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A CSUF student and faculty team has been selected to compete in the inaugural Orange County Sustainability Decathlon. Credit: Orange County Sustainability Decathlon 2023

To help solve Californias housing needs through sustainable development, a Cal State Fullerton student and faculty engineering team has been selected to participate in the first-ever Orange County Sustainability Decathlon.

This new collegiate competition challenges young decathletes to design and build housing prototypes that address Californias most vexing problems, including the need for affordable housing and energy efficient homes.

This competition will provide our students with a unique opportunity to work across majors to solve real-world problems of designing and building a sustainable house, said the teams faculty adviser Phoolendra Mishra, chair and associate professor of civil and environmental engineering.

The inaugural competition takes place in October 2023 in Orange County, with dates and site announced soon. Funded by a $5 million grant from the state of California, 18 teams from across the country and China were selected. Other teams selected are from University of California campuses, state and private institutions, community colleges and a vocational school.

The Titan team will design and build a 1,200-square-foot sustainable house. The design will focus on mindful living that includes the latest technologies to promote interconnectedness with the natural environment and support a holistic lifestyle of its occupants, Mishra relayed.

Our aim is to treat the house as a living being, inspired by Japanese culture, he added. Students will come up with innovative ideas to build a modular home that will be assembled at the competition.

Teams accepted into the competition receive $100,000 in one-time seed money toward building costs. The seed money is not expected to cover all the costs, so fundraising by the teams is required.

The College of Engineering and Computer Science plans to raise additional funds needed to meet project costs, said Dean Susan Barua.

Barua called this competition a bold and complex undertaking for the college and a worthwhile project for students.

Participation in the sustainability decathlon provides an exceptional learning experience for our students, Barua said. Its also a great opportunity for faculty and students to engage in collaborative problem-solving and brainstorm solutions to address environmental and economic challenges that California, the U.S. and the world are facing now.

Students from civil engineering, computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering disciplines will be selected this summer and take on this challenge as part of their senior design project, a required course to graduate. They will collaborate with peers in art, business and other majors. College faculty and industry partners will serve as project mentors.

Up against strong competitors, Mishra is confident CSUF students will be motivated to develop out-of-the-box ideas for a sustainable house that meets todays needs without compromising the needs of the next generation.

Our diverse Titan team will bring unique experiences and knowledge that will help us create a state-of-the-art design to win this competition and inspire the future of homebuilding in Southern California.

More information about the competition is available at the decathlon website.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Electric Power (Nasdaq: AEP) has named Steven Martin vice president, Infrastructure Engineering, IT Operations & Support, effective May 30. He reports to Therace Risch, executive vice president and chief information & technology officer.

Martin is responsible for the technology planning and delivery for infrastructure technologies including compute, network, storage and end-user tools. He also oversees technology operations and support.

"AEP continues to transform the way our employees work and implement new technologies to streamline our business, while enhancing the customer experience," Risch said. "Steven's focus on providing reliable, cost-effective, and an easy user experience, as well as his deep expertise in operations and infrastructure engineering, make him a valuable addition to our team. We welcome his leadership and insights as we deliver technology solutions that support AEP's efforts to provide clean, reliable and affordable energy."

Martin joins AEP from JCPenney, where he was vice president of Technology Enterprise Services and led information technology infrastructure, operations, support, and cyber functions and carried the dual role of managing director, JCPenney Services India. Prior to JCPenney, he served as senior director of the Technology Operations Center and senior director of Application Support for Target Corp. Martin also worked at Dell for nearly 13 years in roles of increasing responsibility. He received his bachelor's degree in management information systems from Texas Tech University.

American Electric Power, based in Columbus, Ohio, is powering a cleaner, brighter energy future for its customers and communities. AEP's approximately 16,700 employees operate and maintain the nation's largest electricity transmission system and more than 224,000 miles of distribution lines to safely deliver reliable and affordable power to 5.5 million regulated customers in 11 states. AEP also is one of the nation's largest electricity producers with approximately 31,000 megawatts of diverse generating capacity, including more than 7,100 megawatts of renewable energy. The company's plans include growing its renewable generation portfolio to approximately 50% of total capacity by 2030. AEP is on track to reach an 80% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from 2000 levels by 2030 and has committed to achieving net zero by 2050. AEP is recognized consistently for its focus on sustainability, community engagement, and diversity, equity and inclusion. AEP's family of companies includes utilities AEP Ohio, AEP Texas, Appalachian Power (in Virginia and West Virginia), AEP Appalachian Power (in Tennessee), Indiana Michigan Power, Kentucky Power, Public Service Company of Oklahoma, and Southwestern Electric Power Company (in Arkansas, Louisiana, east Texas and the Texas Panhandle). AEP also owns AEP Energy, which provides innovative competitive energy solutions nationwide. For more information, visit aep.com.

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BATON ROUGE Launch vehicles and propulsion systems are very complex and must survive extreme thermal, dynamic, pressure, and environmental loads. The materials and alloys used in these systems are often challenging to produce, costly, and have long lead times. Thanks to a NASA EPSCoR, or Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, and a Louisiana Board of Regents grant, LSU Mechanical Engineering Professors Shengmin Guo and Michael Khonsari are working with NASA and LaSPACE to advance additively manufactured alloys to help reduce cost and lead times.

Our goal through EPSCoR and other partnerships is to advance technologies, including novel alloys, for our missions and commercial spaceflight partners, said Paul Gradl, NASA principal engineer at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Part of our role is to understand the additive manufacturing processes better and provide accessible data so that NASA and industry can make better use of these processes and novel alloys.

For the past 18 months, Guo and Khonsari have been experimenting with alloys used in liquid rocket engine components made by additive manufacturing, or AM, methods, such as laser powder-bed fusion, or L-PBF, and laser powder-directed energy deposition, or LP-DED, methods. When NASA makes parts using additive manufacturing, the parts cost 50 percent less to produce than parts made with traditional manufacturing, and parts can also be produced two to 10 times faster. Traditional parts can take a year to make, whereas, the same part can be made using AM methods in a few weeks, or for the most complex parts, in a few months.

L-PBF metallic 3D parts are fabricated by sequentially and selectively melting thin powder layers according to CAD-directed laser scanning strategies. Multiple laser line scans form the desired 2D section shape, followed by multiple powder deposition/laser irradiation cycles that generate complex 3D metal/alloy parts. LP-DED allows for large AM parts to be fabricated with a deposition head attached to a robot based on a CAD-directed toolpath.

In this project, Guo, Khonsari and their graduate students conducted thermal and mechanical property measurements on more than 30 AM alloys and processes and established protocols for sample preparation, thermal and mechanical property testing, material characterization and data analysis. Supported by EPSCoR and NASA Marshall, this project will provide NASA and industry with detailed datasets regarding thermophysical properties of the metallic AM parts.

We have a lot of complex parts that have internal features and channels that were traditionally made from multiple joining operations [welding and brazing] to fabricate a component, Gradl said. As additive manufacturing processes and metal alloys mature, we must have good understanding of the properties to design for these additive processes that include mechanical and thermophysical properties.

According to Gradl, the thermophysical properties are a critical element of the design, and NASA required a substantial dataset for materials used in additive manufacturing processes, which is where the EPSCoR grant filled a gap. A key thermophysical property is thermal conductivity, particularly in high-temperature components, such as combustion chambers, where heat transfer is critical for the alloy being used.

This project builds upon the successful results of multiple National Science Foundation grants, Louisiana Board of Regents grants and LSUs investments in material and advanced manufacturing research, Guo said.

Apart from thermal property measurements, this team utilized the LSU Center for Rotating Machinery, or CeRoM, equipment to perform mechanical testing and provide mechanical property measurements using the LSU Shared instrumentation Facility. CeRoM houses state-of-the-art fatigue-testing equipment, including rotating bending, fully-reversed bending, torsion bending and tension compression combined with torsion testing apparatuses.

EPSCoR is excited to be associated with this research, said Jeppie Compton, NASA EPSCoR project manager. What is lab research today will one day be normal business, and with this database of properties that the team did methodical studies on, NASA and our industry partners could have a huge advantage for decades to come.

Guos AM alloy thermophysical property work will also be featured in the appendix of a textbook led by NASA titled Metal Additive Manufacturing for Propulsion Applications. This book will be published by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics under the Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics series.

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