Moving Toward a More Sustainable Power Grid
Qing-Chang Zhong, Max McGraw Endowed Chair of Energy and Power Engineering and Management, has received two grants totaling $638,809 from the National Science Foundation to work on a paradigm-shifting...
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Faculty Member Receives AIChE International Honor
Hamid Arastoopour (M.S. GE ’75, Ph.D. ’78), Henry R. Linden Professor of Engineering and director of the Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER), was honored with the AIChE (American...
Shaw Research Group Files Provisional Patent for New Battery
In the world of rechargeable batteries, a typical car battery, for example, requires about 45 minutes or more to go from being minimally charged to fully charged. A research group headed by Leon Shaw...
Ashton Earns Prestigious Jefferson Science Fellowship
Weslynne Ashton, associate professor of environmental management and sustainability, was recently selected as a 2018–19 Jefferson Science Fellow. Energy security refers to a nation’s or region’s...
Organic Chemistry Researcher Wins NSF CAREER Award
Using the tools of synthetic organic chemistry, computational modeling, advanced spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction crystallography, Jean-Luc Ayitou, assistant professor of chemistry, is developing...
Novel Open-Source Heating System Integrated Into Mies’ Historic Alumni Hall
For Ph.D. candidate Akram Ali, the inefficient heating system in Alumni Memorial Hall wasn’t a nuisance—it was a challenge. Ali, who is studying civil engineering, saw a chance to make the building’s...