EPP Associate Professor Francisco Veloso won the Decision Sciences Institute's Stan Hardy Award for the “outstanding paper published in 2008 in the field of Operations Management” as co-author of the publication, "ISO 9000 practices and financial performance: A technology coherence perspective," published in the Journal of Operations Management. For more details, please see the MWDSI Spring 2009 Newsletter.
On April 10, EPP/Computer Science Professor Lorrie Faith Cranor will participate in a presentation on study results of an evaluation of the effectiveness of email-based anti-phishing training messages and Carnegie Mellon University vuneralbilty. For more details, visit the April 2 issue of 8.5 x 11 News.
EPP faculty member Lester Lave testified before a US Senate Committee on an amendment requiring retail sellers of electricity to adopt renewable resources for percentages of their electric supply.
Lave urged the committee to encourage competition of alternative technologies to achieve CO2 reduction that could lead to improvement of environmental quality, increased energy security and sustainability, and lowered electricity prices.
EPP PhD candidate Vanessa Schweizer is lead coordinator of Carnegie Mellon's participation in the Pittsburgh 2009 "
Focus the Nation" event held February 4-6. "Focus the Nation" aims to bring national attention to issues related to Climate Change. More details can be found in this February's issue of
The Piper, and a podcast of Schweizer's comments on the event are also available as part of the
University's press release.
US Federal Communications Commisssion (FCC) appoints EPP/ECE Professor Jon Peha as Chief Technologist. Chief Technologist functions as senior advisor to the FCC chairman and commissioners on technology-related items. For more details, see The Institute article, "Mr. Peha Goes to Washington." A warm congratulations to Jon from EPP!
EPP Post-Doctoral Fellow Constantine Samaras (EPP, 2008) placed second in the Student Poster Competition at the Gordon Research Conference on Industrial Ecology for his poster, entitled: "Transforming the automotive fleet and the electricity system: A life cycle assessment of plug-in hybrid vehicles and electricity sector infrastructure."
EPP PhD candidate Leonardo Reyes-Gonzalez and EPP Professor Francisco Veloso's paper "Evaluation of Mexican Research Groups in Physics using an Endogenous Approach" has won the Early Career Paper Competition in the 2008 Europe-Latin America Conference on Science and Innovation Policy.
Carnegie Mellon University and EPP Professor Jon Peha are lead organizers of the "Broadband Census for America," a half-day conference about universal broadband data that will take place on September 26, 2008 in the AAAS Building in Washington DC (home of EPP's Washington Office). The aim of the conference is to assemble state, local and federal officials engaged in gathering and mapping information about broadband availability, competition, speeds, prices and quality of service. Academic researchers will lend their perspective on the importance of universal broadband data.
EPP PhD graduate Jana Milford (EPP, 1988) has been promoted to the rank of full Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Colorado.
EPP PhD candidate Stephen Rose featured in Carnegie Mellon publication The Piper for his astonishing 880-mile hike from Greenville, South Carolina to Carnegie Mellon University. See page 8 of The Piper's October 2008 issue for full story, "Back to School's a Hike for EPP Doctoral Student."
History, EPP, and Heinz School Professor
Joel Tarr is the winner of this year's
Leonardo da Vinci Medal (The Piper, page 11) from the Society for the History of Technology. Carnegie Mellon is the only university to have two recipients of this prestigious award on faculty, as last year's winner was History and EPP professor David Hounshell.
Edward S. Rubin introduces 2008 Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speaker Al Gore on May 19 during the Commencement ceremony. Videos of both Professor Rubin's and former Vice President Gore's speeches are available.
EPP and Mech E professor Edward S. Rubin was among recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize granted to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for work as lead author and coordinating lead author of the IPCC special report on carbon capture and storage. See the story from Carnegie Mellon University's website in January, 2008: Green Gold.
The annual CIT Faculty Award winners have been announced for the 2007-2008 academic year. Among winners were EPP and MechE Professor Edward S. Rubin, who received the "Distinguished Professor of Engineering Award" and EPP and MechE Assistant Professor Jeremy Michalek, who recived the George Tallman Ladd Research Award along with Kenneth Mai (Assistant Professor, ECE). EPP offers congratulations to all CIT Faculty Award winners!
The CIT Faculty Awards recognize faculty members who exhibited excellence in education and research at Carnegie Mellon University's college of engineering. The CIT Faculty Awards Banquet and Celebration will be held on Saturday, April 12, 2008. Awards will be presented at the banquet.
Prof. Jim Corbett (EPP PhD, 1999) and several of his students and
collaborators published two papers on air pollution from ocean going ships
in the December 15 issue of Environmental Science and Technology. One,
featured in the cover photo for the journal is titled "Mortality from Ship
Emissions: A global assessment." The other is titled "Cost-Effectiveness of
Reducing Sulfur Emissions from Ships." Jim is on the faculty of the College
of Marine and Earth Studies at the University of Delaware.
EPP PhD Alumnae Felica Wu was awarded the Chauncey Starr Award for
exceptional contributions to her field of study. Read more.
EPP and CEE Graduate Students Win Prestigious Contest
Shahzeen Attari, Ines Margarida Lima de Azevedo, Benjamin Flath and Constantine Samaras won first-place in a letter-writing competition titled "Tomorrow's Energy Ambassadors, Managers and Scholars". The competition, sponsored by Johnson Controls Inc., called for students to produce a letter for the 2008 presidential candidates asking them to clarify their position on energy and sustainability issues. For more, see the
CIT press release and
winning letter.
EPP PhD student Steve Sheng's Anti-Phishing Phil game was featured on the CMU home page
The IPCC was a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Over the years several EPP faculty have been contributors to IPCC reports. Most recently Professor Ed Rubin (EPP/ME) was a lead author on the special report "Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage."
Paul Parfomak (EPP PhD 1996) featured in IEEE Spectrum piece "From Nerd to Wonk." See:
www.spectrum.ieee.org
Granger Morgan elected to the National Academy of
Sciences for his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
New Degree offering:
MS in Engineering and Technology Innovation Management (ETIM) is a one-year, interdisciplinary professional Master's program in the College of Engineering, administrered by EPP.
Undergraduate Capstone Project Courses interdisciplinary research involving real-world problems.
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