Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 55.41
Liaison Deborah Steinberg
Submission Date Feb. 18, 2013
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Carnegie Mellon University
ER-17: Departments Engaged in Sustainability Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 4.86 / 6.00 David Dzombak
Hamerschlag University Professor and Department Head
CEE: Civil & Environmental Engineering
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The total number of academic departments that conduct research:
28

The number of academic departments in which at least one faculty member engages in sustainability research:
17

A list of academic departments in which at least one faculty member engages in sustainability research:

A. CARNEGIE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Biomedical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Engineering and Public Policy
Mechanical Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Materials Science & Engineering
Institute for Complex Engineered Systems
B. MELLON COLLEGE OF SCIENCE
Chemistry
C. SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
Computer Science Department
Human Computer Interaction Institute
D.TEPPER SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Business Administration
E. DIETRICH COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
Social and Decision Sciences
F. HEINZ COLLEGE
School of Public Policy and Management
G.COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS
School of Art
School of Architecture
School of Design


The website URL where the sustainability research inventory that includes the departments engaged in sustainability research is posted:
A copy of the sustainability research inventory that includes the departments engaged in sustainability research:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

An inventory of environmental and sustainability research at Carnegie Mellon in fiscal year 2011 (July 1, 2011- to June 30, 2011) was conducted by the Steinbrenner Institute. This effort involved a compilation of research expenditures FY2011. Departments submitting data included History, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Engineering and Public Policy, Material Science and Engineering, the Tepper School of Business, Chemistry, Architecture, among other departments covering all seven colleges of Carnegie Mellon University. The total research expenditures in FY2011 were approximately 8.5 million dollars.

More information about environmental research being conducted in the various centers can be found at the Environment at CMU website: http://www.cmu.edu/environment/research/index.htm


An inventory of environmental and sustainability research at Carnegie Mellon in fiscal year 2011 (July 1, 2011- to June 30, 2011) was conducted by the Steinbrenner Institute. This effort involved a compilation of research expenditures FY2011. Departments submitting data included History, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Engineering and Public Policy, Material Science and Engineering, the Tepper School of Business, Chemistry, Architecture, among other departments covering all seven colleges of Carnegie Mellon University. The total research expenditures in FY2011 were approximately 8.5 million dollars.

More information about environmental research being conducted in the various centers can be found at the Environment at CMU website: http://www.cmu.edu/environment/research/index.htm

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