Monday, September 18, 2023
UT Conference Center Fourth Floor
Registration now open – https://tinyurl.com/ISSEconference
Faculty can register students for the Poster Competition here – http://tinyurl.com/Register-Student-Posters
Conference Agenda
| 07:40~08:45 | Networking Breakfast and Poster Set Up | ||
| 08:45~08:50 | Opening Remarks | Mingzhou Jin, Director, ISSE | |
| 08:50~09:05 | Overview of Global Energy Ecosystems (GE2) | Brad Day, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, UTK | |
| 09:05~09:20 | Overview of Education & Training Programs at ISSE | John Schwartz, Director, Tennessee Water Resources Research Center | |
| 09:20~09:35 | Progress in Alternative-Fuel and Electric Vehicle Adoption | Jonathan Overly, Director, East TN Clean Fuels Coalitions | |
| 09:35~09:50 | Research in Energy and Environmental Justice | Chien-fei Chen, Director of Energy and Environmental Justice | |
| 09:50~10:25 | Seed Project Showcase | ||
| 09:50~09:55 | Underground Hydrogen Storage | Anna Herring, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering | |
| 09:55~10:00 | Aviation Fuels from Black Soldier Fly | Toni Wang, Department of Food Science, UTIA | |
| 10:00~10:05 | Integration of Hydrogen and Grids | Kai Sun, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | |
| 10:05~10:10 | Micromobility Vehicle Second-Life Battery Applications | Chris Cherry, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering | |
| 10:10~10:15 | Assessing levels of PFAS in surface water in Tennessee aquatic ecosystems | Jiangang Chen, Department of Public Health | |
| 10:15~10:20 | Identification of novel pathways for bacterial degradation of PAHs | Alison Buchan, Department of Microbiology | |
| 10:20~10:25 | Utilization of waste plastics for sustainable and durable asphalt pavements | Baoshan Huang, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering | |
| 10:25~11:00 | Student Poster Session | ||
| 11:00~11:20 | Tennessee Volunteer Emission Reduction Strategy (TVERS) | Rachael Maitland, Senior Policy Analyst, TDEC Office of Policy & Planning | |
| 11:20~11:40 | Eastman’s sustainability platform and goals | Becky Horton, Eastman Chemical Company | |
| 11:40~12:00 | UT-ORII Convergence Research Initiatives | David Sholl, Interim Executive Director, UT-ORII | |
| 12:00~12:05 | Poster Award Announcement | Mingzhou Jin, ISSE Director | |
| 12:05~12:10 | Closing Remarks with Outstanding ISSE Staff Award Announcement | Bill Dunne, Associate Dean, Tickle College of Engineering | |
| 12:10~01:30 | Lunch | ||
| 01:30~03:30 | Advisory Board Meeting |