EPP Faculty :: Deanna Matthews

Deanna Matthews

Office: Baker Hall 126C
Phone: (412) 268-7889
Email: dhm@cmu.edu

Assistant Teaching Professor
Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Affairs
Engineering and Public Policy


Assistant Teaching Professor, Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Affairs, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, 2010 - present

Research Associate, Green Design Institute, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2001-2010

Graduate Programs Associate, Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence, 2004-Present

EDUCATION
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering May 2001
M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering December 1995 
Thesis Title:  Identification and Specification of Recycled Materials for Use in New Products:  A Case Study of Post-Consumer Carpets

Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
B.S.E., Civil Engineering  May 1994

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles
Hendrickson, C. T., D. H. Matthews, M. Ashe, P. Jaramillo, and F. C. McMichael.  “Reducing enviroonmental burdens of solid-state lighting through end-of-life design.”Environmental Research Letters vol 5 2010 014016. 

Matthews, D. H. and T. R. Hawkins.  “A Classroom Simulation to Teach Economic Input-Output Life Cycle Assessment.” Journal of Industrial Ecology, vol 13 no. 4 Aug 2009 p 622-637. 

Matthews, D. H., T. R. Hawkins, P. Jaramillo, J. Marriott, and A. Sharrard.  “The Green Design Apprenticeship: How An Outreach Program Strengthens Graduate Research.”Journal of Industrial Ecology, vol 13 no. 3 June 2009 p 467-476. 

Heard, R. A. and D. H. Matthews.  “The Use of a Multidisciplinary Project to Expand the Materials Science Curriculum,” in Forum on Materials Science and Engineering Education for 2020, edited by L.M. Bartolo, K.C. Chen, M. Grant Norton, and G.M. Zenner (Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Volume 1046E, Warrendale, PA, 2008), 1046-W03-08.

Matthews, D. H., G. C. Christini, and C. T. Hendrickson.  2004.  “Five Elements for Organizational Decision-Making with an Environmental Management System.” Environmental Science and Technology, v38, n7, pp1927-1932. 

Matthews, D. H., “Environmental management systems for internal corporate environmental benchmarking.”  Benchmarking: An International Journal  v10 n2 95-106, 2003.

Lave, L., Conway-Schempf, N., Harvey, J., Hart, D., Bee, T., and MacCracken, C.  “Recycling Post-Consumer Nylon Carpet:  A Case Study of the Economic and Engineering Issues Associated with Recycling Post-Consumer Goods,”  Journal of Industrial Ecology v2 n1 p117-126, Winter 1998.

Book Chapters
Christini, G. C., D. H. Matthews, and C. T. Hendrickson.  “A Comparison of Environmental Management System Components and Practices”, in Sroufe, R. and Sarkis J. (eds) Strategic Sustainability: The State of the Art in Corporate Environmental Management Systems Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing, 2007.

Matthews, H. S. and D. H. Matthews.  “Information Technology Products and the Environment.” In Computers and the Environment:  Understanding and Managing Their Impacts.  Kuehr, R. and E. Williams, Eds. The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.

Matthews, D. H. and L. B. Lave.  “Evaluating Occupational Safety Costs and Policy in an Input-Output Framework.”  In Improving Regulation: Cases in Environment, Health, and Safety.  Fischbeck, P. and S. Farrow, Eds.  Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2001.

Refereed Conference Proceedings
Mankoff, J., D. Matthews, S. Fussell, and M. Johnson, “Public Participation and Decision Support Systems: Theory, Requirements, and Applications,” Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (CD-ROM) January 3-6, 2007, Computer Society Press, 2007 10 pages. 

Matthews, D. H., R. Heard. “Greening of Education:  Ecological Education in Engineering.”  Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference, June 18-21, 2006.

Conference Proceedings
Matthews, D. H.,  Matthews, H. S., Jaramillo, P., and Weber, C. L. “Energy consumption in the production of light-emitting diodes,” Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology, May 18-20, 2009, 6 pages.

Jaramillo, P.; Marriott, J.; Matthews, D.H. “How much electricity do you use? An activity to teach high school students about energy issues,”  Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment, May 19-22, 2008 5 pages. 

Kitzman, K., A. Middleton, D. Matthews, A. Battaglia, and J. Graham.  “Environmental Cost Accounting for Improved Environmental Decision Making.”  Presented at the 2001 Air and Waste Management Association Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida.


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