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Kate Whitefoot

Kate Whitefoot

Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering; Engineering & Public Policy; and Heinz School of Public Policy (courtesy)

  • 358 Scaife Hall
Address
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Bio

Kate Whitefoot is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at 一本道无码. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Mechanical Design, a Fellow of 一本道无码’s Scott Institute for Energy Innovation, and a member of the NextManufacturing Center for additive manufacturing research. Prior to her current position, she served as a senior program officer and the Robert A. Pritzker fellow at the National Academy of Engineering, where she directed the Academy’s Manufacturing, Design, and Innovation program.

Professor Whitefoot’s research bridges engineering design theory and analysis with that of economics to inform technology and product development and public policy. Her recent work has focused on technologies and policies that reduce transportation energy use and emissions, including greenhouse gas emission regulations, the transition to electric vehicles and low-carbon energy sources, and vehicle lightweighting.

Whitefoot has gained recognition nationally and internationally for her research and teaching. She received the NSF CAREER Award, ASME’s Design Automation Committee Young Investigator Award, and the Freeman and Nelson Best Paper Award, and was selected by the NAE’s Frontiers of Engineering. as an emerging engineering leader. Her work is featured in the Atlantic, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post and referenced in multiple rulemakings by the U.S. Department of Transportation and Environmental Protection Agency. She has worked with several companies, including Boeing, Cummins, Ford, and IBM, and has been invited to present briefings at the White House, Capitol Hill, the Department of Commerce, Department of Energy, and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Education

B.S. Mechanical Engineering 2006, University of Michigan
M.S. Mechanical Engineering 2008, University of Michigan
Ph.D. Design Science (Mechanical Engineering and Economics) 2011, University of Michigan

Selected Publications

  • Connor R. Forsythe, Kenneth T. Gillingham, Jeremy J. Michalek, Kate S. Whitefoot. 2023. “Technology advancement is driving electric vehicle adoption.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(23): e2219396120.
  • Sangjin Jung, L. Burak Kara, Zhenguo Nie, Timothy W. Simpson, and Kate S. Whitefoot. 2023. “Is additive manufacturing a viable and sustainable alternative for mass production?” Environmental Science & Technology 57(16): 6373-6386.
  • Zhenguo Nie, Sangjin Jung, L. Burak Kara, Kate S. Whitefoot. 2020. “Optimization of parts consolidation for minimum production costs and time using additive manufacturing.” Journal of Mechanical Design 142(7): 072001.
  • Antonio M Bento, Kenneth Gillingham, Mark R Jacobsen, Christopher R Knittel, Benjamin Leard, Joshua Linn, Virginia McConnell, David Rapson, James M Sallee, Arthur A. van Benthem, and Kate S. Whitefoot. 2018. “Flawed analyses of US auto fuel economy standards.” Science 362(6419): 1119-1121.
  • Kate S. Whitefoot, Meredith L. Fowlie, and Steven J. Skerlos. 2017. “Compliance by design: Influence of acceleration trade-offs on CO2 emissions and costs of fuel economy and greenhouse gas regulations.” Environmental Science & Technology 51(18): 10307-10315.

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