"IAC and the DOE have been critical to help ensure the continued success of local manufacturing by ensuring continued improvement for facilities and utility consumption. Avail Switchgear Systems is proud to have them as partners and aims to continue that partnership to provide a more sustainable business for our local community. The impact of the assessment and involvement from IAC and DOE at our facility is sending ripples of communication for other improvement initiatives and suggestions that help spark further advancement. In terms of the IAC Students, we heavily enjoyed the personnel present at the facility would highly welcome any expressed interest in any positions or potential internships in the future." "IAC and the DOE have been critical to help ensure the continued success of local manufacturing by ensuring continued improvement for facilities and utility consumption. Avail Switchgear Systems is proud to have them as partners and aims to continue that partnership to provide a more sustainable business for our local community. The impact of the assessment and involvement from IAC and DOE at our facility is sending ripples of communication for other improvement initiatives and suggestions that help spark further advancement. In terms of the IAC Students, we heavily enjoyed the personnel present at the facility would highly welcome any expressed interest in any positions or potential internships in the future." "IAC and the DOE have been critical to help ensure the continued success of local manufacturing by ensuring continued improvement for facilities and utility consumption. Avail Switchgear Systems is proud to have them as partners and aims to continue that partnership to provide a more sustainable business for our local community. The impact of the assessment and involvement from IAC and DOE at our facility is sending ripples of communication for other improvement initiatives and suggestions that help spark further advancement. In terms of the IAC Students, we heavily enjoyed the personnel present at the facility would highly welcome any expressed interest in any positions or potential internships in the future." "IAC and the DOE have been critical to help ensure the continued success of local manufacturing by ensuring continued improvement for facilities and utility consumption. Avail Switchgear Systems is proud to have them as partners and aims to continue that partnership to provide a more sustainable business for our local community. The impact of the assessment and involvement from IAC and DOE at our facility is sending ripples of communication for other improvement initiatives and suggestions that help spark further advancement. In terms of the IAC Students, we heavily enjoyed the personnel present at the facility would highly welcome any expressed interest in any positions or potential internships in the future."

"Thank you for bringing the students and performing the study. The ideas your team presented helped us to take a deeper dive on what we do for large scale projects. The return on investment was very helpful when determining what projects we would look at doing first." "Thank you for bringing the students and performing the study. The ideas your team presented helped us to take a deeper dive on what we do for large scale projects. The return on investment was very helpful when determining what projects we would look at doing first." "Thank you for bringing the students and performing the study. The ideas your team presented helped us to take a deeper dive on what we do for large scale projects. The return on investment was very helpful when determining what projects we would look at doing first." "Thank you for bringing the students and performing the study. The ideas your team presented helped us to take a deeper dive on what we do for large scale projects. The return on investment was very helpful when determining what projects we would look at doing first."

"This report has been very comprehensive and an interesting read on my part as one of the suggestions was hydropower that I have not heard about at a Wastewater Treatment Facility. I am very impressed with the report." "This report has been very comprehensive and an interesting read on my part as one of the suggestions was hydropower that I have not heard about at a Wastewater Treatment Facility. I am very impressed with the report." "This report has been very comprehensive and an interesting read on my part as one of the suggestions was hydropower that I have not heard about at a Wastewater Treatment Facility. I am very impressed with the report." "This report has been very comprehensive and an interesting read on my part as one of the suggestions was hydropower that I have not heard about at a Wastewater Treatment Facility. I am very impressed with the report."

"Hi Dr. Sanjeev, Thank you for the work you and your team performed for Melton Machine & Control Company (MMCC). The assessment report for our facility was very comprehensive and outlined very specific and practical ways to save energy. Our personnel that worked with you and your team learned a lot from the process and the assessment report. Subsequent from your visit, MMCC made the decision to build a new facility and relocate. This was a large undertaking and was recently completed this year. Many the recommendations in the assessment were incorporated into the design of the new building. Some of the recommendations implemented include: a) Using a venturi nozzle instead of a compressed air nozzle in our paint booth operation, b) using occupancy sensors in all areas of the building, c) installation of a high efficiency variable air volume (VAV) HVAC system, d) incorporating the ability to redirect outside air for compressor air intake, e) the use of cog belts on motors vs. smooth v-belts, and f) increasing the A/C temperature setpoint in the manufacturing area above 72 degrees Fahrenheit. In addition, we have also been able to incorporate some of your recommendations at our 851 Vossbrink facility as well. Specifically the installation of occupancy sensors in low use areas and the replacement of smooth v-belts with cog belts. We are currently considering replacing our older HVAC units with newer models. Thanks again for performing the audit of our facility and developing the assessment report." "Hi Dr. Sanjeev, Thank you for the work you and your team performed for Melton Machine & Control Company (MMCC). The assessment report for our facility was very comprehensive and outlined very specific and practical ways to save energy. Our personnel that worked with you and your team learned a lot from the process and the assessment report. Subsequent from your visit, MMCC made the decision to build a new facility and relocate. This was a large undertaking and was recently completed this year. Many the recommendations in the assessment were incorporated into the design of the new building. Some of the recommendations implemented include: a) Using a venturi nozzle instead of a compressed air nozzle in our paint booth operation, b) using occupancy sensors in all areas of the building, c) installation of a high efficiency variable air volume (VAV) HVAC system, d) incorporating the ability to redirect outside air for compressor air intake, e) the use of cog belts on motors vs. smooth v-belts, and f) increasing the A/C temperature setpoint in the manufacturing area above 72 degrees Fahrenheit. In addition, we have also been able to incorporate some of your recommendations at our 851 Vossbrink facility as well. Specifically the installation of occupancy sensors in low use areas and the replacement of smooth v-belts with cog belts. We are currently considering replacing our older HVAC units with newer models. Thanks again for performing the audit of our facility and developing the assessment report." "Hi Dr. Sanjeev, Thank you for the work you and your team performed for Melton Machine & Control Company (MMCC). The assessment report for our facility was very comprehensive and outlined very specific and practical ways to save energy. Our personnel that worked with you and your team learned a lot from the process and the assessment report. Subsequent from your visit, MMCC made the decision to build a new facility and relocate. This was a large undertaking and was recently completed this year. Many the recommendations in the assessment were incorporated into the design of the new building. Some of the recommendations implemented include: a) Using a venturi nozzle instead of a compressed air nozzle in our paint booth operation, b) using occupancy sensors in all areas of the building, c) installation of a high efficiency variable air volume (VAV) HVAC system, d) incorporating the ability to redirect outside air for compressor air intake, e) the use of cog belts on motors vs. smooth v-belts, and f) increasing the A/C temperature setpoint in the manufacturing area above 72 degrees Fahrenheit. In addition, we have also been able to incorporate some of your recommendations at our 851 Vossbrink facility as well. Specifically the installation of occupancy sensors in low use areas and the replacement of smooth v-belts with cog belts. We are currently considering replacing our older HVAC units with newer models. Thanks again for performing the audit of our facility and developing the assessment report." "Hi Dr. Sanjeev, Thank you for the work you and your team performed for Melton Machine & Control Company (MMCC). The assessment report for our facility was very comprehensive and outlined very specific and practical ways to save energy. Our personnel that worked with you and your team learned a lot from the process and the assessment report. Subsequent from your visit, MMCC made the decision to build a new facility and relocate. This was a large undertaking and was recently completed this year. Many the recommendations in the assessment were incorporated into the design of the new building. Some of the recommendations implemented include: a) Using a venturi nozzle instead of a compressed air nozzle in our paint booth operation, b) using occupancy sensors in all areas of the building, c) installation of a high efficiency variable air volume (VAV) HVAC system, d) incorporating the ability to redirect outside air for compressor air intake, e) the use of cog belts on motors vs. smooth v-belts, and f) increasing the A/C temperature setpoint in the manufacturing area above 72 degrees Fahrenheit. In addition, we have also been able to incorporate some of your recommendations at our 851 Vossbrink facility as well. Specifically the installation of occupancy sensors in low use areas and the replacement of smooth v-belts with cog belts. We are currently considering replacing our older HVAC units with newer models. Thanks again for performing the audit of our facility and developing the assessment report."

"Received July 1, 2019: Sanjeev, Attached is a summary of our electric usage over the last two and a half years. We implemented several recommendations from the energy audit during June of 2018. As you can see, the savings have been material. Thank you for your help with our energy issues. We would like to continue to work with you on these type of programs in the future. Peter Hofherr --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sanjeev, We are very appreciative of your work with the students on the audit. I thought the team did a great job! We are actively putting together the financing packages for several of the recommendations. Many of the projects are part of our overall sustainability initiative on campus. We would love to continue the relationship as we are always trying to figure out how to do what we do better and more efficiency. If you see opportunities in the future to work with together, will you reach out? Regards, " "Received July 1, 2019: Sanjeev, Attached is a summary of our electric usage over the last two and a half years. We implemented several recommendations from the energy audit during June of 2018. As you can see, the savings have been material. Thank you for your help with our energy issues. We would like to continue to work with you on these type of programs in the future. Peter Hofherr --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sanjeev, We are very appreciative of your work with the students on the audit. I thought the team did a great job! We are actively putting together the financing packages for several of the recommendations. Many of the projects are part of our overall sustainability initiative on campus. We would love to continue the relationship as we are always trying to figure out how to do what we do better and more efficiency. If you see opportunities in the future to work with together, will you reach out? Regards, " "Received July 1, 2019: Sanjeev, Attached is a summary of our electric usage over the last two and a half years. We implemented several recommendations from the energy audit during June of 2018. As you can see, the savings have been material. Thank you for your help with our energy issues. We would like to continue to work with you on these type of programs in the future. Peter Hofherr --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sanjeev, We are very appreciative of your work with the students on the audit. I thought the team did a great job! We are actively putting together the financing packages for several of the recommendations. Many of the projects are part of our overall sustainability initiative on campus. We would love to continue the relationship as we are always trying to figure out how to do what we do better and more efficiency. If you see opportunities in the future to work with together, will you reach out? Regards, " "Received July 1, 2019: Sanjeev, Attached is a summary of our electric usage over the last two and a half years. We implemented several recommendations from the energy audit during June of 2018. As you can see, the savings have been material. Thank you for your help with our energy issues. We would like to continue to work with you on these type of programs in the future. Peter Hofherr --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sanjeev, We are very appreciative of your work with the students on the audit. I thought the team did a great job! We are actively putting together the financing packages for several of the recommendations. Many of the projects are part of our overall sustainability initiative on campus. We would love to continue the relationship as we are always trying to figure out how to do what we do better and more efficiency. If you see opportunities in the future to work with together, will you reach out? Regards, "

"In relation to our audit, we also recommended to the company for a MoIAC student internship to follow up with the implementation of the recommendations. As a result, Austin Laramie, a MoIAC student and at the time also enrolled in Bin Wu’s “Industrial Energy Efficiency and Management (MU IMSE 4580)” class, was employed during the summer by the company: According to the company: “ (the MoIAC student) helped to go through the details of every recommendation on the list. This worked great!” From the student (Sep 25, 2017): "Dr. Wu, The IAC program I was involved in was fantastic experience in a very important area of Industrial Engineering. Learning how to directly identify improvement areas in energy efficiency in a factory was great knowledge that can be used generally wherever my degree takes me in industry. Any time I walk into a new manufacturing facility I can immediately recognize energy that is being wasted or can be more efficiently utilized in the plant. Helping organize reports on the recommendations were also great practical application to showing upper-level management how the energy-savings investment is worth while based on a simple payback period from predicted utility bill savings. Your classes helped me grasp a deeper connection with how all of the units in energy efficiency come together to make calculations a breeze. Before taking your class I was clueless on the difference between a kilowatt and a lumen but now I could present these to a class of my own from all the practical experience and practice. Lastly, I can't thank you enough for helping me connect with Hunter Engineering Company which gave me a paid summer internship experience focusing directly on the subjects we talked about in class and did in IAC. From the start of the summer, I had no problems talking to my boss about lighting, air-conditioning, pneumatic, or other systems that was costing the company thousands of dollars in utility bills per year. I had the chance to represent multiple options for energy-saving improvements to their facility and exactly how much they were projected to save from each opportunity. Overall, the IAC program, your classes, and my internship with Hunter Engineering have all dramatically helped my professional industrial engineering skills to make me a better asset for companies in the future. I cannot thank you enough for your patience and believing in all my potential. Hope to see you soon, Austin Laramie Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering University of Missouri - Columbia"" "In relation to our audit, we also recommended to the company for a MoIAC student internship to follow up with the implementation of the recommendations. As a result, Austin Laramie, a MoIAC student and at the time also enrolled in Bin Wu’s “Industrial Energy Efficiency and Management (MU IMSE 4580)” class, was employed during the summer by the company: According to the company: “ (the MoIAC student) helped to go through the details of every recommendation on the list. This worked great!” From the student (Sep 25, 2017): "Dr. Wu, The IAC program I was involved in was fantastic experience in a very important area of Industrial Engineering. Learning how to directly identify improvement areas in energy efficiency in a factory was great knowledge that can be used generally wherever my degree takes me in industry. Any time I walk into a new manufacturing facility I can immediately recognize energy that is being wasted or can be more efficiently utilized in the plant. Helping organize reports on the recommendations were also great practical application to showing upper-level management how the energy-savings investment is worth while based on a simple payback period from predicted utility bill savings. Your classes helped me grasp a deeper connection with how all of the units in energy efficiency come together to make calculations a breeze. Before taking your class I was clueless on the difference between a kilowatt and a lumen but now I could present these to a class of my own from all the practical experience and practice. Lastly, I can't thank you enough for helping me connect with Hunter Engineering Company which gave me a paid summer internship experience focusing directly on the subjects we talked about in class and did in IAC. From the start of the summer, I had no problems talking to my boss about lighting, air-conditioning, pneumatic, or other systems that was costing the company thousands of dollars in utility bills per year. I had the chance to represent multiple options for energy-saving improvements to their facility and exactly how much they were projected to save from each opportunity. Overall, the IAC program, your classes, and my internship with Hunter Engineering have all dramatically helped my professional industrial engineering skills to make me a better asset for companies in the future. I cannot thank you enough for your patience and believing in all my potential. Hope to see you soon, Austin Laramie Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering University of Missouri - Columbia"" "In relation to our audit, we also recommended to the company for a MoIAC student internship to follow up with the implementation of the recommendations. As a result, Austin Laramie, a MoIAC student and at the time also enrolled in Bin Wu’s “Industrial Energy Efficiency and Management (MU IMSE 4580)” class, was employed during the summer by the company: According to the company: “ (the MoIAC student) helped to go through the details of every recommendation on the list. This worked great!” From the student (Sep 25, 2017): "Dr. Wu, The IAC program I was involved in was fantastic experience in a very important area of Industrial Engineering. Learning how to directly identify improvement areas in energy efficiency in a factory was great knowledge that can be used generally wherever my degree takes me in industry. Any time I walk into a new manufacturing facility I can immediately recognize energy that is being wasted or can be more efficiently utilized in the plant. Helping organize reports on the recommendations were also great practical application to showing upper-level management how the energy-savings investment is worth while based on a simple payback period from predicted utility bill savings. Your classes helped me grasp a deeper connection with how all of the units in energy efficiency come together to make calculations a breeze. Before taking your class I was clueless on the difference between a kilowatt and a lumen but now I could present these to a class of my own from all the practical experience and practice. Lastly, I can't thank you enough for helping me connect with Hunter Engineering Company which gave me a paid summer internship experience focusing directly on the subjects we talked about in class and did in IAC. From the start of the summer, I had no problems talking to my boss about lighting, air-conditioning, pneumatic, or other systems that was costing the company thousands of dollars in utility bills per year. I had the chance to represent multiple options for energy-saving improvements to their facility and exactly how much they were projected to save from each opportunity. Overall, the IAC program, your classes, and my internship with Hunter Engineering have all dramatically helped my professional industrial engineering skills to make me a better asset for companies in the future. I cannot thank you enough for your patience and believing in all my potential. Hope to see you soon, Austin Laramie Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering University of Missouri - Columbia"" "In relation to our audit, we also recommended to the company for a MoIAC student internship to follow up with the implementation of the recommendations. As a result, Austin Laramie, a MoIAC student and at the time also enrolled in Bin Wu’s “Industrial Energy Efficiency and Management (MU IMSE 4580)” class, was employed during the summer by the company: According to the company: “ (the MoIAC student) helped to go through the details of every recommendation on the list. This worked great!” From the student (Sep 25, 2017): "Dr. Wu, The IAC program I was involved in was fantastic experience in a very important area of Industrial Engineering. Learning how to directly identify improvement areas in energy efficiency in a factory was great knowledge that can be used generally wherever my degree takes me in industry. Any time I walk into a new manufacturing facility I can immediately recognize energy that is being wasted or can be more efficiently utilized in the plant. Helping organize reports on the recommendations were also great practical application to showing upper-level management how the energy-savings investment is worth while based on a simple payback period from predicted utility bill savings. Your classes helped me grasp a deeper connection with how all of the units in energy efficiency come together to make calculations a breeze. Before taking your class I was clueless on the difference between a kilowatt and a lumen but now I could present these to a class of my own from all the practical experience and practice. Lastly, I can't thank you enough for helping me connect with Hunter Engineering Company which gave me a paid summer internship experience focusing directly on the subjects we talked about in class and did in IAC. From the start of the summer, I had no problems talking to my boss about lighting, air-conditioning, pneumatic, or other systems that was costing the company thousands of dollars in utility bills per year. I had the chance to represent multiple options for energy-saving improvements to their facility and exactly how much they were projected to save from each opportunity. Overall, the IAC program, your classes, and my internship with Hunter Engineering have all dramatically helped my professional industrial engineering skills to make me a better asset for companies in the future. I cannot thank you enough for your patience and believing in all my potential. Hope to see you soon, Austin Laramie Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering University of Missouri - Columbia""

""Thank you very much for this report. ... I am quite impressed with the comprehensiveness of your study and recommended actions. I will be sure we get our team involved with evaluating this report and taking actions to improve our energy usage performance. ... Thanks again" (March 9, 2016). "The work you carried out was so relevant and useful, that it has inspired me to initiate a internship program here at our company." (April 6, 2017)." ""Thank you very much for this report. ... I am quite impressed with the comprehensiveness of your study and recommended actions. I will be sure we get our team involved with evaluating this report and taking actions to improve our energy usage performance. ... Thanks again" (March 9, 2016). "The work you carried out was so relevant and useful, that it has inspired me to initiate a internship program here at our company." (April 6, 2017)." ""Thank you very much for this report. ... I am quite impressed with the comprehensiveness of your study and recommended actions. I will be sure we get our team involved with evaluating this report and taking actions to improve our energy usage performance. ... Thanks again" (March 9, 2016). "The work you carried out was so relevant and useful, that it has inspired me to initiate a internship program here at our company." (April 6, 2017)." ""Thank you very much for this report. ... I am quite impressed with the comprehensiveness of your study and recommended actions. I will be sure we get our team involved with evaluating this report and taking actions to improve our energy usage performance. ... Thanks again" (March 9, 2016). "The work you carried out was so relevant and useful, that it has inspired me to initiate a internship program here at our company." (April 6, 2017)."

"Dr. Wu, It was truly a pleasure to speak with you again. Please find the attached document which demonstrates we have reduced our KWH consumption by 13.9% (while producing more product) since your visit. Thanks again for your assistance and don’t hesitate to call if you need any additional data. Jason C. Hamblen Ring Container Technologies Saint Joseph, MO" "Dr. Wu, It was truly a pleasure to speak with you again. Please find the attached document which demonstrates we have reduced our KWH consumption by 13.9% (while producing more product) since your visit. Thanks again for your assistance and don’t hesitate to call if you need any additional data. Jason C. Hamblen Ring Container Technologies Saint Joseph, MO" "Dr. Wu, It was truly a pleasure to speak with you again. Please find the attached document which demonstrates we have reduced our KWH consumption by 13.9% (while producing more product) since your visit. Thanks again for your assistance and don’t hesitate to call if you need any additional data. Jason C. Hamblen Ring Container Technologies Saint Joseph, MO" "Dr. Wu, It was truly a pleasure to speak with you again. Please find the attached document which demonstrates we have reduced our KWH consumption by 13.9% (while producing more product) since your visit. Thanks again for your assistance and don’t hesitate to call if you need any additional data. Jason C. Hamblen Ring Container Technologies Saint Joseph, MO"