Dr.
Joshua
M.
Pearce
received
his
Ph.D.
in
Materials
Engineering
from
the
Pennsylvania
State
University.
He
then
developed
the
first
Sustainability
program
in
the
Pennsylvania
State
System
of
Higher
Education
as
an
assistant
professor
of
Physics
at
Clarion
University
of Pennsylvania where he also started their nanotechnology program.
Then he was
cross-appointed
in
the
Department
of
Mechanical
and
Materials
Engineering
and
the
School
of
Environmental
Studies
at
Queen's
University,
Canada.
There he helped
develop
the
Applied
Sustainability
graduate
program
and
currently
still
runs the
Queen's Applied Sustainability
Research Group as an adjunct professor.
He currently is
an Associate Professor cross-appointed
in the Department of Materials Science &
Engineering and in the Department of Electrical & Computer
Engineering at the Michigan Technological University.
He
runs
the
MTU
laboratory
in
open
sustainability
technology,
whose
research
concentrates
on
the
use
of
open
source
appropriate
technology
to
find
collaborative
solutions
to
problems
in
sustainability
and
poverty
reduction.
His
research
spans
areas
of
electronic
device
physics and materials engineering of solar
photovoltaic cells, but also includes applied sustainability, energy
policy, and engineering service learning. He is the Manuscript Editor
for the International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering:
Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship.
Alexandra Glover
is a Materials Science and Engineering major at Michigan
Technological University. Her research focuses on designing, building and testing an extruder for the RepRap that uses polymer waste as a feedstock.
Brad Pasionek is a Materials Science
and Engineering student at Michigan Tech. His current research is focusing on molecular beam epitaxy of solar photovoltaic materials.
Brennan Tymrak is a 5th
year
Mechanical Engineering major at Michigan Technological University. His current research focuses on material testing of polymer components made using the open source RepRap 3-D printer.
Megan Kreiger is
currently pursuing a
M.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering and a Graduate
Certificate in Sustainability, after graduating with a Bachelor's
degree in Mathematics at Michigan Tech in 2009.Her research is on the Life-cycle Analysis of Recycling Photovoltaic Materials in the Manufacturing Process
Meredith Mulder is a third
year
student at Michigan Technological University studying Materials Science
and Engineering with minors in Spanish and Polymers Engineering.
She is interested in studying the application of polymers, especially ways to use them for a sustainable future.
Michaela Carmein
is a Mechanical Engineering major and Computer Science minor at
Michigan Technological University. Her work focuses on creating a protocol for starting enterprises by developing, producing and selling a products using open sourced rapid prototyping technology.
Sai Ravi Chandra Parasaram is a
graduate student in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at
Michigan Technological University with specilization in power systems
and renewable energy. His interests are optimization of power systems using distributed generation and smart grids.
Thaddeus Waterman is a third year
Materials Science and Engineering major at Michigan Technological
University. His current research focuses on the implementation of a new open source polymer laser welding technique.
Rob Andrews is a PhD Candidate the
Applied Sustainability group at Queen's University. He received both an
MASc and B. SC. in Mechanical Engineering with first class honours from
the same institution. His research focus is on photovoltaic system design and environmentally responsible manufacturing.
Saba
Sadeghi Khosravieh is a PhD Candidate the Applied Sustainability
group at Queen's University. She is working in collobaoration with Dr. Kevin Robbie's group on the development of new thin film coating processes for solar photovoltaic devices.