Grooming New York City's Top Executives to Go Green

NEW YORK, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) is looking for a few green executives. Thirty, to be exact.

Following a highly successful pilot semester in which 140 seasoned executives vied for 25 spots, NYU-Poly is calling for applicants for the fall session of its CleantechExecs program, a rigorous 10-week curriculum that trains top managers from a variety of fields to lead businesses in New York's fast-growing clean technology sector. The program is a collaborative undertaking between NYU-Poly's Department of Technology Management, NYU-Poly's New York City Accelerator for a Clean and Renewable Economy (NYC ACRE) and the New York State Energy and Research Development Authority (NYSERDA). NYSERDA funding will once again fully cover tuition for executives admitted into the highly competitive program.

A focal point of the program is an applied project in which participants team with a startup or existing company to conceive or implement a clean-technology initiative. Among the first projects were plans to execute a green retrofit of some of New York's least energy-efficient residential buildings; proposals for the next-generation of smart-grid software, and a green overhaul of NYU-Poly's Brooklyn campus, transforming the area into a clean energy zone.

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