The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers has teamed up with students at Villanova to work on a new tool aimed at helping major cable companies significantly reduce their energy consumption, writes Michelle Caffrey for the Philadelphia Business Journal.

Graduate students in the sustainable engineering program will help develop a way for cable and telecommunications companies to evaluate their energy consumption through their digital supply chain facilities, and offer solutions to decrease their carbon footprint.

“There’s large financial and significant economic gain for them to realize energy savings,” said engineering professor Karl Schmidt.

The involvement of the students comes from the SCTE’s participation in the university’s Resilient Innovation through Sustainable Engineering program. This is a membership-based, industry consortium that connects executives, students, and leaders involved in the engineering sphere in order to create new approaches and answers surrounding sustainable engineering.

“We’re bringing the science of sustainable engineering to the business world, helping companies adopt technical solutions to some of the biggest challenges in reducing energy and reducing waste,” said Schmidt.

Read more about the development of the new tool in the Philadelphia Business Journal by clicking here.