THE BENEFITS OF ES2 MEMBERSHIP
ES2 membership offers unique industry partner benefits:
- The opportunity to share in the Center鈥檚 strategic planning through representation on the Industrial Advisory Board (IAB).
- Access to a shared pool of research, as well as publications, short courses, electronic systems and databases.
- The opportunity to conduct exclusive and confidential research through one-on-one partnering.
- Access to non-exclusive, royalty-free licenses to use or incorporate any research product or invention developed within the Center.
- Access to laboratories, research equipment, infrastructure and expertise at 蜜桃TV and all ES2 partner campuses.
Current ES2 Industry Partners
Next Steps for Prospective Members
Contact Site Director Alfonso Ortega, PhD, for further details about the Center for Energy-Smart Electronic Systems and to discuss your areas of interest.
If your company鈥檚 interests are consistent with the mission and goals of the Center, you will be invited to attend the next biannual ES2 IAB meeting (held at the conclusion of Q2 and Q4) where you can meet the IAB members, university site directors and researchers. You will be asked to sign a confidential non-disclosure agreement prior to the meeting.
Formal membership requires that you sign a membership agreement with 蜜桃TV (acting on behalf of the ES2), detailing the terms and conditions of membership. All companies sign a common agreement鈥攖he agreement may not be customized.
Your company can begin active participation in the Center immediately upon signing the membership agreement.
The annual membership fee is $50,000 and entitles you as a member to full privileges including a nonexclusive royalty-free license to ES2-funded university inventions and a role in the selection of research projects.
ES2 RESEARCHERS
Alfonso Ortega, PhD
ES2 Site Director
Dr. Ortega is the James R. Birle Professor of Energy Technology in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is internationally recognized for his work in data center energy and thermal management, electronics cooling, convective heat and mass transfer, experimental methods in thermal sciences and energy technology.
Dr. Li is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the . His research areas include experimental two-phase mass and heat transfer at multiscale, numerical simulation of phase change and interfacial phenomena, and machine learning (ML) in understanding the big data for experiment and numerical simulations. Dr. Li teaches a variety of courses in the areas of thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics and sustainability energy.
Dr. Wemhoff is a professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Methods for Systems Analysis Laboratory. He performs research in energy sustainability and teaches courses in the areas of thermodynamics, heat transfer and fluid mechanics. Before joining 蜜桃TV, he spent three years as a staff engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.