Events from the AJ Clark School of Engineering http://eng.umd.edu/events/ Wed, 20 Apr 2016 17:06:25 EDT http://eng.umd.edu/images/clark_logo_4email.gif http://eng.umd.edu/events/ Thursday, May 12, 2016 9:30 PM, Lecture Hall, 1110 Kim Engineering Building, The reception will begin at 4:30 pm, and the program will begin at 5:00 pm. In 2009 when the Obama–Biden ticket was inaugurated into office, they set out to accomplish the following aspirational goals: Implement an economy-wide cap-and-trade systems to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 83% of 2005 levels by 2050; Save more oil than we import from the Middle East and Venezuela by 2019; Ensure 10% of our electricity comes from renewables in 2012 and 25% by 2025; Put one million plug-in hybrid vehicles on the road by 2015; and Create five million jobs by investing $150 billion over 10 years to catalyze private efforts to build a clean-energy future. And in the 2011 State of the Union address, the President put forth a goal to reach 80% clean electricity by 2035. The Office of the Under Secretary for Energy at the US Department of Energy put together a plan to realize these goals, along with the cost of attaining 80% clean electricity by 2035. This talk will summarize this "Strategic Technology Energy Plan (STEP)" and progress made on achieving this plan to date, and highlight the unique role of run-of-river hydroelectric power generation in carrying out STEP. Speaker Bio Kristina M. Johnson is the co-founder and CEO of Cube Hydro Partners, LLC, a clean-energy infrastructure company focused on building and operating hydropower plants in North America. Cube Hydro is backed by ISquared Capital with $900MM in equity and currently operates fifteen plants on eight rivers in six eastern states. Prior to Cube Hydro, Dr. Johnson served as Under Secretary of Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy. As Under Secretary, she was responsible for unifying and managing a broad $10.5 billion Energy and Environment portfolio, including an additional $37 billion in energy and environment investments from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. Previously, she was Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs at The Johns Hopkins University from 2007 to 2009, Dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University from 1999 to 2007, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Kristina is a Member of the Board of Directors of AES Corporation, Cisco Systems, Boston Scientific, and GE’s Ecomagination. She is a trustee of the Rocky Mountain Institute and on the Board of Visitors of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, the Ohio State University College of Engineering, the Ryan Institute for Energy and the Environment at the National University Galway, the Austrian Institute of Technology, and the Stanford Epicenter for Entrepreneurship. A Fulbright Faculty Scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and a NATO Post-Doctoral Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin, Dr. Johnson received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University and has honorary degrees from Trinity College, Dublin, Tufts University, McGill University, and the University of Alabama at Huntsville. She is a member of NAE, fellow of the OSA, IEEE, SPIE, AAAS, and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Women Engineers. She was awarded the Dennis Gabor Award for Creativity in Modern Optics, the John Fritz Medal, considered the highest award given in the engineering profession, and has been inducted into the U.S. Inventors Hall of Fame, the National Academy of Inventors, the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame, the Women in Information Technology Hall of Fame, and the Small Business Technology Council Hall of Fame (2010). She holds 119 U.S. and International patents and has published 142 refereed publications. RSVP: http://go.umd.edu/2016W-TJohnson http://www.clarknet.eng.umd.edu/events/index.php?mode=4&id=11468 http://www.clarknet.eng.umd.edu/events/index.php?mode=4&id=11468 Thursday, April 21, 2016 7:00 PM, 2460 AV Williams Building, The University of Maryland is participating in the nationwide 2017 Solar Decathlon competition, sponsored by the US Department of Energy. There are many opportunities for faculty and students to get involved in this large project, which will culminate in energy-efficient solar homes being built and displayed in Fall 2017.On Thursday from 2-5 pm in 2460 AV Williams, you can learn more about what is already in the works and how you can contribute at a Solar Decathlon design review event.  Students will present four house designs under development and give presentations on the state-of-the-art in PV and battery storage technologies, modeling weather dynamics, assessing water supply and storage issues, and more. We hope you will be able to attend! You also can learn more at the UMD Solar Decathlon website: sd2017.umd.edu http://www.clarknet.eng.umd.edu/events/index.php?mode=4&id=11483 http://www.clarknet.eng.umd.edu/events/index.php?mode=4&id=11483 Thursday, May 05, 2016 2:30 PM, 1146 AV Williams, Electrochemistry on Nano- and Atomic Levels: Scanning Probe Microscopy Meets Deep Data   Sergei V. Kalinin, Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences and the Institute for Functional Imaging of Materials, Oak Ridge National Laboratory   Abstract: Structural and electronic properties of oxide surfaces control their physical functionalities and electrocatalytic activity, and are currently of interest for energy generation and storage applications. In this presentation, I will discuss several examples of high-resolution studies of the electronic and electrochemical properties of oxide surfaces enabled by multidimensional scanning probe microscopies. On the mesoscopic scale, combination of strain- and current sensitive scanning probe microscopies allows to build nanometer-scale maps of local reversible and irreversible electrochemical activities. The use of multivariate statistical methods allows separating the complex multidimensional data sets into statistically significant components which in certain cases can be mapped onto individual physical mechanisms. I will further discuss the use of in-situ Pulsed Laser Deposition growth combined with atomic resolution Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy to explore surface structures and electrochemical reactivity of oxides on the atomic scale. For SrRuO3, we directly observe multiple surface reconstructions and link these to the metal-insulator transitions as ascertained by UPS methods. On LaxCa1-xMnO3, we demonstrate strong termination dependence of electronic properties and presence of disordered oxygen ad-atoms. The growth dynamics and surface terminations of these films are discussed, along with single-atom electrochemistry experiments performed by STM. Finally, I explore the opportunities for atomically-resolved imaging and property data mining of functional oxides extending beyond classical order parameter descriptions, and giving rise to the deep data analysis in materials research.   This research is supported by the by the U.S. Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division, and was conducted at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, which is sponsored at Oak Ridge National Laboratory by the Scientific User Facilities Division, BES DOE.   Bio: Sergei V. Kalinin is the director of the ORNL Institute for Functional Imaging of Materials and distinguished research staff member at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as well as a theme leader for Electronic and Ionic Functionality on the Nanoscale (at ORNL since 2002).  He also holds a Joint Associate Professor position at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and an Adjunct Faculty position at Pennsylvania State University.  His research interests include application of big data, deep data, and smart data approaches in atomically resolved and mesoscopic imaging to guide the development of advanced materials for energy and information technologies, as well as coupling between electromechanical, electrical, and transport phenomena on the nanoscale.   He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002, followed by a Wigner fellowship at ORNL (2002-2004).  He is a recipient of the RMS medal for Scanning Probe Microscopy (2015); Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) (2009); IEEE-UFFC Ferroelectrics Young Investigator Award (2010); Burton medal of Microscopy Society of America (2010); ISIF Young Investigator Award (2009); American Vacuum Society Peter Mark Memorial Award (2008); R&D100 Awards (2008 and 2010); Ross Coffin Award (2003); Robert L. Coble Award of American Ceramics Society (2009); and a number of other distinctions. He is a fellow of APS and AVS. He is also a member of editorial boards for several international journals, including Nanotechnology, Journal of Applied Physics/Applied Physics Letters, and recently established Nature Partner Journal Computational Materials. http://www.clarknet.eng.umd.edu/events/index.php?mode=4&id=11484 http://www.clarknet.eng.umd.edu/events/index.php?mode=4&id=11484 Tuesday, May 24, 2016 12:30 PM, 1202 Martin Hall (Resnik Lecture Hall), Annual Meeting of the Center for Research in Extreme BatteriesMay 24th, 2016University of Maryland, College ParkMartin Hall & Kim Engineering Building This meeting aims to expand CREB's presence and membership, bringing together industry partners with leading academic and government researchers. In addition to talks from each of the founding partners (UMD, NIST, and ARL), the awardees of the Research & Innovation Seed Grant Program will also present their projects.  During this meeting, attendees and stakeholders will have the opportunity to discuss their membership in the CREB consortium. A student poster session will occur during lunch, highlighting innovative battery research. If you wish to have your poster included, please email the poster title, authors, and a brief abstract to info_energy@umd.edu More information at the CREB website Click Here to Register http://www.clarknet.eng.umd.edu/events/index.php?mode=4&id=11482 http://www.clarknet.eng.umd.edu/events/index.php?mode=4&id=11482 Wednesday, April 27, 2016 3:00 PM, A.V. Williams Conference Room 2460, Featuring Dr. Dava Newman, Deputy Administrator, NASA Dr. DAVA NEWMAN was nominated by President Barack Obama in January 2015 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in April 2015 to serve as the Deputy Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. She began her duties with the agency on May 18, 2015. Prior to her tenure with NASA, Newman was the Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. Her expertise is in multidisciplinary research that encompasses aerospace biomedical engineering. Newman’s research studies were carried out through space flight experiments, ground-based simulations, and mathematical modeling. Her latest research efforts included: advanced space suit design, dynamics and control of astronaut motion, socio-technical systems analysis and space policy. She also had ongoing efforts in assistive and wearable technologies to augment human locomotion here on Earth. Newman is the author of Interactive Aerospace Engineering and Design, an introductory engineering textbook published by McGraw-Hill, Inc. in 2002. She also has published more than 250 papers in journals and refereed conferences. She has served on numerous National Academies’ studies and panels on human spaceflight, human-robotic interaction and active learning for engineering and design education. As a student at MIT, Newman earned her Ph.D. in aerospace biomedical engineering in 1992 and Master of Science degrees in aerospace engineering and technology and policy in 1989. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1986.  http://www.clarknet.eng.umd.edu/events/index.php?mode=4&id=11490 http://www.clarknet.eng.umd.edu/events/index.php?mode=4&id=11490