Mechanical and Industrial Engineering doctoral student and ELEVATE affiliate Yiwen Wang was recently recognized as a poster competition winner for her work investigating technological change in clean energy at the Clean Energy Education and Empowerment’s (C3E) Women in Clean Energy Symposium. The Nov. 2 event was hosted by Texas A&M University. 

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The C3E symposium is an annual event co-hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy, MIT Energy Initiative, Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy and the Texas A&M Energy Institute to gather women professionals in the clean energy field and spotlight their achievements. The symposium attracts more than 100 female clean energy leaders from academia, business and government every year; about 30 students and early-career researchers from prominent institutions across the country are invited to the poster competition. 

Wang uses wind energy as a test case to see how relatedness between technologies can inform subsidy policies and accelerate cost reductions of emerging renewable technologies. Her winning poster is titled “Characterizing relatedness between offshore and onshore wind energy using patent analysis.”