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Apt is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Engineering and Public Policy and an associate research professor at the university's Tepper School of Business.
He received an A.B. in physics from Harvard College and a Ph.D. in experimental atomic physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research, teaching and consulting interests are in economics, engineering, and public policy aspects of the electricity industry, economics of technical innovation, management of technical enterprises, risk management in policy and technical decision framing, and engineering systems design.
Apt has co-authored with Lester Lave op-ed pieces for the New York Times and the Washington Post. He received the NASA Distinguished Service Medal in 1997 and the Metcalf Lifetime Achievement Award for significant contributions to engineering in 2002.
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