Today I have put together my IDC, and I am going to go and speak to my prospective commitee members next week. I am thinking I am going to give my proposal sometime in August. I am hoping by then I will have the majority of my research started, that is each phase of it. I still have several models to develope, and then impliment this in a finite element code, but as soon as I have my original model working correctly this should go fast. Still keeping my on Decemember 07. 20 months left!