Projects

Background: Prognosticators point to an array of benefits from autonomous vehicle (AV) technology, including improved safety, additional convenience, greater accessibility, efficient navigation...

Goals & Objectives: This project will review and establish the market outlook (i.e. the policy and regulatory environment, and the economic case) for a technology that enables more efficien...

Meijer, Inc. is a growing multi-billion dollar retailer with over 200 stores, five distribution centers, and six food manufacturing plants in six states. With support from a 2015-16 SNRE Master’s Proj...

Goals & Objectives A great, on-going injustice exists – Michigan, like most states, lacks a public safety net for those unable to afford water and sanitation service. From families sacrific...

The U.S. Energy Department is investing $1.35M in a 3-year collaboration between National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, GRID Alternatives, University of Michiga...

LIGHTWEIGHT INNOVATIONS FOR TOMORROW (LIFT) LIFT is an industry-led, government funded consortium. By re-imagining processes and procedures, our highly linked and leveraged network is facilitat...

This project will advance the science and engineering of Food-Energy-Water (FEW) nexus modeling by developing and applying an integrated systems modeling framework. The modeling framework will enable ...

United Airlines funded the Center for Sustainable Systems, through Principle Investigator Dr. Gregory Keoleian, to conduct a life cycle analysis of different fuel options used in the operation of b...

The M-Cubed Diamond Program enables donors, companies, and foundations to invest in research projects that align exactly with their interests. Funders set  the parameters for each project, int...

The M-Cubed Diamond Program enables donors, companies, and foundations to invest in research projects that align exactly with their interests. Funders set  the parameters for each project, int...

This research aims to advance the current practice of developing Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) databases into a faster, less expensive process that still generates reliable LCI data. The research will...

ABSTRACT This research aims to advance the current practice of developing Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) databases into a faster, less expensive process that still generates reliable LCI data. The rese...

Distributed energy resources – most prominently solar PV, but also other forms of small-scale localized generation – have been growing as a share of U.S. electric generation. In the last several ye...

This research represents the practicum requirement for the MS degree, and is being done for a client, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in India. The objective of this research is to explor...

The State of Michigan passed Act 270 in 2010 allowing local units of government to establish a Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program. On November 17, the Leelanau County commission voted to...

Fifteen faculty project teams were awarded support through a water research capacity building initiative from the University of Michigan Water Center. Each team received up to $20,000 to enhance wa...

Goals & Objectives: This project has two components for the student team to research: First, students will assess the post-consumer waste and potential recovery of Amcor's flexible&nb...

Master's Project Goals & Objectives: This project aims to determine the environmental and fiscal consequences of sourcing the required volumes of water for brewing beer in the event that wa...

Goals & Objectives: This project will accomplish an analysis of waste management and zero waste options for the city of Detroit, Michigan including: Case study of successful zero wa...

Environmental footprinting of foods is at a critical and exciting stage of development: public and corporate interest in the information is at an all-time high, and the quantity and quality of comp...