Grants

Grants 2008 - 2009

Awarded

• MRI: Acuquisition of Futuro: a Data Intensive and High Performance Computing Cluster for Integrated Research and Education. Project period 08/01/09 – 7/31/12, Total budget $704, 293. Submitted on Jan 22, 2009. PI: Hansheng Lei, Co-PIs: Co-PI: Juan R Iglesias, Soma Mukherjee , Matthew Benacquista, Andres Figueroa (UT Pan American), Senior Personnel: Lappoon Tang, Mahmoud Quweider, Soumya Mohanty, Liyu Zhang Funding Agency: NSF

• Special Sound Detection Sensor. 6/01/09 - 11/30/09, $16,300. Submitted on April 15, 2009. PI: Hansheng Lei Funding Agency: South Texas Technology Management

• E.T. at UTB/TSC Engineering Teens Summer Camp 2009, June 15-19, 2009, $11,111.11, Project number 003643-ERP09-0000 Leader: Peter Gawenda, co-Leader Dr. Apolinar Zapata. Funding Agency: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s Engineering Recruitment Programs

• Dr. MK Quweider was awarded the Frances Rusteberg Faculty Fellowship in the amount of $1,300.00 to buy research equipment.

• Science and Technology Educational Partnerships for Success (STEPS). 9/1/09--8/30/11, $1,571,076 PD: Juan R. Iglesias, Co-PD: Andrea Schwarzbach, Linda Fossen. Funding Agency: Department of Education

• Future Teachers, Researchers and Engineers: Improving Retention and Success Rate of STEM Graduate Program through a Career-Oriented Approach. PI: Liyu Zhang, Co-PIs: Hansheng Lei, Taeil Yi, Lappoon Tang. Key Personnel: Mahmoud Quweider, Juan Iglesias. Funding Agency: US Department of Education

• Integrating Synchronous and Asynchronous Components into Graduate Curriculum to Improve Learning Effectiveness and Better Serve Students with Time Constraints, 12/01/09-11/30/11, $240, 376. PD: Hansheng Lei, Co-PD: Cheng Chang Pan (School of Education), Co-PD: Liyu Zhang. Funding Agency: US Department of Education

Pending

• Computational Scientists with Homeland Security Skills, Department of Homeland Security Scientific Leadership Awards for Minority Serving Institutions Granting Bachelor Degrees, Amount requested: $2,555,339.89. PI: Michael Oudshoorn Funding Agency: Department of Homeland Security

• Collaborative Research: BPC-DP: SUMMIT: A Joint UTB-UTA Program for Enhancing Minority Participation in Computer Science. PI: Ishfaq Ahmad, Liyu Zhang, co-PI: Manfred Huber, Lynn L Peterson, Hansheng Lei, Mahmoud K. Quweider. Funding Agency: NSF

Grants 2007 - 2008

Awarded

• Collaborative Computer Science and Mathematics Ambassador Program for High School Students in Brownsville Texas. Department of Education PI: Tang, Lappoon. Co-PIs: Yi, Taeil, and Jenet, Rick. Status: Awarded. Dec 01, 2007 to Nov 30, 2010, $487,012.

• Scholars Program. Granting Entity TWC-TECT. TECT. PI Iglesias, Juan. Co-PIs(s) Corbeil Maria Elena; Zapata, Apolinar. Status: Awarded. Coverage Period August 2007 - August 2008 (to be renewed FY 2008 – 2009). Total Amount $127,411.