2009 Events
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.