Publications and Presentations from “Earth, Wind, and Fire: Sustainability in the 21ST Century” REU: 2009-2011

Publications

  1. Walker, K., Vadlani, P., Brijwani, K., Madl, R., Ugorowski, P., and Hohn, K.L. “Ethanol fermentation from food processing waste”, Environmental Progress and Sustainable Energy, submitted.
  2. Roy, S., Aguirre, A., Higgins, D., and Chikan, V., "Investigation of Charge Transfer Interactions in CdSe Nanorod P3HT/PMMA Blends by Optical Microscopy", Journal of Physical Chemistry C, submitted.
  3. Kuo, Y., Frye, C.D., Ikenberry, M., and Klabunde, K.J., “Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity of Indium and Nitrogen Co-doped TiO2 Nanocomposites for Hydrogen Generation. Pure water versus water-methanol, and UV versus visible light” Appl. Catal. A., submitted.
  4. Reinhard, E., Champion, B., Schulz, N.N., Gould, R., Perez, E., and Brown, N., "Computer power consumption and management: “Earth, wind, and fire: Sustainable energy for the 21st century” research experience for undergraduates," Power Systems Conference and Exposition (PSCE), 2011 IEEE/PES , pp.1-8, 2011, doi: 10.1109/PSCE.2011.5772621
  5. Ko, T.-W. and Pahwa, A., “Investigating Small Renewable Energy Light Sources to Meet the Needs of Off-Grid People,” Proceedings of International Conference on Power Systems Operation and Planning, Abuja, Nigeria, Jan. 2010.
  6. Erickson, L.E., Griswold, W., Hohn, K.L., and Saulters, O. “Enriching and Evaluating Sustainability Education”, Journal of Sustainability Education 1 (2010) 1.
  7. Reed, R., Erickson, L.E., and Yuan, W., “Growth of Algae Using Nitrogen and Phosphorous in Waste Water”, Proceedings of the 39th Annual Biochemical Engineering Symposium, Kansas State University, pp. 16-24.

Presentations

  1. Reinhard, E., Champion, B., Schulz, N., Gould, R., Perez, E. and Brown, N., "Computer Power Consumption and Management", IEEE PES Power System Conference and Exposition , Phoenix, AZ, March 20-23, 2011.
  2. Reinhard, E., Champion, B., Schulz, N., Gould, R., Perez, E., and Brown, N., "Evaluation of Power Management in a University Computing Lab Environment”, EDUCAUSE West/Southwest Regional Conference, Austin, TX, February 22-24, 2011.
  3. Tieszen, K., Hohn, K.L., Vadlani, P., “Production of 2,3-butanediol and its derivatives from biomass”, poster presentation, AICHE 2009 National Meeting.
  4. Pahwa, S., Hodges, A., Scoglio, C., Wood, S., “Title: Topological Characteristics of the Power Grid and Mitigation Strategies Against Cascading Failures”, IEEE Systems Conference, 2010.
  5. Ko, T.-W., Pahwa, A., “Investigating Small Renewable Energy Light Sources to Meet the Needs of Off-Grid People”, International Conference on Power System Operation and Control, Abuja, Nigeria, 2010.
  6. Ko, T.-W., Pahwa, A., "Investigating Small Renewable Energy Light Source to Meet the Energy Needs of People Living Off-grid”, MKN McNair Heartland Research Conference, 2009.
  7. Baker, S., Johnson, J., and Klabunde, K.J., “Synthesis, Characterization and Fundamental Studies of Manganese Doped TiO2/SiO2: An Eco-Friendly Photocatalyst”, Midwest Regional ACS Meeting, Abstract, Wichita, KS, October 2010.
  8. Griswold, W. “Advancing Sustainability Education: Transformative Learning and Undergraduate Research Experiences”, Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, Denver, CO, October 2010.
  9. Walker, K., “Ethanol Fermentation from Food Processing Waste”, Kansas NSF EPSCOR conference, Lawrence, KS, October 2010.
  10. Walker, K. “Ethanol Fermentation from Food Processing Waste”, University of Kansas Energy Conference, Lawrence, KS, April 14, 2011.
  11. Aguirre, A., Roy, S., Higgins, D., Chikan, V.,“Probing charge generation and transport in CdSe nanorod/polymer composites”, “Creating the Future: Women in Engineering”, Las Cruces, NM, October 23, 2010.
  12. Aguirre, A., Roy, S., Higgins, D., Chikan, V, “Probing charge generation and transport in CdSe nanorod/polymer composites”, AIChE National Student Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, November 8, 2010.
  13. Pahwa, S., Hodges, A., Scoglio, C., Wood, S., “Title: Topological Characteristics of the Power Grid and Mitigation Strategies Against Cascading Failures”, IEEE Systems Conference, San Diego, CA, April 8-10, 2010.
  14. Reed, R., Erickson, L.E., and Yuan, W., “Growth of Algae Using Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Wastewater”, Poster presentation at the 39th Annual Biochemical Engineering Symposium, Kansas State University, April 17, 2010.
  15. Klopfenstein, L. and Miller, R. D., “Case Study of Small-Scale Wind Turbine Power Production”, AICHE 2011 National Meeting.
  16. Bains, P., Li, J., and Klankowski, S., “Modeling Silicon Anodes Using COMSOL Multiphysics ® for Use in Lithium Ion Batteries”, AICHE 2011 National Meeting.
  17. Wilke, T., “Fabricating Silica Monoliths with Macroscopically Aligned Nanopores using Block Copolymer Templating”, AICHE 2011 National Meeting.
  18. Ngo, T, Ikenberry, M., and Hohn, K., “Synthesis of amine-funcationalized magnetite particles”, AICHE 2011 National Meeting.
  19. Touchstone, T., McGraw, N., Tomlinson, S., Anthony, J., “Extraction of Zein Using Ionic Liquids”, AICHE 2011 National Meeting.