Dr. Justin Peter Koeln received a $589,527 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his research supporting CAREER: Set-based Dynamic Modeling and Control for Trustworthy Energy Management Systems. This project aims to resolve the obstacle of having a shortage of modeling and control methods that may properly optimize the performance of thermal management systems and reach reliable thermal management system operations through systematic risk allocation for both structured and unstructured sources of uncertainty, set-based techniques to capture uncertainty, confirmation of accessible and measurable closed-loop controllers under all potential system operations.

By incorporating research and training surrounding thermal energy management systems and dynamic systems modeling, multi-faceted engineers will be instructed to fulfill the industry’s growing need for thermal control engineers through undergraduate and graduate interactive project-based learning. In light of the outcome of this research award, this research award will contribute to the field of Mechanical Engineering and also reflects NSF as this award has been evaluated based on the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) statutory goal is reflected in this award, which has been assessed based on the scholarly merit and impact review criteria.