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 and computer science. These B.S. 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 U.S. 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:
Peter Adams, Assistant Professor of Civil &     Environmental Engineering and EPP (x8-5624)
Jay Apt, Distinguished Service Professor of EPP;     Executive Director, Carnegie Mellon Electricity     Industry Center (x8-3003)
V.S. Arunachalam, Distinguished Service Professor of     EPP, The Robotics Institute, and Materials Science     and Engineering (on leave)
Alfred Blumstein, University Professor; Professor of     Urban Systems and Operations Research, H. John     Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and EPP (x8-8269)
Kathleen Carley, Professor of EPP/ISRI/Heinz School;     Director, Computational Analysis of Social and     Organization Systems (x8-6016)
Elizabeth Casman, Research Engineer of EPP (x8-3756) 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     (x8-2951)
Otto Davis, University Professor; William W. Cooper     Professor of Economics and Public Policy (x8-8715)
Michael DeKay, Assistant Professor of EPP and H. John     Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management     (x8-1877)
Scott Farrow, Principal Research Engineer, EPP;     Director, Center for the Study and Improvement of     Regulation (on leave)
Paul Fischbeck, Professor of Social and Decision     Sciences and EPP; Acting Head of Social and     Decision Sciences; Director, Center for the Study and     Improvement of Regulation (x8-3240)
Baruch Fischhoff, University Professor; Howard Heinz     Professor in H&SS; Professor of Decision Sciences     and Public Policy; Director, Center for Integrated     Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change     (x8-3246)
Keith Florig, Senior Research Engineer of EPP
    (x8-3754)
David Gerard, Executive Director, Center for the Study     and Improvement of Regulation of EPP (x8-1273)
Alex Hills, Distinguished Service Professor, EPP/SCS (on leave)
David Hounshell, Roderick Professor of Technology and     Social Change; Professor of History and EPP
    (x8-3753)
Marija Ilic, Professor of Electrical and Computer     Engineering and EPP (x8-9520)
David Keith, Assistant Professor of EPP (x8-2678)
Mark Kieler, Assistant Department Head for     Undergraduate Affairs and Lecturer of EPP (x8-3645) Lester Lave, University Professor; James H. Higgins     Professor of Economics; Professor of GSIA and EPP     (x8-8837)
Scott Matthews, Assistant Professor of Civil &     Environmental Engineering and EPP (x8-6218)
Francis McMichael, Emeritus Professor of Civil &     Environmental Engineering and EPP (x8-3865)