PiezoBiosensor for Detecting Complex Environmental and Chemical Agents  This technology is an apparatus with multiple piezoelectric mass sensors for use in immunochemical detection of diagnostically relevant analytes. The detection is in real time, and each piezoelectric mass sensor comprises a piezoelectric crystal with a receptor surface containing recombinant antibodies that are specific for a particular antigen. The technology measures the binding of antigens to the recombinant antibodies by tracking a change in mass on the receptor surface which is detected as a change in resonant frequency. This technology emerged from a research program oriented toward developing piezobiosensors and electrochemical sensors for detection in complex environmental and clinical samples. The research program is focused on combining the excellent sensitivity of electrochemical and mass sensing with the superb selectivity of biological recognition processes (e.g., protein-protein interactions, DNA-protein interactions, carbohydrate-protein interactions). |
Fastening and Joining Research Institute The objective of this institute is to enhance the reliability and safety of metallic, composite and polymeric joints by advancing the science and technology of mechanical fastening, adhesive bonding, welding and riveting. The institute is a one-of-a-kind facility that pursues fundamental and applied research to develop and disseminate new technologies for the fastening and joining of metals, composites and polymers. The Institute develops and disseminates novel advanced technologies in the areas of automated assembly of bolted joints, adhesive bonding of composites, resistance welding and riveting, a niche area that significantly impacts the safety and reliability of many products. |
Textile-Related Technology for Use in Ballistic Resistant Vests  This technology incorporates a new method and process for making ballistic resistant protective gear such as bullet proof vests. A vest of this design is relatively comfortable and maximizes the protective and degradation properties of the material. The protective properties derive from the development of a composite fabric containing Kevlar that reduces bulk density. It is designed to withstand low to high levels of piercing and is anticipated to be rated as high as a type IV (with a steel plate insert) on the National Institutes of Justice rating scale: protection against .30 caliber armor piercing (AP) bullets (U.S. Military designation M2 AP), with nominal masses of 10.8 g (166 gr) impacting at a maximum velocity of 869 m/s (2850 ft/s) or less. |
Chaotic run time encryption system  Chaotic Run Time Encryptor uses discrete chaotic maps and/or simulated chaotic ODE systems to create a cipher text from any given plaintext using a simple process. Even when the plain text for a given cipher text is known the encryption keys are not compromised.
Compared to other encryption methods, the Chaos encryption system has a higher memory footprint with much higher key space, allowing for many different people to use the system without ever using the same key. It would be extremely difficult for anyone to use a brute force attack against the encryption algorithm. The system experiences run speeds faster than the most popular encryption system in use today – RSA. |
Dynamic Indentation Hardness Tester The hardness of materials typically change under events of rapid deformation and the hardness under these conditions has become known as dynamic hardness. Measurement of dynamic hardness of materials is important in applications such as vehicle crashworthiness and other areas where materials are undergoing rapid deformation. This technology allows for the measurement of dynamic hardness with a relatively simple and inexpensive device. Michigan Tech is seeking to license this technology to individual end-users of the device as well as analytical equipment manufacturers who would license the technology to manufacture and sell the device to end-users, as well as. Exclusive licensing rights are available. |
Regeneration of granular activated carbon and synthetic adsorbents using photocatalytic oxidation The present invention is a method of purifying fluid having organic material. The method comprises two operational steps. The first step includes passing the fluid through an adsorbent such that the organic material is substantially adsorbed by the adsorbent and the fluid is substantially purified. The second step includes destroying the adsorbed organic material on the adsorbent and regenerating the adsorbent in a form substantially free of adsorbed organic material. |
Fuel Cell Group This group is a multi-disciplined team focused on fuel cell heat recovery and fuel cell conversion efficiency improvement. These thrust areas are linked to a set of topics within which the group possesses expertise including heat recovery, initial start issues of high temperature fuel cells, high thermal and/or electrical conductivity materials, energy density, weight, and space related issues, high temperature membranes. low cost high energy cathode/anode, hydrogen generation, storage, transportation, and safety, fuel reforming, low CO emission, long life high power density battery development and hybrid battery. |
MEMS Center in Wireless Integrated Microsystems A multi-university National Engineering Research Center in Wireless Integrated Microsystems funded by the National Science Foundation gives MTU a strong base for microtechnology research. Among its first projects, the center will design a next generation cochlear implant for which MTU will design and build a |
Pedestrian Detection System This is a novel approach to vehicle warning systems. The system is “active” in the sense that it relies on the external objects to be avoided to communicate their presence to the vehicle on their own. In this approach, the external objects inform the car of their presence without the car having to directly search for them. The means by which this is accomplished in by a wireless signal that presumably each pedestrian would be giving out from their cellular phones. The car’s detection system would assume that wherever a cellular signal is present, so is a pedestrian. Additional objects that a driver would also want to avoid (such as a bridge), could be given the ability to also send a cellular signal to the car. |
Embedded systems and Artificial Intelligence Derived Biosensor Devices This is application-driven research focused on the use of artificial intelligence and embedded systems in biosensors and imaging devices. One of the technologies that is being developed involves a device that traps and kills HIV infected cells. The device conceivably would be implanted into the lymph system and proactively recruit infected cells. Additionally, research is focused on a sensor to map the progression of brain cancer using 3-D mathematical modeling and an embedded systems approach. While these are early stage technologies, the architecture that enables functionality of the sensors involves the generation of a circuit without using a microprocessor. The research has yielded a way to use JAVA to create the circuit. This concept could have the potential to be used in a number of different applications, including wide use in the biosensor field. |
Location and Tracking Technology Development and Testing Service This is one of the few laboratories across the country that specializes in antenna location and tracking systems. Efforts are focused on developing and promoting a location technology development and research Center of Excellence. The Center will offer a research service component to advance the development and design of new products in the location and tracking space. In addition, the Center would become one of only ten facilities in the world to provide antenna testing facilities aimed at the automotive market. The program is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. |
Control System Design and Nonlinear Models An emerging area of research is the utilization of interspacecraft Coulomb forces for both position and attitude control. This has applications from spacecraft formation flying to active “virtual” structures that are highly reconfigurable and robust to individual spacecraft failure. Spacecraft force coupling and the nonlinear electrostatic force behavior provide a variety of interesting technical challenges from nonlinear control to optimal formation design. Similar research topic areas such as, nonlinear control, system simulation, nonlinear system parameter identification and optimization, are present in most of his ongoing projects. Examples include active control of diesel engine aftertreatment systems, at-sea ship crane control, and hydraulic system parameter identification. Another research area is focused on increasing robot-based, flexible material throughput for manufacturing
applications. The system dynamics of the part are exploited, in conjunction with vision-based trajectory optimization, to minimize maneuver time. |
Statistical Modeling and Inference for Computational Imaging and Signal Analysis This is an extensive research program exploring the application of statistical modeling and inference to problems in computational imaging and signal analysis. Formative work was conducted in the area of multi-frame blind deconvolution with physical system-constraints. More recently, the program has been oriented toward system design and analysis for computational sensing and imaging; image restoration and synthesis with system uncertainties; active imaging with sparse arrays; multi-spectral mine detection; and image recovery from intensity measurements. The work has cross-cutting application including aeronautical and aerospace engineering. |
Robotics and Embedded Systems Laboratory The robotics and embedded systems laboratory conducts research on large scale networked system of distributed robotics and sensors, body sensor networks and sensor network applications in intelligent transportation systems. Current lines of inquiry include scalable coordination for hybrid sensor/actuator networks, multi-robot and sensor coordination, body sensor networks, sensor network localization using mobile robots, mobile sensor navigation in hybrid sensor networks, and real-time protocols for sensor networks. |
GIS Software Development for Optimization of Web Map Services  This work is focused on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology that enables the research team to collate and analyze information from diverse data sets very rapidly. This GIS integrating technology draws upon and extends existing techniques. Other areas of interest include Cartography, GeoComputation, and Economic Geography. |
Electronic structure and transport properties of thermoelectric materials This work is focused on computational condensed matter physics and materials science, in particular the electronic structure problem in semiconductors and complex materials. Computers are used as powerful microscopes to investigate the quantum properties that technology exploits to build new solid state devices. Solar cells, lasers and IR-detectors use semiconductor materials that are created ad hoc to optimize functions like light emission and detection. The research is aimed at optimizing the interesting properties of these materials by performing both semi-empirical and first principles calculations. |
Language and Location: A Map Annotation Project Unlike objects such as vases or pieces of jewelry, languages move primarily when a group of people speaking them migrates and settles in a new area. Thus, information about language boundaries and language relationships can provide critical insights into the migrations, interactions, cultures, and genetics of populations. However, such insights can only be realized in a system that melds language information with information from the physical and social sciences. The most effective way to do this is through a Geographical Information System (GIS), which can flexibly organize a wide range of heterogeneous data, presenting the assembled information according to the topography of geographical regions. This allows language data to be integrated with geographical, political, demographic, zoological, botanical and archaeological data in ways which are immediately visually interpretable.
The LL-MAP project will build a database of linguistic information which is integrated into such a geographically-based system and is made freely available through Internet-based tools. These will allow users to generate customized maps showing the relationships between language and diverse kinds of non-linguistic data. They will also allow researchers to add annotations to map-oriented data, and to discuss the relationships the system manifests. In this way LL-MAP will encourage collaboration between linguists, historians, archaeologists, ethnographers and geneticists, as they explore the relationships between language and cultural adaptation and change. The integrated data approach embodied in LL-MAP will thus promote innovative research methods, and these in turn may lead to new insights into the prehistoric relationships among human populations. |
Automotive Antenna Measurement Instrumentation This project creates a near-field antenna measurement system, for use in research and education on automobile antennas. The system will be a spherical near-field antenna measurement system capable of measuring on-vehicle antenna performance in the frequency range 800 MHz to 6 GHz for a variety of vehicle platforms. Major components include: (1) positioning and control equipment, which controls the motion of the vehicle platform; (2) signal source and receiver component, which generates the radio frequency test signal and measures the coupling between the desired source antenna and the antenna under test; and (3) the data collection and processing component. The research will involve vehicle-level measurement techniques, development of mathematical models for on-vehicle antennas and vehicle-integrated antenna designs. This equipment allows Oakland to contribute to the growing field of automotive telematics, which has relevance to safety (e.g. broadcasting location and occurrence of events like collisions and airbag deployment), to security operations (e.g. track or disable stolen vehicles), and to convenience (e.g., concierge services, navigation assistance, etc.). Industrial collaborations and support will be major aspects of this project. The equipment will also be used heavily in undergraduate education, in student training, and in outreach to minorities in the Pontiac, Michigan and Detroit, Michigan public schools. |
CyberSecurity Capacity Building This project is disseminating results and providing support materials for The Information Assurance and Security (IAS) Education project. The IAS, initially developed in the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Management, Marketing, and Finance at North Dakota State University (NDSU), helps achieve Academic Excellence in Information Assurance and Security Education. The IAS is built upon close collaborations with consultants and partnerships from academia, industry and government. Project tasks include:
1. Training our faculty through the Center of Academic Excellence in Information
Assurance Education at Iowa State University, in which faculty members develop and deliver information assurance security modules able to be readily included in core courses in IAS.
2. Developing new courses and revising existing ones by integrating IAS modules into selected courses. The federal training documents provided by the Committee on
National Security Systems (CNSS) will be consulted.
3. Tailoring student capstone and course projects to IAS.
4. Establishing partnerships between disciplines and departments, among the U.S. academic institutions, industry and government, for developing specific projects and involving their personnel in teaching.
5. Developing the career interest of junior high school girls in IAS by organizing a workshop session. |
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