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Taking Aim at Global Challenges: New Degree Offers International Experience
Published January 2007
The newest degree program at Colorado State University's College of Business ultimately will help some of the world's three billion people who live on less than $3 a day.
Feature Video: Cookstove Developed at CSU Delivers Clean, Efficient Energy
Video Clips
Paul Hudnut
Director, Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise degree program
- Introduction of the new program
- Overview of the cookstove as a project for students in the program
- Efficiency of the stove
- Air quality benefits of the stove
Ajay Menon
Dean, College of Business
This spring, students can begin enrolling for a brand new 18-month Master of Science in Business Administration degree in Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise that will teach students to use entrepreneurial, sustainable approaches to address great global challenges of poverty, environmental degradation and poor health.
Colorado State students are already putting that philosophy to work. Business and engineering students are in India this month testing an innovative cook stove they helped develop that captures wasted thermal energy and converts it to electricity.
- Full press release, Jan. 18, 2007:
New Business Degree at Colorado State Aims at Global Challenges and Offers International Experience - Downloadable files:
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Paul Hudnut
Director, Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise degree program
- Introduction of the new program
- Overview of the cookstove as a project for students in the program
- Efficiency of the stove
- Air quality benefits of the stove
Ajay Menon
Dean, College of Business
- The Peace Corps as part of CSU culture
- How the program models the Peace Corps vision
- Using the business model to address global pollution issues
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Paul Hudnut is director of the new Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise master’s degree program in the College of Business.
Paul Hudnut, director of the new master’s program, and Dan Mastbergen, a doctoral student in engineering, compare notes on the cookstove project.
Doctoral student Dan Mastbergen monitors performance of the cookstoves in the Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory at Colorado State.
Engineering students have worked with professors in the engines lab to design cookstoves used in the developing world to produce fewer emissions.
