Opening Remarks​

10:00 – 10:10 am​

Panel Introductions:​

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• Dr. DJ Pan, Professor and Chair, Physiology Department, UT Southwestern​
• Dr. Karthik Vasanth, VP and General Manager for Data Converter Business Unit, Texas Instruments​
• Dr. Wenhua Di, Sr. Economist at Federal Bank of Dallas & Executive Director, Federal Statistical Research Data Center DFW

• TBD​
• TBD​

10:10 – 10:35 am​

Panel Discussions​

10:35 – 11:30 am​

Q&A​

11:30 – 12:00 pm​

Closing Remarks​

12:00 – 12:10 pm​

Networking Lunch

12:10 – 1:00 pm

General Session​

1:00 – 2:50 pm​

Opening Remarks: Prof. J.-C. Chiao, SMU​

1:00 – 1:10 pm​

Keynote: Dr. Sridevi Narayan-Sarathy, Director and Sr. Fellow, PepsiCo​

Title: PepsiCo positive efforts to enable a world where packaging never becomes waste​

1:10 – 2:00 pm​

Keynote: Dr. Bob Hendler, Chief Medical Officer, Texas Hospital Association​

Title: Operational Sustainability: Healthcare and other Organizations​

2:00 – 2:50 pm​

Resource Sustainability Track (in parallel)​

Chair: Prof. Nick Fang, Department of Civil Engineering, UT Arlington)​

3:00 – 5:00 pm​

Susan Alvarez, Assistant Director, Office of Environmental Quality & Sustainability, City of Dallas​

Title: CECAP: Not just Another Pretty Plan on the Shelf​

3:00 – 3:30 pm​

Dr. Zhong Lu, Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist University​

Title: Monitoring Earth’s Hazards with Satellite Radar Interferometry ​

3:30 – 4:00 pm​

Dr. Xinbao (Paul) Yu, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington​

Title: Bridge Deicing using Shallow Geothermal Energy: How did it perform in the 2021 Winter Storm in Texas? ​

4:00 – 4:30 pm​

Jerry L. Cotter, Water Resources Branch Chief, US Army Corps of Engineers​

Title: USACE Evolution of Flood Mitigation for DFW

4:30 – 5:00 pm​

Infrastructure Sustainability Track (in parallel)​

Chair: Prof.  Mohammad Khodayar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Southern Methodist University​

3:00 – 5:00 pm​

Dr. Khaled Abdelghany, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Southern Methodist University​

Title: The Future of Urban Mobility: Opportunities and Challenges ​

3:00 – 3:30 pm​

Dr. Jie Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UT Dallas

Title: Modeling and Control of Integrated Thermal-Electric Energy Systems for Grid Resilience​

3:30 – 4:00 pm​

Dr. Yaoyu Li, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas​

Title: Efficient and Grid-interactive Building Energy Systems Enabled by Modeling, Controls and Optimization​

4:00 – 4:30 pm​

Dr. Janille Smith-Colin, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Southern Methodist University​

Title: Towards Socially Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure Projects Using a Systems Approach​

4:30 – 5:00 pm​

Leadership and Career Development Track (in parallel)​

Chair and Moderator: Matt Tovar, Oncor Electric Delivery Company​

3:00 – 5:00 pm​

Mark Carpenter, SVP, Transmission & Distribution Operations, Oncor Electric Delivery Company​

Title: A Few of Life’s Lessons Learned Along the Way (What I wish I had known earlier)​

3:00 – 3:30 pm​

Speaker 2: Gaurav Shekhar, Program Director and Assistant Professor of Instruction, UT Dallas​

Title: Sustainability through the lens of data and analytics​

3:30 – 4:00 pm​

Speaker 3: Sheana Chen, VP and General Counsel, Diodes​

Title: Looking at leadership through the sustainability perspective​

4:00 – 4:30 pm​

Panel Discussion and Q&A​

4:30 – 5:00 pm​