Leadership
Lin Li Heading link
Director
About
Dr. Lin Li is the Director of the UIC-IAC, an Associate Professor in the UIC MIE Department, the Director of the UIC Industrial Engineering Program, and the Director of UIC’s Sustainable Manufacturing Systems Research Laboratory. Dr. Li received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and has over 20 years of research experience in smart manufacturing for productivity improvement and energy-efficient sustainable manufacturing. He has published more than 120 articles, including 83 journal papers in the prestigious international journals, e.g., Energy, Applied Energy, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, Journal of Cleaner Production, ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, International Journal of Energy Research, International Journal of Production Economics, etc. His new book, entitled “Sustainable Manufacturing Systems: An Energy Perspective”, will be published in Wiley. Dr. Li’s publications have been cited over 3,000 times with h-index 34 and i10-index 68. Besides the funding received from government agencies, i.e., DOE and National Science Foundation, his research has also been funded and implemented through industrial assessments and collaborations, e.g., General Motors, Chrysler, Eaton Corporation, General Electric, etc.
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering (2007)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
M.S.E., Industrial and Operations Engineering (2005)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
M.S.E., Mechanical Engineering (2003)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
B.E., Mechanical Engineering (2001)
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Contact
Phone: 312-996-3045
Rm: ERF 3057
Fax: (312) 413-0447
Email: linli@uic.edu
Web: http://smsrl.uic.edu/lin-li
Cliff Haefke Heading link
Director
About
Cliff Haefke has over 15 years of experience in the energy industry and currently serves as the Director of the Energy Resources Center (ERC), located at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). The ERC is an interdisciplinary public service, research, and special projects organization that works to improve energy efficiency and the environment, providing expertise in the areas of energy efficiency, distributed generation, utilities billing management, and biofuels and bioenergy. Cliff joined the ERC in 2000, in 2011 he joined the Center’s executive management team, and since March 2015 serves as the Center’s Director. As Director, Cliff oversees the Center’s business and research efforts and is responsible for the Center’s strategic direction. Cliff also serves as the Director of the U.S. Department of Energy sponsored Midwest CHP Technical Assistance Partnership, a technical outreach program that promotes combined heat and power (CHP), waste heat-to-power (WHP), and district energy CHP technologies in the industrial, commercial, and institutional market sectors in the 12 State Midwest Region.
Cliff holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA both from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Cliff is a member of the International District Energy Association (IDEA), the U.S. Combined Heat and Power Association, and the Association of State Energy Research and Technology Transfer Institutions (ASERTTI), an affiliate member of the National Association of State Energy Offices (NASEO), and is President of the Midwest Cogeneration Association (MCA).
Contact
Office Phone: 312-355-3476
Email: chaefk1@uic.edu
Patrick Brown Heading link
Senior Research Engineer
Industrial Energy Efficiency
About
Patrick Brown is a licensed Professional Engineer and Certified Energy Manager who joined the Energy Resources Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2014. Patrick graduated with a degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has over thirteen years of experience in the energy efficiency field. He has successfully managed several energy efficiency programs for both the State of Illinois and the U.S. Department of Energy and has performed energy assessments in a variety of facilities over the course of his career from the commercial, institutional, and industrial sectors. He is currently an Assistant Director for the US Department of Energy’s Industrial Assessment Center Program where he leads industrial energy assessments and trains teams of student engineers in all aspects of how to complete an energy assessment.
Contact
Office Phone:
312-996-5055
Email:
prbrown@uic.edu