The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University focuses on addressing global energy challenges through research, partnerships, and education. The institute promotes interdisciplinary collaboration, hosts events like energy week, and supports startups while fostering innovation in energy technologies. It also engages with corporate partners to enhance research commercialization and provides funding opportunities for students and faculty in energy-related projects.

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2. Mission:
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation
works through the academic units of Carnegie Mellon University to
find solutions for the nation’s and world’s energy challenges through
research, strategic partnerships, public policy outreach and
education.
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3. Convergence of Energy Across Campus
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4. Sherman & Joyce Bowie Scott Hall
• 107,000 sq ft building, opened on April 30, 2016
• On track to achieve LEED Gold certification
• One of the largest green roofs in the city (19,500 sq ft)
• Houses state-of-the-art wet and dry laboratories,
spaces for collaborative work, and offices
• One of the most energy-efficient clean rooms in the
nation
• Fosters interdisciplinary research via:
– Nanotechnology Research Facility
– Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation
– Biomedical Engineering Department
– Engineering Research Accelerator
– Disruptive Health Technologies Institute

5. Meet the Leadership Team
Jay Whitacre
Director
Professor of Materials
Science and Engineering
and Engineering and
Public Policy
Andrew Gellman Anna J. Siefken
Co-Director
Lord Professor of Chemical
Engineering, Chemistry
(Courtesy), Materials
Science and Engineering
(Courtesy)
Associate Director for
Innovation and Strategic
Partnerships
Scott Institute Energy
Expert on Urban Design
Deborah Stine
Associate Director for
Policy Outreach
Professor of the Practice,
Engineering and Public
Policy
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6. Highlights
• 135 Faculty Affiliates
• Seed Grants and Faculty Fellowships
• Energy-related Start-ups
• CMU’s Energy Week (Save the Date – April 4-6, 2018)
• Allegheny Cleantech University Prize Competition -
$50K!
• Podcast: Energy Bite
• Distinguished Lecture & Seminar Series, Events
• Power Sector Carbon Index (Launched 3.28.17)
www.emissionsindex.org
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7. >> Advancing research
New materials & strategies (energy and water)
Smart grid technologies
Advanced fuel cells & battery storage
Building efficiency via data & predictive analytics
>> Pathways to a low-carbon future
Benefits and cost analysis of SW PA region
Carbon Intensity tracking
>> Commercialization and startup activity
>> Investments in key areas
Strategic Priorities
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8. We choose critical parts of the
energy system where CMU has
strength and deep expertise, or
where an innovative solution is
needed – and incentivize those
technologies.
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9. CMU’s Core Strengths
• Systems optimization
approach to problem-solving
and design
• Unique energy expertise
• Interdisciplinary collaboration
• Innovative and entrepreneurial
faculty, staff,
and community
• SW Pennsylvania location
• Proximity to start-up epicenter
and ecosystem

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11. Seed Grants 2016-17:
8 funded of 22 submissions
Name College/School Project Title
Agarwal Computer Science Creating an Instrumented Scott Hall “Living Lab” Testbed
Severini Heinz
The Impact of Climate Change on Air Pollution: Evidence from Ground-
Level Ozone Concentration
Litster Engineering
Advanced Chemical Synthesis and Engineering to Enable Low Cost
Alkaline Membrane Fuel Cells
Viswanathan Engineering
Catalytic approaches to improvements in long-term stability of Li-ion
batteries
Karamalidis Engineering Critical Mineral Recovery from Energy-Related Fluids
Secomandi Tepper
Pathwise Optimization for Large Scale Energy Merchant Operations
Models
Whitacre Engineering Concurrent Assessment and Design of Systems (CADS)
Michalek Engineering
How Do Shared Mobility and Autonomous Taxis Affect Energy
Consumption, Vehicle Use, and Greenhouse Gas and Criteria Air
Pollutant Emissions?
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12. Matching Fellowship Program
• For energy related proposals that will
support ≥2 PhD students, the SI will
provide funding for an additional
student for up to 3 years.
• Goal: incentivize writing of larger
proposals, increase odds of success
through CMU investment (cost
matching), increase productivity.
• Status: 14 submissions, 3 awards, 3
pending
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13. Visiting Faculty Fellows Program
• Provides support for senior
visitors from academia,
industry or gov’t for 1-2
semesters.
• CMU has not traditionally
been a sabbatical
destination, in part due to
lack of resources.
Prof. Nicholas Muller
Economics, Middlebury College
(now CMU, EPP & Tepper)
Prof. Junho Song
Civil and Environ. Eng.,
Seoul National Univ.
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14. Six ARPA-E Grants
• Innovative, predictive "InfoRich” vehicle dynamic and powertrain
technologies to improve energy efficiency.
• Rugged robotic system to measure characteristics of sorghum in the
field.
• Smart Wire power flow control devices to increase overall grid
transmission utilization by more than 30% and reduce cost by 50%.
• Dendrite-blocking polymers in lithium-ion batteries to reduce
overheating and fires. Two different grants:
– Nano-composite protective layers in low-cost, high-energy lithium
batteries
– Optimize a new solid electrolyte made of polymer material

15. ARPA-E Grants (continued)
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• New nanoscale magnetic material to
reduce the size, weight, and cost of utility-
scale PV solar power conversion systems.
• Advanced electrochemical process to
produce low-cost, low-weight titanium to
reduce fuel cost savings for military
vehicle and aircraft applications

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Corporate Engagement &
Industrial Partnerships

17. Corporate and Industrial
Partnerships, Engagement
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• Value proposition for corporations and industrial sectors
• Growing Brand awareness
• Amplifying faculty & specific research interests
• Deepening student recruitment opportunities
• Physical assets (Scott Hall, labs, clean room)
• Recruiting
• Relationship building and events
• Energy Week 2017 & 2018
• One-on-one sessions with corporate entities
• Speaking engagements & Distinguished Lectures
• Enhance Commercialization efforts

18. Smart Cities: The Energy-Water Nexus
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February 16, 2017
More than 450 guests + VIP reception for 150 including 30 faculty
Keynote speaker: Dr. Michael Webber, UT Austin
Panelists:
• Bill Peduto, Mayor - The City of Pittsburgh
• Rich Fitzgerald - Allegheny County Executive
• Rich Riazzi, CEO - Duquesne Light Company
• Morgan O’Brien, CEO - People’s Natural Gas
• Rick Stafford - CMU, Metro21/MetroLab Founder
• Phillip Mezey, CEO - Itron Inc.
Dr. Jared Cohon + Anna J. Siefken, moderators
Opportunity to bring city-related initiatives to campus and
demonstrate our leadership position in the energy space.

19. Company Snapshot
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Arconic
BNY Mellon
Braskem
BuroHappold
Chevron Appalachia
Cisco
ComEd
Covestro
Direct Energy
Duke Energy
Duquesne Light
Encentiv
FedEx
GE Energy
Giant Eagle
Highmark
Honeywell
ICF International
JLL
Jones Day
Michael Baker
Orbital Engineering
Oxford Development
Pittsburgh Magazine
Platypus
PNC Financial
Rice Energy
Saint-Gobain
Shell
Siemens
Stantec
State Farm
The Southern Company
WGL Energy

20. Energy Week 2017 - Sponsors
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Silver
Bronze
Platinum

21. Financial Support via CMU Center for Technology
Transfer and Enterprise Creation (CTTEC)
• NSF I-Corps CMU Team Support (Regional
and National) for Costs Not Supported by NSF
(e.g,. Mentorship)
• Gap Funds (match with CTTEC gap funds)
• Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
Program Gap Funds
• Energy Knowledge Hub at CTTEC to Support
Analysis for CMU Spinouts (Interns; Database)
• Support for CTTEC Staff to Promote CMU Energy
Innovations at ARPA-E and NREL Events
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22. EEme, LLC processes smart meter interval data
using proprietary load disaggregation algorithms
to predict the technical and behavioral energy
efficiency (EE) potential by EE measure for
every residential user for a given service
territory.
Rapid Flow Technologies is an innovative
approach to traffic signal control, combining
research from artificial intelligence and traffic
theory to optimize the performance of signals
for the traffic that is actually on the road.
Lean FM Technologies is a lifecycle software
solution for economic, proactive and intelligent
Facilities Management.
Building Ideas is developing systems for data
collection, analytics and visualization on energy
usage to reveal actionable information for building
occupants, managers and owners.
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23. D-PowerNet is developing software that
will enable dynamic, distributed, parallel
management of load balancing in electric
power distribution networks.
Gecko Robotics has developed robotic
systems to facilitate the inspection of boiler
tubes in power plants.
Platypus LLC manufactures small, low-cost
autonomous robotic boats with the ability to sense
environmental contaminants in large areas of calm
water along with other critical data such as water
depth, dissolved oxygen and pH.
SolePower is converting kinetic energy into
electrical energy. The technology is being
integrated into "Smart Boots" that have
embedded GPS trackers, temperature,
pressure sensors and other applications to
improve worker safety and
efficiency. Partners include the US Army,
NSF, and leading industrial boot
manufacturers.
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24. OUTREACH
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25. Energy Innovation and Entrepreneurship Support for
CMU Faculty, Students, and Alumni
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26. New Energy Education Initiatives
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27. Tri-State University Energy Alliance (TrUE)
• Four leading research universities
– Case Western Reserve University
– Carnegie Mellon University
– University of Pittsburgh
– West Virginia University
• Joined forces to accelerate innovations to address challenges
and opportunities facing the energy sector.
• Activities Thus Far:
– Two joint proposals to DOE (Energy Innovation; Energy
and Economic Development
– Joint TransTech Energy Innovation Competition
– Downstream Shale Gas Related Innovation
– Joint Meetings to Identify Potential for Research
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28. Policymaker and Public Outreach
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29. Distinguished Lectures and Seminars
David Keith
Gordon McKay Professor
of Applied Physics and
Public Policy at Harvard
University's John A.
Paulson School of
Engineering and Applied
Sciences
Charlie
Hargroves
“The Future of
Sustainability, Efficiency and
Transportation”
Curtin University
Sustainability Policy
Institute Senior Research
Fellow; University of
Adelaide Sustainable
Development Fellow
PA Department of
Conservation and Natural
Resources Secretary Cindy
Adams Dunn & PA
Department of Transportation
(PennDOT) Secretary Leslie
Richards
Arun Majumdar
Founding Director, ARPA-E
Co-Director, Stanford
Precourt Energy Institute
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Learn more:
http://www.cmu.edu/energy/
events/index.html

30. Energy Week 2017
• 1,010 Participants
• Speakers included:
– Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems President and
CEO Paul Browning (Engineering '90)
– Tesla's Special Projects Andrew Stevenson
– National Academy of Sciences President Marcia McNutt
– U.S. Energy Information Administration Acting
Administrator and former CMU Professor Howard
Gruenspecht
– PA Public Utilities Chair Gladys Brown
– Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner Colette
Honorable
– Columbia University’s Timothy Mitchell
– Eight CMU faculty members who gave “Andy Talks” on
Innovative Research (brief 20-minute presentations)
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31. Energy Week Continued
• Roundtables on:
– Regional Energy Innovation and Entrepreneurship
– The Energy Workforce
– Technical Innovation, Policy and Shale Gas Development
• Energy Career Fair
• Student Competitions
– Allegheny Cleantech University Prize Competition
– Low-Carbon Energy Innovation Talks
– Energy-Related Research Poster and Multimedia
• Policy and Law Forum
• Field Trips to Chatham U’s Eden Hall, Greenstar Recycling + more
• An augmented reality tour of East Liberty’s history of electrical infrastructure
development (sponsored by CMU’s Center for the Arts in Society and School
of Drama)
• Contesting Energy Symposium with CMU’s English and History Departments
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