Jim Plummer

Dean, Stanford Engineering, John M. Fluke Professor of Electrical Engineering

Plummer is the Frederick Emmons Terman Professor of Engineering and the John M. Fluke Professor of Electrical Engineering. Since 1999 he has led the school, laying out a strategy of pursuing four research priorities: Human Health, Environment and Energy, Information Technology and Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. In 2002 he helped lead the formation of the Department of Bioengineering, which is jointly run with the School of Medicine. Prior to becoming dean, he served as the chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering. Plummer's research interests are in silicon integrated circuit devices and technology. His primary interests are in developing physically based models for silicon structures and fabrication processes to enable computer simulation of new device and structure ideas. He is the author or co-author of over 300 publications and holds several US patents.

Martin Roscheisen

CEO, Nanosolar

Roscheisen is chief executive officer of Nanosolar, a solar power company set on producing affordable green energy. Roscheisen founded Nanosolar in 2002 after deciding that green energy is mandatory in today's world. He saw the vast entrepreneurial opportunity and started pursuing the development of an industry-defining technology to turn solar electricity mainstream. Since the inception of Nanosolar, Roscheisen has led the company through science intense research, product development, and volume manufacturing. Prior to Nanosolar, Roscheisen was the entrepreneur behind three best-in-class companies, which were each ultimately acquired by their respective industry leader. Together, the three companies delivered over $1.2 billion in shareholder value. Roscheisen acquired his Silicon Valley apprenticeship as a teenager during a year at Xerox PARC. He received advanced engineering degrees from Stanford University and Munich Technical University, and holds a doctorate from Stanford University's School of Engineering.

Craig Criddle

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Criddle is interested in the environmental engineering, science, and science literacy needed for clean water, clean energy, and healthy ecosystems. His research focus is environmental biotechnology. He is best known for large interdisciplinary field projects, studies of microbial ecology in bioreactors, and work on microbial transformations of persistent contaminants. Some current projects include a field-scale evaluation of uranium remediation; DNA-monitoring of microbial community structure at full-scale biological wastewater treatment plants; development of membrane bioreactors for energy recovery and nutrient removal; and studies to elucidate the mechanisms and kinetics of microbial transformation of halogenated solvents. To promote science literacy, he worked with award-winning San Franciscocartoonist, Larry Gonick to write “The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry” described below. “Cartoons can give us an intuitive feeling for the why, and deeper understanding can grow from that intuition.”

Chris Edwards

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

The Edwards research group is focused on fundamental research for advanced energy technologies. The group performs theoretical and experimental studies of energy transformations such that the conversion process can be made cleaner, more efficient, and more controllable than has been possible with traditional technologies. Applications include advance transportation engines (piston and turbine) and advanced electric power generation with carbon mitigation.

Martin Fischer

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Fischer's research goals are to improve the productivity of project teams involved in designing, building, and operating facilities and to enhance the sustainability of the built environment. His work develops the theoretical foundations and applications for virtual design and construction (VDC). VDC methods support the design of a facility and its delivery process and help reduce the costs and maximize the value over its lifecycle. His research has been used by many small and large industrial government organizations around the world.

Jeffrey Koseff

William Alden and Martha Campbell Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Koseff, the Perry L. McCarty Director of the Woods Institute for the Environment, has been instrumental in developing the vision for the interdisciplinary work on environmental issues at Stanford. Koseff's research falls in the emerging domain of environmental fluid mechanics and concerns the interaction between physical and biological systems in natural aquatic environments. His research activities focus on transport and mixing in estuarine systems, phytoplankton dynamics in estuarine systems, coral reef and kelp-forest hydrodynamics, chemical sensing in the marine environment, and coastal upwelling processes. The Michael Forman University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, Koseff served on the Provost Committee for the Environment and the advisory committees for the undergraduate Earth Systems Program; the Goldman Interschool Honors Program in Environmental Science, Technology and Policy; the Global Climate and Energy Project; and the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Environment and Resources. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1984.

Stacey Bent

Professor, Chemical Engineering

Bent�s research focuses on semiconductor processing, the science of surfaces, nanotechnology, and interface engineering. Her group studies new materials and processes for next generation solar cells, fuel cells and catalysts. Previous research included work on a prosthetic retina to help sufferers of Adult Macular Degeneration. Bent has received several awards including the Tau Beta Pi Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2006. Bent holds courtesy appointments on the faculty of Electrical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering and Ophthalmology.

Banny Banerjee

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Banerjee is the director of the Stanford Program in Design, and head of the Stanford Design for Change Center. He is involved in exploring trans-disciplinary processes and paradigms that would cause large scale impact for global issues such as energy and climate change. He is interested in the ways in which �design thinking� can be used to create desirable futures by combining innovation, technology, human behavior, new ecosystems for business, sustainability, and the dynamics of rapid change. He has worked in the fields of architecture, design, structural engineering, energy, mechanical engineering, economic development in emerging economies, sustainability, and software design. He also maintains an active interest in interactive art.

Richard G. Luthy

Professor and Department Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Silas H. Palmer

Luthy is the Silas H. Palmer Professor and Department Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. His area of teaching and research is environmental engineering and water quality with application to persistent and emerging contaminants, water reuse and management of contaminated sediments. He is a past chair of the National Research Council's Water Science and Technology Board, and a former President of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Bruce M. Clemens

Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Clemens and his group study the relationship among synthesis, structure and properties of thin films and materials structured on the atomic or nanoscale. By controlling growth and nanoscale structure, Clemens is able to tune and optimize properties. He is currently investigating materials for electronic devices, and solar energy and hydrogen storage applications. He teaches courses in energy-related materials, the kinetics and thermodynamics of nanomaterials synthesis, and solid-state physics. Clemens served as the chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering from 1999 to 2004. He also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Applied Physics and is also a professor in the Photon Sciences Faculty at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lab.

Joe Stagner

Executive Director, Sustainability and Energy Management Office

Stagner is a registered professional engineer with over 30 years experience in facilities management. He has served as Executive Director of Sustainability and Energy Management at Stanford University since November 2007, where he is responsible for advancing sustainability in campus operations through the interdisciplinary Sustainable Stanford initiative and direct leadership of the university’s utility and transportation programs.

Prior to joining Stanford Joe served on the senior facilities management team at the University of California, Davis for 14 years. In addition to operating and maintaining campus facilities Joe worked with UC Davis faculty to create, test, and market innovative environmental technologies including novel methods for biogas production, reclaimed water use, landfill gas to energy, and soil and groundwater remediation. At UC Davis Stagner received US Patent No. 5,620,593 for the Multi-Stage In-Well Aerator (MIA) method of in-situ remediation of contaminated groundwater.

Before joining UC Davis Joe worked 15 years with the Pacific Gas & Electric Company, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Morrison Knudsen Company, and Sacramento County Public Works Department in various facilities and utilities engineering capacities.