• Sole PI: NSF award for "Factors enabling the skilled use of manufacturing technologies and models of their effect on plant performance," start date Mar. 1, 1997. (Sponsors include the NSF and the National Association of Manufacturers). Total proposed cost of the project $290,884 over two year—request to NSF was for 93,046).(completed). To see reports of the project click on:
• Technology on the Factory Floor III: Benchmarking Manufacturing Technology Use in the US.
• Technology on the UK Factory Floor: A Survey Benchmarking Manufacturing Technology in Great Britain
• Unleashing the Power of Manufacturing Technology: The Experience of 15 U.S. Manufacturers.
• Co-Investigator: Army Missile Command project on Mil-standards and specifications, $25,000+, 1995(Completed).
• Sole investigator: Survey of IEEE Industry Applications Society Members, Approx. $10,000, 1994(completed).
• Co-Investigator: United Nations Development Project Grant to train four Engineering managers/executives from BEML, Bangalore, India, $15,000, 1994-95. (completed)
• Sole investigator: A proposal for studying the trends in manufacturing technologies adoption by U.S. manufactures: Updating of the 1990 pilot study, -NSF-SBR-9311807/4 -20464, $65,000 (completed).
• Co-principal investigator: Introduction to Team-Based Design for Students in Engineering, Business and Industrial Design, -NSF-DUE-9354523, $99,575 (complete).

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