The $1-million award, which will provide funding over two years, comes from the U.S. Department of Defense EPSCoR, or DEPSCoR (Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research). The co-principal investigator Surojit Gupta, in UND’s Mechanical Engineering Department, is the lead technical contact of the project. Deniz Cakir, in UND’s Physics & Astrophysics Department, will lead the computational core of the project and Yun Ji, UND Chemical Engineering, will lead the corrosion component of the project. Hallie Chelmo and Forrest Ames, both UND’s Mechanical Engineering Department, are senior participants in the project.