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College of Engineering & Facilities Sustainable Energy and Infrastructure Initiative Presented to the California Higher Education Sustainability Conference June 17 th , 2014 Dennis K. Elliot, PE, CEM Assistant Director, Energy, Utilities, and Sustainability Sustainable Energy & Infrastructure

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College of Engineering & FacilitiesSustainable Energy and Infrastructure

InitiativePresented to the California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

June 17th, 2014

Dennis K. Elliot, PE, CEMAssistant Director, Energy, Utilities, and Sustainability

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What is the Sustainable Energy and Infrastructure Initiative?• 13/14 CENG Strategic Framework and Focusing Initiatives• SEI Purpose and goals

• Identify and engage stakeholders• Find opportunities for collaboration, synergy, and leverage• Assess curriculum, research, and projects• Articulate SEI vision, structure, story, including advancement opportunities

• Stakeholders• Department heads and chairs, Directors of Centers and Institutes• Faculty, students, administrators, advancement staff, corporate partners

• AFD/Facilities role• Campus as Living Lab• Upcoming on-site generation PPA’s• Facilities PV grant program

• Visioning Workshop – May 17, 2014

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What is Sustainability?

UN World Commission:

“The ability to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.”

Cal Poly Academic Senate:

“The ability of natural and social systems to survive and thrive together to meet current and future needs.”

Triple Bottom Line Concept

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Talloires Declaration (Cal Poly signatory in 2004)

A 10 point action plan to incorporate sustainability and environmental literacy in teaching, research, operations, and outreach at colleges and Universities:

• Increase awareness of environmentally sustainable development• Create an institutional culture of sustainability• Educate for environmentally responsible citizenship• Foster environmental literacy for all• Practice institutional ecology• Involve all stakeholders• Collaborate for interdisciplinary approaches• Enhance capacity of primary and secondary schools• Broaden service and outreach nationally and internationally• Maintain the movement

http://suscat.calpoly.edu/talloires/

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Cal Poly Sustainability Learning Objectives (SLO’s)

Cal Poly Academic Senate – Resolution 688-09 (2009):

“In order to consider sustainability when making reasoned decisions, all graduating students should be able to:

• Define and apply sustainability principles within their academic programs• Explain how natural, economic, and social systems interact to foster or

prevent sustainability• Analyze and explain local, national, and global sustainability using a

multidisciplinary approach• Consider sustainability principles while developing personal and professional

values”

http://www.academicprograms.calpoly.edu/academicpolicies/sustainability_lo.html

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CSU Sustainability Policy

Major revision to policy since last CSU Executive Order 987 (2006)

Academics: “The CSU will seek to further integrate sustainability into the academic curriculum working within the normal campus consultative process.”

Operations: “The CSU will pursue sustainable practices in all areas of the university, including business operations such as procurement, IT, student services, food service, facilities operations, design and construction… and self funded auxiliaries.”

Policy approved by CSU Board of Trustees May 2014

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Cal Poly Vision 2022, President Armstrong:

$500M Fundraising CampaignFocus on Public-Private Partnerships

“Enhance sustainability efforts and attitudes, eliminate redundancies, create greater efficiencies and entrepreneurial activities.”

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Academic Senate Sustainability Committee:

• Formalize SUSCAT (SUStainability course CATalog)• Senate resolution on sustainability course assessment• Working toward a graduation requirement

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Workshop session #1a – Student Perspective:

• How do students look at and value sustainability?• Personal life and values• In education• In career

• Where do students learn about sustainability at Cal Poly?• In classes? Major or GE• Projects• Club activities and work experience

• How can educational experience be improved?• Infuse into existing courses• Create new courses• Extracurricular activities

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Workshop session #1b – Corporate Perspective:

• Is sustainability part of corporate values?• Public image/relations• Bottom line• Business focus

• What do employers want to see in new hires?• Skills and knowledge• Project experience - is interdisciplinary important?• Club activities or work experience

• How can educational experience be improved?

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Workshop session #2 – Current Areas of Activity and Interest:

• Energy Efficiency• Power Generation• Sustainable Transportation• Water/Energy Nexus• Waste Reduction/Sustainable Materials

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Area of Interest – Energy Efficiency• Energy Efficiency/DSM in the Built Environment (40% of all energy use)

• HVAC, lighting, and plug load• District heating and cooling• Building automation systems and data analytics• Path to Zero Net Energy buildings by 2020/2030

• Energy Efficiency in Industry and Manufacturing• Resource and material efficiency• Life cycle design

• Green Computing• Desktop, server, and device power requirements• Performance optimization• Data Centers

Majors: ME, EE, CE, ENVE, IME, AERO, BMED, GEN, MATE, CPE, CSC, ARCH, CRP, CM, BRAE, AGB, NRM&ES, BUS, ECON, POLS

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Area of Interest – Power Generation

• Renewable Energy• Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Wind, Biomass, Wave, Energy Storage• Cogeneration, fuel cell, gas turbine• Biofuels

• Conventional Power Generation• Gas, oil, coal, hydro, and nuclear• Next generation designs, safety and carbon management

• Smart Grid – Micro Grid• System integration and interoperability• Cyber security• Big Data and analytics

Majors: ME, EE, CE, ENVE, IME, AERO, GEN, MATE, CPE, CSC, ARCH, CRP, CM, BRAE, AGB, NRM&ES, BUS, ECON, POLS

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Area of Interest – Sustainable Transportation

• Advanced Vehicle Design• EV, hybrid, alternative fuels• Fuel efficiency and emissions• Charging/fueling infrastructure

• Mass Transit• Advanced aircraft and spacecraft design• Electrification and alternative fuels

• Transportation Planning• Community planning• Highway planning• Airport design• Mass transit

Majors: ME, EE, CENVE, AERO, GEN, MATE, CPE, CSC, ARCH, CRP, CM, BRAE, AGB, NRM&ES, BUS, ECON, POLS

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Area of Interest – Energy/Water Nexus (20% of all energy in Ca)

• Water Infrastructure• Collection, storage, and delivery• Treatment and purification

• Waste Water Treatment/Biofuels• Treatment, reclamation, and reuse• Algae and biofuels

• Water Efficiency• Irrigation systems – landscape, recreation, and agriculture• In Power Generation (2nd largest user)• In manufacturing• In the built environment

Majors: ME, EE, CENVE, IME, GEN, MATE, ARCH, CRP, CM, BRAE, AGB, NRM&ES, BUS, ECON, POLS

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Area of Interest – Waste Reduction/Sustainable Materials

• Material Selection and Design for Manufacturing and Construction• Material life cycle design – “cradle to cradle”• Rapidly renewable and recycled/recyclable materials• High performance materials• Concrete design (produces 6-8% of global CO2, fly ash issue)

• Waste Reduction• Design for reuse and recyclability• Integrated product design• Packaging design

• Waste Management• Recycling and landfill optimization• Waste as an alternate fuel

Majors: ME, EE, CE, ENVE, IME, AERO, BMED, GEN, MATE, CPE, ARCH, CRP, CM, BRAE, AGB, NRM&ES, BUS, ECON, POLS

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Workshop session #3 – Findings on Curriculum, Research, and Projects:

Common themes – challenges and aspirations:

• We often don’t teach sustainability explicitly, but discuss elements• Faculty are interested, but are busy teaching fundamentals of

discipline/technology• Widespread interest in more interdisciplinary opportunities• Many current interdisciplinary projects tell a compelling sustainability

story, but are not marketed that way• Structure desired for better connection, communication, and visibility• Not sure how to integrate sustainability into existing curriculum• Difficulty articulating “social equity” in engineering programs• Coverage of professional ethics needs improvement

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Workshop session #3 – Visioning Exercise:

Define the future of SEI for the College• Should focus be broad/holistic or narrow/targeted?• Curriculum recommendations

• How do we address course assessment and graduation requirement?• Majors, minors, or certificate?

• Organizational structure• Centers and Institutes• Committee or task force

• Advancement opportunities• New Name?

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FindingsStudent perspectives:• Learned primarily at home and in family – environmental awareness• Changing culture/lifestyle and social media• Desire for meaningful job/career• Integral part of Architecture, not articulated in most Engineering coursework• Lots of clubs/projects to choose from, but found by accident• No cross disciplinary look at sustainability or climate change for engineers• Sustainability = good engineering• Coursework is too highly structured• Would like to see sustainability in GE, and renewable energy integrated into

required engineering courses

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FindingsEmployer perspectives:• Sustainability IS part of corporate culture:

• Bottom line issue – control cost, enhance revenue• Corporate image, transparency, and public relations• It is a company goal because it is a customer goal

• Seeking students with excellent work habits, perseverance, ability to learn/adapt• Students are technically strong, but there is a scarcity of:

• Maturity and holistic/human development• Global awareness• Professional polish and communication skills• Ability to make a business case

• Recommendations:• Need more focus on soft skills like writing, public speaking• More group projects that include developing and presenting a business or project plan/model –

i.e. Shark Tank

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FindingsWorkshop recommendations:• Five areas of focus are appropriate• Start narrow, become broad• Prioritize areas 1 &2 (Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy), then add• Increase focus on whole systems thinking• Broad sustainability discussions belong in GE (but engineers don’t take Area F)• Continue with course assessment, establish graduation requirement• No new Sustainability Minor needed in CENG, already have:

• Sustainable Agriculture (CAFES)• Sustainable Environments (home in CAED, but open to all)• Environmental Studies (home in COSAM, but open to all)

• Leverage existing Centers and Institutes

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FindingsWorkshop brainstorming ideas:• Fund faculty to collaborate with club projects (VP committed $15K pilot funding)• Use campus as a test bed for renewable energy testing• Build a campus microgrid• Use solar panels for EV charging• Initiative Names – DEMISE, SEE or SE^2

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Contact info and references:

Dennis Elliot – Assistant Director, Energy, Utilities and Sustainability - [email protected] Poly University Sustainability Website – www.sustainability.calpoly.eduCal Poly College of Engineering - http://ceng.calpoly.edu/Centers and Institutes - http://research.calpoly.edu/centerslist.htmlBest Practice Awards and Building/Project Case Studies - http://afd.calpoly.edu/sustainability/awards.aspCal Poly PowerSave Campus – [email protected] Poly PowerSave Campus Website – www.powersavecampus.calpoly.eduCal Poly PowerSave Campus Facebook Page - www.facebook.com/CalPolyGreenCampusPolly the Polar Bear Facebook Page - www.facebook.com/PollyThePolarBearMr. Eco Website – www.mrecomusic.com

Biennial Sustainability Progress Report – http://afd.calpoly.edu/sustainability/docs/Metrics/2014_SustainabilityReport.pdf

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