Recent Research Contracts Funded

• Collaborative Research: Advancing the Dissemination of the Creative Art of Structure 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2018 $127,167.
• Collaborative Research: Advancing reliability with application to light framed structures. 8/1/2013 - 7/31/2016, $70,887.
• Risk and decision making for hurricane threat to off shore wind farms.  PI with Meyers, Hajjar, and  Hines.  1/1/2014 - 12/31/2014, $68,495.
• Collaborative Research: Reliability based hurricane risk assessment for offshore wind farms.  7/1/2014 – 6/30/2015, $179,949.
• Collaborative Research: New Strategies for Structural Resilience using Foamed Steel. PI with Schafer and  Hajjar.  7/1/2010 – 9/30/2013, $158,025.
• IGERT: Offshore Wind Energy Engineering, Environmental Science, and Policy. (Approximately $2 million, one of approximately 20 senior personnel, ED Baker PI). NSF, 2011-2016.
• Reconfiguring steel structures: energy dissipation and buckling mitigation through the use of steel foams. National Science Foundation.
• Modeling the design limit states of structural composite lumber. ($300,000, co-PI with P.L. Clouston) National Science Foundation, 2009-2011.
• Preliminary experiments on the structural application of metal foams. ($30,000, PI) University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Faculty Research Grant, 2008-2009.
• Adaptive use of historic truss bridges for civil engineering instruction. ($149,779, PI with A.J. Lutenegger) National Science Foundation, 2008-2010.
• A framework for microstructural design using Bayesian classifiers. ($287,000 PI, with T. Igusa Co-PI) National Science Foundation. Completed, 2004-2007.
• An engineer’s guide to Baltimore. ($6,000, co-PI with R. Sangree, graduate student) Johns Hopkins Center for Educational Resources, 2004-2005.
• Network modelling of polycrystals. ($3,000, co-PI with undergraduate researcher) Johns Hopkins University Office of the Provost, Provost’s Undergraduate Research Awards, March, 2003.  Supported 2003-2004.
• Interactive case studies: Evolution of structures. ($6,000, co-PI with R. Sangree, graduate student) Johns Hopkins Center for Educational Resources, 2003-2004.