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January 24, 2006
Professor Cliff Davidson, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 1/18/06
Dr. Cliff Davidson is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests and expertise include sustainability as it applies to engineering and the environment; mathematical modeling and measurement of particle dry deposition from the atmosphere onto vegetation, structures, and surrogate surfaces; and use of glacial records to understand historical air pollution trends.
The new Center for Sustainable Engineering is being created by a collaborative research team led by Carnegie Mellon University, The University of Texas at Austin, and Arizona State University. The center, supported by $1.7 million from the National Science Foundation and $350,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency, is designed to help future engineers better manage increased stress on the world’s limited resources.
The Center for Engineering Sustainability plans to help galvanize engineering programs into action. Programs will include holding workshops to improve engineering faculty teaching, creating a Web site with peer-reviewed educational materials about sustainable engineering, and conducting a nationwide survey of sustainable engineering programs and courses to benchmark the status of education in this emerging discipline. The Center’s first workshops are scheduled for July 17-19, 2006, and July 19-21, 2006, at Carnegie Mellon.
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