The REU Site: Research on Sustainable Energy Technology and Systems (ROSETAS) is a 10-week summer research program for undergraduate students interested in sustainable energy. It is hosted by the Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI), which serves as the nexus for sustainable energy-related research and educational programs at Johns Hopkins University. Projects are available in multiple disciplines within engineering and science. ROSETAS is hosting its final symposium where the participating students will present on the research they have been working on for the summer on July 31 (a Friday) from 9 AM – 2:30 PM in the Bloomberg Student Center room 204 on the Homewood campus. All ROSEI community members (faculty, staff, students) are welcome to attend for all or part of the event. See below for a brief outline of the agenda, a more exact schedule with individual presentation time slots will be added later. You must register by COB on July 28 to be given a lunch.

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ROSEI will be hosting its first bootcamp for incoming PhD students on August 28, meant to provide new students an intro to ROSEI, Hopkins, and associated research resources relevant to PhD students such as high performance computing and the Materials Characterization and Processing Center. The bootcamp will be hosted in the Chesapeake Conference Room at R Labs in R House from 9 AM - 2:30 PM. The agenda (which is subject to change) is listed below, and JHU faculty must register their students by August 24.

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Agenda

• 9-10:30 AM: Introduction to ROSEI and Hopkins, presented by Susanna Thon and Dennice Gayme
  • ROSEI structure and context
  • ROSEI research
  • ROSEI resources for graduate students
  • Student organizations
  • Professionalism and expectations
  • Energy-related courses and programs at Hopkins
• 10:30-10:45 AM: Break
• 10:45-11:30 AM: Current PhD Student Panel: The Student Perspective, presented by current ROSEI PhD students
• 11:30 AM-12:15 PM: Lunch
• 12:15-1:15 PM: High-performance computing at Hopkins, presented by Dennice Gayme and Branko Kosović
  • Setting up an account & accessing Rockfish
  • The JHU Data Repository
  • Wind Farm Database exercise
• 1:15-1:30 PM: Walk to the MCP (Silver Stieff Building)
• 1:30-2:30 PM: Tour and introduction to the Materials Characterization and Processing Center (MCP), presented by Souleymane Diallo

ROSEI will be hosting an information session for undergraduate students who are interested in pursuing JHU’s Energy Minor during the fall semester of 2027. Date and time are TBD. Students who have already declared the minor and those considering will be welcome to attend. Susanna Thon, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the minor for WSE, will lead a discussion with topics ranging from useful resources for pursuing the minor, as well as advice about classes related to energy at Hopkins. She will also lay out how the energy minor works and answer any related questions

Check this page at a later date for more information about the 2027 ROSEI Summit. Click here to read more about the 2026 iteration.

Come join us for ROSEI's annual Earth Day / Birthday Celebration! Check this page at a later date for more information. Click here to read about the 2026 iteration of the event.