{"id":381,"date":"2023-11-05T12:53:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T17:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/?page_id=381"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:35:07","slug":"why-interdisciplinarity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/why-interdisciplinarity\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Interdisciplinarity?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Why Interdisciplinarity?\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"the-energy-transition-presents-problems-which-require-thinking-accross-boundaries\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Energy Transition presents problems which require thinking accross boundaries.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Following an interdisciplinary approach, students conduct analyses of the engineering considerations, economic implications, and policy instruments that affect public and private choices around sustainable energy. By becoming conversant in multiple domains that are critical to this socio-technical transition, graduates will be able to interpret and respond to emerging technologies or new policies, without regarding some as \u201cblack boxes\u201d. They will also be able to communicate effectively across disciplinary boundaries.&nbsp;This program strengthens background in both the technical and the policy dimensions of energy systems and decision-making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"hear-from-current-students-and-faculty-in-their-own-words\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hear from current students and faculty, in their own words:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"cu-section cu-section--white w-screen ml-offset-center px-4 md:px-6 lg:px-12\"><div class=\"cu-max-w-child-5xl space-y-6 md:space-y-10   cu-prose-first-last\"><figure class=\"cu-figure not-prose  max-w-full\"><div class=\"not-prose overflow-hidden bg-white shadow-lg max-w-full rounded-none\"><div class=\"relative none overflow-hidden w-full pb-[56.25%] border border-cu-black-100\"><iframe title=\"Videos Embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LIJzQOV1cp4\" class=\"cu-embed-iframe\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Energy Transition presents problems which require thinking accross boundaries. Following an interdisciplinary approach, students conduct analyses of the engineering considerations, economic implications, and policy instruments that affect public and private choices around sustainable energy. 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