DOE grants awards to two CMU faculty, internships to four students in energy
Liz Rosevear
May 10, 2021
The U.S. Department of Energy Opens in new window has awarded two Carnegie Mellon University researchers $400,000 to formulate mathematical models and develop computational methodologies to allow the design of novel gas separation processes, along with the microporous materials they rely upon, in a co-optimization paradigm. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced $17.3 million for college internships, research opportunities, and research projects that “connect talented science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) students and faculty with the world-class resources at DOE’s National Laboratories.”
Lorenz Biegler Opens in new window and Chrysanthos Gounaris Opens in new window, both affiliates at the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation and professors within the Chemical Engineering Opens in new window department at Carnegie Mellon University, are leading the research on their project titled Advanced Modeling and Process-Materials Co-optimization Strategies for Swing Adsorption Based Gas Separations.
Four Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate students also received STEM summer internship placements with national labs through the DOE Office of Science, Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI Opens in new window) program.
- William S. Fung (Physics’ 22) Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF Opens in new window), Nuclear Physics
- Spencer Gibson (Mathematics’ 22) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC Opens in new window), Astronomy/Astrophysics
- Lauren Janicke (CEE’ 23), National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL Opens in new window), Engineering Operations/Systems
- Anna Sunah Park (MSE’ 21), National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL Opens in new window), Materials Sciences