JCATI Funded Research

Each year, JCATI issues research awards to university faculty from across the state of Washington working in the aerospace field. Funding for these awards begins on July 1. All funds associated with these awards must be expended no later than June 30 of the following calendar year.

2018 JCATI Awardees

Capturing workload and stress among commercial aircraft pilots to enhance pilot-aircraft interfaces
PI: Boyle, Linda (UW) Industry Partner: Esterline Amount: $99,884

Highly linear and energy-efficient frequency-tunable beamforming transceiver for airborne phased-array communications
PI: Heo, Deuk (WSU) Industry Partner: The Boeing Company Amount: $50,000

Development of a material test stand for new-age cryogenic fuel bladders
PI: Leachman, Jake (WSU) Industry Partner: Blue Origin Amount: $100,000

Manufacturing injection molded aerospace interior parts using lightweight thermoplastic polymer composites
PI: Liu, Hang (WSU) Co-PI: Zhang, Jinwen Industry Partner: Cascade Quality Molding Amount: $92,004

Experimental validation of flow field measurements for swept wings with ice accretitations
PI: Lum, Chris (UW) Co-PI: Williams, Owen Industry Partner: The Boeing Company Amount: $80,951

Electrohydrodynamic propulsion and control of aerial vehicles
PI: Mamishev, Alex (UW) Industry Partner: Aerojet Rocketdyne Amount: $30,000

Precision aerial delivery via low-weight, low-cost UAS
PI: Matveev, Konstantin (WSU) Industry Partner: Applewhite Aero Amount: $92,468

Demonstration of benzoxazine prepregs for aircraft interior composites
PI: Misasi, John (WWU) Co-PIs: Grubb, Cecile and Larson, Nicole Industry Partner: Zodiac Aerospace Amount: $92,687

Processing method and performance database for carbon fiber composite reinforced polymeric concrete
PI: Nassiri, Somayeh (WSU) Co-PI: Li, Hui Industry Partner: Global Fiberglass Solutions Amount: $80,000

Analytics for airspace intruder identification
PI: Roy, Sandip (WSU) Co-PI: Xue, Mengran Industry Partners: Echodyne/Prescient Designs Amount: $100,000

Integrated CMOS millimeter-wave phased array transceivers with highly-digital elements and self-interference cancellation for radar and communication applications
PI: Rudell, Chris (UW) Co-PI: Sathe, Vivesh Industry Partner: The Boeing Company Amount: $100,000

Design and development of non-conventional, damage tolerant and recyclable structures based on discontinuous fiber composites
PI: Salviato, Marco (UW) Co-PI: Yang, JK Industry Partners: Composite Technology Recycling Center/Chomarat/ES3 Amount: $100,000

Model-based BMS and pack design for current and next generation lithium batteries for aerospace applications
PI: Subramanian, Venkat (UW) Industry Partners: BAE/Wibotic Amount: $100,000

Real-time extraction of helicopter analog gauge data using deep neural networks
PI: Swensen, John (WSU) Industry Partner:HeliTrak Amount: $80,775

Lignin-based jet fuel pilot plant
PI: Yang, Bin (WSU) Industry Partner: Mercurius Biofuels LLC Amount: $50,000

2017 JCATI Awardees

The Effectiveness of an Immersive Operator Control Station to Enhance Situation Awareness
PI: Boyle, Linda (UW) Industry Partner: Esterline Amount: $99,442

Reducing Flagging and Fraying in Composite Sandwich Panel Machining
PI: Gill, David (WWU) Co-PI: Hip-Yoi, Derek Industry Partner: Zodiac Aerospace Amount: $78,928

Phased Array Beamformers and Low-noise Power Management Systems for Future System-on-Chip (SOC) Application
PI: Heo, Deuk (WSU) Industry Partner: The Boeing Company Amount: $80,000

Camera Self-Calibration for Drone Autopilot
PI: Hwang, Jenq-Neng (UW) Industry Partner: Robodub Amount: $57,675

Lightweight High Performance Polymers for Aerospace Interiors
PI: Liu, Tian (WSU) Co-PIs: Zhang,Jinwen & Liu,Tuan Industry Partner: Ultra Polymers Amount: $55,000

Printed Flexible Thermocouple Arrays for Improved Aerospace Safety Monitoring and Manufacturing
PI: MacKenzie, Devin (UW) Co-PIs: Brooks,Christopher & Karnofski, Kent Industry Partner: The Boeing Company Amount: $93,417

Detection of Incipient Heat Damage in Composite Materials
PI: Mamishev, Alex (UW) Co-PI: Toivola, Ryan Industry Partner: GT Engineering Amount: $91,200

Scalable Formulation of Aerospace Interior Resins
PI: Misasi, John (WWU) Co-PI: Grubb, Cecile Industry Partner: Zodiac Aerospace Amount: $88,878

Autonomous Warehouse Physical Inventory Using Multiple Quadrotors
PI: Morgansen, Kristi (UW) Industry Partner: Fizikl Amount: $99,127

Precision Aerial Delivery via Low-weight, Low-cost UAS
PI: Taylor, Matthew (WSU) Co-PIs: Matveev, Konstantin & Swensen, John Industry Partner: Applewhite Aero Amount: $79,441

UAV Operations in GPS Denied Skies
PI: Vagners, Juris (UW) Co-PI: Lum, Christopher Industry Partners: Hood Technology/Sagetech/Insitu/ANPC Amount: $87,223

Design and Processing Tools for Advanced Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) Technology
PI: Waas, Tony (UW) Co-PI: Davidson, Paul Industry Partner: Electroimpact Amount: $99,999

A Gummy Electrolyte with Damage-Tolerance and Thermal-Protection Capabilities for Safer Li-ion Batteries
PI: Zhong, Katie (WSU) Industry Partner: UniEnergy Technologies Amount: $94,457

2016 JCATI Awardees

Additive Manufacturing of Multi-Material Structures for Space Application
PI: Bandyopadhyay, Amit (WSU) Co-PI(s): Bose, Susmita Industry Partner (s): Aerojet Rocketdyne Amount: $69,548

Integration of Recycled Theromoplastic and Thermoset Based Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composites Into Value-Added Composites
PI: Englund, Karl (WSU) Industry Partner (s): Global Fiberglass Solutions, Inc. Amount: $74,696

Direct Numerical Simulation of an Aft-Body Flow
PI: Ferrante, Antonio (UW) Industry Partner (s): The Boeing Company Amount: $88,477

Catalytic Conversion of Lignocellulosic Sugar to Acrylonitrile for Low-Cost Renewable Carbon Fiber
PI: Kessler, Michael (WSU) Co-PI(s): Zhang, Jinwen/Xin, Junna Industry Partner (s): International Polyol Chemicals, Inc. Amount: $98,867

High Pressure Baffled-Tube Ram Accelerator
PI: Knowlen, Carl (UW) Co-PI(s): Bruckner, Adam Industry Partner (s): HyperSciences, Inc./Systima Technologies, Inc. Amount:$87,766

Liquid Hydrogen Fueled ScanEagle Phase III: Ground Support Liquefier Development
PI: Leachman, Jacob (WSU) Co-PI(s): Matveev, Konstantin Industry Partner (s): Insitu Amount:$100,000

Modeling and Control of a Shape Actuated Quadrotor
PI: Morgansen, Kristi (UW) Industry Partner (s): Robodub Amount:$95,357

Transitioning New and Re-Invented Thermoset Resins From the Lab Into Aerospace Composites
PI: Peyron, Mark (WWU)Co-PI(s): Chawla, Tanveer/Rider, David Industry Partner (s): Zodiac Aerospace Amount: $99,500

Reconfigurable Airborne Radar Imaging with Dynamic Metamaterial Antennas
PI: Reynolds, Matt (UW) Industry Partner (s): Echodyne Corp. Amount: $99,899

Advancing State-of-the-Art UAS Networking and Communication with Software Defined Radios
PI: Roy, Sumit (UW) Co-PI(s): Lum, Christopher Industry Partner (s): Insitu Amount: $97,324

Development of a New Structural Health Monitoring Based on Magnetic Nonoparticle-Tagged Polymer Composites by Magneto-Optic Image Method
PI: Taya, Minoru (UW) Industry Partner (s): Quest Integrated, LLC/Toray Composites Amount: $73,253

Precision Aerial Deliver via Low-Weight, Low-Cost UAS
PI: Taylor, Matt (WSU) Co-PI(s): Matveev, Konstantin Industry Partner (s): Applewhite Aero. Amount: $75,000

Pulsed Plasma Thruster for Small Satellites and Upper Atmospheric UAVs
PI: Winglee, Robert (UW) Industry Partner (s): Aerojet Rocketdyne/Eagle Harbor Technologies Amount: $100,000

Development of High Performance Ductile Composites Base on Hybrid C-ply Technology
PI: Yang, JK (UW) Co-PI(s): Wass, Anthony Industry Partner (s):Think Composites/Toray Composites America/Chomarat Amount: $73,000

Mild Chemical Recycling of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Thermoset Wastes and Application Development of Full Utilization of the Recyclates
PI: Zhang, Jinwen (WSU) Co-PI(s): Xin, Junna Industry Partner (s):Global Fiberglass Solutions, Inc. Amount: $85,777

2015 JCATI Awardees

An Innovative New Pathway for Producing Cost-effective Aviation Biofuels from Woody Biomass
PI: Ahring, Birgitte (WSU) Industry Partner (s): CleanVantage, LLC/3RiverCatalysis, LLC Amount: $99,961

Additive Manufacturing of Bimetallic and Porous Materials for Space Applications
PI: Bandyopadhyay, Amit (WSU) Co-PI(s): Bose, Susmita Industry Partner (s): Aerojet Rocketdyne Amount: $65,769

Detection of Mechanical and Thermal Damage in Carbon Fiber Composites Using Fluorescence Imaging
PI: Jen, Alex (UW) Co-PI(s): Flinn, Brian Industry Partner (s): The Boeing Company Amount: $92,728

Bio-based Acrylonitrile for Low-cost, Renewable Carbon Fiber
PI: Kessler, Michael (WSU) Co-PI(s): Zhang, Jinwen Industry Partner (s): International Polyol Chemicals, Inc.Amount: $84,060

Characterization of Prepreg Materials Using Destructive and Non-Destructive Testing
PI: Larson, Nicole (WWU) Co-PI(s): Rider, David Industry Partner (s): Zodiac Aerospace/The Ultran Group Amount:$99,902

Liquid Hydrogen Fueled ScanEagle Phase II: Reducing Tank Manufacturing Cost and Increasing the Efficiency of Small-Modular Hydrogen Liquefaction
PI: Leachman, Jacob (WSU) Industry Partner (s): Isitu Amount:$75,000

Specialization, Testing and Integration of NextGen Technologies on Unmanned Aerial Systems
PI: Lum, Chris (UW) Co-PI(s): Vagners, Juris Industry Partner (s): Insitu/Hood Technology Corporation/Sagetech/Advanced Navigation and Positioning Corporation Amount:$84,311

High Power SEP for Autonomous Spacecraft Operations
PI: Morgansen, Kristi (UW) Co-PI(s): Unsik Lee Industry Partner (s): Aerojet Rocketdyne Amount:$85,025

Continuation Based Trim and Stability Analysis for Airworthiness Certification of Transport Category Airplanes
PI: Narang, Anshu (UW) Industry Partner (s): Safran Engineering Services/NASA Langley Research Center Amount: $77,097

Mechanical Pretreatement of Wood for Cellulosic Sugar Production on a Demonstration Scale
PI: Wang, Jinwu (WSU) Co-PI(s): Zhang, Xiao Industry Partner (s): Forest Concepts, LLC/Weyerhauser Amount: $60,324

Advanced CubeSat System Development
PI: Winglee, Robert (UW) Co-PI(s): Sahr, John Industry Partner (s): Andrews Space/Tethers Unlimited/Aerojet Rocketdyne/Eagle Harbor Technology Amount: $100,000

Catalytic Upgrading of Biomass-Derived Lignin to New bioJet Fuel and Its Qualification and Performance Testing
PI: Yang, Bin (WSU) Co-PI(s): Olson, Nels Industry Partner (s): The Boeing Company Amount: $93,523

Design and Fabrication of Composite Wing Structures using Non-conventional C-ply Technology
PI: Yang, JK (UW) Co-PI(s): Lin, Kuen and Waas, Anthony Industry Partner (s): Toray Composites (America), Inc./Think Composites/Chomarat Amount: $70,000

Mild Chemical Recycling of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Thermoset Waste and Full Utilization of Recyclates
PI: Zhang, Jinwen (WSU) Co-PI(s): Xin, Junna Industry Partner (s): Global Fiberglass Solutions, Inc. Amount: $87,020

A Novel Pathway to Convert Lignin to Jet Fuel and Carbon Fiber Precursors: Optimizing Conversion Yields
PI: Zhang, Xiao (WSU) Co-PI(s): Wang, Jinwu Industry Partner (s):Innovatek Amount: $79,115

2014 JCATI Awardees

Development of High Resolution Wall Pressure and Wall Shear Stress Measurement System
PI: Dabiri, Dana (UW) Co-PI(s): Khalil, Gamal Industry Partner (s): The Boeing Company /Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Amount: $81,000

Recycling of Carbon Reinforced Thermoplastic Composite Wastes for the Aerospace Industry
PI: Englund, Karl (WSU) Industry Partner(s): Triumph Composites Amount: $72,540

Production and Testing of Aviation Fuel Formed by Blends of Hydrotreated Renewable Jet and Hydrotreated Pyrolytic Oil Cuts
PI: Garcia-Perez, Manuel (WSU) Industry Partner(s): The Boeing Company /Conrad Industries, Inc. Amount: $70,772

Energy-Efficient Linear Beamforming Receiver for Airborne Wireless Communications-a CDADIC Related Project
PI: Heo, Deuk (WSU) Industry Partner(s): Jazz Semiconductors Amount: $63,000

Development of Fasteners for Aircraft Interiors
PI: Hoekstra, Nicole (WWU) Co-PI(s): Larson, Nicole / Rider, David Industry Partner(s): Zodiac Aerospace Amount: $100,000

Detection of Mechanical and Thermal Damage in Carbon Fiber Composites Using Fluorescence Imaging
PI: Jen, Alex (UW) Co-PI (s): Flinn, Brian Industry Partner(s): The Boeing Company Amount: $100,000

Baffled-Tube Ram Accelerator Technology Development
PI: Knowlen, Carl (UW) Co-PI(s): Bruckner, Adam Industry Partner (s): EnergeticX, LLC Amount: $85,200

The Continuous Rotating Detonation Engine for Propulsion
PI: Kurosaka, Mitsuru (UW) Co-PI(s): Bruckner, Adam / Knowlen, Carl Industry Partner(s): Aerojet Rocketdyne / OptiNav, Inc. / GHKN Engineering Amount: $85,000

Development of an Insulation-Free Cryogenic Hydrogen Fuel Tank for ScanEagle
PI: Leachman, Jacob (WSU) Industry Partner(s): Insitu Amount: $75,000

Hydrogen Saving Process for Cycloalkanes in Jet Fuels from Diverse Washington State Forest Biomasses
PI: Lei, Hanwu (WSU) Industry Partner(s): Gen-X Energy Group /MS Sustainables, LLC /USS International Group, LLP Amount: $80,000

Developing a Battery-Extender Auxiliary Power Unit (BE-APU) for Next-Generation Commercial Airplanes: Phase 3-Real- Time Validation
PI: Liu, Chen-Ching (WSU) Co-PI(s): Norton, Grant / Ha, Su Industry Partner(s): The Boeing Company Amount: $100,000

Guidance, Navigation and Control Autonomy for Asteroid Sample Return Missions for Solar Electric Propulsion Spacecraft
PI: Morgansen, Kristi (UW) Co-PI(s): Unsik Lee Industry Partner(s): Aerojet Rocketdyne Amount: $68,570

Area and Power Optimization Techniques for Ultra-Wideband CMOS mm-wave Transceivers
PI: Rudell, Jacques (UW) Industry Partner(s): The Boeing Company/ Jazz Semiconductors Amount: $85,000

Material Property Effects on the Fatigue Behavior of Adhesively Bonded Joints
PI: Smith, Lloyd (WSU) Industry Partner(s): The Boeing Company Amount: $73,668

Embedded Sectioned Heating at Bond-line for Composite-Damage Repair
PI: Tuttle, Mark (UW) Co-PI(s): Devasia, Santosh Industry Partner (s): The Boeing Company / Heatcon Composite Systems Amount: $51,927

Mechanical Pretreatment to Produce Cellulosic Sugars at a Pilot Scale
PI: Wang, Jinwu (WSU) Co-PI(s): Wolcott, Michael / Zhang, Xiao Industry Partner(s): Forest Concepts, LLC / Boise Inc. Amount: $98,929

2013 JCATI Awardees

Additive Manufacturing of High Temperature Composites and Bimetallic Structures for Aerojet's Environmentally Sustainable Rocket Engines
PI: Bandyopadhyay, Amit (WSU) Co-PI(s): Bose, Susmita Industry Partner(s): Aerojet Rocketdyne Amount: $68,693

Design of Molecularly Tailored Electrolytes for High Performance Lithium Batteries
PI: Banerjee, Soumik (WSU) Co-PI(s): Dutta, Prasanta Industry Partner(s): The Boeing Company Amount: $69,279

High-Performance Aerospace Alloys: Corrosion Resistant Microstructure Design Toolkit
PI: Chaudhuri, Santanu (WSU) Industry Partner(s): The Boeing Company Amount: $90,000

Advanced Bio-Derived Aviation Fuel Combustion: Particulate Emissions, NOx1 and Flame Stability
PI: Kramlich, John (UW) Industry Partner(s): Imperium Renewables, Inc. / E3 Energy Partners / The Boeing Company / Pacific Northwest National Laboratory / U.S. Air Force Propulsion Directorate, Fuels Development Research Laboratory Amount: $81,527

Aromatic Hydrocarbons for Aviation Biofuels from Lignocellulosic Biomass
PI: Lei, Hanwu (WSU) Industry Partner(s): Gen-X Energy Group / MS Sustainables, LLC and USS International Group / Imperium Renewables Amount: $89,984

Developing a Battery-Extender Auxiliary Power Unit (BE-APU) for Next-Generation Commercial Airplanes
PI: Liu, Chen-Ching (WSU) Co-PI(s): Norton, Grant / Ha, Su Industry Partner(s): The Boeing Company Amount: $127,000

Collaboration and Control of Multiple Unmanned Aerial Systems
PI: Lum, Christopher (UW) Co-PI(s): Vagners, Juris Industry Partner (s): Insitu Amount: $85,460

Metallurgical and Mechanical Characterization of Superplastically Formed and Friction Stir Welded Dissimilar Titanium Alloys
PI: Mamidala, Ramulu(UW) Industry Partner(s): The Boeing Company Amount: $66,945

Advanced Attitude Control for Solar Electric Propulsion Spacecraft: Analysis, Modeling, and Simulations
PI: Morgansen, Kristi (UW) Industry Partner(s): Aerojet Rocketdyne Amount: $90,000

Next Generation Resins for Aerospace Composites in Washington
PI: Rider, David (WWU) Co-PI(s): Hoekstra, Nicole / Larson, Nicole Industry Partner(s): Zodiac Cabin and Structures Amount: $90,000

Beamforming Transceivers for Mobile Aircraft Communications - a CDADIC Project
PI: Ringo, John A. (WSU) Co-PI(s): Heo, Deuk / Rudell, Jacques C. Industry Partner(s): Linear Signal, LLC /Tower Jazz Semiconductor Amount: $90,000

Development of Lead Zirconate Titanate (PZT)-Silane Nano-Composite Think Film Sensors
PI: Shen, I-Yeu (UW) Co-PI(s): Cao, Guozhong Industry Partner (s): The Boeing Company Amount: $57,374

High-Sensitivity Plastic Fiber Optical Transceivers
PI: Shi, C.J. Richard (UW) Industry Partner(s): The Boeing Company Amount: $87,026

Test Facility for Insulator Materials employed in Space Propulsion, Power and Communication
PI: Slough, John (UW) Industry Partner(s): MSNW LLC / Sienna Technologies Amount: $81,000

The Effect of Bond Line Thickness Variation on Joint Strength
PI: Smith, Lloyd Victor (WSU) Industry Partner(s): The Boeing Company Amount: $52,813

Embedded Section Heater for Temperature Control of Composite-Damage Repair
PI: Tuttle, Mark (UW) Co-PI(s): Devasia, Santosh Industry Partner (s): HEATCON / The Boeing Company /AMTAS Amount: $47,500

2012 JCATI Awardees

Additive Manufacturing of Aerojet’s Propellant Tank and Ceramic Components
PI: Bandyopadhyay, Amit (WSU) Co-PI(s): Bose, Susmita Industry Partner(s): Aerojet-RocketdyneAmount: $59,561

Combined Computational/Experimental Approach to Optimize Manufacturing Process of Carbon Reinforced Composite Parts to Improve Mechanical/Corrosion Performance
PI: Chauduri, Santanu (WSU) Industry Partner(s): Triumph Composite SystemsAmount: $100,00

Embedded Sectional Heater for Temperature Control of Composite-Damage Repair
PI: Devasia, Santosh (UW) Co-PI(s): Tuttle, Mark Industry Partner(s): The Boeing Company / HEATCON Amount: $48,290

Forged Composite Technology for Aerospace Industry in WA State
PI: Feraboli, Paolo (UW) Industry Partner(s): Automobili Lamborghini SpA Amount: $81,109

Characterization of Composite Panel Manufacturing for Aerospace Applications
PI: Hoekstra, Nicole (WWU) Co-PI(s): Larson, Nicole / Rider, David Industry Partner(s): Zodiac Aerospace Amount: $100,000

Characterization and Mitigation of Drilled Composite Surface Defects in Aircraft Assembly
PI: Kim, Dave (Dae-Wook) (WSU-Vancouver) Co-PI(s): Gurocak, Hakan Industry Partner(s): The Boeing Company Amount: $41,634

Emissions and Combustion Stability of Advanced Bio-Derived Aviation Fuels
PI: Kramlich, John (UW) Co-PI(s): Hermanson, Jim / Mescher, Ann Industry Partner(s): The Boeing Company / Pacific Northwest National Laboratory / Imperium Renewables / E3 Energy Partners Consulting Engineers Amount: $85,074

Characterization Facility for Gelled Cryogenic Fuels
PI: Leachman, Jacob (WSU) Industry Partner(s): Aerojet-Rocketdyne Amount: $50,000

Developing a Battery-Extender Auxiliary Power Unit (BE-APU) for Next-Generation Commercial Airplanes
PI: Liu, Chen-Ching (WSU) Co-PI(s): Ha, Su / Srivastava, Anurag / Norton, Grant Industry Partner(s): The Boeing CompanyAmount: $84,930

Positrons in Shape Memory NiTi Alloys
PI: Lynn, Kelvin (WSU) Co-PI(s): Weber, Marc Industry Partner (s): The Boeing CompanyAmount: $93,435

Snow Depths from the Heights: Developing a Mission-Specific Civilian Uunmanned Aircraft System for Sensing the Mountain Snowpack
PI: McCormack, Edward (UW) Co-PI(s): Lunquist, Jessica Industry Partner(s): Aerovel Amount: $91,533

Multimode Laser Ultrasonics: Precise Measurement of Ultrasound Characteristics for Composite Structure Evaluation
PI: O'Donnell, Matt (UW) Industry Partner(s): The Boeing Company Amount: $77,725

Real-Time Inspection While Drilling Composites
PI: Ramulu, Mamidala (UW) Industry Partner(s): The Boeing Company Amount: $67,929

Beamforming Receiver for Mobile Aircraft Communications - a CDADIC Related Project
PI: Ringo, John (WSU) Co-PI(s): Heo, Deuk Industry Partner(s): Linear Signal Amount: $75,000

High Sensitivity Optical Receiver
PI: Shi, Richard (UW) Co-PI(s): Ritcey, James Industry Partner (s): The Boeing Company Amount: $99,661

Development of Low-Cost and Reliable Joining Method for Composite Structures by Fe-based Shape Memory Alloy
PI: Taya, Minoru (UW) Industry Partner(s): Toray Composites(America), Inc. / Nabtesco Amount: $92,144

Enhancing Electric Propulsion Systems in Washington State
PI: Winglee, Robert (UW) Industry Partner(s): Eagle Harbor TechnologiesAmount: $49,850

Bio-based Solid Polymeric Electrolytes for a Safer Higher Performance Lithium Ion Battery, Critically Needed for Future Generations of Commercial Aircraft
PI: Zhong, W. H. Katie (WSU) Amount: $71,479

JCATI Funded Research

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