Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
Michael Lepech
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
Professor Lepech's research focuses on the integration of sustainability indicators into engineering design, ranging from materials design, structural design, system design, to operations management. Such sustainability indicators include a comprehensive set of environmental, economic, and social costs. Recently his research has focused on the design of sustainable high performance fiber-reinforced cementitious composites (HPFRCCs) and fiber-reinforced polymers (FRPs), the impacts of sustainable materials on building and infrastructure design and operation, and the development of new life cycle assessment (LCA) applications for building systems, transportation systems, water systems, consumer products. Along with this he is studying the effects that slowly diffusing sustainable civil engineering innovations, and the social networks they diffuse through, can have on achieving long term sustainability goals.
Education
MBA, University of Michigan, Finance and Strategy (2008)
PhD, University of Michigan, Civil and Environmental Engineering (2006)