2010 Major Sponsored Program and Faculty Awards - Office of ...
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Farritor, ShaneMechanical EngineeringTrack Stability Assessment & Data Transmission$3,534,439 DOT-FRA9/17/04 – 12/31/11Turner, JosephEngineering MechanicsNelson, CarlMechanical EngineeringWith more than $3 million in support fromthe Department <strong>of</strong> Transportation’s FederalRailroad Administration, associate pr<strong>of</strong>essor<strong>of</strong> mechanical engineering Shane Farritor<strong>and</strong> colleagues are continuing to developtechniques to assess track stability <strong>and</strong>related high-speed wireless communicationto improve the safety <strong>of</strong> railroad operations. This funding supportsresearch in three different areas <strong>of</strong> railroad track safety: 1)real-time measurement <strong>of</strong> track modulus from a moving car,leading to preventative maintenance strategies that relate trackmodulus data to specific track problems; 2) study <strong>of</strong> themeasurement <strong>of</strong> rail longitudinal stress, to help reduce rail failure;<strong>and</strong> 3) study <strong>of</strong> the use <strong>of</strong> electrical energy from passing trains topower an efficient warning light system at grade crossings that arenot equipped with warning light systems due to the lack <strong>of</strong>electrical infrastructure, thus reducing accidents at these “passive”grade crossings.Goddard, Stephen Computer Science <strong>and</strong> EngineeringDrought Risk, Impact <strong>and</strong> Mitigation Information System$6,407,473 USDA-RMA-FCIC9/1/05 – 8/31/10Wilhite, DonaldNatural ResourcesStephen Goddard, pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>and</strong> chair <strong>of</strong> thecomputer science department <strong>and</strong> director <strong>of</strong>UNL’s Laboratory for Advanced ResearchComputing, is principal investigator in a $6.4million joint effort by climatologists <strong>and</strong>computer scientists to bring cutting-edgecomputer science technologies to agriculturalStephen Goddard producers’ age-old decision-makingprocesses. The three-year partnershipagreements are between the U.S.Department <strong>of</strong> Agriculture’s RiskManagement Agency, UNL’s Department <strong>of</strong>Computer Science <strong>and</strong> Engineering <strong>and</strong> theUNL-based National Drought MitigationCenter. A separate $1 million cooperativeDonald Wilhite agreement, directed by Donald Wilhite,pr<strong>of</strong>essor in the School <strong>of</strong> Natural Resources <strong>and</strong> director <strong>of</strong> theNational Drought Mitigation Center, supports continued work on atool that uses satellite technology <strong>and</strong> climate information todetect vegetation stress on the ground for a much more detailedview <strong>of</strong> drought’s scope <strong>and</strong> potential impact.AWARDS OF $3 MILLION OR MORE7
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