LSU Engineering, ECE Division Host Clean Energy Day

April 28, 2023

Several of the winners hold their certificatesBATON ROUGE, LA – The LSU College of Engineering and its Division of Electrical & Computer Engineering recently hosted LSU Clean Energy Day, an event aimed at increasing public awareness about green power and energy generation, as well as providing students with a clear vision of potential careers and research paths they can choose in the field.

“This event provides a unique opportunity for students with different educational levels and backgrounds to communicate and learn from each other about the field of green power and energy generation,” said Amin Kargarian, ECE associate professor and one of the two organizers of the event, along with Adrienne Steele, assistant director of student programs and outreach in the LSU College of Engineering.

“It helps high school students to gain a better vision of clean energy and power systems and career opportunities in this field. Also, undergraduate students learn the advantages of pursuing their higher education degree in power and energy systems, and graduate students learn research opportunities from their peers.”

The highlight of the event was the Poster Symposium, which featured three competition categories—high school students, undergraduate students, and graduate students. High school students prepare posters using their intuition and vision about power and energy systems. Undergraduate students select relevant topics, conduct online research, and prepare posters accordingly. Graduate students use the outputs of their research work to prepare their posters.

This year’s winners were:

High School Student Category

First Place – Sophia Ren, Joshua Shin, and Andrew Wang
Poster Title – Storing Green

Second Place – Kaitlyn Smith, Ryan Feng, Tejasvi Tyagi, and Dhruva Sonti
Poster Title – Novel Energy Approach

Third Place – Nicole Lin, Sarah Li, Keanna Luo, and Kalina Namikas
Poster Title – Conversion of Atmosphere CO2 to Renewable Fuels Via Oxide-Supported Amine Framework Nanomaterials

Undergraduate Student Category

First Place – Katherine Robinson and Sarah Sanjoh
Poster Title – Solar + Storage Shingle

Second Place – Taylor Donnelly and David Rush
Poster Title – Improving Power Grid Using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs)

Third Place – Collin Budinich
Poster Title – Why Nuclear Power is a Great Alternative for Clean Energy

Third Place – Brandon Bull and Lawrence Gonzalez
Poster Title – Nuclear Energy

Graduate Student Category

First Place – Farshad Amani
Poster Title – Application of Quantum Computing in Clean Energy

Second Place – Fouad Hasan
Poster Title – How to Speed up Power System Management Using Machine Learning

Third Place – Reza MahrooBakhtiari
Poster Title – Load Management to Increase PV Hosting Capacity

Third Place – Mohadese Movahednia
Poster Title – Power Grid Resilience Enhancement Via Operational Hardening Against Flood Hazards

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