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The Clark School Engineering Sustainability Workshop 2009
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Focus 2009: Energy
Co-sponsored by the University of Maryland
Energy Research Center and Office of Sustainability
April 22, 2009, 9:30 to 2:30
Kay Boardrooms and the Rotunda
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
On April 22, 2009—Earth Day—The Clark School, with the co-sponsorship of the University of Maryland Energy Research Center and Office of Sustainability, will hold its first Engineering Sustainability Workshop, focused on energy. The school invites all interested people to attend and participate.
The agenda for the workshop is:
Morning: Unified Kay Boardrooms
| 9:30-9:35 | Welcome by Dean Darryll Pines. |
| 9:35-10:00 | “Cellulosic Ethanol: The Realities” by Steven W. Hutcheson, Professor, College of Chemistry and Life Sciences, University of Maryland, and Zymetis CTO. |
| 10:00-10:30 | “Contributing Engineering Solutions in a Changing Climate” by Matthias Ruth, Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland. |
| 10:30-10:35 | Break |
| 10:35-11:00 | "Sustainability at Constellation" by Jim Connaughton, Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Public and Environmental Policy, Constellation Energy. |
| 11:00-11:30 | “Maryland’s Clean Energy Economic Development Initiative” by Ross Tyler, Director of Clean Energy, Maryland Energy Administration. |
| 11:30-12:15 |
Lunch: Rotunda Poster session opens and continues until the close of the workshop |
Afternoon: Unified Kay Boardrooms
| 12:15-01:00 | Keynote: “Making Sustainability Engineering Profitable for DuPont” by Dawn Rittenhouse, Director of Sustainable Development, DuPont. |
Afternoon: Parallel Speakers: Divided Kay Boardrooms
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1:00-1:15 |
Kay Boardroom East: "Highly-Energy-Efficient Heating and Cooling Methods" by Reinhard Radermacher, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Director, Center for Environmental Energy Engineering, A. James Clark School of Engineering. Kay Boardroom West: "Towards Sustainable Generation of Hydrogen from Sunlight" by Sheryl Ehrman, Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, A. James Clark School of Engineering. |
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1:15-1:30 |
Kay Boardroom East: “Replacing Lead in Electronic Devices and Reducing Hazardous Waste” by Ichiro Takeuchi, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, A. James Clark School of Engineering. Kay Boardroom West: “The Future of Nuclear Energy” by Mohammad Modarres, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Director, Nuclear Engineering Program, A. James Clark School of Engineering. |
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1:30-1:45 |
Kay Boardroom East: "Nano-enabled Solutions for Electrical Energy Storage" by Gary Rubloff, Minta Martin Professor, Materials Science and Engineering and Institute for Systems Research, A. James Clark School of Engineering, Director, Maryland NanoCenter, University of Maryland. Kay Boardroom West: “PEM Fuel Cell Systems for Clean, Portable Power” by Gregory S. Jackson, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, A. James Clark School of Engineering. |
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1:45-2:00 |
Kay Boardroom East: "The New Professional Master of Engineering in Sustainable Energy Engineering Program" by George Syrmos, Executive Director, Office of Advanced Engineering Education, A. James Clark School of Engineering. Kay Boardroom West/Kim Building Plaza: “Propulsion Applications of Biodiesel” a presentation and demonstration by Chris Cadou, Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering, A. James Clark School of Engineering, and Dan Goodman, Senior Fellow for Renewable Energy, Dingman Center, R.H. Smith School of Business. |
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2:00-2:15 |
Kay Boardroom East:"Solar Energy Where the World is not Flat," by Mathhew Bakalar (senior, electrical and computer engineering, secretary for Engineers Without Borders), and Headley Jacobus (graduate student in mechanical engineering, Peru Team Project Leader for Engineers Without Borders). Kay Boardroom West: "LEAFHouse: A Pictorial Tour of the University's Recent Award-Winning Solar Decathlon Project" by Amy Gardner, LEED-AP, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and Kaye Brubaker, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, A. James Clark School of Engineering. |
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2:15-2:30 |
Kay Boardroom East: "New Directions: Education and Research in Energy Sustainability and Conservation in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering” by Neil Goldsman, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, A. James Clark School of Engineering Kay Boardroom West: “Galvanic Cell/Supercapacitor Hybrids for Low-Power Distributed Sensor Networks” by Martin Peckerar, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, A. James Clark School of Engineering, and Chief Executive Officer, FlexEl Corporation. |
Afternoon: Unified Kay Boardrooms
| 02:30-03:00 |
Dean Pines: |
The Clark School Engineering Sustainability 2009
WebcastsAfternoon-Kay Boardroom East, Rm 1111 Afternoon-Kay Boardroom West, Rm 1107 About Specific WorkshopsProposals for Near-Zero Emission Technologies Due May 12The Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory seeks proposals for development of sensor and control systems to support implementation and operation of highly efficient, near-zero-emission power generation technologies such as advanced combustion, gasification, turbines, fuel cells, gas cleaning and separation technologies, and carbon capture. More Needed: Your IdeasThe university has a climate action plan to become carbon-neutral by 2050. Your input is needed. Click on the link, take a look, and let us know your thoughts. Power Down for the PlanetBe part of an effort to reduce the energy consumption of computers and cut CO2 emissions by an estimated 54 million tons by 2010. Go the Power Down for the Planet website to pledge your commitment, and help the University of Maryland show it’s the most energy-efficient campus in the country. |
Sustainability does not happen by chance. It must be engineered.
That’s why, each year on Earth Day, the Clark School invites its own faculty members and students, interested people from other University of Maryland schools, and guest speakers from industry and government, to come together for the Clark School’s Engineering Sustainability Workshop.
The goal of the workshop is to present and propose ways to maximize technology's positive impact on the long-term availability of natural resources, and to minimize its negative impact. The workshop offers presentations, demonstrations, and discussions in which all may participate. At the conclusion of the workshop, a list is made of new ideas for sustainability initiatives proposed by attendees; this list will be posted on this website for future reference and possible development and execution.
Each year we select a particular sustainability focus, and ask a related campus organization to act as co-sponsor of the event with the Clark School. In 2009, the first year of the workshop, the focus is on energy and the co-sponsoring organizations are the University of Maryland Energy Research Center and Office of Sustainability. In future years, the school will select other foci and partners.
We encourage all to join us and contribute new ideas for engineering sustainability.
EcoHouse Seeks Eco-Minded Students
This one-year, living-learning program for sophomores and juniors focuses on environmental sustainability. Apply by April 17. Visit ecohouse.umd.edu for application materials and more information.
Left: See how EcoHouse takes learning outside of the classroom.
Student Video Contest Guidelines and Results 2010
This Year's Workshop
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Focus 2010: Water
As a special opportunity for Clark School and University of Maryland students, the Clark School held a video competition in conjunction with the 2010 Engineering Sustainability Workshop, whose focus was on water.
2010 Student Video Contest Results
Guidelines for the Competition
Goal of the Competition
The Clark School of Engineering seeks to reduce its water footprint (and its carbon footprint) by improving the water supply and consumption of its buildings, laboratories, and grounds. In addition, we wish to reduce the negative impacts of the campus on our neighboring stream (Paint Branch) as well as downstream waters (Anacostia and Potomac Rivers, Chesapeake Bay). The video competition seeks to involve students in this mission.
Some Ideas To Help You Get Started
- What is a water footprint?
- What is a carbon footprint?
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What do water supply and water use have to do with carbon?
It takes energy to move water. Drinking water and used water (“waste” water) are generally treated with physical and chemical processes that require energy. -
Why save water when we’re not in a drought?
Wise water use is not just for times of water shortage. More... -
How is our campus damaging Paint Branch, other rivers, and the Bay?
Buildings and pavement (impervious areas) block the infiltration of rainwater into the soil. Water that flows off impervious areas bypasses the soil’s natural treatment processes, carries trash and other pollutants, and accelerates erosion in streams. More...
Eligibility
The video competition is open to individual current Clark School students at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and to teams of current Clark School and non-Clark School University of Maryland students, also at the graduate and undergraduate levels, as long as at least one member of any team is a Clark School student.
Questions to be Answered in the Video
Each video must answer the following questions in a two-minute presentation:
- Target: What University building or site does your solution target? What specific aspect of that building/site’s water supply, use, or discharge, or trash generation is addressed? (Multiple buildings/sites may be targeted.)
- Method: How would you improve the targeted building/site’s water supply, use, or discharge, or trash generation? Describe the technology that you would use to make the improvement(s), including as appropriate the role of people who manage, work in, and use the building or site.
- Local Impact: Based on your best estimates, what would be the cost of implementing your solution and what would be its quantitative benefits (in terms of dollars or some other measure) during one year of implementation?
- Broader Impact: Why does wiser water use matter not only for our campus but also for our nation and the world?
Selection
A committee of Clark School faculty members will select the winning video based on its success in answering the questions listed above.
Prizes
The committee will offer:
- Graduate-Level Prize: $500, presentation of the video at the workshop, and a link to the video from the Clark School website
- Undergraduate-Level Prize: $500, presentation of the video at the workshop, and a link to the video from the Clark School website
Deadline for Submission
By close of business (5:00) on April 19, 2010.
Exploring Engineering Innovation and Modern Society
2012 Symposium
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2006 Panelist John Brighton, research provost at Iowa State University and former assistant director of engineering at the National Science Foundation. |
The Charles and Helen White Symposium explores the relationship between engineering innovation and modern society, and may address technical, economic, cultural, political, sociological and other considerations. This significant academic event is made possible through a generous endowment by Distinguished Alumnus Charles M. White, and his wife, Helen White.
Typically the White Symposium focuses on the work of the most recent inductee in the Clark School's Innovation Hall of Fame. For example, in 2006 the theme of the symposium was "Innovation: Fueling a Communications Revolution," and featured Barry West, Andrew Viterbi, and Rajiv Laroia, founder and CTO of Flarion Technologies (now QUALCOMM Flarion Technologies), the 2006 Innovation Hall of Fame inductee. The symposium may also address an engineering innovation unrelated to the Innovation Hall of Fame, at the discretion of the dean.
Charles M. White graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1913, and married Helen Bradley five years later. White's career in mechanical engineering progressed rapidly. In 1930, he joined Republic Steel Corporation as assistant vice president of operations, and was elected chairman and chief executive officer in 1956, after serving 11 years as president. He is credited with many improvements in steel manufacturing. White received numerous awards and served both as a civic leader and as a trustee to many organizations. He received an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering from the University of Maryland in 1960.
The White Symposium is open to the public and is free of charge. All are welcome.
Charles M. White, benefactor of the White Symposium
The Clark School Engineering Sustainability Workshop 2010
This Year's Webcasts
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Focus 2010: Water
April 22, 8:45 to 3:00
Kay Boardrooms and Rotunda
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, College Park, MD
Co-sponsored by the University of Maryland Office of Sustainability
This year’s event will explore opportunities and challenges in water sustainability at the national and regional levels (including availability, management, purity, and wastewater management) and the roles engineers and others can play.
The agenda for the workshop is:
Morning Session: Unified Kay Boardrooms
“National Perspectives on Water Sustainability”
| 8:45-8:50 | Welcome: by Dean Darryll Pines |
| 8:50-9:20 | “Facing Hard Choices: 21st Century U.S. Water Challenges” by Gerald Galloway, Research Professor, Clark School Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| 9:20-9:50 | “Building Collaborative Relationships for a Sustainable Water Resources Future” by Joseph Hoffman, Executive Director, Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin |
| 9:50-10:10 | Break |
| 10:10-10:40 | “Sustainability and Natural Resources” by Richard Cole, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources |
| 10:40-11:10 | “Collaboration at the Agency Level: NOAA’s Information and Services Initiative” by Don Cline, Director, National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| 11:10-11:20 | Break |
“How Engineers Can Help Improve Water Sustainability in the Chesapeake Bay Region”
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11:20-12:20 |
Panel Discussion: moderated by Kaye Brubaker, Associate Professor, Clark School Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Panelists are:
• Cherie Schultz, Director for CO-OP Operations, • Don Boesch, Professor of Marine Science and • Robert Summers, Deputy Secretary, Maryland • Roland Steiner, Regional Water and Wastewater |
| 12:20-12:50 |
Lunch: Rotunda Poster session opens and continues until the close of the workshop |
| 12:50 -1:30 | Keynote: “Four, Five and More Pillars of Sustainable Water Infrastructure” by Hon. G. Tracy Mehan, III, Principal, The Cadmus Group, Inc., assistant administrator for water at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2001 to 2003 |
Afternoon Session I: Parallel Speakers: Divided Kay Boardrooms:
Kay Boardroom West
| 1:30-1:45 | "Tolerable Risk for Coastal Flood Protection" by Greg Baecher, The Water Collaborative at UM |
| 1:45-2:00 | "The Role of Water and Sanitation Engineers in Achieving the Millenium Development Goals" by Sebastian Smoot, Student, master of Engineering and Public Policy Program |
| 2:00-2:15 | "Sustainable Water Infrastructure and International Community Development" by Dylan Rebois, Student, Engineers Without Borders |
| 2:15-2:30 | "Re-Use of Wastewater Effluents: Benefits and Concerns" by Alba Torrents, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| 2:30-2:45 | "Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in Wastewater and Resulting Occupational Exposures" by Rachel Rosenberg Goldstein, Student, Master of Public Health Program |
| 2:45-3:00 | Break |
Kay Boardroom East
| 1:30-1:45 | "Sustainable Rainwater Engineering" by Allen Davis, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| 1:45-2:00 | "Research Needs for Sustainable Management of Urban Watersheds" by Karen Prestegaard, Associate Professor, Department of Geology |
| 2:00-2:15 | "Water Resources in Food Protection" by Carol Collins, CEO, Spiralcat |
| 2:15-2:30 | "Greening the University: An Overview of Sustainability at the University of Maryland" by Mark Stewart, UM Office of Sustainability |
| 2:30-2:45 | "Water-Wise Through Living Systems for the Built Environment" by David Tilley, Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology |
| 2:45-3:00 | Break |
Afternoon Session II: Unified Kay Boardrooms
| 3:00-3:30 |
Dean Pines:
• Announces the winners of the student video • Solicits water research, education, entrepreneurship, • Concludes the workshop. |
Special Event Sponsored by the Master of Engineering and Public policy Program:
| 4:00-4:30 | Reception |
| 4:30-5:30 | "Flood Risk Management and the Responsibility of the Professional Engineer" by Leonard Shabman, Resident Scholar, Resources for the Future. |
The Clark School Engineering Sustainability Workshop 2010
This Year's WorkshopThis Year's Webcasts• Speakers Galloway and Hoffman: 8:45 to 9:50 a.m. • Speakers Conrad and Cline: • Panel Discussion: • Keynote: 12:50 to 1:30 p.m. • Parallel Speakers in Kay Boardroom West plus conclusion of workshop: • Parallel Speakers in Kay Boardroom East: • Workshop Conclusion: Handouts21st Century Water Management Review [pdf] Workshop Archives
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Sustainability does not happen by chance. It must be engineered.
That’s why, each year on Earth Day in April, the Clark School invites its own faculty members and students, interested people from other University of Maryland schools, and guest speakers from industry and government, to come together for the Clark School’s Engineering Sustainability Workshop.
The goal of the workshop is to present and propose ways to maximize technology's positive impact on the long-term availability of natural resources, and to minimize its negative impact. The workshop offers presentations, demonstrations, and discussions in which all may participate. At the conclusion of the workshop, a list is made of new ideas for sustainability initiatives proposed by attendees; this list will be posted on this website for future reference and possible development and execution.
Each year we select a particular sustainability focus, and ask a related campus organization to act as co-sponsor of the event with the Clark School. In 2010, the second year of the workshop, the focus is on water and the co-sponsoring organization is the University of Maryland Office of Sustainability. In future years, the school will select other foci and partners.
We encourage all to join us and contribute new ideas for engineering sustainability.
The Whiting-Turner Business and Entrepreneurial Lecture Series
Come to Be Inspired!
Students Welcome!
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Simon DiMaio of Intuitive Surgical, Inc., will give a Whiting-Turner Lecture on surgical robotics on October 24, 2013.
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It's many an engineer's dream—to create and introduce a new product or technology, and in the process make the world a better place and reap financial benefits. The Whiting-Turner Business and Entrepreneurial Lecture Series, now beginning its second decade at the A. James Clark School of Engineering, celebrates this dream and helps make students, faculty, alumni and regional business people more likely to achieve it.
The series brings leading technology enterprise thinkers to campus—men and women from large, established companies or small and promising start-ups, who deal with the real-world challenges of a fast-paced, global economy. In their lectures and question-and-answer sessions, they share their insights and experiences, their "war stories" and predictions, inspiring audience members to apply new ideas and approaches in their current or future careers.
The Clark School would like to thank the Whiting-Turner Contracting Company for supporting this lecture series. Visitors may also browse the complete video archive of Whiting-Turner Lectures.