A. Renewable Energy

• Solar Power

Photovoltaic technologies and system, photovoltaic material, solar radiation availability and variability, solar thermal technologies, thermal storage, solar heating and cooling, and solar building architecture.

• Biomass Energy

Biomass potentials and characterization, landfill gas, biogas and syngas, oil-based-biofuel and biomass conversion technologies such as gasification, pyrolysis, anaerobic digestion, or solid fuel combustion.

• Hydro Energy

Generators, turbines, electrical systems, system stability and reliability, assessment for power potential,simulation and optimization tools, hydropower infrastructure, and water management.

• Wind Energy

Turbine/generator design, driving circuits, wind-speed explorations, geographic aspects, rotor and stator aerodynamics, permanent magnet generators, speed control, and cooling system.

• Hydrogen Energy

Hydrogen production, material, electrolysis, storage system, fuel cell, and efficiency improvement.

• Tidal and Wave Energy

Underwater transmission, generator design, tidal and wave explorations, and fluid dynamics.

• Geothermal Power

Geothermal power plant, wells and pump modeling, piping engineering, steam field development, direct use ofgeothermal energy, and heat & mass transfer.

• Thermoelectric

Waste heat contents, Resistive temperature detective materials and advanced semiconducting materials, Solid state thermoelectric devices, Utilization of electrical field, magnetic field and stress for thermoelectricity.

• Energy Conservation

Smartgrid, energy mix, energy harvesting, cogeneration, combined cycle power plant, energy efficiency, green building, microgeneration, and climate change & forestry.

B. Sustainable Transportation

• Electric and Hybrid Vehicle

Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, battery electric vehicle, hybrid electric vehicle, systems modeling, simulation and testing, energy management system, storagesystem, electronics control system, electric motor, propulsion & transmission, vehicle to grid, charging solution, aerodynamics, and fuel efficiency.

• Conventional Vehicle

Internal combustion engine, emission analysis, safety analysis, fuel efficiency, combustion optimization, hybridization, homogeneous charge compression ignition, chassis platform, ergonomics and aerodynamics.

• Infrastructure and Support

Charging point design and analysis, municipal fleet upgrades, maintenance and safety, grants and incentives,policy and regulation, intelligent infrastructure and guidance systems, infrastructure capacity management, parking management and electronic parking payments.

• Alternative Green Fuel

Such as bioethanol, biogasoline, biokerosene, biohydrogen, LNG, LPG, CNG, and dimethyl ether fuel. Thetopic includes production processes, standard quality, technologies, handling and storage, and residues management.

• Traffic Management

Traffic theory, modeling, and simulation, cloud computing for transportation, intelligent transport system, mass rapid transport, traffic management, traffic and communications networks, road charging, tolling and electronic toll collection, vehicle clearance and safety inspection.