JCATI Funded Research

Each year, JCATI issues research awards to university faculty from across Washington State partnering with WA aerospace companies. Award funding begins July 1.

2023 JCATI Awardees

Water cavitation abrasive surface finishing for advancing metal AM in the aerospace industry
PI: Dwyane Arola (UW) Industry Partners: Boeing, Sugino Corp Amount: $119,785

Development of expanded insert technology to repair corrosion damage of aircraft fastener holes
PI: Dave Kim (WSU) Industry Partner: Fatigue Technologies Inc. Amount: $119,959

Autonomous mapping and escape-route planning for wildland fire-fighting operations
PI: Karen Leung (UW) Industry Partner: Freefly Systems Amount: $119,977

Recycling aerospace carbon fiber and waste plastics into value-added composites
PI: Hui Li (WSU) Industry Partners: Janicki Industries, DTG Recycle Amount: $98,939

Advanced control using multiple control surfaces for flexible aircraft efficiency, safety, and comfort
PI: Eli Livne (UW) Industry Partner: Boeing Amount: $119,987

Robustly-stable high-performance adaptive control of VTOL autonomous aerial vehicles
PI: Nestor Perez-Arancibia (WSU) Industry Partner: Zeva Aero Amount: $119,598

Simulation and modeling for manufacturing aerospace thermoplastic composites
PI: Mark Peyron (WWU) Industry Partner: Convergent Manufacturing Technology Amount: $109,643

Induction heating of discontinuous fiber composites: transforming aerospace scrap materials into medical prostheses
PI: Marco Salviato (UW) Industry Partners: Composite Recycling Technology Center, Fabtech LLC Amount: $120,000

Design, synthesis, and characterizaton of composite binders for high-energy lithium batteries with long cycle life
PI: Min-Kyu Song (WSU) Industry Partner: Ecellix Amount: $115,060

Measuring coating interfactial adhesion for aircraft rain erosion
PI: Junlan Wang (UW) Industry Partner: Boeing Amount: $120,000

Circular vat photopolymerization additive manufacturing and its application in aerospace tooling
PI: Baoming Zhao (WSU) Industry Partner: Boeing Amount: $114,559

2022 JCATI Awardees

Precise and reliable phased-array ultrasonic inspection of aerospace composite materials
PI: Xu Chen (UW) Industry Partners: Boeing, Kawasaki Amount: $113,046

Radar altimeter with 5G interference cancellation
PI: Subhanshu Gupta (WSU) Industry Partners: Boeing Amount: $120,000

Damage-free contour milling of freeze clamped high-modulous CFRP space products in a production environment
PI: Dave Kim (WSU) Industry Partners: Innovative Composites Amount: $113,804

Corrosion of stainless stees/Ti64 in green propellant environment for space vehicles
PI: Qizhen Li (WSU) Industry Partners: Aerojet Amount: $99,266

Low specific mass electric propulsion for small satellites
PI: Justin Little (UW) Industry Partners: Aerojet, Eagle Harbor Amount: $120,000

Ergonomic risk mitigation of composite hand layup using machine learning
PI: Krithika Manohar (UW) Industry Partners: Boeing Amount: $80,000

Recycling carbon fibers from cured composite scrap via mechanical-chemical recycling
PI: John Misasi (WWU) Industry Partners: Toray Amount: $95,177

Orthogonally coded near field scanning for rapid characterization of dynamic metamaterial antennas
PI: Matt Reynolds (UW) Industry Partners: Kymeta Amount: $97,904

Broadband self-interference cancellation for simultaneous transmit and receive radio communication with machine learning augmented adaptation and optimization
PI: Chris Rudell (UW) Industry Partners: Boeing Amount: $115,000

Recycling waste prepreg to bulk molding compound
PI: Ben Rutz (UW) Industry Partners: Boeing, Toray Amount: $112,076

Advanced manufacturing of thermoplastic aerospace structures: simulation and optimization of induction tooling
PI: Marco Salviato (UW) Industry Partners: Sekisui Aerospace Amount: $120,000

Development of novel liquid electrolytes for batteries in electric aircraft
PI: Min-Kyu Song (WSU) Industry Partners: Ecellix Amount: $106,231

Beyond visual line of sight drones for wilderness search and locate operations
PI: Juris Vagners (UW) Industry Partners: FreeFly Systems, Hood Tech Amount: $119,881

2021 JCATI Awardees

Real-time optimization based trajectory planing for spacecraft rendezvous and docking with electric propulsion
PI: Acikmese, Behcet (UW) Industry Partner: Starfish Space Amount: $115,000

Automating the preparation and maintenance of layup tooling for composite aerostructures and parts
PI: AlGeddawy, Tarek (WWU) Co-PI: Larson, Nicole Industry Partners: Sekisui Aerospace/Wilder Aerospace Amount: $59,711

Overcoming obstacles to the industrialization of metal powder bed fusion AM
PI: Arola, Dwayne (UW) Co-PI: Mamidala, Ramulu Industry Partners: The Boeing Company/Sentecor Solutions Amount: $104,194

Rapid heating of compression mold tooling
PI: Gill, David (WWU) Industry Partner: Sekisui Aerospace Amount: $55,595

Advanced friction model development supporting of the next-generation DigitalEx puller system
PI: Kim, Dave (WSU) Co-PI: Tan, Hua Industry Partner: Fatigue Technologies Inc. Amount: $100,000

Cryogenic origami fuel bladders Phase 3: scale size, pressure bladders, TRL level
PI: Leachman, Jake (WSU) Industry Partner: Blue Origin Amount: $78,000

Development of water-propellant electric thruster for multi-mode in-space propulsion
PI: Little, Justin (UW) Industry Partner: Tethers Unlimited Amount: $95,690

Ergonomic risk assessment of composite had layup using machine learning
PI: Manohar, Krithika (UW) Co-PI: Banerjee, Ashis Industry Partner: The Boeing Company Amount: $103,000

Aerodynamics and acoustics of urban eVTOL
PI: Matveev, Konstantin (WSU) Co-PI: Swenson, John Industry Partners: Zeva Aero Amount: $83,000

Chemical recycling demonstration of carbon-fiber epoxy composites
PI: Misasi, John (WWU) Co-PI:Hoekstra, Nicole/Larson, Nikki Industry Partners: Toray Amount: $104,024

Real time optimal sensing for robustness in aeroelastic control of fixed wing aircraft
PI: Morgansen, Kristi (UW) Co-PI: Livne, Eli Industry Partners: The Boeing Company/QuickSilver Aerospace Amount: $80,000

Non thermal plasma decontamination system for viral particles on complex surfaces
PI: Novosselov, Igor (UW) Co-PI: Meschke, John Industry Partners: Control Dynamics Inc. Amount: $73,000

Correlating the microstructure to nanomechanical properties of 3D printed metals for aerospace applications
PI: Wang, Junlan (UW) Industry Partner: Blue Origin Amount: $53,000

Developing a portable and multi-faceted inspection method for evaluation of tool surface condition and release coating and tool cleaning strategies in composites processing
PI: Zobeiry, Navid (UW) Co-PI: Chen, Xu Industry Partners: The Boeing Company Amount: $110,362

2020 JCATI Awardees

Development of a high temperature oxidation resistant Ti alloys
PI: Bandyopadhyay, Amit (WSU) Co-PI: Bose, Susmita Industry Partner: The Boeing Company Amount: $76,388

Mask-based sensor for real time monitoring SARS-CoV-2 infection
PI: Dong, Wen-ji (WSU) Co-PI: Qiu, Kaiyan Industry Partner: Altek Amount: $58,086

Wideband interference cancellation using true-time-delay receivers
PI: Gupta, Subhanshu (WSU) Co-PI: Heo, Deuk Industry Partner: The Boeing Company Amount: $100,000

Further development of a tridyne microthruster for CubeSat applications
PI: Hermanson, Jim (UW) Co-PI: Knowlen, Carl Industry Partner: Aerojet Rocketdyne Amount: $81,819

Cryogenic fuel-bladders for in-space propellant storage Phase II
PI: Leachman, Jacob (WSU) Industry Partner: Blue Origin Amount: $100,000

Demonstration of low acoustic emissions control and propulsion of aerial vehicles
PI: Mamishev, Alexander (UW) Industry Partner: Aeroject Rocketdyne Amount: $100,000

High power density SOFC for more electric aircraft
PI: McLarty, Dustin(WSU) Co-PI: Drazin, John Industry Partner: The Boeing Company Amount: $85,000

Sensor-based modeling for commercial aircraft model verification and validation to support ride quality
PI: Morgansen, Kristi (UW) Co-PI: Livne, Eli Industry Partner: The Boeing Company Amount: $99,976

Noise sensor network for workers protection in aerospace manufacturing
PI: Novosselov, Igor (UW) Industry Partners: The Boeing Company/SpecTree LLC Amount: $100,000

Surveillance and control of airborne COVID-19 transmission using non-thermal plasma reactor and hyper resolved aerosol sensor network
PI: Novosselov, Igor (UW) Co-PI:Meschke, John Industry Partners: Control Dynamics Inc/SpecTree LLC Amount: $40,000

Integrating combinatorial "model free" cure kinetics with composites simulation products
PI: Peyron, Mark (WWU) Industry Partner: Convergent Manufacturing Technologies Amount: $98,671

Computationally-assisted modeling of the manufacturing of recyled discontinuous fiber composites
PI: Salviato, Marco (UW) Co-PI: Yang, JK Industry Partners: Composite Recycling Technology Center/Chomarat NA/ES3 Inc. Amount: $100,000

Development of safe, high-energy all-solid-state batteries for electric aircraft
PI: Song, Min-Kyu (WSU) Industry Partner: Ecellix Inc. Amount: $86,536

Drone aided wilderness search and locate (SAL)
PI: Vagners, Juris (UW) Industry Partners: Applewhite Aero/Hood Technology/Chelan County Sheriff's Office Amount: $95,653

Minimization of jet fuel emissions via optimization of J-A1 fuel with the lignin-based jet fuel compositions and processing
PI: Yang, Bin (WSU) Industry Partners: Phonon Energy/Mercurius Biorefining/Polykala Technologies LLC Amount: $100,000

Self-repairable and recyclable carbon fiber reinforced epoxy vitrimer composites for aerospace application
PI: Zhang, Jinwen (WSU) Co-PI: Liu, Tuan Industry Partner: Global Fiberglass Solutions Amount: $80,444

Hybrid conversion process for producing sustainable aviation fuel from lignin
PI: Zhang, Xiao (WSU) Co-PI: Chen, Chunlong Industry Partner: The Boeing Company/Dason Technology Amount: $50,000

2019 JCATI Awardees

Advancing continuous carbon fiber-PPS filament for 3D printing thermoplastic componenets
PI: Arola, Dwayne (UW) Co-PI: Ohuchi, Fumio Industry Partner: Toray Amount: $99,855

Integrated true-time-delay beamforming for large-scale arrays
PI: Gupta, Subhanshu (WSU) Co-PI: Heo, Deuk Industry Partner: The Boeing Company Amount: $80,000

Development of a tridyne microthruster for CubeSat applications
PI: Hermanson, Jim (UW) Co-PI:Knowlen, Carl Industry Partner: Aerojet Rocketdyne Amount: $84,609

Modified expoxy prepreg system for improved out life
PI: Hoekstra, Nicole (WWU) Co-PI: Misasi, John Industry Partner: Hexcel Amount: $95,915

Fatigue simulation technologies of split-sleeve cold expanded aircraft holes for development of the new-generation instrumented puller system with advanced process monitoring
PI: Kim, Dave (WSU) Co-PI: Tan, Hua Industry Partner:Fatigue Technologies Amount: $85,274

Development of pilot-scale biphasic catalytic process for production of sustainable aviation fuels
PI: Lin, Hongfei (WSU) Industry Partner: Phillips 66 Amount: $100,000

Low acoustic emissions control and propulsion of aerial vehicles
PI: Mamishev, Alex (UW) Industry Partner: Aerojet Rocketdyne Amount: $100,000

Strong and durable permeable concrete pavements using cured composites from plane manufacturing
PI: Nassiri, Somayeh (WSU) Co-PI: Englund, Karl Industry Partner: The Boeing Company Amount: $60,000

Hybrid sensor network for workers exposure monitoring and intervention strategies
PI: Novosselov, Igor (UW) Industry Partners: The Boeing Company/SpecTree Amount: $100,000

Maximally-digital integrated ultra-wideband compact CMOS multibeam mm-wave phase array transceivers with ML-enhanced baseband processing
PI: Rudell, Chris (UW) Co-PI: Sathe, Vivesh Industry Partner: The Boeing Company Amount: $70,000

GPS degraded /denied navigation via cellular networks (CellNav)
PI: Vagners, Juris (UW) Industry Partners: T-Mobile/Hood Technology Amount: $88,3180

Machine learning-assisted composite design tool development
PI: Yang, Jinkyu (UW) Co-PIDevasia, Santosh Industry Partners: Electroimpact/Chomarat/Think Composites Amount: $70,000

Self-repairable and recyclable carbon fiber reinforced expoxy vitrimer composites for aerospace application
PI:Zhang, Jinwen (WSU) Co-PI:Liu, Tuan Industry Partner: Global Fiberglass Solutions Amount: $78,000