Experts on Energy
- Related Terms:
- clean energy,
- energy efficiency,
- energy storage,
- fossil fuels,
- fuel cells,
- Fuel Cells and Hydrogen,
- Kinetics of Reaction Networks,
- Multicomponent Diffusion in Catalysts and in Membranes,
- Novel Catalysts and Reactors,
- photovoltaics,
- renewable energy,
- Renewable Fuels,
- Renewal fuels,
- solar energy,
- wind energy
Energy is the invisible force that makes everything happen in the world around us. It's the power that brings light to our homes, moves vehicles, and lets us enjoy all the things we love. Energy comes in different forms, like electricity, heat, and motion. We use energy from various sources, such as the sun, wind, water, or fossil fuels like coal and oil. When we harness energy and put it to work, it drives machines, heats our homes, and keeps our gadgets and devices running. Without energy, everything would stand still, and life as we know it wouldn't be the same. WPI experts on energy research energy production from various sources, including renewables, contribute to advancements on energy storage, energy efficiency, and sustainability, and prepare students for careers in the field of power systems.
Ravindra Datta
- Adjunct Teaching Professor Chemical Engineering
Professor Datta's work spans decades of applying the principles of kinetics, catalysis, and reaction engineering to energy challenges. He says while the long-term solution is renewable energy, much can be accomplished in the coming decades simply by
Carrick McAfee Eggleston
- Professor Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
Professor Eggleston's research is focused on natural materials and how they interact with the environment in which we live. His teaching interests include scientific and technical aspects of geochemistry, solar energy and semiconductor electrochemistry,
Paul P. Mathisen
- Associate Professor and Dir. of Sustainability Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering
As WPI’s Director of Sustainability and a professor of environmental engineering, Paul Mathisen studies and works to promote sustainability, especially in the areas of water, energy, transportation, and waste management. His research focuses on climate
William Connor McCarthy
- Assistant Professor Physics
William McCarthy is an expert on plasma physics, fusion energy, and medical imaging. His research is focused on how to improve fusion reactors, with implications for the development of clean energy and even powering spacecraft. He also studies nuclear
Brajendra Mishra
- Kenneth G. Merriam Distinguished Professor, Director, MPI & Donald M. Zwiep Distinguished Fellow Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Professor Mishra focuses on the improvement in resource productivity and environmental stewardship through process and product development of materials using recovery and recycling, introducing advanced alloys and life-extension by corrosion and surfaceThe...
David J. Olinger
- Professor Aerospace Engineering
Professor Olinger's research focuses on using tethered wings and kites in water or air to extract energy from ocean currents, tidal flows, and wind flows. Experiments, numerical simulations, and control system methods are used to better understand and
Adam Clayton Powell
- Associate Professor Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Professor Powell focuses his research on validated mathematical modeling of metal process development for clean energy and energy efficiency, including rare earths (rare earth metals, rare earth materials). His research group is developing new projects
Ali S. Rangwala
- Professor Fire Protection Engineering
Professor Rangwala's research interests include problems related to industrial fire and explosions. He has worked on topics such as deflagration of combustible dust clouds, ignition behavior of combustible dust layers, in-situ burning of oil, spread of an
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Pratap M. Rao
- Associate Professor Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Professor Rao's research is aimed at discovering, understanding and developing advanced materials for a range of applications, including solar energy conversion, catalysis, printed electronics, sensors, and functional coatings. Students and researchers in
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Derren Rosbach
- Associate Professor of Teaching The Global School
Derren Rosbach is an expert in environmental planning, sustainability, emerging energy technologies, transdisciplinary inquiry, and project-based learning. With a background spanning molecular biology, ecology, and environmental planning, Rosbach is
Sarah Strauss
- Professor The Global School
Professor Strauss offers a wide array of expertise in health-related aspects of human interaction with the environment. She has studied climate change and sustainability issues focusing on perception and behavior related to understandings of environmental
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Michael T. Timko
- William B. Smith Professor and Department Head of Chemical Engineering Chemical Engineering
Professor Timko studies the environmental and engineering aspects of clean energy technologies, with a specific emphasis on liquid transportation fuels. His work involves studying the fundamental chemical engineering science – including transport, phase
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Yan Wang
- Professor Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Professor Wang's research is in the field of fundamental electrochemistry and electrochemistry-based technologies, including battery materials, manufacturing, safety, design and recycling, solid state batteries, and electrolysis. He co-founded AscendFaces ...
Eric Mosher Young
- Associate Professor-Engineering Chemical Engineering
Prof. Young is an expert in yeast, genetic engineering and synthetic biology. His research uses machine learning, directed evolution, gene editing, metabolic engineering, and genetic circuits to make yeast cell factories for producing medicines, biofuels,
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Yu Zhong
- Professor Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Dr. Zhong's research is focused on developing new pathways for clean energy, including a project to design devices that will produce a cost-effective, clean hydrogen fuel. Dr. Zhong has more than 59 peer-reviewed journal papers published/accepted,