199 Area Plenary: Sustainability Challenges at the Food, Energy, Water Nexus

Monday, November 14, 2016: 3:15 PM - 5:45 PM
Union Square 15 & 16 (Hilton San Francisco Union Square)
Description:
Speakers will address how chemical engineers can lead sustainability challenges at the nexus of food, energy, and water. Topics include, but are not limited to, water usage in resource recovery, biomass-derived fuels and biorefineries, sustainable land usage, resource depletion, environmental implications of said topics, water management.

Sponsor:
General
Co-Sponsor(s):
Young Professionals Committee (YPC) (18C), The Food-Energy-Water Nexus (T7)

Chair:
Angela D. Lueking
Email: adl11@psu.edu

Co-Chair:
Lindsay Soh
Email: sohl@lafayette.edu


3:15 PM
(199a) Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS): A National Science Foundation (NSF) Initiative to Examine Critical Issues in Today's World
JoAnn S. Lighty

3:40 PM
(199b) The “Root” of the Nexus: Soil-Based Biotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture
Leslie M. Shor

4:05 PM
(199c) The Role of Waste Streams in the Energy-Water Nexus
Vincent Tidwell

4:30 PM
(199d) Process Development Challenges and Opportunities in Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus
Cawas A. Cooper

4:55 PM
(199e) Systems Engineering Methods for Food-Water-Energy Nexus
Fengqi You
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