News Updates -
2009
Sep 2009
EPP Department Head and CCSReg Director Granger Morgan spoke to International Pittsburgh Coal Conference attendees at the Westin Convention Center, Downtown Pittsburgh on Sept 21 about the necessity for the US and coal industry to begin serious research on the use of "clean coal" to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 80 percent by 2050. For more details, see the Tribune Review article on Granger's presentation.
Sep 2009
EPP and SDS professor Baruch Fischhoff will join conference discussion in an event hosted by Carnegie Mellon in celebration of the G-20 Pittsburgh Summit. The conference entitled, "Renewing Globalization in a Post-Crisis World: The Future of the G20 Agenda," with also feature other government, business, policy, and education leaders, and is slated for September 23, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. in Rangos Hall, University Center.
Sep 2009
On September 21, 2009, College of Engineering Dean Pradeep Khosla and University Professor and EPP Department Head M. Granger Morgan will host Newsweek/MSNBC Political Editor Howard Fineman and reporters from The Wall Street Journal and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for a discussion entitled: 'How Journalists Plan To Cover the G-20' (11:30 AM-12:30 PM, Singleton Room, Roberts Engineering Hall)
Sep 2009
Cliff Davidson, EPP and CEE professor and founding director of Carnegie Mellon's Center for Sustainable Engineering, has been organizing workshops globally to educate engineers and managers about the importance of engineering and sustainability. Click here for more.
Aug 2009
EPP Department Head M. Granger Morgan was selected to receive the 2009 Distinguished Educator Award by the Society for Risk Analysis. The award will be presented during the SRA Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland in December 2009. Warm congratulations to Granger from all of EPP!
Aug 2009
Baruch Fischhoff, Howard Heinz University Professor in EPP/SDS, is the chair of a new National Research Council Committee on Behavioral and Social-Science Research to Improve Intelligence Analysis for National Security. Supported by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the committee is charged with reviewing the science regarding analytical approaches the intelligence community could use and the organizational processes needed to support them. Full story found here.
Apr 2009
Cliff Davidson, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy, has been awarded Carnegie Mellon's William H. and Frances S. Ryan Award for Meritorious Teaching for 2009. Congratulations, Cliff!
Apr 2009
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 vulnerability. For more details, visit the April 2 issue of 8.5 x 11 News.
Mar 2009
EPP and ECE faculty Marija Illic has been named director of Carnegie Mellon's new Electric Energy Systems Group (EESG), initiating outreach and research to improve the nation's $26 billion electric energy system.
Visit the EESG's website:
http://www.eesg.ece.cmu.edu
Mar 2009
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!
Mar 2009
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.
Mar 2009
Download the EPP Policy Brief "Cap and Trade is Not Enough: Improving US Climate Policy."
Feb 2009
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.
Undergraduate Capstone Project Courses
Jan 2009
Interdisciplinary research involving real-world problems.
Topics and presentation schedules.
