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Engineering at Illinois The 21 st Century Energy Revolution and its Impact on Research Innovation, Technology Development, and Teaching P. T. Krein Grainger Center for Electric Machinery and Electromechanics Department of Electrical and

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Engineering at Illinois

The 21st Century Energy Revolution and its Impact on Research Innovation, Technology Development, and Teaching

  • P. T. Krein

Grainger Center for Electric Machinery and Electromechanics Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Engineering at Illinois

The 21st Century Energy Revolution

  • We are entering a new energy revolution: the

transformation to sustainable energy.

  • Driven by increasing cost

and demand for fossil fuels, and concerns about environmental impacts.

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Generation and use are changing quickly. Illinois leadership: helping to drive this revolution. Innovations ahead of their time: technology transfer requires an entrepreneurial linkage.

www.nrel.gov Illinois plug-in hybrid prototype

treehugger.com

Philips Lumileds

The 21st Century Energy Revolution

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SolarBridge Technologies

  • Electronics hardware

for solar energy.

  • Applies innovations

from Illinois that will cut costs of solar energy in half.

  • Devices that last as

long as a solar panel: fifty years of low- maintenance electricity.

Adapted from Solar Energy Industries Association, “Our Solar Energy Future,” 2004, with data updates

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Research Cross-Fertilization

  • Basic research  technology development 

high-impact product realization.

  • How to create electronics that will work in a harsh

environment untouched for decades?

  • What can go wrong, and how to mitigate issues?

certs.lbl.gov

National effort

  • n “microgrid”

systems.

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Teaching and Student Activities

  • Multiple classes on renewable

and alternative energy systems.

  • Project courses such as the Solar

Decathlon and Formula Hybrid.

  • Industry internships.
  • Direct classroom experiments
  • n electrical energy systems.
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Conclusion

  • Illinois research contributions have been far-

reaching, and will lead to whole new industries.

  • The Research Park concept supports active

technology transfer as these industries develop.

  • Research interactions on new classes of challenges.