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What Is IEEE SusTech Initiative?
The IEEE SusTech Initiative seeks to contribute technical expertise and solutions to address sustainability challenges, including climate change. This initiative is growing rapidly and new volunteers are always welcome.
Workshops in various formats are offered free of charge throughout the year. These fascinating, interactive workshops engage technical professionals and academics from around the world to map technology development needs according to gaps identified by the work of the Planet Positive 2030 Compendium.
IEEE SusTech Initiative Leadership
Maike Luiken, Initiative Co-Chair
Maike Luiken, PhD, SMIEEE, IEEE-HKN, FEIC, FCAE, is managing director, R&D, at a start-up company, Carbovate Development, and Adjunct Research Professor, Western University, Canada.
Dr. Luiken is a longtime advocate for sustainable development and for the deployment and use of technology that is ‘sustainable by design’ to achieve a long-term healthy planetary biosphere. Her areas of interest and expertise span diverse technical areas from ICT, energy, and water to advanced manufacturing. She has particular interest in how progress and deployment of various technologies contributes – or not – to achieving sustainable development.
She is a member of the IEEE Standard Association Board of Governors and the IEEE SSIT Board of Governors. She chairs IEEE Planet Positive 2030, the IEEE P7800TM Standards Working Group: Recommended Practice for Addressing Sustainability, Environmental Stewardship and Climate Change Challenges in Professional Practice, and the Green Hydrogen IEEE SA Industry Connections Program. She is a co-chair, IEEE Future Directions SusTech Initiative.
Maike’s career spans academia and industry in Canada, USA and Germany. She is/has been serving on numerous Boards of Directors and Committees, including IEEE and the Canadian Standards Council Steering Committee of the Artificial Intelligence and Data Governance Standardization Collaborative.
Wei-Jen Lee, Initiative Co-Chair
Professor Wei-Jen Lee received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan., and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas, Arlington, in 1978, 1980, and 1985, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering.
Prof. Lee is a professor and chair of EE Department at the University of Texas at Arlington. He was the president of the IEEE Industry Applications Society in 2021-2022, the chair of IEEE TAB Climate Change Program in 2022-2023, and the project manager of IEEE/NFPA Arc Flash Phenomena Collaborative Research Project in 2008-2022. He is currently co-chair the IEEE TAB Future Direction Committee (FDC) SusTech Initiative and a Member of UN council of engineers for the Energy Transition.
He has been involved in the revision of IEEE Std. 141, 339, 551, 739, and 1584, and the development of 1584.1, 1584.2, 3002.8, and 3002.9. He has performed research on Utility Deregulation, Renewable Energy, Arc Flash Hazards and Electrical Safety, Smart Grid, AI for Load, Price, and Wind Capacity Forecasting, Power Quality, Demand Response, Power Systems Analysis, Short Circuit Analysis and Relay Coordination, Distributed Energy Resources, Energy Storage System, and PEV Charging Infrastructure Design.
Prof. Lee has served as the primary investigator (PI) or Co-PI of over one hundred and twenty funded research projects with the publication of more than two hundred and thirty journal papers and three hundred and twenty conference proceedings. He has provided on-site training for power engineers in Panama, China, Taiwan, Korea, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and Singapore.
Prof. Lee is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, Fellow of International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance, member of National Academy of Inventors, and registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas.
Program Director: Carole Graas, PhD, SMIEEE, IEEE Future Directions