THE BENEFITS OF ES2 MEMBERSHIP

ES2 membership offers unique industry partner benefits:

  • The opportunity to share in the Center’s strategic planning through representation on the Industrial Advisory Board (IAB).
  • Access to a shared pool of research, as well as publications, short courses, electronic systems and databases.
  • The opportunity to conduct exclusive and confidential research through one-on-one partnering.
  • Access to non-exclusive, royalty-free licenses to use or incorporate any research product or invention developed within the Center.
  •  Access to laboratories, research equipment, infrastructure and expertise at Villanova University and all ES2 partner campuses.


Next Steps for Prospective Members

Contact Site Director Alfonso Ortega, PhD, for further details about the Center for Energy-Smart Electronic Systems and to discuss your areas of interest.

If your company’s interests are consistent with the mission and goals of the Center, you will be invited to attend the next biannual ES2 IAB meeting (held at the conclusion of Q2 and Q4) where you can meet the IAB members, university site directors and researchers. You will be asked to sign a confidential non-disclosure agreement prior to the meeting.

Formal membership requires that you sign a membership agreement with Villanova University (acting on behalf of the ES2), detailing the terms and conditions of membership. All companies sign a common agreement—the agreement may not be customized.

Your company can begin active participation in the Center immediately upon signing the membership agreement.

The annual membership fee is $50,000 and entitles you as a member to full privileges including a nonexclusive royalty-free license to ES2-funded university inventions and a role in the selection of research projects.

Membership Agreement

“Through our partnership with ES2, we see an opportunity to test the limits of technology in a lab environment while developing and leveraging the talents of future leaders in this very important and highly competitive field.”
—Richard Craig, Director of Engineering and Operations Support, Verizon Wireless

Director
Alfonso Ortega, PhD
James R. Birle Professor of Energy Technology in the Department of Mechanical Engineering

Phone: (610) 519-7440

ES2 RESEARCHERS

Dr. Alfonso Ortega

Alfonso Ortega, PhD
ES2 Site Director

Dr. Ortega is the James R. Birle Professor of Energy Technology in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is internationally recognized for his work in data center energy and thermal management, electronics cooling, convective heat and mass transfer, experimental methods in thermal sciences and energy technology.

Dr. Gerard F. “Jerry” Jones

Calvin H. Li, PhD

Dr. Li is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Nanoengineering Multiphase/Interfacial Energy Transport Lab. His research areas include experimental two-phase mass and heat transfer at multiscale, numerical simulation of phase change and interfacial phenomena, and machine learning (ML) in understanding the big data for experiment and numerical simulations. Dr. Li teaches a variety of courses in the areas of thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics and sustainability energy.

Dr. Aaron Wemhoff

Aaron Wemhoff, PhD

Dr. Wemhoff is a professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Methods for Systems Analysis Laboratory. He performs research in energy sustainability and teaches courses in the areas of thermodynamics, heat transfer and fluid mechanics. Before joining Villanova University, he spent three years as a staff engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.