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  • Amory B Lovins

    Amory B Lovins

    Adjunct Lecturer, Atmosphere and Energy

    BioPhysicist Amory Lovins (1947– ) is Cofounder (1982) and Chairman Emeritus, and was Chief Scientist (2007–19), of RMI (Rocky Mountain Institute, www.rmi.org), where he continues to collaborate. He has designed many superefficient buildings, vehicles, and industrial plants, and synthesized an "integrative design" method and practice that can make the energy efficiency resource severalfold larger, yet cheaper, often with increasing returns. Since 1973 he has advised major firms and governments in >70 countries on advanced energy efficiency and strategy, linked with renewables, grid integration, resources, environment, security, development, and economy. He is a Visiting Scholar of the Precourt Institute for Energy and has worked in ~20 disciplines.

    Lovins has received the Blue Planet, Volvo, Zayed, Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and Mitchell Prizes, MacArthur and Ashoka Fellowships, 12 honorary doctorates, the Heinz, Lindbergh, Right Livelihood, National Design, and World Technology Awards, many other energy and environment recognitions, and Germany’s highest civilian honor (the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit). A Harvard and Oxford dropout, former Oxford don, honorary US architect, Swedish engineering academician, and 2011–18 member of the US National Petroleum Council, he has taught at ten universities—most recently the US Naval Postgraduate School and Stanford (spring 2007 MAP/Ming Visiting Professor, half-time 2020–24 Adjunct Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, then Lecturer)—teaching only subjects he hasn’t formally studied, so as to cultivate beginner’s mind. In 2009, Time named him one of the world’s 100 most influential people; Foreign Policy, one of the 100 top global thinkers; and Stanford's Scopus analysis, in the top 2% of world scientists.. His most recent books, mostly coauthored, include Natural Capitalism (1999), Small Is Profitable (2002), Winning the Oil Endgame (2004), The Essential Amory Lovins (2011), Reinventing Fire (2011), and a volume of aviation essays (2022–24, aspenflyright.org). His avocations include fine-art landscape photography (the profession of his wife Judy Hill Lovins, www.judyhill.com), music, writing, orangutans, great-ape language, linguistics, and Taoist thought.

    COURSES: Lovins and Dr. Joel Swisher PE, as CEE Adjunct Professors, cotaught in 2024 iterations 11–12 of their flagship course applying whole-system thinking and integrative design for radical energy efficiency and profitable climate solutions: CEE 107R, CEE 207R. They will next offer it in Winter and Spring Quarters 2025.

    PUBLICATIONS

    Lovins has authored 32 books and 900+ papers in a wide range of disciplines. His recent peer-reviewed papers include:

    "How big is the energy efficiency resource?," Env. Res. Ltrs., Sep 2018, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aad965
    "Recalibrating climate prospects," coauthored, Env. Res. Ltrs., Dec 2019, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab55ab
    "Can a virus and viral ideas speed the world's journey beyond fossil fuels?," with K. Bond, Env. Res. Ltrs., Feb 2021, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abc3f2
    "Reframing automotive fuel efficiency," SAE J-STEEP, Apr 2020, https://doi.org/10.4271/13-01-01-0004

    His Aug/Sep 2020 Electricity Journal interview on the future of electricity is at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tej.2020.106827.
    His 11 Nov 2020 Precourt seminar on "Integrative Design for Radical Energy Efficiency," with Dr. Holmes Hummel, is at https://energy.stanford.edu/events/special-energy-seminar-amory-lovins-holmes-hummel.
    Profitably abating heavy transport and industrial heat: https://www.rmi.org/profitable-decarb/ and ($6.95 paywall) https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/decarbonizing-our-toughest-sectors-profitably/, both 2021.
    “US nuclear power: status, prospects, and climate implications,” El. J., 6 May 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tej.2022.107122.

  • Justin T. H. Luke

    Justin T. H. Luke

    Ph.D. Student in Civil and Environmental Engineering, admitted Spring 2019

    BioJustin's mission is to secure a sustainable and livable planet for all through tech innovation, entrepreneurship, and informing policy. He seeks to design green cities and achieve deep carbon cuts by pursuing research in renewable energy systems, smart grids, and autonomous electrified transportation.

    At Stanford University, Justin is a Ph.D. student in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Energy Systems). Previously, Justin obtained a M.S. in Electrical Engineering at Stanford and a B.S. in Energy Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-luke/

  • Richard Luthy

    Richard Luthy

    Silas H. Palmer Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor, by courtesy, of Oceans

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDick Luthy studies sustainable solutions to urban water supplies and management of contaminated sediments. Current work includes experimentation and systems-level analysis of innovative, decentralized water reuse and management of urban stormwater for water supply. He is working with a group to assess strategies for coping with reduced water imports and requirements from the State's Water Board to leave more water in California rivers for ecosystems.

  • Michael Lyons

    Michael Lyons

    Adjunct Lecturer, Civil and Environmental Engineering
    Instructor, Stanford Engineering Center for Global and Online Education

    Bio-Co-founded Zilkha Venture Partners; sourced investments that returned 5.8x ; rated Top 5% by Cambridge Associates
    -Venture Partner at four other Funds including DFJ/ePlanet I & II, Paladin Capital Group- Deals created $50B+ in market value
    -Co-founder, CEO or Chairman or C-Suite of 12 Companies including Integrated Systems (INTS, merged with WIND, acq. by Intel), Shadow Networks acq. by Alcalvio), and CypherPath
    (acq. by ManTech); co-founding CEO, SafeView (Acq. By L3-Harris then Leidos) Returned 78% IRR for Series A and 163% IRR for Series B investors
    -Currently Chairman PrecisionOSTech (Surgical VR Training); and Turbo Protocol (Web 3 Blockchain ); co-founder & CEO (emeritus), RapidAscent (Cyber Ed); Director RTI, global
    leader in IIoT; General Partner, NativeFirst Capital
    -Co-founder, Numerous SCPD exec Ed Programs, Idea to Market online program, Price-Babson Fellow in eShip Education

    He is also a Managing Director of NewLine Ventures, LLC, a management consulting firm. From 2008 to 2011, he also served as a Venture Partner with the Paladin Capital Group in Washington, D.C., and as a Venture Partner for ePlanet Ventures I and II. He founded SafeView, Inc. in 2002, a Government Laboratory (PNNL) spinout, to address aspects of the anti-terrorist physical security market; He served as Chairman until its sale to L3 Harris in March 2006. Leidos then acquired the Company in 2020. This technology is now the security standard in airports worldwide.

    Concurrently, Mr. Lyons is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Stanford University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Serving in the Stanford position since 1988, he was a co-developer of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program with Prof. Tom Byers and the founding professor of Technology Venture Formation. Engineering. He is the co-creator of the Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship two-week program for existing high-tech companies produced and managed by the Stanford Center for Professional Development (SCPD). This program has just completed its 14th year. He has co-produced and delivered numerous other SCPD and STVP programs. He co-founded the Ratio Academy focused on creating training platforms for entrepreneurial education, with a co-developed online program with SCPD called Idea to Market, I2M. He is the founding professor of Tech Venture Formation, MSE273.

    From 1980 to 1991, he was a co-founder, a Vice-President, and a Director of Integrated Systems Inc. (INTS, founded 1980), a leading implementer of high-performance real-time control systems for aircraft, automotive, and manufacturing applications. INTS was fundamentally a spinout from the Lockheed Palo Alto Research Lab and Systems Control, Inc. The Company was merged with WindRiver Systems in 1999. WindRiver was acquired by Intel in 2009.

    Mr. Lyons received a Bachelor and Masters (equivalent) in Engineering Physics from Cornell University, an MSEE from Stanford, did Ph.D research in Aero/Astro at Stanford (abd) and an MBA, with Distinction, from the Pepperdine Presidential/Key Executive Program. He is a graduate of the Stanford/AEA Institute for the Management of High Technology Companies and a Price-Babson Fellow in Entrepreneurship Education. He holds an FAA multi-Engine Airline Transport Pilot License and Certified Flight Instructor Certificates for Instrument and Multi-Engine Aircraft. He is an avid sailor and motorcyclist.