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By Charlie Gimber
Issue date: 10/19/07 Section: News
Lehigh faculty and specialists from around the country will work together to explore tactics in an attempt to find a middle ground between energy use and the environment in a workshop at Iacocca Hall.
"Balancing Energy and the Environment: An Exploration of Future Research Needs" will take place on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
"The main purpose of the workshop is to identify the grand challenges in the research and education of energy use and the impact it has on the environment," said David Wu, dean of engineering and applied science. "This year we've decided to pick this topic of energy and the environment because it's an area of high interest for faculty members, as well as other members of the community."
Faculty members from the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science and the College of Arts and Sciences came together to think of a topic for the upcoming conference.
"We wanted to choose a topic that would have an effect on the future, something that will be necessary in the coming years," said Dork Sahagian, professor of earth and environmental science.
After much discussion, the only topic that everyone agreed on was energy use, Sahagian said.
"Everyone knows the impact energy has on the environment," Sahagian said. "From oil spills to ground water pollution to global warming, problems with energy exist everywhere in our culture."
Sahagian, along with the other faculty members involved, knows that many questions will be brought up at the workshop.
"We will look at the emerging research questions and needs that we will need to address in order to solve some of the problems that we're facing now and those that will be looming in the next decade," Sahagian said. "If everyone chips in, we're bound to come up with some solutions."
According to Sahagian, there are three main aspects of energy use and the environment that the conference will examine.
"The supply of energy, energy utilization and social aspects of energy use are the key components," Sahagian said.
"Balancing Energy and the Environment: An Exploration of Future Research Needs" will take place on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
"The main purpose of the workshop is to identify the grand challenges in the research and education of energy use and the impact it has on the environment," said David Wu, dean of engineering and applied science. "This year we've decided to pick this topic of energy and the environment because it's an area of high interest for faculty members, as well as other members of the community."
Faculty members from the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science and the College of Arts and Sciences came together to think of a topic for the upcoming conference.
"We wanted to choose a topic that would have an effect on the future, something that will be necessary in the coming years," said Dork Sahagian, professor of earth and environmental science.
After much discussion, the only topic that everyone agreed on was energy use, Sahagian said.
"Everyone knows the impact energy has on the environment," Sahagian said. "From oil spills to ground water pollution to global warming, problems with energy exist everywhere in our culture."
Sahagian, along with the other faculty members involved, knows that many questions will be brought up at the workshop.
"We will look at the emerging research questions and needs that we will need to address in order to solve some of the problems that we're facing now and those that will be looming in the next decade," Sahagian said. "If everyone chips in, we're bound to come up with some solutions."
According to Sahagian, there are three main aspects of energy use and the environment that the conference will examine.
"The supply of energy, energy utilization and social aspects of energy use are the key components," Sahagian said.
