{"id":291,"date":"2014-02-06T14:10:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T14:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/?p=291"},"modified":"2023-02-22T19:47:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T19:47:49","slug":"conferences-california-renewable-energy-and-storage-technology-conference-powers-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/2014\/02\/06\/conferences-california-renewable-energy-and-storage-technology-conference-powers-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Conferences: California Renewable Energy and Storage Technology Conference powers ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postContent\">\n<p>Word is getting out about the California Renewable Energy and Storage Technology (CREST) Conference, even though it\u2019s only two years old. At the 2013 conference, held May 4, both attendance and the number of sessions offered were up over last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re happy with how it\u2019s progressing, and there is excitement on campus,\u201d says Abhijit Mukherjee, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, who organized the event. \u201cExpectations are high, and it\u2019s hard to keep pace. We\u2019re trying to involve more faculty so it becomes bigger and even more successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This past year, 80 people attended, up from 64 the year before, and Digital Energy came forward as a sponsor. Highlights included a talk by Rajit Gadh, director of UCLA\u2019s Center for Smart Grid Research Center; a luncheon keynote address by David Nahai, former Los Angeles Department of Water and Power CEO and general manager; and the afternoon session, presented by industry professionals and organized by the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, which recently set up a satellite office on campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStudents could see careers and applications in front of their eyes and learn where industry stands and where they can find jobs when they graduate,\u201d Mukherjee says. \u201cThey could connect with people from industry, and that motivated them. Most who attended were very excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, Mukherjee hopes to attract more sponsors and attendees to help grow the program. It\u2019s all for the benefit of CSUN, he says, offering visibility for the university and faculty and facilitating connections between academia and industry.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"CREST-Energy-Conference-2013.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/ecsdean\/enews\/fp-content\/images\/2013fall\/CREST-Energy-Conference-2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatleft aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/ecsdean\/enews\/fp-content\/images\/2013fall\/.thumbs\/CREST-Energy-Conference-2013.jpg\" alt=\"CREST-Energy-Conference-2013.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word is getting out about the California Renewable Energy and Storage Technology (CREST) Conference, even though it\u2019s only two years old. At the 2013 conference, held May 4, both attendance and the number of sessions offered were up over last year. \u201cWe\u2019re happy with how it\u2019s progressing, and there is excitement on campus,\u201d says Abhijit Mukherjee, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, who organized the event. \u201cExpectations are high, and it\u2019s hard to keep pace. We\u2019re trying to involve more faculty so it becomes bigger and even more successful.\u201d This past year, 80 people attended, up from 64 the year before, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecs.csun.edu\/spectra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}