Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon's Pradeep K. Khosla and Andy Gellman Join NETL Lab Tour With U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu
September 8, 2010
Contact: Chriss Swaney
Carnegie Mellon University
412.268.5776
Event: Carnegie Mellon University's
Pradeep K. Khosla and Andy Gellman will join U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu
and a handful of government and academic leaders to tour ongoing energy
research at the National Energy Technology Labs (NETL) in West Virginia.
Khosla, the Dowd University Professor and dean of Carnegie Mellon's top-ranked engineering college, has been instrumental in supporting energy research throughout the university and the college.
Gellman, head of
the Chemical Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon, is research director of
a university consortium with researchers from Carnegie Mellon, the University
of Pittsburgh, Penn State University, West Virginia University and Virginia
Tech. The consortium is
spearheaded by the NETL to design more efficient uses of fossil fuels.
In addition to lab tours, the Carnegie Mellon faculty also will attend a roundtable luncheon where a variety of energy issues will be discussed.
When: 10 a.m. to noon, Sept. 8.
Where: 3610 Collins Ferry Road, Morgantown, W.Va.