Sebastian van Delden's Grants / Awards Awards and Honors Keynote Speaker at the 2011 SC Junior Academy of Science Fall Workshop. 2011. A workshop that stimulates high school students' interests in math and science . Bank of America Excellence in Teaching and Advising Award. 2011. Recognizes an individual who has distinguished himself/herself with teaching and advising activities during the preceding year. Best Student Paper Award in Math and Computer Science, 2011, at the Seventh Annual Upstate Research Symposium, Spartanburg, South Carolina, Poster by Michael Umrysh, USC Upstate student and robotics research assistant. Best Student Poster Award in Computer Science and Engineering. Spring 2010, at Discovery Day, USC Columbia. Poster by Nicole Tobias, USC Upstate student and robotics research assistant. Favorite Faculty Member of the USC Upstate Volleyball team. Fall 2007, nominated by Katie Downey. Faculty members are chosen by student athletes as their "favorite USC Upstate faculty member" and honored during a pre-game ceremony. USC Upstate Annual Award to Faculty for Scholarly and/or Creative Pursuits. Spring 2007. Recognizes an individual who has distinguished himself/herself by scholarly or creative activities during the preceding year. Vice Chancellor’s Leadership Award. Spring 2007. Recognizes an individual who has demonstrated exceptional leadership, dedication and service. Grants, Donations, and Sponsorships External: $500,000 Partnership. (pending) Proposal to Establish the JM Smith Foundation Mathematics and Computer Science Wing. Funds to purchase equipment, remodel facilities, and support research. ---- Donation – 3 laptops, PLC equipment, and custom made mounting bracket. Fall 2010. For use in robotics lab, value not assessed. Automation Engineering corporation. $32,000 Donation – Fanuc 6 dof robotic arm. Fall 2010. Funded by SEW Eurodrive. $32,000 Donation – Adept 550 4-dof robot arm with extra motors and amplifiers. Fall 2010. Donated by J&J Industrial Services Inc.. $30,000 Research Grant. 2010-2014. Support of Undergraduate Robotics Research at USC Upstate. Funded by SEW Eurodrive. $501,469 (not funded) Education Research Grant (CO-PI). Spring 2010. U.S. Department of Education. $15,000 (not funded) Service Grant. Spring 2010. "Mom and Me Industrial Robotics Summer Camp" for 2010 and 2011. Microsoft Research and NCWIT. $12,500 Sponsorship. Fall 2009. Monies/facilities secured for Sixth Annual SC Upstate Research Symposium and the Annual Research Journal. Spartanburg Regional: $2500; printing services ($2500 value). Milliken: host event ($3500 value). College/University sponsors: Converse, Wofford, SMC, etc. ($2000). Staubli to fund Volume 3 of Research Journal ($2000). $25,000 Donation. Adept 550 Robotic Manipulator, Fall 2009, Equipment donation from the J&J Industrial Services Inc. $2,000 Sponsorship. Summer 2009. SEW Eurodrive donated $1,500 to sponsor two Robotics Camps for underprivileged kids in the Summer of 2009. The Spartanburg Youth Council awarded $500 for the camps. $2967 Research Grant. Fall 2008. Magellan Scholars Award through USC Columbia to work with a student on Robotic 3D Construction of Unknown Surfaces. $15,706 Sponsorship and Grant. Fall 2008. Monies secured for the 2009 Research Symposium and Undergraduate Research Journal: $9,706 awarded by an EPSCOR/IDEA Research Symposia Grant; $4,000 from Staubli; and $2,000 from the Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System. $300 Donation – Car Door. Fall 2008, Used to set up a 3D-model reconstruction system which uses a camera and laser attached to a robotic arm. Donated by Dixie Too Auto Parts. $25,000 Service Grant. Fall 2008, Established a Faculty Release Time Program for the newly created Office of Sponsored Awards and Research Support. Funded by USC Columbia. CO-PI: Elaine Marshall. $23,460 Service Grant. 2008-2009, Established a Research Experience Program for USC Upstate students with the Orthopaedic Research Foundation of the Carolinas which generates indirect funds to supports on-campus student research activities. Spring 2008: $15,640; 2008-2009 Academic year: $7,820. $14,530 Research Grant. Fall 2007, Initial Exploration of New Construction and Inferencing Algorithms for BMW’s Vehicle-Configuration Expert-System, BMW’s IT Research Center. CO-PIs: Rick Chow, Wei Zhong, and Frank Li. $5,500 Sponsorship. Fall 2007, Secured external funding for the Fourth Annual USC Upstate Research Symposium and the USC Upstate Undergraduate Research Journal. (Staubli - $3,500, Spartanburg Regional $1,500, Sodexho approx $500). $23,500 Donation - RS20 Robotic Manipulator. Fall 2007, Equipment donation from the Stäubli Corporation. A new RS20 manipulator from Stäubli’s most current line of manipulators. $25,000 Donation – Adept 550 Robotic Manipulator. Fall 2007, Equipment donation from the J&J Industrial Services Inc. $149,611 (not funded) Research Grant Fall 2006, Automating a Computer Science Curriculum, National Science Foundation (NSF) – Course, Curriculum, and Lab Improvement (CCLI) Program $10,448 (not funded) Research Grant (CO-PI), Spring 2006, PI: Philip Vogelwede, University of South Carolina, Integration of Camera Space Manipulation and End Effector Design, Oak Ridge Associated Universities Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards $7000 Research Grant. Fall 2005, Robotics at USC Upstate, USC Research and Productivity Scholarship (R&PS), Train our faculty members to use the robotic arms; purchase autonomous robots; purchase supplies for the current robotics lab. $6,100 Research Grant, Fall 2004 Linking a Syntactic Partial Parse to Semantic Verb Predicates, USC Research and Productivity Scholarship (R&PS), Funds used to employ (part-time) an undergraduate research assistant for the 2004-2005 academic year and purchase a computer for Natural Language Processing research purposes. Internal: $925 Research Grant (CO-PI). Fall 2009. PI: Jack Turner. Funds used to purchase cameras, rock crawler, and robotic arm kit for the “Peepers” robotics exploration project. $9,750 IT Support Grant. Spring 2009, $3,750 for 15 new NXT LEGO Mindstorms; $3,000 for Flash Development licenses; and $3000 for new PCs and Cognex Vision System for Robotics Lab. $3,383 Research Grant. Fall 2007, A Natural Language Approach to Manipulator Jogging, Research Incentive Award from the Research Advisory Council Numerous Travel Grants. Teaching and Productivity Scholarship (TAPS), Funds for offseting travel costs to present papers.