Affiliated Faculty
EST&P students are engaged in energy related research and educational activities across Carnegie Mellon University. Faculty members who have taught an EST&P core course or an energy specific disciplinary concentration course, or who have supervised energy specific projects under the 39-660 Masters EST&P Project course, are are listed below in different sections: EST&P core, engineering disciplinary departments, and other affiliated faculty. For those interested in additional faculty engaged in energy related research across the university, please visit the Scott Institute for Energy Innovation's energy experts webpage.
Chemical Engineering
Andrew Gellman (CHE)
06-702 Advanced Reaction Kinetics
06-705 Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
John Kitchin (CHE)
06-623 Mathematical Modeling of Chemical Engineering Processes
(Previously) 06-625 Chemical and Reactive Systems
Grigorios Panagakos (CHE Project Scientist/Engineer)
06-663 Analysis and Modeling of Transport Phenomena
Aditya Khair (CHE)
06-703 Advanced Fluid Dynamics
06-704 Advanced Heat and Mass Transfer
06-713 Mathematical Techniques in Chemical Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Peter Adams (CEE/EPP)
Climatic effects, air quality, atmospheric chemistry
Mario Berges (CEE)
Infrastructure monitoring, building energy management
Chris Hendrickson (CEE/EPP)
Environmental systems; sustainability
Costa Samaras (CEE)
Mitchell Small (CEE/EPP)
Modeling environmental systems, environmental statistics, risk assessment, & decision support
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Larry Pileggi (ECE Professor & Dept. Head)
39-660 Masters EST&P Project
Barry Rawn (ECE Associate Teaching Professor)
39-660 Masters EST&P Project
Engineering and Public Policy
Paulina Jaramillo (EPP)
Executive Director of RenewElec Project
M. Granger Morgan (EPP)
Policy & risk in energy systems and climate change
Nicholas Muller (EPP/Tepper)
39-612 Energy Policy & Economics
(read Prof Muller's personal profile)
Parth Vaishnav (EPP)
Energy and the environment; climate change, air pollution, regulation of new technologies, additive manufacturing, ocean shipping, aviation
Haibo Zhai (EPP)
Modeling & analysis of fossil fuel generation; air pollution, carbon capture, energy-water nexus
Materials Science and Engineering
P. Chris Pistorius (MSE)
27-721 Processing Design
Lisa Porter (MSE)
27-729 Solid State Devices for Energy Conversion
Anthony Rollett (MSE)
27-725 Materials for Nuclear Energy Systems
Paul Salvador (MSE / EST&P Director)
39-610 Energy Conversion & Supply
27-728 Materials for Future Energy Systems
(read Prof. Salvador's personal profile)
Bryan Webler (MSE)
27-702 Metal-Environment Reactions
Jay Whitacre (MSE / EPP / SIEI)
27-700 S.T. Energy Storage Materials and Systems
27-724 Materials for Energy Storage
39-660 Masters EST&P Project
(Previously) 39-612 Energy Policy & Economics
Mechanical Engineering
Shawn Litster (MEG)
39-660 Masters EST&P Project
(Previously) 24-722 Energy System Modeling
(Previously) 24-642 Fuel Cell Systems
Jonathan Malen (MEG)
24-628 Energy Transport and Conversion at the Nanoscale
(Previously) 24-730 Advanced Heat Transfer
Albert Presto (MEG)
24-740 Combustion and Air Pollution Control
39-660 Masters EST&P Project
Sheng Shen (MEG)
24-730 Advanced Heat Transfer
24-629 Direct Solar and Thermal Energy Conversion
39-660 Masters EST&P Project
Satbir Singh (MEG)
24-618 Computational Analysis of Transport Phenomena
24-718 Computational Fluid Dynamics
39-660 Masters EST&P Project
Other Affiliated Faculty
Carnegie Mellon University faculty members from outside the College of Engineering are also actively teaching energy related courses and supervise energy specific projects in which EST&P students participate. The list below is a non-exhaustive sampling of faculty who have an energy focus.
Nina Baird (ARCH)
39-660 Masters EST&P Project
Christopher I. Telmer (Tepper)
45-928 Energy Finance