Ryan L. Shelby
Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley
Welcome!
I am an Alfred P. Sloan Ph.D. Student Scholar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
I work in the Berkeley Expert Systems Technology & Berkeley Energy and Sustainable Technologies (BEST) Design Laboratory headed by Dr. Alice Agogino, and my research interests include sustainability, sustainable design, renewable energy, artificial intelligence, design theory, human centered design, ethnographic methodology, and user needs assessment.
My doctoral research involves design theory for sustainable product development and creating a Bayesian model for predicting adoption rates of sustainability and renewable energy products.
I am also the co-founder and project manager for the Community Assessment of Renewable Energy and Sustainability (CARES), an engineering and sustainability assessment organization based at the University of California, Berkeley that includes participants from industry, academia, and government.
Recently, CARES has received grants from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), the Pinoleville Pomo Nation (PPN) to co-develop interoperable open source sustainability assessment tools and build a knowledge base of sustainable best practices, renewable energy technology, economic return on investment data, renewable energy technology implementation results.