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WEDNESDAY Special Events

CONFERENCE-WIDE PLENARY
Wednesday, November 18
8:30am–10:00am (breakfast served from 8:00am to 8:30am)
Ballroom of the Americas, Hilton of the Americas

Hai Wang, Ph.D.
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University

Presentation Title: Combustion and Future Hybrid Propulsion Systems—Opportunities and Challenges
Abstract: Hybrid propulsion systems are expected to play an increasingly important role in vehicle transportation and in meeting the 2025
Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards of 54.5 mpg for cars and light-duty trucks. The talk will focus on the transition needed for
combustion research, fundamental and applied, in the era of hybrid propulsion. Concepts for chemical to mechanical energy, and chemical energy
to electricity conversion will be discussed in the context of hybrid propulsion systems. Benefits and challenges in some of the alternative energy
conversion concepts will be explored to show that significant research opportunities exist for combustion research.

Presenter Biography: Hai Wang is professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University. His interests are in renewable energy conversion,
catalysis, and combustion. His current research focuses on theories and applications of nanoparticles and nanostructures for rechargeable
batteries and supercapacitors, combustion simulations, and nanocatalysis.

Wang is the author and coauthor of numerous papers in scholarly journals, including “A detailed kinetic modeling study of aromatics formation in
laminar premixed acetylene and ethylene flames” in Combustion and Flame, “Drag force, diffusion coefficient, and electric mobility of small
particles. I. Theory applicable to the free-molecule regime” in Physical Review E, “A new mechanism for the formation of meteoritic kerogen-like
material” in Science magazine, “Gas-nanoparticle scattering: A molecular view of momentum accommodation function” in Physical Review Letters,
and “Formation of nascent soot and other condensed-phase materials in flames” in Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. He is the co-editor of
Combustion Generated Fine Carbonaceous Particles. He is or has been a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Chemical
Kinetics, Combustion and Flame, and Proceedings of the Combustion Institute.

José Lage Barbara Kenny
Program Director, Thermal Transport Processes Program Director, Small Business Innovative Research
Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP)
Systems (CBET)
Biography: Barbara Kenny is the Partnerships for Innovation: Accelerating
Biography: José L. Lage is a professor of mechanical engineering in the Lyle Innovation Research (PFI:AIR) program director at the National Science
School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University, where he directs Foundation in the Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships. She
the Research Laboratory for Porous Material Applications. Lage has been transitioned to this position in May 2013 after seven years as a program
elected an Honorary Member of Pi Tau Sigma and a Fellow of the ASME, and director in the Engineering Research Center program, where she had
served twice as an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer. In oversight responsibility for centers in various fields including biomedical
2014 he was elected member of the Scientific Council of the International and energy/power systems. Prior to coming to the National Science
Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer. He is currently on leave from SMU, Foundation in 2006, she worked at the NASA Glenn Research Center in
serving as the National Science Foundation Director of the Thermal Cleveland, Ohio in aerospace power systems. Her last project there was
Transport Processes Program in the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, to design the motor control algorithms for a combined flywheel energy
Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET), Directorate for Engineering. storage and attitude control system. She started her career as a U.S. Air
Force officer in facilities engineering and retired from the Air Force
Division Description: CBET supports innovative research and education in Reserves as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2006. She has a BSEE from Cornell
the fields of chemical engineering, biotechnology, bioengineering, and University, an MSEE from the University of Texas at Austin, and her
environmental engineering, and in areas that involve the transformation doctorate from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is a senior
and/or transport of matter and energy by chemical, thermal, or mechanical member of IEEE, serves as an ABET reviewer, and is a licensed Profession-
means. These research investments lead to technologies that can improve al Engineer in Virginia. In 2006 she received the Steven Szabo Engineer-
environmental conditions; enable reliable and sustainable sources of ing Award from the NASA Glenn Research Center for her work on the
energy; and create a dependable and resilient national infrastructure. This flywheel energy storage system. In 2010 she received the NSF Director’s
infrastructure will consist of clean and reliable sources of municipal and Award for Program Management Excellence. Her military awards include
drinking water, transportation, information technologies, health-related the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, the Joint Service Commendation 27
products, and other areas that impact our lives. Medal, the Air Force Commendation Medal with one oak leaf cluster, and