Q&A: Prof. Jie Xiao discusses how academia can help battery manufacturing in the US
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1731968550003{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}"]November 18, 2024[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1731968567410{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}"]By Sarah McQuate | UW News[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1731970664786{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}"]In September, the Biden-Harris Administration announced over $3 billion in funding to 25 projects focused on bringing battery manufacturing back to the U.S. as part of the administration’s “Investing in America” agenda. This new funding includes $200 million for a manufacturing and recycling project based in Moses Lake, Washington. While a new administration could bring changes, a focus on domestic manufacturing and growth in electric vehicles is likely to continue.[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="24820" img_size="full" add_caption="yes" css=".vc_custom_1731968853296{padding-top: 20px !important;}"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1731968593762{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}"]Jie Xiao, University of Washington professor of mechanical...
Meet new faculty member Jie Xiao
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1731969082622{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}"]A leader in clean energy research, Jie Xiao plans to help accelerate U.S. battery manufacturing.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1731969045989{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}"]November 18, 2024 | UW Mechanical Engineering[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1731969368871{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}"]This fall, Jie Xiao began her role as Boeing Martin Professor of Mechanical Engineering (ME) at the University of Washington (UW) with a joint appointment as a Battelle Fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1731969182422{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}"]Xiao researches the fundamental study and practical applications of energy-related materials and systems, including batteries for electrical vehicles (EVs), sensors and grid energy storage. She has worked on battery research for the past 20 years.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1731969190254{padding-bottom: 20px...
New open-access battery lab aims to boost U.S. manufacturing and workforce development for electric vehicles and beyond
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1728683625430{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}"]Expansion of Washington Clean Energy Testbeds will enable fabrication of pouch cells to accelerate the next generation of faster-charging, higher-energy-density, and earth-friendly batteries[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1728946126575{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}"]Seattle, WA (October 11, 2024): The University of Washington Clean Energy Institute (UW CEI) unveiled plans to expand its open-access climate tech facility, the Washington Clean Energy Testbeds, to include state-of-the-art capabilities for scaled prototyping of emerging battery technologies. The new lab at the Testbeds will enable UW researchers and industry users to produce batches of pouch cells—a versatile battery format for electric transportation and beyond—to allow for development and testing at commercially-relevant scales. This capability...
CEI awards Collaborative Seed Grants to boost AI data centers, EV charging infrastructure
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1725405769878{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}"]Sajjad Moazeni, Ang Li (Electrical & Computer Engineering) will develop optical switches for more efficient AI data centers; Lingzi Wu, Hyun Woo (Chris) Lee, Dylan Stevenson (Built Environments) will partner with local tribes to create mapping tool for electric vehicle charging infrastructure[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="10px"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1725399838308{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}"]September 3, 2024 [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="10px"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1724886986132{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}"]The University of Washington (UW) Clean Energy Institute (CEI) has awarded Collaborative Seed Grants to two UW faculty teams to enable their pursuit of center-scale funding for transformative clean energy research. CEI Collaborative Seed Grants provide UW scholars with up to $100,000 over one year to explore novel, high-risk/high-reward research...
Maria Politi, George Fennell, Antonio Vazquez win 2024 CEI student awards
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1723052939886{margin-bottom: 25px !important;}"]August 7, 2024 [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1720464307838{margin-bottom: 25px !important;}"]University of Washington (UW) graduate students Maria Politi, George Fennell, and Antonio Vazquez received the UW Clean Energy Institute’s 2024 Clean Energy Student Achievement Awards at the institute’s annual end-of-year seminar on May 30.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1691523080150{margin-top: 25px !important;margin-bottom: 25px !important;}"] Scientific Achievement [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1691523107176{margin-top: 25px !important;margin-bottom: 25px !important;}"]The Clean Energy Scientific Achievement Award recognizes UW graduate students who have demonstrated extraordinary productivity in clean energy research and scholarship, and have contributed meaningfully to the scientific community.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1718307251189{margin-top: 25px !important;margin-bottom: 25px !important;}"] Maria Politi [/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1718307265046{margin-top: 25px !important;margin-bottom: 25px !important;}"]Dr. Maria Politi received the 2023-24 Clean Energy Scientific Achievement...
Daniel Kirschen’s new textbook provides a fresh perspective on modern power systems
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1723057285402{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 10px !important;}"]This fall, a new textbook by Professor Daniel Kirschen will be introduced into the UW ECE power and energy systems undergraduate curriculum.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="10px"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1723056296289{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 10px !important;}"]By Wayne Gillam | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="10px"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1723056287207{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 10px !important;}"]August 2, 2024[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1723057230593{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}"]This fall, a new textbook providing students with an up-to-date overview of modern power systems will be introduced into the University of Washington (UW) Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) power and energy systems undergraduate curriculum. “Power Systems: Fundamental Concepts and the Transition to Sustainability” helps students learn the...
June Lukuyu — pushing engineering boundaries to improve energy systems in underserved communities
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1721242469592{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 10px !important;}"]Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering June Lukuyu blends technological innovation and social development to engineer sustainable, inclusive, and integrated energy systems and technologies for people in underserved communities around the world.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="10px"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1721238741851{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 10px !important;}"]By Wayne Gillam | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="10px"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1721238747051{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 10px !important;}"]July 11, 2024 [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1721251483053{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}"]June Lukuyu, University of Washington (UW) assistant professor of electrical & computer engineering (ECE) and Clean Energy Institute (CEI) Member Faculty, was born and raised in a small community outside of Nairobi, Kenya, where both of her parents worked...
Energized for change
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] After seeing the devastation of hurricanes in Puerto Rico, grad student Miguel González-Montijo is working on clean energy innovations for the future. [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="10px"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1716246986604{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 10px !important;}"]By Jamie Swenson | Photos by Dennis Wise | May 2024[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1709836835749{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}"]As Hurricane Maria tore through Arecibo, Puerto Rico, in 2017, Miguel González-Montijo hunkered down at home with his family. They were no strangers to hurricanes. Just two weeks earlier, a Category 5 Hurricane Irma had skirted the island, demolishing homes, causing floods and knocking out power for more than a million people. And now Maria, with wind speeds up to 155...
Washington Clean Energy Testbeds launches Undergraduate Research Awards
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1715629295177{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}"]UW students Sebastian Bustos-Nuno, Vyvyan Dao, Lily Leaverton, Joy Lee win grants to perform novel clean energy research at the UW’s open-access labs for climate tech innovation[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="10px"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1715798700907{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}"]May 15, 2024[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="10px"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1715106075945{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}"]The Washington Clean Energy Testbeds, an open-access lab for climate technology innovation operated by the University of Washington (UW)’s Clean Energy Institute, has established a student award to support undergraduate research in clean energy, advanced manufacturing, and related fields.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="10px"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1715625128365{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}"]Thanks to a generous philanthropic gift to CEI's Innovation Fund, UW undergraduate students in their...
Helping K-12 students explore clean energy careers
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1713287286131{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}"]April 16, 2024[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1713287105136{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}"]Over the past year, CEI has collaborated with the Washington Alliance for Better Schools (WABS) — a nonprofit organization that fosters partnerships with local businesses and institutions to provide equitable access to educational and career opportunities for local students — to develop a tour of our facilities that engages students and demonstrates a variety of careers in clean energy.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1713213254175{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}"]WABS Career Tours “provide career exposure to students who are furthest from opportunity, including BIPOC, low-income, and first-generation students” through explorational activities and networking with local professionals.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1714002434831{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}"]This past December, CEI hosted one...
Recruiting robots for materials discovery
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Chemical engineers in the Pozzo Research Group are using open-source tools to build modular robots that can run multiple functions of complex experiments. This customizable framework helps alleviate the cost barrier of purchasing multiple, single-purpose commercial machines. [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="10px"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1719005361648{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 10px !important;}"]By Ro Stastny | UW Chemical Engineering[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="10px"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1719005905918{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 10px !important;}"]March 29, 2024 [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/5"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1719005545873{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}"]The Pozzo Research Group, led by chemical engineering (ChemE) professor Lilo Pozzo, is working to speed up the process of discovering and optimizing materials that have applications in clean energy, medicine, nanotechnology and more. To do this, researchers have used a...
Driven to advance vehicle electrification
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="10px"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1711497685006{margin-bottom: 50px !important;}"] UW Engineering research leads the next wave of electric vehicle technologies [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="10px"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1711497467191{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 10px !important;}"]By Brooke Fisher, UW College of Engineering | Photos by Dennis Wise (UW Photo) and UW researchers[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1711497588128{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 10px !important;}"]March 11, 2024[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1711572283343{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}"]When it comes to developing the next generation of electric vehicle (EV) technologies, University of Washington (UW) engineers are unstoppable. Their collective research, together with initiatives underway throughout the state, positions Washington to be a leader in this truly electrifying area.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="10px"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1711572294411{margin-bottom: 10px !important;}"]“The goal is for Washington state to be a leader in EV...