Category Archives: Grants

Research at a Glance, February Grant Awards

Dr. Mahdi Haghshenas-Jaryani (Principal Investigator) from the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Dr. Laura Boucheron (Co-Principal Investigator) form Klipsch school of electrical and computer engineering, and Dr. Stephanie Walker (Co-Principal Investigator) from the Extension Plant Sciences department have received funding from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) for…
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NMSU Receives NASA Early Stage Innovations Grant

Date: 02/09/2021 Writer: Tiffany Acosta, 575-646-3929, tfrank@nmsu.edu New Mexico State University was selected to receive a NASA Early Stage Innovations grant to conduct game-changing space technology research. NMSU’s proposal was one of 14 university-led research proposals chosen to receive up to $650,000 from NASA’s Space Technology Research Grants program for up to three years. Krishna…
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Research at a Glance, December Grant Awards

12/10/20  Gabe Garcia (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), “Capstone:  LANL:  The Necessary Research and Development Required to Perform Adequate Experimentation and Prototype Development”, Los Alamos National Security, LLC, $36,000        12/1/20  Abdessattar Abdelkefi (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), “Research: Hybrid Structural Dynamics Modeling with a Partitioned Approach”, Sandia National Laboratories, $50,000


Research at a Glance, November Grant Awards

11/10/20  Borys Drach (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), “Simulation of Effect of Surface Roughness on  Metal Additively Manufactured Lattices”, Triad National Security, LLC, $40,423   11/4/20  Andreas Gross (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), “Large-Eddy Simulations for Study of Aero-Optics Due to Turbulent Boundary Layers at High Mach”, Sandia National Laboratories, $49,180


Research at a Glance, October Grant Awards

10/20  Abdessattar Abdelkefi (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), “High and Low Fidelity Representations and Uncertainty Quantification of Pipelines Conveying Fluid”, Sandia National Laboratories, $14,027 10/20/20  Abdessattar Abdelkefi (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), “Vibratory Energy Harvesting Absorbers: Multi Fidelity Nonlinear Modeling and Performance Enhancement – Tyler A”, Sandia National Laboratories, $14,027      10/14/20  Liang Sun (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering),…
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Research at a Glance, September Grant Awards

Dr. Krishna Kota (Principal Investigator), Vimal Chaitanya (Co-Principal Investigator), Igor Sevostianov (Co-Principal Investigator), Delia Valles-Rosales (Co-Principal Investigator), Ehsan Dehghan-Niri (Co-Principal Investigator) have received funding from AFOSR. Award title: DURIP, Creating New Research and Education Opportunities at New Mexico State University through Metal Additive Manufacturing. Award Amount: $248,311 Award Period: Start 09/01/2020 End 08/31/2021   9/29/20…
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Research at a Glance, August Grant Awards

8/31/20  Andreas Gross (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering),      “Low Loss Ducted Inlet”, ARCTOS Technology Sollutions, LLC, $2,072 8/5/20 Andreas Gross (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), “Large-Eddy Simulation of Super/Hypersonic Inlet and Isolator Flows”, National Aeronautics & Space Administration, $55,000


Research at a Glance, July Grant Awards

7/21/20  Hyeongjun Park (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), “Collaborative: CubeSat Ideas Lab: Collaborative Research: VIrtual Super-Resolution Optics with Reconfigurable Swarms (VISORS)”, National Science Foundation, $28,324   7/1/20  Igor Sevostianov (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), “CMMI Multiscale Modeling and Biomechanical Analysis of Cells”, National Science Foundation, $655,254


Research at a Glance, June Grant Awards

6/5/20  Igor Sevostianov (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), “Effect of  Cryogenic Treatment on Mechanical Properties of Gin Saw”, US Department of Agriculture, $40,000 6/3/20  Borys Drach (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), “Investigation of Strain Fields in Metal Nanocomposites Produced via Roll Bonding”, Triad National Security, $18,176


Research at a Glance, May Grant Awards

Dr. Vimal Chaitanya (Principal Investigator), has received funding from Triad National Security to build research partnerships and contribute in the area of sustainability and security with Los Alamos National Lab staff researchers. As appropriate build partnerships with regional universities to form stronger multi-disciplinary team of researchers engaged in this area of research. Assist LANL with…
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Research at a Glance, April Grant Awards

Dr. Igor Sevostianov (Principal Investigator), Elba Serrano (Co-Principal Investigator), and Marat Talipov (Co-Principal Investigator) have received funding from The National Science Foundation for research in Multiscale Modeling and Biomechanical Analysis of Animal Cells. Award Amount: $655,254   Award Period: Start 7/1/2020 End 6/30/2023    Dr. Andreas Gross has received a sub-award from the University of Arizona. …
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Research at a Glance, March Grant Awards

Dr. Sarada Kuravi (Principal Investigator), P. Xu, K. Kota, H. Wang, Y. Park (Co-Principal Investigators) have received funding from the US Bureau of Reclamation for research in Enhanced Solar Desalination using Innovative Approaches for Concentrate Treatment and Energy Recovery. Award Amount: $150,000 Duration: 18 months   Dr. Liang Sun (Co-Principal Investigator), H. Cao (Principal Investigator)…
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Research at a Glance, February Grant Awards

Dr. Andreas Gross (Principal Investigator) has received funding from New Mexico Space Grant Consortium for the Development of Accurate and Efficient Large-Eddy Simulation Capability for Shockwave Boundary Layer Interaction Research (Internal Award).  Award Period: Start 2/1/2020 End 6/1/2020   Dr. Andreas Gross (Principal Investigator) has received funding from New Mexico Space Grant Consortium for Spring…
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Research at a Glance, January Grant Awards

Dr. Abdessattar Abdelkefi (Principal Investigator) has received funding from ARL- White Sands for research in Conceptual Design And Aerodynamic Analysis of Multi-rotor Unmanned Air Vehicles for Atmospheric Sampling.  Award Period: Start 1/1/2020 End 12/31/2021    Dr. Abdessattar Abdelkefi (Principal Investigator) has received funding from Triad National Security for Environmental Testing Research and Development Sampling. Award…
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MAE is part of a $5 million NSF grant

NSF has awarded $5 million to fund the second phase of the smart grid research project at NMSU. Dr. Liang Sun is one of the Co-PIs on this large multi-disciplinary research and education initiative. The first phase of this grant has resulted in the publication of 450 peer-reviewed papers by the team. This grant seeks…
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A Year After Receiving New NIH Funding …

Last year, NIH has renewed NMSU’s RISE grant for five more years with $3.6 million to expand the program in new ways by engaging NMSU students in integrated biology and engineering research. Dr. Igor Sevostianov (pictured below) is one of the PIs on this grant. The other PIs are Dr. Michele Nishiguchi and Dr. Lakshmi…
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MAE wins three mini-grants from the College of Engineering

For the year 2019, MAE faculty members have won three College of Engineering mini-grant awards. The faculty members involved are Drs. Igor Sevostianov, Fangjun Shu, Sarada Kuravi, Andreas Gross, and Krishna Kota. Click here to learn more about the mini-grant program.