the engineering genesis award for multidisciplinary research was presented to 23 texas a&m engineering experiment station (tees) researchers and their teams during the tees advisory board meeting nov 15 the award which is presented to tees researchers who have secured significant research grants of $1 million or more were given to the following: pi: rodney bowersox aerospace engineering and director texas a&m national aerothermochemistry and hypersonics laboratory $12 million grant from the department of energy-office of naval research for turbulence transport in extreme non-equilibrium environments pi: ya wang mechanical engineering $1 million grant from the department of energy for sleepir-synchronized low-energy electronically-chopped passive infrared sensor for occupancy detection pi: dan hill petroleum engineering $1 million grant from marathon oil company for marathon oil unconventional fluid flow/enhanced oil recovery pi: vladislav yakovlev biomedical engineering $11 million grant from the department of health and human services-national institutes of health-national institute of general medical science for brillouin microscope for biomedical research pi: david staack mechanical engineering and director engineering laboratory instruction co-pis: dion antao alan palazzolo and li-jung tai mechanical engineering $11 million grant from the department of energy for targeted energy focusing to induce micro-cracking for reduced cutting energy and increased rate of penetration pi: zhangyang wang computer science and engineering co-pis: jack mortazavi computer science and engineering; and xiaoning qian electrical and computer engineering $12 million grant from the department of defense-air force research laboratory for context-aware biomarker discovery and health monitoring by adaptive integration of heterogeneous smartphone signals pi: roozbeh jafari biomedical engineering co-pi: jack mortazavi computer science and engineering $12 million grant from the department of health and human services-national institutes of health-national institute of biomedical imaging and bioengineering for a context-aware cuff-less wearable ambulatory blood pressure monitor using a bio-impedance sensor array pi: mary beth hueste civil and environmental engineering and associate department head for undergraduate programs co-pis: stefan hurlebaus and john mander civil and environmental engineering; anol mukhopadhyay texas a&m transportation institute $13 million grant from the texas department of transportation for utilization of uhpc bridge superstructures in texas pi: carl benner electrical and computer engineering co-pis: karthick muthu manivannan and jeffrey wischkaemper electrical and computer engineering $13 million grant from the southern california edison for wildfire risk reduction via distribution fault anticipation technology: demonstration and integration collaboration at california utilities pi: efstratios pistikopoulos chemical engineering and director texas a&m energy institute co-pi: mahmoud el-halwagi chemical engineering $14 million grant from the department of energy for smart manufacturing for chemical processing energy efficient operation of air separation unit pi: swaminathan gopalswamy mechanical engineering and co-director center for autonomous vehicles and sensor systems co-pi: srikanth saripalli mechanical engineering and co-director center for autonomous vehicles and sensor systems $15 million grant from the department of defense-army research laboratory for arches: autonomous resilient cognitive heterogenous swarms (off-road unmanned ground vehicle (ugv) mobility technology demonstrator platform (mtdp)) pi: katherine davis electrical and computer engineering co-pis: ana goulart engineering technology and industrial distribution; thomas overbye electrical and computer engineering and director smart grid center; daniel ragsdale computer science and engineering $2 million grant from the department of energy-washington for deep cyber-physical situational awareness for energy systems: a secure foundation for next-generation energy management pi: arum han electrical and computer engineering co-pi: arul jayaraman chemical engineering $23 million grant from the department of defense-advanced research projects agency for isentry: an integrated microfluidics-enabled system for phenotypic detection of biothreat agents pi: karen butler-purry electrical and computer engineering and associate provost for graduate and professional studies co-pis: stephanie burrs and irvin osborbe-lee prairie view a&m university; mahmoud khasawneh and john kilburn texas a&m international university; reuben may sociology; frank pezold texas a&m university-corpus christi; christine stanley education and human development; karan watson electrical and computer engineering and director institute for engineering education and innovation $4 million grant from the national science foundation for louis stokes stem pathways and research alliance: texas a&m system/louis stokes alliance for minority participation pi: yassin hassan nuclear engineering co-pi: sean mcdeavitt nuclear engineering and director nuclear science and science center $5 million grant from texas thorium llc for thorium research initiative pi: bahman yazdani associate director and research engineer energy systems laboratory (esl) co-pis: juan carlos baltazar associate director and manager esl; david claridge mechanical engineering and director esl; joseph martinez associate director and senior research engineer esl; ahmet ugursal and carols yagua assistant research engineer esl $28 million grant from the city of houston for interlocal agreement for project design construction and program implementation of state energy conservation office loan funded energy initiatives agile technology development pi: m katherine banks vice chancellor of engineering and national laboratories; dean of engineering texas a&m university; director tees co-pis: narasimha annapareddy associate agency director for strategic initiatives and centers college of engineering texas a&m and director advanced scientific computing center; brad brown military outreach and corps of cadets army futures command; nancy currie-gregg industrial and systems engineering; yossef elabd chemical engineering and associate dean for research; tim green civil and environmental engineering; cynthia hipwell mechanical engineering; john hurtado aerospace engineering deputy director and chief technology officer bush combat development complex; dimitris lagoudas aerospace engineering senior associate dean for research associate vice chancellor for engineering and deputy director tees; james wall director texas a&m center for applied technology $2 million grant from the department of defense-army research laboratory (arl) for arl: innovative ecosystem performance research pi: rodney bowersox aerospace engineering and director texas a&m national aerothermochemistry and hypersonics laboratory co-pis: helen reed aerospace engineering and director aggiesat lab satellite program and computational stability and transition lab; edward white aerospace engineering $2 million grant from the department of defense-army research laboratory for arl: hypersonic vehicles pi: richard miles aerospace engineering co-pi: christopher limbach aerospace engineering $19 million grant from the department of defense-army research laboratory for arl: laser diagnostics and lethality pi: thomas lacy mechanical engineering co-pis: waruna kulatilaka mechanical engineering; junuthula reddy aerospace engineering and mechanical engineering and director center of innovation in mechanics for design and manufacturing; justin wilkerson mechanical engineering $11 million grant from the department of defense-army research laboratory for arl: materials pi: swaminathan gopalswamy mechanical engineering and co-director center for autonomous vehicles and sensor systems co-pis: srikanth saripalli mechanical engineering and co-director center for autonomous vehicles and sensor systems; gholamreza langari aerospace engineering and engineering technology and industrial distribution; john valasek aerospace engineering and director vehicle systems and control laboratory and graduate studies program $23 million grant from the department of defense-army research laboratory for arl: air ground coordination pi: panganamala kumar electrical and computer engineering co-pi: srinivas shakkottai electrical and computer engineering $17 million grant from the department of defense-army research laboratory for arl: tactical networks