What is rEPPort?

     rEPPort is an occasional newsletter published by the Department of Engineering and Public Policy (EPP), a department in the engineering college at Carnegie Mellon University.  Patti Steranchak (412+268-1085) is the Managing Editor.  EPP offers joint undergraduate degrees with each of Carnegie Mellon's five traditional engineering departments.  These BS degrees are designed to provide students headed into traditional engineering careers with some additional understanding and skills to deal with problems that involve the relationship between their technologies and the broader society.  At the graduate level, the department offers a research-oriented Ph.D. which focuses on problems in which the technical issues are of central importance.  Doctoral graduates have the equivalent of at least an MS in a traditional technical discipline.  Areas of research activity within the department include:  energy environmental systems, including environmental modeling on problems such as climate change; telecommunications policy with a particular focus on issues related to standards; industrial and manufacturing policy, including issues in flexible manufacturing and robotics; problems in risk analysis, perception and management; the development of computer-based tools to support quantitative policy analysis with special attention to the treatment of uncertainty; technical problems in international peace and security; and selected issues in technical education and the work force. 
     Carnegie Mellon is unique among major US research universities in having developed the ability to support and sustain an interdisciplinary research environment in which joint academic appointments work.  Most EPP faculty hold joint appointments with traditional disciplinary departments.  These appointments bring disciplinary strength to EPP and provide a vehicle by which EPP can involve people all over the Carnegie Mellon campus in technically-focused policy research.

The Faculty in EPP: 
V.S. Arunachalam, Distinguished Service Professor of EPP, The Robotics Institute, and Materials Science and Engineering (x2709)

Alfred Blumstein, University Professor; Professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research, The H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and EPP (x8269) 

Wesley Cohen, Professor of Social and Decision Sciences and EPP (x3226) (currently on leave)

Jared Cohon, President, Carnegie Mellon; Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and EPP (x8-2200)

Cliff Davidson, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and EPP; Director, Environmental Institute (x2951)

Otto Davis, University Professor; William W. Cooper Professor of Economics and Public Policy (x8715)

Michael DeKay, Assistant Professor of EPP and The H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management (x1877)

Urmila Diwekar, Principal Research Engineer, EPP/CEES (x3003)

Hadi Dowlatabadi, Principal Research Engineer, EPP; Director, Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change (x3031)

Scott Farrow, Principal Research Engineer, EPP; Director, Center for the Study and Improvement of Regulation (x1273)

Paul Fischbeck, Associate Professor of Social and Decision Sciences and EPP (x3240)

Baruch Fischhoff, University Professor; Professor of Decision Sciences and Public Policy (x3246)

Richard Florida, Professor, The H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and EPP (x8784)

Keith Florig, Research Engineer, EPP (x3754)

Carol Goldburg, Research Economist, EPP (x8099)

James Goodby, Distinguished Service Professor, Social and Decision Sciences and EPP (x3003) 

Joseph Henry, Visiting Professor, EPP (x2670)

Alex Hills, Vice Provost for Computing Services; Distinguished Service Professor, EPP (x2122)

David Hounshell, Henry Luce Professor of Technology and Social Change; Professor of History and EPP (x3753)

Milind Kandlikar, Research Engineer, EPP (x3001)

Lester Lave, University Professor; James H. Higgins Professor of Economics; Professor of GSIA and EPP (x8837) 

Francis McMichael, The Walter J. Blenko, Sr. Professor of Environmental Engineering; Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and EPP (x3865) 

Caroline Mitchell, Lecturer, EPP (x2670) (currently on leave)