MANHATTAN, Kansas, April 13 -- Kansas State University issued the following news release: A Kansas State University engineer is designing building blocks for reconfigurable structures that can change shape from one configuration to another without human intervention. Raj Kumar Pal, assistant professor in the Alan Levin Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, has received a more than $400,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense's Air Force Office of Scientific Research through t  more