2019 Georgia Tech Sustainability Showcase
We filmed the entire event. Find all the presentations on our YouTube channel in this playlist.
At the Showcase, about 150 academic and research faculty shared their work in sustainability research and education. Talks are in a fast-paced lightning format covering topics that span the engineering, natural science, social science, business, planning, design, and computing disciplines. From buildings to transportation, finance to logistics, climate to energy, cities to farms, manufacturers to workers, and profit to equity – find out what is going on right now at one of the world’s preeminent research and teaching universities.
The Sustainability Showcase took place over three full-days, subdivided into six half-day sessions. It was held in the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design on October 28th through the 30th, 2019.
We have compiled a playlist of some of the videos from the Showcase that are particularly relevant to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The description box for each of the videos lists the UN SDG goals that are discussed. You may view that playlist on the BBISS YouTube Channel by following this link. We have also a PDF document which lists these videos along with their associated SDGs.
Our Sponsors
- Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems
- Office of the Executive Vice President for Research
- Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business
- Sustainable Design & Manufacturing Lab
- Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design
Monday Morning October 28 9:00AM
People: Health, Wealth, Wellbeing, Equity, Ethics, Socioeconomics, Behavior, Culture, Education, Metrics
- Brian Woodall - Japan Summer Program in Sustainable Development
- Britta Kallin - Sustainability in Germany - GT Students and the UN SDGs
- Chris Ippolito - Community Organizations and the Teaching of Sustainability in Study Abroad Programs in France
- Kelly Comfort - Serve-Learn-Sustain in Spain: Social, Economic, and Environmental Approaches
- Juan Carlos Rodriguez - Overview of The Global Media Festival: Sustainability across Languages and Cultures
- Jin Liu - Chinese Cultural events on Sustainability
- Jan Uelzmann - German Global Media Fest Events and Course Module
- Amanda Weiss - Ashes to Honey: Sustainability in Japan
- Ben Shapiro and Amanda Meng - Re-Shape: A Platform to Cultivate Care in the Practice of Data Science
- Ravi Subramanian - Incentives for Workplace Safety
Monday Afternoon October 28 1:00PM
Keynote 1:00-1:30PM: Intergenerational Change (John Lanier, Executive Director, Ray C. Anderson Foundation)
Organizations and Institutions: Governance, Decision Making, Planning, Regulation, Investment, Markets
- Aya McDaniel - Atlanta Food Bank Visit in Japanese Class
- Dori Pap - Ideas to Serve Competition: Moving from a Solutions-first to a Learning – first Approach
- Lizanne DeStefano - Broader Impacts: Sustainability Education in K-12
- Shatakshee Dhongde - Multi-dimensional Poverty and Environmental Factors
- Emily Grubert - Using Societal Priorities for Multicriteria Decision Making
- Kate Pride Brown - Energy, Sustainability, Finance and Politics
- Dylan Brewer - Equilibrium Sorting and Moral Hazard in Residential Energy Contracts
- Anjali Thomas - Improving Water Access in Mumbai Slums through Citizen Empowerment
- Yunping Liang and Baabak Ashuri - The Use of Public Private Partnerships to Facilitate Sustainable and Smart City Development
- Karthik Ramachandran - Optimal Service Portfolio for Non-Profit Organizations Serving Distressed Individuals
- Germán Vergara - Energy Transitions in History
- Emanuele Massetti - Emanuele Di Lorenzo - Integrating Science, Engineering and Economics for Sustainable Policies
- Meilin Liu - Reversible fuel cells for energy storage and conversion
- Christopher Jones - Negative CO2 Emissions Technologies Based on Direct Air Capture of CO2
- John Crittenden - Improved Sustainability and Resilience Using Decentralized Water and Energy Infrastructure
Keynote 4:30-5:00PM: Reflections on Sustainability at Georgia Tech (G. Wayne Clough, President Emeritus of Georgia Tech and former Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution)
Tuesday Morning October 29 9:00AM
Natural Systems: Atmosphere, Oceans, Water, Biodiversity, Climate, Weather, Natural Resources
- Jie Xu - Phosphorus Removal, Recovery, and Recycling
- Nga Lee (Sally) Ng, Rodney Weber, Greg Huey, Jennifer Kaiser, and Ted Russell - Air Quality Research at Georgia Tech
- Marc Weissburg - Biologically Inspired Systems Design for Sustainability
- Jenny McGuire - An Historical Perspective to Biodiversity Conservation Strategies
- Marguerite Matherne - How Honey Bees Collect Pollen
- Jennifer Leavey - Pollinator Conservation, Research, and Education on Campus: The Urban Honey Bee Project and Bee City USA
- Laura Taylor - Environmental Economics: Valuing our Natural Capital
- Sudheer Chava - Environmental Externalities and Cost of Capital
- Qiuping Yu - Workplace Implications of Just-in-Time Scheduling
- Andras Danis - The Economic Impact of Right-to-Work Laws
- Manpreet Singh - Creative Destruction? Assessing the Impact of E-Commerce on Employees at Brick-and-Mortar Retailers
- Manpreet Hora - Product Recalls and Corporate Social Responsibility
- Jairo Garcia - Sustainable Cities Minor at Georgia Tech
- Zachary Handlos - Extreme Atlanta: Educating Students in Sustainability, Global Climate Change and Urban Spaces
- Iris Tien - Impacts of Climate Change on Long-Term Reliability of Structures
- Hailong Chen - An Outlook on Energy and Materials Loops in the Future
- Matt McDowell - Materials for Batteries
- Ashok Goel - Artificial Intelligence for Sustainability
- Isabel Altamirano - Library Resources for Sustainability Research
Tuesday Afternoon October 29 1:00PM
Built Systems: Cities, Transportation, Power & Energy, Water, Data & Communications, Food & Agriculture, Buildings, Landscape
- Jung-Ho Lewe (combinded talks) - Energy and Water Budgeting Tool for Kendeda Building Operators,
& Regenerative Building Simulator: Kendeda Building Fast Forward to 2050 - Perry Yang - Smart Commons: GT Shenzhen Smart Campus Research
- Kari Watkins - How Do We Build a Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure?
- Giovanni Circella - Emerging Tech, New Mobility Services, and Their Impacts on Urban Mobility and the Environment
- Valerie Thomas - Biomass as a Sustainable Energy Solution
- Yang Wang - Transportation Infrastructure Sustainability through Bridge Weigh-In-Motion
- Angshuman Guin (1st talk) - Transportation Sustainability in a World of Connected and Automated Vehicles
- Omar I. Asensio - Behavioral Incentives for Electric Vehicle Charging
- Ellen Dunham-Jones - Retrofitting Suburbia
- Pardis Pishdad-Bozorgi - Sustainability Follows Integration
- Shannon Yee (1st Talk) - Global Sustainable Sanitation: Reinventing the Toilet
- Seth Marder - Organic and Hybrid Materials for Power Production
- Shannon Yee (2nd Talk) - Organic and Hybrid Thermoelectrics for Power Generation and Personal Cooling
- Seth Marder (representing Natalie Stingelin) - Urban-Aware Materials for Passive Heat Management
- Andy Bommarius - Green Chemistry in Research: Gauging Process Development and Developing New Metrics
- Ruth Yow, Allen Hyde, Dori Pap, Jen Singh, and Frank Wickstead - Serve-Learn-Sustain Affiliated Faculty Share Their Experiences as Teachers, Researchers, and Program-Builders
- Adi Pattabhiramaiah - Assessing the Sales Impact of Firms' CSR Initiatives
- Beril Toktay - Designing Effective Extended Producer Responsibility Programs
Wednesday Morning October 30 9:00AM
Technologies: Manufacturing, Construction, Design, Engineering, Computing, Operations, Logistics
- Xinyi Song - Occupant-Centered Workplace Hybrid Ventilation in the US: Now and the Future
- Tarek Rakha - Building Technology for the Sustainability of the Built Environment
- Richard Simmons - Grid-scale Energy Storage as an Enabling Technology
- Ajeet Rohatgi - Status Opportunity and Next Generation Silicon Photovoltaics Research At Georgia Tech
- Russell Gentry, Tristan Al-Haddad and Larry Bank - Re-Wind: Re-Use of De-Commissioned Wind Turbine Blades
- Matthew Realff - Recycling Carbon: CO2 to Fuels
- Yongsheng Chen - Largest-Ever USDA Grant To Grow Vegetables with Wastewater Nutrients
- Marta Hatzell - Opportunities for Renewable Driven Food, Energy and Water Systems
- Olga Shishkov - Olga Shishkov - Aerating Bed for Black Soldier Fly Larvae
- Ching-Hua Huang - Greener Oxidation Technologies for Safer and More Sustainable Water Environments
- Hongnan (Conan) Cao -Biomass to Biofuel, an Enzyme Approach to Renewable and Clean Bioenergy
- Carsten Sievers - Phenol Production from Lignin
- Julia Kubanek - Chemical Ecology Interventions for Algal Biofuel Production
- Michael Balchanos - A Model-based Approach for a Mobility and Traffic Incident Forecasting Environment
- Angshuman Guin - Connected Vehicles to the Rescue: How Connected Vehicle Technology Based Signal Preemption Can Improve Emergency Vehicle Response Times
- Xiaoming Huo - Spatial-Temporal Event Modeling for Complex Systems
- Marilyn Brown - A Look at the New Green Deal: Results from an Analysis using GT's National Energy Modeling System
- Haizheng Li - Internet Technology and Education for Kids in Poor Areas
- Jeannette Yen, Marc Weissburg, Michael Helms - Biologically Inspired Design
- Sebnem Ozkan, David Eady, Alice Favero, John Taylor - Advancing the UN SDGs and Education for Sustainable Development at Georgia Tech and across the Greater Atlanta Region
Wednesday Afternoon October 30 1:00PM
Future Vision
- Raghu Pucha - Sustainability-Themed Socio-technical Project-based Learning in the Engineering Classroom
- Dan Matisoff - Master of / Certificate in Sustainable Energy and Environmental Management Programs
- Adjo Amekudzi-Kennedy - Minor in Leadership Studies aka The Global Engineering Leadership Minor (GELM)
- Eunhwa Yang - Creating a Healthy Workplace for College Students
- Alex Robel - Uncertain Projections of Sea Level Rise and the Implications for Coastal Decision-Making
- Jairo Garcia - Preliminary Climate Vulnerability Assessment of Downtown Atlanta
- Kim Cobb - "Smart" Solutions for Climate Change Resilience
- Bert Bras - Sustainable Engineering Systems – From Cars to Ecosystems
- Kyriaki Kalaitzidou - From Landfill to Road: Transform High-value Industrial Waste into Low CO2 Emission Vehicles
- Michael Oxman - Beyond Carbon Considerations in Georgia Drawdown
- Beril Toktay - Energy Affordability in Atlanta
- Michael Gamble - 21st Century Housing Prototypes
- Michael Gamble (Bonus Video) - The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design
- Bernard Kippelen - Smart Materials for a Sustainable Future
- Scott Duncan - Fast Forward to 2050: Carbon Neutrality Path Planning Tool for GT Campus
- Bert Bras, Kim Cobb, Steve French, Jennifer Hirsch, Matthew Realff, Anna Stenport, Valerie Thomas, Beril Toktay, and Marc Weissburg - Town Hall on the Future of Sustainability Research and Education at Georgia Tech
Keynote 4:30-5:00PM: Big Sustainability (John Brock, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc.)