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Alternative and Renewable Energy Research Projects
Energy is a dynamic field. You may be shocked by the amount of information generated by our local labs. We are transforming the future of energy right here. This web page will show all the information you can handle on our current labs.

Environmental Institute, College of Arts and Sciences
Dr. Charles Ide, Director
The Environmental Institute carries out interdisciplinary research regarding water quality with emphasis on how environmental contaminants impact human and ecosystem health. A primary focus of this research integrates science and environmental policy to assure the sustainability of Great Lakes water quality through community outreach and watershed management.

Environmental Studies & Environmental Institute, College of Arts and Sciences— Harold Glasser
Dr. Glasser’s research explores how individuals, organizations, and societies—from pre-agricultural to contemporary—make choices that affect the environment, which, in turn, affects them.

Family and Consumer Sciences, College of Education
Caroline Webber and Assoc Prof. Arezoo Rojhani
Received a FRACASF grant to look at access and availability of fruits and vegetables to low-income households in SW Michigan.

Manufacturing Engineering, College of Engineering
John Patten
Community Energy Projects Grant (CEPG): Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) Demonstration Project

Management, Hayworth College of Business
Sime Curkovic
Doctorate Dissertation: “Investigating the Linkage between Total Quality Management and Environmentally Responsible Manufacturing”

Physics Department, College of Arts and Sciences
Asghar Kayani
Dr. Kayani is working on materials to be used in Solid Oxide Fuel cells (SOFC). These cells are extremely efficient and provide green energy. He has three graduate students and an undergraduate student working on this project.