Joshua Pearce received his PhD in Materials Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University. He developed the first sustainability program in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education as an Assistant Professor of Physics at Clarion University of Pennsylvania and helped develop the Applied Sustainability graduate program at Queen's University, Canada. He currently is an Associate Professor cross-appointed in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering and in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the Michigan Technological University. His research concentrates on the use of open source, appropriate technology to find collaborative solutions to problems in sustainability and poverty reduction. His research spans areas of electronic device physics and materials engineering of solar photovoltaic cells, but also includes applied sustainability, energy policy, and engineering service learning. He is the Manuscript Editor for the International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering: Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship.