PITA Fiscal Year 2009 Projects

Biomedical and Health Engineering

• Towards noninvasive radiological diagnosis by automated learning from MRI and histology image data


• The Clinical Translation of Bioprinting Technology


• A Step Toward Personalized Medicine: A Device For The Continuous Monitoring Of Chemotherapy Drug Levels At The Bedside


• Dense Capillary Network Bloodstream Sensor


• Enhanced Therapeutic DNA Production Through Cell & Batch Process Design

Courses and Outreach Programs

• Enabling Applied Research to Increase the Likelihood of Commercializing New Technology in the Region


• Collaborative Machining Center

Environmental Technologies

• A Large-Scale Integration of Physical Sub Models for Energy Processes: Focus on Hydrogen Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells


• Improving Household Awareness of Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions with Personalized Data Streams


• Outfitting of Mobile Laboratory for Air-Quality Measurements Supporting Health Effects Studies

Infrastructure Safety And Security Technology

• A Large-Scale Integration of Physical Sub Models for Energy Processes: Focus on Hydrogen Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells

Innovative Infrastructure System Assessment Technology

• Ultrasonic Transducers and Energy Focusing for Inspection of Submerged Piles


• Automated Reverse Engineering of Buildings: Modeling the Building Envelope


• A prototypical interface for integrated visualization of advanced pipe inspection data

Information And Systems Technology

• Improvements in Activity Recognition and Monitoring of User Activities


• The Effects on Conventional Generating Assets in the Presence of Renewable and Alternative Energy Sources on the Electric Grid

Nanotechnology

• Null-Scattering Core-Shell Particles for Transparent Protective Polymer Coating Applications


• Synthesis of Chiral Nanoparticles for Enantiomer Separations

Product And Process Design And Optimization

• Inkjet Printing of Quantum Dots for Manufacturing White Light LEDs


• Computational Models and Algorithms for Enterprise-wide Optimization of Process Industries


• Multi-Scale Modeling of Phase Change Materials


• Graphene Formation and Device Fabrication on Silicon Carbide


• Metal Inks for Printed Electronics


• Efficient simulation strategies for strongly nonlinear coupled thermal-structural phenomena


• Exploration of the Discovery of Enantiospecific Electrokinetic Interaction between Amino Acids and Quartz


• Modern Control Technology for the Threading of the Tandem Hot Metal Rolling Process


• Front-to-Back High-Speed Speech Recognition in Silicon