Projects
Currently Funded Grants
Measuring Acoustic Surface Impedance of rough water: experimental design and modeling
1 April 2023 – 31 March 2024
Office of Naval Research (ONR)
P.I.: Dr. Diego Turo
Co-P.I.: Dr. Joseph F. Vignola
Proposed Total Budget: $ 80,036
Student capstone design projects to support naval engineering workforce development
August 2023 – May 2025
Office of Naval Research
P.I.: Diego Turo
Proposed Total Budget: $ 48,916
Research and Innovative STEM Education (RAISE)
1 April 2022 – 1 April 2025
Office of Naval Research (ONR)
P.I.: Dr. Jason Davison
Co-P.I.: Dr. Diego Turo
Proposed Total Budget: $ 750,000
Development of a Flexible and Scalable Orbit Modeling for Mission Design
22 May 2023 – 30 June 2024
Teltrium, Inc.
P.I.: Dr. Diego Turo
Proposed Total Budget: $ 25,950
Pending Grants
Modeling Near-Shore Acoustics
1 February 2024 – 31 January 2027
Office of Naval Research (ONR)
P.I.: Dr. Diego Turo
Co-P.I.: Dr. Joseph F. Vignola
Proposed Total Budget: $ 333,460
Research Projects on Batteries, Acoustics, Electrofabrication, AI-Powered Tools, Integrated Sensors and Small Spacecraft Computing Relevant to NASA Mission Directorates
March 2024 – March 2025
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
P.I.: Dr. Jandro Abot
Co-P.I.: Diego Turo
Proposed Total Budget: $ 47,666
Continuation of Evaluation of the state of conservation of the President's Room ceiling at the United States Capitol Building
22 May 2023 – 22 November 2023
Architect of the Capitol
P.I.: Dr. Diego Turo
Co-P.I.: Dr. Joseph F. Vignola, Dr. Barbara Marchetti, Dr. Francesco Corvaro
Proposed Total Budget: $ 118,511
Funded Grants
Research Projects on Batteries, Acoustics, Electrofabrication, Machine Learning and Sensors Relevant to NASA Mission Directorates
March 2023 – March 2024
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
P.I.: Dr. Jandro Abot
Co-P.I.: Diego Turo
Proposed Total Budget: $ 46,000
Evaluation of the state of conservation of the President's Room ceiling at the United States Capitol Building
22 May 2023 – 22 November 2023
Architect of the Capitol
P.I.: Dr. Diego Turo
Co-P.I.: Dr. Joseph F. Vignola, Dr. Barbara Marchetti, Dr. Francesco Corvaro
Proposed Total Budget: $ 79,927
Modeling atmospheric acoustics with meteorological complexity and surface heterogeneity
9 December 2020 – 8 December 2023
Office of Naval Research (ONR)
P.I.: Dr. Diego Turo
Co-P.I.: Dr. Joseph F. Vignola
Proposed Total Budget: $ 241,012
Research Projects on Materials and Sensors, Energy Storage, Acoustics, Bioengineering and Machine Learning Relevant to NASA Mission Directorates
1 September 2022 – 31 August 2023
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
P.I.: Dr. Jandro Abot
Co-P.I.: Dr. Diego Turo
Proposed Total Budget: $ 46,094
Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS) - Regional Symposium 2022-23
1 September 2022 – 31 August 2023
National Science Teaching Association
P.I.: Dr. Rebecca Kiriazes
Co-P.I.: Dr. Diego Turo
Proposed Total Budget: $ 18,000
Mid-range Acoustic Transmission Loss: Near Shore Measurements Under Varying Atmospheric and Terrain Conditions
February 2020 - January 2021
Office of Naval Research
Contract Number: N00014-20-1-2034
P.I.: Dr. Teresa Ryan
Proposed Total Budget: $369,598
Proposed Subaward: Surface Impedance in Littoral Zone
P.I.: Dr. D. Turo
Subaward Budget: $19,445
Littoral Zone Acoustic Propagation, July 2016 - June 2019 (extended June 2020)
Office of Naval Research
Contract Number: N0014-17-1-2213
P.I.: Dr. Joseph Vignola
Investigators: Drs. D. Turo, J.A. Judge, T.J. Ryan
Proposed Total Budget: $375,673
Proposed Subaward: $70,948
A proposal for the evaluation of the state of conservation of the ceiling of the Senate reception room S-213 at the United States Capitol, May 2019 – August 2019
Architect of the Capitol
P.I.: Dr. Barbara Marchetti
Investigators: Drs. F. Corvaro, D. Turo, J. Vignola
Proposed Total Budget: $ 86,057
Modeling Acoustic Propagation in Littoral and Surf-Zone Regions, July 2015 - June 2016
Office of Naval Research
Contract Number: N0014-15-1-2512
P.I.: Dr. Joseph Vignola
Investigators: Drs. D. Turo, J.A. Judge, T.J. Ryan
Proposed Total Budget: $121,692
Proposed Subaward: $14,728
Unfunded Grants
Acoustic Absorption Model Validation of Littoral and Riverine Soil and Vegetation
February 2022 – January 2023
Office of Naval Research
P.I.: Dr. Diego Turo
Co-P.I.: Dr. Joseph F. Vignola
Proposed Total Budget: $ 64,914
Characterization and Identification of Acoustic Sources of Naval Relevance
February 2022 – January 2023
Office of Naval Research
P.I.: Dr. Joseph F. Vignola
Co-P.I.: Dr. Diego Turo
Proposed Total Budget: $ 214,166
N023A-T021 Autonomous, Long-Duration, Directional Ambient Sound Sensor OUSD (R&E)
December 2023 – March 2024
Office of Naval Research
P.I.: Dr. David Lechner
Co-P.I.: Diego Turo
Proposed Total Budget: $ 49,071
Characterization and Identification of Acoustic Sources of Naval Relevance
February 2021 – January 2022
Office of Naval Research
P.I.: Dr. Joseph F. Vignola
Co-P.I.: Dr. Diego Turo
Proposed Total Budget: $ 178,750
Novel structural health monitoring technique using piezoimpedance-based carbon nanotube fibers: Experimental characterization and numerical modeling (N00174-19-0001, NEEC)
March 2020 – February 2022
Naval Engineering Education Consortium
P.I.: Dr. Diego Turo
Investigators: Drs. D. Turo, J. Abot, J. Vignola
Proposed Total Budget: $ 150,131
Meteorological Observation System to Support Acoustic Propagation Model Validation in Near Shore Environment
February 2020 – January 2021
Office of Naval Research
P.I.: Dr. Diego Turo
Investigators: Drs. D. Turo, J. Vignola
Proposed Total Budget: $ 84,142
Microphone Array for Acoustic Propagation in Littoral and Surf-Zone Regions
June 2019 – June 2020
Office of Naval Research
P.I.: Dr. Diego Turo
Investigators: Drs. D. Turo, J. Vignola
Proposed Total Budget: $ 74,144.98
Experiment for Detecting Delamination of a Polymer from a Submerged Plate
September 2018 – May 2019
Naval Research Laboratory
P.I.: Dr. Diego Turo
Investigators: Drs. J. Vignola, B. Marchetti, F. Corvaro
Proposed Total Budget: $ 21,646
Localization for Outdoor Marine Sound Sources
June 2019 – June 2020
Office of Naval Research
P.I.: Dr. Joseph F. Vignola
Investigators: Drs. J. Vignola, D. Turo
Proposed Total Budget: $ 324,550.00
Acoustic Propagation over rough water surface model validation
October 2018 – September 2019
Office of Naval Research
P.I.: Seth Hubbard
Investigators: Drs. J. Vignola, D. Turo, T. Ryan
Proposed Total Budget: $ 50,000
Detection of damages in subsea oil pipelines by using guided ultrasonic waves
January 2018 – December 2020
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Gulf Research Program
P.I.: Dr. Chanseok Jeong
Investigators: Drs. J. Vignola, D. Turo, U. Bhowmik, J. Tromp
Proposed Total Budget: $ 548,981
Proposed Subaward: $ 163,319
Spectral-Element Simulations for Prediction and Mitigation of Underwater Noise due to Offshore Piling Operations
October 2017 – October 2020
Office of Naval Research
P.I.: Dr. Chanseok Jeong
Investigators: Drs. J. Vignola, D. Turo, S. Guan, J. Tromp
Equipment for Studying Acoustic Propagation in Littoral and Surf-Zone Regions
July 2017 - June 2018
DURIP: PA-AFRL-AFOSR-2016-0001
P.I.: Dr. Joseph Vignola
Investigators: Drs. J. Judge, D. Turo, T. Ryan
Proposed Total Budget: $321,128
Accurate, fast, and autonomous framework for detecting damages/leakages in submerged hydrocarbon production systems using novel computational and experimental methods
September 2017 - August 2020
Office of Naval Research
P.I.: Dr. Chanseok Jeong
Investigators: Drs. C. Schaal, J. Tromp, D. Turo, J. Vignola
Proposed Total Budget: $504,827
Reconstructing moving underwater acoustic sources in complex underwater environments using passive sonar
October 2016 - March 2019
Office of Naval Research
BAA Number N00014-160-R-SN02
P.I.: Dr. Chanseok Jeong
Investigators: Drs. J. Vignola, J. Judge, D. Turo, U. Bhowmik, J. Tromp
Proposed Total Budget: $ 962,809
Proposed Subaward: $ 218,090
A novel, scalable algorithm for reconstructing moving underwater acoustic sources and experimental validation using passive sonar
March 2016
Office of Naval Research
P.I.: Dr. Chanseok Jeong