Cristián Cárdenas-Lailhacar, Ph.D.

Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering

University of Florida

 

 

Publications

Conferences

International Industrial Energy Consulting CHILE

Courses

Professional Activities

UF – IAC Industrial Assessment Center

 

 

cardenas

 

SAINT GASPAR COLLEGE

     Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry

     Extra Certificate in Chemical Physics

     Quantum Theory Project

     University of Florida, 1998

     Office: 415 Weil Hall
     Address: 303 Weil Hall

     P.O. Box 116595

     Gainesville, FL 32611-6595
     Phone: (352) 392-1464 Ext. 2009
     Fax: (352) 392-3537
     E-Mail:
cardenas@ise.ufl.edu


Recent Awards:

-      Honorary Professor - Profesor Honorario

Escuela de Postgrado – Graduate School

      Universidad Nacional Daniel Alcidez Carrión – PERU. November 20, 2007

 

-      Honorary Professor - Profesor Honorario

      Universidad Privada del Norte – PERU. September 28, 2005

 

-      Siemens’ Program Scholarship Award

      The Foundation of the Association of Energy Engineers – USA. September 8, 2005


 

Teaching:

 EIN 4321: Industrial Energy Management

 

EIN 3314C: Work Design and Human Factors

 

ESI 4567C: Matrix & Numerical Methods in Systems Engineering

New Courses

 EIN 4321: History of Science and Technology

 

 ESI 6912 & EIN 4905: International Industrial Energy Consulting   (CHILE)


Research Interests:

Energy Management: Industrial, Commercial, and Residential Buildings, Design & Build Software to Account for Energy Consumption and Savings in Industry. International Energy Use, Policies, Conservation, and Collaboration.

Industrial Processes: Optimization, Simulation, Industrial and Quantum Correlation, or: The MACRO vs the micro.

Optimization: Local and Global Minimum (reference states), Maxima, Evolution (time processes), Transition and Steady State Theory, Materials (solid quantum state), Nano-Systems and Applications (Nano-Technology).


Recent Publications:

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:

 

Cristian Cardenas-Lailhacar and Michael C. Zerner, “Finding Transition States Using the LTP Algorithm” in Biocomputing, Chapter 6. P.M. Pardalos and J. Principe Editors. Kluwer Academic Publishers. The Netherlands, 2002.

 

Cristian Cardenas-Lailhacar,Hardness and The Potential Energy Function in Internal Rotations: A Generalized Symmetry Adapted Interpolation Procedure”,  in Biocomputing, Chapter 14. P.M. Pardalos and J. Principe Editors. Kluwer Academic Publishers. The Netherlands, 2002.

SELECTED PAPERS:

 

Cristian Cardenas-Lailhacar, Shankar Venkat, Diane Schaub, Barney Capehart, Lynne Capehart, and Klaus Pawlik, “A Case Study for Energy Auditing Using an Interactive Energy Balance (Part Three of a Series)”. Strategic Planning for Energy and the Environment. Vol. 25, No. 1, page 34. Lilburn-Georgia, 2005.

 

H. Serrano, E. Corrochano, J. Lescano, D. Schaub, and C. Cardenas-Lailhacar, “Energy Savings in the Citrus Industry: Proposed Solutions”. 2003 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (ACEEE) international conference proceedings. New York, July 29th – August 1st, 2003.  

 

Cristian Cardenas-Lailhacar, “New Interactive Tools in Energy Auditing.” Invited paper to the AEE's annual Business Energy Solutions Conference & Expo (BESE). Orlando, Florida, November 20-21, 2002.

 

Cristian Cardenas-Lailhacar, “Capacitance, Hardness and the Potential Energy Function in Internal Rotations”. In preparation.

Shiva Krishnamurthy, Cristian Cardenas-Lailhacar, and Diane Schaub, “An Interactive Energy Balance: A Case Study. ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry”. Tarrytown, New York, July 2001.

Cristian Cardenas-Lailhacar and Michael C. Zerner, “A Generalized Symmetry Adapted Interpolation Procedure for Finding Transition States in Internal Rotations”. Int. J. Quantum Chem. 75, 563 (1999).

Cristian Cardenas-Lailhacar, “Transition State Search and Geometry Optimization in Chemical Reactions”. Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida. August 1998.