Henri J. Barkey is the Bernard L. and Bertha F. Cohen Professor in International Relations and International Relations Department Chair at Lehigh University.
He served as a member of the U.S. State Department Policy Planning Staff (1998-2000) working primarily on issues related to the Middle East, the Eastern Mediterranean and intelligence. He has authored, co-authored and edited five books, among them is Turkey’s Kurdish Question (with Graham Fuller).
His recent article-length publications include “Kurdistandoff” in National Interest, “Turkey and the PKK: A Pyrrhic Victory? “
in Robert Art and Louise Richardson (eds.) Democracy and Counterterrorism Lessons from the Past, “Turkey and Iraq: The Perils (and Prospects) of Proximity” a USIP Special Report, “The Endless Pursuit: Improving U.S.-Turkish Relations,” in Morton Abramowitz (ed.) Friends in Need: Turkey and the United States after September 11 and “Iraqi Kurds and the Future of Iraq,” with Ellen Laipson in Middle East Policy.
Eric Clark has worked at the NASA Glenn Research Center for sixteen years. During that time he has become a respected researcher in the area of solar cell development and space power system management. He is recognized within NASA, DOD, industry, and academia for his development of III-V based semiconductors. Eric Clark has authored and coauthored more than 40 publications in reference journals and conference proceedings, and has served as a guest editor for the journal “Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications.” He has served on conference committees in many capacities including serving as the chairperson of the Space Photovoltaic Research and Technology (SPRAT) conference. Eric Clark has traveled extensively to make technical presentations, interact with the DOD, industry and university partners.
As a research scientist, Eric designs and develops advanced solar cell technologies to meet NASA’s future exploration needs. This work includes the growth, analysis, and processing of semiconductor materials into a variety of devices aimed at converting radiated energy, including solar, infrared, and nuclear, into electricity.
He performs research and development in the areas of solar photovoltaics, thermophotovoltaics, and integrated power and communication technologies, including the development of flight experiments to validate technology in relevant environments. Eric serves as financial and technical manager of research efforts at universities and private businesses for NASA, the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, and other organizations. He is a Subtopic Manager for the NASA Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program and a reviewer of potentially funded proposals for NASA, the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Standards, and The Garrett Morgan Commercialization Initiative.
Eric has been the recipient of a variety of awards including the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal, the NASA Glenn Technical Support Person of the Year Award, and the Modern Day Technology Leader Award at the Black Engineer of the Year Awards Conference.
Eric is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and a graduate of both the Cleveland Federal Community Leadership Institute (CFCLI) and the Cleveland Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Citizens’ Academy.
Dr. Daniel J. Driscoll is a physical scientist/senior project manager in the Gasification & Fuels Division at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory. He is currently managing research efforts involving the conversion of coal-derived syngas to hydrogen, liquid fuels and chemicals, and synthesis gas production using solid oxide ceramic membranes. Prior to joining the Gasification & Fuels Projects Division he managed a variety of research projects associated with the natural gas pipeline infrastructure, natural gas storage and the conversion of natural gas to liquid fuels and chemicals. Dan is the recipient of a 2006 R&D 100 Award for development of EXPLORER-1, a semi-autonomous robot that conducts visual, internal inspection of natural gas distribution pipelines. In addition to project management, Dr. Driscoll conducted and directed independent research projects related to gas-to-liquids conversion in the Office of Science and Technology. He has been involved in natural gas research and development for over 25 years and is the author of over 40 publications related to natural gas technology. His primary areas of interest are materials science and catalysis, with an emphasis on the catalytic conversion of natural gas to ultra-clean fuels. Prior to joining the Department of Energy, Dr. Driscoll held positions as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the City College of New York, Senior Research Scientist at Texas A&M University and Research Chemist with The Badger Company. Dr. Driscoll holds a B.A. in Chemistry (1975) from the University of Massachusetts/Boston and a Ph.D. in Physical/Inorganic Chemistry (1985) from Texas A&M University.
Dr. DuPont is currently Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department and Associate Director of the Energy Research Center at Lehigh University. He also holds a joint appointment in the Mechanical Engineering Department. His research interests cover processing-microstructure-property relations in solidification processing and joining of materials, Laser Engineered Net Shaping, alloy development, and high temperature corrosion. He has edited four books, organized four international conferences; and published over 190 technical articles in these areas. His current research programs are supported by a variety of organizations, including Department of Energy (including DOE Fossil Energy Materials Program, DOE National Spent Nuclear Fuel Program, DOE University Coal Research Program, and DOE Industries of the Future Program), National Science Foundation, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, Office of Naval Research, industrial consortia. He received a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientist and Engineers from NSF, Lehigh University’s College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, and was named a Fellow of the American Society for Materials.
William F. Hecht earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from Lehigh University in 1964, and a master’s degree in electrical engineering in 1970. He spent his entire career with PPL Corporation (formerly Pennsylvania Power & Light Co.), holding a number of management and executive positions before being named executive vice president-operations in 1990, when he was elected to the company’s board of directors. He became president of the company in 1991 and assumed the additional role of chairman and chief executive officer in 1993. Between 1995 and 2006, under Hecht’s leadership, PPL provided a total return of 271 percent to its shareholders, nearly twice the return of the S&P Index. Hecht retired as chairman and C.E.O. in 2006.
Hecht is actively involved at Lehigh, serving in various capacities for the Alumni Association, Lehigh Fund, and reunion planning committees. He is currently vice chairman of the board of trustees.
In addition to his Lehigh service, Hecht has served on numerous boards of local non-profit organizations, including the Allentown Symphony, Easter Seals Society, and Lehigh Valley United Way. He is currently serves as a member of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, DENTSPLY International, York, PA, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of dental products; RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd., a global provider of reinsurance and insurance; and Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network.
Charlie Klein is the Director of Global Mass & Energy responsible for working with all of the Vehicle Teams on implementation of Fuel Economy/CO2 and Mass Strategies for GM on a global basis. He has held a variety of Manufacturing, Planning, and Manufacturing Engineering positions including Vehicle Line Director for Global Luxury Rear Drive Products, Area Manager- General Assembly, and Director- Manufacturing Planning. Charlie began his career with General Motors in 1979 with the Oldsmobile Division in Lansing, MI.
Charlie has a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from General Motors Institute, a Masters of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Masters in Business Administration from Michigan State University. He was a GM Fellow and a Charles Stark Draper Fellow while at MIT.
Koel came to Lehigh in 2005 from the University of Southern California, where he taught since 1990. In addition, he has taught at the University of Colorado, and was a Miller Fellow at the University of California-Berkeley.
At USC, Koel served as chair of the chemistry department and as an adjunct professor of materials science from 1995-2005. He was also co-founder of the Laboratory for Molecular Robotics, a new interdisciplinary research center at USC, in 1994. Along with his colleagues, he greatly advanced the science and technology of nanomanipulation.
At Lehigh, Koel is a member of the Center for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (CAMN) and is working to expand the capabilities at Lehigh University for atomic and nanoscale imaging using scanning probe methods, both scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM).
His research focus involves surface chemistry and processes. At Lehigh, he is specifically addressing the site-directed chemistry and catalysis of bimetallic Pt alloys, catalysis at Au surfaces, kinetics and mechanism of ozonolysis of hydrocarbon films, electrode chemistry in Li ion batteries and PEM fuel cells, development of novel probes of liquid-solid interfaces, and fabrication of nanostructures by self-assembly and directed manipulation.
He received his doctorate in chemistry from the University of Texas and his master’s and bachelor’s degrees in chemistry from Emporia State University in Kansas.
Along with authoring more than 200 publications, Koel has spoken at technical meetings, universities, and laboratories worldwide. Over the course of his academic career, Koel has supervised the research of some 42 graduate students, 25 undergraduate students, and 21 postdoctoral researchers.
Professor Kritz has focused on fusion physics research for the last 40 years. He is recognized for his contributions in developing simulation tools to study wave heating, current drive and transport in plasmas, as well as for leadership in a teamed approach to large-scale computations.
Professor Kritz has chaired Lehigh’s physics departments for fifteen years, served four years as a part-time program manager in the Office of Fusion Energy Science at the DoE and has held visiting appointments at fourteen plasma physics laboratories -- including two years at the Center for Plasma Physics Research in Lausanne, Switzerland. Research carried out by his group at Lehigh is funded by grants from the Departments of Energy and Education and by subcontracts from industry, national laboratories and other universities. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the University Fusion Association, Chair of the DoE Edge Coordinating Committee, and previously has served on the Executive Committee of the Sherwood Fusion Theory as Secretary/Treasurer.
A two day international symposium was held at Princeton in honor of Kritz’s 70th birthday and his career accomplishments. Recently, Professor Kritz, at the request of the DoE, was co-organizer of a workshop to initiate the planning of a $25M per year, 15-year Fusion Simulation Project on integrated modeling. The Fusion Energy Scientific Advisory Committee has invited him to make presentations at their last two meetings.
Professor Kritz received his Sc.B. from Brown University and his MS and Ph.D. from Yale University. He worked as an industry researcher for eight years before joining the faculty in 1969. Kritz has over seventy-five refereed publications in plasma physics, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Skip Laitner is the Senior Economist for Technology Policy for the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE). He previously served almost 10 years in a similar capacity for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), but chose to leave the federal service in June 2006 to focus his research on developing a more robust analytical characterization of energy efficiency resources within energy and climate policy analyses and within economic policy models.
In 1998 Skip was awarded EPA’s Gold Medal for his work with a team of other EPA economists to evaluate the impact of different strategies that might assist in the implementation of greenhouse gas emissions reduction policies. In 2003 the US Combined Heat and Power Association gave him an award to acknowledge his contributions to the policy development of that industry. In 2004 his paper, “How Far Energy Efficiency?” catalyzed new research into the proper the characterization of efficiency as a long-term resource.
Author of more than 150 reports, journal articles, and book chapters, Skip has more than 35 years of involvement in the environmental and energy policy arenas. He’s been invited to provide technical seminars in diverse places as Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Korea, South Africa, and Spain. He recently served as an adjunct faculty member at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, teaching a graduate course on the Economics of Technology in the Science and Technology Studies program. He has a master’s degree in Resource Economics from Antioch University in Yellow Springs, OH.
Dr. Levy is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics and Director of the Energy Research Center at Lehigh University. He has a BS degree from the University of Maryland and SM and ScD degrees from MIT, all in mechanical engineering.
He is a specialist in the thermal fluid sciences, he has taught courses at Lehigh in thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics and energy conversion, and he carries out fundamental heat transfer and fluid mechanics research in the thermal fluid sciences. A recurring theme of his research has been the development of techniques to improve generating efficiency and reduce emissions of pollutants from coal-fired power plants.
A native of Philadelphia, DEP Secretary Kathleen A. McGinty earned a chemistry degree from Saint Joseph’s University and a law degree from Columbia University School of Law. Since then, her career has taken her to the White House and around the world.
Between 1989 and 2001, Secretary McGinty served in various capacities in national and international public policy leadership. In January 1996, she was designated a “Global Leader for Tomorrow” by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
During her tenure in the U.S. Senate, Secretary McGinty worked to promote U.S. leadership in the manufacture of advanced technologies while also serving on U.S. delegations negotiating global environmental treaties. She chaired the White House Council on Environmental Quality -- the first (and still only) woman to head CEQ, an office established by law in 1969 -- and acted as Deputy Assistant to President Bill Clinton. She also created and headed the first-ever White House Office on Environmental Policy. In this capacity, and as the senior U.S. government official on environmental matters, Secretary McGinty worked to create a new approach to these issues that bring together environmental and economic interests.
In 1999, Secretary McGinty completed a year stay in India as a Senior Visiting Fellow with the Tata Energy Research Institute. While there, she forged new business ventures between U.S. and Indian advanced energy technology companies, and helped to craft an historic environmental cooperation compact between the governments of the United States and India. Upon her return in 2000, she acted as counselor to Vice President Al Gore during the presidential campaign and served as a senior policy advisor to the Democratic National Committee.
Most recently, Secretary McGinty served as vice president for asset management at Natsource LLC, a financial services firm specializing in energy transactions. She also served as director of Proton Energy Systems Inc, a leading fuel cell infrastructure company, and as an advisor for a European venture capital firm interested in clean energy. Secretary McGinty currently serves on the Board of Trustees of St. Joseph’s University.
In 2003, Secretary McGinty became the first woman to head the state Department of Environmental Protection, a 3,000-employee agency with a mission to protect Pennsylvania’s air, land and water from pollution and provide for the health and safety of its citizens through a cleaner environment. Secretary McGinty’s emphasis is in creating approaches to environmental problems that generate economic growth and encourage advanced technology development in Pennsylvania.
Anne Meltzer, previously chair of Lehigh’s department of earth and environmental sciences, joined the Lehigh faculty in January 1990 after earning her Ph.D. in geology and geophysics from Rice University, her M.S. in geology from the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, and her B.S. in geology from Guilford College.
As a seismologist, Meltzer studies earthquakes and the structure of the earth through naturally and artificially generated seismic waves. She was the recipient of the Class of 1961 Professorship in 1998, and was promoted to the rank of professor in 2001.
In addition to serving as chair of the earth and environmental sciences department, Meltzer served as the director of LEO (Lehigh Earth Observatory), which built a seismic station at Lehigh to monitor local, regional, and global seismic activity. Under her direction, LEO successfully obtained significant funding from the Keck Foundation, the Culpeper Foundation, and the William Penn Foundation to expanded research funding and opportunities available to graduate and undergraduate students.
Published in many highly respected journals, Meltzer’s research has had a great impact in the field of earth science. In 1999, she received the Albert and Alice Weeks Visiting Professorship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Most recently, she has been engaged in a joint project with Peter Zeitler, professor and chair of earth and environmental sciences, to examine the highest peaks in the Himalayas to determine whether forces such as wind and rivers contribute to tectonic shifts miles below the earth’s surface.
She has distinguished herself in the research community by serving as chair of the executive committee of the Independent Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS), a consortium of nearly 100 academic institutions with research programs in that area. In this role, Meltzer worked closely with the USArray Steering Committee and the membership of the executive committee of the EarthScope Working Group in a successful effort to secure funding from the National Science Foundation. She currently chairs the NSF EarthScope Program Committee.
Sanjeev Mukerjee is Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Northeastern University, where he has been since September of 1998. He also heads the newly created center for Energy Studies at Northeastern University and its subset the Laboratory for Electrochemical Advanced Power (LEAP).
His research on charge transfer dynamics at both two and three dimensional electrochemical interfaces encompasses materials development, in situ synchrotron spectroscopy and electro-analytical methods. In addition new computational initiatives are in progress involving both molecular modeling and simulation of multiple electron scattering in the context of in situ synchrotron XANES method. The latter is in collaboration with George Washington University. The current projects in the group include materials development for new electrocatalysts, polymer electrolyte membranes and high energy density (and capacity) cathode materials for aqueous and non aqueous storage cells. Fundamental understanding of structure property relationships are in concert with applications. In this context two startup companies, Encite Corp, Burlington, MA and Protonex Corp., Westboro, MA are notable with ongoing sponsored projects in the lab. In addition partnership with De Nora, for which we are a research hub in North America, is involved in developing a number of fuel cell and electrolyzer technologies. Further, Industrial support from BASF-Fuel Cells, W. L. Gore and Cabot-Superior Micro-powders are gratefully acknowledged. Federal funding comes from the Army Research Office, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation and National Institute of Technology-Advanced Technology Program.
Ann Murtlow is President and CEO of Indianapolis Power & Light Company (IPL), which provides retail electric service to approximately 470,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in and around Indianapolis. IPL is a subsidiary of AES Corporation, one of the world’s largest power companies with annual revenues of $12.3 billion. AES has a global workforce of more than 30,000 dedicated to operating and growing its generation and utility businesses in 28 countries.
After graduating from Lehigh University in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering, Ann began her career at Bechtel Power Corporation, one of the world’s premier engineering and construction firms of global power infrastructure.
Ms. Murtlow joined AES in May 1987. Since then, she has held leadership roles in domestic and international business development, environmental permitting and policy, construction management and operations management. She was named an officer of AES in 2001. In June 2002, Ms. Murtlow was named President and CEO of Indianapolis Power & Light Company.
Ms. Murtlow also serves on the boards of a number of civic and not-for-profit organizations including Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (Co-chair) which is a public private partnership of large company CEO’s and research university presidents dedicated to the creation of public policy and initiative to drive regional economic development. She also serves on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Trung Van Nguyen joined the NSF in June 2007 as an IPA from the University of Kansas where he holds the title of Professor of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering. He has a BS from NCSU and MS and PhD from TAMU, all in Chemical Engineering. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Kansas, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Lab, Senior Product & Process Development Engineer at Duracell, and Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs. His research is on fuel cells, batteries and mathematical modeling of electrochemical systems.
Sahagian, Dork
Professor of Earth & Environmental Science Lehigh University
Professor Dork Sahagian joined the Lehigh faculty in 2004 and is director of the new Environmental Initiative at the university. He conducts research in paleoclimatology, volcanology, stratigraphy, geodynamics and tectonics, global hydrology and sea level. He served as a Contributing Author for the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Sahagian has taught courses in Earth & environmental science, physics and astronomy, volcanology, human-climate interactions, stratigraphy, and other areas related to his research. He was instrumental in establishing a new section of the American Geophysical Union in “Biogeosciences” and has directed his efforts to organizing and integrating a number of diverse research communities.
At Lehigh, he works to integrate disparate disciplines involved in the Environmental Initiative into a leading program for environmental science, technology, economics, policy, and the myriad interactions between people and the environment.
Professor Sahagian received his B.S. in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, his M.S. in Geosciences from Rutgers University, and his Ph.D in Geophysics from the University of Chicago. He served as a NORDA Oceanographer at Dartmouth College, Associate Research Scientist at Lamont-Doherty (Columbia University), and Research Scientist at the Byrd Polar Research Center (Ohio State University). He served as Executive Director of The Global Analysis, Integration, and Modelling Task Force of the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme (IGBP/GAIM) at the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space at the University of New Hampshire.
Brent Shanks is a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Iowa State University. His bachelor’s degree is in Chemical Engineering from Iowa State University. In 1988, he received a doctoral degree in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology. Following graduate school, he worked as a Research Engineer and then Department Manager in catalyst research and development for Shell Chemical Company. He joined the faculty at Iowa State University in 1999.
The Shanks research group is working on the design of materials for use as heterogeneous catalysts with particular emphasis on their application to the conversion of biorenewable feedstocks to chemicals and fuels. He is a founding member of the Office of Biorenewable Programs at Iowa State University and has been actively involved in developing interdisciplinary research and education programs focused on biorenewables.
Snyder has been with Air Products and Chemicals Inc. for the last 15 years and is the company’s Global Power Market and Energy Portfolio Manager. He has been with the company’s marketing organization for the last 12 years and has spent the last 8 developing and introducing new products and offerings for the company. Before joining Air Products he worked as a melt shop manager for Bethlehem Steel at its Bethlehem plant. He has a B.S. degree in metallurgical engineering from Penn State and an MBA from Saint Joseph’s University.
Weyant, John
Professor of Management Science and Engineering Stanford University
John P. Weyant is Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Director of the Energy Modeling Forum (EMF), Deputy Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency, and a Senior Fellow in the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Professor Weyant earned a B.S./M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering and Astronautics, and M.S. degrees in Engineering Management and in Operations Research and Statistics all from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a Ph.D. in Management Science with minors in Economics, Operations Research, and Organization Theory from University of California at Berkeley. He also was also a National Science Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and four time summer intern at the Rand Corporation.
Established in 1976, the EMF conducts model comparison studies on major energy/environmental policy issues by convening international working groups of leading experts on mathematical modeling and policy development. Weyant has coordinated major EMF climate-change focused studies on “Carbon Emission Reductions,” “Integrated Assessment of Global Climate Change,” “The Costs and Energy System Impacts of the Kyoto Protocol,” “International Trade and Climate Change Policies,” “Advanced Technological Technology and Climate Change Policies,” “Multi-Gas Mitigation and Climate Change.” He is currently coordinating EMF studies on “Long-Run Climate Change Scenarios,” “Climate Change Policy Transition Scenarios, and “Climate Change Decision Making Under Uncertainty.” His current research focuses on analysis of global climate change policy options, energy technology assessment, and models for strategic planning.
Weyant was convening lead author of the chapter on “Integrated Assessment” in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) Second Assessment Report, co-coordinating lead author of the “Scoping” Chapter of the Mitigation Working Group in the IPCC’s Third Assessment Report, a lead author in the Integration and Synthesis chapter of the Impacts and Adaptation Working Group, and currently serves as a Review Editor for the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report on Climate Change Mitigation. He was the founder and director of the annual two week Snowmass summer Workshop on “Climate Change Impacts and Integrated Assessment.” Weyant is also engaged in a project (with James Sweeney) on R&D portfolio evaluation for Stanford Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP), and is the coordinator/director of the Bay Area Energy Modeling Consortium (involving researchers from Stanford, U.C., Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory).
Bruce Wilson is a General Contractor and Consultant specializing in Green Building, Renewable Energy, Energy Improvements for Existing Buildings and Historic Preservation. He is the Co-Founder, with his wife and Business Partner, Annie Prince, of the Lehigh Valley Green Builders Forum. The mission of the Forum is to promote environmentally responsible design, planning, construction, and operation of the built environment through advocacy, education, outreach, and networking.
Bruce designed and built solar hot water systems and solar additions since the early 1980s. In 1987, he gained invaluable experience working as a construction manager for super insulated home builder Buffalo Homes. This experience has given Bruce a unique perspective on Green Building.
Bruce has become an outspoken voice for Green Building in the Lehigh Valley. His ongoing research about super insulated houses built from 1977 – 1988 by Buffalo Homes will give the industry verification of return on investment for super high performance homes.
Dr. Geoffrey Woolery is currently Senior Scientific
Advisor and Section Head for Catalyst Development within the Catalyst Technology Laboratory with ExxonMobil Process Research. In this capacity, he focuses upon development and deployment of advanced refining catalysts.
Woolery earned his BS in chemistry from the University of Delaware in 1978, and his PhD in chemistry from Princeton University in 1982. He then joined Mobil R&D Corp in 1982, and has been with Mobil and ExxonMobil for 25 years. He spent seven years in the Catalyst Section, focused on applications of spectroscopic and physico-chemical techniques to support catalyst discovery, development and field/manufacturing operations. He also worked for four years in Fluid Catalyst Cracking (FCC) research and development, with emphasis on clean fuels projects to meet Clean Air Act regulations, and an additional four years in technical support of Mobil’s worldwide FCC units, with focus on catalyst selection/utilization. He also supported Technology Sales & Licensing for five years, managing new business development and catalyst manufacturing, and three years managing ExxonMobil’s high throughput experimentation (HTE) alliance with Symyx Corp.
S. David Wu is Dean of the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science. A member of the Lehigh faculty since 1987 and the holder of the Iacocca endowed chair, Wu is a well-known scholar in optimization, game theory, and supply chain modeling.
He studies the uses of mathematical analysis and computer algorithms to model economic interactions in various settings, and he has developed innovative methods to analyze operational issues in the high-tech industry. Wu has received significant support for his research from NSF, DOD, SRC, Sandia National Laboratories, the U.S. Air Force, and industry. In 2002, he co-founded the Center for Value Chain Research, a joint effort between Lehigh’s engineering and business colleges; the center superseded the Manufacturing Logistics Institute, which Wu founded in 1995. A fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, Wu has published more than 80 archival articles and served as editor or editorial board member on more than a handful of journals in his field. He also served on various national and international panels such as the NSF and the Science Foundation of Ireland.
Handbook of Quantitative Supply Chain Analysis: Modeling in the E-Business Era, a book Wu co-edited with colleagues from MIT and UC Berkeley, was published in 2004 by Springer. In 1995-96, he was a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, in 2004, he was a visiting scholar at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Wu served as chairman of the industrial and systems engineering (ISE) department for six years prior to his appointment as dean. During Wu’s tenure as ISE chair, he has played key roles in creating multidisciplinary programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. With a major NSF grant and partnership with the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, he created the IGERT Doctoral Fellows program in Global Manufacturing Logistics. Over a five year period, the ISE graduate programs tripled in size to 120 students. Wu led the efforts to create Lehigh’s undergraduate program in integrated business and engineering (IBE), the new B.S. and M.S. programs in information and systems engineering (I&SE), and helped forge the partnership between ISE, finance, and mathematics departments that developed the M.S. program in Analytical Finance. He also played a key role in the creation of the university-wide Global Citizenship program.
Wurth, Albert
Associate Professor of Political Science Lehigh University
Professor Wurth teaches courses in American public policy and political economy, with an emphasis on the environment and technology. His research interests range from practical problems of resource recycling to theoretical questions about the role of information.
Research and teaching interests related to energy and environment include ongoing work with his Lehigh colleague Professor Frank Davis on environmental voting, participation in Lehigh’s Environmental Studies and Science, Technology and Society (STS) Studies programs, work on a land use sprawl course/internship in conjunction with public radio station WDIY-FM, and ongoing research on recycling and waste issues.
He is also actively involved with several local, regional and national environmental groups and projects, and serves on several advisory and steering committees on environmental issues.
Professor Worth earned a Ph.D. in political science from University of North Carolina in 1987.
Ben Yamagata’s practice encompasses federal and state legislative and administrative issues in the areas of energy, environment, natural resources, international trade (technology transfer and independent power project development), and transportation-related matters.
Mr. Yamagata represents clients before the Departments of Energy, Commerce, Transportation, Defense and State, as well as the Office of Management and Budget and the Environmental Protection Agency, on both project-specific and programmatic issues that relate particularly to technology research, development, demonstration, and deployment relating to the use of coal and other fossil and renewable energy resources. Mr. Yamagata has advised clients on energy and environmental technology projects as well as provided counsel and representation in the structuring and advocacy for government programs such as the Department of Energy’s clean coal technology development and demonstration programs and financial incentive programs (e.g., loan guarantees and clean coal tax credits) that were authorized as part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
Yamagata has served the U.S. Senate as Counsel/Staff Director, Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, as Legislative Counsel of Senator Frank Church, and Professional Staff Member, Special Committee on Aging. He is also a member of the American Bar Association.
