| ASRC/NASA (USTDC) |
| Automation of Water Flow Loop |
| Description: Develop a Human-Machine Interface
which allows conducting automated operations in a water
loop used for testing equipment deployed to support NASA
space flight operations. |
| Class 1 |
| NFPA Automated Pump Testing |
| Description: Develop a system to automate test
data acquisition and data management for National Fire
Protection Agency new apparatus and annual service testing
of fire engine water pumps. |
| CSX Transportation |
| Track Testing Vehicle Scheduling System |
| Description: Develop a software application to
create optimized geometry and rail track test schedules
using an optimization code library, store all schedule
information in a database, and output the result for later
data manipulation using a Windows Graphical User Interface. |
| Dell Computer Co. |
| BIOS Integration Tool |
| Description: Provide a software tool that allows
Dell BIOS engineers to analyze and update key portions
of a Dell BIOS without compromising the other parts of
the BIOS. The tool will also catalog all changes in a
ClearCase change management system. |
| The Dow Chemical Company |
| Turbulizer Construction & Test |
| Description: Design a mixer to coat a water soluble
polymer, Cellosize, with a chemical called Glyoaxal so
that the solubilization can take place slowly without
causing clumps. |
| Firehouse Restaurant Group |
| Automated Sandwich Steamer |
| Description: Design and develop a sandwich steaming
system and assembly work flow pattern that will shorten
sandwich preparation time without added labor or compromise
to quality. |
| Gainesville Regional Utilities |
| Optimizing Chlorine Booster Station Design & Location |
| Description: Design and location optimization
of chlorine booster stations in a drinking water distribution
system using the WaterCad network analysis model. |
| General Dynamics |
| Press Changeover Time Reduction |
| Description: Reengineering the Erie Press changeover
process through Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED)
principles and improving the value stream of the manufacturing
process through value stream mapping. |
| Harris Corporation |
| Space Deployable Boom |
| Description: Design and analyze deployable-segmented
booms for space application (e.g., to attach large communication
reflectors to spacecraft). Fabricate a prototype to demonstrate
the design. |
| Harris Corporation |
| CMA Framework |
| Description: The Harris Corporation produces
satellite communications systems with Control/Monitor/Alarm
(CMA) software to manage all associated hardware devices.
This project is to create a reusable component design
for CMA software that allows a new system's CMA software
to be built by collecting together software components
developed for each of the associated hardware components. |
| Honeywell Space Systems |
| Reconfigurable Space Computing Development Process |
| Description: Board debugging and display of real
time video processing using VHDL on a low cost IPPD FPGA
demonstration board with the object of porting the VHDL
to a Honeywell space reconfigurable computing board. |
| Integrated Technology Ventures |
| Passive Flux Meter |
| Description: Develop a working prototype and
business plan for a start-up company focused on manufacture,
installation, and analysis of passive flux meters. The
passive flux meter is installed into monitoring wells
of contaminated groundwater sites and used to determine
cumulative contaminant and fluid flux providing a new
method of groundwater remediation analysis. |
| Integrated Technology Ventures |
| Large Animal Wireless Health Monitoring System |
| Description: Produce a business plan and an advanced
schematic design of a wireless large animal health monitoring
system. The target market is the dairy cattle industry;
however, the device could be applied to other large animals
such as beef cattle and horses. |
| Kimberly-Clark |
| Separation of Polymer Blends |
| Description: Develop methodology and processing
parameters to separate a polymer blend for recycling purposes.
The project involves using the physico-chemical properties
of the component polymers and mechanical processing to
separate them to a high degree of purity. |
| Lockheed Martin Electronic &
Missiles |
| Embedded MEMS Sensor Projectile |
| Description: Design and fabricate a prototype
projectile with an embedded sensing MEMS device capable
of sticking to a target upon impact to gather information.
Develop the method of propelling the projectile toward
the target, and the conditions for design success. |
| Maxwell House |
| Reducing Coffee Blockages |
| Description: Design of experimental methods to
identify and eliminate clogging in production lines processing
coffee and cocoa powders. |
| Medtronic Xomed, Inc. |
| PeaceKeeper Hemostatic Eraser Tool |
| Description: Select materials and design a process
for deposition of these materials onto the surface of
a stainless steel cannula used in opthamalic surgery. |
| MRI Devices |
| Respiratory Muscle Strengthening Device |
| Description: Develop a commercializable respiratory
muscle strengthening device for use by musicians, athletes,
and others. |
| Raytheon Systems |
| IDS Interoperation |
| Description: Create a management architecture
for multiple network security mechanisms. This architecture
will support implementation of consistent policies across
changing infrastructures. |
| Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation |
| Power Turbine Redesign |
| Description: Reduce cost through redesign of
a leading edge sealing plate on a turbine engine. Cost
will be reduced through changes in material, manufacturing
process, and tooling. |
| Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation |
| Plastic Compressor Blade |
| Description: Design a plastic composite material
compressor blade to replace a stainless steel blade used
in a multi-stage compressor. Benefits include reduction
in material cost, manufacturing lead times and stresses
in adjoining parts. |
| Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation |
| Boiler Tube Corrosion Monitor |
| Description: Design a corrosion rate sensor which
will allow temperatures in heat recovery boilers to be
minimized for maximum power generation efficiency while
avoiding condensation of corrosive liquids on boiler tube
surfaces. |
| Solutia, Inc. |
| Improvement or Automation of Nylon RV Measurement |
| Description: Improve Solutia's methodology for measuring the relative viscosity of nylon fibers. This can take the form of a standard operating procedure that includes pre-treatment, an equipment modification, or a specification for new and/or improved equipment. |
| Sunbeam Corporation |
| Emergency Exit Lighting System |
| Description: Develop an Emergency Exit Lighting
System that is more effective than existing designs in
directing people toward exits in poor visibility conditions.
The product is to be fail-proof, discreet, and retrofitable
to existing buildings. |
| US Air Force AAC/WMG |
| Military Noise Management |
| Description: Development of a noise management
program at Eglin Air Force Base. The system must integrate
with planned GIS system implemented with Geomedia and
Oracle 9i and as well as existing command and control
infrastructure. |
| US Special Operations Command SOAL-T/BATTELLE |
| Remote Camera Control & Display System Phase II |
| Description: Develop a system to remotely control
multiple MPEG cameras and capture still JPEG images. The
remote controller is a PDA device, and the communication
between it and the cameras is via the IEEE 802.11b wireless
standard. |
| US Special Operations Command SOAL-T/BATTELLE |
| 802.11 Based Asset Tagging/Tracking System |
| Description: Develop a system capable of tracking
a "small" wireless 802.11b "tag" as it travels in and
out of wireless network coverage areas. |
