Dream Course Welcomes Carl Pope

Carl Pope photoYou are invited to this week’s session of the Political Economy, Technological Innovation and Values Dream Course.  Our featured speaker is former Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope and current principal of Inside Straight Strategies.

Date:  February 27, 2013.
Time:  10:30AM to Noon.
Location:  Price Hall 2030

Title:  Innovation and Rights; Rigged Markets and Sustainability.  The Conflict we Can’t Resolve

Synopsis:  Carl Pope will employ a rights-based frame to the problem of sustainability, pointing out that if we genuinely tried to apply pure free market rules, in which all transaction were voluntarily agreed to by all whose rights are effected, innovation, which by its nature tramples existing rights in unanticipated and involuntary ways, would grind to halt — but sustainability would be ensured as a practical matter, because activities which infringe on the interests of the future invariably have dissenters victims in the present as well.

 

Date:  February 27, 2013.
Time:  6:30PM.
Location:  Devon Energy Hall 120

Public Lecture:  Extraction vs. Development.  Why technology and innovation make war on property rights and sustainability — and why free market ideology doesn’t help.

Synopsis:  Natural resources, and ecosystem services, pose problems that no version of conventional economics — however Chicago School or Keynsian it might be — has honestly confronted The real conflict is not between development and sustainability.  It’s between extraction and development, and between property rights and innovation.  These conflicts cannot be resolved.  They can only be managed.  Blind faith in free market ideology makes the problem worse.  But taking market principals seriously, and seeing where they take us, opens up some new opportunities.

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For Additional Information, visit http://www.ou.edu/content/coe/ame/research/dream_course_2013 or contact Farrokh Mistree at 405.325. 2438 or farrokh.mistree@ou.edu

Both talks are complementary and open to the public. The University of Oklahoma is an equal-opportunity institution. For accommodations on the basis of disability, please contact Sarah Warren at (405) 325-1715.

We hope to see you there!

Paid Internship Opportunity: Bergey WindPower

 

Bergey WindPower in Norman has a job opening for an engineering intern!

Job Function:

  • Engineering Drafting & Design position.
  • Review manufacturing BOM’s
  • Assist with prototype design & build.

Requirements:

  • A working knowledge of Solid Works 3-D modeling software.

For information about this paid internship, contact Dr. Karl Bergey, CEO of Bergey WindPower and former AME professor at kbergey@bergey.com.

 

 

 

PETIV Dream Course: Professor Banuri

You are invited to this week’s session of the Political Economy, Technological Innovation and Values Dream Course.  Our featured speaker is former United Nations director for the Division of Sustainable Development and lead author on the Nobel Prize-winning panel on climate change, Tariq Banuri, Ph.D.

Professor Banuri is giving two talks:

 

RESOLVING THE CLIMATE-DEVELOPMENT DILEMMA
Wednesday, Feb. 20, 10:30 a.m. – noon Price Hall 2030

Conventional climate policy has consistently envisaged the threat in terms of what economists call a zero-sum game, to wit, there is a finite atmospheric space available, and the goal of climate agreements is to agree on proportioning it between the North and the South (or further divisions thereof). Not surprisingly, the result has been a total impasse, neither side having enough condign power or moral authority to impose a solution. Admittedly, there is talk of technological alternatives, but these remain on the sidelines, i.e., as options that will emerge once the finite space has been allocated. The argument advanced in the attached paper is that (a) this is not how things work; (b) the better option is to shift the focus from “space allocation” to “technology incentivization”; and (c) here is how it can be done.

 

EARTHLAND: THE WORLD AS A SINGLE COUNTRY
Wednesday, Feb. 20, 6:30 p.m.   Devon Energy Hall 120

In this talk Professor Banuri will focus on the implications of treating the entire world as the unit of analysis for addressing current and emerging challenges. The talk will bear upon the resolution of current policy dilemmas (including climate, energy, and development) and also help articulate the intricate nexus between politics, economics, and technology.

 

Dr. Banuri is a professor at the College of Architecture + Planning at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He is the former director of the Division for Sustainable Development of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, and served as Head of Office of the Conference Secretary-General for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio20).

Previously he served as a Senior Fellow and Director of Future Sustainability Programme at Stockholm Environment Institute. He was a Coordinating Lead Author on the Nobel Prize-winning Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change.

He started his career in the Civil Service of Pakistan and held several key positions including as the founding Executive Director of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute.

Dr. Banuri received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.

 

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For Additional Information, visit http://www.ou.edu/content/coe/ame/research/dream_course_2013 or contact Farrokh Mistree at 405.325. 2438 or farrokh.mistree@ou.edu

Both talks are complementary and open to the public. The University of Oklahoma is an equal-opportunity institution. For accommodations on the basis of disability, please contact Sarah Warren at (405) 325-1715.

We hope to see you there!

 

Baker Hughes 21st Century Co-Op Application

The Baker Hughes 21st Century Co-Op at the University of Oklahoma School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering is a five year BS/MS degree program in mechanical engineering aimed at developing technical competencies and meta-competencies needed by engineers to hit the road running and succeed in the oil and gas industry.  In addition to core courses in mechanical engineering, the curriculum includes customized courses jointly offered by company engineers and faculty during summer internships, a senior capstone experience and graduate theses that are of relevance to the sponsoring company, and graduate cross-disciplinary courses.  For additional information see attached.

Important Dates:
Application Deadline: February 15, 2013 (Submit at FH 212)
Interview with Baker Hughes: March 1-March 10, 2013
Selection Decision: March 15, 2013

For More Information Contact:
Professor Farrokh Mistree
Professor Zahed Siddique

Baker Hughes Co-op Form

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