FUNDING
1. Toll Pricing Strategies in Transportation Networks, NSF-Epscor, 8/1/2003-7/31/2004,
$65,750
2. Planning and Workshop Grant, with Dr. Barut, 2002, The Kansas NSF EPSCoR, Grant,
$6,667, Co-PI
3. A First Best Toll Pricing Framework for Variable Demand Traffic Assignment Problems,
URCA, $ 3,000, 1/1/2003- 6/30/2003, PI
4. Global Learning Grant Award for Collaborative Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Course Redevelopment, with Dr. Barut, 2003-2004, WSU-State of Kansas, $20,118, PI
5. Course Improvement Grant, IME 960A, Network Optimization, $1,250, 2003, Dean's
Office, PI
6. Travel Grant, 2004, Office of International Education, $1,700, PI
7. Analysis of Coleman Company's Global Supply Chain Design and Distribution Planning,
2004, $10,000, Co-PI
8. Image database and Web management project, Amerimerc LLC, Wichita, KS, 8/2005-12-2007,
$7,000
9. Comparison of Disaster Logistics Planning and Execution for 2005 Hurricane Season,
Midwest Transportation Consortium, 8/2006-4/2007, $10,000
10. WSU/University of Arkansas/ Oklahoma State University Industrial Assessment Center,
Department of Energy, with Twomey, J., Whitman, L., Liao, H., Kolarik, W. J. (PI),
Nutter, D. (PI), Turner, W. C. and Frazier, R. S., 8/2006-6/2011, $125,000/yr , $23,500/yr
for WSU
11. Optimal Multi-Skilled Worker Assignment in Aircraft Manufacturing, 2007, $4,500,
PI
12. Research Study: Inter-relationship of Operational Decisions and Environmental
Impacts, with Twomey, J., Ahmad, J. S., Whitman, L. NSF, 9/1/2005-8/30/2007, $100,000,
Co-PI
13. Sustainable Engineered Systems Lab: Equipment Proposal I, 2007 with Twomey, J.,
Whitman, L. and Liao, H., College of Engineering, $47,595, Co-PI
14. Sustainable Engineered Systems Lab: Equipment Proposal II, 2007, with Twomey,
J., Whitman, L. and Liao, H., College of Engineering, $ 58,681, Co-PI
15. Aircraft Interior Noise Reduction by Electrospun Polymeric Nanofibers, with Asmatulu,
R., Aircraft Design and Manufacturing Research Center, 1/1/2007-12/31/2007, $100,000,
Co-PI
16. Wichita State University Industry University Cooperative Research Center for
the Reduction of Waste in Aerospace Logistic Systems, with Twomey, J., Whitman, L.
and Liao, H., NSF Planning Grant, 1/1/2007-5/31/2008, $10,000, Co-PI
17. Supply Chain and Logistics problems in Wind Energy Industry, 2008, part of Sustainable
Energy Solutions supported by the Department of Energy, with Twomey (PI), Asmatulu,
Liao, Ward, Cetinkaya, $1,000,000, Co-PI .
18. EAGER: Energy Use in Healthcare Services, 2009, NSF, $250,000, Co-PI
19. Yildirim, M.B., The Coleman Foundation Faculty Entrepreneurship Fellows Program
Application Coleman Foundation, 8/1/2010-7/31/2010, $5000, PI
20. Yildirim, M.B., Care and Teaching Times in A Pediatric Primary Care Clinic, WSU
ORA, 2010-2011, $3,000, PI
21. Uner, H. and Yildirim, M.B., Care and Teaching Times in A Pediatric Primary Care
Clinic, KU Medical School Deans Office, 2010-2011, $3,000, PI
22. Uner, H. and Yildirim, M.B., Care and Teaching Times in A Pediatric Primary Care
Clinic, Wichita Medical Research Foundation, 2010-2011, $3,000, PI
23. Yildirim, M.B., Environmental Sustainability and Wind Generation Reliability,
Department of Energy, 2010-2011, $50,000, PI
24. Yildirim, M.B., William J. Kolarik, Dr. Darin Nutter, WSU/University of Arkansas/
Oklahoma State University Industrial Assessment Center, Department of Energy, 8/2006-12/2010,
$25,000, PI
25. Yildirim, M.B., William J. Kolarik, Dr. Darin Nutter, WSU/University of Arkansas/
Oklahoma State University Industrial Assessment Center, Department of Energy, 10/2011-10/2015,
$250,000, PI