2009 Events
Student Advisory Board Christmas Light Display
December 2009
The Notre Dame Energy Center Student Advisory Board created two light displays for the holiday season, demonstrating the energy efficiency of LEDs over incandescent light bulbs. The displays were hung in DeBartolo Hall and outside the Engineering Library in Fitzpatrick Hall.
The display is pictured below. Both wreaths are using about 7 watts of electricity. However, the LED wreath has 150 light bulbs while the incandescent wreath only has 2!
Santa knows when you waste energy. Get on Santa's Nice List this Christmas. Save energy by decorating with LED light bulbs.
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Notre Dame Energy Center
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T. Boone Pickens to speak October 26 at Notre Dame
Energy executive T. Boone Pickens will conduct a town hall meeting to discuss his Pickens Plan for U.S. energy independence from imported oil at 5 p.m. Oct. 26 (Monday) at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center at the University of Notre Dame. Read more.
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Science Lecture Series
"Shedding Light on a Hot Topic: Making Sense of Climate Change and Energy Use Through Basic Scientific Principles," presented by Seth Brown, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
October 24, 2009, 1:00-2:00 p.m., Jordan Hall of Science, Room 101
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The 3rd Annual Notre Dame Energy Week will be held September 13-19, 2009 on the campus of Notre Dame. Energy Week 2009 is sponsored by the Notre Dame Energy Center, GreeND, and the Office of Sustainability.
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Quad Display and Event Sponsor - Company Information and Registration
Career Luncheon - Company Registration
Career Luncheon - Student Regisration is now CLOSED
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GE-Sponsored Visit to Grand Ridge Wind Farm and LaSalle Nuclear Power Plant -- LOOK FOR FUTURE INFORMATION ABOUT ANOTHER VISIT THIS FALL.
April 18, 2009
Students from the University of Notre Dame attended the GE-sponsored visit to Grand Ridge Wind Farm near Ransom, Illinois and LaSalle Nuclear Power Plant near Marseilles, Illinois on Saturday, April 18, 2009.
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Earth Hour
March 28, 2009 -- 8:30-9:30pm
Mark your calendar and plan to join millions of people around the world in turning off the lights at 8:30 p.m., March 28, 2009, for one hour to raise awareness and take action to fight climate change.
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The Role of Combustion in Future Energy Scenarios
Dr. Charles Westbrook, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
3:30pm, McKenna Hall Auditorium
This lecture is sponsored by the Center for Applied Mathematics and is open to all faculty, students, and staff at the University of Notre Dame.
Michiana Area Engineers Week Celebration
Saturday, February 28, 2009
6pm, Windsor Park Conference Center
A panel of senior faculty from the University of Notre Dame will discuss the challenges of developing abundant and inexpensive energy sources that are not harmful to the environment. A Q&A session will follow. Faculty participants are: Dr. Prashant Kamat, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Dr. Ed Maginn, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; and Dr. Robert Nelson, Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering.
Open to the Public -Event Price: $37.50 per person
Click here for details.
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THE FORUM ON THE FUTURE OF ELECTRIC POWER
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
3-5pm, McKenna Hall Auditorium
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View the videotaped discussion on the Future of Electric Power featuring:
Anthony Earley Jr.: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of DTE Energy, which includes Detroit Edison, an electric utility serving more than 2.2 million customers.
Patrick Eilers: Managing Director of Madison Dearborn Partners with responsibility for acquisition and management of energy and power systems.
William Hederman: Special Advisor to Congress. Previously: Executive Director of the Energy Resources Group, Morgan, Lewis and Bockius, LLP; Founding Director of the Office of Market Oversight and Investigations at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC); and Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Columbia Energy Group.
Michael O’Sullivan: Senior Vice President for Development at FPL Energy, a world leader in the production of clean energy, including wind and solar power.
Moderated by Joan F. Brennecke, The Bernard Keating-Crawford Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the Director of the Notre Dame Energy Center.
For a copy of the poster, click here.
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A discussion by Dr. Amitava Dutt and Dr. Frank Incropera
Monday, February 23, 2009
8pm, 131 DeBartolo Hall
All Notre Dame graduate and undergraduate students are invited to a discussion on Balancing the Economy and the Environment by Dr. Amitava Dutt, Professor of Economics, and Dr. Frank Incropera, Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. Professors Dutt and Incropera will (1) discuss examples in which either environmental or economic considerations have won out in the past; (2) outline some of the current discussions taking place on these issues; and (3) attempt to lay out how they should be balanced in the future.
2009 News
Department of Energy honors Notre Dame professor
December 22, 2009
Joan F. Brennecke, the Keating-Crawford Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and director of the University of Notre Dame Energy Center, has been chosen to receive the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award from the United States Department of Energy (DOE). Read more.
University of Notre Dame What Would You Fight For Nuclear Energy
November 23, 2009
At Notre Dame's Energy Frontier Research Center, led by Peter C. Burns, Massman Chair and Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences, researchers are laying the scientific groundwork for fundamental advances in such areas as solar energy, biofuels, clean coal and nuclear energy. View video.
Notre Dame to host third annual Energy Week
September 10, 2009
The University of Notre Dame will observe its third annual Energy Week from Sept. 13 to 19 (Sunday to Saturday) with the theme “Green is the new Black.”
Organized by members of the Student Advisory Board of the Notre Dame Energy Center, each day of Energy Week will feature energy education and awareness activities, including participation from major energy companies, lectures on renewable energy sources, tours of both the Notre Dame power plant and the New Energy Ethanol Plant, and screenings of documentaries and energy-focused movies, such as “Fuel” and “Earth.”
As part of Energy Week on campus, major energy companies and energy related organizations displayed the latest in energy technologies and explained best practices for creating a sustainable energy future on Notre Dame’s South Quad. Read more.
Energy Week 2009
ND Today (The Notre Dame Alumni Association E-Newsletter)
October 2009
Building on the success of last year’s program, Notre Dame held its third annual Energy Week September 13-19 on campus. Several activities throughout the week focused on educating students about the world’s energy crisis, and informing them about what the University is doing in terms of energy-related research to address these energy challenges. Read more.
Notre Dame joins Indiana energy consortium
September 25, 2009
The University of Notre Dame Energy Center has joined the Indiana Consortium for Research in Energy Systems and Policy (CRESP). The center joins founding partners Indiana University, Purdue University and Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis in this multidisciplinary organization designed to promote energy focused collaborative investigations and educational opportunities among faculty and researchers at the partner universities. Read more.
Maginn receives inaugural CoMSEF Early Career Award
September 14, 2009
Edward J. Maginn, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Notre Dame, is the recipient of the inaugural American Institute of Chemical Engineers CoMSEF (Computational Molecular Science and Engineering Forum) award for outstanding research. Read more.
Notre Dame to host third annual Energy Week
September 10, 2009
The University of Notre Dame will observe its third annual Energy Week from Sept. 13 to 19 (Sunday to Saturday) with the theme “Green is the new Black.” Read more.
For more information, visit http://www.nd.edu/~ndenergy/news-and-events/events-calendar.shtml
Catholic universities to gather at Notre Dame to address sustainability
August 20, 2009
“Renewing the Campus: Sustainability and the Catholic University,” the first national conference dedicated to advancing the engagement of Catholic universities with the most pressing environmental challenges of our time. Read more.
For more information, visit http://green.nd.edu/
Notre Dame receives funding for Energy Frontier Research Center
August 07, 2009
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced the delivery of $18.5 million in funding to the University of Notre Dame for an Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC). Read Full Story
For more information, visit http://www.er.doe.gov/bes/EFRC.html
Obama names Notre Dame as recipient of electric vehicle education grant
August 6, 2009
The University of Notre Dame is one of the recipients of a $6.1 million federal stimulus grant to develop degree and training programs for electric vehicles. Read Full Story
Tony Earley elected EEI Chairman; Richard Kelly, Tom Farrell and Lew Hay to serve as Vice-Chairmen
June 2009
Tony Earley is a member of the University of Notre Dame College of Engineering Advisory Council and the Industrial Advisory Board for the Notre Dame Energy Center. Read Full Story
Kamat named to editorial position with new ACS journal
June 15, 2009
ND receives Uptime Institute's Green Enterprise IT Award
May 22, 2009
Energy Center Director Tours Wind Farm on Maui
March 2009
Joan F. Brennecke, Energy Center Director, stands atop this 90 meter (296 feet) tall wind turbine, owned and operated by Firstwind http://www.firstwind.com/. The wind farm is located in Maui, Hawaii and consists of 20 wind turbines, each capable of 1.5 MW. Firstwind currently supplies about 8% of the electricity for Maui. View more photos here.
Homeland Security Official Named Energy Center Managing Director. Patrick M. Murphy, most recently program manager in charge of electric power systems research for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has been named managing director of the Notre Dame Energy Center. He will assume his new position April 6.
February 4, 2009
Notre Dame Panel to Discuss Future of Electric Power. A panel of energy industry experts will discuss the future of electric power and energy Feb. 25 (Wednesday) from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Center for Continuing Education at the University of Notre Dame.
February 3, 2009