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Since 2009, we have secured approximately $2.1M in funding.

Current funding/projects:

5/1/17 - 6/30/21, Co-I, "Sensing Earth Directly – Next Phase", a Venture Grant Phase II funded by the ND Department of Commerce and C2Sensor.

11/1/17-12/31/20, PI, “Development of an RF Sensing Platform for Grain Detection,” funded by John Deere.

Completed funding/projects:

8/15/17 - 8/14/20, PI, "Electronically Tunable Material with Magnetic Particles for Array Scanning – Phase II," funded by the US Air Force Research Laboratory.

6/15/16 - 6/14/17, Co-I, "Electromagnetic Inducible Digital Protein Expression Switch or EMID ProSwitch", a Venture Grant funded by the ND Department of Commerce.

1/1/16 - 8/15/16, Co-PI, "Development of Wireless Energy Transfer withing the Human Body", a ResearchND project funded by the ND Department of Commerce and Boston Scientific Inc.

1/1/16 - 1/1/17, PI, "Sensing Earth Directly - Phase 2," sub-award funded by the ND Department of Commerce.

9/1/15 - 3/1/17, PI, "UAS Sensor Payload Development for Rescue Operations," a ResearchND project funded by the ND Department of Commerce and CYCLOPS TECHNOLOGIES.

5/13/15 - 8/15/16, PI, "Electronically Tunable Material with Magnetic Particles for Array Scanning," funded by the US Air Force Research Laboratory.

8/16/15 - 8/15/16, INSPIRE-ND, Doctoral Dissertation Award, funded by the National Science Foundation.

10/9/15 - 5/15/16, PI, "Discovery-Based Learning in Multi-Disciplinary Teams," an equipment grant (for a 20 GHz network analyzer) funded by the NDSU Development Foundation with the NDSU Impact Fund.

12/16/14 - 12/15/15, PI, "Sensing Earth Directly - Phase 1," sub-award funded by the ND Department of Commerce.

5/1/14 - 4/30/15, PI, "Prototyping of an Intelligent Self-Organizing Electrode Stimulation Delivery Network," a Venture Grant funded by the ND Department of Commerce.

10/15/13-8/31/14, Co-I, "Real-time In-situ Residual Strength Estimation of Glass After Impact," funded by ND NASA EPSCoR.

10/15/13-8/31/14, Co-I, "Collaborative Research Between UND and NDSU: A Mobile Health System (mHealth) for Monitoring the Physiological Response of an Astronaut Performaing Tasks in the NDX-2 Planetary Space Suit," funded by ND NASA EPSCoR.

7/1/13-6/30/14, PI, "Fundamental Research on Electromagnetic - Responsive Metamaterials for High Efficient Mobile Cyber-Physical Systems," funded by Inter-Institutional Collaboration Fund between ND and SD.

10/1/12-6/1/13, Co-I, "CMOS Integrated Beam Former with Conformal Phased Array Antenna for Wireless Communications, funded by ND NASA EPSCoR.

10/15/2010-06/30/2011, PI, "A Small Wearable Conformal Phased Array Antenna for Wireless Communications," funded by ND NASA EPSCoR.

12/16/2010-6/30/2011, "Electronics and Materials for Flexible Sensors and Transponders - Phase III," funded by the Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) at North Dakota State University, which was sponsored by the Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA) under agreement number H94003-09-2-0905.

3/1/2009-12/15/2010, PI, "Electronics and Materials for Flexible Sensors and Transponders - Phase II," funded by the Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) at North Dakota State University, which was sponsored by the Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA) under agreement number H94003-09-2-0905.

1/1/2010-12/15/2010, "Conformal Antennas for Power Harvesting at Microwave Frequencies," a senior design project in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECE) at North Dakota State University.

5/15/2010-7/31/2010, "EMC/EMI Testing for the International Space Station Agricultural Camera (ISSAC) Developed at the University of North Dakota (UND)," suppport for two undergraduate students was provided.

6/1/2009-6/30/2010, Co-I, "Agrosecurity: Disease Surveillance and Public Health," funded by USDA-APHIS.

1/15/2010-5/15/2010, PI, "A Reconfigurable Cascaded Positive/Negative-Refractive-Index Zero-Phase Transmission Line," funded by Undergraduate Research Funds in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECE) at North Dakota State University.

1/15/2010-5/15/2010, "Power Harvesting at 5.8 GHz with Compact Left-handed Printed Antennas," a federal work study project.

1/15/2010-5/15/2010, "A Leaky-Wave Antenna for Tracking Cattle," funded by the Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) at North Dakota State University..

9/15/2009-5/15/2010, "A Micropositioner for Antenna Measurements," a senior design project in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECE) at North Dakota State University.

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Since 2009, we have secured approximately $2.1M in funding.