cleantech at um

 
 

Centers and Institutes

Michigan Memorial Phoenix Energy Institute (MMPEI)

Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute (GESI)

Center for Advancing Research and Solutions for Society (CARSS)

UM Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI)

Center for Sustainable Systems (CSS)

Environmental and Water Resources Engineering (EWRE)

Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise (Erb)

Automotive Research Center (ARC)

Center for Wireless Integrated Microsystems (WIMS)




By the numbers

360 faculty across UM

100 faculty in the COE

Research expenditures: $30-40 M/yr (ex. automotive)

Disclosures/patents: ~ 115 (ex. automotive)




Presentations from 2007 cleantech vc forum


  1. 1.UM-Industry engagement (Forrest.pdf, UM VP Research)

  2. 2.MMPEI Research Scope (Was.pdf, Director, MMPEI)

  3. 3.Cleantech at UM (Adriaens.pdf)

  4. 4.Cleantech Investment Trends and Positioning for Michigan (Bigelow.pdf, Managing Dir. CleanTech Group LLC)

  5. 5.Advanced Microbatteries (Sastry.pdf, UM-ME)

  6. 6.Nanomaterials and Devices for Energy Conversion and Storage (Thompson.pdf, UM-ChE)

  7. 7.Feedstock-Flexible Bioenergy Appliance (Schwank.pdf, UM-ChE)

  8. 8.Adaptive Blades for Wind Turbines (Kota.pdf, UM-ME)

  9. 9.Multi-Functional Fabrics for Energy Conversion (Shtein.pdf, UM-MSE/ChE)

  10. 10.Next Generation Machining Fluids (Skerlos.pdf, UM-ME)

  11. 11.SITUMBRABuilding Facade Systems (Giles.pdf, UM-TCAUP)

  12. 12.VIVACE:Harnessing Energy from Ocean/River Currents (Bernitsas.pdf, UM-NAME)



 
 

The University of Michigan and the College of Engineering exhibit a remarkable diversity of research endeavors addressing energy and environmental issues.  See sidebar for the various Centers and Institutes pursuing research that would fit in this category.


A subset of these activities involves research on technology-based solutions.  A breakdown of the technology foci indicates that energy accounts for 40-50% (some of the nano and enabling technologies are platform technologies applicable to energy) of the CleanTech space, followed by an equal distribution across the water,  recycling and transportation spaces.  Most subspaces of CleanTech have a sensing technology component, even though sensors are not separately identified in this plot.



The energy space is distributed across infrastructure (including metering, smart grids, etc...), generation (fuel cells, solar, batteries, wind), efficiency (insulation, materials), and storage (battery systems).


In collaboration with the Energy Institute and the Office of Technology Transfer, we have done a preliminary analysis to tease out the UM CleanTech portfolio, summarized below (116 D/P/L total). 




For more detail on the status of each technology or more on the inventor, please contact the Office of Technology Transfer (Andy McColm; asmccolm@umich.edu).

 

Clean Technology Portfolio