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Stanford University GCEP Grant The Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) managed by Stanford University and fi nanced by an industrial consortium consisting of Exxon Mobil, General Electric, Sclumberger and Toyota is a major US$225 million, 10-year effort to seek new solutions to one of the major energy challenges of this century, supplying energy to meet and needs of a growing world population in a way that protects the environment. Promising areas for support have been identifi ed as photovoltaics, hydrogen, biomass, advanced combustion and CO 2 capture, separation and storage. After requesting proposals in these fi elds from selected institutions, these underwent review by two independent technology and impact review panels, as well as by a technical committee formed by the sponsors. The Centre responded to a request for a “game-changing” proposal in photovoltaics by outlining its activities in the nanostructured silicon tandem cell area (Section 4.5) and requesting support to accelerate the development of this approach. This was one of three successful projects chosen in the photovoltaics fi eld, and the only one awarded to a non-US group. Funding of US$2.4 million over 3 years has been allocated. Subsequently, Centre Executive Research Director, Martin Green, was selected as Team Leader for the overall GCEP Photovoltaic Program with responsibilities for identifying areas under-represented in the GCEP portfolio and in selecting technical experts for the evaluation of projects solicited in these areas. Other Awards Other highlights in 2005 include Mark Griffi n’s Faculty of Engineering Technical Staff Excellence Award, Axel Straub’s Graduate Student Award at the European Materials Research Society (E MRS) 2005 Spring Meeting in France, Roland Utama’s best fi nal-year thesis poster award and best overall thesis mark in Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering at UNSW in 2005, and the award of a A$156,000 research infrastructure grant by UNSW to Patrick Campbell et al for a new multi-target reactive sputtering machine. Research student, Supriya Pillai, was the recipient of fi rst prize in the Faculty of Engineering’s Inaugural Dean’s Awards for Postgraduate Research, with her work selected as the best overall from about 70 applicants at a poster presentation at the Scientia in December. Papers presented by research student Chu-Wei Jiang, Deputy-Director Jianhua Zhao and Director Stuart Wenham all won best paper in their fi eld awards at the 15th International Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference in Shanghai in October, with Research Director Martin Green presented with a special award from Jiangsu province after his keynote presentation during the conference opening ceremony. Mark Griffi n’s winner of the Faculty of Engineering Technical Staff Excellence 6
Education A major highlight of the educational activities has been the Centre’s ability to attract outstanding high school graduates to join us. The spread of their University Admissions Index values is skewed to the top end, while it would more commonly be expected to cluster towards the lower cutoff value. 70 UAI Distribution 2000 - 2005 # Students 60 50 40 30 20 10 3656 3655 3657 3642 0 Below 80 80-84.99 85-89.99 90-94.99 95-100 University Admission Index Other highlights include a new Co-Op Scholarship for 2006 the Bachelor of Engineering in Photovoltaics and Solar Energy program, sponsored by Suntech Power Co. Ltd. of Wuxi, China. This complements the two existing scholarships, sponsored by BP Solar and CSG Solar. One of our high achieving undergraduate scholars, Nicole Kuepper, received an Australian fellowship as part of the Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Program. A new edition of the Centre’s popular text, Applied Photovoltaics, was completed in 2005 and printed in January 2006. This book is destined for rapid translation to Chinese to support staff training for the booming industry in China. The Centre gained effective access in 2005 to a dedicated rooftop area for experimental activities in our education programs. Huge effort was expended by Centre teaching staff during 2006 to facilitate the introduction in 2006 of a new fl exible fi rst year program throughout the Faculty of Engineering and the associated development of a Faculty-wide fi rst year Engineering Design and Innovation course, as well as a new admissions scheme for local students. 7
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4.7 COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH Universi
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UNSW Centre for Energy and Environm
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Summary The Centre for Advanced Sil
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5.5.1 New Flexible First Year In 20
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5.8.3 UNSW Information Day Local un
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5.9.6 Murdoch University Western Au
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7.1 PROGRESS AGAINST CENTRE DESIGNA
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A.10 Demonstration of photon down-c
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Governance Milestones H.1 Establish
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Quality of the Centre Strategic Pla
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Centre 2005 Income The total income
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Centre 2005 Expenditure of ARC Gran
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BOOKS Stuart R. Wenham, Martin A. G
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R.A. Bardos, T. Trupke, M. Schubert
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D. Song, D. Inns, A. Straub, M.L. T
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F.W. Chen, J.E. Cotter, A. Cuevas,
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M.A. Green, “Photovoltaics - Elec
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A. Shalav, B. Richards, G. Conibeer
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P.I. Widenborg, S.V. Chan, D. Inns,
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