FIU

Florida International UNiversity

FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY DIVISION OF RESEARCH
OFFICE OF SPONSORED RESEARCH

Florida International University researchers were awarded $8,746,787 in July 2010. Listed below
is a summary of awards received for $20,000 or more during the month of July.

PI: Naphtali Rishe

SCHOOL OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SCIENCES
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
TITLE: CREST: Center for Innovative Information Systems Engineering AWARD: $ 645,000

PI: Raju Rangaswami

SCHOOL OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SCIENCES
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
TITLE: CSR: Small: Energy Proportional Storage Systems AWARD: $ 472,163

PI: Jiuhua Chen

MECHANICAL AND MATERIALS ENGINEERING
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
TITLE: Pressure and Water Influence on Alternating Slip Systems of Single Crystal
Olivine. AWARD: $ 288,197

PI: Malek Adjouadi

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
TITLE: Subproject: CREST: Center for Innovative Information Systems
Engineering. AWARD: $ 165,000

PI: Armando Barreto

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
TITLE: Subproject: CREST: Center for Innovative Information Systems
Engineering. AWARD: $ 165,000

PI: David Roelant

APPLIED RESEARCH CENTER (ARC)
AWARDING SPONSOR: Office of Environmental Management
TITLE: Subproject: Florida International University’s Research Support to the Department of
Energy’s Office of Environmental Management. AWARD: $ 147,139

PI: Fabian Cevallos

CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
AWARDING SPONSOR: Florida Department of Transportation
TITLE: Florida APTS Program. AWARD: $ 135,000

PI: David Roelant

APPLIED RESEARCH CENTER (ARC)
AWARDING SPONSOR: Office of Environmental Management
TITLE: Subproject: Florida International University’s Research Support to the Department of
Energy’s Office of Environmental Management. AWARD: $ 122,781

PI: Shu‐Ching Chen

SCHOOL OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SCIENCES
AWARDING SPONSOR: Florida Office of Insurance Regulation DFS
TITLE: Subproject: Public Hurricane Loss Model. AWARD: $ 115,328

PI: David Roelant

APPLIED RESEARCH CENTER (ARC)
AWARDING SPONSOR: Office of Environmental Management
TITLE: Subproject: Florida International University’s Research Support to the Department of
Energy’s Office of Environmental Management. AWARD: $ 99,721

PI: David Roelant

APPLIED RESEARCH CENTER (ARC)
AWARDING SPONSOR: Office of Environmental Management
TITLE: Subproject: Florida International University’s Research Support to the Department of
Energy’s Office of Environmental Management. AWARD: $ 47,035

PI: Berrin Tansel

CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
TITLE: RAPID: Formation, Persistence and Mobility of Oils Emulsions After
Major Spills at Sea. AWARD: $ 35,000

PI: Walter Tang

CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
AWARDING SPONSOR: City of Opa‐Locka
TITLE: Feasibility Study of Water Treatment Plant for Opa‐Locka. AWARD: $ 32,016

PI: Chunlei Wang

MECHANICAL AND MATERIALS ENGINEERING
AWARDING SPONSOR: Applied Nanotech, Inc.
TITLE: Development of Nano‐Si Based Lithium‐ion Battery Anodes. AWARD: $ 30,000

PI: Massoud Milani

CENTER FOR DIVERSITY IN ENGINEERING & COMPUTING
AWARDING SPONSOR: Junior Engineering Technical Society
TITLE: JETS‐UNITE 2009 AWARD: $ 30,000

PI: Surendra Saxena

MECHANICAL AND MATERIALS ENGINEERING
AWARDING SPONSOR: Carnegie Institution of Washington
TITLE: High Pressure Geophysics & Materials ‐ CDAC Year 7. AWARD: $ 28,780

PI: Naphtali Rishe

SCHOOL OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SCIENCES
AWARDING SPONSOR: National Science Foundation
TITLE: Subproject: Center for Innovative Information Systems Engineering. AWARD: $ 25,000

PI: John Proni

APPLIED RESEARCH CENTER (ARC)
AWARDING SPONSOR: Concurrent Technologies Corporation
TITLE: Subproject:Western Hemisphere Security Analysis Center. AWARD: $ 24,941