contact: 1.810.762.7833
fuelcellinfo@kettering.edu
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GOALS
The Center for Fuel Cell Systems & Powertrain Integration will serve as a leader in the development of fuel cells by providing our faculty and engineering students, as well as manufacturing suppliers and consortium partners, with the opportunity to conduct research, fuel cell testing and evaluation, and participate in the education and training of the future workforce.
Specific goals include:
- Developing world-class undergraduate and Master's degree programs in fuel cell engineering.
- Collaborating with other education and training institutions to develop high-quality educational programs that prepare current and future automotive manufacturing and service technicians for the hydrogen-powered economy.
- Providing leadership for fuel cell systems codes and standards validation for commercial and near-commercial applications.
- Demonstrating and “beta testing” new operational fuel cell systems.
- Coordinating with federal and state agencies to ensure their efforts support the accelerated commercialization of fuel cell power plants.
- Conducting leading-edge research that spans the range of technical challenges to fuel cell commercialization and market acceptance (costs of manufacturing fuel cell systems, safety issues, reliability and infrastructure needs), and technologies likely to drive fuel cell system development (fuel cell membranes, MEMS sensors integrated with electrical signal processing, electric power integration and robotics manufacturing).
- Building and fostering alliances among the world’s leading fuel cell developers, manufacturers, suppliers and customers, as well as federal and state agencies, to support industrial R&D, encourage technology transfer, overcome technical barriers, and speed the commercialization of fuel cell power plants for stationary and mobile applications.
- Serving as an incubator for promising new technologies that could benefit from and be accelerated by tapping into the Center’s R&D, technical support and consortium expertise, eventually spinning off into Kettering University’s adjacent research park.
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