Hoque receives CNS college’s Outstanding Service/Outreach award

Hoque receives CNS college’s Outstanding Service/Outreach award

BCT faculty member Simi Hoque just received this year's CNS college's Outstanding Service/Outreach award. We congratulate her on that amazing accomplishment! From the announcement: Simi Hoque, Environmental Conservation, recently received a five-year, $508,714 NSF CAREER award to develop an integrated planning tool that will measure, evaluate and predict the impacts of energy, water and land use, waste management and transportation systems at an urban scale. The green building expert intends it to help planners and policymakers guide growth and development in a coordinated, sustainable way. Hoque, an assistant professor in the Building and Construction Technology Program, points out that cities today account for almost two-thirds of the world's primary energy demand, a figure projected to increase to three-quarters by 2030. "The current urban outlook demands a comprehensive understanding of urban sustainability policies to address climate change and energy security," she says. Read more Reposted from: http://bct.eco.umass.edu/news/hoque-receives-cns-colleges-outstanding-serviceoutreach-award/...
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Hoque’s IUMAT research featured on NextCity

Hoque’s IUMAT research featured on NextCity

BCT Assistant Professor Simi Hoque's research into the "Integrated Urban Metabolism Analytical Tool" and her NSF CAREER award were just featured in a blog article on NextCity. Link: https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/math-tool-big-data-planning-solution   Reposted from: https://bct.eco.umass.edu/news/hoques-iumat-research-featured-on-nextcity/...
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Simi Hoque among recipients of Holyoke Gas & Electric Co. $1 million grant

Simi Hoque among recipients of Holyoke Gas & Electric Co. $1 million grant

Courtesy: Masslive AMHERST - The National Science Foundation's Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity program has awarded a three year, $1 million grant to three University of Massachusetts researchers and others to work with Holyoke Gas & Electric Co. The money will be used to develop smart energy services that will improve grid efficiency, encourage energy conservation and promote local renewable energy sources such as rooftop solar, according to a press release. Smart grid experts Prashant Shenoy, a computer science professor, and David Irwin, professor of electrical and computer engineering, with green building expert and professor in the environmental conservation department Simi Hoque, are co-principal investigators on the project. The new grant follows a $200,000 pilot project funded last year by the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources and carried out by Shenoy and a UMass Amherst team at HG&E that demonstrated how smart electric meters save money and power. Shenoy, Hoque and Irwin, with others at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County and Williams College in Williamstown, will use...
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Simi Hoque and Brian Kane talk about their Eureka! experience this summer in new video

Simi Hoque and Brian Kane talk about their Eureka! experience this summer in new video

The following video, published by UMass Media Relations, summarizes another successful summer at UMass for the Eureka! Girls Inc. group of Holyoke. BCT's Simi Hoque, who coordinated their visit to UMass, introduces the many workshops in the video. One of the workshops - on building macaroni bridges - was run by BCT graduate students Carl Fiocchi, Nariman Mostafavi, and Soroush Farzinmoghadam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nly3IN6NRe0 Reposted from: https://bct.eco.umass.edu/news/simi-hoque-and-brian-kane-talk-about-their-eureka-experience-this-summer-in-new-video/...
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