Summary
STEM students need not only technical skills but also training in energy justice, energy policy, communication, and community engagement in order to become effective future climate leaders. The goal of this workshop is to give faculty and students engaged in energy and sustainability work across disciplines the opportunity to interact, learn from each other, and build resources to reshape graduate training.
Schedule:
9:00 – Check-in and welcome address
9:30 – Keynote address
10:30 – Participant lightning introductions and networking
11:30 – Panel: policy, economics, and real-world impact
12:30 – Lunch
1:30 – Panel: AI, water, and data centers
2:30 – University barriers and enablers to interdisciplinary climate education
3:30 – Break
3:45 – Active session: education implementation
4:45 – Planning session: synthesis and action
6:00 – Networking dinner
Speakers & Panelists
Sanya Carley
Vice Provost of Climate
Mark Alan Hughes Faculty Director of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy
Presidential Distinguished Professor of Energy Policy & City Planning
Cory Colijn
Executive Director of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy
Stephen Decina
Executive Director, Penn Climate
Zachary Herrmann
Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives, Graduate School of Education
Howard Neukrug
Executive Director of the Water Center at Penn
Professor of Practice, Department of Earth and Environmental Science
Brianna Parsons
Lecturer, School of Veterinary Medicine
Co-founder and Director of FAIR Farms Gambia
Benjamin Pierce
Professor of Computer and Information Science
Jennifer Round
Associate Director of Faculty Programming and Pedagogy, Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Innovation
Daniel Schwartz
University of Washington
Boeing-Sutter Professor of Chemical Engineering
Founding Director of the UW Clean Energy Institute
Kelly Jordan-Sciutto
Vice Provost for Graduate Education
Professor of Oral Medicine
Elke Weber
Princeton University
Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment
Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs
Sponsors
Penn Engineering’s master’s program in Energy and Sustainability Engineering
University Research Foundation