MSEEM Problem-solving Night Combines Networking, Hands-on Learning

Posted December 17, 2021

One of the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy’s areas of expertise is energy, climate, and environmental policy. Nowhere is this focus better reflected than in the School’s Master of Sustainable and Environmental Management (MSEEM) program, where students are given the skills to tackle the world’s sustainability problems. Recently, MSEEM students were able to put their sustainability skills to the test, while also networking with potential employers, when the program hosted its first-ever problem-solving night.

Sustainability-focused companies and organizations had previously expressed an interest in getting to know MSEEM students for the purpose of developing potential capstone projects with and/or employing them. Therefore, program administrators took the opportunity to bring students and organizations together.

At the problem-solving night, each organization gave a short presentation about itself before dealing out a sustainability challenge for the students to solve. MSEEM students worked alongside other sustainability-focused graduate students from the School of Public Policy, Scheller College of Business, and H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. They tackled a variety of problems, including how to finance sustainability investments from large corporations and how to develop sustainable communities.

Throughout the evening, students were able to interact with organizations, network, and share ideas in hands-on, creative ways.

“This event offered a great opportunity to engage in co-curricular activities outside of class, as well as get a better sense of potential capstone opportunities and career paths,” said Daniel Matisoff, co-director of the MSEEM program. “It familiarized these organizations with our program and our students, and familiarized our students with some of the opportunities that exist for them as they move forward in their program.”

The deadline for full-time enrollment in the MSEEM program for Fall 2022, as well as for consideration for one of five full-time fellowships, is Feb. 15, 2022.

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