James Stubbins
International Success Stories
Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering (NPRE) at Illinois
University of
Pisa, Italy
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)
Jordan University
Science & Technology
JUST Faculty Sabbaticals
Illinois-JUST Development of a
Undergraduate BS in Nuclear
Engineering Program
Grad Students from JUST
Illinois in Jordan Winter Program
Distance Learning: NPRE 455
1st International on Nuclear &
Renewable Energy Conference
Illinois Students in Pisa 2009
Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
K. C. Ting
Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department
Five Programmatic Sections:
Bioenvironmental Engineering
Biological Engineering
Food and Bioprocess Engineering
DDGS Elutriation and Sieving
Process (ES Process)
Conventional Dry Grind
Process
Off-Road Equipment Engineering
One bushel Corn
One bushel Corn Corn Dry Grind Facility
Corn Dry Grind Facility
2.65 gal of
Ethanol
2.65 gal
Ethanol
Soil and Water Resources Engineering
15 lbs of
DDGS
15-17 lb
Residual DDGS
ES
Process
Ruminant Food
4 lb
Pericarp
Fiber
6 lb
Residual
DDGS 1
5 lb
Residual
DDGS 2
Ruminant Food
Nonruminant
Food
Areas of Technical Excellence:
Agricultural Automation
Bio-energy and Bio-products
Sustainable Environment
Biological Engineering
Systems Informatics and Analysis
ABE@Illinois
Institutional International Opportunities and Activities
Participated by Students, Faculty, and Staff
(in addition to many individual contacts and activities)
Students
Study Abroad,
Industry-Linked Design Projects,
Exchange Programs,
Degree Completion, etc.
Faculty and Staff
Exchange Visits,
Short-term and Long-Term Teaching and Research Assignments,
Joint Research Projects,
Study Abroad Coordination, etc.
John Abelson
John Abelson, MatSE
Energy and Sustainability Engineering (EaSE)
Graduate Program
• 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)
Bioenergy Professional Science Masters (PSM)
• Fall 2011: Anticipated start of ME degree in Energy Systems
• BS degree + 1 year masters + 3 business courses +
internship
• Student exchange program with Sao Paulo, Brazil
Where do you want to go?
• Leverage the extraordinary collection of energy resources at
UI
(EaSE, EBI, CABER, SESE, ECI, SDEP, NRES, STEM, MSTE, iFoundry,
What do you want to do?
pERE,…)
• 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 are the opportunities by collaboration & partnerships?
• 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
EaSE Core Course
Global Challenges
Future Energy Demand
Geologic Sources of Energy
Climate Change
Energy-Water Nexus
Energy and Security
George Gross (ECE)
Steve Marshak (Geology)
Don Wuebbles (Atmospheric Science)
Praveen Kumar (CEE)
Cliff Singer (Political Science / NPRE)
Markets, Policies and Systems
Economic Markets
Policy and Law
System Analyses
Hadi Esfahani (Economics / CGS)
Jay Kesan (Law / ECE)
Luis Rodriguez (ABE)
Opportunities for Change
CO2 Sequestration
Photovoltaic and Wind Power
Bioenergy Feedstocks
Biofuels for Transportation
Energy Use in Buildings
Electrical Power Conversion
The Smart Grid
Rob Finley (INRS)
Angus Rockett (MSE)
Hans Blaschek (ABE / CABER)
Alan Hansen (ABE)
Brian Deal (FAA / UP)
Phil Krein (ECE)
Tom Overbye (ECE)
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 Resources
AE 481
Wind Power Technology
ATMS 511 Atmospheric Radiation
NPRE 498 Fuel Cell Science and Technology OR Wind Power
MSE 498 Photovoltaic Materials and Devices
Electrical Conversion and Control
ECE 431 Electric Machinery
ECE 464 Power Electronics
ECE 568 Model & Cntrl Electromech Syst
ECE 598 PLC
Advanced Power Electronics
Thermal Systems
ME 400
ME 401
ME 402
ME 404
AE 412
ME 412
ME 420
ME 502
ME 504
ME 520
ME 521
ME 522
Energy Conversion Systems
Refrigeration and Cryogenics
Design of Thermal Systems
Intermediate Thermodynamics
Viscous Flow & Heat Transfer
Numerical Thermo-Fluid Mechs
Intermediate Heat Transfer
Thermal Systems
Multiphase Systems & Processes
Heat Conduction
Convective Heat Transfer
Thermal Radiation
Heat Engines
ME 403
Internal Combustion Engines
ME 501
Combustion Fundamentals
ME 503
Design of IC Engines
Nuclear Energy
NPRE 402 Nuclear Power Engineering
NPRE 455 Neutron Diffusion & Transport
NPRE 511 Nuclear Reactor Heat Transfer
NPRE 555 Reactor Theory I
Power Generation, Transmission, and
Distribution
ECE 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
Structure of water in CNTs Fast water transport
Functionalized
CNTs
Transport/Separations
using Graphene
Salt
Solution
Nanochannel
SiO2
Bath
Electrode
Gas storage, separation
SiO2
Salt
Solution
Water Desalination
Electrode
Bath
Micro/Nanoelectromechanical Systems
Silicon/Graphene Interfaces
NEMS Switches
80 nm
Graphene is an
exceptionally strong
material
Quasi-Continuum
Multiscale Theories
Graphene-based NEMS
8 nm
6 nm
Huimin Zhao
Department of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering
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1901: founded as a division of the Chemistry dept
Faculty: 15; Graduate students: ~130; Postdocs: ~25; Undergrad students: ~500
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1 NAE member among current faculty (1 retiree in NAS, all but one in NAE)
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>100 honors to current tenured faculty since 1990 (9 society fellows: AAAS, APS, AVS,
IEEE, IFAC, AIBME)
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graduate ranking: generally in top 10
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Research expenditure (~$0.5M/yr per research faculty, 2nd highest on campus)
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Some principle research thrusts:
Biomolecular Engineering
Biocatalysis, bio-surface interfaces, bioinformatics, systems biology,
drug/gene delivery, microfluidics for biology, metabolic engineering,
protein & enzyme engineering, tissue engineering
Energy
Biomass conversion, catalyst design, electrochemical engineering,
fuel cells, hydrogen production and storage, microchemical systems
& devices
Computational Modeling
Applied mathematics, control, fluid mechanics and dynamics,
global optimization, metabolic pathways, multiscale modeling
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
• Laboratories
* Advanced 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
Providing World-Wide Excellence in Information Trust and Security
Institute Vision:
Trust in Society
Institute Personnel:
Core faculty from CS and ECE
102 faculty, 28 departments, 11 colleges, 10 centers
Institute Themes:
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Critical Applications, Infrastructures, and
Homeland Defense
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Embedded and Enterprise Computing
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Multimedia and Distributed Systems
Institute Centers
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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
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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
Example: distributed
air traffic management
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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?
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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:
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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 funding
Jeffrey Roesler
Illinois Center for
Transportation
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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