MechSE alumnus Jigar Shar (BSME '96) has risen to one of the top spots in President Biden's administration.
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Jigar Shahmight be the most important man in America when it comes to boosting the nation's deployment of clean energy and meeting President Biden's ambitious climate goals — at least, besides Sen. Joe Manchin III(D-W.Va.) and the president himself.
Shah, a former clean energy entrepreneur, is the dynamic new director of the Energy Department's Loan Programs Office, which helped launch the country’s first utility-scale wind and solar farms a decade ago but went largely dormant under Donald Trump.
You can read more about Shah (BSME '96), MechSE's high-profile alumnus who has risen to one of the top spots in President Biden's administration. Read the story in the Washington Post >>