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NSF-ECCS: Collaborative Research: Wideband Multi-Beam Antenna Arrays: Low-Complexity Algorithms and Analog-CMOS Implementations

  • PI Sirani Mututhanthrige Perera

    PI Arjuna Habarakada Madanayake

  • Explosion of millimeter-wave (mm-wave) bandwidth opens up applications in 5G wireless systems spanning communications, localization, imaging, and radar. This project addresses challenges in mathematics, engineering, and science in developing efficient wideband beamformers based on sparse factorizations of the matrix called-delay Vandermonde matrices (DVM). The proposed highly integrated approach is attractive for mobile applications including 5G smart devices, the internet of things, mobile robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles, and other emerging applications focused on mm-waves.

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Oil for Terrorism: Examining the Effectiveness of Western Intervention in ISIS’s Oil Smuggling

  • CO-I Rae Heuer

    CO-I Elisabeth Murray

  • The Terrorist organization ISIS has been identified as a violent, radical group that poses a threat to both the regional and international arena. By gathering both primary and secondary research data from foreign and domestic sources, this project investigates whether ending ISIS’s oil smuggling would decrease ISIS’s strength, power, and influence as a terrorist organization.
On the climatology, multiscale dynamics, and predictability of convective snow bursts in the northern United States

  • PI Shawn Milrad

  • The goal is to broadly address non-lake effect snow squalls (hereafter referred to as “snow bursts”), defined as short-duration (< 6 h) mesoscale phenomena that can have substantial impacts on aviation and human interests during the cool season.
On The Origin and Transport of Energetic Particles

  • PI Heidi Nykyri

    CO-I Xuanye Ma

  • Understanding the properties, origin and dynamics of energetic particles in the solar wind and magnetosphere is crucial for safe unmanned and manned space operations. This project will  unravel the birth-mechanism of the source population of the Earth's radiation belts.

On the synoptic-dynamic characteristics of extreme precipitation events: Understanding and quantifying the role of anticyclones

  • PI Shawn Milrad

  • This work represents an initial step towards further understanding and quantification of the importance of anticyclones, including their role in air mass modification (i.e., the transport of warm, moist air).
Open-Source Validation and Verification Framework for AI-Controlled Aerial Vehicles

  • PI M. Ilhan Akbas

  • The goal of this project is to develop a simulation framework to streamline the testing and validation of AI-controlled aerial vehicles. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) design and verification flow consists of the digital environment creation process, an open-source AI-controlled autopilot, access to multiple open-source simulators, symbolic test generation engine, example test scenarios, and native design-for-experiment layer for each of the major subsystem of an AI-controlled aerial vehicle.
Organizational Design of Secondary Aviation/Aerospace/Engineering Career Education Programs

  • PI Susan Archer

    CO-I David Esser

  • Modern nations operate within a global economy, relying heavily on the aviation industry for efficient and effective transportation of passengers and goods. The Boeing 2018 Pilot and Technical Outlook Report indicated that over the next 20 years, the aviation industry will need almost two and a half million new aircrew and maintenance employees to meet anticipated global demand. The industry will also need engineers, aviation managers, and workers in other aviation and aerospace disciplines. Aviation and aerospace jobs require solid backgrounds in mathematics, science, and technology; the development of pre-college aviation / aerospace / engineering career education programs would presumably enhance student preparation in these areas and increase the workforce pipeline for the industry. The goal of this study was to identify and evaluate the underlying organizational factors of successful secondary aviation / aerospace / engineering career education programs, through application of measures traditionally associated with organizational theory.

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Pilot Acceptance of Personal, Wearable Fatigue Monitoring Technology: An Application of the Extended Technology Acceptance Model

  • PI Rachelle Strong

    CO-I Dahai Liu

  • The research problem of pilot fatigue has been referenced as a causal factor for aircraft accidents in many United States National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) accident reports; however, the United States Code of Federal Regulations 14 CFR Part 117, Flight and Duty Limitations and Rest Requirements for Flight Crew Members, does not provide a tangible means of measuring fatigue for aircraft crew members. This problem is relevant to the airline industry and the travelling public because pilot fatigue is preventable as a causal factor in aviation accidents, and pilots need an accurate way to measure it. Adoption of a technology-based solution has been recommended by the NTSB.

Pilot Awareness of Current and LED Elevated Runway Guard Lighting

  • PI John French

  • Since airports require efficient use of limited funding, thus reducing annual operations costs is an important concern. A potentially dramatic way to reduce the cost associated with airport operations is to replace current incandescent lighting with light-emitting diode (LED) lights.

Pilot Response to Cybersecurity Events
  • ​The first research uses the pilot cybersecurity event and risk assessment station located in the Cybersecurity Engineering Lab (LB 131).
Pilot-in-the-Loop UAS Mobile Research Test-Bed

  • PI Hever Moncayo

    CO-I May Chan

    CO-I Ashwini Agrawal

    CO-I Agustin Giovagnoli

  • This project aims to develop and implement a Mobile UAV Ground Control Station (GCS) supporting aviation safety research with pilot-in-the-loop capabilities using unmanned aerial systems platforms, in which flight conditions, such as systems failures, could be simulated in real-time to characterize pilot response, control laws performance, and human-machine and control laws interactions.
Platform for Investigating Concept Networks on the Instrumentality of Knowledge (PICNIK)

  • PI Matthew Verleger

  • This engineering education research project seeks to develop a concept network for engineering and a platform for helping students identify how concepts are connected across a curriculum.  The goal is to better understand and improve how students value the concepts being taught throughout their education.