IEEE

The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers [IEEE] - a founding society member of United Engineering Foundation (UEF) - will enthusiastically participate in the joint founder society project on (a) evaluation of mitigation technologies for greenhouse gas (GHG) emission and (b) promulgation of informed knowledge on climate change to society at large for environmental sustainability in this century. The 38 member societies and seven councils of IEEE offer a very rich resource of intellectual property and manpower to address the carbon footprint issues in the electric power, transportation and building sectors that are responsible most of the energy use around the world today. As various societies of IEEE focus on their own activities related to the reduction of carbon footprint in our daily lives, they will generate ideas and roadmaps that will help in the founding societies’ efforts at a higher level. IEEE is prepared to share its vast technical expertise and outreach resources and work with the founding societies to achieve the goal of carbon footprint reduction. IEEE requests UEF to support this project so the engineering societies may contribute to meeting the grand challenge of the century.

Saifur Rahman
Vice President, New Initiatives & Outreach
IEEE Power & Energy Society and, IEEE lead volunteer to the Carbon Management Project     

ASME

ASME agrees to participate in this cooperative project among the Founders Societies to engage in a project entitled “Founders Societies Technologies for Carbon Management.”  This collaborative effort was initially undertaken and coordinated by AIChE on the premise that the societies should have a larger voice in the discussion related to climate change, more specifically, carbon emissions mitigation or management.  This project will be a successful compliment to existing ASME activities targeted at the issue of climate change and energy in general.

Included in the AIChE proposal to the United Engineering Foundation (UEF) is the expectation that ASME will take a lead role in planning and facilitating two Congressional noontime briefings for the purpose of educating policymakers and staff of activities within the project   As always, these briefings may not be construed necessarily as an endorsement of the views presented, or the technology practices highlighted, but rather, as an educational tool to inform policymakers of the options available to ward off environmental challenges. 

In cooperation with the carbon management activity, ASME staff has developed a basic webpage on the free domain site network, Word press, to populate with content approved and released by the Founder Societies.  The webpage can be viewed at http://carbonmanagefs.wordpress.com/.  For the present time, the maintenance of this site will remain entrusted with ASME staff.  Web maintenance will include the appropriation of materials that are produced by the Founders Societies task forces as well as related materials. 

Arnold Feldman, Lead Volunteer
Robert Rains, ASME Staff   

ASCE

ASCE has participated in the development of the proposal of the Founder Societies to the United Engineering Foundation entitled Founder Societies Climate Change Grand Challenge Initiative, and supports the proposal.  Civil engineers have key roles in improvements of infrastructure - buildings, communications, energy systems, transportation, water resources and waste treatment.   These improvements will reduce detrimental emissions and other environmental impacts throughout the service lives of infrastructure systems, and provide infrastructure capable of high performance in response to climate change effects.   Therefore, ASCE is looking forward to working with the other Founder Societies, and with other engineering and infrastructure community organizations, in the Founder Societies Climate Change Grand Challenge Initiative.
 
Dick Wright, Authorized by ASCE to endorse the project
Mike Celia, Technical lead
Mike Charles, Staff

AIChE

This project has evolved from the executive directors and leaders of our Founders Societies having a general discussion of wanting to do something together in the carbon management area, to actually having a working plan and strong commitment of experts from our disciplines that are providing novel work products that is unique from what our individual societies have done in the past. We are crossing the discipline boundaries integrating the perspectives from the professions into a vital technical/societal area.   Working across discipline boundaries is hard, and we, as a group, have refocused and refined our work to come to common understandings and definitions, get on the same page, and learn more of how cooperation among our disciplines can provide a vital service to society in communicating the technical knowledge we have that is needed to make better informed decisions on energy and climate issues. It would be an honor for me to continue to volunteer my time to continue to support this effort to fill in the gaps between technology and society.  The goals of this project are in direct alignment with the mission of the AIChE Institute for Sustainability.  AIChE involvement has included the Executive office and the President of AIChE (Dale Keairns). Additionally, the leadership of the Institute for Sustainability (Subhas Sikdar) has helped and will continue to identify AIChE members who are experts in field of measurement, metrics and energy systems to participate in the project teams and to support the goals and implementation of this project.  

Darlene Schuster
Director Institute for Sustainability, AIChE

AIME

The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical & Petroleum Engineers [AIME] – a founding society member of United Engineering Foundation (UEF) – is pleased to enthusiastically participate in the joint founder society project on (a) evaluation of mitigation technologies for greenhouse gas (GHG) emission and (b) promulgation of informed knowledge on climate change to society at large for environmental sustainability in this century. Stewardship of earth, energy and environment is at the core of AIME’s professional responsibility. AIME is home to scientists and engineers engaged in the production and utilization of fossil fuel based energy sources, natural resource exploration, as well as structural and advanced materials technologies. The world economy will continue to be fueled by these sources of energy and, therefore, its responsible use is of critical importance. As AIME continues its promotion of the alternative and renewable energy forms, it fully endorses the proposal to UEF for support to study the GHG emission control technologies pertaining to (i) electric power generation and (ii) transportation. AIME is prepared to provide technical assistance and volunteer time to ensure the success of this project. We expect that UEF support will assist us in educating various constituencies of the society and in lending technical credibility to policymaking. AIME requests UEF to support this project so the engineering societies may contribute to meeting the grand challenge of the century.   

Brajendra Mishra, AIME technical lead

AIME represents 4 Member Societies: Association for Iron and Steel Technology (AIST), Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME), Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), and The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS)