Recent Grants and Awards (July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017)
The college's state-of-the-art laboratory facilities offer effective and comprehensive areas for applied research that support the curriculum and build strong partnerships with industry, government and the community.
| Award | Grant Institution | Amount | PI | PI from outside CECS |
| NSF:CAREER:The Symbiosis of Graphical Models and Games | National Science Foundation | $110,272 | Luis Ortiz | |
| Bill of Process Simulation Year 3 (supplement funding) | Ford Motor Company | $9,049 | Armen Zakarian | |
| Monotonic Tensile and Fatigue Behavior of Bar Steels Subjected to Constant and Overload Amplitude Loading: Phase XIV and XV |
American Iron and Steel Institute | $50,693 | Hong-Tae Kang | |
| Mechanisms of tolerance to severe water stress in animals | Louisiana State University | $6,220 | Nilay Chakraborty | |
| Development of Simulation Tool for Assessment of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (Phase 2) | Hyundai NGV | $88,051 | Taehyun Shim | |
| REU Supplement to EAGER: Model Driven Framework for Audio Forensics | National Science Foundation | $16,000 | Hafiz Malik | |
| Research Blue Oval Scholar Supplement Year 2 | Ford Motor Company | $8,000 | Ghassan Kridli | |
| Power America: Sub-Topic 4 Fast Charger for Electric Vehicles | Kettering University | $48,778 | Mengqi Wang | |
| Ford Alliance: Physiology based enabling technology for driver comfort and well being | Ford Motor Company | $199,621 | Yi Lu Murphey | |
| Fatigue Characteristics of Aluminum Sheet Alloys | Aleris Inc. | $14,438 | Hong-Tae Kang | |
| A Support to Increase the Participation of Blind and Visually-Impaired Researchers and Students to the Search-Based Software Engineering Conference |
National Science Foundation | $20,000 | Marouane Kessentini | |
| Preparing Future Automotive Professional for the Upcoming Automated Vehicle Era: Engineering Education for Next Generation Vehicle Design | Denso North America Foundation | $50,000 | Bochen Jia | |
| REU Supplement: GOALI: Behavior of Materials from Natural Cellulose Fibers and Plant Resins for Automotive and Other Applications | National Science Foundation | $5,000 | Alan Argento, Wonsuk Kim | |
| Road Testing and Modeling of Packet Latency for Dedicate Short Range Communications (DSRC) and Long Term Evolution (LTE) Based V2X Systems |
LG Electronics, Inc | $186,912 | Weidong Xiang, Yi Lu Murphey | |
| CAREER:The Symbiosis of Graphical Models and Games | National Science Foundation | $104,069 | Luis Ortiz | |
| Fatigue Characteristics of a Cast Steel Subjected to 4-Point Bending Load | General Motors Company | $17,999 | Hong-Tae Kang | |
| RI: Autonomous Mobility Applique Systems Supplement WD 006 REV 06 | Department of Defense, Department of the Army | $99,843 | Steve Underwood | |
| RUI: A Mechanistic Investigation on How the Redox Chemistry of MitoNEET Regulates Energy Homeostasis on Cellular and Molecular Levels | Eastern Illinois University | $122,126 | Nilay Chakraborty | |
| Students Travel Grant for the SSBSE Symposium | National Science Foundation | $10,000 | Marouane Kessentini | |
| Development of Fatigue Life Prediction Method for Spotweld Bonding and Spotweld for Mixed Materials | General Motors Company | $44,338 | Hong-Tae Kang | |
| Augemented Reality Glasses for Self Guided Dealership Experience | Ford Motor Company | $24,829 | Samir Rawashdeh | |
| Augmented Reality Glasses for Self-Guided Dealership Experience | Ford Motor Company | $24,829 | Samir Rawashdeh | |
| Design of light trapping structures for thin film solar cells and its performance enhancement | Three Gorges University | $20,023 | Ya Sha Yi | |
| Driver-Centered Intelligent Vehicle Systems Year 6 | TRW, Inc | $107,000 | Yi Lu Murphey | |
| Highly directional beam emission control of scintillator detectors utilizing integrated nano-on-nano graded index photonic structures for biomedical and security imaging applications |
National Science Foundation | $100,000 | Ya Sha Yi | |
| I-CORPS: Commercialization study of Marangoni Mediated Lyopreservation | National Science Foundation | $50,000 | Nilay Chakraborty | Chitra Subramanian (Med School) |
| Keurig Brewer Sound Quality Target Setting and Design Improvement | Keurig Green Mountain | $41,640 | John Cherng | |
| Simulation - Standardization of Data Collection and Teaching Methods | Ford Motor Company | $62,302 | Armen Zakarian, Yung-Wen Liu | |
| Simulation Techniques for Assessment of Advanced Driver Assistant Systems in Commercial Vehicle Applications |
Hyundai Motor Company and Kia | $129,998 | Taehyun Shim | |
| Solar-Powered Pump and Purifier for Providing Clean Drinkable Water in Rural Nigerian Communities | Ford Motor Company Fund | $25,000 | Lin Van Nieuwstadt, Wencong Su | |
| Static and Fatigue Characteristics of Various Joints for Sheet Steels | V-Eng | $60,000 | Hong-Tae Kang | |
| DAPCEP Fall 2016 - CECS | Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program (DAPCEP) | $3,300 | Ghassan Kridli | |
| Development of New CAE Methodology for Warpage Prediction of Injection Molded Plastics | Upwind Technology Inc | $75,000 | Hong-Tae Kang | |
| Face Recognition | Magnet Marelli Holding | $9,300 | Yi Lu Murphey | |
| Development of Spark Ignition Engine Thermal Management System Model for System Optimization | Hyundai Motor Company | $280,681 | Dohoy Dewey Jung | |
| I-CORPS: Search-Based Interactive Software Refactoring Technology | National Science Foundation | $50,000 | Marouane Kessentini | |
| Effects of cooling and method of heating of HSAL | Ford Motor Company | $11,497 | Ghassan Kridli | |
| Heat Retention optimization methodology for thermal battery with Phase-Change Material (PCM) | Ford Motor Company | $179,640 | Subrata Sengupta | |
| Pricing and Incentive Mechanism Design for Golride Dynamic Shuttle Service | Ford Motor Company | $98,923 | Xi Chen | |
| Research and Development of An FPGA based Three-phase High-efficiency SiC Inverter for Electric Vehicles |
Mercedes-Benz | $118,092 | Kevin (Hua) Bai | |
| Seamless Customization of Multiple Smart Environments using Multi-Modal and Dynamic-Density Sensor Data |
Ford Motor Company | $197,714 | Omid Dehzangi | |
| Thermal battery with Composite Phase Change Material - Additional Supplement | Ford Motor Company | $10,000 | Subrata Sengupta | |
| TRI-Developing a personalized Guardian system to assist aging drivers through machine learning, sensor fusion and data mining |
Toyota Research Institute | $981,207 | Yi Lu Murphey, Yung Wen Liu | Umesh Patel (Office of Research) Bruno Giordani ( Psychology) Carol Persad (Psychiatry) David Eby (Transportation) Lisa Molnar (Transportation/ Behvior Science) |
| Wide-Band-Gap (WBD) Semiconductor Based Inverters with High Power Density and Efficiency | Wayne State University | $73,500 | Kevin (Hua) Bai | |
| Autonomous UAV Landing in a Box on a Moving Platform | Department of Defense, Department of the Army | $29,993 | Stanley Baek | |
| MISR: Miniature Ignition Rapid Compression Machine for Kinetic Measurements of Novel Fuels | Department of Energy | $518,828 | Patrick Lynch | |
| Guardhat Material Selection and Product Lightweighting (SCIP-MCRN Match) | Guardhat Technologies LLC | $10,000 | Pankaj K Mallick | |
| Development of bio-signal measurement system and analysis algorithms related to seat comfort | Hyundai Motor Company | $150,000 | Yi Lu Murphey, Bochen Jia | |
| Probing Hypoxia and Fatty Acid Synergy in Beta Cell Impairments via Multimodal Microfluids | Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health | $155,292 | Joe Lo | |
| Application of Hybrid Switches (GaN + Si) to the >97%-efficiency 7.2kW Level-2 Charger | Hella North America | $113,500 | Kevin (Hua) Bai | |
| Optimization of 6000 series aluminum sheet blanking and trimming | Ford Motor Company | $92,292 | Ghassan Kridli, Georges Ayoub | |
| AZO target sintering behavior and its film property ameliorated by Mg, Si co-doped | Three Gorges University | $46,729 | Ya Sha Yi | |
| Investigation of Micro-structures for Various Composite Materials | Ford Motor Company | $10,000 | Hong-Tae Kang | |
| Validation of Fatigue Life Prediction Models for Gas Metal Arc Welding | Auto/Steel Partnership | $58,762 | Hong-Tae Kang | |
| CAREER: The Symbiosis of Graphical Models and Games | National Science Foundation | $104,069 | Luis Ortiz | |
| CAREER: Energetic Radical Reactions and Impact on High and Low Pressure Combustion | National Science Foundation | $501,084 | Patrick Lynch |