Integrated Assessment Modeling: Examining Strategies for Meeting Energy and Environmental Goals

Description from DukeHub

The primary objective is to provide students with a hands-on opportunity to use an Integrated Assessment Model, the Global Change Assessment Model with state-level resolution (GCAM-USA), to examine the air quality and GHG implications of new and emerging energy system technologies. To facilitate the use of GCAM-USA, students will use the GLIMPSE decision support software being developed at EPA. GLIMPSE provides a user interface for GCAM, which facilitates developing and running scenarios as well as visualizing results. Team projects - examinations of electric vehicles, renewable electricity, energy efficiency in buildings and potentially other topics of interest to students.

Skills

• data and statisticstitle: "modeling"
• research methodsAI review: "Team projects - examinations of electric vehicles"

AI-resilient: 4 of 5 4/5

• ✓Yes: Physical, lab or field work · "hands-on"
• ✓Yes: Live work with people · "team"
• ✓Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "decision"
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• ✓Yes: Small, in-person format · seminar, 18 seats per section

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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