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Elizabeth Traut is a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University in the Mechanical Engineering department. She is a graduate student researcher in the Design Decisions Laboratory and the Green Design Institute, under the guidance of Professor Jeremy J. Michalek.

Brief Biography

Elizabeth earned her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2010, and her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2008, with a concentration in Green Engineering. Her past research projects include work on solar thermal absorption refrigeration at the University of Zaragoza in Zaragoza, Spain (2006); work with a PEM fuel cell at the Center for Intelligent Material Systems and Structures at Virginia Tech (2005-2006); and an NSF REU project on technology and policy in sustainable road transportation decisions at Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (2005).

Elizabeth's primary areas of research include green design, engineering design, sustainability, and environmental policy. Her current work involves cost modeling of electrified vehicle charging, fast-charging, and battery swapping infrastructure; developing and optimizing scenarios of electrified transportation and charging availability and costs; and determining the implications of those scenarios for engineering design, policy, and consumer adoption of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and pure electric vehicles.

Contact Information

Elizabeth Traut, PhD Student
c/o Department of Mechanical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue, Scaife Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15213