Energy & Sustainability (E&S) are research and education areas of critical importance in today’s world. The ongoing climate crisis and the pressing need for sustainable development strategies require transformative engineering solutions and innovations in broad areas ranging from energy sciences to geoengineering.
E&S are extremely broad topics connected to two grand challenges:
- Protection of the environment and people, encompassing areas such as food and water access, agriculture technologies, sensing devices, aquaculture, etc.
- Clean and sustainable energy, encompassing subjects such as water-energy nexus, clean energy technologies, energy storage, efficiency of buildings, vehicles and propulsion systems, etc.
Faculty
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![David Erickson]()
David Erickson
S.C. Thomas Sze Director of the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Sibley College Professor of Mechanical Engineering
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![K. Max Zhang]()
K. Max Zhang
Irving Porter Church Professor of Engineering Kathy Dwyer Marble and Curt Marble Faculty Director at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability
