A Cooler Earth: In our Kids' Lifetime: Dr. Razi Nalim at TEDxIUPUI 2013

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2013 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Dr. Razi Nalim is Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Programs at the School of Engineering & Technology in Indianapolis. He has over 25 years of experience in industry, academia, and government, working on energy, combustion, air pollution control, and pulsatile fluid flow. He pioneered wave-rotor technology for pressure-gain combustion at NASA Glenn Research Center. He founded the Combustion & Propulsion Research Laboratory at IUPUI, led a university-industry consortium to develop pressure-gain combustion, and helped establish the Rolls-Royce University Technology Center at Purdue University's Zucrow Laboratories. He also
contributed to biofluid mechanics research and engineering education innovations.
TEDxIUPUI Talk Title: A cooler Earth: In our kids' lifetime Climate change is already accelerating due to over a century of cumulative greenhouse gas emissions. We need rapidly deployable energy technologies to limit carbon emissions and slow down the impact on food, land, and shelter, while researching longer-term sustainable energy sources.

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