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Alethea Sethman: Energy and You!

Energy challenges define our world. From global competition and lightning-quick advances in technology to climate change and fossil fuel depletion, crises in production and consumption threaten our…

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Saleem H. Ali: Elements of Power: How Engineering and Policy rely on the Periodic Table

In June 2019, the U.S. government published a strategy to assess critical minerals supply security. Much of the focus of this effort was on the minerals needed for U.S. defense and manufacturing…

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Julia Maresca: Engineering responses to emerging antibiotic-resistant diseases

Antibiotics have, over the past hundred years, dramatically changed not just human health, but also animal health and agricultural practices. However, many diseases are now resistant to commonly-used…

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A.R. Siders: You can build it — but is it legal? Engineering and law solutions to climate adaptation

Climate change demands innovative ways to engineer and design infrastructure. Sometimes these innovative solutions, however, are stymied by laws. Floating houses in flood-prone areas must meet…

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James Corbett: Decarbonizing Transportation Requires Rethinking Freight Systems and Passenger Mobility

Any successful strategies to achieve real and transforming energy conservation and GHG reduction targets must engage new technologies, alternative energies, modal infrastructure redesign, and…

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Energy & Environmental Policy—welcome fall 2020 students

Dr. Ismat Shah welcomes students admitted to the Energy and Environmental Policy graduate program for fall 2020.

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