Colleagues,

Welcome to a new semester at Missouri S&T.

This, the first newsletter of the new academic year, highlights the success of our researchers in FY19, gives you information about some important research opportunities, and –for our new faculty- offers reminders of some of our on-going programs that support research at S&T.

The good news first: this past fiscal year our faculty received $48.8 million in research and external funding awards, a 34% increase over the previous year. Our expenditures held steady at $40.1 million. Congratulations to all our faculty and staff who made this success possible.

Local announcements:

We have a new website! Through the outstanding effort of our experts in Marketing and Communications our website has been updated and improved. Please visit https://research.mst.edu and let us know what you think. Our website is an important face of our research capabilities.
The re:Search Magazine for 2019 has been published. Please check it out: https://research.mst.edu/research-magazine/
Through the leadership of Dr. Nancy Stone, and the assistance of Dr. Robin Walker, Curriculum Specialist/Consultant, from Columbia, MO, the Office of the VCR offered a seminar to approximately 20 of our undergraduate and first-year graduate students teaching them how to apply for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). Previously we had also advised students about applying to DoD’s Science, Mathematics, And Research For Transformation (SMART) Scholarship. Our goal is to greatly increase the number of S&T graduate students on Federal scholarships and fellowships. These students will be looking for faculty mentors, so I hope you will assist them if they ask for your help.
Don’t forget that we are restarting We Dig Research! Information about the event was sent to all faculty. The first meet up is on September 27 (3-5pm, in Ozark Room, Havener 207B (doors open at 2:30; talks are 3-4pm; social hour 4-5pm). I hope to see you all there. And put in your calendars the next two We Dig Research! meet ups: October 25th and November 22nd.

Other news:

As we announced through an email to all our faculty, NSF Is making some changes to its biographical sketch format.

There are two important informational events happening in the next couple of months:

First, NIH organizes its Fall 2019 NIH Regional Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration in Phoenix, Arizona, November 7-8. This is a unique opportunity to learn about NIH and make contact with more than 65 NIH program experts. From the seminar website: “This seminar is your opportunity to make direct contact with NIH policy officials, grants management, program and review staff, and representatives from the HHS Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP), HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG), and others. In addition, take advantage of discussions involving more than 600 fellow attendees from around the world. In addition to learning more about the NIH grants processes and policies through the optional workshops and 2-day sessions, there are opportunities throughout the seminar to Meet the Experts 1:1. These 15 minutes chats are a great way to get more specific questions answered by NIH & HHS experts. You’ll have the opportunity to sign up in advance or on-site to speak with the expert(s) of your choice participating in the seminar.” For more information and to register visit: https://regionalseminars.od.nih.gov/phoenix2019/welcome/
Second, NSF is organizing its Fall 2019 conference in Boston, November 18-19. Unfortunately the on-site conference is at capacity. But you can still attend virtually through webcast. For more information and to get notified of future NSF events please visit: https://nsfgrantsconferences.com/

Some reminders:

The Office of the VCR will cover 2/3 of the expenses of our faculty when they visit funding agencies (see http://sponsoredprograms.mst.edu/resources/policies/ and the link, “Travel Grant to Visit Funding Agencies”). Visiting program managers and program directors is the most important first step toward receiving funding. You can use the funding to visit, for example, the NIH Regional Seminar in Phoenix in November. Or any other agency and agency events.
DARPA organizes a number of events for researchers. While Requests for Information (RIF) appear through FBO.GOV and PIVOT, open events can be found here: https://www.darpa.mil/events
Our junior faculty can apply to DoD’s Young Investigator Programs (YIP), DoD’s answer to the CAREER award. The deadline has passed for this year, but you can start planning for next year. And to improve your chances you should go visit the appropriate program manager (remember my office will cover 2/3 of your expenses). More information about YIP can be found here:
I hope that our faculty will also avail themselves of the Scholarly Outreach program that provides partial support for making presentations at Universities: http://sponsoredprograms.mst.edu/media/research/sponsoredprograms/documents/forms/Scholarly%20Outreach%20Program.pdf
I encourage you to consider adding an REU supplement to your NSF grant. NSF estimates it awards around 1,600 new REU Supplements a year. If you are interested, first contact your NSF program director, and also check specific rules and deadlines of your directorate. For more information, please visit https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5517

Again, I welcome you all to the new semester, and wish all our faculty great success in their research and scholarly pursuits.

With best Miner wishes,

Costas Tsatsoulis

Vice Chancellor of Research and Dean of Graduate Studies

Limited Submissions

The Office of the Vice Chancellor of Research strives to increase campus awareness of limited submission opportunities, conduct fair and transparent internal selection competitions, and mitigate the risk of exceeding institutional submission limits or of non-authorized proposal submissions compromising institutional designees’ ability to submit proposals. We have launched an updated limited submissions website (https://sponsoredprograms.mst.edu/funding/limited-submissions/).

New features include:

a collection of advertised limited submissions opportunities,
updated instructions for internal competitions, and
a retrospective of the calendar year’s designees for internally competed opportunities. The opportunities list and retrospective will be updated weekly.

Notable new features of the internal competition process include:

an expression of interest (EOI) stage for opportunities not historically competed at Missouri S&T (to determine the necessity of an internal competition prior to requesting Letters of Intent) and
a “first-come-first-considered” status for
- opportunities whose internal EOI deadline has passed with no expressions of interest OR
- opportunities of which we become aware too late to run a full internal competition cycle.

Please note that two National Science Foundation (NSF) funding opportunities regularly competed at Missouri S&T are included in the limited submissions funding opportunities list: NSF’s National Research Traineeship Program (internal LOI due at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 20) and Major Research Instrumentation (internal LOI due at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17).

Although the OVCR strives to identify major limited submission competitions, the online list may not be comprehensive. Identifying limited submission opportunities, particularly those that are new or are issued by foundations and societies, is a community-wide effort. If you identify a limited submission opportunity that is not included among the posted advertisements, or discover solicitation updates that differ from the content posted, please notify us at limitedsubmissions@mst.edu.

Thank you for helping ensure that Missouri S&T’s applications to these prestigious opportunities represent the best our campus has to offer.

Please direct questions about Limited Submission internal competitions to

573-341-4134 or limitedsubmissions@mst.edu.

Recent Awards

May 2019

Proposals Submitted

Faculty/Staff Receiving Awards

$3.67M

In Sponsor Dollars Awarded

PI: Baojun Bai

Department: Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering

Proposal Title: Petro-physics Property and EOR Potential Evaluation of Tight Oil Sands

Sponsor: China National Petroleum Corporation

Award $317,131

PI: S. N. Balakrishnan

Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Proposal Title: Missouri Space Grant Consortium

Sponsor: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Award: $411,300

PI: Stuart W. Baur
Department: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Proposal Title: Recycling Photovoltaic Systems
Sponsor: Ozarks Rivers Solid Waste Management District
Award: $8,166

PI: Douglas A. Bristow

Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Proposal Title: CAMT: Spirit Membership

Sponsor: Spirit Aerosystems, Inc.

Award: $50,000

PI: Douglas A. Bristow
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Proposal Title: CAMT: Steelville Membership
Sponsor: Steelville Manufacturing Co.
Award: $15,000

PI: Douglas A. Bristow
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Proposal Title: CAMT: GKN Membership
Sponsor: Steelville Manufacturing Co.
Award: $50,000

PI: Douglas A. Bristow
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Proposal Title: CAMT: DMG MORI Advanced Solutions Membership
Sponsor: DMG MORI Advanced Solutions, Inc.

Award: $50,000

PI: Joel G. Burken

Department: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering

Proposal Title: Greenhouse Study for Screening Indigenous and Native Plants for Enhanced Revegetation of Pb/Zn/Cu Mine Tailings

Sponsor: Doe Run Co.

Award: $46,633

PI: Kyle J. DeMars

Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Proposal Title: Advancements to Lander Navigation

Sponsor: Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center

Award: $25,000

PI: Kristen Donnell
Department: Electrical and Chemical Engineering
Proposal Title: SBIR: Non-destructive Evaluation of Composite Substrate Below Thick Top Coat Materials

Sponsor: Texas Research Institute at Austin

Award: $42,000

PI: Jie Gao
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Proposal Title: Development of Vibrational Spectroscopic Imaging for Traumatic Brain and Spinal Injury
Sponsor: Leonard Wood Institute
Award: $403,966

PI: Serhat Hosder

Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Proposal Title: Uncertainty Reduction in High Speed Flight Vehicle Modeling

Sponsor: M4 Engineering, Inc.

Award: $49,910

PI: Xianbiao Hu

Department: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering

Proposal Title: EVSE Innovation: Streetlight Charging in City Right-of-Way

Sponsor: Metropolitan Energy Center

Award: $243,906

PI: Jie Huang
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Proposal Title: Development and Application of Rayleigh Backscatter Optical Measurement System
Sponsor: Samsung Corporation
Award: $65,198

PI: Chulsoon Hwang
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Proposal Title: CEMC Membership Agreement for Samsung Electronic-Mobile
Sponsor: Samsung Corporation
Award: $70,000

PI: Catherine E. Johnson
Department: Mining and Nuclear Engineering
Proposal Title: Open-Field Blast Core Facility
Sponsor: Department of Veterans Affairs
Award: $40,000

PI: DongHyun “Bill” Kim
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Proposal Title: CEMC Membership Agreement for Intel-Germany
Sponsor: INTEL GMBH LE340
Award: $70,000

PI: Michael S. Moats
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Proposal Title: Influences of Nickel, Copper, and Total Sulfate in Electrolyte on Electrorefined Cathode Roughness and Quality

Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Award: $2,856,091

PI: Paul Ki-souk Nam
Department: Chemistry
Proposal Title: Evaluation of Antioxidant Therapy and Oxidative Stress Biomarkers after Blast-Induced Traumatic Brain Injury in Rat Models
Sponsor: Leonard Wood Institute
Award: $412,261

PI: Jonghyun Park

Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Proposal Title: GOALI/Collaborative Research: Additive Manufacturing of Mechanically Strong and Electrochemically Robust Porous Electrodes for Ultra-High Energy Density Batteries

Sponsor: NSF Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation

Award: $16,000

PI: Christopher W. Ramsay

Department: Student Design

Proposal Title: 2020 American Solar Challenge

Sponsor: Missouri Department of Economic Development

Award: $2,500

PI: Daniel B. Shank

Department: Psychological Science

Proposal Title: Mind Perception and Morality of Artificial Intelligence in Social Interaction

Sponsor: Army Research Office

Award: $48,548

PI: Daniel R. Tauritz

Department: Computer Science

Proposal Title: Technical Proposal for Performing the Described Requirements in Accordance with the Statement of Work for the Cyber Security Sciences Institute (CSSI)

Sponsor: Los Alamos National Laboratory

Award: $84,000

PI: Evgeniy V. Torgashov

Department: Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering

Proposal Title: Geophysical Imaging of the Subsurface for Site Characterization in Joplin, Missouri

Award: $14,000

PI: Robin Verble
Department: Biological Sciences
Proposal Title: Survey for Rattlesnake-master Borer Moth (Papaipema eryngii) in Ft. Leonard Wood
Sponsor: Corps of Engineers
Award: $50,000

PI: Donald C Wunsch
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Proposal Title: M2l for L2m: Mixed-Modality Learning for Lifelong Learning Machines
Sponsor: Department of Army (DARPA)
Award: $114,974

PI: Reza Zoughi

Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Proposal Title: SBIR: Design of an Adaptive Real-Time Millimeter Wave Imaging System for In-Space NDT Applications - Phase II

Sponsor: Texas Research Institute at Austin

Award: $162,028

June 2019

Proposals Submitted

Faculty/Staff Receiving Awards

$3.27M

In Sponsor Dollars Awarded

PI: Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan
Department: Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Proposal Title: Experimental Hydrodynamics Study of a Trickle Bed Reactor
Sponsor: DuPont Specialty Products USA, LLC
Award: $65,161

PI: Stuart W. Baur
Department: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Proposal Title: 2020 Solar Decathlon
Sponsor: National Renewable Energy Lab
Award: $25,000

PI: Joel G. Burken
Department: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Proposal Title: Collaborative Data Assessment and Phytoforensic Analysis for Organic Leachate Pollutants
Sponsor: US Forest Service
Award: $75,000

PI: Genda Chen
Department: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Proposal Title: Traffic Disruption-free Bridge Inspection Initiative with Robotic Systems
Sponsor: Missouri Department of Transportation
Award: $575,000

PI: Wei-Ting Chen
Department: Materials Research Center
Proposal Title: Electron Microscopy Study of the Metal Dusting Mechanisms in Ni and Fe-based Alloys Exposed to a High Pressure Environment - Phase I
Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh
Award: $4,999

PI: Xiangyang Dong
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Proposal Title: Printing with 3D Continuous Carbon Fiber Structural Battery Composite Materials
Sponsor: Oak Ridge Associated University
Award: $5,000

PI: Kristen Donnell
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Proposal Title: A Multi-Physics-Based Approach to Active Microwave Thermography — REU Supplement
Sponsor: NSF Division of Electrical Communications Systems
Award: $14,720

PI: Lian Duan
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Proposal Title: BET-EPSRC: Transition and Turbulence in Compression Boundary Layers Subjected to Concave Surface Curvature
Sponsor: NSF Division of Chemical, Biological, Environmental, and Transport Systems
Award: $264,990

PI: Lian Duan
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Proposal Title: Simulation and Modeling of Hypersonic Turbulent Boundary Layers Subject to Pressure Gradient and Wall Cooling
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Award: $213,284

PI: Mohamed A. Elgawady
Department: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Proposal Title: Retrofitting of Metal Roofs Using Single-ply
Sponsor: GAF Building Materials Group
Award: $18,031

PI: William G. Fahrenholtz
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Proposal Title: Detonation Synthesis of Nanomaterials
Sponsor: Army Research Office
Award: $60,000

PI: Jun Fan
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Proposal Title: CEMC Membership for the Army
Sponsor: NSF Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnership
Award: $72,62

PI: Serhat Hosder
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Proposal Title: Multi-Fidelity Modeling and Simulation for the Analysis of Deployable Re-Entry Technologies Under Uncertainty
Sponsor: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Award: $76,190

PI: Kamal H. Khayat
Department: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Proposal Title: Field Implementation of Concreted Concrete Pavement, Mexico MO
Sponsor: Missouri Department of Transportation
Award: $30,000

PI: Roger A. LaBoube
Department: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Proposal Title: Wei-Wen Yu Center for Cold Formed Steel Structures
Sponsor: Steel Framing Industry Association
Award: $500

PI: Kelly H. Liu
Department: Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering
Proposal Title: Investigating the Pervasiveness on Complex Seismic Anisotropy and its Origin Beneath Continents (REU SUPPLEMENT)
Sponsor: NSF Directorate for Geosciences
Award: $16,500

PI: Kelly H. Liu
Department: Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering
Proposal Title: Investigating the Pervasiveness of Complex Seismic Anisotropy and its Origin Beneath Continents
Sponsor: NSF Directorate for Geosciences
Award: $108,25

PI: Michael S. Moats
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Proposal Title: Improving EGL Tube Production
Sponsor: Republic Conduit
Award: $117,697

PI: Ronald J. O’Malley
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Proposal Title: PSMRC - American Cast Iron Pipe Company Membership
Sponsor: American Cast Iron Pipe Co.
Award: $33,000

PI: Ronald J. O’Malley
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Proposal Title: PSMRC- AK Steel Membership
Sponsor: AK Steel Corporation
Award: $66,000

PI: Ronald J. O’Malley
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Proposal Title: PSMRC - ATI Flat Rolled Products Membership
Sponsor: ATI Flat Rolled Products
Award: $66,000

PI: Ronald J. O’Malley
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Proposal Title: PSMRC - ArcelorMittal Membership
Sponsor: ArcelorMittal
Award: $66,000

PI: Ronald J. O’Malley
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Proposal Title: PSMRC- MetalTek Membership
Sponsor: MetalTek
Award: $33,000

PI: Ronald J. O’Malley
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Proposal Title: PSMRC - MO Refractories Co., Inc. Membership
Sponsor: MO Refractories Co., Inc.
Award: $33,000

PI: Ronald J. O’Malley
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Proposal Title: PSMRC- RHI Magnesita Membership
Sponsor: RHI Magnesita
Award: $33,000

PI: Ronald J. O’Malley
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Proposal Title: PSMRC - Stollberg Membership
Sponsor: Imerys
Award: $33,000

PI: Ronald J. O’Malley
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Proposal Title: PSMRC - Gerdau Membership
Sponsor: Gerdau Ameristeel US
Award: $66,000

PI: Ronald J. O’Malley
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Proposal Title: PSMRC- CBMM Membership
Sponsor: CBMM Technology Suisse SA
Award: $66,000

PI: Ronald J. O’Malley
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Proposal Title: PSMRC - North American Stainless Membership
Sponsor: North American Stainless
Award: $66,000

PI: Ronald J. O’Malley
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Proposal Title: PSMRC - US Steel Membership
Sponsor: US Steel Corporation
Award: $66,000

PI: Ronald J. O’Malley
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Proposal Title: PSMRC - Steel Dynamics Membership
Sponsor: Steel Dynamics
Award: $66,000

PI: Ronald J. O’Malley
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Proposal Title: PSMRC - SSAB Enterprise Membership
Sponsor: SSAB IA, Inc.
Award: $66,000

PI: Ronald J. O’Malley

Department: Materials Science and Engineering

Proposal Title: PSMRC - Nucor Membership

Sponsor: Nucor Corp.

Award: $152,000

PI: Ronald J. O’Malley
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Proposal Title: PSMRC - Timken Membership
Sponsor: Timken Co.
Award: $33,000

PI: Ronald J. O’Malley
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Proposal Title: PSMRC - Vesuvius Membership
Sponsor: Vesuvius USA
Award: $33,000

PI: Ronald J. O’Malley
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Proposal Title: PSMRC - Spraying Systems Memberships
Sponsor: Spraying Systems
Award: $33,000

PI: Daniel B. Shank
Department: Psychological Science
Proposal Title: Modeling the Perceptions of Teams Based on Team Member Behavior: Human versus Autonomous Agent Team Members
Sponsor: Leonard Wood Institute
Award: $68,138

PI: Keith D. Strassner
Department: Entrepreneurship and Outreach
Proposal Title: Rolla SBTDC FY2019
Sponsor: US Small Business Administration
Award: $12,520.53

PI: L. Sue Turner
Department: S&T Global
Proposal Title: Basic Soil Mechanics Related to Earth Dams-Fixed Price
Sponsor: Association of State Dam Safety Officials
Award: $19,250

PI: L. Sue Turner
Department: S&T Global
Proposal Title: Organization and Offering of Resilience and Sustainability Conference
Sponsor: Missouri Department of Economic Development
Award: $3,000

PI: Wan Yang
Department: Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering
Proposal Title: Tuscaloosa Marine Shale Laboratory (TMSL): A Sedimentologic and Sequence Stratigraphic Study of Tuscaloosa Marine Shale and its Contribution to Reservoir Characterization and Delineation of Sweet Spots
Sponsor: University of Louisiana-Lafayette
Award: $16,667

PI: Xiaodong Yang
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Proposal Title: CAREER: Extraordinary Light Propagation in Metal Dielectric Multilayer Epsilon-Near-Zero Metamaterials
Sponsor: NSF Division of Materials Research
Award: $110,372

PI: Zhaozheng Yin
Department: Computer Science
Proposal Title: REU Supplement: NRI: INT: Collab: Manufacturing USA: Intelligent Human-Robot Collaboration for Smart Factory
Sponsor: NSF Division of Information and Intelligent Systems
Award: $16,000

PI: Zhaozheng Yin
Department: Computer Science
Proposal Title: REU Supplement: CPS: Synergy: Collaborative Research: Cyber-Physical Sensing, Modeling, and Control with Augmented Reality for Smart Manufacturing
Sponsor: NSF Division of Electrical Communications Systems
Award: $16,000

PI: Xiong Zhang
Department: Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Proposal Title: Development of Design Method for H2Ri Wicking Fabric in Pavement Structures; Phase II
Sponsor: Nicolon Corp.
Award: $94,332

PI: Reza Zoughi
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Proposal Title: Ruggedized, Man-Portable and Real-Time Microwave Materials Characterization Technique for On-Site Inspection of Body Armor
Sponsor: Texas Research Institute at Austin
Award: $213,271

Upcoming Funding Opportunities

National Science Foundation

*For projects on: AMO - Theory and Experiment; Gravitational Physics - Theory and Experiment; LIGO Research Support; Integrative Activities in Physics

Gen-4 Engineering Research Centers
19-503
Letter of Intent Due 11-30-19

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

ROSES 2019: Heliophysics Theory, Modeling, and Simulations

NNH19ZDA001N-TMS

Proposal Due 10-03-19

ROSES 2019: Interdisciplinary Science in Earth Science

NNH19ZDA001N-IDS

Notice of Intent Due 10-05-19

ROSES 2019: Outer Heliosphere Guest Investigators

NNH19ZDA001N-OHGI

Proposal Due 10-17-19

ROSES 2019: Heliophysics Flight Opportunities for Research and Technology