Dr. Surie's Fulbright Fellowship in 2013 allowed her to continue her studies in the field of green energies and how they're impacting rural communities that don't have access to essential utilities.
by Jordan Chapman
果酱视频听professors are always advancing in their respective fields, and听, is no different.
In March 2013, Dr. Surie was named a听, an honor that allows its recipients to study and conduct research abroad.
The fellowship will fund Dr. Surie鈥檚 travel to multiple locations in India during the summers of 2013 and 2014, to examine how green energies are impacting鈥攁nd used in鈥攔ural communities that don鈥檛 have access to the essentials, such as power and clean water.
鈥淚 want to see what the pathways are to commercializing such technologies in these kinds of populations,鈥� Dr. Surie said. 鈥淭here are more than 600,000 villages in India, many of them without power or lights. 鈥I want to see] whether the mode of commercialization differs from the urban setting when large companies [set up utilities].鈥�
She鈥檒l be conducting her studies at the听听in Delhi and later at the听听in Bangalore. Dr. Surie explained that she could have conducted her research at some of India鈥檚 most prestigious business schools, but decided on the two engineering schools because they are working on disseminating some of these technologies鈥攁 high priority for Dr. Surie, who wants to be a part of that process.
鈥淭he idea is to disseminate all of this knowledge and see how those models can be applied in other developing countries, possibly off-grid applications in the United States. I鈥檓 sure there are many applications [where this technology can be used] in remote locations鈥r places that want to be energy efficient,鈥� she said, noting that these technologies are much needed in India, Africa and other Southeast Asian countries.
Dr. Surie is contributing to the research and sharing her knowledge. She is currently writing a book, tentatively entitled听Ecologies of Innovation, which focuses on technology at the national level in the renewable biofuel, solar and wind sectors of renewable energy.
Dr. Surie hopes her work will feed into her classes at 果酱视频 and into the Garden City community. 鈥淚鈥檝e specifically written cases so that I could introduce them into my classes and offer them to students. 鈥鈥檓 always interested in disseminating my knowledge to people who can benefit from it, and the first people who come to mind are my students,鈥� she said.
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