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Texas A&M Energy Institute Announces Winners of Second Annual Research Proposal Call
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May 26, 2016
Second Annual Research Proposal Call
for "Energy Seed Grants"The Texas A&M Energy institute is proud to announce that nine proposals have been selected for funding under its Second Annual “Energy Seed Grant” Research Proposal Call. A total of 55 proposals were submitted from five colleges at Texas A&M University, as well as the Texas A&M School of Law, the Texas A&M Health Science Center, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, and Texas A&M at Qatar.
In its second year, the internal competitive proposal competition has the primary objectives of:
Encouraging innovative interdisciplinary energy research collaborations.
Supporting groups of researchers working on important energy-related topics.
The faculty steering committee members reviewed the proposals and were challenged by the high caliber of research programs submitted by our Texas A&M Energy Institute affiliated faculty.
2016 Funded Proposals
Second Annual Research Proposal Call
Geothermal Foundations to Reduce Utility Cost for Buildings
Principal Investigator Jean-Louis Briaud
Spencer J. Buchanan Chair Professor and Regents Fellow, Zachry Department of Civil Engineering Co-Principal Investigators Marcelo Sanchez
Associate Professor, Zachry Department of Civil Engineering Charles Culp
Professor, Department of Architecture Analysis and Optimization of the Natural Gas Transmission and Distribution Networks
Principal Investigator Sergiy Butenko
Professor and Donna and Jim Furber ’64 Faculty Fellow in Industrial Engineering, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering Co-Principal Investigator Ivan Damnjanovic
Associate Professor, Zachry Department of Civil Engineering Data Science Methods to Improve Wind Energy Operations
Principal Investigator Yu Ding
Mike and Sugar Barnes Professor, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering Co-Principal Investigators Jianhua Huang
Professor, Department of Statistics Chanan Singh
Regents Professor and Irma Runyon Chair Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Modeling and control of proppant bank height to achieve uniformity in hydraulic fracturing
Principal Investigator Joseph Sang-II Kwon
Assistant Professor, Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering Co-Principal Investigator Peter P. Valkó
Professor and Robert L. Whiting Chair in Petroleum Engineering, Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering Renewable and Low-cost Carbon Nanofibers for Energy Sector
Principal Investigator Mohammad Naraghi
Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering Co-Principal Investigator Lei Fang
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry Grid Scale Energy Storage Flywheels
Principal Investigator Alan Palazzolo
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Co-Principal Investigator Hamid A. Toliyat
Raytheon Endowed Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering In-situ/in-operando Probing of Lithiation/Delithiation Dynamics and Computational Structure-Dynamics Correlation Study for Development of Efficient Nanoscale Si-Li Anodes for Batteries
Principal Investigator Dong Hee Son
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry Co-Principal Investigator Perla Balbuena
Professor and holder of the GPSA Professorship, Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering Modeling Surface Water Quality Impacts of Shale Oil and Gas Development in Texas
Principal Investigator Reid Stevens
Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics Co-Principal Investigator Raghavan Srinivasan
Professor, Department of Ecosystem Sciences and Management and Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering Lignin Carbon Fibers to Enable Sustainable and Cost-effective Biorefinery
Principal Investigator Joshua S. Yuan
Associate Professor, Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology Co-Principal Investigator Li Liu
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering -
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