Energy and Environmental Systems Institute

The Energy and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI), established in 1991, strives to optimize extraction of energy resources, clean up environmental contamination, minimize human impact on global climate change, and develop suitable policies in these areas. EESI encourages interdisciplinary research by focusing the talents of faculty from academic departments within the schools of engineering, natural sciences, and social sciences upon issues of concern in the interrelated areas of energy and the environment.