Pachauri earned a doctorate in industrial engineering in 1974 and then a doctorate in economics from the university, leading him to a faculty post in the department of economics and business. He spent a year in 2000 as a McCluskey Fellow at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. He has written 23 books, as well as several papers and articles.
Pachauri said his background in industrial engineering has helped him understand the role of technology - how it can be developed and deployed. He said that technology plays a large part in how other industrial engineers can participate in preventing continued global warming. The ability to develop and manufacture devices embodying eco-friendly technology at costs that would make them marketable will likely be the greatest challenge for industrial engineers, he said. Project management is another area where Pachauri said engineers can implement a green mindset.
If we want to bring about the shift from current infrastructure, equipment, and technology - something that would be small and carbon-friendly - then industrial engineers will have an important role in translating those concepts into actual results on the ground," he said.
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"We're all inhabitants of spaceship Earth," Pachauri said. "Anything that happens at any part of the globe has implications for all of us and we need to start thinking along those lines."
"To the limited extent that I can help to bring about a shift in thinking, I'm certainly going to do that."
Copyright Institute of Industrial Engineers Sep 2007
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