KINGSVILLE — The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded six grants totaling $2,486,076 for 91AV research projects, representing several of the engineering disciplines offered by the university.
The awards were announced this fall and posted on the foundation’s website. The grants were awarded to faculty from the Frank H. Dotterweich College of Engineering.
Dr. Heidi A. Taboada, Dean of the College of Engineering, celebrated the awards, noting the funding adds to the prestige of the university.
“It speaks volumes of the quality of our faculty and the high impact research they are conducting,” Taboada said. “Our faculty are conducting innovative research to find the best solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems.”
“Research is central to what we do in the College of Engineering at 91AV;M-Kingsville. The research performed by our faculty is funded from multiple agencies, NSF being only one of those,” she added.
“The research our faculty conducts are thoroughly integrated with education and exposes our students to state-of-the-art research, pushing their disciplines to new heights.”
The grants include:
Transdisciplinary Research in Graduate Engineering Education
Start Date: Oct.1, 2022
Amount: $487,251
Principal Investigator: Dr. Hua Li
Co-Investigators: Dr. Jianhong Ren, Dr. David Ramirez, Dr. Arieh Sherris and Dr. Christine Robbins
RET Site: Integrating data-driven research in Renewable Energy Across Disciplines (I-READ)
Start Date: Sept. 1, 2022
Amount: $600,000
Principal Investigator: Dr. Mohammad Hossain
Co-Investigators: Dr. Kai Jin, Dr. Hua Li, and Dr. Marsha Sowell
Collaborative Research: CISE-MSI: RPEP: CPS: A Resilient Cyber-Physical Security Framework for Next-Generation Distributed Energy Resources at Grid Edge
Start Date: Oct. 1, 2022
Amount: $737,373
Principal Investigator: Dr. Taesic Kim
Co-Investigators: Dr. Habib M Ammari and Dr. Xingang Fu
CISE-MSI: RCBP-ED: CNS: MBARKA: A Multi-tier Basic Architecture for fault-tolerant and K-secure IoT-based Autonomous campus monitoring systems
Start Date: Oct. 1, 2022
Amount: $400,000
Principal Investigator: Dr. Habib M Ammari
Collaborative Research: CISE-MSI: DP: CPS: Cyber Resilient 5G Enabled Virtual Power System for Growing Power Demand
Start Date: Oct. 1, 2022
Amount: $110,851
Principal Investigator: Dr. Ayush Goyal
Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: Implementation: Medium: CyberTraining for Open Science in Climate, Water and Environmental Sustainability
Start Date: January 1, 2023
Amount: $150,601
Principal Investigator: Dr. Adnan Rajib
Co-Investigator: Dr. David Ramirez
