Event Date
Join us at the Dean's Distinguished Speaker Series, featuring:
Ashok Gadgil
Retiree Affiliate (Former Faculty Senior Scientist), Energy Technologies Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Distinguished Chair Emeritus of Safe Water and Sanitation and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
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Summary
Development Engineering is a new emerging discipline that merges the understanding of quantitative social sciences with the engineering sciences to address some of the severe problems of people living in poverty. The discipline aligns with the UC Davis College of Engineering Next Level strategic vision to promote "Engineering for All" and "leave no community behind." As a longtime practitioner of engineering innovations with these very same themes and a significant contributor at UC Berkeley of establishing a graduate program in Development Engineering, Prof. Ashok Gadgil will speak about his journey and share high-level lessons from his experience that can be useful to others in successful advances in this field.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Gadgil is a retired Senior Faculty Scientist, and formerly the co-lead for the Water-Energy initiative for the Energy Technologies Area at LBNL. He has a Ph.D. in physics from University of California, Berkeley. His expertise ranges from computational fluid dynamics of indoor air and pollutant flows, simulation of entry and transport of indoor radon, building energy efficiency, and methods to treat drinking water to make it potable. He has more than 135 refereed archival journal papers, 120 conference papers, and several patents. His work has won national and international recognition with several prestigious honors and awards. He held a concurrent appointment on the UC Berkeley campus as Distinguished Chair of Safe Water and Sanitation and Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering.