Seminar
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Can Being Green be also Being Sustainable? |
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Speaker: |
Prof. Harrison Kim |
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Affiliation: |
University of Illinois |
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When: |
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 2:00:00 PM |
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Where: |
MRDC Building, Room 4211 |
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Host: |
Chris Paredis | |
Abstract Being Green generally implies Being Un-sustainable in industry due to additional cost of product stewardship. For example, more than 100 million cell phones are retired every year in the US, out of which less than 5% are collected for end-of-life operations, and 95% of them end up in landfills or incinerators. As environmental regulations urge stronger stewardship for product retirement, however, recovering used products has become a field of rapidly growing interest for product manufacturers. Also, there has been a growing interest in utilizing renewable sources of energy in a sustainable manner in recent years. Oil spill in the gulf will further strengthen the rational for developing renewable, hybrid power generation systems. In this presentation, the speaker will present findings from the recent studies sponsored by his NSF grants – green, sustainable design and recovery; sustainable product family design and recovery; hybrid, renewable power generation system design utilizing solar, wind and diesel. |
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Biography Harrison Kim earned his BS/MS at KAIST and Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 2001 in the area of Engineering System Design and Optimization in Mechanical Engineering. He joined the University of Illinois in 2005 and has been leading the Enterprise Systems Optimization Lab (http://www.illinois.edu/goto/esol). Prior to joining Illinois, he held positions in research and consulting -- the US Army Automotive Research Center, Northwestern University, and a Business-IT consulting company. Prof. Kim has received numerous recognitions including the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award, Best Paper Award in ASME Design for Manufacturing and Life Cycle Conference, and news media coverage in the USA Today and the Chicago Tribune. |
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