News Releases
News from Lane Community College, Eugene, Oregon
Media contacts: Joan Aschim, public information office, 463-5591, aschimj@lanecc.edu
or Roger Ebbage, energy management instructor/coordinator, 463-3977.
for release March 29, 2004
LCC faculty to teach energy management workshop in Beirut
EUGENE - Two energy management instructors at Lane Community College will
teach energy efficiency and renewable energy technology to faculty from
the American University of Beirut, the Jordan University of Science and
Technology, the Palestine Polytechnic University, and Birzeit University,
at a workshop in Beirut, Lebanon, April 26-30.
Roger Ebbage and Mike Hatten are instructors in Lane’s two-year
energy management associate degree program. They also train and certify
professionals through the program’s Northwest Energy Education Institute.
They participated in a similar workshop last year in Cypress.
The workshop is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of State. The
AUB is coordinating the workshop, part of a larger project to improve
the region’s educational capacity in the areas of energy efficiency
and renewable energy technologies. “The initial challenge to the
energy sectors in each of the countries of the region is to improve operational
efficiency to minimize the energy sector’s financial impact on national
budgets, and to reduce negative impact on the environment,” says
the AUB. The region also needs to “reform and restructure its energy
sector,” and values the “American experience in performance
testing, efficiency certification, alternative fuels, energy codes and
norms, management practices, and financing mechanisms.”
Ebbage and Hatten will conduct an energy audit on the AUB campus as well
as contribute to program development discussions for the universities.
For information about the Energy Management Program, Northwest Energy
Education Institute, or the Beirut workshop, call Roger Ebbage at 463-3977.
###
