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, 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) 

Jared Cohon, President, Carnegie Mellon (x8-2200) 

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

Otto Davis, 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, Senior Research Engineer, EPP (x3003) 

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

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

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

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

Keith Florig, Research Engineer, EPP (x3754) 

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

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

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

Milind Kandlikar, Research Engineer, EPP (x3001) 

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

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

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

Sue McNeil, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and EPP (x5675) 

Benoît Morel, Senior Lecturer of EPP and Physics (x3758)

Granger Morgan, Head, EPP, Lord Chair Professor of Engineering, Professor, EPP/ECE/Heinz (x2672)

Indira Nair, Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Affairs and Associate Professor, EPP (x3645)

Spyros Pandis, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and EPP, (x3531) 

Jon Peha, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and EPP (x7126) (currently on leave) 

Henry Piehler, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and EPP (x2674) 

James Risbey, Research Engineer, EPP (x3001) 

Edward Rubin, The Alumni Professor of Environmental Engineering and Science; Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Studies (x5897) 

Marvin Sirbu, Professor of EPP, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Industrial Administration (x3436) 

Mitchell Small, Associate Department Head for Graduate Affairs for EPP and Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and EPP (x8782) 

Joel Tarr, The Richard S. Caliguiri Professor of Urban Studies, and Professor of EPP (x2609) 

Herb Toor, Emeritus Mobay Professor of Chemical Engineering and EPP (x2225) 

Robert White, Head and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of EPP (x7400) 

Adjunct Faculty: 
Bruce Abramson, Adjunct Associate Professor (Gordian Solutions, Inc.) 

Bruce Berkowitz, Adjunct Professor (George Washington University) 

Luis Cifuentes, Adjunct Assistant Professor (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile) 

Max Henrion, Adjunct Professor (Lumina Decision Systems, Inc.) 

Jayant Kalagnanam, Adjunct Assistant Professor (IBM Thomas J. Watson Lab) 

David Keith, Adjunct Assistant Professor (Harvard University) 

Greg McRae, Adjunct Professor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 

Steve Miller, Adjunct Associate Professor (RWD Technologies, Inc.) 

Samuel Morris, Adjunct Professor (Brookhaven National Laboratories) 

Anand Patwardhan, Adjunct Assistant Professor (IIT Bombay, India) 

William Schell, Adjunct Professor (University of Girona, Spain) 

Thomas Songer, Adjunct Assistant Professor (University of Pittsburgh) 

Charles Wiecha, Adjunct Associate Professor (Lotus Development Corp.) 

Xiao-lin Xi, Adjunct Assistant Professor (NRCSTD, China) 

Lan Xue, Adjunct Assistant Professor (Tsinghua Univ., China) 

Staff Members: 
Mike Berkenpas, Project Engineer (x1008) 
Gloria Blake, Secretary (x6115) 
Elizabeth Casman, Research Associate (x3756) 
Alexandra Carr, DC Office Director (202-326-6238) 
Tracy Farbacher, Secretary for Global Change Center (x1087) 
Marilyn Jameson, Secretary (x2670) 
Karen Kietzke, Research Programmer (x2673) 
Victoria Massimino, Administrative Coordinator, Graduate Coordinator for Enrollment (x1462) 
Denise Murrin-Macey, Business Mngr., Grad. Coord. for Adm. (x3755) 
Loraine Nagy, Secretary (x2671) 
Cathy Ribarchak, Secretary/Receptionist (x2670) 
Elena Shevliakova, Post-doctoral Fellow (x3756) 
Patti Steranchak, Assistant to the Department Head (x1085) 
Janet Stocks, Associate Director of Global Change Center (x2678) 

For further information contact: 
     Department of Engineering and Public Policy 
     Carnegie Mellon University 
     Pittsburgh, PA  15213 
     telephone:  412-268-2670; fax:  412-268-3757 
     http://www.epp.cmu.edu/home.html