Position Title
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies
Professor Kendall is interested in understanding and reducing the environmental impacts of modern infrastructure and production systems. The Kendall group’s research focuses on advancing and applying the methods and perspectives of Industrial Ecology to transport, civil infrastructure, energy, and agricultural systems. Specific research and teaching interests include life cycle assessment and other structured environmental assessment methods, with a particular emphasis on climate change. These methods are applied with the goal of understanding current systems and guiding innovation of future systems towards environmentally preferable results. Current applications include electric vehicles and supporting technologies, geotechnical technologies, bioenergy, and agricultural systems.