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Sustainability

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Former president impressed by students’ solar house

ASU students took former President Bill Clinton on a tour of a house they helped design and build for the international Solar Decathlon competition.
School or unitSSEBE

Energized by spirit of social entrepreneurship

Lessons learned at the Clinton Global Initiative University conference at ASU gave engineering students the impetus to tackle big challenges

ASU delivers workshop on wind energy in Fiji

A two-day workshop for policymakers, focused on small wind energy systems, recently was held in Fiji by Arizona State University’s Vocational Training and Education for Clean Energy program.
School or unitPOLYSCAI

Innovative Solar Decathlon house now on public exhibit in Phoenix

Fulton Engineering students contributed to the SHADE project that was entered in the international Solar Decathlon competition and is now on public exhibit in Phoenix.
School or unitDEWSCSSEBE
PhD student Heather Stancl, Environmental Engineering, Paul Westerhoff Lab

ASU leads new national research network to study impacts of nanomaterials

A new national research network created to assess the potential impacts of engineered nanomaterials will be led by ASU engineers and scientists
School or unitPOLYSSEBE

Engineering students aim to boost social efforts at Clinton Global Initiative event

ASU engineering students participating in the international Clinton Global Initiative University conference hope to boost their efforts to help solve societal challenges
School or unitSBHSESCAISEMTE
Nathan Newman

Newman’s research aims at more energy-efficient supercomputing

An ASU engineering research group is developing technology to provide the energy efficiency needed to expand the capacities of supercomputers
School or unitSEMTE

Kenya project earns ASU engineering students national award

A project to help a community in rural Kenya develop sustainable water resources wins ASU’s student chapter of Engineers Without Borders a national award

Fainekos’ work on embedded cyber-physical systems earns NSF CAREER award

An ASU engineer wins a National Science Foundation award to fund his work to prevent dysfunction in automated and autonomous technologies we depend on.
School or unitSCAI

‘Big data’ advances could help solve health, energy challenges

ASU computer science teams are using advances in “big data” analysis to find better ways of managing energy systems and public response to epidemics.
School or unitSCAI

Sankar receives NSF CAREER award to conduct privacy research

Assistant professor Lalitha Sankar receives an NSF CAREER Award for her work on information-sharing protocols between distributed, and often competitive, entities in critical infrastructure networks such as the electric grid.
School or unitECEE
Keith Hjelmstad

Hjelmstad, Volo honored at Engineers Week

An ASU professor and graduate student will receive awards at the Greater Phoenix Area 2014 Engineers Week award ceremony.
School or unitSSEBE
Stephen Goodnick

ASU engineers to lead national solar energy technology projects

Two national research projects to develop technologies that expand the capabilities of solar power systems will be led by ASU engineers
School or unitECEE
Professor Bruce Rittmann is a leader in the field of environmental biotechnology.

Rittmann recognized for impact on environmental conservation

Research that has helped provide innovative solutions to environmental problems earns a national award for an ASU engineering professor
School or unitSSEBE
srabanti chowdry

ASU engineers have role in new national manufacturing research consortium

Two ASU engineers will help lead work for a new national research center created to develop the next generation of power electronics
School or unitECEE
Kavazanjian Dean's Lecture

Kavazanjian heading effort to reduce impacts of soil damage from earthquakes

An ASU engineering professor will lead a National Research Council committee in studying ways to deal with soil damage caused by earthquakes
School or unitSSEBE
Bowden Solar Power Lab

Quest to boost solar-cell performance

In a TV interview, ASU engineer Stuart Bowden describes a new research project aimed at making a big advance in solar-energy technology

ASU engineering grad putting education to work in solar energy field

An ASU engineering graduate is helping to establish a solar energy technology program at a Texas college
School or unitSEMTE

Date range April 2014 – October 2013