Invited Speakers

Rajat S. Ghosh

Senior Project Leader, Sustainable Production Technology Group

Alcoa Inc.

"Cyanide Management in Aluminum Industry via Engineerined Surface Wetland Systems"

Michael Horman

Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering, Director of the Lean & Green Research Initiative

Penn State University

"Lean and Green: Process Improvements for Low Cost Green Buildings"

Click title for presentation! "Lean and Green: Process Improvements for Cost Effective Green Building"

Lester B. Lave

Harry B. & James H. Higgins Professor of Economics & University Professor;

Director, Carnegie Mellon Green Design Initiative; Codirector, Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center

Carnegie Mellon University

"Biofuels in an Oil- and Carbon-Constrained World "

H.Scott Matthews 

Research Director of the Green Design Institute, Associate Professor in the departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy

Carnegie Mellon University

Click title for presentation! "Sustainable Trasnportation Fuels and Infrastructure: A Necessary Dialogue"

Susan Murcott

Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Co-Evolutionary Design for Development: Influences Shaping Engineering Design and Implementation in Nepal and the Global Village "

Click title for presentation! "From Appropriate to Green to Sustainable to Co-evolutionary Design for Development"

Annie Pearce

Assistant Professor, Myers-Lawson School of Construction

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Click title for presentation! "Sustainable Capital Projects: Leapfrogging the First Cost Barrier"

Laura Schaefer

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

University of Pittsburgh

"Distributed Generation: One Example of Environmental and Economic Implications"