Assistant Professor
Arizona State University,
Civil, Environmental, & Sustainable Engineering
Position
Assistant Professor
Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering
Affiliate Faculty in the School of Sustainability
Arizona State University
Bio
An infrastructure energy and environment scientist, Mikhail Chester manages a research laboratory in Arizona State University's (ASU) Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering program. His research focuses on understanding how people interact with infrastructure and how infrastructure can be transitioned for twenty-first century goals. He focuses largely on transportation and cities and he and his team develop innovative life-cycle assessment thinking for sustainable infrastructure challenges. Their research includes the development of integrated transportation and land use sustainability frameworks, urban growth models and how infrastructure enables behaviors, transportation environmental life cycle assessment frameworks, and methods for improving vulnerability in a climate-constrained future. Chester teaches courses in the Schools of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Sustainability, and Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning.
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Academic Positions
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Present 2011
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2011 2010
Guest Researcher
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
International Energy Studies Group -
2011 2008
Post-doctoral Researcher
University of California, Berkeley, Institute of Transportation Studies, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Education
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Ph.D. 2008
Ph.D. in Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
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M.S.2005
M.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
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M.S.2003
M.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
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B.S.2005
B.S., double major in Civil & Environmental Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University
Honors and Awards
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2013National Academy of Engineering's Frontiers of Engineering Education
One of 73 faculty in the US selected for the National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering Education workshop in Irvine, CA in October 2013. -
2013Departmental Teaching Award
Teaching Award from Arizona State University's School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment for 2013. -
2012Testimony to the California Legislative Analyst's Office on High-speed Rail
Testified to the California Legislative Analyst’s Office on the environmental impacts of high-speed rail in April 2012. -
2011Distinguished Publication in Environmental Research Letters
Publication Environmental Assessment of Passenger Transportation Should Include Infrastructure and Supply Chains selected to Environmental Research Letter’s 2011 5th Anniversary Collection as one of the top 3 articles of 2009. -
2010National Research Council’s Hidden Cost of Energy Study
Participated (as a researcher and chapter author) on the National Research Council’s Committee on Health, Environmental, and Other External Costs and Benefits of Energy Production and Consumption in the preparation of the Hidden Costs of Energy: Unpriced Consequences of Energy Production and Use 2010 report. -
2007Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor at the University of California, Berkeley
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor awarded by the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate Council for the 2006-2007 academic year. -
2001Stephen Omar Lee Course Project Award at Carnegie Mellon University
Participant in the Carnegie Mellon University's Engineering and Public Policy course project Voting System Transitions: What are the Options for Pennsylvania? which received the Stephen Omer Lee Award as the outstanding project course in 2001. -
2000Stephen Omar Lee Course Project Award at Carnegie Mellon University
Participant in the Carnegie Mellon University's Engineering and Public Policy course project Environmental Impacts of E-commerce - A Case Study of Book Purchasing which received the Stephen Omer Lee Award as the outstanding project course in 2000.