REMEMBER THE 2000-2001 ENERGY CRISIS? BUILDING ENGINEER TO SPEAK AT HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE ON THE FUTURE OF POWER IN CALIFORNIA

Dr. Malcolm Lewis is a pioneer in building "green" structures and President of CTG Energetics, Inc., will deliver a lecture on "The California Power Crisis-Two Years On," Wednesday, October 8, 7 p.m., in Galileo Hall at Harvey Mudd College. The event is free and open to the public, and is part of this fall's Dr. Bruce J. Nelson '74 Distinguished Speaker Series at Harvey Mudd College.

According to Lewis, "The California electrical power system has survived and is recovering from the crisis that occurred in 2000-2001." Lewis will review what happened during the crisis and in the time since, and examine the long-term implications for reliable, cost-effective, and environmentally appropriate electric power supply in California.

A registered professional engineer (P.E.) in California, Lewis graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 1967. For more than 30 years, he has been integrating new technology into buildings to make them more energy efficient, or "green." He has been the engineer of record for hundreds of commercial, institutional, and industrial buildings with a total area of more than 20 million square feet. These projects have won numerous awards for energy efficiency and design.

Lewis is also active in promoting environmentally sound building construction through education and public policy. In 1994-96, he taught the environmental controls systems course at the UCLA School of Architecture. He has also developed educational computer software on how to achieve comfort and energy efficiency in buildings, and lectured extensively on these topics. And he has been a member of numerous professional engineering societies, traveled on World Bank energy policy missions to countries in South East Asia, and served as a peer reviewer for new facilities for the US Department of Energy.