2016 HBCU/UCR Joint Kickoff Meeting

Crosscutting Research Program
2016 HBCU/UCR Joint Kickoff Meeting

Wednesday, October 5

• Welcome and Introductory Remarks (Jessica Mullen and Bob Romanosky)

Topic Area: Sensors and Controls

• Engineering Metal Oxide Nanomaterials for Fiber Optical Sensor Platforms
  PI: Kevin Chen, University of Pittsburgh
• Raman Spectroscopy for the On-Line Analysis of Oxidation States of Oxygen Carrier Particles
  PI: Hergen Eilers, Washington State University
• Investigation of High Temperature Silica Based Fiber Optic Sensor Materials
  PI: Gary Pickrell, Virginia Tech Center for Photonics Technology

Topic Area: High Performance Materials

• ICME for Creep of Ni-Base Superalloys in Advanced Ultra-supercritical Steam Turbines
  PI: Stephen Niezgoda, The Ohio State University

Topic Area: Water Management Research and Development

• Developing Cost Effective Biological Removal Technology for Selenium Nitrate from Flue Gas Desulfurization (FGD) Wastewater from an Existing Power Generating Facility
  PI: Sanjaya, West Virginia State University
• Water Quality Sensing for FGD Wastewater
  PI: Lee Moradi, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Thursday, October 6

• Procurement Overview/Comments (Bethan Young)

Topic Area: Sensors and Controls (Additive Manufacturing)

• Additive Manufacturing of Energy Harvesting Material System for Active Wireless MEMS Sensors
  PI: Yirong Lin, University of Texas at El Paso

Topic Area: High Performance Materials

• Development of a Physically Based Creep Model Incorporating Eta Phase Evolution for Nickel-Base Superalloys used in Advanced Electric Power Generation Plants
  PI: Walter Milligan, Michigan Technological University
• The Fundamental Creep Behavior Model of Gr. 91 Alloy by ICME Approach
  PI: Yu (Michael) Zhong, Florida International University
• A Guideline for the Assessment of Uniaxial Creep and Creep-Fatigue Data and Models 
  PI: Calvin Stewart, University of Texas at El Paso