Despite significant research dedicated to planning for industrial projects, including power generation projects as well as the pipeline projects that enable power generation and distribute power, there are still endemic cost overruns and schedule delays in large scale power generation projects.

Small commercial buildings, or those comprising less than 50,000 square feet of floor area, represent 94% of U.S commercial buildings by count and consume approximately 8% of the nation’s primary energy; as such, they represent a largely unexploited opportunity for energy savings.

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) teaching strategies that engage students and create an atmosphere of community are desperately needed to recruit, retain, and best prepare students in STEM fields to address challenges facing the 21st Century. Games and game-based learning have been used in many classrooms as an active learning strategy. Game-based learning is a well-documented method to engage and motivate students with course material in order to improve student-learning outcomes.

Engineering schools have been unable to recruit and retain Native American students at the same rate as other students. Consequently, the Native American representation in engineering has been declining over the years in Arizona, even though the state ranks third in the number of degrees earned in the US by Native Americans.

Early decisions set the path to cost and schedule performance and influence life cycle costs. The emerging theory guided the data collection, which included interviews, three expert workshops, and observations at validation sessions. Project validation aims at proving or disproving with null design whether the team can deliver a project that satisfies the owner’s business case and scope within the owner’s allowable constraints of costs, schedule, and acceptable risks.

The electric sector is undergoing a time of transition. Inexpensive natural gas, lower cost renewable power and increased use of energy efficiency and distributed generation are leading to a transformation in the way power is produced and delivered to consumers. As a consequence, many of the old paradigms that govern the sector are also evolving. The aim of the study was to understand the value of flexibility, generating capacity, and the combination thereof, on the electricity supply side, such that the supply side would be better able to respond to shifts in renewable supply (i.e., solar) and electricity demand (i.e., peak loads). Currently, most financial models do not have a value structure in place to assess the benefits of investment in technologies that support supply side flexibility. Our results indicate there is a need for such a value structure, particularly as the solar penetration increases.