Lucy Fan: seeking energy solutions through technology and business.
"As soon as I heard about the energy minor, I had to do it," says Lucy Fan '12.
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Kesavan Yogeswaran: harnessing power electronics to green energy
By recent graduate Kesavan Yogeswaran's reckoning, serendipity played a key role in shaping his academic path.
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Ahmed Ghoniem: connecting fundamentals to frontiers
Ahmed Ghoniem is the Ronald C. Crane (1972) Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He teaches 2.60J, "Fundamentals of Advanced Energy Conversion," one of the Energy Studies Minor technology core subjects.
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Robert Jaffe: demystifying the physics of energy
What better place would there be to study energy? With MIT’s combination of basic science, engineering and policy studies, we have all the essential ingredients for a coherent education in energy issues.
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Ashley Wong: bringing light through transformative technologies
The need for lighting alternatives in Rwanda is great, Wong notes, because people suffer respiratory problems from burning wood and kerosene to illuminate their homes.
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Jeff Mekler: using social marketing to spur energy conservation
As a result of undergraduate classes that brought a variety of perspectives to bear on energy, Mekler came to reject the “narrow focus” engineers traditionally bring to problems.
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Judith Layzer: unpacking the roles of science, values, and storytelling in environmental politics
Studying energy at MIT, students get real exposure to cutting-edge engineering ideas, but also exposure to policy, politics, and economics.
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Erik Verlage: bringing solar energy to Latin America
“I want to bring solar energy into the picture in Mexico and Latin America,” he says, making it cost effective and competitive with fossil fuel-based options there.
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Juliana Velez : bringing together small things for huge impact
After a unit on sustainable building design and construction, taught by women, she was sold on studying both mechanical engineering and “green” technology
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