Bilec's Built Environment & Sustainable Engineering Group

Melissa M. Bilec

PhD, LEED AP

mbilec@pitt.edu

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Roberta A. Luxbacher Fellow

Associate Professor 

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Deputy Director

Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation

Dr. Bilec's sustainable engineering research group at the University of Pittsburgh represents the next generation of interdisciplinary education and research in environmental science, engineering, and sustainability. Her group focuses on the built environment, life cycle assessment, sustainable healthcare, and indoor air impacts. She is interested in improving system-level environmental performance of buildings, while developing a deeper understanding of indoor environmental quality, occupant impacts, and energy use.

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Dr. Bilec's CV

Post Docs

Ph.D. and M.S. Students

Undergraduate Students

Former Students & Post Docs

Haley Gardner

former

MS Student

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now

ILFI

Harold Rickenbacker

former

PhD Student

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now

Environmental Defense Fund

Cassandra Thiel

former

PhD, Post Doc

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now

Assistant Professor 

Langone School of Medicine​

New York University

Kevin Ketchman

former

PhD Student

now

Managing Consultant 

Opinion Dynamics

Nicole Campion

former

PhD Student

now

Associate Engineer 

Delaware River Port Authority

Bill Collinge

former

PhD, Post Doc

now

Research 

Bayer/Covestro

Alexander Dale

former

PhD Student

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now

Community Relations Sr. Officer

MIT Solve
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sami Al-Ghamdi

former

PhD Student

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now

Assistant Professor 

College of Science and Engineering

Hamad Bin Khalifa University

Scott Shrake

former

PhD Student

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now

Director at EPICS 

Arizona State University

Abdul-Aziz Banawi

former

PhD Student

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now

Department Chair 

King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Neethi Rajagopalan

former

PhD Student

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now

Researcher 

Department of Forest Biomaterials​

North Carolina State University

Christi Saunders

former

Masters Student

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now

Virtual Construction Engineer 

Mascaro Construction Company

Can Aktas

former

PhD Student

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now

Assistant Professor 

Tagliatela College of Engineering

University of New Haven

Briana Niblick

former

PhD Student

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now

Environmental Engineer 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Shen Tian

former

PhD Student

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now

Covestro

Vaclav Hasik

former

PhD Student

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now

UrbanFabrick

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