EVENTS

Join us for the Literature Seminar: The Practice of Uselessness
After the success of the 1st literature seminar (where “A Report to an Academy” was read), comes the 2nd iteration of The Practice of Uselessness, organized by our Advocacy leader Mehdi. For this coming session we are honored to have Dr. Jason Bryant as our guest speaker. He has suggested to read a short story…

APS Distribution center visit
Eleven QESST students, from ASU and UofA, had the opportunity to tour the APS distribution center on April 20th. The distribution center is in charge of receiving calls of outages, finding the issue in the distribution line, and sending teams to fix those issues. With an impressive array of tools and know-how, APS manages to…

Outreach Exchange this Monday April 24th
QESST Scholars, please join us Monday, April 24, 10am to 12pm at MTW for QESST Outreach Training and Activity Sharing. Two hours of fun-filled activities to prepare you for PV outreach: Premiering our NEW QESST Outreach Activities book! Take home new QESST Outreach boxes – free to each participating university Scholars, teachers, and education…

Site Visit Information
LINK TO AGENDA LINK TO ANNUAL REPORT YEAR 7 (Password Protected) Read this year’s Annual Report Project Summaries IMPORTANT DATES FOR SCHOLARS: Sunday, May 6, 8:30am-5pm: Student Retreat @ Bartlett Lake, all scholars including post docs are welcome! RSVP here Monday, May 7: Site Visit Rehearse Tuesday 8 to Thursday 10: Site Visit More events will…

MRS Student-Industry Mixer
Network with industry while dinning with us at the MRS event. When: 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Thursday, April 20th Where: Lucky Strike, 50 W. Jefferson St. Arcade, Gypsy Bar Private Room (one block from the Phoenix Convention Center) Some of the confirmed companies: Idaho National Lab Biotectix MForesight National Institue of Standards and Technology General Motors…
Join us for the Literature Seminar: The Practice of Uselessness
What: The Practice of Uselessness, a new short-story club When: Tue Apr 11, 2017, 6 pm – 7:30 pm (MST) Where: Engineering Research Center (ERC), first floor, Room: 189. Snacks will be provided. Also available through Zoom: http://zoom.us/j/637238824 Come join this new, informal biweekly short-story reading club organized by a QESST Scholar. The goal is to get…

ASU ERC Development Workshop
CBBG, NEWT, and QESST are excited to offer a combined-ERC workshop titled, “Applying for Post-Doc and Faculty Positions” for students interested in academia career paths. We will be hearing from faculty how to become more attractive future candidates for academia positions based on their wide-ranging experiences and knowledge.Stay tuned to hear who our panelists are!…

Various Musings on Getting a Job, Keeping It, and Beyond, a Q & A Session
All QESST Scholars are invited to a talk by Tim Reblitz: “Various Musings on Getting a Job, Keeping It, and Beyond.” Join us for the talk and Q & A session April 4 11 am MST via Zoom or in ERC 189. Tim Reblitz was President of the QESST SLC in Year 4. He graduated…

Life Cycle Analysis Webinar this Friday
Dwarak Triplican Ravikumar (PostDoct in Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering at ASU) will be presenting on the life–cycle environmental impacts of PV with a special focus on the need to improve PV manufacturing. This webinar has been rescheduled for this Friday, 3/3, at 12pm MST. You can join the call on Zoom at http://zoom.us/j/828194209. Zoom link here!

Scholar Industry Meeting: Utility Scale PV, with First Solar
Want to learn more about utility scale PV? First Solar is coming to ERC 189 this 1st of March, at 1 PM (MST), to talk more about this very important market of photovoltaics. If you can’t attend presentially, a webinar will be available through zoom.

Tonto Creek Solar Install Opportunity!
QESSTers, don’t miss the opportunity to learn some hands-on skills on PV Installation this Spring Break! With the goal in mind of doing a complete, grid-tied system in the summer at Tonto Creek Camp, QESST scholars are working to build a PV battery demo system over spring break. We are currently working on figuring out…

Scholar Industry Meeting: NREL
Have you ever wondered what it is like to work at NREL? Would you like to know how you can get to work with them? This Thursday at 9AM MST we will have our next Scholar/Industry Meeting with Sarah Kurtz, and Linda Lung, both scientists from NREL. This will be a Zoom Conference (check the…