Spotlight On: Lincoln Professor Braden Allenby

Honors & Awards

Designated a Stockdale Fellow for the years 2009/2010 by the U. S. Naval Academy. The Stockdale Fellowship program is to bring together academic scholars and teachers with senior career military officers, civil servants, and others to collaborate on strengthening public understanding of the ethics of war and peace, ethics and the military profession, and the relationship of ethics and character to the development of effective leadership in a variety of professional and institutional settings. According to the Naval Academy, ideal candidates from academia will be established scholars with publications and substantial teaching experience in philosophy and ethics, international relations, behavioral science, or public policy. Brad will be investigating the social, cultural, ethical, and operational implications of emerging technologies with military and national security implications. Such technologies include the rapidly increasing use of robots in combat situations, new miniaturized mechanisms for surveillance, development of headgear that can "read" and transmit an individual's thoughts, and pharmaceuticals that enhance cognitive function.

Media Coverage

In October, Dr. Allenby was interviewed by state and local press on how the new Consortium for Emerging Technologies, Military Operations, and National Security will explore emerging technologies of war weapons and the impact society. The news releases are available here..   Dr. Allenby is the Founding Chair of the Consortium on Emerging Technologies, Military Operations, and National Security.

Publications

Professor Allenby just finished publishing a new book entitled "Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Engineering" by T.E. Graedel and B.R. Allenby, Prentice Hall, 2010.

• KEY BENEFIT:   The first book of its kind devoted completely to industrial ecology/green engineering, this introduction uses industrial ecology principles and cases to ground the discussion of sustainable engineering–and offers practical and reasonable approaches to design decisions.
• KEY TOPICS:   Technology and Sustainability; Industrial Ecology(IE) and Sustainable Engineering (SE) Concepts; Relevance of Biological Ecology to Technology; Metabolic Analysis; Technological Change and Evolving Risk; Social Dimensions of Industrial Ecology; Concept of Sustainability; SE; Industrial Product Development; Design for Environment and for Sustainability; Introduction to Life-Cycle Assessment; LCA Impact and Interpretation Stages; Streamlining the LCA Process; Systems Analysis; Industrial Ecosystems; Material Flow Analysis; National Material Accounts; Energy and IE; Water and IE; Urban IE; Modeling in IE; Scenarios for IE; Status of Resources; IE and SE in Developing Countries; IE and Sustainability in the Corporation/Government/Society
• MARKET:   A useful reference for professionals in environmental science, environmental policy, and engineering.

Presentations

• Keynote, “Sustainable Engineering: Lessons Learned and Challenges Glimpsed,” Global Conference on Engineering Solutions for Sustainability, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 22 July 2009, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• Keynote, “Sustainable Engineering and the Mining Industry,” Americas School of Mines, Scottsdale, AZ, September 24, 2009.
• Keynote, “Sustainable Engineering: Definitions and Concepts,” ASU Workshop on Sustainable Engineering, Tempe, AZ, September 25, 2009.
• Keynote, “Emerging Technologies, Military Operations, and National Security,” Workshop on Emerging Technologies, Military Operations, and National Security, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, October 8-10, 2009.

Personal Stuff

Brad did the rim-to-rim, North Kaibab to Bright Angel, in October for the first time – that route is about 24.5 miles plus or minus, depending on what book you read, and goes down and up almost a mile. Next year, Brad plans on doing it again and will try for under 8 hours.