| San Francisco Municipal Railway: |
Five separate projects involving study, analysis, design, and testing of cable car components |
Pfaelzer/Hotchkiss |
$115,000 |
| California Public Utilities Commission: |
1. Analysis of Electric power |
Goodarzi |
$61,500 |
| 2. A study of rail crossing safety |
Tarakji |
$50,000 |
| Hewlett-Packard, Inc.: |
Vibration study of buildings |
Owen |
$11,500 |
| Chevron Corporation: |
1. Analysis of reverse torques in cooling tower fan systems |
Pfaelzer/Trauner |
$18,200 |
| 2. Seismic consideration in steel |
D'Obrazio |
$8,500 |
| 3. Experimental verification of a chain damper |
Pfaelzer/Owen |
$28,100 |
| Chevron Pipeline Corporation: |
1. Comparison of Maximum Allowable Pressure equations for corroded petroleum pipelines |
Abo-El-Ata |
$16,820 |
| 2. Development of computer program to predict pipeline leakage |
Wheeler |
$7,584 |
| Vitaphore Corporation: |
Feasibility study for a remotely steerable catheter |
Holton |
$5,700 |
| Pacific Gas & Electric: |
1. Study of cable wear on single strand aluminum conductors |
Pfaelzer |
$16,200 |
| 2. Study of electromagnetic radiation from household appliences |
Pantic-Tanner |
$25,000 |
| 3. Evaluation of evolving computer user interface standards for PG&E environments |
Shahnasser |
$25,000 |
| 4. Develop a computerized method of recording standardized battery characteristic data using curve fitting algorithms |
Liou |
$10,000 |
| 5. Develop a computer based methodology and formulation for calculating the thermodynamic properties of mixtures of fuel gasses |
Ganji |
$25,000 |
| 6. Development of a computer based plant monitoring and warning system |
Shahnasser |
$25,000 |
| Centers for Disease Control: |
1. From injured persons to public policies (subcontract to UC San Francisco) |
Pfaelzer |
$49,000 |
| 2. Development of Wheelchair designs to prevent frontal falls (subcontract to UCSF) |
Phaelzer/Hotchkiss |
$42,232 |
| Dames & Moore, Inc.: |
Concept design for a Geotechnical Lab including equipment lists and layouts. |
D'Orazio |
$6,000 |
| Settle Laboratories: |
Design of an alpha-wave (brainwave) controller for disabled persons |
Franco |
$0 |
| Caltrans: |
1. Design evaluation and proto-type testing of wheelchair lifts for peninsula commuter trains. Wheeled Mobility Center |
Owen/Pfaelzer |
$169,450 |
| 2. Development of a formula/guidelines for allowable contractor home office overhead costs. |
Tarakji/Elimam |
$34,944 |
| U.S. Department of Education: |
"Click'n'Zoom"; development of a portable wheelchair power assistance |
Pfaelzer |
$50,000 |
| Concrete Contractors Association of America: |
A study of a new design concept for post tensioned slabs-on-ground |
Aalami |
$10,000 |
| Pacific Bell: |
1.Two project to study improvement to design/strength of variuos metal fasteners |
Abo-El-Ata/Sherman |
$29,000 |
| 2.Investigation of concrete anchorage devices |
Tarakji |
$23,800 |
| 3. Design of new cable securing system and strength analysis of cable parts |
Abo-El-Ata |
$20,000 |
| NASA-Ames: |
1. Computer-aided seismic analysis of building N230 |
Owen |
$2,200 |
| 2. Concept Design for a centrifuge mounted Human Habitat |
Pfaelzer/Owen |
$10,000 |
| 3. Preliminary Design for centrifuge mounted Human Habitat |
Owen/Pfaelzer |
$15,000 |
| 4. Full Scale Model of Human Habitat |
Pfaelzer/Owen |
$15,000 |
| 5. Concept Design for centrfuge mounted animal research habitat |
Owen/Pfaelzer |
$30,000 |
| 6. Conceptual design for centrifuge mounted habitat resupply system. Donnely (DAI) |
Pfaelzer/Owen |
$30,000 |
| City of San Francisco: |
1. City and County of San Francisco Study of the effects of Trenching on pavement life |
Tarakji |
$10,000 |
| 2. Pavement Conditions surveys throughout San Francisco |
Tarakji |
$25,400 |
SF State University
(Facilities Operations): |
Study of water usage at SFSU and recommendations for improvement |
Trauner/Tarakji |
$10,000 |
| Through the Looking Glass: |
1. Follow on project to develop adaptive child care equipment for disabled parents |
Pfaelzer |
$9,038 |
| 2. Development of adaptive equipment to allow disabled parents to care for infants |
Pfaelzer |
$8,488 |
| U.S. Air Force |
Research on Switched Reluctance Motors |
Liou |
$20,000 |
| SFSU Transportation Office: |
Design and feasibility test of prototype solar battery charger |
Trauner |
$1,000 |
| National Security Agency (NSA): |
1. Study of requirements and recommended strategies for future LAN within Department of Defence |
Shahnasser |
$76,975 |
| 2. Compilation of programmable logic devices now on the market |
Hu |
$40,450 |
| 3. Development of full wave electro-magnetic model for high data rate circuits |
Pantic-Tanner |
$83,180 |
| Lockheed-Martin: |
Research on motion control devices and instrumentation |
Liou |
$12,000 |
| United Airlines: |
Develop and conduct training courses for Engineering personnel |
Trauner/Krishnan |
$20,000 |
| California Energy Commision |
Development of energy workshops for small business training at various sites throughout California. (in conjunction with CA1, Energy Commission, and San Diego State University |
Ganji |
$10,000 |
