Edward Rubin
Edward Rubin is a professor in the Departments of Engineering and Public Policy and Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a chair as the Alumni Professor of Environmental Engineering and Science, and was the founding director of the university’s Center for Energy and Environmental Studies and the Environmental Institute. He is a fellow member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a past chairman of its Environmental Control Division, and Distinguished Professor of Engineering Award from Carnegie Mellon.
Rubin’s teaching and research interests are in energy utilization, environmental control, technology innovation, and technology-policy interactions, with a particular focus on issues related to coal utilization, carbon sequestration, and global climate change. He is the author of over 200 technical publications and a textbook on engineering and the environment.
Rubin serves on advisory committees to state and federal agencies, and on various committees of the National Academies, including its Board on Energy and Environmental Systems and the congressionally mandated study of “America’s Climate Choices.” He was a coordinating lead author of the 2005 Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He serves as a consultant to public and private organizations with interests in energy and the environment.
Rubin received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the City College of New York and his master’s and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University.
Related Resources by Edward Rubin from the Natural Hazards Library
Technological Learning for Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies
With Keywan Riahi, Margaret Taylor, Leo Schrattenholzer and David Hounshell, Energy Economics, Volume 26, Number 4, 2004
PowerPoint Presentations at the 2010 Natural Hazards Workshop
Limiting the Magnitude Of Future Climate Change