian), Proceedings

of the Indo-US Workshop on Protein Kinematics & Protein Conformations, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, December 10-11, 2007. “Shaping with Deformations,” (with N. Wu), Proceedings of the 2008 National Science Foundation

(NSF) Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, Knoxville, TN, January 7-10, 2008. “Space Sampling for Boundary Evaluation of General Sweeps,” (with H. Erdim), Proceedings of the 2008

National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, Knoxville, TN, January 7-10, 2008. “Predicting Protein Conformational Transitions by Trajectory Planning through Torsion Angle Propensity Maps,” (with C. Madden, P. Bohnenkamp and K. Kazerounian), Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary

Applications of Kinematics, Lima, Peru, January 9-11, 2008.

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“Octree-based Boundary Evaluation for General Sweeps,” (with H. Erdim), Proceedings of the

International Symposium on Tools and Methods for Competitive Engineering, Izmir, Turkey, April 21-25, 2008. Eric H. Jordan “Rare Earth Element Doped Ceramics and their Lifetime Characteristics with Varying Temperature,” (with M. Majewski and M.W. Renfro), Proceedings of the 46

th American Institute of Aeronautics and

Astronautics (AIAA) Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Paper No. AIAA-2008-266, Reno, NV, January 7-10, 2008. “Solution Precursor Plasma Spray of Thermal Barrier Coatings,” (with M. Gell), Proceedings of the

Turbine Forum 2008 - Advanced Coatings for High Temperature, Nice, France, April 23-25, 2008. “Solution Precursor Plasma Spray of Thermal Barrier Coatings,” (with M. Gell), Turbine Forum 2008, pp. 1-9, 2008. “Fundamental Understanding of the Liquid Precursor Plasma Spray Process through Modeling and Experiments,” (with B.M. Cetegen, M. Gell, D. Chen, S. Basu, M. Teicholz and X. Ma), Proceedings of

the International Thermal Spray Conference, CD-ROM, Masstrich, Netherlands, June 1-3, 2008. Kazem Kazerounian “Barriers to Creativity in Engineering Education: A Study of Instructors and Students Perceptions,” (with S. Foley), Proceedings of the 2007 ASME Design Education Conference, ASME- DETC2007-34424, Las Vegas, NV, September 4-7, 2007. “A Comparison of Kinetostatic and Multibody Dynamic Models for Simulating Protein Structures,” (with J. Parker, H.J. Su and H. Ilies), Proceedings of the 2007 ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, ASME-DETC2007-34861, Las Vegas, NV, September 4-7, 2007. “Kinematic Tools in Uncovering Protein Conformation Pathways,” (with H. Ilies), Proceedings of the

Indo-US Workshop on Protein Kinematics & Protein Conformations, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, December 10-11, 2007. “Predicting Protein Conformational Transitions by Trajectory Planning through Torsion Angle Work Envelopes,” (with C. Madden, P. Bohnenkamp and H. Ilies), Proceedings of the IAK 2008 Conference on

Interdisciplinary Applications of Kinematics, Lima, Peru, January 9-11, 2008. Shiva Kotha “Disruption of the Osteocyte f-Actin Cytoskeleton in Response to Loading,” (with M. Ferrari and L.F. Bonewald), Proceedings of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Los Angeles, CA, September 26-29, 2007. “Ultrasound Prediction of Mechanical Properties of Cortical Bone with Varying Bone Mineral Content,” (with N. Guzelsu), Proceedings of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Los Angeles, CA, September 26-29, 2007. “Mechanism of Repair of Damaged Bone Tissue Material Properties by Osteocytes,” Proceedings of the

Orthopaedic Research Society (54th Annual Meeting of the ORS), San Diego, CA, February 10-13, 2008.

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“Downregulation of Dkk1 in Response to Mechanical Loading of Bone,” (with A. Ferris, N. Kim-Veroha and M. Johnson), Proceedings of the American Association for Dental Research, 37

th Meeting of the

AADR, Dallas, TX, April 2-5, 2008. Nejat Olgac “Complete Stability Map of Neutral Type, First Order, Two Time Delay Systems,” (with R. Sipahi and D. Breda), Proceedings of the Automatic Control Conference, ACC 07, CD-ROM, New York, NY, July 11-13, 2007. “A New Micro-injector and an Optical Sensor,” (with A. Ergenc), Proceedings of the Automatic Control

Conference, ACC 07, CD-ROM, New York, NY, July 11-13, 2007. “Delay Decoupling Control, A Novel Method for Systems with Multiple Delays,” (with M. Poursina), Proceedings of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) - Time Delay System Workshop

- TDS 07, CD-ROM, Nantes, France, September 17-19, 2007. “Mathematical Tools for Time-Delayed Dynamics Applied to Variable-Pitch Milling Chatter – Active Vibration Absorption,” (with A. Ergenc), Proceedings of the National Science Foundation - Institute for

Research on Environment and Economy (NSF-IREE) Grantees Meeting, 6 pages, West Lafayette, IN, October 30 - November 1, 2007. “Robust Control of Cart-Pendulum Dynamics against Uncertain Multiple Time Delays,” (with E. Cavdaroglu), Proceedings of the Automatic Control Conference, ACC 08, CD-ROM, Seattle, WA, June 11-13, 2008. Ugur Pasaogullari “Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells for Special Applications,” (with C.Y. Wang), Proceedings of the North

Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Advanced Study Institute: Mini-Micro Fuel Cells as Electric

Energy Generators, Cesme, Turkey, July 22-August 3, 2007. “Neutron Radiography Imaging of Non-Isothermal Start-up of a Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell,” (with R. Fu, D.S. Hussey, D.L. Jacobson and M. Arif), Proceedings of the Electrochemical Society (ECS)

Transactions (ECS Meeting 212 & Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells 7), doi:10.1149/1.2780953, pp. 395-401, Washington, DC, October 7-12, 2007. “A Computational Analysis to Identify the Current Density Characteristics of a Micro-Tubular Solid Oxide Fuel Cell,” (with M.F. Serincan and N.M. Sammes), Proceedings of the 6

th Fuel Cell Science,

Engineering and Technology Conference, doi:10.1149/1.2780953, Vol. 11, pp. 395-401, Lucerne, Switzerland, June 16-18, 2008. Ranga Pitchumani “Novel Designs of Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cells,” (with Y. Zhang and A. Mawardi), Proceedings of A Festschrift in Honour of Professor Suhas P. Sukhatme, pp. 22-26, Hyderabad, India, October 2-3, 2008.

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Michel W. Renfro “Study of Reaction Rates through a Local Extinction Point in Nonpremixed Flames,” (with W.F. Carnell, Jr.), Proceedings of the 2007 Technical Meeting of the Eastern States Section, The Combustion Institute, CD-ROM, Charlottesville, VA, October 21-24, 2007. “Rare Earth Element Doped Ceramics and Their Lifetime Characteristics with Varying Temperature,” (with M. Majewski and E.H. Jordan), Proceedings of the 46

th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Paper

No. AIAA-2008-266, Reno, NV, January 7-10, 2008. “Flame Structure Measurements and Principal Component Analysis in Self-excited Acoustically-driven Premixed Flames,” (with K.M. Kopp-Vaughan, M. Gluesenkamp and G.B. King), Proceedings of the

Central States Section Meeting, The Combustion Institute, CD-ROM, Tuscaloosa, AL, April 20-22, 2008. “Simultaneous Hydroxyl Concentration and Pressure Time-series Measurements in a Self-excited Acoustically-driven Tube Combustor,” (with M. Gluesenkamp, K.K. Venkatesan, A. Noble, G.B. King, N.M. Laurendeau and K.M. Kopp-Vaughan), Proceedings of the Central States Section Meeting, The

Combustion Institute, CD-ROM, Tuscaloosa, AL, April 20-22, 2008. “Nitric Oxide Concentration and Lifetime Measurements Using Picosecond Time-resolved Laser-induced Fluorescence,” (with K.K. Venkatesan, A. Noble, K. Kirkegaard, G.B. King and N.M. Laurendeau), Proceedings of the Central States Section Meeting, The Combustion Institute, CD-ROM, Tuscaloosa, AL, April 20-22, 2008. Wei Sun

“Biomechanics of Coronary Sinus Annuloplasty: Tissue and Device Interaction at Proximal Anchor,” (with M.A. DeHerrera), Proceedings of the Annual Fall Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)

Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, September 26-29, 2007. “Biaxial Testing and Constitutive Modeling of the Coronary Sinus Tissue,” (with T.M. Pham), Proceedings of the 34

th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, Providence, RI, April 4-6, 2008.

“Application of Computational Biomechanics in Bioprosthetic Heart Valve Design,” (with M.A. DeHerrera), Proceedings of the ASME Design of Medical Devices Conferences, Minneapolis, MI, April 15-17, 2008. “Determining the Mechanical Properties of Coronary Sinus for Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair,” (with P. Thuy, M.X. Nguyen and M. DeHerrera), Proceedings of the ASME 2008 Summer Bioengineering

Conference (SBC2008), Marriott Resort, Marco Island, FL, June 25-29, 2008. “Development and Finite Element Implementation of a Nearly Incompressible Structural Constitutive Model for Artery Substitute Design,“ (with E.L. Chaikof and M.E. Levenston), Proceedings of the ASME

2008 Summer Bioengineering Conference (SBC2008), Marriott Resort, Marco Island, FL, June 25-29, 2008. Jiong Tang “A Sensitivity Enhancing Control Approach for Structural Model Updating,” (with L. Jiang and K.W. Wang), Proceedings of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) International Design

Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC), 21st Biennial Conference on Mechanical Vibration and

Noise, DETC2007-34399, Las Vegas, NV, September 4-7, 2007.

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“Investigation of Granular Damping in Transient Vibrations Using Hilbert Transform Based Technique,” (with X. Fang and H. Luo), Proceedings of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME)

International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC), 21st Biennial Conference on

Mechanical Vibration and Noise, DETC2007-34900, Las Vegas, NV, September 4-7, 2007. “Robust Calibration for Localization in Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks,” (J.J. Cho, Y. Ding and Y. Chen), Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Conference on

Automation Science and Engineering (CASE2007), Scottsdale, AZ, September 22-25, 2007. “Dynamic Data-driven Fault Diagnosis of Wind Turbine Systems,” (Y. Ding, E. Byon, C. Park, Y. Lu and X. Wang), Proceedings of the International Conference of Computational Methods in Science and

Engineering, Part I, LNCS 4487, pp. 1197-1204, Corfu, Greece, September 25-30, 2007. “Parametric Analysis of Damage Detection Using Piezoelectric Transducer and Lamb Wave Approach,” (with X. Wang and Y. Lu), Proceedings of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME)

International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Design Engineering, DE-42010, Seattle, WA, November 9-13, 2007. “Design of Dual-stage Actuation System for High Precision Optical Manufacturing,” (with W. Dong and Y. ElDeeb), Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Smart Structures/

NDE, V6928, San Diego, CA, March 8-12, 2008. “Enhanced Statistical Damage Identification Using Frequency Shift Information with Tunable Piezoelectric Circuitry,” (with J. Zhao), Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical

Engineering, Smart Structure/ NDE, V6932, San Diego, CA, March 8-12, 2008. “Damage Identification Using Piezoelectric Impedance and Spectral Element Method,” (with X. Wang), Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Smart Structures/NDE, V6932, San Diego, CA, March 8-12, 2008. Bi Zhang “Laser Truing and Dressing of Bronze-bonded Diamond Grinding Wheel and Its High-Speed Grinding Performance,” (G.Y. Chen, L.F. Mei, W.M. You, J.Y. Yu and K. Huang), Proceedings of the Advances in

Abrasive Technology X SME, ISAAT, pp. 607-614, Dearborn, MI, September 26-28, 2007. “Wear Performance of Ground Nanostructured Ceramic Coatings,” (X.M. Cheng), Proceedings of the

Advances in Abrasive Technology X SME, ISAAT, pp. 475-482, Dearborn, MI, September 26-28, 2007.

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2007-2008 Thomas Barber “Senior Design Projects,” (with all department faculty), various corporate sponsors, $149,411 ($0). Theodore L. Bergman “NSF Workshop for Frontiers in Transport Phenomena Research and Education: Energy Systems, Biological Systems, Security Information Technology and Nanotechnology,” (with A. Faghri), National Science Foundation, 4/15/06-8/31/07, $150,000 ($73,341). “SGER: Engineered Microclimates for Enhanced Biomass Production,” (with Y. Li (20%)), National Science Foundation, 7/31/07-7/31/08, $80,000 ($24,025). “Smart Salt Selection,” (with R. Bogner (66%)), GlaxoSmithKline, 12/23/05-10/22/06, $68,052 ($1,851). Zbigniew M. Bzymek “Research and Teaching of Industrial Modeling,” (with M. Nunez (50%)), U.S. Department of Defense/ Architecture Framework/Connecticut Center for Advanced Technologies, 4/14/08-5/31/09, $44,200 ($225). Baki M. Cetegen “Solution Spray Plasma Processing of Nano-structured Ceramic Coatings,” (with E.H. Jordan (70%), M. Gell (17%) and N. Padture (0%)), Office of Naval Research, 1/01/05-12/30/07, $1,000,000 ($114,043). “Optical Diagnostic Tools for Fuel Cell Development and Operational Control,” (with M. Renfro (50%)), Connecticut Innovations Inc. and UTC Power, 8/01/07-8/31/09, $264,000 ($8,318). “GOALI: Experimental and Computational Study of Bluff-body Flame Stabilization with Non-homogeneous Upstream Mixing,” (with M. Renfro (50%)), National Science Foundation, 6/01/06-5/31/09, $200,000 ($38,626). “Engineered Nano-Composite Oxides for High Durability Missile Domes,” (with E. Jordan (70%), M. Aindow (20%), and M. Gell (10%) and Inframat Corporation, M.I.T. and U. Michigan), DOD/DARPA, 11/01/06-4/31/10, $2,808,000 ($129,076). “Nano-composite Oxides for High Durability Missile Domes,” (with M. Gell (20%) and M. Aindow (20%)), Raytheon Inc. subcontract (DARPA Contract), 4/16/07-10/15/10, $2,808,000 ($129,076). Wilson K. S. Chiu “Effects of Impurities on PEM Fuel Cell Performance and Durability,” (with T. Molter (79%), S. Suib (8%), M. Aindow (5%) and U. Pasaogullari (3%)), U.S. Department of Energy, 11/01/05-10/30/10, $1,900,000.

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“Carbon Nanotube Synthesis by Open-air Laser-induced Chemical Vapor Deposition,” National Science Foundation, 9/01/07-08/31/10, $382,284 ($0). “Understanding Hole Pattern Formation during Microstructured Optical Fiber Draw,” National Science Foundation, 10/01/03-9/30/07, $296,016 ($99,502). “Advanced Fuel Cell Research for Weapon Applications,” (with E. Greene (0%)), Office of Naval Research, 8/23/04-9/30/07, $48,000 ($7,552). “Structural Imaging and Optimization of Microtubular Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrodes,” Army Research Office, 4/01/05-9/30/08, $150,000 ($15,217). “REU for FRS 523455,” National Science Foundation, 10/01/03-9/30/07, $5,000 ($3,288). “Fuel Cell Performance Using Hydrogen Peroxide Reformate as the Oxidant,” Office of Naval Research, 1/01/07-12/31/09, $210,000 ($49,592). Mun Y. Choi “FLEX: Droplet Flame Extinguishment in Microgravity,” NASA, 12/2007-12/2011, $360,000. Amir Faghri “Analysis of Heat Pipes for Heat Recovery from High Temperature,” Exxon Mobil Research and Engineering Company, 2/15/07-2/15/09, $49,500 ($21,995). “Transport Phenomena in Micro-Miniature Passive Feed Direct Alcohol Fuel Cells,” National Science Foundation, 9/01/07-8/30/10, $300,342 ($25,232). “NSF Workshop for Frontiers in Transport Phenomena Research and Education: Energy Systems, Biological Systems, Security Information Technology and Nanotechnology,” (with T.L. Bergman (50%)), National Science Foundation, 4/15/06-8/31/07, $150,000 ($73,341). “Graduate Fellowship in Alternative /Renewable Energy Conversion Technologies,” (with R. Pitchumani (66%)), U.S. Department of Education, Gannon Program, 8/15/07-8/15/10, $383,643 ($3,532). Tai-Hsi Fan “Quantitative Analysis of Molecular Transport and Population Kinetics of Stem Cell Cultivation in a Microfluidic System,” (with J.C. Conover (10%) and X. Yao (10%)), Connecticut Department of Public Health, 3/02/07-3/01/09, $200,000 ($58,460). Xinyu Huang “Alternative Carbon,” Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology/SBIR/Mystic, 2/12/07-8/17/07, $21,424 ($5,730). “Telecom Backup Power,” (with K. Reifsnider (0%)), United Technologies/UTC Power/UTC Fuel Cells, 7/15/06-7/14/08, $150,000 ($66,520). “Specialty Coatings Development for Fuel Cells,” (with K. Reifsnider: (0%)), Tanury Corporation, $100,000 ($0).

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Horea Ilies “CAREER: Geometric Singularities in Design and Manufacturing,” National Science Foundation, 8/01/07-7/31/12, $400,000 (0). “SGER: A Mechanics Framework for the Analysis and Design of Protein Based Nano Machines,” (with K. Kazerounian (50%)), National Science Foundation, 8/1/07-7/31/08, $100,000 ($44,128). “Assessment of UGS Digital Manufacturing Solutions,” Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, 5/01/08-5/31/09, $103,000 ($0). “COGEM: Constrained Geometric Morphing,” National Science Foundation, 3/01/06-3/31/09, $320,000 ($37,450). “IREE Supplement,” National Science Foundation, 3/01/06-3/31/09, $50,000 ($37,622). Eric H. Jordan “Solution Spray Plasma Processing of Nano-structured Ceramic Coatings,” (with M. Gell (17%), B.M. Cetegen (13%) and N. Padture (0%)), Office of Naval Research, 1/01/05-12/30/07, $1,000,000 ($114,043). “Engineered Nano-Composite Oxides for High Durability Missile Domes,” (with M. Aindow (20%), B.M. Cetegen (20%) and M. Gell (10%) and Inframat Corporation, MIT and U. Michigan,), U.S. Department of Defense/DARPA/Raytheon, 11/01/06-4/31/10, $2,808,000 ($322,692). “Optical NDI of Thermal Barrier Coatings,” National Science Foundation STTR, joint contract with Southwest Sciences, 1/01/08-12/31/08, $50,000, ($20,195). “GOALI: Development of Temperature Sensing Doped Particles for Plasma Deposition Diagnostics,” (with M. Renfro (50%)), National Science Foundation, 10/1/06-11/30/09, $350,000 ($41,869). Kazem Kazerounian “Design and Development of a New Massage Chair System,” Osim International, 7/01/07-6/30/09, $96,678 ($0). “SGER: A Mechanics Framework for the Analysis and Design of Protein Based Nano Machines,” (with H. Ilies (50%)), National Science Foundation, 8/01/07-7/31/08, $99,958 ($44,128). “Design and Development of Sensory Computer Controlled Manipulators,” New Dimension Technologies Corporation, 12/15/06-12/14/08, $124,589 ($38,027). Nejat Olgac “A New Paradigm for Intelligently Managing the Time Delay,” U.S. Department of Energy, 8/01/04-9/30/07, $126,000 ($6,055). “A Novel Microinjection Process Using Rotational Oscillations,” (jointly with Harvard Medical School and University of California - Davis), National Institutes of Health, 9/01/04-9/30/08, $204,500 ($66,281). “Novel Framework for Optimizing Non-Uniform Pitch Milling,” National Science Foundation, 6/15/05-5/31/09, $260,000 (with $6,000 REU Supplement), ($13,699).

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“IREE for 523915,” National Science Foundation, 6/15/05-5/31/2009, $14,500 ($9,602). “Swarm Behavior During Conflicts: From Biological to Engineered Systems,” U.S. Army Research Office, 8/01/07-7/31/10, $271,000 ($16,114). “Productivity Improvements for Rough Milling of Blade Slots on Titanium Disks,” United Technologies Corporation and Pratt & Whitney, 1/01/06-12/30/07, $52,000 ($8,312). Ugur Pasaogullari “Effects of Impurities on PEM Fuel Cell Performance and Durability,” (with T. Molter (84%), S. Suib (8%), M. Aindow (5%), W.K.S. Chiu (5%)), U.S. Department of Energy, 11/01/05-10/30/10, $1,900,000. “CAREER: Role of Interfaces on Transport Phenomena in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells,” National Science Foundation, 2/01/08-1/31/13, $400,000 ($0). “Ammonia-Borane Pyrolysis: Analysis and Characterization,” (with S. Suib (36%), T. Molter (26%) and B. Wilhite (18%)), Ensign-Bickford, 9/01/06-8/31/07, $194,896 ($0). “Thermal Fluid Analysis of Ammonia-Borane Pyrolysis,” (with S. Suib (38%) and T. Molter (24%)), Ensign-Bickford, 9/01/07-4/30/08, $90,533. “Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis of Portable Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells,” Design by Analysis, Inc., 5/15/07-8/15/07, $24,939 ($24,939). “Effect of Permeation on Net Water Transport Coefficient in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells,” Nissan Motor Co., 2/01/08-1/31/09, $41,577 ($14,868). Ranga Pitchumani “Rapid Replication of Electroforming Micromolds for Fabrication of High Aspect Ratio Microstructures,” National Science Foundation, 9/01/07-8/31/10, $300,001 ($0). “Investigations on Transport Phenomena Governing Fabrication of Microstructures via Microcasting of Nanoparticulate Slurry,” National Science Foundation, 9/01/05-8/31/09, $324,000 ($151,918). “Graduate Fellowships in Alternative and Renewable Energy Conversion Technologies,” (with A. Faghri (33%)), U.S. Department of Education, GAANN Program, Graduate Fellowships in Alternative and Renewable Energy Conversion Technologies, 8/15/07-8/14/10, $383,643 ($10,704). Kenneth Reifsnider “Enabling Fuel Cells for Distributed Telecom Backup Power Applications: Accelerated Reliability Testing Capability and Methods,” Connecticut Clean Energy Fund Yankee Program, 8/15/06-8/14/07, $600,000 ($0). “Telecom Backup Power,” (with X. Huang (100%)), United Technologies/UTC Power/UTC Fuel Cells, 7/15/06-7/14/08, $150,000 ($0). “Cold Temp Fatigue,” Exxon Mobil, 2/15/07-2/14/08, $67,568 ($33,377).

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Michael W. Renfro “GOALI: Experimental and Computational Study of Bluff-body Flame Stabilization with Non-homogeneous Upstream Mixing,” (with B.M. Cetegen (50%)), National Science Foundation, 6/01/06- 5/31/09, $200,000 ($38,626). “CAREER: Characterization of Propagating and Receding Flame Edges in Composition and Velocity Gradients,” National Science Foundation, 2/01/03-1/31/09, $417,999 ($24,985). “Study of Combustor Acoustics Using Time-Series and Instantaneous Flame-Structure Measurements,” Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 12/01/05-11/30/08, $450,000 ($50,910). “GOALI: Development of Temperature Sensing Doped Particles for Plasma Deposition Diagnostics,” (with E. Jordan (50%)), National Science Foundation, 10/1/06-11/30/09, $349,850 ($41,869). “PLIF and Diode Laser Measurements in Ultra-Compact Combustor,” U.S. Department of Defense/U.S. Air Force/Spectral Energies, LLC, 1/15/08-8/15/08, $49,464 ($24,746). “Bluff-Body Flame Holding Under Partially-Premixed Conditions,” Pratt & Whitney, 1/01/05-12/31/07, $39,000 ($7,963). “Optical Diagnostic Tools for Fuel Cell Development and Operational Control,” (with B. Cetegen (50%)), Connecticut Innovations Inc. and UTC Power, 8/01/07-8/31/09, $264,000 ($8,318). Jiong Tang “Modeling and Control Improvement for High Precision Optical Manufacturing,” Gerber Scientific, Inc., 11/01/05-6/30/09, $279,198 ($65,500). “Granular Damping Analysis and Design for Vibration Suppression (CMS – 0324436),” National Science Foundation, 8/15/03-7/31/08, $251,558 ($30,323). “Sensor Small Team: Robust Wireless Piezoelectric Sensor Network for Structural Health Monitoring (CMS-0428210),” National Science Foundation, 8/01/04-7/31/09, $150,000 ($28,402). “Multifunctional Adaptive Piezoelectric Sensory System for Structural Damage Detection (CMS – 0528790),” National Science Foundation, 8/15/05-7/31/09, $117,000 ($18,355). “DDDAS: A Framework for the Dynamic Data-driven Fault Diagnosis of Wind Turbine Systems (CMS – 0540278),” National Science Foundation, 6/01/06-5/31/09, $212,250 ($23,162). “Highly Sensitive and Robust Damage Detection of Periodic Structures with Piezoelectric Networking (FA9550-07-1-0051, Sub-award 3344-UC-USA-0051),” Air Force Office of Scientific Research through Penn State University, 12/15/06-11/30/09, $135,963 ($51,532). “IREE Supplement,” National Science Foundation, 6/01/06-5/31/09, $32,350 ($4,376). Bi Zhang “Software-Supported High Efficiency Grinding,” Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, 1/1/08-12/31/08, $67,172 ($6,284).

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2007-2008 Wei Sun “Virtual Heart Valve,” (with H.C. Cao), World Intellectual Property Organization Patent No. WO/2007/103229, Publication date: September 13, 2007. Ugur Pasaogullari Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation, 2008.

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2007-2008 Thomas J. Barber

Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and ASME Computational Fluid Dynamics Technical Committee. Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and AIAA Professional Education Technical Committee.

Presentation:

“The Use of CFD in Capstone Senior Design Projects,” AIAA 2008-0497 Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, 2008.

John C. Bennett Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Member, American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). Member, Tau Beta Pi Society.

Presentation:

“Facilitating (NOT Teaching) the Important Topics – Including Effective Problem Solving,” American Association of Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 2008.

Theodore L. Bergman Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE). Zbigniew M. Bzymek Member, Pi Tau Sigma Honorary Society. Member, New York Academy of Sciences. Member, Engineering Committee, Polish Academy of Science. Baki M. Cetegen Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Member, Combustion Institute. Board Member, Combustion Institute Eastern States Section, 1997 to present. Vice-Chair, Executive Committee of Combustion Institute, Eastern States Section.

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Member, National Science Foundation Combustion and Plasma Systems Proposal Review Panel. Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. Wilson K. S. Chiu Associate Editor, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 2007 - present. Member, Editorial Advisory Board, The Open Energy and Fuels Journal, 2007 - present. Board Member, The Open Renewable Energy Journal, 2008 - present. Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Vice Chair, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Heat Transfer Division K-15 Technical Committee on Transport Phenomena in Manufacturing and Materials Processing, 2007 - present. Session Chair and co-chair, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, 2007. Session Chair, 16th Discrete Simulation of Fluid Dynamics: Micro, Nano and Multiscale Physics for Emerging Technologies Conference, 2007. Session Chair, ASME-JSME Thermal Engineering Summer Heat Transfer Conference, 2007. Session Chair, 5th ASME International Fuel Cell Science, Engineering & Technology Conference, 2007. Secretary, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Advanced Energy Systems Division, Systems Analysis and Fuel Cell Technical Committee, 2008 - present. Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Heat Transfer Division K-15 Technical Committee on Transport Phenomena in Manufacturing and Materials Processing, 1999 - present. Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Advanced Energy Systems Division, Systems Analysis and Fuel Cell Technical Committee, 2006 - present. Member, ECS Energy Technology Division, 2008 - present. Member, External Advisory Board, Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center, 2006 - present. Technical Committee Representative (KCR), Heat Transfer Division K-15, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, 2008. Co-topic Organizer, Systems Analysis and Fuel Cell Technical Committee, Advanced Energy Systems Division, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, 2008. Session Organizer, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Summer Heat Transfer Conference, 2008.

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Presentations:

“Research Funding & Proposal Writing, Tips for Tenure and Promotion: A Symposium for New and Prospective Faculty,” Mechanical Engineering Department Heads Committee, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, 2007.

“Mass Transfer and Electrochemistry in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Towards Optimal Electrode Structures,” Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary, July 19, 2007.

“Gas Transport and Electrochemistry in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells,” Department of Mechanical Engineering, City College of New York, July 20, 2007.

“Gas Transport and Electrochemistry in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Towards Optimal Electrode Structures,” Exa Corporation, Burlington, MA, August 23, 2007.

“Structural Imaging and Optimization of Microtubular Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrodes,” ARO Workshop, Chapel Hill, NC, September 6-7, 2007.

“Structural Imaging and Optimization of Microtubular Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrodes,” Adaptive Materials, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, September 17, 2007.

“Mass Transfer and Electrochemistry in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells,” Xradia, Inc., Concord, CA, October 19, 2007.

“Future of Fuel Cells,” Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Leadership Program, Groton, CT, February 14, 2008.

“Mass Transfer and Electrochemistry in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells,” Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, February 27, 2008.

“Pore Scale 3-D Imaging and Analysis of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrodes: Toward Optimal Electrode Structures,” NexTech Materials, Inc., Lewis Center, OH, March 12, 2008.

“Pore Scale 3-D Imaging and Analysis of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrodes: Toward Optimal Electrode Structures,” Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH, March 13, 2008.

“Fuel Cell Performance Using Hydrogen Peroxide Reformate as the Oxidant,” Office of Naval Research, ULI Program Review, Arlington, VA, June 3-5, 2008.

Mun Y. Choi Session Organizer, Emerging Frontiers of Combustion Session, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE) Conference, November 2008. Scientific Member and Special Lecturer, 4th International Conference on Cooling and Heating Technologies (ICCHT2008), October 2008. International Session Chair, Topical Simulations, Diagnostics, and Experiments in Fire and Combustion Systems session, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Heat Transfer Conference, July 2007. Organizer, National Conference of the Pi Tau Sigma Mechanical Engineering Honor Society, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, February 2008.

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David (Ed) Crow Member, National Academy of Engineering. Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE). Amir Faghri Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE). Executive Editor, Heat Transfer Engineering Journal (Thermal Storage & Heat Pipes). North American Editor, Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer. Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Heat Transfer Research. Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Applied Thermal Engineering. Member, Honorary Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. Member, Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid

Flow. Honorary Member, Editorial Advisory Board, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer. Honorary Member, International Scientific Committee, VII Minsk International Seminar: Heat Pipes, Heat Pumps, Refrigerators, Minsk, Belarus, 2008. Member, International Advisory Board, 9th International Heat Pipe Symposium, Selangor, Malaysia, 2008. Member, Council of Advisors, College of Engineering, University of California, Riverside. Member, Board of Directors, RBC Bearings Inc. Tai-Hsi Fan

Presentation:

“Prediction of Scaling Law for Particle Diffusion in Polymer Solutions,” (with R. Tuinier), 60th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 18-20, 2007.

Horea Ilies Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). General Program Co-Chair, ASME 2008 IDETC & CIE Conferences. Program Committee, ASME Design Automation Conference.

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Presentation:

“Classifying Points for Solid Sweeping” (with H. Erdim), 10th SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, November 4-8, 2007.

Eric H. Jordan Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE). Kazem Kazerounian Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE). Associate Editor, Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2002 - present. Member, Management Committee, ASME Journal of Medical Devices. Member, Organizing Committee, Conference on Interdisciplinary Applications of Kinematics (IAK 2008). Vice Chairman and Treasurer, ASME Design Division Executive Committee 2007-2008. Member, ASME Design Division Executive Committee, 2004-2010. Executive, ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers in Engineering Conference, 2005-2007. Shiva Kotha Session Chair, Biomaterials, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Los Angeles, CA, 2007. Session Chair, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Conference. Kevin Murphy Member, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Nejat Olgac Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE). Program Chair, ASME) Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 2009.

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Presentations:

“Delay Decoupling Control, A Novel Method for Systems with Multiple Delays,” (with M. Poursina), IFAC- Time Delay System Workshop - TDS 07, CD-ROM, Nantes, France, 2007.

“Mathematical Tools for Time-Delayed Dynamics Applied to Variable-Pitch Milling Chatter – Active Vibration Absorption,” (with A. Ergenc), NSF-IREE grantees meeting, W. Lafayette, IN, (with A. Ergenc), 6 pp., October 2007.

“Robust Control of Cart-Pendulum Dynamics against Uncertain Multiple Time Delays,” (with E. Cavdaroglu and N. Olgac), ACC 08, Seattle, CD-ROM, June 2008.

Ugur Pasaogullari Member: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and Electrochemical Society (ECS). Ranga Pitchumani Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE). Associate Editor, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Journal of Heat Transfer. Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Thermoplastic Composite Materials. Presentation:

Symposium in Honor of Professor Suhas P. Sukhatme, keynote, Joint Indian Society for Heat and Mass Transfer (ISHMT)/American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, Hyderabad, India, January 2-5, 2008.

Michael W. Renfro Member, Combustion Institute. Presentations:

“Time-resolved Conditional Flow Field Statistics: Extinguishing Turbulent Opposed Jet Flames: an Example,” (with B. Böhm, C. Kittler, A. Dreizler, K.K. Venkatesan, I. Boxx and W. Meier), Gordon Research Conference on Laser Diagnostics in Combustion, Oxford, England, 2007.

“Application of Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Measurements in an Industrial Coal Boiler Facility,” (with S. Kostka Jr.) Gordon Research Conference on Laser Diagnostics in Combustion, Oxford, England, 2007.

“Imaging Measurements of Interacting Flame Edges,” (with S. Kostka Jr.), Gordon Research Conference on Laser Diagnostics in Combustion, Oxford, England, 2007.

Wei Sun Member: Council of Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention, American Heart Association; Biomedical Engineering Society; American Society of Biomechanics; American Society of Mechanical Engineer (ASME).

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Jiong Tang Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Organizer, Damage Detection, Model Updating and System Identification of Mechanical Systems Symposium, ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, 2007. Organizer, Analysis and Control of Vibrations and Wave Propagations Symposium, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibition, 2007. Organizer, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems Symposium, ASME Conference on Smart Materials, 2008. Organizer, Sensors, Instrumentation, and Measurement Track Symposium, 4th Annual Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 2008. Bi Zhang Member: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). American Society for Precision Engineering (ASPE), Japan Society for Precision Engineering (JSPE). Associate Member, International Institute for Production Engineering Research (CIRP).

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TAYLOR L. BOOTH ENGINEERING CENTER FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY

2007-2008 The mission of BECAT includes both research and outreach. BECAT recognizes the rapid rate of technological change and the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of research, and hence promotes and supports collaboration within and beyond the University. BECAT provides opportunities for interdisciplinary research and educational programs among faculty and students, strengthens the capabilities of individuals and groups in the pursuit of government and industrial projects, facilitates and promotes the work of its constituent researchers, and maintains an environment for research, development and continuing education that is responsive to the changing needs of society. BECAT’s focus is on advanced algorithms and technologies and on the science and engineering infrastructure that supports them. BECAT’s current platform is rooted in supercomputation, and with increasing University-wide interest in high-performance computation, BECAT has aligned some of its activities to enable the growth in critical technical and algorithmic advances in such areas as: nanotechnology; optoelectronics; information technology; bioinformatics; large scale systems simulations; manufacturing; remote sensing; electrical and computer communications; information security; high performance, distributed and supercomputing; signal processing and imaging; database and information extraction; and software engineering. BECAT faculty affiliation has increased to 55 members, with 36 laboratories located either within various departments or at the main BECAT complex, located on Level A of the Homer Babbidge Library. BECAT members are extremely productive in professional activities. Their activities in 2007-2008 included: chairing or co-chairing international conferences and workshops; chairing professional societies; serving as editors-in-chief or editors of archival journals; organizing international workshops and conferences; delivering keynote speeches in international conferences, workshops; delivering invited speeches in various academic institutions, government agencies, and companies; serving as program committee members in international conferences and workshops; serving as panel members for state and federal funding agencies; chairing sessions in international conferences and workshops; delivering invited tutorials in international conferences and workshops and serving in the steering committees of international conferences and workshops. FIVE-YEAR REVIEW

The laws and by-laws of the University require that all centers and institutes be reviewed on a five-year cycle to determine their continued contribution to the University’s mission. BECAT was reviewed by the Academic Center/Institutes Review Committee during the spring semester 2008. The Committee based its review on the March self-study submitted by BECAT Director, Dr. Sanguthevar Rajasekaran. The Committee evaluated the Center with attention to four key components: 1) Mission, 2) Costs/Resources, 3) Scholarly Productivity and Benefits, and 4) Plans for Future Development. After careful review, the Committee recommended to Provost Peter Nicholls that BECAT be approved for a new five-year term. Provost Nicholls accepted the Committee’s recommendation. As we look forward to the next five years, BECAT plans to continue to strengthen its existing strategic goals, including: providing technical and algorithmic support, funding and facilitating research incentives, investing in new research initiatives, providing administrative and grant management assistance, upgrading existing research infrastructure, enhancing the activities of constituent labs, and providing formal and informal technical exchanges.

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UNIVERSITY CENTER APPLICATION

BECAT has submitted an application to become a University Center. Traditionally, BECAT has had the heaviest participation from departments in the School of Engineering. With a focus on enabling technologies in computing and informatics, BECAT is exceptionally positioned to develop inter-disciplinary programs across the departments at UConn and UCHC. With the charter and mandate of a University Center, BECAT would actively promote the participation and contribution from numerous departments in UConn and UCHC. The collaborative activities and shared resources would enable BECAT to successfully develop larger, multi-investigator programs in new areas of emerging research in nanotechnology, bio-informatics, imaging, technology-driven pedagogical developments, etc. Currently, common research interests exist between BECAT and many UConn and UCHC departments. Among these are Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Economics, Geography, Geology, IMS, Mathematics, Molecular and Cell Biology, Marine Science, Pharmaceutical Science, Physics, Physiology and Neurobiology, Psychology and Statistics. BECAT will actively collaborate with the Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science (CICATS). One of the major goals of this institute is to expedite the migration of the biomedical and health-related discoveries into products, treatments, and interventions that have the potential to improve people’s lives. High-performance computing is a critical need of CICATS, and BECAT is ideally suited to satisfy this need. BECAT is also interested in developing joint proposals with CICATS that, thanks to common interests, will enrich collaborative relations with other related UConn centers. For example, large scale modeling and simulations is an area of great interest to the Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center (CGFCC). HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING RESEARCH

BECAT is proud of the continued success of the Connecticut Institute for Supercomputing and

Visualization (CISV). We are currently reviewing quotes to upgrade the existing systems, as the 8-processor SGI® Altix® 350 mid-range server with 8 gigabytes of memory and a 64-processor SGI® Altix® 3700 Bx2 supercomputer configured with 64 gigabytes of memory, are running at near capacity. We are also exploring combining computing facilities with the UConn Health Center (UCHC). Dr. Les Loew at the UCHC has a cluster of 388 processors and two SGI Altix machines. Clusters can be found in such (non-engineering) departments as Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, MCB, etc. BECAT could lead the effort in pooling together all of these resources and efforts to achieve a massively parallel machine and administer its usage. The resulting computing power will be much more than what can be achieved out of individual clusters. NANOCOMPUTING AND BIOCOMPUTING FORUMS

With BECAT support, the School of Engineering held its first Nanotechnology Research Forum in Konover Auditorium, on March 5, 2008. A second forum, on the subject of Bioengineering Research, was organized and hosted by the School of Engineering, in partnership with the UCHC and BECAT, on April 22, 2008. Both events were quite successful. STAFFING UPDATE

In addition to its Director, Dr. Sanguthevar Rajasekaran (CSE), the BECAT organizational structure consists of an Associate Director, Dr. Peter Willett (ECE); Administrative Coordinator, Ms. Sandi Lizee; and Technical Support Administrator, Justin Neumann. The BECAT Secretary, Ms. Elizabeth Moore, retired from State service in the fall.

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CONNECTICUT GLOBAL FUEL CELL CENTER ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY

2007-2008 The Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center (CGFCC) continues to build on a strong existing core of excellence at UConn in research and development of fuel cells and related technologies concerned with renewable energy and a sustainable environment. The scope of the Center includes systems-to-science pure and applied research in fuel cell design and manufacturing, development, materials, fuels and reforming, and integration. Major thrusts in proton exchange membrane (PEM) and solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) science and technology are complemented by active efforts for molten carbonate, phosphoric acid, and other fuel cell types. Since the departure of Dr. Kenneth Reifsnider in 2007, the CGFCC has been overseen by Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Education, Dr. Mehdi Anwar, who has served as Interim Director. An active search is underway to recruit a superb candidate with a proven record of success for the permanent position of Director. EMINENT FACULTY INITIATIVE IN SUSTAINABLE ENERGY

Among the strategic priorities of the School of Engineering during the last year is the Eminent Faculty Initiative in Sustainable Energy. The Initiative, which is supported by a permanent $2 million annual sum from the Connecticut General Assembly, garnered matching support from three industrial partners for the first year of funding. The Initiative seeks to establish a program aimed at advanced research, education and training in sustainable “green” energy. The industrial partners include FuelCell Energy of Danbury, the Northeast Utilities Foundation, and UTC Power of South Windsor. During the last year, a national search was launched and vigorously pursued to recruit a world-class researcher to lead the Sustainable Energy Initiative, along with two Named Professors. In conjunction with this recruiting effort, the School hosted a seminar series called “Challenges for a New Energy Frontier” that brought 15 internationally-recognized leaders in sustainable energy technologies/research to campus to discuss their research. In addition, a search was initiated to recruit a research core of 10 tenure-track faculty members who will form an interdisciplinary, integrated team working in the strategic areas of fuel cells or other alternative energy technologies and applications. These searches remain ongoing. INTRODUCING THE CGFCC BOARD

During the year, Interim Director Mehdi Anwar convened an Advisory Board to assist in plotting the Center’s future course. The members are: Mr. Jerome Peters (Chair) – Member, Connecticut Clean Energy Fund Board Mr. Mike Ahern – Vice President, Northeast Utilities Dr. C. Barry Carter – Head, Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering, UConn Dr. Baki Cetegen – Head, Mechanical Engineering, UConn Dr. Keith Frame – Member, Connecticut Innovations staff of Clean Energy Fund Ms. Norma Glover – Member, Connecticut Clean Energy Fund Board Dr. Pinakin Patel – FuelCell Energy Dr. Frank Preli – Pratt & Whitney Dr. Steve Suib – Head, Chemistry, UConn The Board met for the first time on February 6, 2008, and a second time on June 10, 2008. The Board discussed the Clean Energy Fund endowment and the eminent faculty initiative.

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FUEL CELL RESEARCH PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

The Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center (CGFCC) serves as one of the major hubs for activities associated with this sustainable energy initiative, pioneering new energy technologies, training the energy workforce, and fostering innovative spinoff opportunities. The Center is committed to its mission to promote fundamental and applied research in sustainable energy in collaboration with Connecticut and national academic and industrial partners, with funding from diverse private and federal entities. Total direct research expenditures for the CGFCC for FY08 were $363,625; total research expenditures for the same period, including indirect, were $560,568. Total research expenditures for the Center since inception were $11 million dollars. As part of the above mission, research activities during fiscal year 2007-08 involved both the continuation and the start of many federal and industrial programs. Our federal partners included the National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Naval Research (ONR), and DARPA. Our industrial partners, predominantly based in Connecticut, included UTC Power, FuelCell Energy, the UTC Research Center, Ensign-Bickford, Salamone & Associates, MysticMD, Tanury Industries, Mott Corporation, and Design by Analysis. Finally, our international partners over the past year have included NATO, NEDO (Japan) and Nissan (Japan). Research highlights from a few of the major programs are as follows: • Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program – PI: Dr. Benjamin Wilhite

This ongoing program involves research to develop a new class of compact, thermally efficient and highly integrated fuel reformers for fuel cell-based power systems. This reactor concept centers on the use of precision-distribution schemes in structured ceramic mini- and micro-channel networks.

• Department of Energy, Fuel Cell Impurities – PI: Dr. Trent Molter CGFCC has been working with its partners FuelCell Energy, Inc. and UTC – Hamilton Sundstrand to determine the effects of various impurities (hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, cations and others) on proton exchange fuel cell performance and durability. Recent research has examined the effects of certain commonly-occurring hydrocarbon species on fuel cell performance using standardized tests developed in collaboration with other DOE contractors. This has included the development of analytical chemistry techniques to determine the impurity content in the fuel stream as well as the development of membrane characterization techniques. We have also examined the effects of cationic contaminants on the physiochemical properties of proton exchange membranes using new test protocols developed by CGFCC. Future program activities include developing models to predict the performance impact on PEM fuel cells and developing a means of mitigating deleterious effects of these impurities on fuel cell performance and integrity.

• National Science Foundation CAREER Award: Role of Interfaces on Transport Phenomena in

Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells – PI: Dr. Ugur Pasaogullari This new program will involve computational and experimental analysis to gain a better understanding of performance characteristics associated with the fuel cell membrane electrode assembly (MEA). Specifically, Prof. Pasaogullari’s group will attempt to understand the interfacial activity between the carbon layers and the platinum catalyst layer in an attempt to develop more durable, low cost, high performing MEA’s.

• UTC Power – PI: Research Prof. Alevtina Smirnova

This new program involves the synthesis of resorcinol-formaldehyde (R-F) carbon aerogels and carbon aerogel-based metal alloy catalysts using supercritical deposition technique. Aerogels offer cost and performance advantages over other comparable approaches.

Our faculty members and researchers have, collectively, produced more than 100 scholarly archival journal papers based on their fuel cell research, 13 book chapters, and 1 book. In addition, CGFCC researchers have submitted over 65 invention disclosures – 14 of which have patents pending and three of

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which have resulted in issued patents, to date. In addition, to further its mission to become a world leader in fuel cell science and commercialization, the CGFCC has established national and international collaborations and partnerships with more than nine universities, over 40 industrial partners, 5 national labs, and 3 international research institutes. TECHNOLOGY VALIDATION

One important research component of the CGFCC’s plan is to assist in the validation of fuel cell systems for our partnering organizations. This validation process includes running the systems in-house, performing various tests, and finally analyzing the results. Over the past two years, FuelCell Energy, Inc. of Danbury, CT has worked with the Center to develop an advanced electrochemical hydrogen separator (EHS), a device that will be used with the company’s Direct FuelCell® power plants to co-produce hydrogen and electricity. This program was sponsored by the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund and targets the demonstration of a novel technology that separates hydrogen from other gases. The CGFCC has and is continuing to work with FCE to conduct parametric and life tests on a prototype version of this unit. The unit has successfully undergone extensive testing (over 10,000 hours) in the CGFCC laboratory and continues to demonstrate the long-term effectiveness and performance of this technology. Based on the information gathered from these tests, FCE has successfully developed a full-scale building block of this system and are rapidly moving toward commercialization.

In addition, the Center has partnered with UTC Power for a Yankee Ingenuity grant titled “Enabling Fuel Cells for Distributed Telecom Backup Power Applications: Accelerated Reliability Testing Capability and Methods.” This program consisted of the development, validation, and demonstration of novel methodologies for projecting long-term reliability of a 5 kW proton exchange membrane uninterruptible power supply (UPS) through accelerated degradation testing. The 5 kW unit supplied by UTC Power was subjected to accelerated load-cycling and start-stop operation (~250 cycles) including environmental temperature variation. In conjunction with the tests on the complete unit, small single fuel cells were endurance tested to investigate the proton exchange membrane used in the unit and to evaluate UTC’s novel cell design that involves the use of a water-transport plate. Post-test membranes were subjected to mechanical tests to evaluate changes in mechanical properties. The membranes from the cells using the water-transport plate were found to have more uniform and superior properties compared to those using conventional plates. FUEL CELL EDUCATION AND OUTREACH HIGHLIGHTS

The Center has been involved in a number of education and outreach activities over the past 12 months. Highlights of a few are as follows: • Planning activities for the 6th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and

Technology, held June 16-18 in Denver, CO. The conference is sponsored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and one of the six conference co-chairs is Dr. Mehdi Anwar, Interim Director of CGFCC. The CGFCC has participated in the planning and organization of the conference program.

• Education and outreach activities continue to grow at the CGFCC. During April, the Center hosted

100 middle school students participating in the Connecticut Kids Fueling the Future program. The program involves students from six different middle schools in the New Haven area. The students had a one hour introductory presentation by Dr. Ben Wilhite and then small group demonstrations that included the biodiesel production facility (Dr. Richard Parnas), solar energy (Dr. Martin Fox) and fuel cells (Peter Menard).

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• CGFCC participated in the 2008 Sustainable Energy Symposium by organizing a “Fuel Cells for a Sustainable World” breakout session with presentations by Thomas Jarvi of UTC Power, Frank Wolak of FuelCell Energy, Patrick O’Neill of Connecticut Innovations and the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund, and Dr. Wilhite of UConn. In addition, as part of the symposium program, Drs. Ugur Pasaogullari and Alevtina Smirnova (an Assistant Research Professor associated with the CGFCC) organized two half-day workshops that followed the symposium; one covered Fuel Cell Fundamentals and Applications and the second covered hydrogen/air PEMFC Manufacturing and Testing.

• In recognition of the successful demonstration of FuelCell Energy’s electrochemical hydrogen

separation system, a celebratory event was held at the CGFCC that included representatives from the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund, Army Corps of Engineers’ Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL), UConn’s top administration, Air Products, the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technologies (CCAT), Connecticut fuel cell companies, green energy entrepreneurs and other interested Connecticut citizens. The celebratory event culminated in a round-table discussion intended to foster continued industry/academic/government collaborations on energy development.

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CONNECTICUT TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY

2007-2008 During the past year, the Connecticut Transportation Institute (CTI) has continued its mission to conduct transportation-related research, outreach and technology transfer. CTI’s role of improving and strengthening Connecticut’s and the nation’s transportation system has continued to grow. CTI personnel and affiliated faculty members have continued to serve on national, regional and state committees that have increased CTI’s prominence at all levels. CTI continues to serve as a technical resource for the Connecticut General Assembly. Throughout the past year there have been discussions and meetings between CTI/UConn personnel and Connecticut legislators to discuss ways to improve Connecticut’s transportation system as transportation issues continue to threaten Connecticut’s economic vitality. To address these transportation issues, the need for a highly skilled transportation workforce has been identified as one of the biggest challenges facing both Connecticut and the nation. This has become especially urgent as a significant portion of the current transportation workforce nears retirement age. CTI’s continued success and growth are indicative of the important mission CTI plays in meeting the transportation needs of Connecticut and the nation. The following continuing programs operate within the institute: the Connecticut Advanced Pavement

Laboratory (CAP Lab), the Center for Transportation and Urban Planning, the Connecticut Technology Transfer (T2) Center, and the Connecticut Cooperative Highway Research Program

(CCHRP). Current research and educational projects at CTI are funded by a diverse set of agencies: the Connecticut Department of Transportation, U.S. Department of Transportation – including the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the New England University Transportation Center (NEUTC), Tilcon Connecticut, Inc., New England Transportation Technician Certification Program and the six New England states through the New England Transportation Consortium. CTI has continued to enjoy strong partnerships with industry, non-profit and government agencies while at the same time developing new strategic partnerships whenever possible. CTI’s main programs include strong advisory committees that ensure the programs are fulfilling each program’s mission.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

Center for Transportation and Urban Planning

• Sponsored workshops in New Haven and Hartford on Urban Planning and Freeways. • Developed new transportation teaching lab in ITS for transit. • Reviewed 19 proposals for research funding in transportation and urban planning.

Connecticut Technology Transfer (T2) Center • Provided 43 training programs to 3,077 participants in the areas of safety, infrastructure

management and workforce development. • Partnered with the Connecticut Department of Transportation to deliver educational awareness

sessions on Connecticut’s Safe Routes to School Program. • Partnered with the Connecticut Department of Transportation to develop a Bicycle/Pedestrian

Facilities Design training curriculum for town/city engineers and transportation planners. • Participated in the Construction Career Day event for 1,200 high school juniors and seniors. • Held a series of roundtable discussions to encourage networking/sharing among Public Works

professionals throughout Connecticut. • Formalized a strategic partnership with the New England American Public Works Association.

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• Honored a graduating class of 77 from the Connecticut Road Master, Road Scholar and Legal Traffic Authority Certificate Programs.

• Presented Connecticut Creative Solution Awards to the towns of Bloomfield, Glastonbury, South Windsor and Southbury.

• Staff provided technical support and library resources to local agencies throughout Connecticut. • Donna Shea, the Program Director, served as Vice President of the National Local Technical

Assistance Program Association (NLTAPA). • Partnered with the Connecticut Highway Street Supervisors Association (CHSSA) to host the

Technology Transfer Expo with more than 70 vendors and 600 participants. Connecticut Advanced Pavement Laboratory (CAP Lab) • Presented certificate and educational programs to Transportation Technicians and Consultants

from throughout the United States and Canada. • Completed a study with the Connecticut Department of Transportation. • Completed a study for Tilcon-Connecticut that examined the potential impact of increasing the

amount of recycled asphalt pavement currently being used in Connecticut.

Connecticut Cooperative Highway Research Program (CCHRP)

• Allocated funding and began work on a project to improve surveying accuracy and efficiency in Connecticut.

• Initiated a project to assess the incorporation of wet pavement friction into traffic safety analysis. • Approved funding for three new projects that will study: 1) the structure and properties of

ionomer modified asphalts; 2) the assessment and quantification of public transportation access, and; 3) experimental testing of controllable damping devices toward extending the lifespan of existing highway bridges.

RESEARCH GRANTS & CONTRACTS Michael Accorsi “JHRAC,” Connecticut Department of Transportation, 5/23/2007-5/22/2008, $311,082. “JHRAC,” Connecticut Department of Transportation, 5/23/2008-5/22/2009, $312,207. James Mahoney “Increasing Recycled Pavements in Superpave Mixes,” Tilcon Connecticut, Inc., 9/1/2006-9/30/2007, $84,966. “Asphalt Pavements (Phase I),” U.S. Department of Transportation/Connecticut Department of Transportation, 8/23/2005-8/22/2007, $109,918. “CAP Lab FY08,” U.S. Department of Transportation/Connecticut Department of Transportation, 7/1/2007-6/30/2008, $160,738. “Asphalt Pavements (Phase II),” U.S. Department of Transportation/Connecticut Department of Transportation, 8/23/2007-11/30/2008, $82,751. “Longitudinal Joint (Phase II),” U.S. Department of Transportation/Connecticut Department of Transportation, 7/1/2007-6/30/2008, $30,754. “Hot Mix Asphalt (Phase II),” U.S. Department of Transportation/Connecticut Department of Transportation, 7/1/2007-6/30/2008, $79,122.

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Donna M. Shea “Technology Transfer Center,” U.S. Department of Transportation/Connecticut Department of Transportation, 1/1/2007-12/31/2007, $340,000. “Technology Transfer Center,” U.S. Department of Transportation/Connecticut Department of Transportation, 1/1/2008-12/31/2008, $340,000. “Safe Routes to School,” Connecticut Department of Transportation, 5/1/2006-4/30/2008, $193,234. “Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Education,” Connecticut Department of Transportation, 4/1/2007-6/1/2008, $36,078.

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BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING PROGRAM ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY

2007-2008

Biomedical engineering activities at UConn have a rich 45-year history of success and accomplishment. The BME Program is located at the main campus in Storrs and the UCHC in Farmington. The School of Engineering offers B.S., M.S. (Plan A and B) and Ph.D. degree programs in biomedical engineering (BME), and participates in the combined BME B.S. and MD/DMD degree program. The undergraduate curriculum offers tracks in the following areas: biochemical engineering, biofluid biomechanics, bioinformatics, bioinstrumentation, biomaterials, and biosolid biomechanics. By combining studies of engineering science and engineering design with core courses offered in other programs, the BME B.S. degree program ensures graduates are prepared for the unpredictable, team-centered workplace or for graduate studies in engineering or a medical professional program. In addition to core science and math coursework, students are immersed in biomedical engineering, biomechanics, biomaterials, and a variety of biomedical design and measurement courses. The BME Program participates in the sequential B.S.-to-MD/DMD program, one of several programs that provide selected students guaranteed admission to the UConn Health Center, providing that:

• All academic standards and contingencies (including maintaining a 3.2 GPA throughout the undergraduate years) are fulfilled to the satisfaction of either medical or dental schools at the UCHC; and

• The student successfully completes the B.S. degree program in Biomedical Engineering. Students must apply to this program when they apply for admission to the University and the School of Engineering. Besides the traditional M.S. program, a two-year 30-credit hour Clinical Engineering Internship M.S. program exists that permits graduate students to gain an in depth exposure to medical technology in the following medical institutions: Hartford Hospital, The University of Connecticut Health Center, UMass General Hospital in Worcester, West Haven VA Medical Center, Providence VA Medical Center, St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Rhode Island Hospital, Middlesex Hospital and the Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA. In addition, a BME Industrial Engineering Internship exists which permits graduate students to gain in-depth exposure to the conception, design and manufacturing of health care products. Dr. John Enderle is the BME Program Director. Approximately 50 faculty members form the BME program and are from engineering, biomedical sciences, materials sciences, chemistry, physics, medicine, and dental medicine. The BME faculty are leaders in their field, have published greatly in scholarly journals and proceedings, are significantly involved in their professional societies, and receive significant financial support from industry, foundations and government funding agencies like the NIH, NSF and the Whitaker Foundation. Details on publications, service and external research support are listed in the faculty home departments. EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS HIGHLIGHTS

During the academic year 2007-2008, the program graduated 3 Ph.D. and 18 M.S. degree graduate students, and 37 B.S. degree students. Of the 30 B.S. students graduating in May ’08, seven accepted jobs in industry, 15 elected to continue their studies in graduate school, two were admitted to medical school, and six are still reviewing their opportunities. Enrollment for the 2007-08 period stood at approximately 220 undergraduates. The BME graduate program has approximately 50 master’s students and 25 Ph.D. candidates. Seventy-five percent of the graduate students are full-time, and approximately

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85% of the full-time students are supported via a graduate assistantship. Approximately 50, roughly 23% of our undergraduate population, are in the University Honors Program. The IEEE-EMBS Student Branch Chapter hosted a BME Career Fair for the northeast region on February 7, 2008. Sixteen employers participated in the fair, which attracted over 200 students from schools that included the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Florida International University, the University of Michigan, SUNY Stony Brook, MIT and other colleges and universities. Among the employers and academic programs exhibiting were the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, Philips Research N.A., National Instruments Corp., Medtronic, BrainLAB, Teleflex Medical, Covidien, Texcel LLC, Genzyme Biosurgery, Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Respironics, the University of Alabama at Birmingham Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, the Association for Women in Science, the UConn Clinical Engineering Master’s Program and the Government VA Training Program. A complementary round-table discussion was held during the Career Fair, and industry representatives offered the students advice on securing a job, discussed hot career areas and other topics. Three senior design teams competed in a National Senior Design Competition sponsored by the RERC on Accessible Medical Instrumentation in three tracks. Twenty-five teams from 16 universities submitted entries; one UConn team was the overall competition champion, and UConn teams also took first-place (two teams) and third-place (one team) honors in their tracks. All undergraduate BME labs are located in three large laboratories in the Bronwell Building; Biomechanics and Biomaterials are in room 215, Senior Design is in room 213, and Biomeasurements and Freshman Biomedical Engineering Lab are located in room 212. All of the undergraduate labs are based on virtual instruments using National Instruments hardware and LabView. A new BME undergraduate lab was offered in the spring semester on LabView Intermediate for BME’s (this makes two labs devoted to LabView). With these two courses and the BME laboratories, BME students will be eligible to receive LabView certification from our partners Bloomy Controls and National Instruments. This would be a first in the nation. The UConn BME program has as one of its Educational Objectives the training of global leaders in BME. Participating in study abroad is the first step toward achieving this goal. The program has 11 study abroad agreements with BME programs around the world, and another seven in process. In partnership with the Department of Modern and Classical languages, the BME program offers a dual-degree in BME and French, German, Spanish or Italian. The dual degree program will support our efforts to prepare global leaders in BME. The BME program offers students a special degree option to secure a B.S. and M.S. degree in just five years. It is available to UConn BME undergraduate students only, and 14 students currently participate in the program. The BME program underwent review for accreditation of its undergraduate program in the fall of 2007. The Accreditation Board for Engineering & Technology (ABET) is the accrediting agency for BME programs, and the review process proceeded successfully with a recommendation for accreditation back to 2005. The ABET team will release its formal report in July 2008. FACULTY RECRUITING AND DEPARTMENTAL PERSONNEL

Two new faculty members were hired in 2007 with expertise in biomechanics. Dr. Shiva Kotha joined our program from the University of Missouri-Kansas City as an assistant professor. He earned his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in BME. Dr. Wei Sun joined our program from Edwards Lifesciences, Inc. as an assistant professor. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in BME. Ms. Lisa Ephraim was hired as a freshman-sophomore academic advisor last year. She advises approximately 100 undergraduates.

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ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING PROGRAM ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY

2007-2008 STUDENTS AND GRADUATES

The Environmental Engineering (ENVE) Program has 13 M.S. and 20 Ph.D. graduate students and 42 undergraduate ENVE majors. Several other undergraduates from the School of Engineering and other colleges pursue a minor in ENVE. The vast majority of graduate students are full-time and financially supported. During the year, the ENVE Program graduated six M.S. and three Ph.D. students and five environmental engineering undergraduates. Forty-five full graduate applications were received: of these, 26 were offered admission into the program and eight have accepted admission, bringing our projected total of graduate students to 32 for fall 2007. In addition, one post-doctoral researcher is associated with the ENVE Program. FACULTY

Detailed activities of the ENVE faculty can be found in the annual reports of their home departments. However, as an indicator of their high level of collective scholarly activity it can be mentioned that the core of the ENVE faculty (i.e., those with primary appointment in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering) published 38 journal articles, authored 25 full-paper conference proceedings, and made almost 50 presentations during this past year. The ENVE Program welcomed two new faculty members this year. Drs. Maria Chrysochoou and Joe Bushey (CEE) joined UConn from the Stevens Institute of Technology and Syracuse University, respectively. Dr. Chrysochoou has expertise in geo-environmental technology, mineralogical characterization with X-ray powder diffraction, and soil remediation. Dr. Bushey’s expertise is in water quality engineering, watershed hydrology and mercury mobility and bio-availability. The search for the NU Endowed Chair position was conducted this year with five excellent candidates visiting the campus for interviews; the search process is in the final stages. Dr. Nelly Abboud (CEE), who has been on medical leave for the past two years, is currently on long-term disability leave. Across the program, external funding continues to be strong, with research expenditures of nearly $700,000 and more than 35 active intramural and extramural grants totaling more than $2.5 million, including prestigious national research awards such as NSF Early Career Development (CAREER) and NASA New Investigator Program (NIP) Awards. Our ENVE faculty hold many positions of administrative authority. Dr. Kenneth Noll of Molecular & Cellular Biology (MCB) is Chair of the graduate program in Microbiology. Dr. John Clausen (NRME) is co-Chair of the Environmental Sciences program. Dr. Baki Cetegen, Head of Mechanical Engineering (ME), is a member of the Combustion Institute’s executive board and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Dr. Glenn Warner (NRME) is the Director of the Connecticut Institute of Water Resources. Dr. Michael Willig (EEB) is the Director of the Center of Environmental Sciences & Engineering. Dr. Emmanouil Anagnostou (CEE) serves on NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission peer review committee and the International Precipitation Conference Steering Committee. Dr. Amvrossios Bagtzoglou (CEE) is a member of the AGU Hydrology Section Groundwater Technical Committee, the ASCE Groundwater Hydrology Committee, the IAEG Commission 14 (Underground Disposal of Waste), and the Science and Technical Advisory Committee for the EPA Long Island Sound Study. Dr. Thomas Torgersen (Marine Science) holds the positions of editor-in-chief of Reviews of Geophysics, associate editor of the Geochemical Journal, editor of Water Resources Research, and member of the AGU Board of Journal Editors. Drs. Anagnostou, Guiling Wang, and Bagtzoglou (all of CEE) serve as associate editors for the Journal of Applied Meteorology, Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences and Journal of American Water Resources Association, and Inverse Problems in Science & Engineering,

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respectively. Dr. Bagtzoglou (CEE) served as editor of Water, Air, and Soil Pollution: Innovative

Remediation Technologies for Pollution Abatement. Dr. Xiusheng Yang (NRME) serves as editor-in-chief for Advances in Agricultural Science and Technology. Dr. Mekonnen Gebremichael (CEE) serves as UConn’s representative to the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science (CUAHSI). At the international level, Dr. Anagnostou (CEE) serves as an advisor to the National Observatory of Athens. As in previous years, the ENVE faculty had significant involvement in international conferences, including the AGU Fall and Spring Meetings and participation in numerous other international conferences. In addition to more than 35 multi-disciplinary proposals submitted this year, our faculty continued developing several new international research proposals with colleagues from Denmark, Israel, Greece, France, Italy, Ethiopia, and the United Kingdom. STAFF

The ENVE Program assistant, Ms. Tiffiny Thibodeau, was promoted to an Administrative Services Specialist II in Civil & Environmental Engineering. A search for her replacement was conducted and culminated in the hiring of a very qualified candidate, Ms. Althea Lozefski, who started work on May 9th. OUTREACH

Several ENVE faculty participated in many outreach activities and events for the undergraduate program. These activities included school career fairs, the Engineering 2000 summer program, the ENGR 100 environmental workshop, the Northeast Regional Science Bowl, the Connecticut Invention Convention, and visits to high schools throughout the state. Dr. Allison MacKay (CEE) continues to be involved with the Society of Women Engineers student chapter. The program was well represented at the fall and spring open houses. Drs. Bagtzoglou, Chrysochoou and Gebremichael (CEE) worked closely with a group of students and facilitated the creation of the UConn chapter for Engineers without Borders (EWB) and the eventual approval of said chapter by the national EWB headquarters. Drs. Bagtzoglou and Gebremichael serve as faculty advisors of the UConn EWB chapter and two very worthy projects are currently being studied. PROGRAM

Preparations for national accreditation of the undergraduate ENVE Program were completed with the ENVE ABET Self-Study (more than 200 pages) being submitted for ABET review in the summer of 2007. The ABET review and visit took place in October of 2007 and went extremely well. The ENVE program participated in a variety of important activities at the University and School levels: the National Research Council survey, high-profile fundraising events (e.g., IBM, Hamilton-Sundstrand, Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, XEROX, U.S. Department of Homeland Security), the Provost’s Academic Plan Committee, and the inaugural INTD Courses & Curriculum Committee. The weekly seminar series continues to be a success, as evidenced by high and steady attendance. It is a forum that fosters interactions and enhances visibility. Significant participation of ENVE faculty and students in national and international conferences, high-profile publications in archival journals and book chapters, and involvement in seminars and collaborative research continue to offer the ENVE Program national recognition and respect.

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MANAGEMENT & ENGINEERING FOR MANUFACTURING PROGRAM ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY

2007-2008

This has been another year in the continued development of the Management & Engineering for Manufacturing Program (MEM) program. EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

The principal activity was the ABET accreditation visit in fall 2007. This was the first such visit for the MEM program, and we invested one year in preparation. The program had two visitors. One covered the requirements for engineering management and the second reviewed the requirements for manufacturing engineering. Both visitors complimented the program for content and intent. They were also impressed by the enthusiasm of the faculty, students, alumni and industrial sponsors. Results of the visit will be known over the summer. As in previous years, the senior design activity of the spring was supported by industry-sponsored projects. There were six projects sponsored by four companies. The MEM Society again provided help at the two open houses and held the annual spring banquet, which featured two speakers from private industry. They were Kevin Bouley, President and CEO of Nerac, and John Irwin, Vice President from Frito-Lay. James Ungvary served as president in 2007-08. Employment opportunities were strong for MEM students and graduates. Among our top employers is Sikorsky Aircraft, which came to campus to interview students for both permanent positions and internships.

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UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS OFFICE ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY

2007-2008 During the 2007-2008 academic year, the School of Engineering Undergraduate Program continued to grow at a rate greater than the national growth rate for engineering programs. The fall 2007 entering class of 422 students represented an increase of 18.5% compared with the fall 2002 entering class. The undergraduate student body has increased to 1669, a 35% increase compared to fall 2002 data. Enrollments in our Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering programs continue to show the largest growth. The academic quality of the entering engineering students continues to improve, due in part to our continued growth in scholarships supported by alumni and corporate friends. The average SAT score of entering freshman students was 1293, which is approximately 100 points higher than the average SAT score of freshman students entering UConn’s other programs. The School of Engineering’s first-year promotion rate is approximately 80%. UNDERGRADUATE DEMOGRAPHICS

The School of Engineering’s undergraduate female population continued to grow when compared to fall 2002, rising by 61% compared to the male population growth of 50% for the same period. The ethnic diversity of the School’s undergraduate population has experienced a similar change. The African American student enrollment has increased by 50% and the Hispanic/Puerto Rican student enrollment has gone from 52 students in 2002 to 88 students in 2007. The number of students in the ‘other ethnicity/no indication categories’ has increased from 140 students to 277 for this same period. This increase reflects the multi-ethnicity of our students. The University of Connecticut has an excellent Honors Program that enriches the undergraduate experience for qualifying students throughout the four-year curriculum. The School of Engineering continues to have the highest percentage of Honors Students among the 10 schools and colleges at the University. The average percentage of honors students in each unit is 7.9%; in contrast, the percentage of undergraduate engineering students enrolled in the Honors Program is 13.6%. The number of enrolled internal and external transfer students continues to grow in number due to outreach efforts at the State’s 12 community and technical colleges and to the Academic Center for Exploratory Students. This is just one indication of our strong academic and outreach programs. The graduation rate from the School of Engineering is approximately 50% compared with the University’s graduation rate of approximately 74% over a six-year span. This year 310 students graduated. In spring 2008, the School of Engineering was able to offer more than $705,000 in scholarship to entering freshman and awarded more than $530,100 in scholarships to 236 continuing students. OUTREACH

The School of Engineering continued to support various outreach/recruiting initiatives throughout the year. In addition to the highly successful fall Open House and spring Visitation Day involving faculty, students and staff, the School of Engineering continues to conduct outreach to students and teachers in middle and high schools throughout the State. Our largest event this year was the Connecticut Invention Convention, which we hosted for the 10th consecutive year. Over 650 K-8th grade students representing 100 schools brought their inventions to Gampel Pavilion to be judged by more than 150 professionals and to be seen by more than 3,500 spectators. The link between skillful chess play and proficiency in engineering and math is generally acknowledged within the educational community. This relationship was at the heart of a novel effort by the School of Engineering to attract more students who are keen competitors in the chess world. The School hosted its second chess tournament with scholarships to the UConn School of Engineering for the top three winners

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(contingent upon their acceptance and enrollment at UConn). The 2007 tournament attracted competitors in grades 9-12 from New England. As an outreach activity, for the third year the School of Engineering organized, sponsored and hosted the 2008 Northeast Science Bowl (NESB) for high school students. The NESB drew 27 teams from across Connecticut as well as New York, Rhode Island and New Hampshire. The top three teams in the academic and fuel cell competitions received award trophies and renewable scholarship certificates to UConn’s School of Engineering. The scholarships ranged from $250/student/year to $2,000/student/year. The 2007 champion team from nearby Glastonbury High School claimed the winner’s laurels and the honor of representing the region at the National Science Bowl tournament, which took place in Washington, DC. The da Vinci Project, a one-week program for middle and high school mathematics, science and technology teachers, continues to be highly regarded. In July 2007, eight teachers attended this residential program and participated in one of three intensive discipline-specific workshops of their choosing. Our one-week E2K residential program—which introduces participating high school juniors and seniors to engineering disciplines via a variety of hands-on experiments and allows them to focus in a particular engineering discipline—continues to be popular. Attendees are nominated by their high school math and science teachers. This year, in addition to the 90 students attending, we had a waiting list of 50 students. Thirty three percent of our high school participants are female this year, which has helped to increase the number of undergraduate women in engineering to 16%. The Assistant Dean’s involvement as a member of the College of Technology advisory board has resulted in a significant increase of transfer students from this 12-campus state system. For the first time, our directors of Diversity and Advising activities participated in the Middlesex County Career Expo held at Wesleyan University on April 30, 2008. This expo was attended by 800 high school students from 10 high schools in Middlesex County. DIVERSITY

Recruitment of ethnically, culturally and gender-diverse populations of faculty, staff and students is critical to a successful academic program. The School’s Diversity Director, Kevin McLaughlin, is the primary contact and coordinator of all Engineering Diversity Program (EDP) activities. Our fall and spring semester Pre-Engineering Program (PEP) for under-represented students in grades 7-9 – targeting primarily inner-city (urban) school districts – remains stable at 50–59 students. In 2007-08, PEP relied upon 13 engineering undergraduate student mentors who guided the PEP students with their hands-on projects each week and act as their mentor, role model and confidant. Our 14th annual all-day Multiply Your Options (MYO) Conference for 8th grade girls, which featured 23 different workshops/panel discussions, was attended by over 184 students and their teachers. Each workshop presenter was a female professional in an area of science, math or engineering. The School of Engineering conducts a residential summer program for our newly admitted freshman underrepresented minorities and women called BRIDGE. During this five-week program BRIDGE “primes” the students for the engineering experience through classes in calculus, chemistry, physics and programming, and includes study sessions, group activities and on-site industry visits. Forty students completed last year’s 20th annual BRIDGE program. Our student organizations are very involved in recruitment and retention efforts. The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) and Society of Women Engineers (SWE) student chapters have continued their recruiting activities in Hartford, East Hartford, Bridgeport and Bloomfield. Members of the NSBE student chapter sponsored weekly study sessions, conducted biweekly technical seminars and current event discussions for all students, raised scholarship funds and hosted an annual NSBE awards banquet. Additionally, our SHPE chapter hosted the Regional Leadership and Development Conference. Eleven Northeastern university students attended this successful conference.

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ACADEMIC RESOURCES

The School of Engineering continues to offer 84 hours of peer and graduate student tutoring weekly for lower division courses in mathematics, chemistry, computer programming and physics. Additionally these tutoring resources also tutor in upper division programmatic courses. These resources have improved our freshmen promotion rate. Thanks to a sustaining grant from an anonymous alumnus, we have been able to expand our tutoring to include upper division courses in the junior year of many majors. Additionally, several student professional and honor societies provide tutoring in their majors. ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

The University of Connecticut continues to offer full or partial scholarships to qualified entering students. In recent years, the School of Engineering has established 11 named and endowed chair professorships and several new endowed undergraduate scholarships. In addition, the School has procured sufficient funding from industry and alumni donors to offer more than $705,000 to recruit over 300 highly qualified students this fall. For the academic year 2007-08, we admitted 49 valedictorians and salutatorians to the School of Engineering. At our annual awards banquet in April 2008, 236 continuing students were awarded $530,000 in scholarships. Additionally, seven students continued to receive their Connecticut Innovations Technology Scholarships this academic year. Eighty seven students are members of the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, and 91 undergraduates are members of the individual major honor societies. The Dean’s List acknowledged 347 continuing students with a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 3.483 in the fall ‘07 and 366 continuing students in the spring ‘08 with a CGPA of 3.535. Over 100 seniors received the National Collegiate Engineering Award and were inducted into Who’s Who

Among American Colleges and Universities for maintaining a minimum CGPA of 3.5.