Contact Information

M.S. candidate in Mechanical Engineering Sustainable Design and Manufacturing College of Management, Suite 400                Georgia Institute of Technology 800 West Peachtree Street NW Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0595 phone: (404) 385-4955 fax: (404) 894-7896 email: cguidry3@gatech.edu URL: homepage

Research Interests 

Currently I am working on a project funded by the National Science Foundation Material Use: Science, Engineering and Society (MUSES) program under award No. 0628190.  This is a collaborative study with participation from professors and graduate students in City and Regional Planning, Chemical and Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech, The University of Washington, and The University of West Virgina.  The project, titled Material Flow Modeling for Sustainable Industrial Systems for Urban Regions, focuses on the mining of post-consumer materials in urban regions in order to improve the social, economic and environmental sustainability of the region.  The study is using for a case studies the Atlanta metropolitan region and Seattle, Washington for their urban diversity in the context of environmental policy and consumer behavior with regards to the environment.  Within each of these regions, the study focuses on the carpet and electronics industries.

My particular research interests lie in:

• unit process and facility models
• material and energy flows
  
• associated environmental, economic and social impacts
  
• end-of-life options assessment under the guidelines of traditional Life Cycle Assessment
  

• carpet recycling strategies

Other Information

• graduated from Columbia University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2006
• born and raised in Louisiana and thus love delicious Cajun cooking
  
• enjoy eating out, musicals and museums
  
• avid marathoner
• ING New York City Marathon November 2007
• Inaugural ING Georgia Marathon March 2007
• for race photos click here: Pre-Georgia Marathon, Georgia Start, Georgia Start 2
• Atlanta  Thanksgiving Day Marathon November 2005