AFRL/DAGSI Ohio Student-Faculty Engineering Research Fellowship Program

 

2008 Research Topics

Topic Nr.

Title Contact
     HUMAN EFFECTIVENESS DIRECTORATE (RH)       
HE08-1 "Occupational Risk Factors for Injury and Disability Among U.S. Air Force Personnel" timothy.wells@wpafb.af.mil
HE08-2 "Registration and Image Fusion Techniques of Multi-Spectral Sources Under Static and Dynamic Conditions" daniel.repperger@wpafb.af.mil
HE08-3 "Spatial Audio Displays for Distributed Team Collaboration" douglas.brungart@wpafb.af.mil
HE08-4 "Spoken Language Processing" raymond.slyh@wpafb.af.mil

tim.anderson@wpafb.af.mil
HE08-5 "Nanoengineering of Sensitive and Selective Luminescent Nanoprobes for Biological Applications" saber.hussain@wpafb.af.mil
HE08-6 "Digital Human Modeling for Information Mining and Visualization" kathleen.robinette@wpafb.af.mil
     
      INFORMATION DIRECTORATE (RI)  
IF08-1 "Vision Based Cogent Confabulation for Automated Image and Video Analysis"  
IF08-2 "SimCUNE-Simulated Characterization of UAV Network Environments" david.hench@rl.af.mil
     
    MATERIALS AND MANUFACTURING DIRECTORATE (RX)  
ML08-1 "Mitigation of Jamming Level Effects on Representative Air Force Sensor Systems" christopher.brewer@wpafb.af.mil
ML08-2 "Bio-inspired, Multi-funcational Hybrid Material Systems" Katie.thorp@us.af.mil
ML08-3 "Growth and Characterization of Carbon Nanostructures on SiC" john.boeckl@wpafb.af.mil

kurt.eyink@wpafb.af.mil
ML08-4 "Nanostructured Materials for Tailored Thermal Conductivity Interfaces" andrey.voevodin@wpafb.af.mil

 

 

  
  

PROPULSION DIRECTORATE (RZ)

   
PR08-1 "Pulsed Detonation Propulsion Research" frederick.schauer@wpafb.af.mil
PR08-2 "Experimental Approaches for Modeling and Predictive Capabilities of Creep and Thermal Mechanical Fatigue Behavior in Turbine Airfoils" robert.wright@wpafb.af.mil
PR08-3 "In-situ Characterization of Combustor Performance in Supersonic Flows using Laster-Based Diagnostics" skip.williams@wpafb.af.mil
PR08-4 "Development of a Numerical Model to Predict Shock-Tube Flowfield and Ignition for Millisecond Ignition Delays" douglas.davis@wpafb.af.mil

campbell.carter@wpafb.af.mil
PR08-5 "Design and Analysis of a Variable Geometry Scramjet Flowpath for Space Access Applications" dean.eklund@wpafb.af.mil
PR08-6 "Generalized Reactive Riemann Solver Methods for Sub-Scale Interface Dynamics in Evaporation, Combustion and Ablation Fronts" jean-luc.cambier@wpafb.af.mil

datta.gaitonde@wpafb.af.mil
PR08-7 "Development of Magnetic Nanomaterials for Power Applications" john.horwath@wpafb.af.mil
PR08-8 "Structured Dynamics and Mechanics of Turbomachinery Components" jeffrey.brown@wpafb.af.mil
PR08-9 "Transient Magnetic Field Measurements on an Aircraft Fuselage-Like Platform" daniel.schweickart@wpafb.af.mil
PR08-10 "Longer Length Carbon Nanotubes for Electric Power Applications" paul.barnes@wpafb.af.mil

kevin.yost@wpafb.af.mil
PR08-11 "Enhanced Superconductors and Growth Diagnostics for Lightweight Power Systems" paul.barnes@wpafb.af.mil
PR08-12 "Solid Oxide Fuels for Military Applications" thomas.reitz@wpafb.af.mil
PR08-13 "Fuels Topology Mapping: Sensor and Model Development for Fuel Property Prediction" christopher.bunker@wpafb.af.mil
          
   

SENSORS DIRECTORATE (RY)

   
SN08-1 "Inter-Connecting Cellular Networks and Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks for Evolutionary Robust Military Communication Systems" research.topics@wpafb.af.mil
SN08-2 "Exploiting Close-In Sensing Layering for Efficient Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Characterization" research.topics@wpafb.af.mil
SN08-3 "Radar Signal Decomposition" matthew.ferrara@us.af.mil
SN08-4 "Three-Dimensional Automatic Target Recognition" matthew.ferrara@us.af.mil
SN08-5 "Waveform Diversity and Design" william.baldygo@wpafb.af.mil
SN08-6 "Radar Signal Processing using COTS Computer Architectures" william.baldygo@wpafb.af.mil
SN08-7 "Tomographic Radar Signal Processing" william.baldygo@wpafb.af.mil
SN08-8 "Architectures for Secure Semantic Sensor Networks for Multi-Layered Sensing" william.mcquay@wpafb.af.mil
SN08-9 "Design and Evaluation of Cross-Layered Protocol for Cognitive Networks" vasu.chakravarthy@wpafb.a.fmil
SN08-10 "Method for Porting Signal Processing and Waveform Analysis Algorithms from MATLAB Code to FPGA Hardware" clifton.bullmaster@wpafb.af.mil
SN08-11 "Sensor Exploitation via Intelligent, Context-Based Computing" steven.rogers@wpafb.af.mil
SN08-12   "Layered Sensor Resource Management" olga.mendoza@wpafb.af.mil
SN08-13 "Layered Data Registration (Level 0 Fusion)" olga.mendoza@wpafb.af.mil
SN08-14 "Dismount Tracking" devert.wicker@wpafb.af.mil
SN08-15 "Context Aided Tracking" devert.wicker@wpafb.af.mil
SN08-16 "Biologically Inspired Cooperative Autonomous Navigators for Intelligent Sensing" jacob.campbell@wpafb.af.mil
SN08-17 "An Integrated Location and Physiology Monitoring and Processing System" jacob.campbell@wpafb.af.mil
SN08-18 "Intelligent  Sensing and Control for Autonomous Vehicles" jacob.campbell@wpafb.af.mil
SN08-19 "Precision In-Door and Out-Door Navigation using Existing Signals of Opportunity and Inertial Navigation Sensors" jacob.campbell@wpafb.af.mil
SN08-20 "Navigation using Optical Tracking of Objects at Unknown Locations" jacob.campbell@wpafb.af.mil
SN08-21 "Odor-Based Guidance and Navigation System for Autonomous Vehicles" jacob.campbell@wpafb.af.mil
SN08-22 "Separation of Static and Non-Static Ground Features using an Airborne Integrated Flash LADAR/IMU System" jacob.campbell@wpafb.af.mil
SN08-23 "Use of Flash LADAR for Aiding of Low-Cost IMU Navigator on Loitering Aerial Vehicles" jacob.campbell@wpafb.af.mil
SN08-24 "Searching in High-Dimensional Spaces" gregory.arnold@afrl.af.mil
SN08-25 "HSI Simultaneous Tracking and Target Identification" erik.blasch@wpafb.af.mil
SN08-26 "Intent-Based Tracking and Target Identification" erik.blasch@wpafb.af.mil
SN08-27 "Signature Signal Processing Using Information Theory for Improved Radar Sensor Exploitation Systems" John.malas@wpafb.af.mil
SN08-28 "High Accuracy GPS Receiver Algorithms for Navigation" thao.nguyen@wpafb.af.mil
SN08-29 "Situational Awareness for Emergency Response" tamara.chelette@wpafb.af.mil
     
   AIR VEHICLES DIRECTORATE (RB)    
VA08-1 "Planning, Guidance and Control for Multiple UAV Cooperative Operations" corey.schumacher@wpafb.af.mil
VA08-2 "Flow Control for Hypersonic Heat Inlets and Isolators" james.weber@wpafb.af.mil
VA08-3 Topic Removed  
VA08-4 "Development of Volume Integral Methodology for Accurate, Robust, and Efficient Drag Computation" jose.camberos@wpafb.af.mil

raymond.kolonay@wpafb.af.mil
VA08-5 "Validation and Canonical Solutions for Implementing a Second Law Analysis in Systems-Engineering and Design Optimization" jose.camberos@wpafb.af.mil

david.moorhouse@wpafb.af.mil
VA08-6 "Development of a Predicitive Capability for Multidisciplinary Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis" jose.camberos@wpafb.af.mil

raymond.kolonay@wpafb.af.mil
VA08-7 "Optimization of Z-Pinning Volume Fraction in Joints for Structural Integrity" stephen.clay@wpafb.af.mil
VA08-8 "Optimization Beam Systems with Geometric Non-Linearity" maxwell.blair@wpafb.af.mil
VA08-9 "Benefits of Designing Structural Components Including Structural Health Management (SHM)" mark.derriso@wpafb.af.mil
VA08-10 "Structural Antenna Electromagnetics" james.tuss@wpafb.af.mil
VA08-11 "Tools for Conceptual Design and Engineering Analysis of Micro Air Vehicles" michael.ol@wpafb.af.mil
VA08-12 "Risk Quantified Structural Design" eric.tuegel@wpafb.af.mil
VA08-13 "Design of Durable Aerospace Structures for Combined, Extreme Environments" ravi.chona@wpafb.af.mil

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