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Meeting ID: 944 9274 9893
​Passcode: 337292

In its most recent assessment (AR6), the IPCC identified low energy- and materials-demand pathways as crucial—yet largely untapped—options for accelerating global progress toward net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. The industrial sector is key to unlocking these pathways, but to do so it must adopt numerous emerging technologies whose technical, economic, and energy impacts remain uncertain.

This seminar will discuss how innovative engineering models can be applied to simulate technology performance and impacts "at scale" by integrating methods from the process modeling, economic analysis, climate scenario modeling, and life cycle assessment domains. Such models can highlight both potential technology benefits (environmental, social, economical) at scale and the barriers that must be overcome to achieve them, providing actionable guidance to technology innovators and policy makers that can accelerate adoption. To illustrate the utility of such integrated approaches, recent applications to additive manufacturing, industrial tooling, and cement/concrete material systems will be presented and discussed, as well as how such methods can (and should!) become part of the engineer's "toolkit" for addressing global sustainability challenges.