UMD departments and the peer-institution network

CECD is housed in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the A. James Clark School of Engineering. This page documents the Center's UMD home, its educational programs in Energetic Concepts, partnerships with the College of Southern Maryland and the Do Good Institute, and the international university network represented at CECD symposia.

Host institution

University of Maryland.

University of Maryland

CECD draws faculty and laboratories from across the Clark School: Mechanical Engineering (host), Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, the Fischell Department of Bioengineering, and Materials Science. The 2009 brain-injury collaboration extended that reach to the UMD School of Medicine in Baltimore, with Prof. Gary Fiskum and Dr. Rao Gullapalli.

Affiliated laboratories include the MEMS and Microsystems Laboratory and Maryland Microfluidics Laboratory under Prof. Don DeVoe, the Dynamic Effects Laboratory under Prof. William Fourney, the Multi-scale Measurements Laboratory under Dr. Hugh Bruck, the Vibrations Laboratory under Prof. Bala Balachandran, the Ballard Power Fuel Cell Systems Laboratory under Dr. Gregory Jackson, and the CALCE Test Services and Failure Analysis Laboratories under Prof. Michael Pecht. The UMD–NIST Co-Laboratory for Nanoparticle Based Manufacturing and Metrology is directed by Prof. Michael Zachariah.

By the time of the 2009 Maryland Senate resolution honoring founding director Prof. Davinder K. Anand, the Center had supported 11 PhD and 33 Masters students.

  • Hosting school

    Clark School of Engineering

  • Host department

    Mechanical Engineering

  • Graduate Certificate

    4 courses · 12 credits

  • Funded grad students

    11 PhD + 33 MS by 2009

College of Southern Maryland

College of Southern Maryland.

CECD's MOU with CSM dates to 2004, alongside the Southern Maryland Initiative for Energetic Capability Development. The biennial National Capital Region Energetics Symposium has been held at CSM's La Plata campus, including the 2011 edition with 150 participants and a keynote from Dr. Arun Seraphin of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

In Spring 2017, CECD funded a CSM social-entrepreneurship course taught by Thomas Luginbill, Director of the CSM Entrepreneur and Innovation Institute. CECD covered student tuition, fees, and textbooks; the NEILOM Foundation supplied a $1,500 first-place and $500 second-place prize pool. The Entrepreneurship in Southern Maryland Challenge final on May 11, 2017 awarded first place to Kaelyn Ching and Jordan Johnson for their work with Farming4Hunger; second to Caryn Fossile, Jeremy Forris, and Jordon Gandee for a public-service announcement video on the Southern Maryland Center for Independent Living.

More than $800,000 in free CECD-supported courses for NAVSEA Indian Head personnel has been delivered at CSM and UMD over the life of the partnership.

UMD School of Public Policy

Do Good Institute.

CECD's Engineering for Social Change course was built in collaboration with Prof. Robert T. Grimm, Jr., inaugural Levenson Family Chair in Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership and founding Director of the Do Good Institute.

Anand and Hazelwood published Engineering for Social Change Revisited in 2023, deposited in the UMD DRUM repository. Co-instruction at the inception of the course came from Jennifer Littlefield, then Director of College Park Scholars Public Leadership.

LMU
Munich

Energetic Materials Synthesis Laboratory, LMU Munich.

Prof. Thomas M. Klapötke, Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, joined CECD as a Visiting Professor on February 1, 2009.

Klapötke's laboratory has synthesized roughly 1,000 new molecules including more than 100 new energetic materials. He has worked alongside NSWC Indian Head, the Army Research Laboratory, the Energetics Technology Center, and CECD on synthesis and characterization of advanced energetics, including the 2011 Synthesis of Advanced Energetic Materials workshop co-hosted with James Short and David Chavez of Los Alamos.

Convenings

Institutions represented at CECD symposia.

2010

Hong Kong Workshop

Co-hosted with City University of Hong Kong. US delegation led by Anand: Short, Pecht, Zachariah, Eichhorn, Bruck, Kavetsky (ETC). Chinese participants from CAEP Mianyang, Beijing Institute of Technology, and Nanjing UST. Seoul National University from Korea.

2011

Synthesis of Advanced Energetic Materials

Co-hosted with LMU Munich (Klapötke) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (Chavez). Participants from the United States, Sweden, France, Germany, Russia, and the Czech Republic.

2011

NCRES at CSM La Plata

150 participants. Speakers from NSWC IH, ARL, Penn State, BAE Systems, Aerojet, Pacific Scientific, Digital Solid State Propulsion. Keynote by Dr. Arun Seraphin, White House OSTP.

2012

Strategic Materials Symposium

David Cammarota (OSD), Andy Davis (MolyCorp), Greg Jackson (CECD), Chris Guzy (Ballard Power), Robert Moore (Virginia Tech), Kamen Nechev (Saft Batteries).

2013

Critical Materials Workshop

Held at Argonne National Laboratory, June 6–7, 2013. Participants from 12 states and DC.

2014

Autonomy Symposium

Anand, Balachandran, Hazelwood, Short, Firebaugh, and UMD Clark School Dean Darryll Pines, with Delegate John Bohanan.

2016

Data-Driven Design Symposium

Organized by Prof. Mark Fuge. Speakers included Mary Cummings of Duke and Richard Malak of NSF.

Full symposium archive on the symposia page.