• PROPOSAL TITLE: "An initiative to increase research and education in sustainability engineering"

•        AGENCY/PROGRAM: USDA/HIS (Hispanic Serving Institutions)
•        TYPE:  Regular proposal
•        ROLE:  PI
•        COLLABORATORS: Drs.  J. Espiritu, C. Gomez and N. Vargas.
•        DATE SUBMITTED TO AGENCY: 2/06/09
•        PROPOSED AMOUNT: $296,000
•        DATES OF EXECUTION:  Aug 2009 - July 2012
•        STATUS: funded

• PROPOSAL TITLE: "Level of repair analysis (LORA) modeling for Orion subsystems"

•        AGENCY/PROGRAM: EPRO-NASA-Orion/ Hamilton Sundstrand
•        ROLE:  Co-PI
•        COLLABORATORS: Drs. R. Pineda and J. Espiritu
•        DATE SUBMITTED TO AGENCY: 2/25/09
•        PROPOSED AMOUNT: $166, 000
•        DATES OF EXECUTION:  June 2009 - Dec 2009
•        STATUS: funded

• PROPOSAL TITLE: "Investigation and development of new models and algorithms for the solution of multi-objective optimization problems using evolutionary algorithms"

•        AGENCY/PROGRAM: URI (University Teacher Institutional) Award
•        TYPE:  UTEP - Internal proposal
•        ROLE:  PI
•        COLLABORATORS: NA
•        DATE SUBMITTED TO AGENCY: 11/2007
•        AMOUNT: $5,000
•        DATES OF EXECUTION:  Dec 2007- Aug 2008
•        STATUS: funded

• AWARD - UTEP NSF/ADVANCE ($10 000) -. Sept 2007 - Aug 2008.