Recently Funded Grants
Construction
2021-2023 Charles Pankow Foundation Expanded Guides to Managing the Design Phase of Design-Build Projects PI: Dr. Susan Bogus Halter (CCEE) $87,031
2021-2023
New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT
e-Ticketing Technologies for Efficient Asphalt Ticket Collection and Quantity Calculation
PI: Dr. Susan Bogus Halter (CCEE)
$125,000
2019-2023
New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT)
Management of New Mexico LTAP
PI: Dr. Susan Bogus Halter (CCEE)
$1,200,000
2017-2022
Louisiana State Univ. / USDOT Univ. Transportation Center
Transportation Consortium of South-Central States (Tran-SET)
PI: Dr. Susan Bogus Halter (CCEE)
$2,790,000
Environmental
2020-2024
National Science Foundation (NSF)
CREST Center for Water and the Environment, Phase II
PI: Kerry Howe (CCEE), co-PIs: Andy Schuler, Ricardo González-Pinzón, José Cerrato, Mark Stone (all CCEE)
$5,000,000
2014-2020
National Science Foundation (NSF)
CREST Center for Water and the Environment
PI: Kerry Howe (CCEE), co-PIs: Bruce Thomson, Andy Schuler, Mark Stone, and Vanessa Valentin (all CCEE)
$5,365,576
2021-2022
UNM Advance Women in STEM Award
Waste as a Resource: A thermo-chemical system to recover metals and produce oil from sewage sludges
PI: Dr. Anjali Mulchandani (CCEE)
$10,000
2020-2021
PepsiCo
Discovery and Implementation of Atmospheric Water Extraction Technology for a Renewable Water Supply
PI: Paul Westerhoff (ASU), co-PI Anjali Mulchandani (CCEE), co-PI Lenore Dai (ASU)
$125,000
Bruce Thomson
2021-2022
United States Bureau of Reclamation
Development of the Mineral Recovery Enhanced Desalination (MRED) Process for Improved Brackish Water Desalination
PI: Bruce Thomson (CCEE), Co-PI: Kerry Howe, Carson Lee (both CCEE).
$150,000
Structures
2020-2021
Transportation Consortium of South-Central States((Tran-SET)
Resilient 3D-Printed Infrastructure with Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC)
PI: Dr. Maryam Hojati (CCEE), CO-PIs: Dr. Susan Bogus Halter (CCEE), Dr. Mahmoud Taha (CCEE
$73,000
2020-2021
Women in STEM (WIS) Faculty Development Fund-UNM
Design of Sustainable Concrete for 3D-printing
PI: Dr. Maryam Hojati (CCEE)
$10,000
2021-2025
National Science Foundation
Scholarships, Service Learning, and Community Engagement to Improve Student Success in Engineering and Computer Science
PI: Dr. Tariq Khraishi (ME), CO-PIs: Dr. Heather Canavan (CBE), Dr. Trilce Estrada-Piedra (CS), Dr. Maryam Hojati (CCEE), Dr. Christos Christodoulou (ECE)
$999,988
2020-2021
Federal Railway Administration BAA
Research Initiatives in Support of Rail Safety
PI: Dr. Fernando Moreu (CCEE), co-PI: Victor Law (UNM-OILS)
$209,258
2020-2022
National Academy of Sciences
Transportation Research Board IDEA Safety
Augmenting Reality for Safer Inspections of Railroad Infrastructure and Operations
PI: Dr. Fernando Moreu (CCEE), co-PI: Victor Law (UNM-OILS)
$99,000
2020-2021
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and New Mexico Space Grant Consortium (NMSGC)
Safe and Augmented Human-Robotic Interaction for Space
PI: Dr. Fernando Moreu (CCEE)
$30,000
2018-2023
Air Force Research Lab (AFRL)
Agile Manufacturing for High Value, Low Volume Production
PI: Dr. Rafael Fierro (UNM-ECE), co-PI: Dr. Fernando Moreu (CCEE)
$144,891 allocated to date
2020-2021
TRAN-Set Program, Louisiana State University U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)
An automated system for inspecting rock faces and detecting potential rock falls using machine learning
PI: Dr. John Stormont (CCEE), co-PI: Dr. Fernando Moreu (CCEE)
$100,000
2020-2021
TRAN-Set Program, Louisiana State University U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)
Bridge Cracks Monitoring: Detection, Measurement, and Comparison using Augmented Reality
PI: Dr. Fernando Moreu (CCEE)
$120,000
2019-2022
Sandia National Laboratory (SNL)
Control of Nonlinear Dynamical Structures under Extreme Normal Environments
PI: Dr. Fernando Moreu (CCEE)
$220,500
2018-2021
Sandia National Laboratory (SNL)
Investigation of the Multi-Input Dynamic Testing
PI: Dr. Fernando Moreu (CCEE)
$265,000
2018-2020
Air Force Research Lab (AFRL)
Agile manufacturing for high-value, low-volume aerospace composites
Co-PI: Dr. Mahmoud Taha (CCEE), Co-PI: Dr. Mehran Tehrani (UNM-ME), PI: Dr. Rafael Ferro (UNM-ECE)
$600,000
2017-2020
New Mexico Consortium – Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Correlating damage, fracture, and permeability enhancement in rocks subjected to high-strain-rate loading
Co-PI: Dr. Mahmoud Taha (CCEE), PI: Dr. John Stormont (CCEE)
$432,000
Transportation
2023-2028
US Department of Transportation
Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety
Center Director: Dr. Nick Ferenchak (CCEE)
$15,000,000 (10,000,000 federal + $5,000,000 non-federal match)
2023-2025
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)
NCHRP 07-31: DOT & Tribal Active Transport Data: Practices, Sources, and Gaps
PI: Dr. Jennifer Dill (Portland State University); co-PI: Dr. Nick Ferenchak (CCEE)
$800,000
2023-2026
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)
NCHRP 17-115: Guide for Marked Crosswalk Design, Spacing, Placement, and Safety
PI: Dr. Sarah Worth O’Brien (University of North Carolina); SME: Dr. Nick Ferenchak (CCEE)
$500,000
2022-2023
Transportation Consortium of South-Central States (Tran-SET) & NMDOT
Countermeasures to Improve Pedestrian Safety on Arterials
PI: Dr. Nick Ferenchak (CCEE)
$115,000
2021-2024
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)
NCHRP 17-97: Strategies to Improve Pedestrian Safety at Night
PI: Kristof Devastey (Toole Design); SME: Dr. Nick Ferenchak (CCEE)
$500,000
2021-2022
Transportation Consortium of South-Central States (Tran-SET)
COVID-19 and Traffic Safety: Role of Infrastructure and Exposure
PI: Dr. Nick Ferenchak (CCEE)
$50,000
2021-2022
National Center for Infrastructure Durability & Life Extension
The (In)Equitable Distribution of Quality Bicycling Infrastructure
PI: Dr. Wes Marshall (University of Colorado); Co-PI: Dr. Nick Ferenchak (CCEE)
$50,000
2020-2022
Federal Rail Administration (FRA)
Enhancing National Rail Safety: Modeling Grade Crossing Treatments in Virtual Reality
PI: Dr. Nick Ferenchak (CCEE)
$100,000
2020-2022
Transportation Consortium of South-Central States (Tran-SET)
Autonomous Vehicle Communication Strategies Modeled in Virtual Reality
PI: Dr. Nick Ferenchak (CCEE)
$60,000
2019-2021
Transportation Consortium of South-Central States (Tran-SET)
ABQ Streets Project: Creating Alternative Residential Street Designs
PI: Dr. Greg Rowangould (CCEE); Co-PI: Dr. Nick Ferenchak (CCEE)
$50,000
2019-2021
Transportation Consortium of South-Central States (Tran-SET) and New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT)
Enhancing Evaluation of Wildlife Detection Systems
PI: Dr. Nick Ferenchak (CCEE)
$40,000
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Converting Roadway GIS Layer to AERMOD Geometry for Refined PM Project-level Modeling
PI: Dr. Haobing Liu (CCEE)
$50,000
Claude Morelli
2021-2022
City of Albuquerque
Nob Hill Pedestrian and Quality of Life Study
PI: Claude J. Morelli (CCEE)
$53,840
Water Resources
2021-2024
National Science Foundation
How far downstream do wildfire disturbances propagate in fluvial networks?
PI: Dr. Gonzalez-Pinzon (CCEE)
$423,431
2021-2022
New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute
Quantifying the longitudinal propagation of disturbances in rivers
PI Dr. Ricardo González-Pinzón (CCEE)
$30,000
2016-2020
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Transforming linear societies into recycling societies through wastewater reuse for agriculture in arid regions
PI Dr. Ricardo González-Pinzón (CCEE)
$298,449.00
2017-2020
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Nutrient dynamics along a river continuum: combining sensor data, experiments, and time series analyses to identify local to watershed scale drivers of nutrient cycling.
PI Dr. Ricardo González-Pinzón (CCEE)
$329,740
2017-2020
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Collaborative Research: How do interactions of transport and stoichiometry maximize stream nutrient retention?
PI Dr. Ricardo González-Pinzón (CCEE)
$1,131,369 to team.
2016-2021
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Collaborative Research: A Strategic Partnership for Geoscience Education and Research on Watershed Science and Climate Change in the Southwestern U.S.
PI Dr. Mark Stone (CCEE), co-PI Dr. González-Pinzón (CCEE)
$799,939.00