Funded Projects: Oregon State University ($8.32M of $39.1M)

1. As PI: “Metal Powder Carbon Footprinting,” Continuum Powders, $19,537 (gift), 10/01/2024-12/31/2024.

2. As PI: “Industry Screening for Industrial Symbiosis,” Columbia Corridor Association, $20,000 (gift), 07/01/2024-12/31/2024.

3. As co-PI: “OMI Project: Sustainable Cleaning Processes of Dairy Equipment,” (PI: L. Goddik, co-PIs: Z. Fan), $100,000 (Oregon Dairy and Nutrition Council, $50,000; Oregon Metals Initiative, $50,000), 09/01/2024-08/31/2025.

4. As co-PI: “OMI Project: Smart Manufacturing in Dairy Processing,” (PI: L. Goddik, co-PIs: Z. Fan, J. Parmigiani), $407,607 (Tillamook County Creamery Association, $289,578; Oregon Metals Initiative, $118,029), 07/01/2024-6/30/2025.

5. As co-PI: “Hemp-based Fiber Materials, Technology, and Commerce as Drivers for Northwest American Indian Tribal Economic Development,” $10M, (OSU PI: J. Steiner; OSU Co-PIs: S. Baluch, Q. Clark, P.-H. Hsieh, G. Jones, W. Rochefort, C. Seavert, J. Simonsen, A. Sinkey, K. Vining, Z. Wu), National Institute of Food and Agriculture, 03/01/2024-02/28/2029.

6. As PI: “Supporting Development of Onsite Energy in Northwest Industries and Communities,” Washington State University (U.S. Department of Energy subaward), $180,000, 1/1/2024-12/31/2026.

7. As co-PI: “Collaborative Research: DESC: Type I: Software-Hardware Recycling and Repair Database Infrastructure (SHReDI) for Sustainable Computing,” National Science Foundation, $350,000 (OSU PI: A. Natarajan; Partner: S. Behdad-U. Florida), 10/01/2023-09/30/2026.

8. As PI: “Oregon State University Industrial Assessment Center,” U.S. Department of Energy, $2,250,000, 10/01/2021-9/30/2026.

9. As co-PI: “Sustainably Incorporating a Hemp Biobased Economy into Western U.S. Regional Rural and Tribal Lands,” U.S. Department of Agriculture, $424,792 of $10M (OSU PI: J. Steiner, OSU co-PIs: J. Antle, M. Bionaz, J. Chen, P.-H. Hsieh, P. Hughes, G. Jones, J. Leong, J. Noller, J. Reimer, R. Roseberg, C. Seavert, J. Simonsen, A. Sinkey, R. van Breemen, Z. Wu, R. Zemetra; UC Davis co-PIs: E.C. Brummer, D. Putnam; UN Reno co-PIs: S. Emm, M. Walia; WSU co-PIs: D. Gang, N. Rayapati; 7 Generations; Industrial Hemp Association of Washington), 10/01/2021-09/30/2026.

10. As co-PI: “OMI Project: Enhanced Automation for Food and Beverage Manufacturing Equipment,” (PI: L. Goddik, co-PIs: Z. Fan, J. Parmigiani), $540,000 (Tillamook County Creamery Association, $270,000; Oregon Metals Initiative, $270,000), 6/16/2023-6/30/2025.

11. As co-PI: “An Open Product Marketplace Orchestrator for Rapid-Response across (Rx) Health and Medical Supply and Demand Chains (Rx Product Marketplace Orchestrator),” US Department of Commerce (via Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute LLC), $1,192,149 (of $3,880,343), (MxD PI: F. Sciammarella; WSU co-PIs: K.Y. Kim; ISU co-PI: G. Kremer), 3/01/2022-6/30/2025.

12. As PI: “ECR: PEER: Modular Educational Certification for Advancing Training Online through Industry Collaborations (MECHATRONIC),” National Science Foundation, (OSU co-PIs: Z. Fan, B. Sencer, C. Sanchez; CCC co-PI: M. Mattson), $1,844,172, 1/1/2020-12/31/2025.

13. As PI: “CESMII Project Management for Budget Period 5,” University of California-Los Angeles (DOE/CESMII), $65,000 (plus $65,000 cost share), (co-PI: Z. Fan), 02/01/2022-05/31/2024.

14. As PI: “DOE Northwest Combined Heat and Power Technical Assistance Partnership (NW CHP TAP),” Washington State University, $35,347, (Former PI: B. Fronk), 11/01/2020-12/31/2023.

15. As PI: “Participant Support: 2023 Co-located International Advanced Manufacturing Conference (NAMRC/MSEC/LEM&P); New Brunswick, New Jersey; 12-16 June 2023,” National Science Foundation, $49,600, 10/01/2022-9/30/2023.

16. As PI: “IAC Resilience Planning Tool,” Pacific Northwest National Lab, $5000, submitted March 2023, 04/01/2023-08/31/2023.

17. As co-PI: “Smart Cutting Tool,” OMIC R&D, $100,000 (PI: Z. Fan, co-PI: B. Sencer), 07/01/2022-06/30/2023. 

18. As co-PI: “Investigation of Energy Efficient Drying Practices in the Pacific Northwest Hop Industry,” Agricultural Research Foundation (PI: B. Fronk, co-PI: T. Shellhammer), $15,000, 02/02/2021-01/31/2023.

19. As PI: “Reduction of Energy Consumption in Brewing Hop Drying Using Smart Manufacturing,” UCLA/CESMII, (former PI: B. Fronk; co-PI: T. Shellhammer; Partner: Ectron), $100,000 (plus $100,000 cost share), 06/15/2021-01/31/2023.

20. As PI: “Industrial Walk Through Checklist and Reference,” Bonneville Power Administration, $74,500, (Former PIs: B. Fronk, J. Junker), 03/08/2021-09/30/2022.

21. As PI: “Real Time Efficiency Monitoring at Columbia Boulevard Wastewater Treatment Plant (CBWTP),” City of Portland, $23,047, (Former PI: B. Fronk), 7/01/2021-06/30/2022.

22. As PI: “CESMII Project Management for Budget Period 4,” University of California-Los Angeles (DOE/CESMII), $50,000 (plus $50,000 cost share), (co-PI: J.D. Porter), 02/01/2021-01/31/2022.

23. As PI: “Oregon State University Industrial Assessment Center,” (Former PI: J. Junker, co-PI: B. Fronk), U.S. Department of Energy, $1,968,750, 10/1/2016-12/31/2021.

24. As co-PI: “Modeling the Total Cost of Ownership for Scaling‐Up via Modular Chemical Process Intensification,” American Institute of Chemical Engineers (DOE RAPID), $225,000 (plus $117,000 cost share), (PI: B. Paul), 01/01/2019-12/31/2021.

25. As PI: “Manufacturing Resourcing Model,” (co-PI: J.D. Porter), Lam Research Corp., $30,000, 02/01/2021-06/30/2021.

26. As PI: “CESMII WRMC Northern US Satellite Activities: Industry Workshop (Budget Period 3),” University of California-Los Angeles (DOE/CESMII), $50,000 (plus $50,000 cost share), (co-PI: J.D. Porter), 02/01/2020-01/31/2021.

27. As co-PI: “OMI Project: Green Gear Lubrication Study and Test Execution, Phase 2,” (PI: J. Parmigiani, co-PI: B. Isgor), $179,192 (Boeing, $89,596; Oregon Metals Initiative, $89,596), 01/06/2020-01/31/2021.

28. As PI: “CESMII WRMC Northern US Satellite Activities: Industry Workshop (Budget Period 2,” University of California-Los Angeles (DOE/CESMII), $38,000 (plus $38,000 cost share), (co-PI: J.D. Porter), 12/15/2018-01/31/2020.

29. As co-PI: “OMI Project: RX-Wing Aircraft Lubrication Evaluation,” (PI: J. Parmigiani, co-PI: B. Isgor), $110,000 (Boeing, $55,000; Oregon Metals Initiative, $55,000), 06/15/2019-12/31/2019.

30. As PI: “NIST-ASTM-NSF-ASME Workshop on Challenges in Representing Manufacturing Processes for Systemic Sustainability Assessments,” National Science Foundation, $39,056, 4/1/2018-12/31/2019. 

31. As PI: NSF INTERN Supplement to “Collaborative Research: Constructionism in Learning: Sustainable Life Cycle Engineering (CooL:SLiCE),” National Science Foundation, $44,018, 4/1/2018-8/31/2019. 

32. As PI: “Collaborative Research: Constructionism in Learning: Sustainable Life Cycle Engineering (CooL:SLiCE),” National Science Foundation (Lead PI: K.Y. Kim, Wayne State; Collaborating PI: K. Jackson, Penn State), $736,579 (OSU: $245,690), 9/1/2014-8/31/2019.

33. As PI: “Cost and Environmental Impact Analysis for 3D Printing of Complex Metal Parts,” OSU/HP Inc. Seed Grant, $20,000 (co-PI: B. Paul; HP PI: T. Etheridge), 01/01-06/30/2019.

34. As PI: “Information Model Composability and Extendibility to Support Automated Sustainable Manufacturing System Assessment,” National Institute of Standards and Technology, $160,070, 9/1/2016-6/30/2019.

35. As PI: “OMI Project: A Rapid Design and Manufacturing Analysis Tool for Production using the Blank Factory Concept (Phase 4),” (co-PIs: M. Campbell, D. Kim), $195,071 (Boeing, $97,536; Oregon Metals Initiative, $97,536), 9/16/2017-12/31/2018.

36. As co-PI: “Thermal Performance Evaluation of a Solar/Gas Hybrid Water Heating System,” (with co-PI: B. Fronk and M.S. student S. Karki), U.S. Department of Energy, $25,000 (Special Project under the Industrial Assessment Center program), 9/16/2017-6/30/2018.

37. As co-PI: “Construction of Efficient, Cost-Effective and Sustainable Maintenance Facilities,” Oregon Department of Transportation, (PI: J. Ideker), $145,000, 10/26/2015-3/31/2018.

38. As co-PI: “Acquisition of FORMLABS FORM2 Stereolithography 3D Printer,” (PI: S. Pasebani, co-PIs: B. Jensen, B. Bay), OSU School of MIME Strategic Excellence Initiative, $7,000, Fall 2017.

39. As PI: “OMI Project: A Rapid Design and Manufacturing Analysis Tool for Production using the Blank Factory Concept (Phase 3),” (co-PIs: M. Campbell, D. Kim), $196,356 (Boeing, $98,178; Oregon Metals Initiative, $98,178), 8/1/2016-8/11/2017.

40. As PI: “A Standard Framework for Composable Information Flow Modeling to Characterize the Sustainability of Product Manufacturing,” National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), $174,995, 1/1/2015-6/30/2017.

41. As co-PI: “Smart Grinding Testbed for Clean Energy Manufacturing,” (PI: Z. Fan, co-PIs: J.D. Porter, B. Sencer), OSU School of MIME Strategic Excellence Initiative, $5,000, Winter 2017.

42. As co-PI: “SolarBag® Plus: High Performance Photocatalyst for Purifying Drinking Water,” Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute, (PI: T. Radnieki, co-PI: H. McKenna, Puralytics), $238,104, 01/01/2016-12/31/2016.

43. As co-PI: “Metal 3D Printer,” (PI: S. Pasebani, co-PIs: Z. Fan, R. Malhotra), OSU School of MIME Strategic Excellence Initiative, $10,000, Fall 2016.

44. As PI: “Assessing the Learning Gains of Manufacturing Students in an Integrated Hands-On Curriculum,” Wayne State University (National Science Foundation subawardee), $16,388 (2 yrs.), 09/01/2014-06/31/2016.

45. As co-PI: “Transforming Engineering Culture to Advance Inclusion and Diversity (TECAID) Program for U.S. Mechanical Engineering Departments,” Purdue University (NSF subaward), (PI: K. Sharp, co-PIs: B. Gibbons, E. Momsen, R. Stone), $16,000, 3/1/2015-8/31/2016.

46. As PI: “OMI Project: Achieving Rapid Configuration Generation and Cost-Competitive Production using the Blank Factory Concept,” (co-PI: M. Campbell, co-PI: D. Kim), $185,370 (The Boeing Company, $92,685, Oregon Metals Initiative, $92,685), 8/1/2015-7/31/2016.

47. As PI: “Analysis Tool and Guide for Energy Modeling of Additive Manufacturing,” U.S. Department of Energy (IAC Funding to Support Research for Junior Faculty), $60,000, 7/1/2015-6/30/2016.

48. As PI: “An Educational Module for Sustainable Additive Manufacturing,” CACHE Corp. (via NSF-funded Sustainable Manufacturing Advances in Research and Technology (SMART) Coordination Network), $4,000, 01/01/2016-6/30/2016.

49. As co-PI: “OMI Project: Experimental Investigation of Sustainable Electric-Hot-Grinding,” (PI: R. Malhotra), $194,200 (Benchmade Knife Co., $23,205; Blount International, $73,894; Oregon Metals Initiative, $97,100), 10/1/2014-1/15/2016.

50. As PI: “Development and Delivery of Training for Sustainable Engineering in the Energy Sector,” Portland General Electric, (co-PI: J. Calvo), $12,789 (gift), 01/01-12/31/2015.

51. As PI: “OMI Project: Defining a Path toward the Blank Factory Concept,” (co-PI: M. Campbell, co-PI: D. Kim), $126,316 (The Boeing Company, $63,158, Oregon Metals Initiative, $63,158), 10/1/2014-6/30/2015.

52. As co-PI: “OMI Project: Development and Implementation of a Level Pull System,” (PI: J. Calvo), $12,379 (Sheldon Manufacturing Inc., $6,190, Oregon Metals Initiative, $6,190), 10/1/2014-3/31/2015.

53. As Senior Person: “I/UCRC: IT-Enabled Design and Realization of Engineered Products and Systems,” (PI: R. Stone, co-PI: I. Tumer), National Science Foundation, $60,000 (1 yr.), awarded April 2014.

54. As PI: “Exploring Sustainable Process Capability Windows for a New Electrically-Assisted-Machining (EAM) Process,” (co-PI: R. Malhotra), OSU General Research Fund, $9,660, submitted October 15, 2013, awarded November 21, 2013.

55. As PI: “Standard Methods for Sustainable Assembly in Aerospace Manufacturing,” National Institute of Standards and Technology, $50,000, submitted February 26, 2013, awarded September 2013, 2/1/2013-12/31/2013.

56. As co-PI: “OMI Project: Using Process and System Modeling to Understand Manufacturing Costs, Part 1,” (PI: J. Calvo), $24,000 (Sheldon Manufacturing Inc., $12,000, Oregon Metals Initiative, $12,000), awarded July 2013, 10/01/2013-06/31/2014.

57. As PI: “OMI Project: A Sustainability Assessment Method and Tool for Metal Aircraft Component Manufacturing and Assembly (Phase 3),” $100,000 (The Boeing Company, $50,000, Oregon Metals Initiative, $50,000), awarded July 2013, 10/01/2013-06/31/2014.

58. As PI: “Toxicological Performance of Metalworking Nanofluids,” $4,000 (gift), Master Chemical Corp., received April 2013.

59. As Senior Person: “Planning Grant: I/UCRC for e-Design: IT Enabled Design and Realization of Engineered Products and Systems,” (PI: I. Tumer, co-PI: R. Stone), National Science Foundation, $14,380 (1 yr.), awarded March 2013.

60. As PI: “Redox Flow Battery Cost Model Development (Phase 1),” (co-PI, B.K. Paul), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, $59,871, 2/5/2013-09/30/2013.

61. As co-PI: “IT Aire / Gresham City Hall Data Room Cooling Project,” (PI: J. Junker), Oregon BEST Commercialization Grant, $101,040 (1 yr.), awarded February 2013.

62. As co-PI: “Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI) on Manufacturing Innovation through Sustainable Design,” (Dr. R. Chinnam, PI Wayne State; Drs. G. Okuden Kremer and I. Esparragoza, co-PIs Penn State), National Science Foundation, $99,990, 1/2013-8/2013.

63. As PI: “OMI Project: Development of a Sustainability Assessment Method and Tool for Metal Aircraft Components Manufacturing and Assembly (Phase 2),” The Boeing Company and Oregon Metals Initiative, $92,646 (OMI: $41,715; Boeing: $50,931, 07/2012-06/2013.

64. As PI: “Non-Destructive Testing of Wood Products,” $400 (gift), Coyle Treepieces, October 2012.

65. As PI: “Sustainable Product Development Collaboratory,” Oregon State University International Programs Faculty Grant, $2,018, submitted December, 2011, awarded January 25, 2012.

66. As Key Personnel: “Oregon State University Industrial Assessment Center (OSU IAC),” (PI: G. Wheeler; co-PI: J. Junker; Key Personnel: J. Zaworski, R. Feuerbacher, K. Poppa), Oregon BEST, $35,000 (Haapala: $35,000), matching funds for graduate student support on U.S. DOE project, awarded September 2011.

67. As Key Personnel: “Oregon State University Industrial Assessment Center (OSU IAC),” (PI: G. Wheeler; co-PI: J. Junker; Key Personnel: J. Zaworski, R. Feuerbacher, K. Poppa), U.S. Department of Energy, $1,751,959 (Haapala: $250,000), 5 years, submitted August 2, 2011, awarded September 2011.

68. As PI: “Life Cycle Analysis: Sustainable Manufacturing and Supply Chains (BA/IE 5xx/4xx),” Oregon State University COB/COE Seed Grant, $10,000 (Haapala: $5,000), 5/2011-12/2013.

69. As PI: “CI-TEAM Demonstration Project: Collaborative Research: A Sustainable Product Development Collaboratory,” (Dr. K.-Y. Kim, et al. Wayne State (lead) and Dr. G.E. Okuden Kremer, Penn State), National Science Foundation, OSU: $64,940 (2 yrs., of a total of $250,000 to three universities), 10/2010-9/2012.

70. As Senior Personnel: “Task 2.1: Identification of Alternative Manufacturing Strategies” in “FY 2010 Tactical Energy Systems Development,” (Dr. R. Peterson, PI and Dr. B. K. Paul, co-PI), U.S. Army CERDEC, $1,079,659 (Haapala: $61,495 of Task 2: $313,372), 10/2010-3/2012.

71. As PI: “OMI Project: Development of a Sustainability Assessment Method for Fabrication of Metal Aircraft Components,” The Boeing Company and Oregon Metals Initiative, $102,000, 10/2010-9/2011.

72. As PI: “Manufacturing Engineering Educational Laboratory: Automated Manufacturing System Upgrade,” OSU Technology Resource Fee (TRF), $3,800, 9/2010-8/2011.

73. As PI: “Development of a Unit Process Life Cycle Inventory,” Wichita State University (U.S. DOE subaward), $8,031, 12/2010-6/2011.

74. As PI: “OMI Project: Development and Application of a Metal Cutting Tool Selection Procedure,” (Dr. D. Kim, co-PI), Benchmade Knife Company and Oregon Metals Initiative, $30,000 (Haapala: $15,000), 10/2010-6/2011.

75. As PI: “OMI Project: Development of a Knife Testing Device,” Benchmade Knife Company and Oregon Metals Initiative, $20,000, 10/2010-6/2011.

Funded Projects: Michigan Technological University

1. As co-PI: “Environmental Performance of Manufacturing Operations,” Dr. J. W. Sutherland (PI, MTU), Caterpillar Inc., $141,311 (Haapala: $117,730), 4 years, submitted October 2005, awarded November 2005.