ISEN 430 - NUvention Energy

NUvention Energy is a new graduate-level program that debuted in April 2010. The program responds to the demand for innovation and entrepreneurship in the sustainable energy space that will increasingly be required to deal with climate change.

Students from engineering, business, arts and sciences, law and other graduate schools across campus come together in 5-person interdisciplinary teams to develop a product or service, and a business plan in the sustainable energy industry. The objective of the course is to provide students with a realistic simulation of the challenges and excitement entrepreneurial founding teams face trying to create a business around technologies or services that both meet a market need and reduce the environmental impact of the energy involved in serving that need.

Each team will start with a promising research project from Northwestern, from Argonne National Laboratory, from Advisory Board members, or from the students themselves. Candidate projects must have developed to a point where a needs analysis, product design and market research can be done.

Below are the Executive Summaries presented by the student teams from ISEN 430’s inaugural class in Spring 2010.

Fuel Cells for Energy Storage

Life-Cycle Assessments

RIPE:  Home Energy Retrofits

Solar to Energy (S2E)

SiNode: The Next Generation Lithium-Ion Anode

Small Business Energy Efficiency Team

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See videos of each student group's final presentation from past NUvention classes: 

2013

2012

2011