EEM Master of Science graduate Benjamin Heras joined the Agencia de Seguridad, Energia y Medio Ambiente del Sector Hidrocarburos (National Agency for Safety, Energy and Environment) in Mexico City. The agency was created in 2014 to implement a major energy reform law in Mexico. Benjamin is in charge of developing and supervising a set of industrial safety and environmental protection regulations that companies investing in shale oil and gas in Mexico will have to comply with.
EEM Professional Degree graduate Giovanna Monti, who works as an environmental analyst for the International Finance Corporation, relocated to Brussels, Belgium, in July 2015.
Former EEM Fulbright Scholar and Master of Science graduate Dorine Jean-Paul, an Environment and Energy Management Specialist in Haiti, has developed a project entitled "Empowering Young Engineering Students (EYES)." The project is aimed at building a support system for students at the State University (UEH) and progressively expanding it to all universities in Haiti.
EEM Professor Jonathan Deason was quoted in the June 4, 2015 issue of Engineering News-Record in an article entitled “New Federal Water Rule May Face a Court Challenge.” The article dealt with the controversy surrounding a recent regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Corps of Engineers over the scope of federal jurisdiction of the nation’s wetlands protection program embodied in Section 404 of the Clean Water Act.
EEM Fulbright Scholar and doctoral candidate Ilka Deluque conducted a seminar on her work to develop a climate change stochastic capacity expansion model for supporting regional planning of energy technology choices in April 2015. Ilka’s work will help firms make sound investment decisions about their energy technology portfolios that are shaped by uncertainties in demand, technology performance, and regulatory policy.
EEM Master of Science graduate Junchao Gu, who spent a year working for the International Finance Corporation in Washington, DC, relocated to China in August 2015.
EEM Visiting Scholar Jae-Yun Ho, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge (UK), spent the Spring 2015 semester in our new Environmental and Energy Institute doing research on the relationship between technology evolution and standardization at different junctures of the evolution. Jane’s work in helping standards development organizations coordinate to avoid duplication and conflicts between their standards development activities.
EEM Professorial Lecturer Rachael Jonassen is serving on the Oversight Committee of the Association of Climate Change Officers to help design certification standards for climate change officers who must make policy and business decisions affected by climate change. In this work, Dr. Jonassen is using climate change science and appropriate pedagogic approaches to education standards to help address the new climate education requirements included in President Obama’s Executive Order on climate change, issued on March 19, 2015.
EEM Master of Science graduate Mark Rohan has relocated to Fremont, California, where he now is a Program Manager with Tesla Motors. Mark’s role is in new products in powertrain manufacturing, including battery packs, electric motors, inverters and controllers for Tesla’s cutting edge electric vehicles.
EEM Master of Science student Michelle Graff successfully defended her Master’s thesis on “An Evaluation of Stakeholder Influence on EPAS’s Chemical Risk Values” in April 2015.
EEM Professors Joe Cascio and Jonathan Deason participated in the GW Law School symposium on "Advanced Monitoring, Remote Sensing, and Data Gathering, Analysis and Disclosure in Compliance and Enforcement" during the period March 26-27, 2015.