Sustainable Design
When designing transportation and energy systems, we need to consider multiple trade-offs at various abstraction levels, and choices of single components need to be studied collectively. For example, the design of new mobility solutions, such as autonomous vehicles, and the design of the mobility systems they enable are closely intertwined.
In particular, knowledge about the intended service of novel mobility solutions would impact their design and deployment process, while insights about their technological development could significantly affect transportation policies. How do we assess the impact of local design decisions at the system level? How do we formulate and automatically solve co-design problems involving such complex, and societally-critical systems?
This research pillar focuses on developing interfaces between the other four pillars.
Faculty
- Vance D. and Arlene C. Coffman Professor and the James and Anna Marie Spilker Chair of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and Associate Professor, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering & of Computer Science
- Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, of Electrical Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy
