Assistant
Professor, Civil
and Environmental Engineering, and Engineering
and Public Policy; Research Director, Green Design
Institute
B.S. (Computer
Engineering/Engineering and Public Policy) 1992, Carnegie
Mellon
M.S. (Economics) 1996, Carnegie Mellon.
Ph.D. (Economics) 1999, Carnegie Mellon.
Carnegie
Mellon, 1999 -.
Prof. Matthews
is the Research Director of the Green Design Institute
and a faculty member in the Departments
of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering
& Public Policy at Carnegie
Mellon University. The Green Design Institute
is an interdisciplinary research consortium at Carnegie
Mellon focused on identifying and assessing the environmental
impacts of environmental systems and helping businesses
manage their use of resources and toxic materials.
His research and consulting interests are in the area
of identifying the socio-economic implications of
the growth of information and communications technologies
(ICT), and using ICT to assess and reduce these impacts.
Of particular interest are using the Internet to facilitate
environmental life cycle assessment of products and
processes, supply chain management in the electronics
industry, the energy and environmental impacts of
computing and the Internet, and information and infrastructure
assurance issues. At Carnegie Mellon, he has taught
graduate and undergraduate courses in the Departments
of Economics, Civil
and Environmental Engineering, Engineering
and Public Policy, and Computer
Science.
Representative
Publications
H. Scott
Matthews, "Scoping Study on the Environmental
Implications of the Growth of the Information and
Communications Technology Sector," prepared for
the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development,
Environment Directorate, Paris, in press.
H. Scott
Matthews, Chris T. Hendrickson, and Denise L. Soh,
"Environmental and Economic Effects of E-Commerce:
A Case Study of Book Publishing and Retail Logistics",
Transportation Research Record No. 1763, pp. 6-12,
2001.
H. Scott
Matthews, Chris T. Hendrickson, and Arpad Horvath,
"External Costs of Air Emissions from Transportation,"
American Society of Civil Engineers Journal of Infrastructure
Systems, Vol., 7 No.1, March 2001.
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