It’s that time again – the QESST Annual Site Visit Poster Presentation session will soon be upon us! We would like your input to design the background for the new poster template for this year. As a starting reference, heere is the poster template we used last year. Please send us your template ideas by Wednesday, […]
CBBG, NEWT, and QESST are excited to offer a combined-ERC workshop titled, “Applying for Post-Doc and Faculty Positions” for students interested in academia career paths. We will be hearing from faculty how to become more attractive future candidates for academia positions based on their wide-ranging experiences and knowledge.Stay tuned to hear who our panelists are! […]
All QESST Scholars are invited to a talk by Tim Reblitz: “Various Musings on Getting a Job, Keeping It, and Beyond.” Join us for the talk and Q & A session April 4 11 am MST via Zoom or in ERC 189. Tim Reblitz was President of the QESST SLC in Year 4. He graduated […]
Dwarak Triplican Ravikumar (PostDoct in Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering at ASU) will be presenting on the life–cycle environmental impacts of PV with a special focus on the need to improve PV manufacturing. This webinar has been rescheduled for this Friday, 3/3, at 12pm MST. You can join the call on Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/828194209. Zoom link here! […]
Want to learn more about utility scale PV? First Solar is coming to ERC 189 this 1st of March, at 1 PM (MST), to talk more about this very important market of photovoltaics. If you can’t attend presentially, a webinar will be available through zoom. […]
QESSTers, don’t miss the opportunity to learn some hands-on skills on PV Installation this Spring Break! With the goal in mind of doing a complete, grid-tied system in the summer at Tonto Creek Camp, QESST scholars are working to build a PV battery demo system over spring break. We are currently working on figuring out […]
Have you ever wondered what it is like to work at NREL? Would you like to know how you can get to work with them? This Thursday at 9AM MST we will have our next Scholar/Industry Meeting with Sarah Kurtz, and Linda Lung, both scientists from NREL. This will be a Zoom Conference (check the […]
Courtesy of General Manager Bradley Albert, on February 10th from 1-3pm more than 15 QESST Students, from ASU and UofA, visited the headquarters of the biggest utility company in Arizona. GM Albert gave a detailed explanation of how the energy portfolio works at state and SW region levels, and showed us the daily challenges the […]
Jose Castillo-Aguilella and Paul Hauser, from Prism Solar, entertained 12 QESST students from ASU and Tucson this past February 2nd of 2017. Prism Solar produces bifacial modules with glass-on-glass technology. During the meeting, they gave an excellent overview on how the silicon market has changed over the last decade and how their company, as a […]
Solar Cell 101 took place at the solar Power Lab, from January 10-13. It brought together QESST students from different Universities, as well as Industry partners, to learn about the process of making a solar cell. Each participant got the opportunity to take a QESST logo module, with some of them reaching 17.6% efficiency, with […]
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