Engineering Sustainability Workshop to Focus on Energy
Industry, Academic Speakers Take Part in Clark School Earth Day Event

*MEDIA ADVISORY*

CONTACT:
Melissa Corley
301-405-6501
mcorley@umd.edu

WHAT: Sustainability does not happen by chance. It must be engineered.

Our goals: to present and propose ways to maximize technology's positive impact on the long-term availability of natural resources, and to minimize its negative impact. This year, with the co-sponsorship of the University of Maryland Energy Research Center and Office of Sustainability, we will focus on energy resources.

Events include:
• Guest speakers from Constellation Energy, the Maryland Energy Administration, Zymetis, and the University of Maryland School of Public Policy

• Dawn Rittenhouse of DuPont will deliver the keynote address.

• Attendees will be able to tour a poster session, featuring faculty and student work

• The afternoon will feature brief overviews of the work of faculty members from the Clark School, plus a pictorial tour of the university's LEAFHouse Solar Decathlon project, a biodiesel piston engine demonstration and a presentation by Engineers Without Borders

WHO: Clark School faculty members and students, and interested faculty members and students from other University of Maryland schools, along with guest speakers and attendees from government and industry.

WHEN: Wednesday, April 22, 2009—Earth Day
9:30 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Detailed agenda:
https://eng.umd.edu/sustainability/

WHERE: Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
A. James Clark School of Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

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