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KEYNOTE & PLENARY LECTURES
Biography: Dr. Stephen Harston has a passion for helping others. Jesse Austin-Breneman
After graduating from Brigham Young University, he has used his Title: Design for Micro-Enterprise: An Approach to
background in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design and R&D to Product Design for Emerging Markets
invent and design products that improve the lives of people in the
developing world. Working closely with organizations such as the Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization, Abstract: Emerging markets have been historically underserved by
PATH, Global Good and others, he and his team at Intellectual product developers. An increasing number of organizations from
Ventures Laboratory have developed products that are helping save multi-national corporations to social enterprises are looking to these
lives in Africa. In addition to the success of the products in the field, markets both as growth areas as well as opportunities for social
these products have also been featured on CNN, Wired Magazine, impact. Results from previously performed designer interviews point
60 Minutes and PBS. One of Dr. Harston’s products, a passive to a recent trend within these organizations to pursue product
vaccine storage device, is currently on display at the Bezos Center for opportunities that satisfy the unmet needs of micro-entrepreneurs.
Innovation at the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle. Since This talk presents findings from interviews with stakeholders in a
2001 Dr. Harston has been designing for, and traveling to, the public toilet franchise in East Africa and proposes guidelines for
developing countries of Africa and South America providing him an designing successfully for micro-entrepreneurs in emerging markets.
unfiltered view of everyday challenges in these regions and insight
into how to approach them. Dr. Harston is an awarded lecturer and
has been an invited speaker at several conferences.
Biography: Jesse Austin-Breneman is an Assistant Professor of
Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He
recently completed post-doctoral work in the MIT Ideation Lab and
Briana Lucero
the MIT Global Engineering and Research Lab. His research focuses
Title: Solar Concentrators: Power and Heat for Eco- on system-level approaches to difficult engineering design problems,
nomic Development such as product design for emerging markets. His work uses
empirical studies, practitioner interviews and simulations to gain
insight into issues facing multi-disciplinary design teams working in
Abstract: Common sources of renewable energy include solar photovol - these fields. He is particularly interested in how teams manage
taics (PV), wind, and hydropower. These can provide the majority of competing objectives from the wide variety of stakeholders in
electric power generation in some national grids and are often the only emerging markets and in developing formal strategies for helping
source of power in remote off-grid communities. The challenges facing them do so.
renewable energy generators are the high cost of installation, intermit -
tency, and mismatch between demand and supply, of which hydro has
performed fairly well. These challenges are being met by new research
into materials, systems design, and value chain optimization in concen -
trating solar power (CSP). Novel technical research in thermochemical
transfer fluids, cascading solar receivers, recuperative water disassocia -
tion and thermal particle storage allow the CSP projects to be viable
renewable applications to compete with hydropower. In this talk, three
CSP projects are discussed in systems-level details as framed by their
sustainability impacts and their sociotechnical opportunities for
providing power to remote communities.
Biography: Dr. Briana Lucero is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in
The Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University.
She is a senior researcher within the Systems Engineering Environ-
ment and Studio (SEES) Laboratories with a focus on advanced
energy systems modeling and optimization for the global economy.
Her previous work in design-by-analogy and humanitarian engineer-
ing has laid a foundation for her current research in the design,
optimization, and deployment of concentrating solar power systems
in emerging markets. Her background as an aerospace engineer
working on satellites and scientific imaging instrumentation at Ball
Aerospace and Technologies Corporation has informed her use of
systems engineering in basic science and applied research.
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KEYNOTE & PLENARY LECTURES
Biography: Dr. Stephen Harston has a passion for helping others. Jesse Austin-Breneman
After graduating from Brigham Young University, he has used his Title: Design for Micro-Enterprise: An Approach to
background in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design and R&D to Product Design for Emerging Markets
invent and design products that improve the lives of people in the
developing world. Working closely with organizations such as the Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization, Abstract: Emerging markets have been historically underserved by
PATH, Global Good and others, he and his team at Intellectual product developers. An increasing number of organizations from
Ventures Laboratory have developed products that are helping save multi-national corporations to social enterprises are looking to these
lives in Africa. In addition to the success of the products in the field, markets both as growth areas as well as opportunities for social
these products have also been featured on CNN, Wired Magazine, impact. Results from previously performed designer interviews point
60 Minutes and PBS. One of Dr. Harston’s products, a passive to a recent trend within these organizations to pursue product
vaccine storage device, is currently on display at the Bezos Center for opportunities that satisfy the unmet needs of micro-entrepreneurs.
Innovation at the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle. Since This talk presents findings from interviews with stakeholders in a
2001 Dr. Harston has been designing for, and traveling to, the public toilet franchise in East Africa and proposes guidelines for
developing countries of Africa and South America providing him an designing successfully for micro-entrepreneurs in emerging markets.
unfiltered view of everyday challenges in these regions and insight
into how to approach them. Dr. Harston is an awarded lecturer and
has been an invited speaker at several conferences.
Biography: Jesse Austin-Breneman is an Assistant Professor of
Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He
recently completed post-doctoral work in the MIT Ideation Lab and
Briana Lucero
the MIT Global Engineering and Research Lab. His research focuses
Title: Solar Concentrators: Power and Heat for Eco- on system-level approaches to difficult engineering design problems,
nomic Development such as product design for emerging markets. His work uses
empirical studies, practitioner interviews and simulations to gain
insight into issues facing multi-disciplinary design teams working in
Abstract: Common sources of renewable energy include solar photovol - these fields. He is particularly interested in how teams manage
taics (PV), wind, and hydropower. These can provide the majority of competing objectives from the wide variety of stakeholders in
electric power generation in some national grids and are often the only emerging markets and in developing formal strategies for helping
source of power in remote off-grid communities. The challenges facing them do so.
renewable energy generators are the high cost of installation, intermit -
tency, and mismatch between demand and supply, of which hydro has
performed fairly well. These challenges are being met by new research
into materials, systems design, and value chain optimization in concen -
trating solar power (CSP). Novel technical research in thermochemical
transfer fluids, cascading solar receivers, recuperative water disassocia -
tion and thermal particle storage allow the CSP projects to be viable
renewable applications to compete with hydropower. In this talk, three
CSP projects are discussed in systems-level details as framed by their
sustainability impacts and their sociotechnical opportunities for
providing power to remote communities.
Biography: Dr. Briana Lucero is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in
The Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University.
She is a senior researcher within the Systems Engineering Environ-
ment and Studio (SEES) Laboratories with a focus on advanced
energy systems modeling and optimization for the global economy.
Her previous work in design-by-analogy and humanitarian engineer-
ing has laid a foundation for her current research in the design,
optimization, and deployment of concentrating solar power systems
in emerging markets. Her background as an aerospace engineer
working on satellites and scientific imaging instrumentation at Ball
Aerospace and Technologies Corporation has informed her use of
systems engineering in basic science and applied research.
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