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The Smart Bridge project is multidisciplinary and invloves more than ten faculty members from six academic departments and research institutes at Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma. They take lead roles in initiating, conducting, and supervising the research and technology activities of the Smart Bridge.
Several graduate and undergraduate students participate in the project activities and work closely with the faculty to accomplish the project tasks. In addition to receiving financial assistance, students utilize the research findings in preparing their graduate thesis and creative components.
Dr. Jeffrey Spitler, professor of Mechanical Engineering at OSU serves as the overall project coordinator and manager. The following sections provide breif biographical sketches of the principal investigators and links to their web pages.
School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Oklahoma State University
Dr. Spitler's major areas of interest include convective and radiative heat transfer in buildings, building simulation and energy analysis, design of building environmental systems, ground source heat pump systems, and thermal systems analysis, simulation and design.
Jeff Spitler is involved in the smart bridge simulation and design software development, system design and installation guidelines, control systems strategies and testing of the medium-scale smart bridge deck heating system. He also serves as the overall project coordinator and manager.
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Ronald Delahoussaye's major areas of interest include computer-aided engineering design and manufacturing; finite element analysis; dynamic systems; and robotics.
Dr. Delahoussaye is involved in the smart bridge design software development.
School of Biosystems & Agricultural Engineering, Oklahoma State University
Ronald Elliott's major areas of interest include automated weather networks; soil-water-plant-atmosphere relations; evapotranspiration; irrigation management; and plant growth modeling.
Dr. Elliott is involved in the smart bridge weather inputs; and development of integrated control strategies.
Daniel Fisher's major areas of interest include convective and radiative heat transfer in buildings, building simulation and energy analysis, design of building environmental systems, ground source heat pump systems, and thermal systems analysis, simulation and design.
Dr. Fisher is involved in the simulation and design software development and the surrogate bridge freezing sensors.
Department of Economics, University of Oklahoma
Alexander Holmes's major areas of interest include human resources, public finance, economics, econometrics and statistics.
Dr. Holmes is involved in the Overall life-cycle economic analysis of the smart bridge.
Environmental Institute, Oklahoma State University
Edward Knobbe's major areas of interest include corrosion-resistant surface treatments; electrochemical methods of corrosion assessment; environmentally-compliant materials and processes; and thin film materials preparation and characterization.
Dr. Knobbe is involved in the assessment of salt penetration and corrosion of steel reinforcement in bridge decks.
Simon Rees's major areas of interest include convective and radiative heat transfer in buildings, building simulation and energy analysis, design of building environmental systems, ground source heat pump systems, and thermal systems analysis, simulation and design.
Dr. Rees is involved in the simulation and design software development for the smart bridge.
Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology, Oklahoma State University
Marvin Smith's major areas of interest include applied fluid flow and heat transfer, and ground source heat pump applications.
Dr. Smith is involved in the deign of ground loop heat exchangers and testing of the medium-scale smart bridge deck heating system.
School of Chemical Engineering, Oklahoma State University
Rob Whiteley's major areas of interest include monitoring, control and optimization of industrial and biomedical processes; artificial intelligence; neural networks; fuzzy logic; knowledge-based systems; and pattern recognition.
Dr. Whiteley is involved in the smart bridge weather inputs and development of integrated control strategies for the smart bridge.
School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Oklahoma State University
Samir Ahmed's major areas of interest include design, planning and management of transportation facilities; intelligent transportation systems; systems modeling, simulation and optimization; and quality assurance/control.
Dr. Ahmed is involved in the integration of the smart bridge with ITS, Overall life-cycle economic analysis and technology transfer.
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