Our goal is to make the process of working with CEERE and the University of Massachusetts an efficient and direct process. CEERE has four main points of contact in our focus areas, Renewables, Energy Efficiency and Building Energy Efficiency and Environmental Quality. The leads for these areas are listed below:

Dr. Beka Kosanovic is the Director of the Industrial Assessment Center. He is responsible for managing the industrial audits performed by the IAC. His research interests are combined heat and power, distributed generation, unit commitment modeling for dispatch of power plants in the gird, gas turbine combustion, mixing, and steam cycle analysis. In addition to his experience at CEERE, he has seven years of experience at an urban power plant/direct heating facility.

Dr. Lawrence Ambs is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Massachusetts. His outreach activities and research focus include applied thermodynamics and energy conversion, with particular emphasis on building systems, thermal power generation and industrial thermal processes. Additional research interests include gas turbine combustion and mixing, steam cycle analysis, and cogeneration. In 1990 he was awarded the United Technologies Corporation’s Outstanding Teaching Award.