College of Engineering Faculty Development Grants

2018 Faculty Scholar Development Awardees

This program is made possible through endowments made to the Opus College of Engineering.  Each award is $20,000 for a period of one year. Congratulations to the following faculty:

  • Dr. Anthony Parolari - Kozlowski Family Award for 鈥淢odeling green infrastructure influence on rainfall derived inflow and infiltration鈥�
  • Dr. Walter McDonald - Earl B. and Charlotte Nelson Award for 鈥淯sing Drone Technologies to Develop the Heat Orthoimagery Terrain Temperature Water (HOTT Water) Model鈥�
  • Dr. Patrick McNamara - Earl B. and Charlotte Nelson Award for 鈥淨uantification of antibiotic resistance genes in drinking water serving vulnerable populations鈥�
  • Drs. Cristinel Ababei, Ronald Coutu, and Jonathan Fleischmann - William and Nancy Stemper Award for 鈥淒esign and Implementation of Semi-autonomous Underwater Vehicle for Water Quality Monitoring鈥�
  • Drs. Somesh Roy and Jonathan Fleischmann - Michael J Wallace Award for 鈥淎tomistic Modeling of Soot Evolution in Combustion鈥�
  • Dr. Simcha Singer - Michael J Wallace Award for 鈥淎daptive Surrogate Models for High-Pressure Combustion鈥�
  • Dr. Nathan Weise - Michael J Wallace Award for 鈥淣ovel Gallium Nitride Power Converter for Industrial and Transportation Applications鈥�

樂透彩 the Program

The Faculty Scholar Development Award program is made possible through endowments made to the Opus College of Engineering.  The following awards were offered in 2018:

  • Kozlowski Family Award 鈥� supporting engineering research on any topic
  • Earl B. and Charlotte Nelson Award 鈥� supporting research in environmental engineering with a focus on water research
  • William and Nancy Stemper Awards 鈥� supporting research in electrical engineering
  • Michael J Wallace Awards 鈥� supporting research in energy systems (including combustion)

Preference was given to proposals that:

  1. Originate from junior faculty (i.e. Principal Investigator (PI) at the Assistant Professor level).
  2. Have a high potential for extramural funding.
  3. Have significant scientific merit.
  4. Build or strengthen collaborative research partnerships.