Dr. Camille George appinted to Governor's Clean Energy Collaborative
Governor Tim Pawlenty on September 12, 2008, announced his appointments to the Governor’s Clean Energy Technology Collaborative. The Governor created this 15-member collaborative by executive order (Executive Order 08-04) to identify the most promising research and development relating to clean energy technology that may be beneficial to Minnesota and identify the primary issues related to effective current or future implementation of the technologies.
The Governor’s appointees are Dr. Ulrich Bonne, Ph.D., Louis Christan, Dr. Jane H. Davidson, Ph.D., John Drown, Dr. Donald R. Fosnacht, Ph.D., Dr. Camille M. George, Ph.D., Duane A. Goetsch, John Goodman, Dan S. Henry, Ralph D. Imholte, Paul Plahn, Dr. Lanny D. Schmidt, Ph.D., Dr. Claudia Schmidt-Dannert, Ph.D., Dr. Vincent J. Winstead, Ph.D., and Dr. Luca Zullo, Ph.D. In addition, the director of the Office of Energy Security, and the commissioners of the Departments of Agriculture, Employment and Economic Development, and the Pollution Control Agency are ex-officio members of the collaborative.
George, of St. Paul, is an associate professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Engineering in St. Paul, where she teaches undergraduate thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, senior design, Energy and the Environment – an engineering course for non-majors, and developed a new course on fuel cell technology. George holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota, a masters, as well as her bachelors degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Dr. George was recently appointed to serve on the UST Faculty Oversight Committee to award the $1 million 2009 Opus Humanitarian Award.
