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Alternative Energy Solutions From Alabama’s Natural Resources Auburn University Montgomery’s Role

Alternative Energy Solutions From Alabama’s Natural Resources Auburn University Montgomery’s Role. Auburn University Montgomery. An Overview Established in 1967 and held first classes at current location in 1971. Led by a chancellor who reports to the Auburn University president.

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Alternative Energy Solutions From Alabama’s Natural Resources Auburn University Montgomery’s Role

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  1. Alternative Energy SolutionsFrom Alabama’s Natural ResourcesAuburn University Montgomery’s Role

  2. Auburn University Montgomery • An Overview • Established in 1967 and held first classes at current location in 1971. • Led by a chancellor who reports to the Auburn University president. • Governed by the Auburn University Board of Trustees. • Accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. • Offers more than 90 areas of undergraduate study within five schools. • Offers more than 20 graduate degree programs including several operated jointly or cooperatively with AU. • Current enrollment is 5,069 students. Sixty-five percent of those students are female and 39 percent minority.

  3. Auburn University Montgomery • Academic Programs Centered in Five Schools • School of Business • School of Education • School of Liberal Arts • School of Nursing • School of Sciences

  4. Auburn University Montgomery • AUM’s Accreditations • SACS • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business – International • National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education • Commission of Collegiate Nursing Education • National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration • American Bar Association • National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences • Other program endorsements include approvals from the Alabama State Department of Education and the Alabama Board of Nursing

  5. Auburn University Montgomery • Other Notable Facts About AUM • More than 80 percent of full-time faculty hold terminal degrees. • Student faculty ratio of 16-1. • Average undergraduate class size: 20 students.

  6. Auburn University Montgomery • Location, Location, Location! • Located in Alabama’s capital city with ready access to state government offices and officials. • Located in the fast-growing River Region, which includes Montgomery, Autauga and Elmore counties. • Campus adjacent to Interstate 85. • Approximately 90 minutes from Birmingham • Approximately two hours from Atlanta • Less than three hours from Mobile • Approximately three hours from Huntsville.

  7. Auburn University Montgomery • AUM University Outreach • Solution-centered. • Helps companies, public agencies and individuals expand their professional knowledge and prepare for the challenges of the future. • Operates around four centers: • Center for Advanced Technologies • Center for Business and Economic Development • Center for Demographic Research • Center for Government and Public Affairs

  8. Auburn University Montgomery • AUM Outreach’s Contract Activity • Has provided assistance to the state departments of Transportation, Finance, Health and Mental Retardation, Education, and Industrial Relations. • Currently, Outreach has 27 contracts with state agencies. • Since its inception, Outreach has averaged more than $6 million in contracts per year. • FY 2006 contracts equaled approximately $14.5 million. • Outreach units were earmarked for $587,000 in FY06-07 for government projects.

  9. Auburn University Montgomery • Other Work with Government • Alabama Commission on Government Accountability • Governor’s Commission for Action in Alabama’s Black Belt • Governor’s Award for Distinguished Service to Alabama • Certified Public Manager Program • Governmental Accounting and Auditing Training Program • Master’s of Public Administration Program • Public Finance Option within MBA and MPA Programs • SMART Budgeting/Governing Initiative

  10. Auburn University Montgomery • Our Oil-Based Energy Economy: A Global Look • World production of oil is expected to peak in the next 10 to 20 years. • As more factories open and more cars take the streets worldwide, the demand for oil will outstrip supply. As an example, China’s automobile market is expected to grow at a rate of almost 35 percent per year in the near future. • Worldwide use of oil is forecast to rise more than 50 percent by 2025 --- from 80 million barrels a day to 121 million barrels a day. • In China and India, economic growth is powered by --- and fueling a thirst for --- oil.

  11. Auburn University Montgomery • Our Oil-Based Energy Economy: A Global Look • The Consequences • A sharp increase in oil prices and more intense competition for remaining supplies. • Recent spikes in oil and natural gas prices hint of the economic instability that increased demand for oil may bring. • Natural gas prices have tripled in just a few years. • Markets react with major fluctuations in prices even after small flow disruptions, as in the Nigerian oil strike of 2004. • Every major recession in the last three decades was preceded by a spike in world oil prices, two in the 1970s and one in 1990.

  12. Auburn University Montgomery • But Haven’t Oil Prices Fallen Recently? • “The recent drop in gasoline prices has been welcome, but given the finite nature of petroleum as a resource and the unstable regions of the world where so much of it is found, it is unrealistic to think that prices will not rise substantially again.” --- Montgomery Advertiser editorial, Oct. 13, 2006

  13. Auburn University Montgomery • What Can AUM Do? • Transforming Alabama’s and the nation’s agriculture industry from a player in the energy market to a major provider of energy requires a multiple-pronged strategy. • In Alabama, AUM can play a major role in the articulation of policy and in grassroots education. • AUM can be an active participant in the discussion and articulation of a “smart growth” debate in Alabama and the region.

  14. Auburn University Montgomery • What You’ll Hear Tomorrow • AUM and AUM-sponsored experts in public policy, economics and education will discuss the support AUM can provide to the effort to grow the biofuels industry.

  15. Auburn University Montgomery • Public Policy • Lenneal Henderson, Distinguished Professor of Government and Public Administration, University of Baltimore. • Alternative energy options • Commercial nuclear power • Active and photovoltaic solar energy • Wind energy • Geothermal energy • Biofuel options, including switchgrass, ethanol and biomass • Current and future policy options for advancing alternative energy contributions to national energy requirements.

  16. Auburn University Montgomery • Economics • Keivan Deravi, AUM Professor of Economics • Carel Ligeon, AUM Assistant Professor of Economics. • Capacity: Do we have the resources? Is there enough idle, fertile land to sustain the initiative? • Costs: How much will establishment and operation of this initiative cost? • Yield: Will the return from the land make investment in the initiative worthwhile? • Efficiency: Can switchgrass be grown and harvested in an efficient manner using existing equipment? • Impact: What will be the income? The profit? How many jobs will be created?

  17. Auburn University Montgomery • Economic Expertise • Economic impact studies • Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama in Montgomery • DaimlerChrysler (then Mercedes Benz) in Vance • Honda Manufacturing of Alabama in Lincoln • Airbus (EADS of North America) in Mobile. • The Boeing Company in Decatur. • Riverfront Stadium in Montgomery

  18. Auburn University Montgomery • Econometric Model • Dr. Deravi is the architect of the Alabama Economic Forecasting Model • Used by every Alabama administration over the last two decades to generate General Fund and Education Trust Fund budgets to present to the Alabama Legislature.

  19. Auburn University Montgomery • Education • Janet Warren, AUM Professor and Dean of the School Education. • Jennifer Brown, AUM Professor and Associate Dean of the School of Education. • Existing models for education about alternative fuels. - Currently, these models are being used to educate the general public. - Models could easily be tailored for use with K-12 students. • Material on alternative fuels already exists in Alabama Course of Study. • Incorporate alternative fuels materials in professional development for practicing teachers. • Emphasize alternative fuels curricular content to pre-service teachers.

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