Monthly Engineering Seminar Series Thursday September 18, 2008 4 pm Masters Hall Georgia Center for Continuing Education Tom Lawrence UGA Engineering ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer The Green Awakening     The underlying theme of the monthly series is to highlight technological advances that serve as a catalyst for on-campus dialogues between engineering and non-engineering faculty and students Increased specialization has created the need for an ability to synthesize the great quantities of information that inform policy decisions on a variety of issues and subjects. The UGA Faculty of Engineering was established in part to chart new paths in engineering research and instruction. These new paths are all characterized by inputs from multiple disciplines. At The University of Georgia, one of our greatest strengths is the intellectual rigor and curiosity we bring to a multiverse of subjects, from sociology to genectics, from art to engineering. Joining classical thought with leading-edge research is only one unique aspect of the academic environment that is UGA. Increasingly, connections between engineering and the humanities are becoming much more relevant to society. One of the primary purposes of the Engineering seminar series is to create a forum where these overlapping voices can be heard, where the research aligning various disciplines around a central set of problems can be discussed and debated. Please join us at this ongoing series of multidisciplinary seminars focused on different aspects of the interwoven complexity of the world around us.            About our speaker September 18, 2008   Tom Lawrence Tom Lawrence, a LEED-AP, has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University. He is vice-chair of ASHRAE Technical Committee 2.8, “Building Environmental Impact and Sustainability”. He is a member of the committee writing an ASHRAE standard on high-performance green buildings (SPC 189), and is an ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer on sustainable design topics. Dr Lawrence has presented papers on building energy consumption and IAQ at conferences in the US and Europe, and published papers on sustainable design and energy usage in buildings in such journals as ASHRAE Journal, Solar Today and Buildings and Environment.      comments or questions Archive