Award of the North American Mixing Forum (NAMF) Startup Grant
Dr. Guiren Wang was the recipient of the "STARTUP GRANT IN MIXING" research award from the North American Mixing Forum (NAMF) announced at the November 2009 AIChE meeting in Nashville, TN. NAMF is affiliated with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. The biennial grant is awarded to only one tenure-track, yet untenured, faculty member at a Ph.D. granting institution in entire North America.

20th Concours d'Elegance of the Eastern Unisted States
A team of students from the Mechanical Engineering Department, Columbia represented the University of South Carolina with the first ever invited display at the Hilton Head Concours d'Elegance, Oct. 30, Nov. 1, 2009. Anthony James and Bronsen Harding, along with advisor Ken Reifsnider and SOFC Center Lab Manager Lee Woolley, presented the scooter car that has been converted to run on hydrogen. (article)

Prof. Bayoumi received research awards totaling $976,500 in the general area of Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM).  The awards include the development of the new generation of Health Monitoring Systems ($757,500, to include Lubrication and Oil Analysis ($125,000) as a means of sensing, and  to carry-out more Aircraft component testing ($94,000). All the three tasks are DOD grants through the South Carolina Army National Guard.