Dr. Edward Rubin

Biography

Ed Rubin is a professor emeritus in the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, holding joint appointments in the Departments of Engineering and Public Policy and Mechanical Engineering. He is a founding member of the Department of Engineering and Public Policy and served as the founding director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies and the Environmental Institute. As a Fellow Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), he has received numerous awards including the CMU Distinguished Professor Engineering Award and the ASME Dixy Lee Ray Award. His influential research has won accolades, including sharing the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Rubin has an extensive advisory background, having worked with state and federal government agencies including the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. His research focuses on the technical, economic, and policy issues related to energy and the environment, particularly in the areas of climate change mitigation and emission control systems for industrial power generation.

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