Arun Majumdar: “ARPA-E: Catalyzing Energy Breakthroughs for a Secure American Future”

Watch video of Arun Majumdar, director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E), delivering a lecture titled “ARPA-E: Catalyzing Energy Breakthroughs for a Secure American Future” Nov. 9 in Featheringill Hall.

Majumdar became the first director of ARPA-E, the country’s only agency devoted to transformational energy research and development, in 2009. Prior to joining ARPA-E, he was the Associate Laboratory Director for Energy and Environment at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

The lecture is the second of four scheduled to mark the School of Engineering’s 125th anniversary in 2011-2012. The school’s annual distinguished lecture — The John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture — has been expanded into a special series bringing four notable engineering leaders to campus, one each in October, November, January and March.