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Clark School Hosts PowerMEMS Community
More than 180 international attendees of the 9th International Workshop on Micro and Nanotechnology for Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications (PowerMEMS 2009) visited six Clark School labs on December 3 as a featured activity of their annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
The multidisciplinary PowerMEMS community includes electrical and mechanical engineers as well as chemists, physicists, and material scientists. They conduct research enabling smaller, higher-capacity, more reliable and portable power technologies for military and consumer electronics and remote sensors. They also improve small-scale thermal management and devise better batteries to propel air vehicles and nano-satellites.
These areas correspond with many of the Clark School's initiatives in energy research. Tours of the Clark School's fuel cell, battery, sensors and actuators, nanotechnology and micro reacting flow laboratories allowed the conference attendees to learn about Clark School projects, see our first-class facilities, interact with our faculty and students and make contacts for future collaborations. The guests also attended a luncheon in the Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building rotunda.
The PowerMEMS 2009 conference was chaired by ISR Director Reza Ghodssi (ECE/ISR). Photos of the lab tours are available here.
Labs toured by the PowerMEMS attendees
The Advanced Fuel Cell and Battery Lab, led by Chunsheng Wang
The Center of Fuel Cell Research, headed by Greg Jackson
The MEMS Sensors and Actuators Lab, directed by Reza Ghodssi
The Micro Reacting Flow Lab, led by Christopher Cadou
The Nano-Bio Systems Lab, directed by Gary Rubloff
The Maryland NanoCenter FabLab, headed by Jim O'Connor
Some of the universities whose faculty members visited the Clark School
Tokyo University
Tohoku University
Seoul National University
Stanford University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of California-Berkeley
Georgia Institute of Technology
Imperial College London
Ecole Polytechnique Fιdιrale de Lausanne
Freiburg University
University of Maryland units supporting the conference
The Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost
The University of Maryland Division of Research
The A. James Clark School of Engineering
The Institute for Systems Research
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Maryland Energy Research Center
The Maryland NanoCenter
December 10, 2009
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