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2010 IT-Olympics *
IT-Adventures is a partnership forged between Iowa State University, the Technology Association of Iowa (TAI), the Iowa chapter of InfraGard, IT industries and Iowa businesses. The program is dedicated to inspiring interest about information technology among high school students...

PI:  Doug Jacobson

Funding Agency: Iowa Mathematics & Science Education Partnership
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Experimental Command and Control Project *
The primary objective of this project is to demonstrate the potential for game simulations to be used to identify patterns of behavior, environmental contextual factors, and similar cues. Additionally, the project will examine the reasoning to sensing and responding to...

PI:  Brian Mennecke

Funding Agency: Rockwell Collins Inc.
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Meta!Blast: An Immersive Interactive Learning Module for Cell Biology *
The driving idea behind the Meta!Blast project is that interactive, dynamic learning environments can facilitate student learning of complex biological concepts. In this interactive, immersive, 3-D game, students will be immersed in a biologically accurate plant cell. Individual biological...

PI:  Eve Wurtele
Co-PIs:  Diane Bassham, Julie Dickerson, Steven Herrnstadt

Funding Agency: National Institute of Health (NIH)
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Developing Sustainable off-Grid Energy Systems in Rural Mali *
We believe that we can aid the improvement of the lives of rural Malians by using an innovative modular electrical system to address the need for locally controlled, economically feasible, and sustainable energy and lighting systems in rural villages. Students...

PI:  Kenneth Bryden
Co-PIs:  Richard LeSar

Funding Agency: National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance
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Deere & Company: Phase 5 Research *
VRAC's expertise in emerging interface technologies addresses a diverse range of challenging problems, including those of leading industry innovators. VRAC's partnership with Deere and Company, one of the world's leading manufacturers of agricultural, forestry, construction, and turf-care equipment, is one...

PI:  Eliot Winer

Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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Multi-touch Technology: Applications to Homeland Security and ISU Research *
Priority 5 (P5) produces critical infrastructure management software used by organizations such as the DOD and DOE. P5 has teamed with ISU researchers to develop a best in class multi-touch user interface that will allow multiple users to interact...

PI:  Stephen Gilbert

Funding Agency: Grow Iowa Values Fund/ISU VPRED
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Virtual Teleoperation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles *
VRAC Director James Oliver and his research team received an additional $4.2 Million award from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to continue research and development of the military’s next generation control interface for unmanned aerial vehicles. The researchers are...

PI:  James Oliver
Co-PIs:  Eliot Winer, Alexander Stoytchev, Stephen Gilbert

Funding Agency: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
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Virtual Teleoperation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles-Phase 2 *
VRAC Director James Oliver and his research team received an additional $4.2 Million award from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to continue research and development of the military’s next generation control interface for unmanned aerial vehicles. The researchers...

PI:  James Oliver
Co-PIs:  Derrick Parkhurst, Eliot Winer, Alexander Stoytchev

Funding Agency: Air Force
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Conceptual Design of a Eucalyptus Machine Form

PI:  Eliot Winer
Co-PIs:  James Oliver

Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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Ignite IT Event

PI:  Stephen Gilbert

Funding Agency: Iowa Department of Economic Development
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IT Olympics 2009

PI:  Doug Jacobson

Funding Agency: Iowa Department of Economic Development
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IT-Olympics, 2009

PI:  Doug Jacobson

Funding Agency: Iowa Mathematics & Science Education Partnership
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REU Site: Summer Program for Interdisciplinary Research and Education: Emerging Interface Technologies

PI:  Stephen Gilbert
Co-PIs:  Eliot Winer, James Oliver

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Targeted Industries Networking Fund Program
The targeted industries networking fund establishes a program to provide financial assistance to support sponsorships of networking events for the creation of new deal flow within the targeted industries of advanced manufacturing, biosciences, or information technology. Sponsors of networking...

PI:  Doug Jacobson

Funding Agency: Iowa Department of Economic Development
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NSF REU - Modeling 3D Geologic Structures in a Multisensory (touch & sound) Virtual Environment
For many geoscientific tasks—such as natural resource exploration, geohazard prevention or aquifer-characterization—geologists need detailed information about the underlying structure of subsurface rock formations in the form of a computer 3D Earth model. Traditionally, 3D geologic shapes have been modeled using...

PI:  Chris Harding

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Creating an Information Dashboard to Explore Market Data For Enhanced Portfolio Creation and Management

PI:  Kenneth Bryden

Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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Immersive Combine Simulator: Moline Application

PI:  Greg Luecke

Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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Collaborative Proposal Scalable Virtual Machine Laboratory Systems
As information assurance (IA) education continues to grow in importance, it is becoming necessary to develop systems that enable scaleable, affordable, maneageable laboratory environments. There is a clear need for realistic laboratories and assignments that can be implemented in developing...

PI:  Thomas Daniels
Co-PIs:  Doug Jacobson

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Model Based Enterprise Improved Design Effectiveness through Next Generation Visualization (INDEV)
The goal of this project is to integrate modeling and simulation (M&S) tools with visual environments in order to allow practice with real-time decision making against key design characteristics. One of the current problems with CAD models in VR systems is...

PI:  James Oliver

Funding Agency: SCRA
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Cyber Crime Program

PI:  Doug Jacobson

Funding Agency: Department of Justice
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A Virtual reality Interface for Product/Analysis Data Visualization
The goal of this project is to create a software tool that enables engineers to import complex models from CAD systems using the STEP standard and visualize product design and related information within a three-dimensional virtual reality environment. This interface...

PI:  James Oliver

Funding Agency: Rockwell Collins Inc.
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Virutal Teleoperation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

PI:  James Oliver

Funding Agency: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
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Improvement of Postsecondary Education -Comprehensive program (FIPSE)
The five components of this program provide architectural students with an innovative, visually-driven package of products. The Interactive Building Software (IBS) is the first element of the program, and teaches how architectural principles and applications are integrated through environmental systems...

PI:  Eliot Winer

Funding Agency: Florida International University
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Investigation of the Behavior of Mercury Compounds in Coal Fired Boilers

PI:  Kenneth Bryden

Funding Agency: Fuel Tech, Inc.
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CyberInnovation Institute Industry Memberships

PI:  James Oliver

Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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Regional Biomass Feedstock Partnership - Biomass Residue Removal
The goal of this project is to provide design support for the integration of data and software systems within the residue removal analysis tool effort, as well as provide direct support for maintenance and implementation of integration software in three...

PI:  Kenneth Bryden

Funding Agency: University of South Dakota
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IT Adventures Programs

PI:  Doug Jacobson

Funding Agency: Iowa Department of Economic Development
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Theoretical Foundations and Design of Self-Healing and Fast-Recovery Strategies for Network Infrastructure Protection.

PI:  Lei Ying

Funding Agency: US Dept. of Defense
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Development of Real-Time Graphics Tools for High Fidelity CD Data

PI:  Kenneth Bryden

Funding Agency: US Dept. of Defense
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Combinatorial and High Throughput Discovery of High Temperature Piezoelectro Ceramics

PI:  Krishna Rajan

Funding Agency: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
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Graphical User Interface for Fire Modeling Codes

PI:  Kenneth Bryden

Funding Agency: Reaction Engineering International
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NIST MEP

PI:  James Oliver

Funding Agency: National Institute of Science and Technology
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Commercialization of 3D Interactive Digit...

PI:  Eliot Winer
Co-PIs:  James Oliver

Funding Agency: ISU - Research Park
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Learning Classifiers from Autonomous, Semantically Heterogeneous, Distributed Data

PI:  Vasant Honavar

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Mechdyne-VRAC-Gilbert

PI:  Stephen Gilbert
Co-PIs:  Eve Wurtele, Chiu Shui Chan, Eliot Winer

Funding Agency: Mechdyne Corporation / Fakespace
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Biomass Feedstock Assembly to Gasification Process Computational Interface Development

PI:  Kenneth Bryden

Funding Agency: Idaho Nat'l Engineering & Environmental Lab of DOE
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Kansei Evaluation Methodology, Product, and Packaging Design for Tostitos Brand Product Line
Kansei engineering by definition is to seek the structure of emotions which exist beneath human behaviors. This structure is referred to as a person’s Kansei. It focuses on how people respond emotionally to products, packages, and brand experiences and...

PI:  Debra Satterfield
Co-PIs:  Sunghyun Kang, Roger Baer

Funding Agency: Frito Lay North America
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Statistical Graphics Research in Association with Ggobi
Statistical graphics have a huge impact on how statistics are perceived and practiced. New graphical tools help all areas of statistics: application, theory and pedagogy. GGobi is widely used software for the visualization and exploration of high-dimensional data. It allows...

PI:  Dianne Cook
Co-PIs:  Heike Hofmann

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Virtual Advanced Power Training Environments

PI:  Kenneth Bryden

Funding Agency: US Dept. of Energy
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GEPR: Functional Genomics of Bud Endodormancy Induction in Grapevine (vitis)

PI:  Julie Dickerson

Funding Agency: University of South Dakota
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Interactive Visualization and Analysis of Large Scale Graphs for Biological Network Modeling

PI:  Julie Dickerson
Co-PIs:  Dirk Reiners, Eve Wurtele

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Barley Coordinated Agricultural Project: Leveraging genomics, genetics, and breeding for gene discovery and barley improvement
The Barley Coordinated Agricultural Project (CAP) integrates and uses state-of-the-art genomic tools and approaches in plant breeding programs to help develop superior cultivars. Researchers from nineteen institutions, including ISU, are working to develop a genetic map of barley that includes...

PI:  Julie Dickerson

Funding Agency: US Dept. of Agriculture
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High Density Sensor Network Development

PI:  Kenneth Bryden

Funding Agency: US Dept. of Energy
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PLEXdb: Plant Expression Database
PLEXdb is a unified public resource for large-scale plant and pathogen microarray data that allows more extensive links between plant gene sequences and the broad range of expression data being developed. This research intends to provide an outlet for interactive expression...

PI:  Julie Dickerson
Co-PIs:  Volker Brendel, Roger Wise

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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NCO Intelligent Distribution System

PI:  Doug Jacobson

Funding Agency: Boeing
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NSF I/UCRC Center for Information Protection

PI:  Doug Jacobson

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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SFS Fellowships for Information Assurance Students

PI:  Doug Jacobson

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Analysis of Gas Turbine Thermal Performances

PI:  Kenneth Bryden

Funding Agency: US Dept. of Energy
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Using Virtual Reality for Painter Training [with Mike Meyers (Des Moines)]
To train new painters at Deere & Co., researchers are building a virtual reality training booth. To create a realistic training environment, the booth is designed with real equipment and an approximation of the lighting and optical effects, such as...

PI:  Eliot Winer

Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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Constraint-based Compliant Mechanism Design Using Virtual Reality
Virtual reality, combined with constraint-based design methods, will provide a natural three-dimensional design environment for engineers to rapidly explore and generate constraint-based design concepts that are both creative and efficient. Constraint-based compliant mechanism design theory is a powerful and rational...

PI:  Judy Vance
Co-PIs:  James Oliver

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
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Deere and Company Phase IV Research
Deere & Company, in partnership with VRAC, is developing and advancing virtual reality technology to simulate vehicle operations, evaluate human factors and ergonomics, analyze complex engineering data, and build capabilities in a broad range of other product and manufacturing process...

PI:  Atul Kelkar

Funding Agency: Deere & Company
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Development of Virtual Power Plants
Researchers at VRAC, led by Professor Mark Bryden, have been working with the Department of Energy/National Engineering Technology Laboratory (DOE/NETL) on the development of virtual engineering tools. These virtual engineering tools aid in the design and development of thermal systems...

PI:  Kenneth Bryden

Funding Agency: US Dept. of Energy
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