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Issue No. 18 Fall 1999
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A
newsletter reporting the activities of the faculty, students
and graduates of the Department of Engineering and Public
Policy in the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon.
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NEW FACULTY JOIN EPP...
David Keith
addressing carbon management and climate issues
David Keith
joined the EPP faculty this fall as an Assistant Professor
to work on issues in atmospheric science, geoengineering,
carbon management and various aspects of global change.
His teaching plans include courses on issues in climate,
weather and public policy and on instrumentation for atmospheric
science.
An experimental
physicist, David did his Ph.D. at MIT during 1987-91.
His thesis involved a direct demonstration of wave-particle
duality through the observation of the diffraction of
atoms by a transmission grating. While at MIT he became
very interested in issues of climate change and atmospheric
science.
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David first joined EPP as a post-doctoral fellow in
1991-2 during which time he worked on geoengineering,
and collaborated with Granger Morgan (EPP/ECE/Heinz)
on a project to perform expert elicitations of 16
leading US climate scientists. In 1992-3, he worked
at the National Center |
David Keith |
for Atmospheric
Research in Boulder, Colorado,
Keith
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Allen
Robinson explores combustion and air pollution
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Allen L. Robinson joined the faculty in November of
1998 in a 50:50 joint appointment as Assistant Professor
in Mechanical Engineering and Engineering and Public
Policy. Allen is an expert in combustion and is working
on a variety of issues such as biomass fuels, particulate
air pollution, and |
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energy policy.
He is also developing courses on air pollution control and
renewable energy technology.
Allen did a BS in Civil Engineering at Stanford, then switched
to Mechanical Engineering at Berkeley, where he completed
a Ph.D. in 1996, working on issues related to the movement
of soil-gases, such as radon, into buildings. From 1996
to 1998, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at the combustion
research facility at Sandia National Laboratories where
he studied a variety of problems related to biomass fuels
including issues related to co-firing biomass with coal.
The
Robinson
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Joint
India-US Meeting Charts Course to Improve Indian Electric
Power System
Abundant reliable
low-cost electric power will be critical to the future of
India. Today, with an installed capacity of about 93,000
MW, India's average per capita consumption is under 400
kW-hr per year, as compared with about 14,000 in the US.
However, at
the moment, technology issues, such as limited supply, are
not the most serious problems faced by the Indian power
system. This was the widely shared conclusion of a meeting
of 22 Indian and US experts in electric power, hosted by
EPP and held at the Arden House on the University of Warwick
campus in Coventry, England. The present institutional arrangements
in India's power sector, and the resulting incentives faced
by different actors of the sector, result in seriously inefficient
and economically dysfunctional behaviors. A major restructuring
of institutional arrangements and incentives is needed,
including the rationalization of tariffs and subsidies,
the introduction of time dependent rates, and the elimination
of operating debts.
India
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