Jeff Funk
Joins Faculty at Kobe
Jeff
Funk (EPP Ph.D. 1985) is Associate Professor of Business
at Kobe University's Research Institute for Economics
and Business Administration in Japan. He has been making
regular visits to Japan for almost 15 years and he has
lived in Japan for a total of 7 years of which the last
5 years have been at Kobe University. His research examines
how firms can create a competitive advantage using technology.
This includes issues of standards, switching costs, product
development, and product platform management, with a focus
on mobile phones and the mobile Internet. His paper entitled
"Concurrent Engineering and the Underlying Structure
of the Design Problem," received an award from the
IEEE Engineering Management Society Award for best paper
published in the 1997 IEEE Transactions on Engineering
Management. His book on the worldwide mobile communication
industry, Competition Between and Within Standards:
The case of mobile phones, is forthcoming in the summer
of 2001 from Palgrave, which is part of the Macmillan
group. He is currently writing a book on the mobile Internet
entitled: The Mobile Internet: How Japan's NTT Docomo
did _ and the rest of the world can - create positive
feedback between mobile contents, users, and phones.
Where Are
They Now?
| EPP
- M.S. Graduate - 1987
Marcus
Simons
Vice President
AKRF, Inc.
117 E. 29th Street
New York, NY 10016
212+340-9790 (tel); 212+447-5546 (fax); marcus_simons@akrf.com
It has
been 12 years since Marcus left EPP. For the last
five years he has been with Allee King Rosen and
Fleming which does most of the big EIS's in New
York. For example, they are now doing an EIS for
the NYC Health Department related to aerial spraying
for the West Nile Virus. Much of their work is related
to new construction, infrastructure, planning, etc.
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| EPP
- Ph.D. Graduate - 1997
Karen
Jenni
Decision Analyst, Geomatrix Consultants
2101 Webster Street, 12th Floor
Oakland, CA 94612
510+663-4275 (tel); 510+663-4141 (fax); KJenni@geomatrix.com
As Geomatrix
Consultants' first "official" decision analyst,
Karen has been charged with developing and expanding
a decision analysis practice linked to Geomatrix's
existing areas of expertise. Geomatrix is a recognized
leader in the fields of environmental engineering
and the earth sciences. They are using decision
modeling and analysis to help clients balance traditional
environmental concerns with financial and business
issues, in areas such as remedial action selection
and design, petroleum transportation, and the development
of subsea production and transportation facilities
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Malaria Workshop
in Switzerland
Malaria
might be the last thing on the mind of most visitors to
senic Switzerland, but it was the top of the agenda for
a workshop in Lausanne, Switzerland on the Contextual Determinants
of Malaria last May. Organized by Elizabeth Casman (EPP)
and Hadi Dowlatabadi (EPP), of EPP's Center for Inte-grated
Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change, the workshop
brought together a distinguished international group of
malariologists, epidemiologists, public health professionals,
health economists, demographers, infectious disease modelers,
climate scientists, and systems specialists.
The
workshop's objective was to rank the factors determining
malaria risk, not a simple task because malaria is a very
complex disease, involving a variety of different strains
of disease parasites, and a variety of different species
of mosquitos, each of which has its own life-cycle, shaped
by different environmental and behavioral factors.
Recent
suggestions in the literature that greenhouse warming might
dramatically expand the global range of malaria were discussed.
Workshop participants concluded that these estimates have
not incorporated most of the key environmental and behavioral
determinants of risk, thereby overstating the contribution
of climate change. Much of the workshop was devoted to comparative
discussions of malaria in major regions of the world by
WHO and other experts. Stable, adequate, properly-targeted
dedication of public resources to anti-malaria programs
emerged repeatedly in these regional analysis as the key
deterrent of malaria today.
Participants
noted that weather variability and events such as monsoons,
seasonal rainfall patterns, El Niño, or La Niña,
act as triggers for malaria outbreaks, affecting the timing
of cases. However, they typically do not change the gross
annual incidence of malaria. The total number of cases is
controlled rather by socio-economic factors which include
the vulnerability of the population to infection by malaria
vectors, and the severity of epidemics is a function of
surveillance and treatment responses of the public health
sector.
The
workshop was sponsored by the ExxonMobil Corporation, the
National Science Foundation, the National Oceanographic
and Atmospheric Administration, the Electric Power Research
Institute, and the American Petroleum Institute.
Corbett -
continued from pg. 5
emissions on
ambient concentrations of sulfur dioxide and sulfate in
the marine environment and in coastal regions. By applying
the SEA emissions data set for SO2 and PM emissions
from ships within a global chemical transport model, this
work concludes that the impact of ship emissions is significant
on SO2 and sulfate concentrations, and on global
indirect radiative forcing.
The
impacts of proposed regulations to control emissions from
new engines are evaluated, with the conclusion that existing
marine engines should be considered if air quality objectives
are to be met within the next twenty years. Engineering
technologies that can be feasibly retrofit on existing engines
are identified and their life-cycle costs are estimated.
An assessment of policy strategies for reducing emissions
from ships is provided.
Work
supported by EPA STAR Fellowship U-915180-01-0, NSF grant
SBR9521914, and Carnegie Mellon. |
