Faculty:
- Janet Callahan, materials science, received $191,593 from the U.S. Department of Education for the Idaho SySTEMic Solution, a science, technology, engineering and math learning initiative designed to spur achievement and confidence among elementary-age learners and their teachers.
- George Murgel, civil engineering, received $91,985 from the Idaho Transportation Department to conduct research on concrete sealer products to extend concrete pavement life.
- Jim Browning, electrical and computer engineering, received $541,607 from the Department of Defense to develop a new generation of “smart” microwave vacuum electron devices (MVEDs) for use in radar, electronic jamming, advanced communications and imaging systems.
- Paul Dawson, mechanical and biomedical engineering, received $161,618 from the U.S. Department of Energy for research on forecasting wind energy and grid integration.
- STEM education research got a boost from $1.25 million National Science Foundation grant. The award – one of only 15 given nationally by the NSF – is in response to Boise State’s wide-ranging initiatives to enhance STEM teaching and learning at all levels. STEM Central Station, a new office at Boise State to coordinate STEM efforts, will be led by Patricia Pyke, previously the director of education research in the College of Engineering.
- Sin Ming Loo, electronic and computer engineering, received $150,000 from the Federal Aviation Administration to develop commercial indoor sensor technologies for airline cabin air quality.
- Maria Mitkova, electrical and computer engineering, received $973,536 from the U.S. Department of Engergy Nuclear Energy University Programs to fund the development, design and testing of a device that would use the unique properties of chalcogenide glass to create a sophisticated radiation sensor.
- Wan Kuang, electrical and computer engineering, was honored by the National Science Foundation with a $400,000 CAREER grant. His winning proposal concerns nanophotonics, the purpose of which is to scale optical devices and components down to their ultimate size limits.
- Engineering professors Don Plumlee, Jim Browning, Amy Moll, Sin Ming Loo and Inanc Senocak received a $630,479 NASA EPSCoR grant to support their work on electric propulsion in low-temperature, co-fired ceramic (LTCC) materials. The project builds on existing research in plasma generation in LTCC by Plumlee and Browning and on chemical micro-propulsion by Plumlee and Moll, who founded Boise State’s C-MEMS (ceramic micro-electro-mechanical systems) research group.
- Joe Guarino, mechanical and biomedical engineering, received one of 10 Hewlett-Packard Innovations in Education grants valued at more than $280,000 to support ground-breaking, technology-enabled enhancements to teaching and learning in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education.
- Peter Müllner, materials science and engineering, published dramatic new research results in Nature Materials, the leading research journal in materials science. Mullner and David Dunand from Northwestern University, are receiving queries from interested companies about their ongoing magnetic shape-memory foam project.
- Megan Frary, materials science and engineering,
- Kris Campbell, electrical and computer engi8neering, received $664,000 from the Department of Defense to fund her research in reconfigurable electronics and non-volatile memory. She also received$1.5 m8llion from the NASA EPSCoR program to fund research on multi-state electronic memory reliability testing.
- Amy Moll
- Bill Knowlton
- Kris Campbell
- Darryl Butt
- Joe Guarino/Yonnie Chyung