Rachel Pearson
Rachel Pearson is a doctoral student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Prior to her doctoral studies, Rachel received her B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Virginia and worked as a civil engineer for a land development firm. Her research centers on equitable and resilient water and renewable energy infrastructure systems. Rachel is passionate about understanding climate change’s impacts on vulnerable communities and finding infrastructure solutions to these complex challenges. Her research project uses HOMER software to integrate renewable energy systems into water treatment technology in rural Alaskan communities....
Miguel González
My work seeks to study the advantages of the anisotropic nature and flexibility of composites to enable the passive morphing capabilities that improve the overall energy efficiency, structural capacity, and dynamic stability of Marine-Hydrokinetic (MHK) turbine blades used for flow kinetic energy harvesting. With the goal of establishing a comprehensive mechanical characterization of the MHK blades, careful design and testing of the blades will be carried out in order to account for the inherent load-dependent deformations and to avoid potential material failures and hydro-elastic instabilities (resonance, parametric excitations, divergence, flutter, buffeting, etc). By designing, manufacturing, modeling, testing, and analyzing these blades, my research will...
Anne Goodchild
Dr. Anne Goodchild leads the University of Washington's academic and research efforts in the area of supply chain, logistics, and freight transportation. She is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and serves as Founding Director of both the Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics online Master's degree program and the Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics Center, the latter which launched the Urban Freight Lab (UFL) in 2016 to bring together the public and private sectors to address the challenges of the urban freight system by engaging in innovative research. Email | Website...
Chintan Pathak
I plan to investigate fFinding the optimal locations of charging stations, for a city and state, and Multi-scale optimization involving grid, vehicles, and battery. Advisor: Don MacKenzie - Civil and Environmental Engineering ...
Jim Thomson
Principal Oceanographer, Applied Physics Lab and Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering Member, Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center (NNMREC) Email | Web Site CEI-related research interests: field measurements supporting wave and tidal energy conversion. ...
Donald MacKenzie
Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering Email | Web Site | LinkedIn CEI-related research interests: Modeling the charging decisions of electric vehicle drivers, and implications for electric grid loads and generation emissions; assessing prospective energy efficiency and travel demand implications of vehicle automation; evaluating the effects of services such as car-sharing and online shopping on total travel demand. ...
Jessica Kaminsky
Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Washington Email | Web Site | LinkedIn CEI-related research interests: cultural predictors of clean energy infrastructure construction, microbial fuel cells for sanitation system instrumentation. ...