ML-RCP - University of Texas at Arlington

University of Texas at Arlington

AFRL ML-RCP Partner Institution Strengths & Capabilities Survey

Research

1. Please select the research areas in which your institution currently engages.

Structural materials
- - Vistap Karbhari (Mechanical Engineering) vkarbhari@uta.edu
  - Nur Yazdani (Civil Engineering) yazdani@uta.edu
  - Maria Konstos Gdoudos (Civil Engineering) maria.konsta@uta.edu

Aerospace vehicles
- - V.P. Nguyen, (Computer Science & Engineering) vp.nguyen@uta.edu
  - Ming Li, (Computer Science & Engineering) ming.li@uta.edu
  - Yonghe Liu, (Computer Science & Engineering) yonghe@cse.uta.edu
  - Shirin Nilizadeh, (Computer Science & Engineering) shirin.nilizadeh@uta.edu
  - Chengkai Li, (Computer Science & Engineering) cli@uta.edu
  - Gautam Das, (Computer Science & Engineering) gdas@cse.uta.edu

Bio effects
- - V.P. Nguyen (Computer Science & Engineering) vp.nguyen@uta.edu
  - Ming Li, (Computer Science & Engineering) ming.li@uta.edu
  - Yonghe Liu, (Computer Science & Engineering) yonghe@cse.uta.edu
  - Shirin Nilizadeh, (Computer Science & Engineering) shirin.nilizadeh@uta.edu
  - Chengkai Li, (Computer Science & Engineering) cli@uta.edu
  - Gautam Das, (Computer Science & Engineering) gdas@cse.uta.edu

Functional materials & applications
- - Joseph Ngai (Physics) jngai@uta.edu (oxides, epitaxial oxide growth, group IV semiconductors, MEMS)
  - Vistap Karbhari (Mechanical Engineering) vkarbhari@uta.edu
  - Robin Macaluso (Chemistry, inorganic compounds, sulfides, oxides etc.) robin.macaluso@uta.edu
  - Peter Kroll (Chemistry, aerogels, polymers) pkroll@uta.edu
  - Maria Konstos Gdoudos (Civil Engineering) maria.konsta@uta.edu

Manufacturing technology
- - Vistap Karbhari (Mechanical Engineering) vkarbhari@uta.edu

Electro-optical sensing
- - V.P. Nguyen, (Computer Science & Engineering) vp.nguyen@uta.edu
  - Ming Li, (Computer Science & Engineering) ming.li@uta.edu
  - Yonghe Liu, (Computer Science & Engineering) yonghe@cse.uta.edu
  - Shirin Nilizadeh, (Computer Science & Engineering) shirin.nilizadeh@uta.edu
  - Chengkai Li, (Computer Science & Engineering) cli@uta.edu
  - Gautam Das, (Computer Science & Engineering) gdas@cse.uta.edu

Control, power, & thermal management systems
- - Maria Konstos Gdoudos (Civil Engineering) maria.konsta@uta.edu

Human centered intelligence surveillance & reconnaissance
- - V.P. Nguyen, (Computer Science & Engineering) vp.nguyen@uta.edu
  - Ming Li, (Computer Science & Engineering) ming.li@uta.edu
  - Yonghe Liu, (Computer Science & Engineering) yonghe@cse.uta.edu
  - Shirin Nilizadeh, (Computer Science & Engineering) shirin.nilizadeh@uta.edu
  - Chengkai Li, (Computer Science & Engineering) cli@uta.edu
  - Gautam Das, (Computer Science & Engineering) gdas@cse.uta.edu

Training & decision making
- - Vistap Karbhari (Mechanical Engineering) vkarbhari@uta.edu

2. Please note, in detail, any research areas of strength not listed above. This may include fundamental sciences (e.g., math, physics, biology, etc.).

Corrosion: Stathis Meletis, meletis@uta.edu
Tribology: Stathis Meletis, meletis@uta.edu
Thin Films and Coatings Science & Technology: Stathis Meletis, meletis@uta.edu
Surface Engineering: Stathis Meletis, meletis@uta.edu
Reliability science of electronic devices and packaging: C.-U. Kim, choongun@uta.edu
Reliability science of electronics: C.-U. Kim, choongun@uta.edu
Electronic materials, nanoelectronic materials and devices: S.J. Koh, skoh@uta.edu
Shape-morphing Materials, Programmable Materials: Kyung Suk Yum, kyum@uta.edu
3D/4D Printing, 3D/4D Bioprinting: Kyung Suk Yum, kyum@uta.edu
Nanomaterial-based optical biosensors: Kyung Suk Yum, kyum@uta.edu
Computational Materials Modeling: Ye Cao, ye.cao@uta.edu

3. Are there any emerging areas of research your institution is actively seeking to develop?

Smart and Carbon Neutral Construction Materials: Maria Konsta Gdoutos, maria.konsta@uta.edu

High Temperature Coatings for Harsh environments: Stathis Meletis, meletis@uta.edu

4. Does your institution have any internal research centers or participate in any research consortia?

University of Texas at Arlington-Northwestern University NSF PREM (Partnership for Research and Education in Materials) grant on Functional Materials. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2122128&HistoricalAwards=false

Stathis Meletis, meletis@uta.edu

5. Please provide a list of relevant facilities and equipment.

UTA Shimadzu Institute for Nanotechnology (Nanofab, Class 100 Cleanroom) https://shimadzuinstitute.org/centers/nanotechnology-research-center/

UTA Characterization Center for Materials and Biology (CCMB) (Stathis Meletis Director, Jiechao Jiang Facility Manager) https://ccmb.uta.edu/
CCMB is a 5,500-square-foot centralized user facility for comprehensive materials characterization. It houses state-of-the-art instrumentation and offers comprehensive techniques and capabilities that are crucial to advanced materials research and analysis for both university and industry. It provides information from the surface structure (morphology/roughness, composition and element chemical state and distribution) to the internal and local microstructure (crystallographic structure, grain size and distribution of nanostructured materials, defects, precipitates, grain boundaries and interfaces, and chemical information) at the atomic level of materials in a variety of forms (bulk, coatings/thin films, multilayers, micro/nano patterning structures, nanoparticles, etc.). Instrumentation in the CCMB includes: a Hitachi H-9500 High-resolution Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM), an in-situ gas-injection heating holder for HRTEM to observe the atomic structure evolution at high temperatures up to 1500 °C. a Hitachi H-7500 TEM, a FEI Strata 400 Dual Beam Focus-Ion-Beam (FIB)/ Field-Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FE-SEM), a Hitachi S-3000N Variable Pressure SEM attached EDS and EBSD, a Hitachi S-4800 II FE-SEM attached EDS, a Hitachi S-5000H FE-SEM, a Perkin-Elmer Phi 560 X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscope (XPS) and Auger Electron Microscope (AES), a Bruker D8 Advance X-ray diffractometer (XRD), a Siemens D-500 XRD, a Hysitron Ubi®1 Nano Indenter, a Micro-hardness Tester, a Nicolet iS50 FT-IR Spectrometer, a DXR3 Raman Microscope, a NETZSCH DSC 204 F1 Phoenix Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) and a TA SDT-Q600 simultaneous DSC and Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA) , a Park XE 70 Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) and a newly installed Bruker Dimension ICON-IR for high resolution AFM imaging, nanoscale IR spectroscopy and chemical imaging, and Sample Preparation Facility. CCMB is open to the entire UTA materials research community, as well as researchers from other Institutions and industries and is used by more than 150 researchers from ten departments and institutes in UTA, other universities and industry.

UTA Center of Excellence for Advanced Construction Materials (CACM) https://cacm.uta.edu
The Center for Advanced Construction Materials (CACM) of the University of Texas at Arlington is a Governor’s University Research Initiative (GURI) investment which enables multidisciplinary, civil engineering, materials science and engineering, chemistry, and computer science research for establishing strong partnerships with research groups within the greater scientific and engineering community, industry, and Federal Funding Agencies. The multidisciplinary projects of CACM advance the knowledge to design, characterize and implement the use of innovative structural materials

6. Does your institution have a relationship with any other academic institution or research organization(s) that enables your access to their facilities and equipment?

UTARI (University of Texas-Arlington Research Institute) https://utari.uta.edu/

7. Has your institution collaborated with Department of Defense in the past?

8. Is your institution involved in any federal STEM funding efforts?

9. This program requires documentation (i.e., theses, dissertation, presentations, etc.) to go through the AFRL public affairs review process. Would this present a challenge for your institution?

Research Administration and Compliance

10. Does your institution have an office of sponsored programs?

11. Does your institution have an approval process for seeking extramural funding?

12. Does your institution accept federal award dollars and manage standard fiscal reporting, and compliance requirements?

13. Does your institution provide guidance to PIs for budget development?

14. Does your institution offer proposal development services?

15. Does your institution offer research development services, e.g., assistance with finding research funding, proposal management, team formation/development, etc.?

16. Does you institution offer research compliance training and education, i.e., roles and responsibilities of principal investigators?

17. Does your institution have a designated Export Control Officer?

18. Is your institution registered with the US State Department Directorate of Defense Trade Controls?

No response provided.

19. Does your institution currently perform Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI/ NIST 800-171 compliant) research?

No response provided.

20. Does your institution currently perform research subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations?

No response provided.

21. Does your institution have a DoD Facility Security Clearance (FCL)? If Yes:

a. What is the FCL’s classification level? No response provided.

b. What is the FCL’s authorized safeguarding level? No response provided.

c. How many safeguarding-approved spaces do you manage? No response provided.

d. What is your facility’s CAGE Code(s)? No response provided.

ML-RCP Program Expectations

22. The objective of the AFRL ML-RCP is to enable and enhance the research capabilities of the HBCU’s/MSIs through collaborative research efforts with AFRL. What would be necessary for you to receive to meet this objective?

No response provided.