The Team
David Sanchez, Ph. D.
Principal Investigator
Ph.D. Civil & Environmental Engineering
B.S. Civil Engineering
Assistant Professor Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Assistant Director, Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation
Chair Sustainability Faculty Fellows program
Program Director Master’s Sustainable Engineering
University Director- Undergraduate Certificate Sustainability
ASEE- Environmental Engineering – Treasurer
ASEE – NCS Director
First-Year Engineering Faculty
Design Faculty – Swanson School Innovation/Entrepreneurship
Claire Chouinard
B.S. Chemical Engineering
Minors: Chemistry
Current Projects: Bio-Electrical Systems
Carlie Johnson
B.S. Environmental Engineering
Minors: Chemistry
Current Projects: Smarter Riversheds
Kevin Glunt
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2016
Current Projects: Water CEEnsors
Gregg Kotchey Ph.D.
Ph.D. Chemistry
Current Projects: Micro-electrodes and Emerging Contaminants
Zachary W Miller
B.S. Mechanical Engineer
Project: In-situ Photo-Catalytic Degradation of Off-Flavor Molecules in Aquaculture Systems
Katelyn Morrison
B.S. Computer Science
Project: Computational Sustainability
David Rounce Ph.D.
Ph.D. Water Resources Engineering
University of Texas A&M
Project: Glacial Modeling
Joe Zappitelli
B.S. Environmental Engineering
Project: Identifying National and Regional Opportunities for Urban Farming (Aquaculture/Hydroponics) operations.
Alumni
Cameron Beichner
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2017
Project: Agriculture in the Urban Environment
Current: Chief of Staff, Four Growers
Madelyn Buntin
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2016
Project: In-situ Photo-Catalytic Degradation of Off-Flavor Molecules in Aquaculture Systems
Current:
Daniel Chi
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2018
Minors:
Project: Agriculture in the Urban Environment
Current: CTO, Four Growers
Brandon Contino
B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2018
Minors: Economics
Project: –
Current: CEO, Four Growers
Christian Ference
M.S. Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2018
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2016
Projects: Agricultural Technology and Its Environmental Impact; Photo-Catalytic Degradation of Off-Flavor Molecules in Aquaculture Systems
Julie Fornaciari
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2017
Project: Microbial Fuel Cells
Current: Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
Adrian Garcia
B.S. Civil & Environmental Engineering
Project: Evaluation of Watersheds
Current: Research Engineer, MIT
Michael Green
B.S. Mechanical Engineering
Project: Mapping Sustainable Engineering Phenomena to NGSS
Current: Ph.D. Student Arizona State University
B.S. Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh, 2018
Minors: Environmental Engineering, Chemistry
Project: Microbial Fuel Cells
Current: Planetary Protection Engineer, Jet Propulsions Laboratory, NASA
Christine Nguyen
B.S. Computer Engineering
Project: Sustainable Engineering Education
Current: Data Scientist Arizona State University
John Walker
M.S. Education, University of California, Los Angeles
B.S. Civil Engineering
Project: Engineering Education
Current: LA DOE