Researchers investigate the economic, environment, and social implications of current and future vehicle technologies. How can we build better technologies—ones that are cleaner, more efficient, affordable, and sustainable?

Faculty involved: Shawn Litster, Jeremy Michalek, Allen Robinson, Venkat Viswanathan, Katie Whitefoot, Ding Zhao 

Faculty members explore how to minimize emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants through reliable, safe, and economic operation of electric power plants and other energy conversion systems. They examine how to best utilize renewable energy sources. 

Faculty involved: Jeremy Michalek, Ed Rubin, Satbir Singh

Our experts investigate the air pollutants that are emitted by the production and use of energy and how these pollutants evolve in the atmosphere. They explore ways to minimize the impact on human health and global climate change.

Faculty involved: Jeremy Michalek, Albert Presto, Allen Robinson, Satbir Singh, Ryan Sullivan

Our researchers are engineering new materials to improve energy conversion and storage efficiency as well as dramatically reduce energy consumption of products like electronics, lighting, and other widely-used appliances.

Faculty involved: B. Reeja Jayan, Shawn Litster, Jonathan Malen, Alan McGaughey, Rahul Panat, Sheng Shen, Venkat Viswanathan

Our experts seek to minimize environmental impact by exploring ways to design safer, more efficient drilling and extraction technologies, create a portable scale for liquid fuel conversion, and develop clean combustion technologies utilizing alternative fuel for transportation. 

Faculty involved: Jeremy Michalek, Allen Robinson, Satbir Singh, Venkat Viswanathan

Our faculty aim to provide clean, renewable sources of energy that serve to de-carbonize the environment, advance sustainable solar power, and develop bio-energy technologies from photosynthetic microorganisms like algae. 

Faculty involved: Philip LeDuc, Jeremy Michalek, Sheng Shen