Susan Ashdown

Apparel Design

• Design of Protective Clothing
• Sizing and fit of apparel
• Anthropometrics
• Three-dimensional body scanning
• Relationship between technology and design

Mail Address:
1070 LeBaron
Apparel, Educational Studies, and Hospitality Management
Ames, IA 50011-1121
Office Tel: (515) 294-7857
Office Fax: (515) 294-6364
Email: barkerj@iastate.edu

• Functional clothing design
• Evaluation of protective clothing
• Clothing comfort

Mail Address:
Textile and Apparel Management
129 Stanley Hall
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, MO 65211  
Office Tel: 573-882-6457
Office Fax: 573-882-3289  
E-Mail: booradyl@missouri.edu
Website:http://www.missouri.edu/~tam/

Product Development

• Fit and sizing of apparel; especially for children, juniorsand difficult sizes
• 3D body scanning and body shape analysis
• Functional clothing design
• Apparel manufacturing processes

• Protective clothing evaluation 
• Garment design 
• Thermal comfort
• Human factors

 

Mail Address:

Department of Design, Housing and Merchandising
431 Human Environmental Sciences
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK 74078
Office Tel: 405-744-3015
Office Fax: 405-744-6910
E-Mail: huantian.cao@okstate.edu

• Protective clothing to relieve thermal stress for first responders
• Smart textiles and clothing for chemical detection
• Application of information technology in textiles and clothing
• Environmental sustainability in design and merchandising

Mail Address:
Department of Textiles and Apparel
204 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, Cornell University 
Ithaca, NY 14853-4401 
Office Tel: 607-255-2009
Office Fax: 607-255-1093
E-Mail:cwc4@cornell.edu

• Selection, use, maintenance, and disposal of  PPE
• Pesticide users' attitudes, perceptions, and practices
• Role of application equipment in pesticide exposure 
• Children's exposure to pesticides
• Indoor exposure to pesticides

• Fit and sizing of apparel
• Functional clothing design
• Anthropometry methods
• Use of body scanning & motion analysis for apparel design
• Functional clothing design
• Product development processes
  
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• Detergency and soil removal
• Surface modification of fibers and membranes
• Dye diffusion and polymer morphology
• Protective clothing for agricultural, horticultural and lawn-care workers
• Protective clothing for medical care workers
• Role of textiles in contamination in immune suppressed  patient care
  
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• Mechanical & physical properties of polymer materials
• Mechanics of fiber composites
• Strength & fracture behavior of fibrous structures
• Continuum mechanics of fibrous assemblies
• Transport properties of fibrous structures
• Performance evaluation of fibrous materials
• Investigation of biomass.

Mail Address: 
Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences, 239 Bevier Hall, 905 S Goodwin, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL 61801
Office Tel: 217-333-3055
Office Fax: 217-244-7877 
E-Mail: raheel@uiuc.edu
Website: Home Page
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Textile Chemistry and
Textile Physics:

• Structure-property relationships in fibrous systems
• Chemical finishing of textiles to enhance performance
• Protective apparel systems
• Utilization of agricultural biomass to produce textile fibers.

• Selection, use, maintenance, and disposal of PPE
• Pesticide users' attitudes, perceptions, and practices
• Role of footwear in agricultural safety
• Wildland fire-fighter protective clothing 

Mail Address:
Department of Design and Merchandising
Colorado State University
1574 Campus Delivery
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1574
Office Tel: 970-491- 6740
Office Fax: 970-491-4376
E-Mail:
sarkar@cahs.colostate.edu

• Value-Added textile products derived from agriculture.
• Protective Clothing, UV textiles.
• Dyeing and finishing applications research and development.
• Eco-friendly textile processes such as enzymatic treatments in textile processing.
• Biodegradability, recycling and treatment of textile and agricultural waste materials.

Mail Address 
Richard Henson Center, Room 2103
University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Princess Anne, MD 21853
Office Tel: 410-651-6064
Office Fax: 410-651-6285
E-Mail:
ashaw@umes.edu

• Database on protective clothing for pesticide applicators
• Development of ASTM and ISO standards and performance specifications
• Research on protective clothing for pesticide applicators

• Needs assessment
• Product evaluation
• Pesticide users' attitudes, perceptions and practices

• Pesticide users' attitudes, perceptions and practices
• Selection, use, maintenance and disposal of PPE
• Clothing contamination/decontamination with granular pesticides
• Consumer acceptance of protective hats and clothing for sun protection

• Functional modifications of polymers and textiles
• Development of biological and chemical protective materials
• Evaluation of functional properties of textiles and polymers
• Utilization of agricultural wastes in textile processing.

Mail Address: 
USDA, CSREES, 1400 Independence Ave S.W
Stop 2210
Washington, DC 20250-2225
Office Tel: 202-401-4980
Office Fax: 201-401-1706
E-Mail: jwysocki@csrees.usda.gov

Mail Address: 
240 McNeal Hall
1985 Buford Circle
University of Minnesota
St. Paul, MN 55108
Office Tel: 612-625-1219 or
612-624-4909
Office Fax: 612-624-2750
E-Mail: mdelong@umn.edu

Textile Science & Processing, Chemical Engineering

• Methodology to evaluate the hand of fabrics.
• Biopolishing in textiles.
• Textile processing of novel blends.
• Barrier properties of textiles
• Chemical, Biological and Nuclear Protective Clothing.
• Nonwovens Technology