KSEF

	Past and Current KSEF R&D Excellence Award Recipients Round (#Awards) Date RDE-001 (32) 2-1-02 RDE-002 (11) 12-12-02 RDE-003 (32) 5-5-03 RDE-004 (9) 10-10-03 RDE-005 (31) 5-20-04 RDE-006 (11) 8-4-04 RDE-007 (20) 4-12-05 RDE-008 (31) 10-25-05 RDE-009 (16) 12-12-06 RDE-010 (31) 10-24-07
	Past and Current SBIR/STTR Phase Zero and Double Zero Award Recipients 90 awards totaling $297,781 have been awarded to date.
	Homeland Security Emerging Technologies (EKU & KSEF jointly funded Awards) Two awards totaling over $175,000 have been made for R&D on a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) and an Emergency Response System

Purpose Driven Research

Names of Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI(s)	PI’s Department	PI’s Affiliation	Research Project Title	Amount Awarded ($)
Suraj Alexander	Industrial Engineering	University of Louisville	Productivity Improvement in Injection Molding: Studies in Mold Design, Monitoring and Diagnostics	$67,762

Rodney Andrews , Mark Meier	Carbon Materials Group	University of Kentucky	Ultrahigh Strength Carbon Nanotube Composite Fibers	$59,999

Paul Dunbar , Rhonda Lee-Desautels	Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering	University of Kentucky	Development of Batteries Containing Depleted-Uranium	$80,000

Daniel Tao , Rick Honaker	Mineral Engineering	University of Kentucky	Innovative Coal Beneficiation Process - Picobubble Enhanced Flotation for Efficient Recovery of Coarse and Ultrafine Particles with Less Reagent	$85,809

Cathleen Webb	Chemistry	Western Kentucky University	A Novel, Inexpensive Arsenic-Removal System for Rural and Home Drinking Water Supplies.	$59,942

Robert Lodder	ASTCC	University of Kentucky	Device for Prevention of Heart Attack and Stroke	$60,000

David Puleo , M. Chris Langub , Mark V. Thomas	Center for Biomedical Engineering	University of Kentucky	Intermittent Release Device for Bone Regeneration	$60,000

Exploratory Advanced Research

Names of Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI(s)	PI’s Department	PI’s Affiliation	Research Project Title	Amount Awarded ($)
Mehmed Kantardzic , A. Kumar , A. Elmaghraby	Computer Engineering/Computer Science	University of Louisville	Toward Autonomic Distributed Data Mining with Intelligent Web Services	$65,135

Keith Walters	Chemistry	Northern Kentucky University	Novel Supramolecular Charge Transfer Devices for Photophysical Energy Conversion and Transport	$44,669

Yi-Tin Wang	Civil Engineering	University of Kentucky	Biological Oxidation of Arsenite	$98,938

Fuqian Yang	Chemical and Materials Engineering	University of Kentucky	Micromechanical Behavior of Nanophase Al-Mg Alloys	$85,172

Raymond LeBeau	Mechanical Engineering	University of Kentucky	Application of Genetic Algorithms to Flow Control Simulations	$73,184

Caicheng Lu , Dayong Gao	Electrical & Computer Engineering	University of Kentucky	Development of the novel single-mode electromagnetic resonance technology for rapid and uniform warming of cryopreserved living cells and organs	$99,971

Emerging Technologies

Names of Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI(s)	PI’s Department	PI’s Affiliation	Research Project Title	Amount Awarded ($)
Cedric Francois , Pascal Deschatelet , Paul Olson	Physiology and Biophysics	University of Louisville	High Throughput Identification of Biological Samples	$80,000

Clair Hicks , Peter Crooks	Department of Animal and Food Sciences	University of Kentucky	Model system for the development of a rapid assay probes	$80,000

Tongguang (Tony) Zhai , Michael P. Effgen	Chemical and Materials Engineering	University of Kentucky	Application of Novel Compaction Loading Techniques in Processing of High Performance SmCo5 Magnets by a Powder Metallurgy Method	$78,472

Steven Koenig , Lauren S. Unger	Surgery	University of Louisville	Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) Compliant Data Acquisition and Analysis	$79,828

Madhu Menon	Computational Sciences	University of Kentucky	Device Applications of Metal-Semiconductor Wires	$80,000

Bhupendra Parekh	Center for Applied Energy Research	University of Kentucky	Desification of Coal Processing Waste Slurries to Eliminate Refuse Ponds	$79,998

Vijay Singh , Bruce Hinds	Electrical & Computer Engineering	University of Kentucky	Novel Method for Fabrication and Characterization of Nano-Scale Heterojunctions	$78,201

Emerging Ideas

Names of Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI(s)	PI’s Department	PI’s Affiliation	Research Project Title	Amount Awarded ($)
Gang Cao	Physics and Astronomy	University of Kentucky	Nano-engineering: Novel Transition Metal Oxides with Complementary Functionalities through Epitaxially Controlled Pulsed Laser Deposition	$15,000

Czarena Crofcheck , M. Pinar Menguc	Biosystems & Agricultural Engineering	University of Kentucky	Monitoring the Bubble Size and Liquid Hold-up in a Foam Fractionation Column	$15,000

Jamey Jacob	Mechanical Engineering	University of Kentucky	Development of Test-Bed for Investigation and Validation of Morphing Wings	$14,493

Kyung Kang	Chemical Engineering	University of Louisville	Nano Gold Particles for Enhancing Signal Intensity of Fiber Optic Immuno Biosensor	$15,000

Dusan Sekulic	Center for Robotics and Manufacturing Systems	University of Kentucky	Exergo-Environomic Synthesis of Advanced Manufacturing Processes	$15,000

Anita Lee-Post	Decision Science & Information Systems Area	University of Kentucky	Issues in designing, developing, and delivering Web-based distance learning programs: an information systems development paradigm	$15,000

M Pinar Menguc , M. Aslan	Mechanical Engineering	University of Kentucky	Characterization of Nano Size Metallic Particles via Polarized Light	$15,000

Michael Montross , Czarena Crofcheck , Adam Berkovich	Biosystems & Agricultural Engineering	University of Kentucky	Mild Solvent Extraction of Corn Stover to Produce Pitch	$15,000