James Stubbins

International Success StoriesNuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering (NPRE) at Illinois

University of Jordan University Pisa, Italy Science & Technology

Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological EngineeringUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

NPRE 201, Advanced Energy Systems + Italian Language

•Illinois in Pisa, May to June•Pisa in Illinois August to September

Faculty Exchange – Corrosion Course & Nuclear Structures Course

Post Doc – Grad Student Research Exchange (several joint publications)

JUST Faculty SabbaticalsIllinois-JUST Development of a Undergraduate BS in Nuclear Engineering ProgramGrad Students from JUSTIllinois in Jordan Winter ProgramDistance Learning: NPRE 4551st International on Nuclear & Renewable Energy Conference

Illinois Students in Pisa 2009

K. C. Ting

Five Programmatic Sections:Five Programmatic Sections:

Bioenvironmental Engineering Bioenvironmental Engineering

Biological EngineeringBiological Engineering

Food and Bioprocess Engineering Food and Bioprocess Engineering

Off-Road Equipment Engineering Off-Road Equipment Engineering

Soil and Water Resources Engineering Soil and Water Resources Engineering

Conventional Dry GrindProcess

DDGS Elutriation and SievingProcess (ES Process)

2.65 gal Ethanol

One bushel Corn Corn Dry Grind Facility

15- 17 lb Residual DDGS

Ruminant Food

2.65 gal of Ethanol

One bushel Corn Corn Dry Grind Facility

15 lbs of DDGS

ESProcess

4 lbPericarp

Fiber

Ruminant Food

6 lb ResidualDDGS 1

5 lb ResidualDDGS 2

NonruminantFood

Agricultural and Biological Engineering DepartmentAgricultural and Biological Engineering Department

Areas of Technical Excellence:Areas of Technical Excellence:

Agricultural Automation Agricultural Automation

Bio-energy and Bio-productsBio-energy and Bio-products

Sustainable Environment Sustainable Environment

Biological Engineering Biological Engineering

Systems Informatics and AnalysisSystems Informatics and Analysis

ABE@IllinoisABE@Illinois

Students Students

Study Abroad, Study Abroad,

Industry-Linked Design Projects, Industry-Linked Design Projects,

Exchange Programs, Exchange Programs,

Degree Completion, etc.Degree Completion, etc.

Faculty and StaffFaculty and Staff

Exchange Visits, Exchange Visits,

Short-term and Long-Term Teaching and Research Assignments, Short-term and Long-Term Teaching and Research Assignments,

Joint Research Projects,Joint Research Projects,

Study Abroad Coordination, etc.Study Abroad Coordination, etc.

Institutional International Opportunities and Activities Institutional International Opportunities and Activities Participated by Students, Faculty, and StaffParticipated by Students, Faculty, and Staff

(in addition to many individual contacts and activities)(in addition to many individual contacts and activities)

John Abelson

• Open to MS and PhD students in natural sciences & architecture:– Seminar (15 faculty speakers; > 100 students in Spring 2011)– Theory & methods core course– Seven specializations (160 courses within):

Biomass, Geologic, Markets, Conversion & Transmission, Built Environment, Safety & Security, Environmental Systems

– Student earns a certificate (on top of the departmental degree)• Fall 2011: Anticipated start of ME degree in Energy Systems

Energy and Sustainability Engineering (EaSE)Graduate Program

Bioenergy Professional Science Masters (PSM)

• BS degree + 1 year masters + 3 business courses + internship

• Student exchange program with Sao Paulo, Brazil

John Abelson, MatSE

• Leverage the extraordinary collection of energy resources at UI(EaSE, EBI, CABER, SESE, ECI, SDEP, NRES, STEM, MSTE, iFoundry, pERE,…)

Where do you want to go?

• Student exchanges to perform projects in specific contexts• Online seminars & courses, including continuing education• Develop the intersection between the sustainability of

materials (Ashby / CES) and the design of products and systems

• Fall 2011: Launch a campus-wide initiative in Clean Energy Systems for both science and non-science students:– Programs for K-12, undergraduate, graduate, community colleges, continuing ed…

• Develop interdisciplinary student engagement & research– Technology, society, business, policy, regulation…

What do you want to do?

What are the opportunities by collaboration & partnerships?

Global Challenges Future Energy Demand George Gross (ECE) Geologic Sources of Energy Steve Marshak (Geology) Climate Change Don Wuebbles (Atmospheric Science) Energy-Water Nexus Praveen Kumar (CEE) Energy and Security Cliff Singer (Political Science / NPRE)

Markets, Policies and Systems Economic Markets Hadi Esfahani (Economics / CGS) Policy and Law Jay Kesan (Law / ECE) System Analyses Luis Rodriguez (ABE)

Opportunities for Change CO2 Sequestration Rob Finley (INRS) Photovoltaic and Wind Power Angus Rockett (MSE) Bioenergy Feedstocks Hans Blaschek (ABE / CABER) Biofuels for Transportation Alan Hansen (ABE) Energy Use in Buildings Brian Deal (FAA / UP) Electrical Power Conversion Phil Krein (ECE) The Smart Grid Tom Overbye (ECE)

EaSE Core Course

Example Area of Specialization:

Energy Conversion and Transmission

The supply of energy depends on the conversion of energy from one form (wind, thermal, solar, electrochemical) to another (mechanical, electrical, thermal). The courses in this specialization present the theory, technology, and efficiency of these processes.  Electricity is generated at fossil, nuclear, or renewable power plants and moves to the user via a power grid with issues involving control, dynamics, and stability.  Two courses from any one of these three sets qualify for a specialization.  

Renewable ResourcesAE 481 Wind Power TechnologyATMS 511 Atmospheric Radiation NPRE 498 Fuel Cell Science and Technology OR Wind Power MSE 498 Photovoltaic Materials and Devices 

Electrical Conversion and ControlECE 431 Electric Machinery ECE 464 Power Electronics ECE 568 Model & Cntrl Electromech SystECE 598 PLC Advanced Power Electronics

Thermal Systems

ME 400 Energy Conversion Systems ME 401 Refrigeration and Cryogenics ME 402 Design of Thermal Systems ME 404 Intermediate Thermodynamics AE 412 Viscous Flow & Heat Transfer ME 412 Numerical Thermo-Fluid Mechs ME 420 Intermediate Heat Transfer ME 502 Thermal Systems ME 504 Multiphase Systems & Processes ME 520 Heat Conduction ME 521 Convective Heat Transfer ME 522 Thermal Radiation 

Heat EnginesME 403 Internal Combustion Engines ME 501 Combustion FundamentalsME 503 Design of IC Engines 

Nuclear EnergyNPRE 402 Nuclear Power Engineering NPRE 455 Neutron Diffusion & TransportNPRE 511 Nuclear Reactor Heat Transfer NPRE 555 Reactor Theory I

Power Generation, Transmission, and DistributionECE 476 Power system Analysis ECE 530 Large-scale System Analysis ECE 573 Power System Control ECE 576 Power System Dynm & Stability

Narayana Aluru

Nanofluidics in Emerging Materials

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Functionalized CNTs

Gas storage, separation

Transport/Separations using Graphene

Micro/Nanoelectromechanical Systems

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Huimin Zhao

Department of Chemical and Department of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringBiomolecular Engineering

• 1901: founded as a division of the Chemistry dept• Faculty: 15; Graduate students: ~130; Postdocs: ~25; Undergrad students: ~500

• 1 NAE member among current faculty (1 retiree in NAS, all but one in NAE)

• >100 honors to current tenured faculty since 1990 (9 society fellows: AAAS, APS, AVS, IEEE, IFAC, AIBME)

• graduate ranking: generally in top 10

• Research expenditure (~$0.5M/yr per research faculty, 2nd highest on campus)

• Some principle research thrusts:Biomolecular EngineeringBiocatalysis, bio-surface interfaces, bioinformatics, systems biology, drug/gene delivery, microfluidics for biology, metabolic engineering, protein & enzyme engineering, tissue engineering

Computational ModelingApplied mathematics, control, fluid mechanics and dynamics, global optimization, metabolic pathways, multiscale modeling

EnergyBiomass conversion, catalyst design, electrochemical engineering, fuel cells, hydrogen production and storage, microchemical systems & devices

Globalized Program: Multi-Institutional PhD Degree

• With ChBE at National University of Singapore• Outgrowth of joint MS program

– Coursework + two corporate internships – US and Singaporean students

• PhD Students get diploma with seals of both universities• First program of its type at Illinois

– Few elsewhere in US

• Format:– Students have co-advisors from Illinois, NUS– Coursework, qualifier accepted from either side, joint oral exam

committees– 50% of time at Illinois, 50% at NUS– 5 Singaporean students/yr, funded by Singapore government

Robert Wilhelmson

National Center for Supercomputing Applications• Founded in 1986 as a R&D unit of the University

– Home of Mosaic (led to Netscape and Internet Explorer)– ~250 staff and three buildings– Primary funding from NSF, other agencies, and industry

• Major Programs– Extreme-scale Computing Program (Blue Waters – 10 Pflops, Exascale)– High-end Computing Program (Abe, Lincoln, Ember, NSF TeraGrid)– Data-intensive Computing Program

• Observational astronomy• Environmental science and engineering• Biological, biomedical and medical informatics

• LaboratoriesAdvanced Visualization Laboratory Cybersecurity

Cybereducation Laboratory Innovative Systems

NCSA’s Programs• Selected Areas

– Systems design and software integration/development for high performance computing (traditional and/or accelerators) and “cloud” systems

– Software environments including workflows for applications and visualization that enable science, engineering, health management, …

– Data storage and management design and provision– Cybersecurity and data protection– Larger-scale data analytics, pattern discovery for the humanities and other

disciplines– PrIvate Sector Program (ADM, Boeing, Caterpillar, John Deere, GE, IBM,

IllinoisRocstar, Microsoft, Motorola, Procter & Gamble, Rolls-Royce, Waterborne Environmental, John Zink)

– International Program (Cyprus Institute, ARTCA under OAS, INRIA – France, Kisti – Korea, CNIC/CAS – China, A*STAR and ADSC – Singapore,…)

Scott Pickard

Information Trust Institute

Institute Themes:• Critical Applications, Infrastructures, and

Homeland Defense• Embedded and Enterprise Computing• Multimedia and Distributed Systems

Example: distributedair traffic management

Providing World-Wide Excellence in Information Trust and SecurityInstitute Vision:Trust in SocietyInstitute Personnel:Core faculty from CS and ECE102 faculty, 28 departments, 11 colleges, 10 centers

Institute Centers• Boeing Trusted Software Center • CAESAR: the Center for

Autonomous Engineering Systems and Robotics

• NSA -Sponsored• Center for Information

Assurance Education• Formal Methods Center

pending

• SHARPS: Strategic Healthcare IT Advanced Research Projects on Security

• TCIPG: Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid

• Smart Grid @ Illinois (SGI)• $32M across 5 projects

Institute Highlights• Since 2004 startup funded by $500K

from State, ITI has won $57M in research funding

• Societal and industrial problems• Major corporate partnerships• Led by the College of Engineering 21

Information Trust Institute• Where do you want to go?

– We want to grow: double in size in 5 years?– We want to establish our own physical presence with new labs– We want to collaborate with partners in all continents

• What do you want to do?– We want to make a BIG impact on critical infrastructures– We want to increase our multi-discipline diversity across campus– We want to commercialize “best-in-class” technologies– We want to advance our educational & workforce programs

• What are the opportunities to get there?– Collaborative multi-year partnerships provide the framework for:

• Faculty to work on challenging research problems

• Students to be exposed to application-driven problems

• The reciprocal exchange of visiting researchers and students

• The sharing of Intellectual Property (IP) outcomes

• Joint opportunities for third-party funding22

Jeffrey Roesler

Illinois Center for Transportation

• Director: Imad Al-Qadi, Ph.D., P.E.

• Established: 2005

• Research Projects to Date: 132

• Vision: Renewal and expansion of the transportation system through energy conservation and integrated sustainable systems to ensure safe travel.

ICT Future Plans• Intermodal Transportation Center

• Develop technologies and solutions for future transportation issues

• Safety & Sustainability Opportunities