EVENTS

QESST Entrepreneurship Workshop

John Mitchell, Industrial Liaison Officer for QESST, and the Fulton Schools of Engineering Career Center lead a 4 hour workshop and luncheon.  The focus of the workshop was entrepreneurship.  Guest speakers, Brian Peterson of Rafael Tirado & Associates  discussed resources available for startup and spinoff companies, legal issues regarding international partnerships, establishing LLC and S-Corp,…

Industry Short Course

Introduction to PV Manufacturing Decision Making:  Product Cost Analysis and Hypothesis Testing Who should attend? Engineers, technicians and managers working in and around PV manufacturing environments who are looking to increase their cost analysis and statistical decision making skills. Dates February 19-20, 2013 Venue SkySong, the ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center 1475 North Scottsdale Road, Suite…

Workshop 2012

Workshop on Characterization and Modeling of Solar Cells

Photovoltaics is cost competitive in a number of markets, but advances in cell technology are necessary to spread PV systems worldwide and reach terawatt scale. To leap ahead in PV technologies requires strategies for facilitating the rapid implementation of advanced device structures, e.g. selective emitters and rear point contacts. Furthermore, integrating new processing techniques and…

QESST First Annual Site Visit Review

QESST scholar, Katie Nelson, discusses her poster on QESST educational initiatives with members of the NSF/DOE site visit team.  During the two-day site visit, QESST scholars presented their research during a poster session attended by the site visit team, QESST faculty and scholars from all eight QESST universities, and potential industry consortium members.  Selected QESST…

ASU homecoming 2011

On October 28, 2011, the QESST team organized and ran a booth as a part of ASU’s annual homecoming.The booth was meant to be informative as well as educational. Activities were developed that engaged all visitors in the topic of solar energy, including “light the light bulb,” learning about mulitmeters, and both seeing and playing…