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Energy

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Energizing research

Combining their varied expertise, ASU and Pakistan researchers are seeking to overcome hurdles to sustainable energy for underserved populations.
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High school students embark on cross-country trek in solar-powered cars

The Solar Car Challenge features teams of high school students learning how to plan, design, engineer, build, race and evaluate roadworthy solar cars. This year the students’ journey includes a stop in Tempe at Arizona State University.
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Remembering George Karady, a power electronics leader

The highly respected educator, researcher and electrical engineering expert left a lasting impact on his colleagues, students, friends, family and the world.
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Photo of seven women posing outdoors. Caption: Fulton Schools sustainable engineering doctoral student Evvan Morton (far left) and Shakira Hobbs, an engineering research associate at the University of Virginia (far right), are shown with school teachers in the Belize village of Sittee River. Morton and Hobbs are leaders of a project aimed at helping the remote rural community to adopt renewable energy technology and establish an environmentally safe waste management system. Photo courtesy of Evvan Morton and Shakira Hobbs.

It takes a village: acting locally, thinking globally

International community outreach projects are preparing engineering doctoral student for a career to help make the world more environmentally sustainable.
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Power of exchange: Proximity creates possibilities

Exchange programs are a critical part of the knowledge transfer that is taking place among the partner institutions that make up the U.S.-Pakistan Centers for Advanced Studies in Energy.
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Lithium-related discovery could extend battery life and improve safety

Hanqing Jiang’s research involves uses silicone as the substrate of lithium metal anode to mitigate dendrite (whisker) formation, which can dramatically extend battery life and diminish safety risks in lithium-ion and lithium-air batteries.
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Photo of Nathan Johnson in front of solar panels. Caption: Nathan Johnson is pictured at the Grid Modernization and Microgrid Test Bed on Arizona State University’s Polytechnic campus. The Fulton Schools assistant professor’s research team is making advances in microgrid technologies to provide communities with more reliable, adaptable, resilient and affordable energy. Photo courtesy of Krisanna Mowen/ASU

Microgrids: Small-scale systems can have big impact on global energy challenges

A Fulton Schools’ research team is making strides in technologies that promise to make electrical power more accessible, mobile and reliable almost anywhere on the planet.
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Photo of Sebastian Husein holding a trophy in a lab. Caption: Sebastian Husein became the second consecutive student from Mariana Bertoni's group to bring home the Lynn Preston Trophy after winning the NSF's Perfect Pitch competition. Photographer: Jessica Hochreiter/ASU

QESST student wins NSF’s Perfect Pitch Competition

Sebastian Husein, a scholar in QESST, won the National Science Foundation’s Perfect Pitch competition at the biennial meeting. This marks the second straight time that a QESST student from Assistant Professor Mariana Bertoni’s group has won.
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Klaus Lackner’s ASU KEDtalk: Carbon is a terrible thing to waste

Klaus Lackner, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering professor of civil, environmental and sustainable engineering and director of Arizona State University's Center for Negative Carbon Emissions, asks "We clean up our trash. Why not clean up after our carbon use?" in an ASU KEDtalk hosted by ASU's Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development.
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Photo of 10 people standing in front of a poster. Caption: Scholars from the US-Pakistan Centers for Advanced Energy, UET Peshawar pose in front of their poster entitled, “Hybrid Energy Testbeds for Remote Communities of Pakistan.” Winners listed. (Left: Khuram Shahzad. Fourth from the left: Muhammad Shoaib Khalid. Seventh from the left: Kiran Israr. Right: Ahmad Amin and Adnan Zahid.) USPCASE

USPCAS-E scholars in it to win at Arizona Student Energy Conference

Scholars from the U.S.-Pakistan Centers for Advanced Energy, UET Peshawar will be bringing home an award from an annual two-day symposium focusing on renewable energy, technology and policy at the Sixth Annual Student Conference on Renewable Energy Science, Technology and Policy.
Photo of a large group of people standing. caption: The 2017 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium was hosted by the National Academy of Engineering. 100 young engineers from varied backgrounds gathered to share their expertise and perspectives to their colleagues from around the country to help develop collaboration across engineering disciplines. Photograph courtesy of the National Academy of Engineering

Bertoni working at the frontier of solar energy engineering

Mariana Bertoni was one of a select group of 100 young engineers that met in Hartford, Connecticut for the 2017 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering hosted by the National Academy of Engineering.
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photo of three people in front of a computer monitor. Caption: Ethan Lawrence (right) joined doctoral students around the country to found the Microscopy Society of America Student Council. Photographer: Jessica Hochreiter/ASU

ASU student helps found Microscopy Society of America Student Council

Ethan Lawrence, along with other doctoral students around the country, founded the Microscopy Society of America Student Council helping to build a community among the future leaders of the field.
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Potential to help keep U.S. an innovation nation brings students coveted research fellowships

Six Fulton Schools of Engineering doctoral students have joined the ranks of National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellows, who are seen as future research and education leaders.
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portrait of Ed Williams. Caption: Edward J. William Jr, (above) graduated from the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, and has returned to ASU as the technical advisor to USPCAS-E in Islamabad, Pakistan. Photographer: Arsal Latif/ASU

USPCAS-E draws Fulton Schools grad back to ASU, makes global impact

Electrical engineering alumnus Edward J. William Jr. returns to the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering to help Pakistan address its energy crisis with USPCAS-E.
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Photo of Ron Roedel teaching in front of a classroom. Caption: There were “so many interesting things happening at ASU” in the solar energy field that Ron Roedel couldn’t resist accepting offers to get involved after his retirement. He’s been teaching classes the past few years in the Solar Energy Engineering and Commercialization graduate program and recently took on the job as its director. Photographer: Marco-Alexis Chaira/ASU

Comeback story: Roedel’s return after retirement has boosted solar energy engineering education

Solar energy expertise in the Fulton Schools’ expanded when an accomplished long-time professor was lured back into the classroom — and recently into a leadership role.
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A comic strip created by Syeda Qudsia. CAption: A cartoon Qudsia and cartoon graphene molecule bond over chemical interactions. Image courtesy of Syeda Qudsia.

Picture this: Pakistani scholar brings illustrative twist to thesis

Syeda Qudsia successfully defended her thesis at the National University of Sciences and Technology on the applications of graphene oxide for solar cells, using cartoons.
Photo of two men standing next to one another with one of them holding a certificate. Caption: Abdul Kashif Janjua, exchange scholar from the U.S.-Pakistan Centers for Advanced Energy, known as USPCAS-Ewith his certificate of completion from the Power System’s Lab in fall 2016. Photo courtesy of Abdul Kashif Janjua

USPCAS-E scholar collaborates on solar research, benefits Arizona and Pakistan

Abdul Kashif Janjua, a fall 2016 exchange scholar from the U.S.-Pakistan Centers for Advanced Studies in Energy at ASU, collaborated on a research paper under the tutelage of Professor George Karady which was presented at the IEEE Power Engineering Society’s general meeting in Chicago in July.
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New semiconductor material shows promise for more efficient power electronics

Yuji Zhao is working to address technological gaps in gallium nitride doping, a critical technical step to achieve high performance GaN power devices.
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Date range July 2018 – July 2017