Cohon Providing Security
Advice
Carnegie
Mellon President Jared L. Cohon (CEE/EPP) has been appointed to the
national Homeland Security Advisory Council. The Council provides advice
to President Bush on “developing and coordinating the implementation
of a comprehensive national strategy to secure the United States from
terrorist threats or attacks.” Among its responsibilities the Council
recommends “ways to improve coordination, cooperation, and communication,”
collects “scholarly research, technological advice, and information
concerning processes and organizational management practices…”
and provides advice on “measures to detect, prepare for, prevent,
protect against, respond to, and recover from terrorist threats or attacks
within the United States.”
Council members are drawn from state
and local government, the private sector, education and public policy,
and nonprofit organizations.
Cohon recently completed his tenure
as chairman of the federal Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.
Where Are They Now?
| EPP - Ph.D.
Graduate - 1996
Sharon Jones
Associate Professor
Bachelor of Arts in Engineering Program Lafayette University
Easton, PA 18042 (610) 330-5410; jonessa@lafayette.edu
In Fall 2002,
Sharon Jones started a new position at Lafayette College
where she is the engineering and public policy professor
(EPP) in an undergraduate program that provides a bridge
between liberal arts and engineering. The graduates of the
B.A. Engineering Program are described as “broad thinkers
who value their engineering fundamentals, but prefer careers
in management and policy analysis.” Sharon is working
on developing the College's environmental policy and GIS
curricula. |
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| .EPP - Ph.D.
Graduate - 1987
Frank Ferrante
Independent Consultant and
Associate Faculty, Johns Hopkins University 5122 Bradford
Court Annandale, VA 22003 (703) 338-4114; ferrante_39@yahoo.com
Frank works on
a broad set of problems in telecommunications and policy.
He retired in early 2000 after 20 years of service with
MITRE Corporation and Mitretek Systems, Inc. Following his
retirement, Frank assisted in founding a small information
trusted computer service security firm, ComCert, Inc. He
serves as chair of the IEEE-USA’s Medical Technology
Policy Committee and as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Computer
Society’s ITProfessional Magazine. As Associate Faculty,
he teaches telecommunications at Johns Hopkins University. |
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EPP Faculty Organize Major
Particulate Conference
Three
EPP faculty members, Cliff Davidson (CEE/EPP), Spyros Pandis (ChemE/EPP),
and Allen Robinson (MechE/ EPP), played a central role in organizing the
international conference “Particulate Matter: Atmospheric Sciences,
Exposure, and the Fourth Colloquium on PM and Human Health” held
at the Hilton Hotel in Pittsburgh on March 31-April 4, 2003. The conference
was hosted by the American Association of Aerosol Research and involved
568 attendees. There were 100 invited talks and 388 poster presentations.
Peter Adams (CEE/EPP) gave a plenary
lecture on the climatic effects of airborne particles, and Lester Lave
(GSIA/ EPP/Heinz) gave a plenary talk summarizing the session on relations
between air quality, energy use, and economic development. Carnegie Mellon’s
President Jared Cohon (CEE/ EPP) gave the dinner talk.
Papers presented at the conference
will be published in special issues of five leading journals in the air
quality field.
NETL Makes
IECM Models Available On-line
The
family of Integrated Environmental Control Models (IECM) developed in
the Department of Engineering and Public Policy by Edward Rubin (EPP/MechE)
and his colleagues and students is now available on-line from DoE’s
National Energy Technology Laboratory at www.iecm-online.com/index.html.
As NETL explains “the capability
to estimate the performance and costs of advanced environmental control
systems for coal and gas fired electric power plants is critical to a
variety of planning and analysis requirements…” The ICEM models
provide “an up-to-date capability for analyzing a variety of pre-combustion,
combustion, and post-combustion options in an integrated framework [including]
advanced emission control and conventional post-combustion technologies
for nitrogen oxide, particulates, sulfur dioxide, and mercury control.”
Widely used in industry and across
the broader research community, the models also continue to be used in
a number of ongoing research in EPP. In addition, Rubin and his co-workers
are adding technologies for carbon dioxide control.
Global Change
and Air Quality
The
EPA has awarded Peter Adams (CEE/EPP) and Spyros Pandis (ChemE/EPP) a
$900,000 contract for a three-year study of the possible impacts of global
change on U.S. air quality.
Concentrations of atmospheric ozone
and particulate matter (PM) are sensitive to a variety of meteorological
factors such as wind speed, temperature, cloudiness and precipitation
that govern the emissions, transport, chemistry and fate of atmospheric
pollutants. For example, emissions of isoprene, a hydrocarbon emitted
by vegetation that is a natural ozone precursor, increase with temperature.
The EPA-supported project will combine
regional and global climate and chemistry models to simulate a range of
future climate and emissions scenarios. The goals of the study are to
identify the most important physical processes linking climate and air
quality, assess the magnitude of these effects, and make recommendations
on whether and how such effects should be incorporated into long-term
EPA air quality planning. |
