PITA Fiscal Year 2006 Projects

Biomedical and Health Engineering

• Polymer Nanofibers with Applications to Nanosensors, Biological Scaffoldings and Nanoprobes for Electrical Measurements of Neurons
  
  
• A New Instrument for Quantitative Investigation of Cellular Behavior
  
  
• Application of Computer Vision to Quantify Cell Behavior Responses on Growth Factor Patterns
  
  
• Biomedical Image Processing - Problem-oriented Methodology
  
  
• Numerical and In Vitro Assessment of Cerebral Protection in Endovascular Carotid Artery Repair
  
  
• Patterning of cultured biological cells for MEMS applications
  
  
• Alteration of bacterial adhesion onto materials used for medical devices through bacterial surface property modification with Ethylenediaminetetraacetate
  
  
• Novel Sensors for Cell Differentiation: Detection of Signaling Network Targets Induced by Multiple Morphogens
  
  
• Monitoring and Feedback to Support Physical Exercise Awareness
  
  
• Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis of Novel, Interventional Catheters
  
  
• Understanding the Regional Mechanics of the Left Atrium: Implications for Atrial Fibrillation
  
  

Courses and Outreach Programs

• Engineering Design Projects Course
  
  
• Engineering Systems Machine Shop
  
  
• Collaborative Co-construction of Documents by Student Design Teams
  
  

Environmental Technologies

• Evaluation of an Automated Instrument to Measure Ambient Organic Air Toxics
  
  
• Improving Regenerability and Reusability of Hybrid Ion Exchanger (Hix) for Cost-Effective Arsenic Removal
  
  
• Source Tracking of Infectious Cryptosporidium Spp. Oocysts in Wissahickon Creek
  
  

Infrastructure Assessment And Renewal Technology

• Development of Sensor Self-Diagnosis for Structural Health Monitoring
  
  
• Development of a Debonding Monitoring System for Reinforced Concrete (RC) Structures Strengthened with Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Composite Overlays
  
  
• Characterization of Integrated Chloride and Chlorine Sensor
  
  
• Feasibility Study of Microelectomechanical Devices for Use in Monitoring Concrete Strength
  
  
• Automatic Visual Data Interpretation for Pipeline Infrastructure Assessment
  
  

Innovative Infrastructure Systems

• Embedded Computing Safety: Architectures and Design Tactics
  
  
• Optimization of Corrosion Test Methods and heat Treating Procedures for High Alloy Stainless Steel Castings
  
  
• Autonomous Micro/Nanoparticle Assembly
  
  
• Controlled Fusion
  
  
• Investigate Interaction of the Polymer-Substrate Boundary and Its Influence on Performance in Blast Attenuation Coatings
  
  
• Research on Blast Resistance of Civil Infrastructure Components with Polyurea Coatings
  
  

Information And Systems Technology

• Distributed Mining in Co-evolving Streaming Sensor Data
  
  
• MEMS Acoustic Emission Sensor for Field Test Applications
  
  
• Pervasive Computing Technologies: Augmented Mobile Help Desk
  
  
• Vacuum Packaged CMOS Micromechanical Mixer Filters
  
  
• Learning from the Past: Improving Estimation of Future Construction Projects
  
  
• Novel Sensors for Cell Differentiation: Detection of Signaling Networks Targets Induced by Multiple Morphogens
  
  
• Embedded Systems and their Applications – CMU (joint w/Lehigh)
  
  
• Evaluating the CIMEL multimedia intelligent tutoring system for Design First with Java course
  
  
• Cooperative MIMO
  
  
• A New Class of Broadband Emitters for Bio-medical Imaging
  
  
• Embedded Systems and their Applications – Lehigh (joint w/CMU)
  
  
• An Outdoor Machine Vision System (OMVS) for the Automatic Transport and Retrieval System
  
  
• Self-Aware Learning Agents in Improving User Efficiency
  
  

Product And Process Design And Optimization

• Combinatorial Development of Multi-Component Materials
  
  
• Comparative Evaluation of a Carbon Fiber Heat Sink and Graphitic Foam in Boiling Heat Transfer
  
  
• Development of the Mechanical Micromilling Process for Three-Dimensional Micro/Meso Parts from Metals
  
  
• Hierarchical Modeling of Thermal Transport with Applications to Data Storage and Nanoelectronic Technologies
  
  
• Infrastructure Effects of Expanded Liquefied Natural Gas Use
  
  
• Optimal Compositional Design of Nanostructured Electrocatalysts for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells
  
  
• Structural Fibrin Plastics
  
  
• Simultaneous Electro-Thermal Characterization of Pyroelectricity for Infrared Imaging System
  
  
• Hierarchical Design Optimization of Complex Systems
  
  
• Reverse Engineered Design of Evaporative Micro-Channels for Cooling of High Power Electronics
  
  
• Novel Chemisorptive Separation of Carbon Dioxide-Hydrogen Mixtures
  
  
• Investigation of a Novel Melt Flow Manipulation Technique via Programmed Mold Cavity Pressurization and Venting
  
  
• Modification of Boiler Operations for Mercury Emissions Control with Coal Blends
  
  
• Environmentally Friendly Soy for Printing Inks/Clear Coatings
  
  
• Blue Belt
  
  
• Fluidized Bed Drying to Biomass Materials
  
  
• Development of A Microfluidic Method to Synthesize Metallic Nanoparticles
  
  
• Coupled Lattice Boltzmann Modeling of Transient Thermal Response in Nanoscale Metallic and Multilayered Films
  
  
• Optimal Control of a Continuous Tandem Cold Metal Rolling Process Using a State-Dependent Riccati Equation Technique
  
  
• Design and Fabrication of a Digital Microfluidic Reactor
  
  
• Multi-scale Modeling and Optimization of PEM Fuel Cells
  
  
• Development of High Temperature, High Efficiency Magnetic Materials for Power Conversion
  
  
• Design and Fabrication of a Digital Microfluidic Reactor
  
  

High Impact Projects

• Computational Models and Algorithms for Enterprise-wide Optimization of Process Industries (joint w/Lehigh)
  
  
• Sensed Critical Infrastructures
  
  
• Active Sensing Monitoring for the Newark Airport Monorail Guideway
  
  
• Wireless Sensing for Guidebeam Monitoring
  
  
• Capabilities of Different Laser Scanners and Corresponding Data Processing Software Systems
  
  
• Video Monitoring with Optimization and Analytic Software