A New Academic Year: A Note From Scott Institute Leadership
As our community starts the 2018-2019 academic year, we at the Scott Institute for Energy Innovation are happy to extend a warm “welcome” to both new and returning faculty, staff and students. The Institute staff has been busy over the summer getting ready for yet another year of energy-related programming, research/innovation and outreach. Our inaugural class of Scott Institute Energy Fellows is engaged, and we appointed Anna J. Siefken as our first ever Executive Director. Further new developments include:
- Being named an American-Made Network "connector” that supports competitors in the American-Made Solar Prize in partnership with the U.S. DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory;
- The Energy Science, Technology and Policy program graduated its first class of students with Applied Studies degrees; and
- The Center for Cleantech Entrepreneurial Excellence hosted its first series of workshops on Emerging Best Practices for Educating the Next Generation of Cleantech Innovators and Entrepreneurs.
This semester and year, you can look forward to:
- The launch of our inaugural Annual Report highlighting the many energy-related CMU research projects, activities, events and innovations that have occurred in recent years;
- A seminar on Activity-Specific Feedback on an Energy Consumption Study by Dr. Verena Tiefenbeck, who leads the Bits to Energy Lab at ETH Zurich, Switzerland;
- A talk on Nov. 2 by Wiley Editor-in-Chief John Uhlrich; and
- CMU Energy Week, March 25-28, 2019.
We wish you the very best this new academic year and we look forward to many stimulating collaborations and communications.
Warm Regards,
Jay F. Whitacre, Trustee Professor in Energy
Director, Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation
Department of Engineering & Public Policy
Department of Materials Science & Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Anna J. Siefken
Executive Director, Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation
Carnegie Mellon University