Dan Steingart
Getting In Touch
| email: | steingart@che.ccny.cuny.edu |
| phone: | 510 495 6458 |
| office address: | 160 Convent Avenue Steinman Hall 335 Department of Chemical Engineering City College Of New York New York, NY 10031 |
| lab address: | 160 Convent Avenue Steinman Hall 301a Department of Chemical Engineering City College Of New York New York, NY 10031 |
What I get paid to do
Current Position
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering, City College of New York
Founding Member, Energy Institute of the City University New York
Here's how it works: in one hand I hold a bunch of problems, in the other a bunch of tricks, and I generally try to, in a very Edisonian manner, shove one into the other and see what works. This can be a very efficient way of getting to a novel solution, provided one is honest about the outcome.
To date the tricks have been
- printing novel materials,
- creating small, low power, semi-autonomous computers, and
- a humble appreciation of electrochemistry
and the problems have explored
- energy sources for very large and very small devices
- understanding losses in very inefficient, distributed processes and
- putting tiny, cheap computers in (at the time) odd places
Sometimes it works out. Sometimes it doesn't and I either have to find new problems and/or new tricks, and this is exactly half the fun. I am therefore very lucky to be an assistant professor in this fine department at this storied institution.
Why I get paid to do it
Education
University of California, Berkeley, CA
PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, 2006
Dissertation on Printed, On-Chip Electrochemical Storage
University of California, Berkeley, CA
MS in Materials Science and Engineering, 2002
Thesis on Zinc-Air Fuel Cells
Brown University, Providence, RI
ScB with Honors in Engineering, 2000
Work Experience
Senior Applications Engineer, Sentilla, Redwood City, CA - 2008
Developed and implemented pervasive computers for energy management and conservation, from hardware to GUI
Co-founder and CTO, Wireless Industrial Technologies Berkeley, CA 2006 - Present
Began a company using wireless mesh networks to optimize electricity use and minimize emissions in large-scale, distributed primary metals production plants
Researcher, Nanotechnology Research Institute AIST Tsukuba, Japan 2005
Worked on a purely additive process to printed nano-structured and micron-structured conductive and dielectric elements, as well as electrochemical structures
Awards Received
ISSCC Design Award for Picocube - 2008
NSF SBIR Phase 1 Awardee - 2007
Noyce Student Fellow - Intel Corporation - 2003 - 2006
Summer Fellow - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science - 2005
EAPSI Summer Grant Recipient - National Science Foundation - 2005
Cubiciotti Student Award - Electrochemical Society - 2005
Management of Technology Fellowship - University of California, Berkeley - 2002
Jane Lewis Fellowship - University of California, Berkeley - 2000 - 2002