An ethical journey for a life-long education for benefiting students, teachers, colleagues, and friends

摘要

This journal's readers, reviewers, and contributing authors knew Prof. Ravi Jain as the Co-Editor-in Chief. I came to know Ravi for the first time when both had an urge to found a technical journal. It just turned out that Springer responded positively to both of us and shortly thereafter Ravi and I decided to merge our respective journals and Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy was born. Through the years we worked together on several projects and became trusted friends. It has been a long but very satisfying working relationship with Ravi. Prof. Jain has spent more than a decade of successful tenure at the University of the Pacific at Stockton, California as the Dean of Engineering and Computer Science. He has been both effective and popular, a rare combination in academia. When he retired from the University, he thought it was time for him also to retire from his Co-Editorship of the journal. More than the Dean and journal editing, Ravi has been a consummate educator since early 1990s when he started as Associate Dean of Engineering at the University of Cincinnati, about the time I arrived in the city.