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Sustainability

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Multidimensional environmental challenges

June 27, 2019

Fulton Schools faculty led an international conference to explore potential remedies to the world’s most critical environmental problems.
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Three students examine a water quality test.

EPICS Elite Pitch Competition expands impact of student projects

May 15, 2019

Eight student teams competed for funding to implement solutions for community challenges ranging from water purification to public health to internet access
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Eleven students pose on the steps of the University Club building on Arizona State University's Tempe campus.

13 ASU students earn prestigious NAE Grand Challenge Scholar title

May 14, 2019

Along with interdisciplinary coursework, recent graduates had multicultural and community service experiences in the health, sustainability and energy fields.
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Industry and academia link up to prepare future engineers

May 3, 2019

ASU’s Friends of Civil and Environmental Engineering group supports educational efforts and gives back to the profession by preparing qualified engineers.
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solar panels below electrical power lines

Harnessing the power of solar to enhance the electric grid

April 3, 2019

Professor Raja Ayyanar will lead a $3.6 million project from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office to enhance power system resilience.
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ASU creates network of young scientists in Southeast Asia

January 31, 2019

The Lower Mekong Initiative Young Scientist Program, a joint initiative between ASU and the U.S. Department of State, prepares researchers to solve problems.
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Matthew D. Green standing in his office in front of books

Clearing the air for deep space travel

December 27, 2018

Matthew D. Green is working to develop high-efficiency, low-maintenance carbon dioxide removal systems and recently received a NASA Early Career Faculty Award.
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Mastering a sustainable future for the built environment

December 20, 2018

ASU's online master’s degree program in sustainable engineering keeps professionals on top of the latest trends in sustainable technologies and practices.
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ASU 3D printing lab creates opportunity for plastic recycling

November 13, 2018

Fulton Schools staff and students built a tool to recycle 3D printer plastic and make their lab more sustainable.
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four people in a large industrial freezer holding ice cream

Sub-zero sustainability

September 27, 2018

A thermal energy systems company, a utility, a grocery chain and ASU engineers are teaming to bring energy- and cost-saving innovations to industrial freezers.
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Photo of seven women posing outdoors. Caption: Fulton Schools sustainable engineering doctoral student Evvan Morton (far left) and Shakira Hobbs, an engineering research associate at the University of Virginia (far right), are shown with school teachers in the Belize village of Sittee River. Morton and Hobbs are leaders of a project aimed at helping the remote rural community to adopt renewable energy technology and establish an environmentally safe waste management system. Photo courtesy of Evvan Morton and Shakira Hobbs.

It takes a village: acting locally, thinking globally

May 24, 2018

International community outreach projects are preparing engineering doctoral student for a career to help make the world more environmentally sustainable.
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Power of exchange: Proximity creates possibilities

May 16, 2018

Exchange programs are a critical part of the knowledge transfer that is taking place among the partner institutions that make up the U.S.-Pakistan Centers for Advanced Studies in Energy.
Portrait of Paul Westerhoff. Caption: Paul Westerhoff is an Arizona State University Regent’s Professor in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, where he is the vice dean of research and innovation. He is also deputy director of one of the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Engineering Research Centers, the Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment.

A Nanoparticle and an Engineer Walk into a Lab: Using Nanotech to Purify Water

March 29, 2018

On World Water Day, Fulton Schools Regents' Professor Paul Westerhoff explains how global water challenges are being tackled with nanotechnology.
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Photo of three people standing in a row with the middle one holding a certificate. Caption: Assistant Professor Francois Perreault’s research has had a significant impact on the use of nanomaterials in a variety of biological, chemical and environmental processes, including those related to water treatment. Photographer: Ana Barrios/ASU

Making sustainable strides in nanotechnology

March 12, 2018

A Fulton Schools doctoral student and two faculty members swept the top research awards at a major international nanotechnology conference.
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Klaus Lackner’s ASU KEDtalk: Carbon is a terrible thing to waste

November 16, 2017

Klaus Lackner, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering professor of civil, environmental and sustainable engineering and director of Arizona State University's Center for Negative Carbon Emissions, asks "We clean up our trash. Why not clean up after our carbon use?" in an ASU KEDtalk hosted by ASU's Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development.
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Photo of Ron Roedel teaching in front of a classroom. Caption: There were “so many interesting things happening at ASU” in the solar energy field that Ron Roedel couldn’t resist accepting offers to get involved after his retirement. He’s been teaching classes the past few years in the Solar Energy Engineering and Commercialization graduate program and recently took on the job as its director. Photographer: Marco-Alexis Chaira/ASU

Comeback story: Roedel’s return after retirement has boosted solar energy engineering education

September 27, 2017

Solar energy expertise in the Fulton Schools’ expanded when an accomplished long-time professor was lured back into the classroom — and recently into a leadership role.
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Photo of two female ASU students showing educational content to local girls on island of Nguna. Caption: On the island of Nguna, a community that lacks access to electricity, internet and running water, Brittany Blevins (far left) and Brianna Fornes (far right) show some of the local children the educational content available on the SolarSPELL

Student’s humanitarian spirit helps make global impact

September 14, 2017

Brittany Blevins knows that engineers have a great responsibility to society. With the speed at which technology is advancing, it is a field that needs skilled people more than ever.
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Portrait of Lucy Qiu

Big Data approach informs energy-saving strategies

June 20, 2017

A National Science Foundation-supported research project strives to provide better data, statistics and analytics to guide efforts to maximize energy efficiency.
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