Sponsored by the Huntsville Advanced Defense Technology Cluster Initiative (HADTCI)STTRsummit.vcsi.org | University of Mississippi 1
Sponsored by the Huntsville Advanced Defense Technology Cluster Initiative (HADTCI)STTRsummit.vcsi.org | History Founded in 1848 as the first state university in Mississippi. Engineering was taught in 1848, one of the first in the nation. 2 School of Engineering was established in 1900, as the first Engineering School in Mississippi
Sponsored by the Huntsville Advanced Defense Technology Cluster Initiative (HADTCI)STTRsummit.vcsi.org | OleMiss Engineering 3 Celebrating 110 th Anniversary: Manufacturing Leaders Since 1900
Sponsored by the Huntsville Advanced Defense Technology Cluster Initiative (HADTCI)STTRsummit.vcsi.org | School of Engineering Enrollment: over 1,000 students 50 tenure track faculty in 6 academic departments Annual Research Expenditure: $10- 12M/yr 4
Sponsored by the Huntsville Advanced Defense Technology Cluster Initiative (HADTCI)STTRsummit.vcsi.org | Six Academic Departments Geology and Geological Engineering Mechanical Engineering 5 Chemical Engineering Civil Engineering Computer and Information Science Electrical Engineering
Sponsored by the Huntsville Advanced Defense Technology Cluster Initiative (HADTCI)STTRsummit.vcsi.org | Engineering Research Centers National Center for Computational Hydroscience and Engineering Mississippi Mineral Resources Institute Center for Advanced Infrastructure Technology Center for Wireless Communication Center for Applied Electromagnetic Systems Center for Community Earthquake Preparedness Institute for Advanced Education in Geospatial Sciences 6
Sponsored by the Huntsville Advanced Defense Technology Cluster Initiative (HADTCI)STTRsummit.vcsi.org | Other Related Centers National Center for Physical Acoustics Center for Manufacturing Excellence Center for Mathematics and Science Education National Institute for Undersea Science and Technology 7
Sponsored by the Huntsville Advanced Defense Technology Cluster Initiative (HADTCI)STTRsummit.vcsi.org | Researh Capabilities EE has one of the strongest group in the nation for small antenna and radar power research. CE & ME conduct forefront research in nanomaterials, for blast, impact, infrastructure protection applications. ChE works on renewable energy and CO2 sequestration GGE has a strong focus on Geospatial Information Science and Technology 8
Sponsored by the Huntsville Advanced Defense Technology Cluster Initiative (HADTCI)STTRsummit.vcsi.org | National Center for Physical Acoustics 78,000 sq. feet of office/lab space 47 FT employees, 30 students (graduate and undergraduate) Faculty and students w/ appointments in Physics and Engineering Annual research funding ~ $8-10 M Notable Facilities: Anechoic chamber Jet anechoic test facility Mach 5 Tri-sonic Wind Tunnel Fully computerized in-house machine shop Card-coded secure laboratories POC Pat Brown:
Sponsored by the Huntsville Advanced Defense Technology Cluster Initiative (HADTCI)STTRsummit.vcsi.org | Atmospheric Acoustics Sonic boom propagation, traffic noise and military noise impact. Porous Media Dam and levee monitoring, personnel detection and standoff detection of explosives. Infrasound Propagation of low frequency sound outdoors and the development of specialized hardware to monitor this sound. Aero-Acoustics Jet noise, combustion and acoustic induced vibration Material Sciences Composite materials and high temperature superconductors. National Center for Physical Acoustics Research Fields
Sponsored by the Huntsville Advanced Defense Technology Cluster Initiative (HADTCI)STTRsummit.vcsi.org | UM Geoinformatics Center (UMGC) NASA (S6.02) UMGC: –Founded in 2000 –GIS&T applications research Greg Easson Evolutionary Computing (EC): EC to extract features from imagery Multi-stage training to recognize feature Rapid run time after training 11
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Sponsored by the Huntsville Advanced Defense Technology Cluster Initiative (HADTCI)STTRsummit.vcsi.org | Contact Information Alex Cheng, Dean of Engineering, Atef Elsherbeni, Associate Dean for Research, 15 12” X 12” Mach 5 Wind Tunnel