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Current Projects

• A Design Tool for Nanostructures with Tunable Thermal Properties
  
  PI(s): R. Yang, K. Maute, M.L. Dunn
  Funding: AFOSR
  Time Period: 2008-2010

• Wind Turbine Drivetrain, Blade and Field Testing
  
  PI(s): K. Maute and S. Palo
  Funding: National Renewable Energy Laboratories
  Time Period: 2008-2010

• A Design-Centered Approach to Nano-Engineering
  
  PI(s): K. Maute, R. Yang, M.L. Dunn
  Funding: National Science Foundation
  Time Period: 2007-2010

• Immersive Digital Design and Teaching Environment for Fluid Dynamics
  
  PI(s): G. Pingen, K. Maute
  Funding: Engineering Excellence Fund (EEF), University of Colorado
  Time Period: 2007-2008

• STTR - SMA flight control surfaces - Phase II
  
  PI(s): K. Maute
  Funding: Office of Naval Research
  Time Period: 2007-2008

• CAREER: A Biomimetic Approach to the Design of Shape-Controlled System
  
  PI(s): K. Maute
  Funding: National Science Foundation
  Time Period: 2004-2009

• MURI: Energy Harvesting and Storage Systems for Air Force Aerovehicles
  
  PI(s): M.L. Dunn, K. Maute, R. Yang
  Funding: AFOSR, Subcontract to the University of Washington
  Time Period: 2006-2008

Completed Projects

• STTR - SMA flight control surfaces - Phase I
  
  Funding: Office of Naval Research
  Time Period: 2005-2006

• Morphing at Large Stress and Strain Through Electrochemical Actuation
  
  Funding: DARPA
  Time Period: 2004-2006

• Life-Cycle Reliability Analysis and Optimization of Microsystems
  
  Funding: National Science Foundation
  Time Period: 2003-2006

• Methodologies for Predicting and Testing the Effects of Combat Damage on Flight Envelopes
  
  Funding: AFOSR
  Time Period: 2003-2005

• Design of Phononic Micro/Nanostructures for Harsh Environment Device Technology
  
  Funding: AFOSR
  Time Period: 2005-2007

• STTR: Adaptive Skin-Stiffener Interconnects for Shape-Changing Vehicles - Phase I
  
  Funding: AFOSR
  Time Period: 2006-2007

• Design of Phononic Micro/Nanostructures for Harsh Environment Device Technology
  
  Funding: AFOSR
  Time Period: 2005-2007

• Adhesive Nanostructures
  
  Funding: National Science Foundation
  Time Period: 2004-2005

• Supersonic Aircraft Shaping Technology for a Constrained Shock Pressure Rise
  
  Funding: DARPA, NASA
  Time Period: 2002-2003

• Topology Optimization for the Design of 3-D Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Undergoing Coupled Multiphysics Phenomena
  
  Funding: AFOSR
  Time Period: 2002-2004

• Novel SiCN Ceramics for Health Monitoring of High Temperature System
  
  Funding: AFOSR
  Time Period: 2001-2003

• A Domain Decomposition Based Methodology for Scalable Parallel Implicit Contact Impact Computations
  
  Funding: Sandia National Laboratories
  Time Period: 2001-2002

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