Welcome to the Center for Sustainable Energy Systems!

We have been engaged in sustainable energy systems research and education for over 35 years and our faculty's wide range of interests and activities span disciplines from engineering to business.  Our center brings these efforts together, allowing for the exchange of ideas and generation of new concepts for innovative, sustainable and collaborative projects at local, national and international levels. We also support the efforts of the Institute for a Sustainable Environment (ISE) and the Center for Advanced Materials Processing (CAMP) and are closely linked to the Shipley Center for Innovation.

Our Research Areas:

  • Bioenergy
  • Energy Education
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Energy Literacy Assessment Project
  • Environmental Impact Studies
  • Energy Harvesting and Storage
  • Energy Policy
  • Power Systems
  • Solar Energy
  • Transportation Systems
  • Wind Energy

Energy Education

Empowering students to make thoughtful energy-related decisions, choices and actions in everyday life.

Increasing public literacy of energy-related matters is critically important to promote conservation and efficiency and to ease the adoption of new energy technologies. Energy education activities range from middle school through PhD levels. K-12 outreach has included the development and implementation of units on sustainable energy systems for eighth grade science students and the hydrogen/biofuel economy at the high school level. These units have been taught by our own graduate students in partnership with local teachers. STEM workshops for teachers have also been established to provide energy-related education and ideas for the classroom.