Energy Resources

CEE 173A/207A and ESys 103    Fall Quarter  MWF 1:15-3:05

Teaching Assistants and Guest Lecturers

Guest Lecturers

Audrey Chang

Audrey Chang is the first Executive Director of the California Energy Efficiency Industry Council. Prior to joining the Efficiency Council in February 2010, Ms. Chang was the Director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s California Climate Program.  In that role, Ms. Chang coordinated and managed NRDC’s efforts to support implementation of AB 32, California’s landmark law to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. She also promoted energy efficiency, renewable energy, and other clean energy solutions through improved energy policy and utility regulation at the state, regional, and national level.  Ms. Chang has testified at numerous regulatory hearings, presented at national conferences, and is a regular guest lecturer on energy policy at Stanford, U.C. Berkeley, and other universities. Ms. Chang has also been an energy efficiency and green building consultant at Energy Solutions in Oakland, California, where she managed projects for schools, universities, and small businesses. While at Energy Solutions, Ms. Chang administered the Cool Roof Rating Council, a membership-based nonprofit organization that certified the energy saving properties of roofing materials.  Ms. Chang was also a lead author of Stanford University’s Guidelines for Sustainable Buildings.  She is a contributing author in two books on energy efficiency and climate change policy and on green building strategies on university campuses, and has been quoted in NPR, U.S. News and World Report, and other publications.  Ms. Chang is a LEED® Accredited Professional, and she holds an M.S. degree in Energy Engineering and a B.S. degree in Earth Systems, both from Stanford University.

Professor David Freyberg

David Freyberg is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Stanford. He has been on the faculty here since 1981. He completed undergraduate degrees in engineering science and environmental engineering at Dartmouth College in 1972. Following three years working in the water resources department of a consulting firm in Boston, Massachusetts, he headed west to Stanford for graduate work, where he completed his M.S. (1977) and Ph.D. (1981). His current work focuses on the role of low permeability inclusions on the flow of water and dissolved contaminants in heterogeneous subsurface environments, flow in and below ephemeral channels, sedimentation in small reservoirs, and the pedagogy of fluid mechanics and water resources engineering. He also maintains a strong interest in water resources development, policy, and history, particularly in North America, the American West, the Middle East, and Asia. He is a co-author of a widely-used textbook, Water-Resources Engineering. Prof. Freyberg was a recipient of a 1985 Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. From 1988 until 1992 he served as Associate Dean of Engineering for Undergraduate Education. He served on the National Research Council's Water Science and Technology Board from 1991 until 1997, chairing it from 1994-97. In June 1993 he was awarded the 1992-93 Tau Beta Pi Teaching Award for the outstanding educator in the School of Engineering, and in April 1994 he was named a Bing Teaching Fellow at Stanford. He is a member of the Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology program within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. For more information about Professor Freyberg, click here.

Ilon Joseph

Ilon Joseph is a theoretical and computational plasma physicist with general interests in plasma physics, magnetic fusion, dynamical systems and control theory. Ilon is currently a staff scientist in the Fusion Energy Sciences Program at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where his research includes edge plasma physics, reconnection, transport due to 3D magnetic perturbations, control of 3D magnetohydrodynamic equilibria, and novel computational methods. Ilon performed his Ph.D. research in Physics at Columbia University under the supervision of Dr. A. H. Boozer, where he invented a new symplectic homotopy algorithm for eliminating chaos from Hamiltonian systems using Lie transform techniques. He then joined the Center for Energy Research, at the University of California–San Diego as a postdoctoral researcher in 2005 as part of the DIII-D tokamak National Fusion Facility at General Atomics. There, he performed large-scale parallel simulations of the effect of magnetic stochasticity generated by external magnetic perturbations that resonate with the pitch of field lines at the edge of a tokamak. Since joining LLNL as postdoctoral fellow in 2008, he proposed a new reactor-relevant technique for generating magnetic perturbations for the control of edge-localized modes (ELMs): driving toroidally non-axisymmetric current through the tokamak scrape-off layer and showed that the technique can generate sufficiently large perturbations to exceed the presently measured experimental thresholds required for ELM control.

Peter Rumsey

Peter Rumsey is the West Coast Director of Integral Group and the Managing Director of the Oakland, California, office of Integral Group. Integral Group – Oakland has recently been awarded its ninth LEED Platinum certification, and has designed and is currently designing Net Zero Energy and Living Building Challenge projects. Peter has worked in engineering and energy consulting since the mid 1980s, and is widely recognized as global player in energy efficiency and a leader in sustainable building design. He teaches CEE226E – Advanced Topics in Integrated, Energy-Efficient Building Design during Spring Quarter.

Peter's passion for energy efficient and sustainable design issues has led him to publish widely on HVAC energy efficiency. He is the author of a column on GreenerComputing.com, and has contributed to many other publications. He is a Senior Fellow of Rocky Mountain Institute, a recipient of the 2005 AIA Allied Professions Honor Award and the 2002 Energy Engineer of the Year Award from the Bay Area chapter of the Association of Energy Engineers. Peter has held engineering and management positions at Sol*Arc Architects, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, XENERGY Energy Consultants, the International Institute for Energy Conservation, and Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Mr. Rumsey has a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and is a Certified Energy Manager and a member of the ASHRAE Cleanrooms Committee.

Joel Swisher

Joel Swisher, PhD, PE, is Director of Technical Services and CTO for Camco International. Dr. Swisher has 30 years' experience in many areas of clean energy technology. Starting in 1989, he performed some of the seminal research into carbon offset baselines and project analysis, helped develop offset projects in forestry, renewable energy and energy efficiency, and authored emission inventories, baseline studies and monitoring and verification plans for various offset buyers. Prior to joining Camco, Dr. Swisher was managing director of research and consulting at Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), where he is now Senior Fellow. He led RMI's consulting work for electric utilities and major corporations in mining, oil and gas, and manufacturing of products ranging from semiconductor chips to potato chips. Dr. Swisher is a consulting professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford, where he has taught courses in greenhouse gas management and sustainable energy, and was the MAP/Ming Visiting Professor for Energy and the Environment in 2002-2003. Dr. Swisher is a registered professional engineer, and he speaks five languages. He has a PhD in energy and environmental engineering from Stanford University, and he also earned a BS and MS from Stanford's School of Engineering.

Aaron Zubaty

Aaron Zubaty is Vice President of Wind Energy Royalty Investments at MAP. Mr. Zubaty joined MAP in 2005 and leads a team that is responsible for the origination and analysis of wind investment transactions as well as the management of portfolios of investments structured to generate returns through royalties on wind energy production. Before joining MAP, Mr. Zubaty worked for independent power producer AES Corporation, based in both London and Africa. Through his various roles in business development and financial management, he helped lead the planning, implementation, and financing of large energy projects and power plants as well as helping to direct the management and operation of the national utility serving the country of Cameroon. Mr. Zubaty holds a BS in Earth Systems (concentration Energy) and an MS in Civil Engineering (concentration Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology), both from Stanford University, and is a graduate of Choate Rosemary Hall.