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MIPS Round 

16

August

 

1995

August 1, 1995

DYAD Pharmaceutical Corporation

Columbia

 | 

Howard

 County

Project:

Inhibitor of DNA Topoisomerase I

Principal Investigator:

Russell
 
DiGate

Technologies:

Biotechnology / Genetic Engineering

MIPS Round 

16

August

 

1995

August 15, 1995

SprayChip Systems Corporation

Silver Spring

 | 

Prince George’s

 County

Project:

High-Brightness Visible LED's

Principal Investigator:

Jyh-Chia
 
Chen

Technologies:

Electrical / Power Engineering

MIPS Round 

16

August

 

1995

August 18, 1995

Stanley Black and Decker, Inc.

Towson

 | 

Baltimore

 County

Project:

Cordless Drilling

Principal Investigator:

Lung-Wen
 
Tsai

Technologies:

Mechanical Machinery

Black & Decker has been setting the standard for home improvement products since 1910. With roots in Baltimore, Maryland, the company evolved from a small machine shop that invented the first portable electric drill to a global manufacturing and marketing powerhouse. Black & Decker’s product line now includes a broad variety of products for both commercial and residential use.

MIPS Round 

16

September

 

1995

September 15, 1995

Northrop Grumman Corp

Baltimore

 | 

Baltimore

 County

Project:

Input Control for Job Shop Manufacturing

Principal Investigator:

Jeffrey
 
Herrmann
Professor

Technologies:

Factory Automation

Northrop Grumman Corporation offers an extraordinary portfolio of capabilities and technologies that enable the company to deliver innovative systems and solutions for applications that range from undersea to outer space and into cyberspace.

The company’s core competencies address emerging global security challenges in key areas, such as unmanned systems, cybersecurity, C4ISR, and logistics that are critical to the defense of the nation and its allies.

MIPS Round 

16

August

 

1995

August 18, 1995

Photonix (formerly Bio-Med Associates))

Neshanic Station

 | 

out-of-state

 County

Project:

Respiratory Oxygen Sensor

Principal Investigator:

Joseph
 
Lakowicz
Director, Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy

Technologies:

Software Development

MIPS Round 

16

August

 

1995

August 1, 1995

Digital Technics, L.P.(formerly Inc.)

Columbia

 | 

Howard

 County

Project:

Communication Functions for DSP

Principal Investigator:

Steven
 
Tretter

Technologies:

Communications

MIPS Round 

16

August

 

1995

August 1, 1995

K&L Microwave , Inc.

Salisbury

 | 

Wicomico

 County

Project:

Cross Coupled Filter Synthesis

Principal Investigator:

Kawthar
 
Zaki
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Technologies:

Electrical / Power Engineering

Microwave

K&L Microwave is a subsidiary of Dover Corporation, a $7.5 billion Fortune 400 company traded on the New York Stock Exchange, recognized by top-tier defense contractors and wireless infrastructure providers as a world leader in the design and manufacture of RF and microwave filters, duplexers and integrated assemblies. K&L is AS9100 and ISO 14001 certified and offers customers the most extensive range of filter-based products in the industry, spanning from 0.3MHz to 94GHz.

K&L began operations over 40 years ago in a 1,400 square foot facility manufacturing custom filters primarily for the military sector. Today, with manufacturing facilities in the United States and the Dominican Republic and a global sales presence, K&L is the industry’s premier filter supplier for both military and commercial markets. Over 410 employees represent the engineering, sales and marketing, manufacturing and support personnel that enable K&L to support such a broad product and customer base.

This project enabled K&L to grow its business by seven percent. The several projects that K&L did with MIPS’ support led to the addition of 91 jobs and $3 million in annual revenues. K&L credits the project in its move to broaden from defense into commercial markets.

The project resulted in two published papers and two doctoral theses.

[Mtech] is invaluable to companies like ours in that it allows us to leverage our own resources with those of the university and the national laboratories to maximize the output of our research and development efforts. I feel that the activities to-date, along with those to follow through this program, in the future, will be instrumental in permitting K&L Microwave to maintain its position as the market leader in microwave filters and to continue to be an aggressive growth company.
Dr. Zaki’s software is in use today in an expanded product line and a new filter design, based on the use of high-temperature superconducting materials.

MIPS Round 

16

February

 

1995

February 1, 1995

Nutramax Laboratories, Inc.

Edgewood

 | 

Harford

 County

Project:

Evaluation of Cosequin

Principal Investigator:

Natalie
 
Eddington

Technologies:

Biotechnology / Genetic Engineering

Nutramax Laboratories researches, develops, and markets high-quality products to support the active lifestyles of people and animals. The company’s flagship products include the Cosamin® and Cosequin® joint health supplements. Nutramax Laboratories’ products are sold in food and drug stores, mass retailers, warehouse club stores, veterinarians, pet specialty retailers and online.

Cosamin® has been shown effective in peer-reviewed, controlled, published U.S. studies, and consistently shown to meet label claim. Cosamin® DS is available at leading pharmacies nationwide.

Cosamin® was developed by a pharmacist and in 1992 was the First Glucosamine/Chondroitin Sulfate Brand on the market. Cosamin® is a premium joint health supplement that has been available for over 15 years. Cosamin DS is the #1 brand recommended by orthopedic specialists.

MIPS Round 

16

February

 

1995

February 1, 1995

Jamieson Science & Engineering, Inc.

Bethesda

 | 

Montgomery

 County

Project:

Space Based Interferometric Imaging

Principal Investigator:

Douglas
 
Currie

Technologies:

Image Processing / Pattern Recognition

Optics

MIPS Round 

16

August

 

1995

August 1, 1995

Northrop Grumman Corp

Baltimore

 | 

Baltimore

 County

Project:

Electric Vehicle Cooling Systems

Principal Investigator:

Neil
 
Wright

Technologies:

Combustion Engineering / Propulsion

Northrop Grumman Corporation offers an extraordinary portfolio of capabilities and technologies that enable the company to deliver innovative systems and solutions for applications that range from undersea to outer space and into cyberspace.

The company’s core competencies address emerging global security challenges in key areas, such as unmanned systems, cybersecurity, C4ISR, and logistics that are critical to the defense of the nation and its allies.

MIPS Round 

16

August

 

1995

August 17, 1995

Stanley Black and Decker, Inc.

Towson

 | 

Baltimore

 County

Project:

Cordless Drilling

Principal Investigator:

M. Appa
 
Anjanappa
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Technologies:

Mechanical Machinery

Black & Decker has been setting the standard for home improvement products since 1910. With roots in Baltimore, Maryland, the company evolved from a small machine shop that invented the first portable electric drill to a global manufacturing and marketing powerhouse. Black & Decker’s product line now includes a broad variety of products for both commercial and residential use.

MIPS Round 

16

 

SynchroCell, Inc.

College Park

 | 

Prince George’s

 County

Project:

CeReS Protein Production

Principal Investigator:

Siba
 
Samal

Technologies:

Biotechnology / Genetic Engineering

MIPS Round 

16

August

 

1995

August 1, 1995

Biotechnology Transfer, Inc.

Columbia

 | 

Howard

 County

Project:

Protein Production in Insect Larvae

Principal Investigator:

William
 
Bentley
Professor

Technologies:

Biotechnology / Genetic Engineering

MIPS Round 

16

August

 

1995

August 1, 1995

Micro Star Company

Jessup

 | 

Howard

 County

Project:

Multimedia Video-on-Demand

Principal Investigator:

K.J.
 
Liu

Technologies:

Communications

Image Processing / Pattern Recognition

MIPS Round 

16

 

Techno-Sciences, Inc.

Beltsville

 | 

Prince George’s

 County

Project:

Optical Fiber Sensors

Principal Investigator:

James
 
Sirkis

Technologies:

Instrumentation

MIPS Round 

16

 

Biometrics, Inc.

Boyds

 | 

Montgomery

 County

Project:

Influence of Water Quality and System Configuration

Principal Investigator:

Renate
 
Reimschuessel

Technologies:

Biotechnology / Genetic Engineering

MIPS Round 

16

August

 

1995

August 1, 1995

CEL-SCI Corporation

Baltimore

 | 

Baltimore City

 County

Project:

Diagnostic Test for HIV

Principal Investigator:

Niel
 
Constantine

Technologies:

Biotechnology / Genetic Engineering

MIPS Round 

16

 

NABI, Inc.

Rockville

 | 

Montgomery

 County

Project:

Enterococcal Epidemiology

Principal Investigator:

Richard
 
Schwalbe

Technologies:

Biotechnology / Genetic Engineering

MIPS Round 

16

August

 

1994

August 1, 1994

Automated Precision, Inc.

Rockville

 | 

Montgomery

 County

Project:

Laser Ranger Technology

Principal Investigator:

Ping-Tong
 
Ho

Technologies:

Instrumentation

Automated Precision Inc. (API) is a world leader in coordinate measurement solutions. Leading the metrology industry through innovation, API products are used by many of the world’s top automotive, aerospace, machine tool, and CMM manufacturers.

API’s technology improves production processes, from design and innovation to production, quality checks and inspections. The company offers dimensional inspection and metrology services, including consulting, calibration, machine tool error mapping, contract measurement, 3D CAD modeling and reverse engineering to solve difficult measurement problems.

The future of non-destructive inspection lies in non-contact scanning. MIPS provided API with the ability to initially develop and understand suitable applied technology and improve upon this initial technology to where API has the most advanced non-contact scanners in the market today.

MIPS Round 

16

August

 

1995

August 1, 1995

Fleetpro, Inc.

Baltimore

 | 

Baltimore

 County

Project:

Training for Vehicle Inspection

Principal Investigator:

Eugene
 
Rubin

Technologies:

Environmental Technology / Science

Other

FleetPro is a vehicle maintenance company that services a wide range of fleet vehicles in the Mid-Atlantic area. The company currently services approximately 14,000 vehicles and over 300 fleets.

Fleetpro’s current customers range from commercial/industrial fleets to municipal, local, state and federal government vehicles. These customers maintain a variety of equipment, including both on and off-road vehicles that run on everything from traditional fuels to more eco-friendly sources.

Fleetpro offers a variety of vehicle services on-site and off-hours, including Preventative Maintenance and Inspection (PMI), Full Maintenance and Fleet Audits. The company’s main goal is to provide customers with top-notch service and information with as little interruption to the customer’s schedule as possible.

Since completing the MIPS projects, FleetPro has increased its revenue by 900 percent, from around $1 million in revenue at the start of the project, to $9 million today. To date, Fleetpro has successfully trained and certified over 400 people.

The five-part training series covers the following vehicle inspection related federal and state regulations and standards:

•  Federal Highway Administrations (FHWA) Appendix“G,” Minimum Periodic Inspection Standards,
•  State of Maryland, Code of Maryland RegulationsCOMAR 11.22, Preventative Maintenance Program,
•  Federal Highway 393, Parts and AccessoriesNecessary for Safe Operation,
•  Federal Highway 396.17, Inspection Repair andMaintenance,
•  Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance and Out ofService Recommendation Criteria Part II.

The availability of these training programs has dramatically improved how fleet owners maintain and inspect vehicles to ensure they are meeting all state and federal regulations. The training series was updated by FleetPro between 2007-2010 to reflect new industry and regulatory changes, and is still being used to train technicians today.

Fleetpro has a very comprehensive regulatory and preventative maintenance training program. After training, technicians are able to produce a much more reliable and consistent, standards-based inspection than ever before. This results in safer vehicles and lower costs for fleet operation and maintenance.

MIPS Round 

16

June

 

1995

June 27, 1995

AquaPharm Technologies Corporation

Columbia

 | 

Howard

 County

Project:

Farmed Fish Vaccination Delivery Systems

Principal Investigator:

Robert
 
Anderson

Technologies:

Aquaculture

Biotechnology / Genetic Engineering

MIPS Round 

16

 

GSE Power Systems, Inc.

Sykesville

 | 

Carroll

 County

Project:

Monitoring the Maintenance at Nuclear Power Plants

Principal Investigator:

M.
 
Modarres

Technologies:

Environmental Technology / Science

MIPS Round 

15

February

 

1995

February 20, 1995

Epoch Engineering, Inc.

Gaithersburg

 | 

Montgomery

 County

Project:

Stirling Engine Mechanical Improvements

Principal Investigator:

Keith
 
Herold

Technologies:

Fluid Mechanics / Hydrodynamics

Medical Instrumentation / Equipment

MIPS Round 

15

February

 

1995

February 1, 1995

HT Medical Systems, Inc.

Rockville

 | 

Montgomery

 County

Project:

Surgical Robot

Principal Investigator:

Jackson
 
S. Yang

Technologies:

Mechanical Machinery

MIPS Round 

15

February

 

1995

February 1, 1995

Neocera, Inc.

Beltsville

 | 

Prince George’s

 County

Project:

Lateral Plume Pulsed Laser Deposition

Principal Investigator:

Qi
 
Li

Technologies:

Fire Protection Engineering

Image Processing / Pattern Recognition