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H. Scott Matthews

Prof. Scott Matthews`s research interest include: Sustainable engineering, environmental life cycle assessment, life cycle management of infrastructure, including transportation and building facilities, as well as energy, and telecommunications networks, carbon foot-printing

Brief Biography

H. Scott Matthews is the Research Director of the Green Design Institute and a faculty member in the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. The Green Design Institute is an interdisciplinary research consortium at Carnegie Mellon focused on identifying and assessing the environmental impacts of systems and helping businesses manage their use of resources and toxic materials.

His research and consulting interests are in the area of valuing the socio-economic implications of environmental systems and infrastructure and industrial ecology. Of particular interest are using the Internet to facilitate environmental life cycle assessment of products and processes, estimating and tracking carbon emissions across the supply chain, and the sustainability of infrastructure. At Carnegie Mellon, he has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in the Departments of Economics, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Engineering and Public Policy, and Computer Science.

Prof. Scott Matthews received his Ph.D. in Economics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999 and He won several awards including Laudise Prize of International Society for Industrial Ecology

Contact Information

Contact Info: H. Scott Matthews Civil & Environmental Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 Office: 123A Porter Hall Phone: 412-268-6218 Fax: 412-268-7813 Email: hsm@cmu.edu Home Page: http://www.ce.cmu.edu/~hsm/