Education Task Force


News

Robert C. Armstrong named director of MIT Energy Initiative

Robert C. Armstrong named director of MIT Energy Initiative

Outgoing director Ernest Moniz confirmed U.S. Secretary of Energy.

May 16, 2013Read more

Events

The SunShot Initiative – Cost Competitive Solar by the End of the Decade

Videos

Climate Change Policy that Makes Economic Sense

Climate Change Policy that Makes Economic Sense

Professor Christopher Knittel of the MIT Sloan School of Management

April 22, 2013

28:44 Read more

The Energy Education Task Force pursues the following goals with the support of the MITEI Education Office:

  • maintaining and enhancing the undergraduate Energy Studies Minor,
  • assessing and supporting further development of MIT's energy curriculum,
  • and communicating MIT's interdisciplinary energy education model.

Proposals: Energy-Focused Subjects

The Energy Education Task Force is working to develop a call for proposals for new or substantially revised energy-focused subjects from MIT faculty. Please email askmitei-ed@mit.edu for further information.


Co-chairs

  • Amy Glasmeier, Department of Urban Studies and Planning Department Head, Professor of Geography and Regional Planning
  • Jeffrey Grossman, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carl Richard Soderberg Associate Professor of Power Engineering

Faculty

  • Ahmed F. Ghoniem, Ronald C. Crane (1972) Professor of Mechanical Engineering
  • Michael W. Golay, Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering
  • William H. Green, Hoyt C. Hottel Professor of Chemical Engineering
  • Bradford Hager, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Earth Sciences
  • Sheila Kennedy, Professor of the Practice, Architectural Design
  • Christopher Knittel, William Barton Rogers Professor of Energy Economics
  • Thomas Malone, Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management
  • F. Dale Morgan, Professor of Geophysics
  • Susan Silbey, Anthropology Department Head, Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities, Sociology and Anthropology; Professor of Behavioral and Policy Sciences
  • Alexander Slocum, Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MacVicar Faculty Fellow
  • Christopher Warshaw, Assistant Professor of Political Science
  • Mort D. Webster, Assistant Professor of Engineering Systems

Students

  • Kathy Araujo (G), Department of Urban Studies and Planning
  • Julia Kimmerly (‘13), Mechanical Engineering
  • Charlotte Kirk ('14), Chemical Engineering
  • Vivek Sakhrani (G), Engineering Systems Division
  • Caleb Joseph Waugh (G), Nuclear Science & Engineering