Our group receives funding from many sources.
School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering— Our primary source of funding is the School of Mechanical, Industrial, and
Manufacturing Engineering (MIME) at Oregon State University.
It pays nine months of Kyle's salary, it sometimes subsidizes our graduate students' time
through teaching assistantships, it provides space and staff support, and it provides
our core intellectual community. The School of MIME's resources come from tuition, fees,
and taxes from the Oregon state government, and
philanthropic giving.
National Science Foundation— The majority of our sponsored research is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, which is tax-funded.
We write proposals, which are confidentially evaluated by peers, and when those peers and NSF find our proposals to have compelling intellectual merit and potential for broader impact, we receive grants.
These grants support summer salary; our graduate students' stipends, benefits, and tuition; our research expenses, hourly undergraduate research assistants, and our travel.
Our NSF awards include:
SERDP— The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) has funded collaborative research projects studying smoldering combustion and wildland fire.
Our SERDP funding projects include:
Sloan Foundation— The Sloan Foundation has supported some of our activities as part of
URSSI,
the US Research Software Sustainability Institute:
NASA— NASA has also supported our research into computational methods
relevant to aerospace applications:
Chevron— Some of our 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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