Brian G Valentine, PhD PE is a technical project officer for the US Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy EERE, and part-time faculty member for OAEE. Brian has worked for EERE for nearly thirty years, as technical manager for the Solar Thermal Technology program, the Industrial Energy Management program, the Advanced Manufacturing program, and as consultant to DOE’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences for applied engineering science. Brian worked for the US Government’s Iraq reconstruction mission from 2004 through 2006. Brian is a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Siena College and a PhD of Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a registered professional engineer in Virginia.