Yang Yu
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yangyu1@stanford.edu
Graduate Student, Civil and Environmental Engineering
SCPKU Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Fall 2014
FSI scholars approach their research on the environment from regulatory, economic and societal angles. The Center on Food Security and the Environment weighs the connection between climate change and agriculture; the impact of biofuel expansion on land and food supply; how to increase crop yields without expanding agricultural lands; and the trends in aquaculture. FSE’s research spans the globe – from the potential of smallholder irrigation to reduce hunger and improve development in sub-Saharan Africa to the devastation of drought on Iowa farms. David Lobell, a senior fellow at FSI and a recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant, has looked at the impacts of increasing wheat and corn crops in Africa, South Asia, Mexico and the United States; and has studied the effects of extreme heat on the world’s staple crops.
Michael Lepech
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
285B Yang & Yamazaki Energy and Environment Building
473 Via Ortega
Stanford, California 94305-4020
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mlepech@stanford.edu
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor Lepech's research focuses on the integration of sustainability indicators into engineering design, ranging from materials design, structural design, system design, to operations management. Such sustainability indicators include a comprehensive set of environmental, economic, and social costs. Recently his research has focused on the design of sustainable high performance fiber-reinforced cementitious composites (HPFRCCs) and fiber-reinforced polymers (FRPs), the impacts of sustainable materials on building and infrastructure design and operation, and the development of new life cycle assessment (LCA) applications for building systems, transportation systems, water systems, consumer products. Along with this he is studying the effects that slowly diffusing sustainable civil engineering innovations, and the social networks they diffuse through, can have on achieving long term sustainability goals.
Michael joined the Stanford University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty from the University of Michigan's Center for Sustainable Systems where he was a research fellow at the School of Natural Resources and Environment. He received his PhD in Materials Engineering from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He also received his MSE in Structural Engineering from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and his MBA in Strategy from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His industry experience lies in the design and construction of interstate highways and bridges, along with the design and construction of residential high rises in seismic zones.
Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Center at Peking University, December 2014 and July to August of 2015
NORTH KOREA’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM: STATUS AND PROSPECTS
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Pyongyang is moving ahead on all nuclear fronts: It announced in an April 2 statement that it will adjust and alter the use of existing nuclear facilities to simultaneously stimulate the economy and build up nuclear armed forces, implying that it will promote both commercial and military nuclear programs. It is expanding its missile launch facilities. It has at least one new nuclear test tunnel prepared for another test. It has restarted its plutonium production reactor and continues on the construction of the experimental light water reactor, likely to begin operation in late 2014 or early 2015. It appears to have doubled the size of the modern centrifuge facility in Yongbyon. These developments have set back progress toward restarting the six-party talks. Dr. Siegfried Hecker, drawing on his experiences in North Korea and technical analysis, will review the status of North Korea's nuclear program and suggest a path to resolving the nuclear crisis.
Siegfried Hecker served as co-director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) from 2007 to 2012. He directed the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1986-1997 and served as senior fellow until 2005.
Stanford Center at Peking University
Siegfried S. Hecker
Senior Fellow
Speaker
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Lectures
SCIENCE PARKS, CHINESE INNOVATION POLICY AND FIRM STRATEGY
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The Chinese government developed over 100 high-tech industrial development zones and over 80 university science parks since the mid-1980s, aimed to support fundraising and growth for innovation. How do they contribute to innovation in China? Are places like Zhongguangcun helping Chinese firms like the Silicon Valley? Professor Eesley will discuss his research on Science Parks as innovation policy in China and the channels through which ventures acquire financial and political support in China.
Professor Eesley is an SCPKU Faculty Fellow, the recipient of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 2012 Research Fund for International Young Scientists, and 2010 Best Dissertation Award in the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management. He has a doctorate from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and had been an entrepreneur in medical equipment innovation. His research focuses on how formal and informal institutions, and industry environment influence entrepreneurship.
Stanford Center at Peking University
CHARLES EESLEY
Assistant Professor, Management Science and Engineering Department
Speaker
Stanford University
Seminars
James O. Leckie
Yang & Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building, Room 261
473 Via Ortega
Stanford, California 94305-4020
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leckie@stanford.edu
Member of Academic Council C.L. Peck, Class of 1906 Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor, by courtesy, of Geological and Environmental Sciences
Director, Center for Sustainable Development and Global Competitiveness