A talk in two parts – (1) Critical materials and (2) Alternative career options
The U.S. White House has set a target to achieve 50% to 52% reduction of greenhouse gas pollution by 2030, putting the U.S. on a path to achieve a 100% clean energy economy with net-zero emissions by 2050. In particular, the U.S. has put forward goals to deploy 30 GW of offshore wind power capacity and enable 50% adoption of electric vehicles by 2030. Critical materials are the building blocks of these clean energy technologies – such as rare earth elements in permanent magnets that enable high energy conversion in permanent magnet machines in electric vehicle and offshore wind turbine drivetrains. This talk will examine the role critical materials play in magnets for clean energy and national security technologies and the efforts the U.S. Department of Energy is pursuing to accelerate solutions to the challenges posed. Additionally, we will discuss alternative career options to the more typical routes of academia and industry post graduate school.
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- Date: 17 Feb 2023
- Time: 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM
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- Richmond , Virginia
- United States 23284
- Building: East Engineering Building
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- Co-sponsored by Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
- Starts 06 January 2023 03:57 PM
- Ends 17 February 2023 12:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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Dr. Helena Khazdozian of US Department of Energy
A talk in two parts – (1) Critical materials and (2) Alternative career options
The U.S. White House has set a target to achieve 50% to 52% reduction of greenhouse gas pollution by 2030, putting the U.S. on a path to achieve a 100% clean energy economy with net-zero emissions by 2050. In particular, the U.S. has put forward goals to deploy 30 GW of offshore wind power capacity and enable 50% adoption of electric vehicles by 2030. Critical materials are the building blocks of these clean energy technologies – such as rare earth elements in permanent magnets that enable high energy conversion in permanent magnet machines in electric vehicle and offshore wind turbine drivetrains. This talk will examine the role critical materials play in magnets for clean energy and national security technologies and the efforts the U.S. Department of Energy is pursuing to accelerate solutions to the challenges posed. Additionally, we will discuss alternative career options to the more typical routes of academia and industry post graduate school.
Biography:
Dr. Helena Khazdozian is a Senior Technology Manager for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO) at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), managing a critical materials research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) portfolio including the Critical Materials Institute. She joined AMMTO after completing a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship in which she supported critical materials work funded by AMMTO. Before joining the U.S. Department of Energy, Helena spent two years as a researcher at the Ames National Laboratory, a US DOE National Laboratory, evaluating critical magnetic materials in electric machines using finite element analysis. She earned her PhD from Iowa State University in Wind Energy Science, Engineering, and Policy with a co-major in Electrical Engineering and her MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Virginia.
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