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Funded External Grants

Title: Collaborative Research: Understanding Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Outcomes in Texas
Source: National Science Foundation (NSF) 
Role: PI 
Amount: $48,642
Duration: July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2019 

​Title: Phase I Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program: 
Future STEM Teachers in South Texas (F(ST)2) 
Source: National Science Foundation (NSF) 
Role: PI 
Amount: $1,199,731 
Duration: October 1, 2014 – September 30, 2019 
Others collaborated: 
Sung Won Park (Co-PI), 
Monica Wong-Ratcliff (Co-PI),  
Reza R. Ahangar (Co-PI), 
Mauo Castro (Co-PI), 
Marie-Anne Mundy (Evaluator), 
Jeong Yang (Senior Programmer)

​Title: HINSTX (Health Information Network of South Texas) Rural HIT Network Program 
Source: Health Resource and Services Administration (HRSA) 
Role: PI 
Amount: $775,775 
Duration: September 1, 2012 – February 28, 2015 

Title: Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program Capacity Building: Future STEM Teachers in South Texas (F(ST)2) 
Source: National Science Foundation (NSF) 
Role: PI 
Amount: $291,352 
Duration: October 1, 2012 – September 30, 2015 

Title: DCCDatabase - Diabetes Database Management System for Coastal Bend Diabetes Community Coalition 
Source: Corpus Christi Diabetes Community Coalition 
Role: PI 
Amount: $8,000
Duration: January 1, 2014 – December 31, 2014 
Others collaborated: Jeong Yang (PI)

Title: Development of Texas Animal Control Association Membership Management System 
Source: Texas Animal Control Association (TACA) 
Role: PI 
Amount: $7,522 
Duration: March 1, 2012 – August 31, 2013 
Others collaborated: Jeong Yang (PI) 
 
Title: Construction Scheduling with Primavera P6 for Kiewit Olympus TLP project 
Source: Kiewit Offshore Services, Ltd. 
Role: PI 
Amount: $7,483 
Duration: November 1, 2011 – October 31, 2012 
Others collaborated: Jeong Yang (Co-PI) 
 
Title: Engineering Equity Extension Service (EEES) project - Electrical Engineering Gender Equity 
Source: Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education (CASEE) with support 
from NSF 
Role: PI 
Amount: $2,400 
Duration: September, 2008 – August, 2009  
Others collaborated: N/A  

FUNDED INTERNAL GRANTS
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Title: One-to-One Virtual Mentoring System (VMS) for Enhancing Student Programmer’s Programming Skill and Logical Thinking
Source: TAMUK Council for Undergraduate Research (TCUR)
Role: Co-PI
Amount: $4,500
Duration: January 2015 – July 2015
Others collaborated: Jeong Yang (PI)

Title: NSF Noyce Summer Internship Program
Source: TAMUK Support of Service Learning Courses or Programs
Role: Co-PI
Amount: $10,000
Duration: July 2015 – June 2016
Others collaborated: Monica Wong-Ratcliff (PI)

Title: NSF Noyce Summer Internship Program
Source: TAMUK Support of Service Learning Courses or Programs
Role: Co-PI
Amount: $10,000
Duration: January 2015 – June 2015
Others collaborated: Monica Wong-Ratcliff (PI)

Title: Developing a New Optimal Evacuation Route and Real-time Evacuation Routing Aid based on the Eagle Ford Shale development in South Texas 
Source: COE and CREST-RESSACA seed project awards 
Role: Co-PI 
Amount: $11,907 
Duration: November 20, 2012 – December 31, 2013 
Others collaborated: Joon-Yeoul Oh (PI), Richard A. Aukerman (Co-PI) 
 
Title: Development of Air Pollution Alert System: Integrating Air Quality Forecasting Models and Location-aware Mobile Devices 
Source: University Research Award 
Role: Co-PI 
Amount: $14,997 
Duration: January 1, 2012 – June 1, 2013 
Others collaborated: Nuri Yilmazer (PI), Kuo-Jen Liao (Co-PI) 
 
Title: Mobile Device Programming Laboratory in Support of Graduate Education and Economic Development 
Source: University College/Office of Title V Program/PPOHA Internal Equipment Grant 
Role: PI 
Amount: $16,980 
Date: April, 2011 
Others collaborated: Robert Diersing (PI) 
 
Title: Categorizing Object-Oriented Software Architecture 
Source: University Research Award 
Role: PI 
Amount: $12,300 
Duration: October, 2010 – December, 2011 
Others collaborated: Wei-Da Hao (Co-PI)