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Kyle E. Niemeyer, Ph.D.

I am recruiting one Ph.D. student and one postdoc to work on funded positions starting as soon as 15 September 2025, but open until filled. Please see the descriptions on the Lab page.



My students and I receive funding from many sources.

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School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering— My group's primary source of funding is the School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering (MIME) at Oregon State University. It pays nine months of my salary, it sometimes subsidizes my graduate students' time through teaching assistantships, it provides space and staff support, and it provides my core intellectual community. The School of MIME's resources come from tuition, fees, and taxes from the Oregon state government, and philanthropic giving.
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National Science Foundation— The majority of my sponsored research is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, which is tax-funded. I write proposals, which are confidentially evaluated by my peers, and when my peers and NSF find my proposals to have compelling intellectual merit and potential for broader impact, I receive grants. I use these grants to support my summer salary; my graduate students' stipends, benefits, and tuition; my lab's research expenses, hourly undergraduate research assistants, and our travel. My NSF awards include:
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SERDP— The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) has funded collaborative research projects studying smoldering combustion and wildland fire. My SERDP funding projects include:
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Sloan Foundation— The Sloan Foundation has supported some of my activites as part of URSSI, the US Research Software Sustainability Institute:
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NASA— NASA has also supported my group's research into computational methods relevant to aerospace applications:
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Chevron— Some of my early work at Oregon State was supported by Chevron, in collaboration with Chris Hagen. Despite the industry connection, this work was fairly fundamental, and mostly looked at suitability of fuels for advanced, highly efficient, low-temperature compression-ignition engines:
  • Further Development of Fuel Autoignition Index Based on Infrared Absorption
  • Advanced Internal Combustion Engine Fuel Modeling and Testing Phase II

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