CISTAR is dedicated to creating a center where members are ready to participate and lead in a global energy economy.  At CISTAR, everyone in the center is responsible for helping with our goals:

• To provide access so that all people have the opportunity to learn more about, or pursue a career in, CISTAR/STEM fields;
• To create a collaborative, mentoring community of CISTAR faculty, students, staff, and teachers that supports, values, respects, and rewards all its members to their fullest potential, and
• To prepare globally dexterous engineers and scientists that can work across different cultures to better address the challenges facing our world, such as with the energy transition.

CISTAR faculty and graduate fellows help us reach these goals by participating in recruiting and outreach programs to encourage career pathways into STEM, being outstanding mentors to undergraduate students and visiting teachers, and working with engineers and scientists from around the world, including our C2C partners in Brazil.  

As you will read about, CISTAR’s summer programs are largely successful because of the environment of collaboration and teaming we build and the care and attention our faculty and student mentors pay to help prepare the next generation of engineers.  Learn more about CISTAR's Access & Societal Impacts (ASI) initiatives: