NSF Energy Manufacturing Workshop

March 24-25, 2009 • Arlington, VA- USA

• Energy Manufacturing - White paper summarizing the outcome of this workshop sponsored by the CMMI Division of the National Science Foundation on Energy Manufacturing.
  Matthew Realff, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology.
  Steven Danyluk, School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Manufacturing Research Center.
• Micromanufacturing for Energy Efficiency
  Jian Cao, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Advanced Materials Processing Laboratory.
• The REAL Cellulosic Ethanol Problem, Producing Large Scale COST SENSITIVE Bioproducts, and Solar Capture Systems
  Wayne Curtis, Department of Chemical Engineering, Penn State University.
• Solix Biofuels: Manufacturing Challenges
  Morgan DeFoort, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University, Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory.
  (alternate pdf)
• Improve Producibility of Solar Collectors
  Delcie Durham, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Florida.
• Micro-textured Engineered Surfaces
  Kornel F. Ehman, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory.
• Material-scale Heterogeneous Functional Integration, Large-Area Nano-patterning, and Manufacturing Anti-Icing Surfaces for Windmills
  Placid M. Ferreira, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Manufacturing Energy Needs
  Robert Hocken, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
• Manufacturing Challenges for PV in the 21 st Century
  Juris Kalejs, American Solar Technologies. (alternate pdf)
• Distributed Energy Generation (DG)
  Shiv Gopal Kapoor, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Large Area ProcessingResearch Programme
  Ser Yong Lim, SIMTech.
• Manufacturing Challenges in Silicon-Based Photovoltaic Energy Generation and Thin-Film Based Solar Energy Generation
  Shreyes Melkote, School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Manufacturing Research Center.
• Energy Manufacturing
  Burak Ozdoganlar, Department of Mechanical Engineering/Materials Science and Engineering Carnegie Mellon University.
• PV Small and Large
  John Patten, Department of Manufacturing Engineering
  Western Michigan University.
• Solar Technology Innovation Cycles, Reliability of Large Scale Solar Applications, and Thin Film III-V Materials for Solar Cells
  Michael Thurston, Rochester Institute of Technology, The Sustainability Institute.
• Sustainably Manage Nutrients
  Sridhar Viamajala, Biological and Irrigation Engineering, Utah State University.
• Algae
  Wenqiao (Wayne) Yuan, ZJ Pei, Biological and Agricultural Engineering/Manufacturing and Industrial System Engineering, Kansas State University.