Energy Education and Research in the Context of Sustainability
Event details
| Date | 18.10.2012 |
| Hour | 16:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Jefferson Tester, Director of the Cornell Energy Institute, Cornell University |
| Location |
MEB1B10
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Cornell University has placed a major emphasis on sustainability based on three connected themes: energy, environment, and economic development – often referred to as the 3E’s. The Atkinson Center for Sustainable Future and the Sustainable Campus initiatives are core university wide programs aimed at promoting sustainability among faculty and students. The work of the Atkinson Center is focused on sustainability science research connecting faculty across disciplinary and departmental lines to tackle major challenges within the 3 E’s while the Sustainable Campus initiative works to deploy sustainability on campus including a major effort to reduce Cornell’s carbon footprint under President David Skorton’s Climate Action Plan. The Colleges in turn are developing education programs and creating research centers that complement these overarching efforts.
Cornell’s approach to sustainability was largely driven by widespread support from the students and faculty and a committed facilities staff that recognized the impacts that human were having on the earth and wanted to make a difference by working on problems where its diverse skills and capacities could be directed to solutions with a positive outcome. Clearly this resonates with Cornell’s outreach mission as the land grant for the State of New York.
Engaging the next generation talented young engineers and scientists to develop energy sustainable technologies is a core value within Cornell’s sustainability efforts. An important step has been providing relevant and robust education and research programs that promote sustainability literacy emphasizing the multidisciplinary elements of discovering, evaluating and deploying new energy options. In the presentation I will provide context and describe a number of energy education and research programs and centers that have been started in Cornell’s College of Engineering. These will include the Energy Institute itself and its multi-investigator research programs in wind, biofuels and bioenergy, and solar energy. In addition, I will describe a new NSF-supported multidisciplinary graduate education, research and training program in Earth Energy that connects geologic sciences to conventional engineering by emphasizing fundamental and applications of subsurface science and engineering involving three energy topics, unconventional gas, geothermal energy, and carbon capture and sequestration.
Cornell’s approach to sustainability was largely driven by widespread support from the students and faculty and a committed facilities staff that recognized the impacts that human were having on the earth and wanted to make a difference by working on problems where its diverse skills and capacities could be directed to solutions with a positive outcome. Clearly this resonates with Cornell’s outreach mission as the land grant for the State of New York.
Engaging the next generation talented young engineers and scientists to develop energy sustainable technologies is a core value within Cornell’s sustainability efforts. An important step has been providing relevant and robust education and research programs that promote sustainability literacy emphasizing the multidisciplinary elements of discovering, evaluating and deploying new energy options. In the presentation I will provide context and describe a number of energy education and research programs and centers that have been started in Cornell’s College of Engineering. These will include the Energy Institute itself and its multi-investigator research programs in wind, biofuels and bioenergy, and solar energy. In addition, I will describe a new NSF-supported multidisciplinary graduate education, research and training program in Earth Energy that connects geologic sciences to conventional engineering by emphasizing fundamental and applications of subsurface science and engineering involving three energy topics, unconventional gas, geothermal energy, and carbon capture and sequestration.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Francois Marechal <[email protected]>
Contact
- Francois Marechal <[email protected]>