Valerie Thomas
Anderson
Interface Associate Professor
School of Industrial and Systems
Engineering, and
School of
Public Policy
Georgia Institute of Technology
Research
• environmental impacts of biofuels,
• the potential for renewable energy
in Georgia,
• sustainability in Atlanta
• environmental implications of second-hand
markets,
• barcodes,
RFID, and electronics for lifecycle tracking
of products and wastes
• energy
efficiency in freight
transportation.
Outreach
Reinvent
Recycling with Cash Incentives and 'Smart Trash' - Digital
Communities, September 18 2009.
Art,
Science, and the
Environment, (more details)
July 2009.
Students
Look at Energy Savings for ISyE Complex, June 2, 2009.
City
of Atlanta Greenhouse Gas Emissions Study, March 17, 2009.
E-waste
R&D Act - Testimonty to House Science Committee, February 11
2009.
Environmentally-Friendly
Laptops - inteview on ABC's Money
Matters, July 25, 2007.
Blueprint
for a Green Laptop - article in Popular
Science, July 2007.
Professional Activities
• Member US EPA Science Advisory Board
• Councilor, International
Society for Industrial
Ecology
• 2004-2005 American Physical Society Congressional
Science Fellow. I worked in the legislative office
of Representative Rush Holt on science policy issues.
Teaching 
Energy Technology and Policy class at the
solar power arrays on the roof of the Campus Recreation Center.
- Quantitative Analysis of Energy and the Environment (Graduate
course in ISYE) Spring
2009 (syllabus)
- Energy Technology and Policy (graduate course cross listed in
ISYE and PUBP) Spring 2010 (syllabus)
- Energy and Environmental Analysis (undergraduate ISYE course)
Fall 2009 (syllabus)
Acknowledgement
Ray Anderson, Founder and Chairman of Interface, Inc., provided the
endowed position which I am honored to hold. He speaks
powerefully of the challenge of sustainability in industry: Running a business
is a tough proposition...
Office: Groseclose, Room 415
Phone: (404) 385-7254
Fax: 404-894-0390
E-mail: valerie.thomas
at
isye.gatech.edu
ISyE Profile: http://www.isye.gatech.edu/faculty-staff/profile.php?entry=vt34