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  Green Demand...

  Carnegie Mellon is a very interdisciplinary environment that plays on its strengths of design, engineering, and technology to propose solutions to some of the world's `green' problems.  We have The Institute for Green Science, where Terry Collins is working with molecular catalysts to rid water of hazardous pollutants.  We have the Intelligent Workplace where Volker Hartkopf is leading researchers on creating a `green' workplace that will generate more energy than it uses.  Within our Engineering and Public Policy Institute, we have the Green Design Institute, and the Climate Decision Making Center.

  With all of this wonderful research and learning happening on campus, it inevitability spills over into Heinz School of Public Policy and Management.  It is at the Heinz School where the implications of various environmental policies are discussed.  It is in classes like Sustainable Community Development, where policy students learn alongside architecture students and thus begin to understand environmental problems from multiple perspectives.

  Students from the Heinz School that have concentrated their studies on Environmental Policy are being snapped up by consulting firms, and local and federal government agencies (i.e. the EPA, the Dept of Energy, and the National Forest Service).  Nonprofits have not been on the radar as much (probably because of the great disparity in compensation), except in cases where the graduating students have been able to either create their own position (like Sustainability Coordinator), or actually start their own nonprofit organization.  Our students are not hired because they are environmental engineers, or developing the latest technologies to remediate environmental problems, they are being hired because they have a core quantitative skills set that allows them to analyze problems and make effective decisions as managers and leaders in a world that is becoming increasingly `green'.  
  On College grads hit the green job market -- here's what they'll find posted 1 year, 7 months ago 16 Responses