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Sustainability is a delicate balance of dynamic systems


Advanced Energy & Material Systems Laboratory

Director:  Associate Professor Susan Krumdieck


Research, Education, Transition Engineering

The AEMSLab is an interdisciplinary research group in the College of Engineering, University of Canterbury. Students and staff work with industry, government, and communities on transition to resilient and environmentally integrated systems. Systems-level engineering research is urgently needed to provide near and long-term solutions for communities, organisations and business. 

 

Transition Engineering 

  • Projects that address the challenges of sustainability
  • Urgent & Significant Fossil CO2 Emissions Reduction
  • Reduction in Energy and Material Intensity of the Economy
  • Balance of Consumption and Impacts with Natural Systems
  • Post Peak Oil, Carbon Constrained Transportation Systems
  • Feasible Sustainability Assessment
These complex problems require systems engineering of technologies and infrastructure in the context of often competing economic, social, and environmental factors.  Advanced Energy and Mateiral Systems Engineering often involves development of renewable energy or clean technologies.  However, real transition projects for companies or communities require a systems engineering approach, creativity and innovation. 

Transitioning Oamaru - read about the first active research forum


High Schools - read more about our work with youth and helping them to transition from  consumer group to leaders in sustainability


Councils - see presentations made to various councils to help decision makers deal with the challenges of sustainability



Photo courtesy of Kierra Krumdieck, Burnside High School, 2006

      
   

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