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2022 Research Highlights: Through research, innovation, and expertise, the School of Engineering faculty are making their mark in the field through publications and grants.

SELECTED GRANTS

• National Science Foundation (#1903419 & #1903423). “SaTC: EDU: Collaborative: INteractive VIsualization and PracTice basEd Cybersecurity Curriculum and Training (InviteCyber) Framework for Developing Next-gen Cyber-Aware Workforce. (Principal Investigator: Dr. Yang). $499,164
  
  
• National Science Foundation (#2021345 & #2021264). “Cybersecurity Modules Aligned with Undergraduate Computer Science and Engineering Curricula (CyberMUG). (Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Yang). $299,968
  
  
• National Science Foundation (#2129092 & #2129093) “Collaborative Research: FW-HTF-P: IntelEUI: Artificial Intelligence and Extended Reality to Enhance Workforce Productivity for the Energy and Utilities Industry”. (Principal Investigator: Dr. Yang). $149,707
  
  
• Constellation. E2 Energy to Educate Grant. “SuSTEMability”. (Principal Investigator: Dr. Balaji, Co-PIs: Drs. Drazan, Freudzon, Kongar). $50,000
  
  
• “Community Situated Biomechanics Lab” (Principal Investigator: Dr. Drazan). $50,000
  
  
• The Earl E. and Hildagunda A. Brinkman Foundation. “Composite TPMS Structures for Structural Applications”. (Principal Investigator: Dr. Sundarram) $25,000
  
  
• Engineering Information Foundation (EiF) grant. “Fundamentals of Engineering Course Redesign” (Principal Investigator: Dr. Belfadel, Co-PIs: Drs Kongar, Drazan, and Macwan). $24,686
  
  
• AuresTech Aerospace Inc. “UAV Swarm navigation in a GPS denied Environment’’ (Principal Investigator Dr. Belfadel). $10,000
  
  
• Aures Tech Aerospace Inc. “A Novel Network Synchronization and Precision, Navigation and Timing for Drones (NSPD) in GPS Denied and RF Contested Environments’’. (Principal Investigator Dr. Belfadel). $5,000.
  
  
• Connecticut Space Grant. “Expanding Access to Informal STEM Enrichment through Sports. (Principal Investigator: Dr. Drazan). $4,000
  
  
• Connecticut Space Grant. “Design of a Testbed for Soilless Root Vegetable Growth in Microgravity” (Principal Investigator: Dr. Carrano). $4,000
  
  
• Brookhaven National Laboratory. “Polymer/ Graphene Oxide Substrates for Applications in Bioengineering” (Principal Investigator: Dr. Macwan). In-kind grant for access to HRSEM, Bio/ Soft TEM and UV/Vis Spectrophotometer in the Center for Functional Nanomaterials.
  
  
• Connecticut Space Grant. “Developing a Human Blood Vessel using 3D Bioprinting and Cell Culturing techniques”. (Principal Investigator: Dr. Haghbin). $10,000

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Dr. Uma Balaji (Electrical and Biomedical Engineering)

• Evans, R. Avery, M. Malcy, M. Ruiz and U. Balaji, "Multipurpose Solar Charging Station," 2022 IEEE Long Island Systems, Applications and Technology Conference (LISAT), Old Westbury, NY, USA, 2022, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/LISAT50122.2022.9924029.
  
  
• Balaji, U., & Macwan, I. (2022), Embedding Environmental Ethics in Engineering CoursesPaper presented at ASEE-NE 2022, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Massachusetts. 

Dr. Danushka Bandara (Computer Science and Engineering)

• Bandara, D. (2022). Multi-class Task Classification Using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. In: Schmorrow, D.D., Fidopiastis, C.M. (eds) Augmented Cognition. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13310. Springer, Cham. 

Dr. Djedjiga Belfadel (Electrical and Biomedical Engineering)

• Belfadel, D., and I. Macwan. "Ballistic missile tracking in the presence of decoys using space base IR sensors." Signal Processing, Sensor/Information Fusion, and Target Recognition XXXI. Vol. 12122. SPIE, 2022.

• D. Belfadel, M. Macwan, E. Kongar, J. Drazan and M. Zabinksi: Term Design Project in Fundamentals of Engineering Course, ASEE: Annual Conference and Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, June 2022.

Dr. Andres Leonardo Carrano (Mechanical Engineering)

• Proano-Pena, G., Kardel, K., Blersch, D.M., Carrano, A.L. (2023). The effect of interstitial surface spacing on algal biomass accumulation, Algal Research, Vol 70, 102980, ISSN 2211-9264, doi: 10.1016/j.algal.2023.102980.

Dr. John Drazan (Electrical and Biomedical Engineering)

• D. Belfadel, M. Macwan, E. Kongar, J. Drazan and M. Zabinksi: Term Design Project in Fundamentals of Engineering Course, ASEE: Annual Conference and Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, June 2022.

• Amy K Loya, Phillip E Smith, Deva D Chan, David T Corr, Drazan. “Can biomechanics turn youth sports into a venue for informal STEM engagement?” In press. Journal of Biomechanics.

Dr. Elif Kongar (Management of Technology)

• D. Belfadel, M. Macwan, E. Kongar, J. Drazan and M. Zabinksi: Term Design Project in Fundamentals of Engineering Course, ASEE: Annual Conference and Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, June 2022.
  
  
• A. Williams, N. J. Sheikh, G. M. Duman and E. Kongar, "Critical Success Factors of Business Intelligence Systems Implementation," in IEEE Engineering Management Review, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 88-97, 1 Fourthquarter,Dec. 2022, doi: 10.1109/EMR.2022.3197096.
  
  
• Rosentrater KA, Palmade L, Kongar E. Editorial: Nutrition at the Crossroads: Food at the Intersection of Health, Environmental, Economic, and Social Sustainability-Volume II. Front Nutr. 2022 Apr 13;9:856720. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2022.856720. PMID: 35495924; PMCID: PMC9043689.

Dr. Douglas Lyon (Electrical and Biomedical Engineering)

• Lyon and Jason Rosales (2022) "Money Management and Option Strategies" International Journal of Research in Engineering and Science (IJRES), ISSN (Print):2320-9356, V10, N8, August 2022, pp.
  
  
• Lyon and Caroline Neilson, "ABET Assessment and the Capstone" International Journal of Engineering Inventions (IJEI), V11, N3, May-June 2022, pp. 589-593.

Dr. Isaac Macwan (Electrical and Biomedical Engineering)

• Singh, H. R. Divecha, A. Ayoola, M. Xavierselvan, J. Devlin, and I. Macwan, “Computational Investigation of Chirality-Based Separation of Carbon Nanotubes Using Tripeptide Library,” Biomol. 2023, Vol. 13, Page 175, vol. 13, no. 1, p. 175, Jan. 2023. 
  
  
• Zaznaev and I. Macwan, “Role of Graphene Oxide in Inhibiting the Interactions between Nucleoside Diphosphate Kinases -B and -C,” Micro 2023, Vol. 3, Pages 22-34, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 22–34, Dec. 2022. 
  
  
• Belfadel, J. Drazan, I. Macwan, E. Kongar, M. Zabinski, “Term Design Project in Fundamentals of Engineering Course,” 2022 ASEE Annual Conference. June 28, 2022.
  
  
• Balaji and I. Macwan, “Embedding environmental ethics in Engineering,” ASEE Northeast section conference. Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA. April 22nd – 23rd. 
  
  
• Belfadel and I. Macwan, “Ballistic missile tracking in the presence of decoys using space base IR sensors,” vol. 12122, pp. 70–77, Jun. 2022.

Dr. Sriharsha Sundarram (Mechanical Engineering)

• McAllister, M. Thajudeen, S. Phelan, and S. S. Sundarram, “Dual Pore Network Polylactic Acid Scaffold for Growth of MCF7 Breast Cancer Cells,” Advanced Engineering Materials, September 2022 (24(9), 2200122).
  
  
• S. Sundarram, N. Ibekwe, S. Prado, C. Rotonto, and S. Feeney, “Microwave Foaming of Carbon Dioxide Saturated Poly Lactic Acid,” Polymer Engineering and Science, March 2022 (62(3), 929 – 938)
  
  
• Maciej Lewicki and S. Sundarram, “Micro Bioreactor Array for Bio-Artificial Organ Development”, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE) 2022, Columbus, OH, November 2022. (Presentation and Poster) [Maciej attended the conference using his Corrigan Scholarship Funds]
  
  
• Dylan Weber and S. Sundarram, “3D Printed and Foamed Triply Periodic Minimal Surface Lattice Structures for Energy Absorption”, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE) 2022, Columbus, OH, November 2022.

Dr. Xiaoli (Lucy) Yang (Computer Science and Engineering)

• Jeevan S Devagiri, Sidike Paheding, Quamar Niyaz, Yang, and Samantha Smith, “Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence in Industry: Trends, Tools, and Future Challenges,”, Expert Systems with Applications (ESWA), vol. 207, 2022, 118002, ISSN 0957-4174.
  
  
• Mohammad Faridul Haque Siddiqui, Parashar Dhakal, X. Yang, and Ahmad Y Javaid, "A Survey on Databases for Multi-modal Emotion Recognition and An Introduction to the VIRI (Visible and InfraRed Image) Database," Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, vol. 6, issue 6, no. 47, 2022. doi: 10.3390/mti6060047.
  
  
• John Estrada, Sidike Paheding, Yang, and Quamar Niyaz, “Deep-Learning-Incorporated Augmented Reality Application for Engineering Lab Training,” Applied Sciences, Volume 12, Number 10, Article-Number 5159, 2022.
  
  
• Feng Tian, Minlei Hua, Wenrui Zhang, Yingjie Li, Yang, “Emotional arousal in 2D versus 3D virtual reality environments,” PLoS One. 2021 Sep 9;16(9): e0256211. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256211. PMID: 34499667; PMCID: PMC8428725.
  
  
• Xinrun Zhang, Akshay Mathur, Lei Zhao, Safia Rahmat, Quamar Niyaz, Ahmad Javaid, and Yang, "An Early Detection of Android Malware Using System Calls based Machine Learning Model," In 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2022), Aug 23-26, 2022, Vienna, Austria.
  
  
• Abel A. Reyes Angulo, X. Yang, Quamar Niyaz, Sidike Paheding, and Ahmad Y Javaid, "A Secure Software Engineering Design Framework for Educational Purpose," 2022 IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (EIT), May 19 – 21, 2022.
  
  
• Kenneth Andrew Guernsey, Jacob Matthew Tietz, Quamar Niyaz, Yang, Ahmad Javaid, and Sidike Paheding, “Enabling Secure Programming in C++ & Java through Practice-Oriented Modules,” 2022 ASEE 129th Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, June 26-29, 2022.
  
  
• Jansen Tan, Divya Ravindra, Quamar Niyaz, Yang, Sidike Paheding, and Ahmad Y Javaid, “Mini-projects based Cybersecurity Modules for an Operating System Course using xv6,” 2022 ASEE 129th Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, June 26-29, 2022.
  
  
• Jyothirmai Kothakapu, Ahmad Y Javaid, Quamar Niyaz, Yang, Sidike Paheding, and Charlene Czerniak, "Introducing Cybersecurity in a Discrete Structures Course Through a Visualization-based Plug-and-Play Cryptography Module," at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, June 26-29, 2022.

Dr. Naser Haghbin (Mechanical Engineering)

• Naser Haghbin, Behrouz Oveisi, Amir Parsa Banitaba (2022). "Automated Variable Power Cold Microwave Tissue Processing: A Novel Universal Tissue Processing Protocol Without Using Formaldehyde and Xylene." Acta Histochemica. Volume 124, Issue 4. ISSN 0065-1281. Doi: 10.1016/j.acthis.2022.151880.

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