Jan. 2017 – AUG. 2017, Arsenal Engineering - MITACS (Yet to be approved), “Framesork Design and Prototyping of A Personal Task and Time Management Mentor Package with A Dynamic, Multi-facet, Data oriented and Associative Engineering Management Method”.
April. 2014 – Mar. 2019, NSERC (Discovery) , “Interoperability In Web-Oriented And Knowledge Driven Collaborative Engineering”.
April. 2016 – Sept. 2016, NSERC (Engage) , “Integrated Design and Quality Conformance of Parts Manufactured via FDM”.
Sept. 2011 – Aug. 2015, Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) PhD grant – Liu JiKai (Central South University, Changsha, China), “Methodology Study for Plastic Product Development and Troubleshooting Analysis for Molding Processes”.
Sept. 2011 – Aug. 2015, CSC PhD grant – Cheng Zhengrong (Sichuan University, Chengdu, China), “Knowledge-based product modeling and process engineering”.
June 2011 - May 2012, CSC visiting scholar grant – Wan Wei (NUAA), “Feature-based concurrent and collaborative engineering”.
April 2011 – March 2012, NSERC Engage Grant, “Methodology study for Plastic Product Development and Trouble Shooting Methods for Molding Processes”, partnered with Drader Custom Manufacturing[Link].
Feb. 2011 – Jan. 2013, MITACS[link] “Accelerate Cluster” Internship Grant, “Methodology Research on Business Process Reengineering with a Neutral Information Model of ERPs”, partnered with McCoy Drilling and Completion, FARR, Canada[link].
Sept. 2010 – Dec. 2010, NSERC Interaction Grant, “Exploration of Collaboration on Product Development and Molding Quality Evaluation”, partnered with Drader Custom Manufacturing, completed.
Sept. 2010 – Aug. 2014, CSC PhD grant – Xie Yanan, “Interoperability in knowledge driven collaborative engineering”.
April 2009 – March 2014, NSERC Discovery Grant, “Interoperability in Knowledge Driven Collaborative Engineering”.
June 2009 - June 2010, CSC visiting scholar grant – Yin Chenggang (China Agricultural University), “Generic constraint representation, modeling and application for a parametric gear box design”, completed.
Dec. 2009 – Nov. 2010, Chinese Scholarship Committee visiting scholar grant – Li, Yuliang (Zhejiang University), “Research on the semantic process modeling and management of early stage engineering design”, completed.
Sept. 2008 – Aug. 2009, NSERC GRF grant administrated by VP research of U of A in supporting new faculty - “Fine Grain Feature Constraint Modeling in Engineering Collaboration”, completed.
Jan. - April 2009, Student Exchange Grant administrated by the Canadian Bureau for International Education, on behalf of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT), completed.
July 2007 – Mar. 2012, Faculty startup grant - “Web-based Design and Manufacturing”.
July 2007 – Mar. 2012, Department startup grant - “Web-based Design and Manufacturing”.