EPP Faculty :: M. Granger Morgan

M. Granger Morgan
	Office: Baker Hall 129  Phone: (412) 268-2672  Email: granger.morgan@andrew.cmu.edu  Assistant: Patti Steranchak, (412) 268-1085

Lord Chair Professor in Engineering; Professor and Department Head, Engineering and Public Policy; Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Heinz College.

Research interests are focused on policy problems in which technical and scientific issues play a central role. Methodological interests include problems in the integrated analysis of large complex systems; problems in the characterization and treatment of uncertainty; problems in the improvement of regulation; and selected issues in risk analysis and risk communication. Application areas of current interest include global climate change; the future of the energy system, especially electric power; risk analysis including risk ranking; health and environmental impacts of energy systems; security aspects of engineered civil systems; national R&D policy; radio interference on commercial airliners; issues of privacy and anonymity; and a number of general policy, management, and manpower problems involving science and technology.

B.A. (Physics) 1963, Harvard College
M.S. (Astronomy and Space Science) 1965, Cornell University
Ph.D. (Applied Physics and Information Science) 1968, University of California, San Diego.

Carnegie Mellon, 1974 -.

Professor Morgan is interested in a wide range of problems in science, technology and public policy. Much of his work has involved the development and demonstration of methods to characterize and analyze uncertainty.

With colleagues in the Climate Decision-Making Center he has addressed a wide range of problems related to climate science and emission abatement, most of which involve decision making under uncertainty. With colleagues in the Electricity Industry Center he is exploring problems such as distributed resources, carbon management, and basic technology research to support clean energy. He has worked extensively in risk analysis, communication and ranking. He is also active in the CCSReg project.

Representative Publications

David G. Victor, M. Granger Morgan, Jay Apt, John Steinbruner, and Katharine Ricke, "The Geoengineering Option," Foreign Affairs, 88(2), 64-76, March/April 2009.

Inés M. Lima Azevedo, M. Granger Morgan and Fritz Morgan, "The Transition to Solid-State Lighting," The Proceedings of the IEEE, 97, pp 481 – 510, March 2009.

M. Granger Morgan, Hadi Dowlatabadi, Max Henrion, David Keith, Robert Lempert, Sandra McBride, Mitchell Small, and Thomas Wilbanks, Best Practice Approaches for Characterizing, Communicating, and Incorporating Scientific Uncertainty in Climate Decisons, U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product 5.2, 87pp, January 2009

M. Granger Morgan and David Keith, "Improving the Way We Think About Projecting Future Energy Use and Emissions of Carbon Dioxide," Climatic Change, 90(3), 189-215, October 2008.

Aimee Curtright, M. Granger Morgan and David Keith, "Expert Assessment of Future Photovoltaic Technology, "Environmental Science & Technology, 42(24), 2008.

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