I am an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and The Polytechnic School at ASU, where I run re-Engineered, an interdisciplinary group that embeds environmental projection, social justice, and peace in engineering. Current areas of work and teaching include:
I am originally from Mumbai, India, but feel equally at home in Michigan or Washington, D.C. (and now, the Valley!). I studied aerospace engineering (specializing in gas dynamics and combustion) and sustainability ethics at the University of Michigan. I then spent three years as a AAAS Fellow in Washington, D.C., first at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the Innovation Team, where I worked on climate change resilience and low-cost air pollution sensors; and then at the U.S. Department of Energy in the Water Power Technologies Office, helping design and run the Wave Energy Prize. I also work as co-founder of the Constellation Prize.
You can read more about what we do on our group website here, and at our group blog here.
From philosophy to education to practice, I am passionate about creating an engineering profession that embeds the values of peace, social justice, and ecological holism at the very heart of engineering thinking. Engineers have and will continue to be integral in the design and development of technologies that shape human relationship to the Earth. Thus, to infuse engineers with ideals of justice, with practical tools to understand the impact of their work on people and the Earth, and with the ability to work intimately with those who have different kinds of knowledge and experiences, is to change the world.
I ask three questions: Why are we engineers? For whose benefit do we work? What is the full measure of our moral and social responsibility?
You can check out the work we do in re-Engineered here and here.
Spring 2022 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
EGR 493 | Honors Thesis |
CEE 593 | Applied Project |
SOS 792 | Research |
SOS 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
EGR 201 | Use-Inspired Design Project I |
CEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
CEE 593 | Applied Project |
SOS 792 | Research |
SOS 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
EGR 493 | Honors Thesis |
SOS 594 | Conference and Workshop |
HSD 598 | Special Topics |
EGR 598 | Special Topics |
SOS 792 | Research |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
EGR 201 | Use-Inspired Design Project I |
SOS 792 | Research |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
JUS 444 | Environment and Justice |
FIS 444 | Environment and Justice |
EGR 493 | Honors Thesis |
SOS 792 | Research |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
EGR 313 | Mechanical Systems Project II |
EGR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
Summer 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SOS 792 | Research |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
EGR 313 | Mechanical Systems Project II |
EGR 590 | Reading and Conference |
SOS 792 | Research |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
EGR 494 | Special Topics |
FIS 494 | Special Topics |
EGR 598 | Special Topics |
HSD 598 | Special Topics |
SOS 792 | Research |
Summer 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SOS 792 | Research |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SOS 594 | Conference and Workshop |
HSD 598 | Special Topics |
EGR 598 | Special Topics |
SOS 790 | Reading and Conference |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
FIS 494 | Special Topics |
EGR 494 | Special Topics |
US Environmental Protection Agency, Innovation Team, Office of Research and Development (2013-2014) US Department of Energy, Water Power Technologies Office (2014-2016)