Maher Amer, Ph.D., ME, has received funding in the amount of $5,000 from Universal Energy Systems, Inc., for his proposal entitled "Raman Characterization and Stress Measurements in Alumina/Zirconia Thermal Barrier Coating."

In addition, Dr. Amer was invited by the Department of Metallurgy and Mining, University of Cairo, Egypt, to give a number of lectures about his work in Raman, composites, and solid mechanics. The Raman technique is gaining international recognition as a micromechanical experimental technique for composites and solid micromechanical measurements.

Dr. Amer also presented (with M. Barsoum & T. El-Raghy of Drexel University) "Functionally Gradient Joints for Carbon/Carbon Composites" at SAMPE’49, Long Beach, CA, May 1999. He then attended the first annual Carbon Foam Conference at the National Center for Composites, August 1999, which focused on Carbon foams, their potential application, and research needed to further develop such an advanced material.

A.A.S. Awwal, Ph.D., CSE, was guest editor of a special issue of Optical Engineering, March, 1999, on Computer Arithmetic. He also co-authored a paper entitled "A graphical approach for multiple valued logic minimization," Optical Engineering, 1999, pp. 462-467.

C-I. Henry Chen, Ph.D., EE, has received funding in the amount of $4,695 from Baynacre, Inc., for his proposal entitled "Timing Verification for High Speed CMOS Design Styles."

Oscar Garcia, Ph.D., CSE, and P. Bruce Berra, ITRI, have received funding in the amount of $10,000 from the National Science Foundation, Research Experiences for Undergraduates program, for their proposal entitled "Specialized Communications and Terminal Equipment." They have also received funding in the amount of $315,200 from the IT Alliance for the ITRI Cooperative Research and Development.

Ramana Grandhi, Ph.D., ME, has received funding in the amount of $90,000 from the Department of Defense, Air Force Research Laboratory, for his proposal entitled "Object-Oriented Multidisciplinary Design."

Jack Jean, Ph.D., CSE, and Karen Tomko, Ph.D., CSE, have received funding in the amount of $104,046 from the Department of Defense, Advanced Research Projects Agency, for their proposal entitled "Speculative Run-Time Reconfiguration."

Junghsen Lieh, Ph.D., ME, has received funding in the amount of $37,544 from SelectTech Services Corporation for his proposal entitled "Impact Physics Research."

Giorgio McBeath, DRE, PE, ECS, has received funding in the amount of $11,917 from the Ohio Aerospace Institute for the Ohio Aerospace Institute Fellowship.

Dr. McBeath also presented research study findings to National Science Foundation (NSF) program officials on Wright STEPP Tracking of Pre-engineering student. Dr. Joe Reed of NSF asked Dr. McBeath to submit an RFP funding proposal for WSU CECS based on these results. Dr. McBeath presented research findings on Low NOx Combustors to NASA/Boeing at Cleveland State University. Boeing has expressed interest in High Speed Research on Supersonic Turbine Combustors (Hot Flow Testing). Dr. McBeath’s Dissertation Topic was Cold Flow Visualization and CFD Simulation of Low NOx Toroidal Combustor for High Speed Civil Transport Applications.

Dr. McBeath presented "Calculus Made Easy with Multimedia Applications: Accessing Engineering Math Progress with Adaptive Branching Methods" at the 1999 Samuel DuBois Cook Summer Scholar Conference at Ohio State University, July, 1999.

Sharmila Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D., ME, has presented "Surface Dopants in Processing of Superconducting Perovskites" at the American Ceramic Society annual meeting, April 1999.

Krishna Naishadham, Ph.D., EE, has received funding in the amount of $8,054 from Veridian Engineering for his proposal entitled "Electromagnetic Signatures of Large Complex Targets."

Sundaram Narayanan, Ph.D., BIE, has received funding in the amount of $29,000 from Logicon Technical Services, Inc., for his proposal entitled "Enhancing UMAST Software Architecture."

T.K. Prasad, Ph.D., CSE, received funding in the amount of $53,498 from the Dayton Area Graduate Studies Institute for his proposal entitled "Advanced Global Informa-tion Methodology for Improved C4ISR System Integration."

David Reynolds, Ph.D., BIE, has received funding in the amount of $20,250 from DynCorp for his proposal entitled "Human Safety Criteria During Thermal Exposure to Aircraft Exhaust Gases."

Mateen Rizki, Ph.D., CSE, received funding in the amount of $62,150 from the Department of Defense, Air Force Research Laboratory, for his proposal entitled "Evolving Pattern Recognition Systems."

Blair Rowley, Ph.D., BIE, has received funding in the amount of $2,000 from the Ohio Rehabilitation Services Commission for his proposal entitled "Y2K Effects on Rehabilitation Technology."

Arnab K. Shaw Ph.D., EE, has received funding in the amount of $30,000 from Sverdrup Technology, Inc., for his proposal entitled "Algorithms for High-Range Resolution Automatic Target Recognition."

B. A. Shenoi, Ph.D., EE, has authored a graduate-level book, Magnitude and Delay Approximation of 1-D and 2-D Digital Filters, published by Springer-Verlag.

Dr. Shenoi also published a paper (with Guoxiang Gu and J.Huang) titled "Design of Multichannel QMF Banks via Frequency Domain Opti-mizations," in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part II, May 1999, pp. 599-607; and published a paper (with R. Hegde) entitled "Magnitude Approximation of Digital Filters with Specified Degrees of Flatness and Constant Group Delay Characteristics" in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part II, November 1998, pp.1476-1487.

Ray Siferd, Ph.D., EE, has received funding in the amount of $47,000 from the University of Cincinnati for his proposal entitled "CMOS Integrated Circuit Design."

Joseph Slater, Ph.D., ME, has received funding in the amount of $14,256 from Universal Technology Corporation for his proposal entitled "Turbomachinery Dynamics Experimentation."

Tamala Smith, Adjunct Instructor, CSE, has received Microsoft Office ’97 Expert User Specialist (MOUS) certificates in all four areas (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access) making her a Microsoft Office’97 Master.

Isaac Weiss, Ph.D., ME, has received additional funding in the amount of $1,631 from MetLab, Division Metallurgical Services, Inc., for his proposal entitled "Materials Analysis."

J. Mitch Wolff, Ph.D., ME, has received funding in the amount of $84,412 from the Dayton Area Graduate Studies Institute for his proposal entitled "Micromachined Opto-Mechanical Pressure Sensor Arrays."