← LeaderboardsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Carthage College
Kenosha, WI
$11,556,991
Total funding
29
Grants
Funding over time
peak $3.7M · FY2006–24$5M$3.8M$2.5M$1.3M$0
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Funding mix
By agency
NASA$6,461,484 · 10
NSF$4,349,526 · 18
NIH$745,981 · 1
By mechanism
—$10,811,010 · 28
R00$745,981 · 1
Investigators at Carthage College
InvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Exposure= the full size of every grant they're on ($1M each).
Rising Stars
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Largest grants
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES THE WISCONSIN SPACE GRANT CONSORTIUM WILL PROVIDE LEADERSHIP IN AEROSPACE RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND OUTREACH THROUGHOUT THE STATE$3,602,283
· FY2015 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
A Community Building Approach to Preparing Secondary Science and Math Teachers$1,197,872
· FY2017 · EDU
KNOWLEDGE OF THE LOCATION AND MOTION OF THE ULLAGE BUBBLE INSIDE A LIQUID PROPELLANT TANK IS CRITICAL FOR ENGINE RESTART OF SPACECRAFT AND FOR PROPELLANT TRANSFER$742,090
· FY2022 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Equipment: CC*Network-Campus: Carthage College Next-Gen Science Network$619,900
· FY2024 · CSE
OUR FLIGHT TESTS WILL VALIDATE THE CFD MODELS WE HAVE DEVELOPED ALLOWING THEIR USE TO ESTIMATE FULL-SCALE LIQUID VOLUME FRACTIONS.$609,419
· FY2021 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Science Communication Skill Building for Undergraduates$527,310
· FY2016 · EDU
BRC-BIO: Development of two biochemical tools to study Potato virus Y infection in plants$498,983
· FY2024 · BIO
THE PROPOSED EFFORT EXTENDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODAL PROPELLANT GAUGING (MPG) PROJECT TO ADDRESS PROPULSION SYSTEMS CURRENTLY UNDER CONSIDERATION FOR THE LUNAR GATEWAY MISSION ARCHITECTURE.$482,692
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Community Alliance for STEM Teaching (CAST): Building Capacity for Recruiting and Preparing Future STEM Teachers through Community-based Research$299,131
· FY2014 · EDU
THE MODAL PROPELLANT GAUGING EXPERIMENT SEEKS TO DEMONSTRATE THE INFUSION POTENTIAL OF A NON-INVASIVE INEXPENSIVE AND ROBUST METHOD FOR GAUGING BOTH SETTLED AND UNSETTLED PROPELLANT AT GAUGING RESOLUTIONS OF 1% FOR SETTLED PROPELLANTS AND 2-4% FOR UNSETTLED SLOSHING PROPELLANTS. THE PROPOSED WORK REPRESENTS A SIGNIFICANT EXPANSION OF THE PREVIOUSLY FUNDED PROGRAM OBJECTIVES TO ADDRESS IMMEDIATE NEEDS IN THE ORION/SLS EXPLORATION MISSION ARCHITECTURE. SPECIFICALLY WE ADDRESS TWO CENTRAL OBJECTIVES IN THE PROPOSED WORK. (1) WE INTEND TO DEMONSTRATE 1% ZERO-G GAUGING RESOLUTIONS OF BAFFLE-SETTLED REALISTIC PROPELLANT SIMULANT IN MODEL PROPELLANT TANKS WITH INTERNAL PROPELLANT MANAGEMENT STRUCTURES. (2) WE INTEND TO VERIFY A CENTRAL HYPOTHESIS OF THE MPG APPROACH WHICH IS THAT THE MASS-LOADING OF TANK WALLS (AND THEREFORE THE MODAL FREQUENCIES) IS UNIQUELY DETERMINED BY THE ADHERED LIQUID LAYER. IN ORDER TO MEET THE PROPOSED OBJECTIVES TWO DISTINCT EXPERIMENTS WILL BE CARRIED OUT. THE FIRST OBJECTIVE WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED USING THE MPG PARABOLIC FLIGHT RIG WITH BAFFLE-SETTLED PROPELLANT SIMULANT. WE LL USE ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL (IPA) TO BETTER REPRESENT THE BOND NUMBER AND OTHER LIQUID-STRUCTURE PARAMETERS OF CRYOGENIC PROPELLANTS IN REAL TANKS. THE EXISTING COMPOSITE OVERWRAPPED VESSEL (COPV) TANKS WILL BE OUTFITTED WITH PROPELLANT MANAGEMENT DEVICES AND RING BAFFLES TO ACCURATELY REPRODUCE THE INTERNAL STRUCTURES OF THE ORION PROPELLANT TANKS. THE BAFFLES WILL BE DESIGNED AND TESTED TO PRODUCE SETTLED LIQUIDS WITHIN SECONDS AFTER THE ONSET OF ZERO-G PORTION OF THE PARABOLIC FLIGHT TRAJECTORY. THE TEST PLAN FOR OBJECTIVE 1 IS TO ACQUIRE 24 DATA POINTS AT 1% FILL-FRACTION INTERVALS AT 5 DATA POINTS PER FILL LEVEL (4X PARABOLIC FLIGHTS). THE SECOND OBJECTIVE WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED BY ESTABLISHING A ZERO-G EQUILIBRIUM LIQUID SURFACE AT THREE DIFFERENT FILL FRACTIONS IN SIMPLIFIED MODEL TANKS. WE WILL CORRELATE THE MODAL FREQUENCY SPECTRUM AT EACH FILL FRACTION TO THE ADHERED LIQUID LAYER MASS USING CAMERAS TO VERIFY SURFACE EQUILIBRIUM AND TO MEASURE ADHERED LIQUID MASS FRACTION AND BY USING OUR STANDARD MODAL SENSORS AND COMPUTATIONAL HARDWARE TO MEASURE MODAL RESPONSE. WE HAVE CARRIED OUT COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) CALCULATIONS TO DETERMINE THE TANK SIZE AND FILL FRACTION SUCH THAT AN EQUILIBRIUM SURFACE CAN BE OBTAINED WITHIN THE FIRST MINUTE OF THE 2.5 MINUTES OF ZERO-G AFFORDED BY THE BLUE ORIGIN NEW SHEPARD SUBORBITAL VEHICLE. THE REMAINING 1.5 MINUTES WILL BE USED TO ACQUIRE MODAL DATA OF THE THREE TANKS WITH SETTLED LIQUID SURFACES.THE TEST PLAN FOR OBJECTIVE 2 IS TO UTILIZE A DOUBLE-LOCKER PAYLOAD EXPERIMENT ON BLUE ORIGIN S NEW SHEPARD VEHICLE. WE PROPOSE A SINGLE FLIGHT WITH AN EXPERIMENT CONSISTING OF THREE 6-INCH DIAMETER MODEL TANKS AT THREE DIFFERENT FILL FRACTIONS FOR WHICH SETTLED SURFACES CAN BE ACHIEVED IN<1 MINUTE OF CLEAN 0-G. PROPELLANT IS THE PRIMARY LIFE-LIMITING RESOURCE ON SPACECRAFT. ACCURATE GAUGING OF PROPELLANT VOLUME IN A MICROGRAVITY ENVIRONMENT HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED BY THE NASA EXPLORATION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE STUDY (ESAS) FINAL REPORT AS AN AREA REQUIRING SIGNIFICANT FURTHER DEVELOPMENT. THE MICROGRAVITY ENVIRONMENT RENDERS DIRECT VOLUME MEASUREMENT USING TRADITIONAL BUOYANCY- AND LEVEL-BASED TECHNIQUES INEFFECTIVE. INSTEAD INDIRECT METHODS ARE CURRENTLY USED TO ESTABLISH PROPELLANT VOLUME. THESE METHODS INCUR CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONAL MASS AND EXPENSE TO MISSION ARCHITECTURES. ADDITIONALLY TRADITIONAL METHODS OF PROPELLANT GAUGING SUFFER FROM DECREASING ACCURACY AS THE TANK EMPTIES SO THAT MASS-GAUGING ACCURACY IS LOWEST AT THE END OF MISSION LIFE WHEN GAUGING ACCURACY IS MOST IMPORTANT. FINALLY PREVIOUS WORK ON MPG HAS ATTRACTED IMMEDIATE INFUSION INTEREST FROM ORION PROGRAM MANAGERS AND THEIR SUPPORT FOR THIS PROPOSAL HAS HELPED SHAPE THE DIRECTION OF THE TECHNOLOGY MATURATION PLAN FOR THIS PROJECT.$280,967
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THE MAGNETO-ACTIVE SLOSH CONTROL (MASC) PROJECT BRINGS TOGETHER TWO EXISTING EFFORTS IN ACTIVE SLOSH SUPPRESSION AND IN-SPACE PROPELLANT GAUGING TO BOTH REDUCE GAUGING ERRORS IN SPACECRAFT AND LAUNCH VEHICLES AND ELIMINATE DESTABILIZING LIQUID SLOSH DURING VEHICLE MANEUVERS. THE MODAL PROPELLANT GAUGING (MPG) EFFORT IS A NONINVASIVE APPROACH TO PROPELLANT GAUGING THAT HAS DEMONSTRATED SUB-1% GAUGING RESOLUTION IN SETTLED LIQUIDS AND 2-4% RESOLUTION IN UNSETTLED (SLOSHING) LIQUIDS ABOARD PARABOLIC FLIGHTS. MPG IS CURRENTLY BEING DEVELOPED FOR INFUSION INTO THE SLS/ORION EM3 ARCHITECTURE. THE CURRENT PROJECT IS AN EFFORT TO FURTHER ENHANCE THE GAUGING RESOLUTION OF MPG IN SLOSHING PROPELLANT THROUGH THE INCLUSION OF A FREE-FLOATING DIAPHRAGM THAT CAN BE POSITIONED AUTONOMOUSLY WITHIN THE LIQUID USING SMALL MAGNETIC FIELD GRADIENTS AND WHICH CAN BE STIFFENED BY ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE OVER ITS UN-ACTIVATED STATE USING STATIC MAGNETIC FIELDS. WHEN INTEGRATED WITH THE MPG FLIGHT RIG THE DIAPHRAGM A MAGNETO-ACTIVE PROPELLANT MANAGEMENT DEVICE (MAPMD) CAN BE AUTONOMOUSLY CONTROLLED SUCH THAT IT REMAINS NEAR THE LIQUID SURFACE OF THE CYLINDRICAL TANK AT ALL FILL LEVELS AND CAN STIFFEN IN RESPONSE TO SLOSH SURGES. THE MAPMD IS A PATENTED TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPED BY EMBRY RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY AND HAS DEMONSTRATED EFFECTIVE SLOSH SUPPRESSION IN 1-G LABORATORY TESTING. THE DIAPHRAGM CONSISTS OF A METALLIC ALLOY MESH EMBEDDED IN A FLEXIBLE POLYMER MATRIX. THE PARTICULAR METALLIC ALLOY BELONGS TO A CLASS OF MATERIALS THAT EXHIBIT UNUSUALLY LARGE MAGNETOSTRICTION ELONGATION UNDER APPLIED MAGNETIC FIELDS. WHEN THE MESH IS EXPOSED TO AN EXTERNAL STATIC MAGNETIC FIELD THE FIBERS OF THE MESH EXPAND CAUSING THE MESH TO STIFFEN. THE ACTIVATED (RIGID) MESH SUPPRESSES SLOSH WAVES IN AN UNDERLYING LIQUID. UNDER A GRAVITATIONAL FIELD THE MAPMD FLOATS ON THE SURFACE OF THE LIQUID. IN MICROGRAVITY THE POSITION AND MOTION OF THE DIAPHRAGM CAN BE CONTROLLED AUTONOMOUSLY BY A SET OF FIELD COILS EXTERNAL TO THE TANK THAT BOTH SENSE THE POSITION OF THE DIAPHRAGM AND PROVIDE FIELD GRADIENTS TO DRIVE THE DIAPHRAGM INTO POSITION AT THE SURFACE OF THE LIQUID. IN COMPUTER SIMULATIONS THE FIELD GRADIENT CONTROL (FGC) METHOD OF POSITIONING THE MAPMD HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED TO EFFECTIVELY CONTROL THE DIAPHRAGM BUT REQUIRES PARABOLIC FLIGHTS TO ESTABLISH OPERATIONAL VALUES OF KEY PARAMETERS. MPG IS A WELL-TESTED TRL6 TECHNOLOGY PREVIOUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE FLIGHT OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAM TO DEMONSTRATE THE NON-INVASIVE MEASUREMENT OF PROPELLANT IN ZERO-G USING SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES PROPAGATING ON THE EXTERIOR OF A PROPELLANT TANK. THE PRESENCE OF LIQUID ADHERED TO THE INNER TANK WALL MASS-LOADS THE TANK AND THEREBY MODIFIES ITS RESONANT MODE FREQUENCIES. USING A REALTIME MODAL ANALYSIS IMPLEMENTATION THE MPG TECHNOLOGY CAN TRANSLATE THESE MODAL SHIFTS INTO ESTIMATES OF CONTAINED LIQUID MASS PROVIDING A FUEL GAUGE THAT REQUIRES NO INTERNAL HARDWARE OR TANK MODIFICATIONS OPERATES IN REAL-TIME AND ADDS LITTLE MASS TO TANK SYSTEMS. THE INTEGRATION OF ACTIVE SLOSH SUPPRESSION INTO THE MPG ARCHITECTURES PROMISES TO ADDRESS A KEY NASA TECHNOLOGY ROADMAP GOAL OF INSPACE PROPELLANT GAUGING OF UNSETTLED (SLOSHING) PROPELLANT WITH AN ACCURACY OF AT LEAST 2%. WITH CURRENT PROPELLANT MARGINS OF 10% OR MORE REQUIRE TO ACCOMMODATE UNCERTAINTIES IN GAUGING THE MASC EFFORT REPRESENTS A SUBSTANTIAL ECONOMIC BENEFIT ACROSS COMMERCIAL SPACE INDUSTRIES WHILE PROVIDING ENHANCED MISSION FLEXIBILITY. IF MASC CAN BE DEMONSTRATED TO SCALE WELL TO LAUNCH VEHICLES THE INCREASED SAFETY MARGINS AFFORDED BY REDUCED PROBABILITY OF SLOSH-INDUCED INSTABILITIES WILL BE OF SUBSTANTIAL BENEFIT TO COMMERCIAL LAUNCH PROVIDERS AND TO THE SLS/ORION PROGRAM.$271,749
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
MRI Track 1: Acquisition of an Atomic Force Microscope for Nanoscale Characterization and Force Investigation$258,820
· FY2024 · ENG
Cytoskeletal regulation and Yap/Taz activity in differentiating retinal neurons$248,999
R00 · FY2018 · EY
Cytoskeletal regulation and Yap/Taz activity in differentiating retinal neurons$248,491
R00 · FY2020 · EY
Cytoskeletal regulation and Yap/Taz activity in differentiating retinal neurons$248,491
R00 · FY2019 · EY
RUI: The Biogeography of Forest Change: Drought and Crown Fire in Ponderosa Pine Forests of the American Southwest$191,954
· FY2008 · SBE
THE MODAL PROPELLANT GAUGING (MPG) EXPERIMENT IS DESIGNED TO ASSESS THE MASS GAUGING RESOLUTION OF A NOVEL IMPLEMENTATION OF EXPERIMENTAL MODAL ANALYSIS EMA. THE CENTRAL OBJECTIVES OF THE MPG EXPERIMENT ARE TO RECORD THE MODAL RESPONSE OF A MODEL PROPELLANT TANK AT DIFFERENT FILL LEVELS UNDER UNSETTLED MICROGRAVITY CONDITIONS AND RECORD THE MODAL RESPONSE OF THE PROPELLANT TANK DURING SIMULATED PROPELLANT TRANSFER. PHASE II OF THE MODAL PROPELLANT GAUGING MPG PROJECT WILL ASSESS THE GAUGING RESOLUTION OF THE MPG TECHNIQUE AT LOW FILL FRACTIONS FOR UNSETTLED SLOSHING PROPELLANT SIMULANT. PHASE II WILL UTILIZE A FULL FIDELITY PROPELLANT TANK WITH FLIGHT HERITAGE AND WILL EXTEND THE GAUGING ANALYSIS TO ACCOMMODATE CHANGES IN TANK PRESSURE DURING LOW GRAVITY PROPELLANT TRANSFER OPERATIONS. FINALLY PHASE II WILL ALLOW FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF SLOSH MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATED UNCERTAINTY ASSIGNMENTS TO GAUGING ESTIMATES. THE EMA TECHNIQUE IS AN INEXPENSIVE NON INVASIVE AND COMPUTATIONALLY ROBUST METHOD OF ASSESSING PROPELLANT MASS THROUGH ITS EFFECT ON STRUCTURAL RESONANCE MODES IN THE PROPELLANT TANK. EMA IS A COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUE THAT EXTRACTS THE RESONANT MODES OF THE STRUCTURE FROM REAL TIME VIBRATIONAL DATA OBTAINED FROM SENSORS AFFIXED TO THE STRUCTURE. THE NATURAL RESONANCES OF A STRUCTURE DEPEND ON THE STIFFNESS AND THE EFFECTIVE MASS OF THE STRUCTURE AND SO THE EMA TECHNIQUE CAN BE USED TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTIVE MASS OF THE PROPELLANT TANK. THE EFFECTIVE MASS OF THE TANK IS IN TURN DEPENDENT ON THE MASS LOADING OF THE STRUCTURE BY ITS LIQUID CONTENTS. EMA USES THE SHIFTS IN RESONANT FREQUENCIES OF THE TANK AS LIQUID LEVEL CHANGES TO CALCULATE THE CHANGE IN EFFECTIVE MASS OF THE TANK AND THEREBY THE CHANGE IN LIQUID MASS. PROPELLANT IS THE PRIMARY LIFE-LIMITING RESOURCE ON SPACECRAFT. ACCURATE GAUGING OF PROPELLANT VOLUME IN A MICROGRAVITY ENVIRONMENT HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED BY THE NASA EXPLORATION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE STUDY ESAS FINAL REPORT AS AN AREA REQUIRING SIGNIFICANT FURTHER DEVELOPMENT. THE MICROGRAVITY ENVIRONMENT RENDERS DIRECT VOLUME MEASUREMENT USING TRADITIONAL BUOYANCY- AND LEVEL BASED TECHNIQUES INEFFECTIVE. INSTEAD INDIRECT METHODS ARE CURRENTLY USED TO ESTABLISH PROPELLANT VOLUME. THESE METHODS INCUR CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONAL MASS AND EXPENSE TO MISSION ARCHITECTURES. ADDITIONALLY TRADITIONAL METHODS OF PROPELLANT GAUGING SUFFER FROM DECREASING ACCURACY AS THE TANK EMPTIES SO THAT MASS-GAUGING ACCURACY IS LOWEST AT THE END OF MISSION LIFE WHEN GAUGING ACCURACY IS MOST IMPORTANT.$162,994
· FY2016 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
MICROGRAVITY PROPELLANT GAUGING USING MODAL ANALYSIS: PHASE III$144,795
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
RUI: Biogeographical Impacts of Recent Bark Beetle Epidemics on Cavity-Nesting Birds in Arizona.$132,757
· FY2006 · SBE
THE MODAL PROPELLANT GAUGING (MPG) EXPERIMENT IS DESIGNED TO ASSESS THE MASS GAUGING RESOLUTION OF A NOVEL IMPLEMENTATION OF EXPERIMENTAL MODAL ANALY$123,695
· FY2015 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration