Speaker: Victor W. Goldschmidt, Ph.D.
P.O. Box 423
Northport, MI 49670-0423
Tel: (231) 386-9058
Fax: (231) 386-9958
E-Mail: creating2@earthlink.net
Emeritus Purdue Mechanical Engineering Professor. Thirty four years educating Mechanical Engineering students and directing graduate research in thermal sciences. Over 200 publications, a Fellow of ASHRAE, and honorary Member of IIR (International Institute of Refrigeration), ACAIRE (Colombian Association of Air Conditioning and Refrigeration), AAF (Argentine Association of Cold), and ASURVAC (Uruguayan Association of Cold).
Currently serving as lecturer and facilitator for problem solving, leadership training, enabling of creativity and strategic planning sessions. A past member of ASHRAE’s Board of Directors he is a recipient of ASHRAE’s Distinguished Service Award. He resides in the Lower Northwest Michigan, served as Trustee in the Leelanau Township Board, and currently as member of the Leelanau County Planning Commission
Program: Anthropogenice Global Warming – Differing Perspectives
Overview: A different approach to the usual formal presentation on these topics will be presented. It is the consequence of attempting to analyze the available data to demonstrate the reality of anthropogenic global warming. Unfortunately the analysis led to the conclusion that the only reality is in the uncertainties of these areas. A review of the data and predictions from climate change models will first provide evidence as to the culpability of CO2. Following that, through careful analysis of the data, consideration of solar and astronomical large scale effects, and the nature of computer modeling, the second perspective will raise serious doubts on the culpability of CO2 as a greenhouse gas threatening the welfare or even survival of future generations. The closing message will be a challenge to always “think as engineers”.
Lecturer: Victor Goldschmidt is an Emeritus Purdue Professor of Mechanical Engineering with more than 45 years of lecturing experience, Fellow and Past Director-at-Large of ASHRAE, and honorary member of the IIR (International Institute of Refrigeration), ACAIRE (Colombia Association of Air Conditioning and Refrigeration, AAF (Argentine Association of Cold), and ASURVAC (Uruguay Association of Refrigeration, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Heating). He has also served as chair of the ASHRAE Task Group on Climate Change, and while serving in that role and carefully reviewing the published literature he slowly changed his perspective on the culpability of refrigerants in ozone depletion and global warming. His industrial experience includes having been an Application Engineer, and a Development Engineer with Honeywell, as well as serving as team leader with numerous research contracts with the HVAC&R industry. He also led research teams through grants with the DOD, NSF, and other governmental bodies. With more than 200 publications, he served as mentor to both graduate and undergraduate students. His earlier research and teaching included studies in atmospheric flows, and turbulent transport processes. Currently he is a facilitator to leadership training, problem solving and strategic planning sessions, a County Planning Commissioner and formerly a Trustee in the Leelanau Township Board in the Lower Northwest Michigan.
His service as an ASHRAE DL includes lectures on: Global Warming: Differing Perspectives (also could be in the form of a jury trial involving participants); Principles of Leadership and Group Dynamics; Principles of Leadership and Change; Sustainability and Energy in the Context of Power Plants; Problem Solving in Engineering; Air Conditioning: A Look Into the Past, myths and a Guess into the Future; Active Listening and Styles of Communication; ASHRAE’s Core Values, Code of Ethics, and Their Implication; Releasing Individuals’ Own Creativity; and training sessions on: Leadership Principles; Engineering Problem Solving; Engineering Creativity; and Strategic Planning.
