Rubin awarded the 2020 ASME Dixy Lee Ray Award

EPP Professor Edward Rubin has been awarded the 2020 Dixy Lee Ray Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in recognition of his extensive career of achievements and contributions in environmental engineering. First established in 1998, the award honors Dixy Lee Ray’s advocacy for the development of technologies in the broad field of environmental protection that serve and aid humanity.

Since joining Carnegie Mellon in 1969 as an assistant professor, Rubin has pioneered the field that today is called Energy and the Environment. Combining his interest in advanced energy systems and the impact of air pollution from energy use, Rubin helped bring this field to the forefront of research and education. Rubin’s research integrated the engineering analysis of complex technology design with economics and risk analysis, particularly of fossil fuel plants. Central to his work was a policy perspective to inform governmental regulations and standards relating to the environment. For his work on the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), he shared the Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded jointly to IPCC and Al Gore in 2007.

The ASME lauded Rubin, “for pioneering research on the environmental design of fossil-fueled power plants and carbon capture technologies; for seminal contributions to understanding drivers of environmental technology innovation; and for visionary leadership in environmental education and policy, which has led to improved decision-making and cleaner, more cost-effective environmental technologies.”