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decarbSTEEL: From classroom to conference debut
" Thanks to a Sustainable Technologies for Steel Manufacturing Grant from the Association for Iron and Steel Technology (AIST), Carnegie...

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May 81 min read
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Industrial evolution: EPP researchers simulate workforce impact
"The adoption of decarbonized production methods in heavy manufacturing industries is widely considered a key step toward global climate...

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May 71 min read
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LEO Member JP Pieper Wins CMU SCS’s 2025 Random Distance Run
On Friday, April 25th, LEO Ph.D. student JP Pieper and Professor Valerie Karplus participated in the 2025 Random Distance Run, hosted by...

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May 61 min read
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Simulating regional workforce impacts of decarbonizing integrated steelmaking
Miles, Jillian; Combemale, Christophe; Karplus, Valerie J.; Pistorius, P. Chris (2025). Simulating regional workforce impacts of...

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May 61 min read
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LEO Member JP Pieper Wins Herbert L. Toor Award
LEO Ph.D. student JP Pieper was awarded the Herbert L. Toor Award for his Part A research. Congratulations, JP! About the award: The...

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Apr 151 min read
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LEO Member Jillian Miles Completes 8-Week Course at Pittsburgh Glass Center
LEO Ph.D. student Jillian Miles recently completed an 8-week "Intro to Stained Glass" course at the Pittsburgh Glass Center . Miles...

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Mar 181 min read
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Management practices and manufacturing firm responses to a randomized energy audit
Zhang, Da; Karplus, Valerie J. (2025). Management practices and manufacturing firm responses to a randomized energy audit. Nature Energy....

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Mar 121 min read
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To ensure energy audits help climate goals, target emissions
"Energy audits can be a useful tool for reducing industrial emissions, but new research co-led by Valerie Karplus found that clear...

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Mar 121 min read
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Accelerating green steel
The outcomes of the 2024 CMU Accelerating Green Steel Workshop, co-hosted on campus from November 13-14, 2024 by the Wilton E. Scott...

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Mar 121 min read
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2024 Accelerating Green Steel Workshop Proceedings
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation hosted a Research Workshop on Accelerating Green Steel at Carnegie Mellon University,...

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Mar 121 min read
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Beyond the Bottom Line: Assessing Non-Economic Barriers to Hydrogen Adoption
Read LEO member Dr. Ioana Iacob's Engineering and Public Policy Ph.D. thesis below.

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Feb 261 min read
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Feature Engineering to Embed Process Knowledge: Analyzing the Energy Efficiency of Electric Arc Furnace Steelmaking
Zhuo, Q.; Al-Harbi, M.N.; Pistorius, P.C. (2025). Feature Engineering to Embed Process Knowledge: Analyzing the Energy Efficiency of...

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Feb 121 min read
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The C-REM 4.0 model: A CGE model for provincial analysis of China’s carbon neutrality target
Hantan Peng, Chenfei Qu, Valerie J. Karplus, Da Zhang (2025), Energy and Climate Management , Vol. 1, Issue 1, March 2025. View the paper...

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Jan 221 min read
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How to sustain scientific collaboration amid worsening US–China relations
Valerie J. Karplus, Lan Xue, M. Granger Morgan, Kebin He, David G. Victor, Shuang-Nan Zhang (2024), Nature , 14 January 2025. View the...

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Jan 221 min read
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