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Research Centers
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Research Labs
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Air and Water Quality
- Faculty: Victoria Chen, Seoung Bum Kim, Melanie Sattler
- Funding: U.S. EPA 2000-05, Luminant Energy 2007-08
- Topics: Metropolitan ozone pollution control, Spatial & temporal modeling of air quality data, Evaluation of wastewater treatment technologies
Airline Optimization
Anthropometic Description of the Jordanian Population
American Airlines Cargo
- Faculty: John Priest, Richard Billo
- Funding: Arlington Chamber of Commerce and Texas Workforce Commission
- Description: Design system for tracking PPS packages using active RF devices, GPS and cell phones. Developed a business model and demonstrated a viable and profitable solution.
Approximate Dynamic Programming (ADP)
BioTech Ventures
- Faculty: Brian Dennis, Richard Billo, John Priest
- Description: Micro fabrication of micro reactors for mobile biodiesel production
Center for Renewable Energy in Engineering and Science Technology (CREST)
- Faculty: Richard Billo, John Priest, et al.
- Description: Phases 1 and 2 - Phase I is the feasibility and cost modeling of different alternative hydrogen based technologies and conceptual design of a micro facility for converting coal to liquid fuel. Phase II is working with an Industrial engineering design firm to design a scalable micro facility that can withstand the pressure and temperatures involved.
Coal Plant Emissions Management at TXU Power
Coal to Liquid Fuel Conversion
- Faculty: Richard Billo, Brian Dennis, John Priest
- Funding: DARPA
- Description: Requirements definition and conceptual design of a micro factory, and detailed cost analysis of the resultant cost per barrel including investment and operating costs
Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport
- Faculty: John Priest, Richard Billo
- Funding: Arlington Chamber of Commerce and Texas Workforce Commission
- Description: Preventing runway incursions by vehicles using GPS and cell based tracking systems. Demonstrated products at the airport.
Environmental Impact of Airport Deicing
- Faculty: Victoria Chen, Brian Huff, Seoung Bum Kim, Jay Rosenberger
- Funding: Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport 2005-11
- Topics: Data mining of USGS water quality data and deicing activities data, Large-scale approximate dynamic programming
Fast Large-Scale Linear Programming
- Faculty: Bill Corley, Jay Rosenberger
- Funding: Texas Advanced Technology Program 2004-06
- Topics: Constraint Optimal Selection Techniques (COSTs)
Game Theory
General Motors
- Faculty: Jay Rosenberger, Gergely Zaruba, John Priest, Richard Billo
- Funding: Arlington Chamber of Commerce and Texas Workforce Commission
- Description:
Develop advanced algorithms for paint scheduling using dynamic and integer programming that improves scheduling efficiency by reduces paint changes.
Life Cycle Based Decision-Making
Limited Risk Optimization
Modeling the National Airspace
Multivariate Process Monitoring
- Faculty: Seoung Bum Kim, Victoria Chen, Dave Levine, Jay Rosenberger
- Funding: Williams-Pyro 2007, Luminant Power 2007-10
- Topics: Hotelling’s T2 statistic, One-class classification, Supervised control charts
Nurse Planning and Assignment
- Faculty: Jay Rosenberger, Victoria Chen, Seoung Bum Kim, Deborah Behan
- Funding: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2005-07
- Topics: Simulation of Nurse Activity (SimNA), Stochastic optimization of nurse assignment
Pain Management
- Faculty: Victoria Chen,J. C. Chiao, Yuan-Bo Peng, Seoung Bum Kim, Jay Rosenberger, Robert Gatchel
- Topics: Neurostimulation to control pain, Interdisciplinary pain management
Power Plant Emissions Control
RET Site on Hazard Mitigation
SAVR Communications
- Faculty: John Priest
- Description: Requirements definition and scenario analysis of RFID and cell based systems for smart container to be used for valuable shipments including temperature sensitive pharmaceuticals
Small-World Networks
Smart Strip, Laerdal
- Faculty: Zeynep Celik-Butler, Carolyn Cason, John Priest
- Description: Working with NanoFab for cost analysis, producibility, and manufacturing feasibility of a new proprietary product. Evaluated potential vendors and selected the MEMS vendor that will be used. (Patent Pending)
Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center (TMAC)
- Faculty: Don Liles, Member of the Executive Council
- Description: The Executive Council is the governing body for TMAC. The Executive Council,
which is made up of representatives of the seven TMAC partners, is responsible
for strategic planning for the Center. TMAC is a part of the NIST Manufacturing
Extension Partnership. Currently UTA is the lead and prime contractor for the
TMAC. Federal funding to UTA for the program has been approximately $25M since
1995, including Federal funds passed through to the other TMAC partners. TMAC
has also enjoyed significant corporate funding and funding from other Federal
agencies. TMAC has worked with approximately 4200 companies to achieve an impact
of over $2B. In addition, approximately 13,000 jobs have been gained.
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