Matthew J. Eckelman
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Affiliated Faculty, Chemical Engineering
Affiliated Faculty, Marine and Environmental Sciences
Affiliated Faculty, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs
Office
- 425 Snell Engineering Center
- 617.373.4256
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Research Focus
Environmental engineering and sustainability; life cycle assessment; energy efficiency and emissions modeling; environmental assessment of bio and nanomaterials; material and energy use in urban buildings and infrastructure
Education
- Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, Yale University, 2009
- M.S., M.Phil., Environmental Engineering, Yale University, 2006
- B.A., Physics and Mathematics, Amherst College, 2000
Honors & Awards
- 2019 College of Engineering Faculty Fellow
- 2015 NSF CAREER Award
- 2013 ISIE’s Laudise Young Researcher Prize
- National Academy of Engineering Exemplar in Engineering Ethics Education
- Clemens Herschel Award for Civil Engineering Research, Boston Society of Civil Engineering Section
- 2012 Anesthesia & Analgesia paper selected for Continuing Medical Education program
- 2008-2010 Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellow, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- 2009 Project Award, Air & Waste Management Association
- 2007 ES&T paper featured in ACS Chemical & Engineering News
- 2007 NSF EAPSI Fellow, Japan
- 2007 World Fellow, Coca-Cola Foundation
- 2007 ES&T paper featured in Science magazine literature highlights
Professional Affiliations
- American Center for Life Cycle Assessment
- American Society for Engineering Education
- Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors
- International Society for Industrial Ecology
Research Overview
Environmental engineering and sustainability; life cycle assessment; energy efficiency and emissions modeling; environmental assessment of bio and nanomaterials; material and energy use in urban buildings and infrastructure
Selected Research Projects
- Air Climate and Energy Center—SEARCH: Solutions for Energy Air Climate and Health
Senior Personnel, Environmental Protection Agency - CAREER: Building Chemical Synthesis Networks for Life Cycle Hazard Modeling
Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
Selected Publications
- A.G. Parvatker, M.J. Eckelman, Simulation-Based Estimates of Life Cycle Inventory Gate- To-Gate Process Energy use for 151 Organic Chemical Syntheses, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 8(23), 2020, 8519-8536
- L.N. Troup, M.J. Eckelman, D.F. Fannon, Simulating Future Energy Consumption in Office Buildings using an Ensemble of Morphed Climate Data, Applied Energy, 255, 2019, 113821
- N. Watts, M.J. Eckelman, J. Chambers, The 2019 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: Ensuring that the Health of a Child Born Today is not Defined by a Changing Climate, The Lancet, 394(10211), 2019, 1836-1878
- S.M. Rahman, M.J. Eckelman, A. Onnis-Hayden, A.Z. Gu, Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Advanced Wastewater Treatment Processes for Removal of Chemicals of Emerging Concern, Environmental Science and Technology, 52, 2018, 11346-11358
Aug 31, 2023
Eckelman Publishes Book on “Industrial Ecology and Sustainability”
CEE Associate Professor Matthew Eckelman published a book on “Industrial Ecology and Sustainability.”
Jul 06, 2023
New study shows how U.S. factories could dramatically cut costs with one simple adjustment: ‘This must change’
CEE Associate Professor Matthew Eckelman was featured in the Yahoo News article “New study shows how U.S. factories could dramatically cut costs with one simple adjustment: ‘This must change’.”
May 16, 2023
Determining the Feasibility of Rooftop Solar PV for Decarbonizing the Industrial Sector
CEE Associate Professor Matthew Eckelman and MIE Professor and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs Jacqueline Isaacs published their research on the “Technical feasibility of powering U.S. manufacturing with rooftop solar PV” in the Environmental Research: Sustainability and Infrastructure journal.
May 15, 2023
Rooftop Solar Panels Could Power One Third of US Manufacturing Sector
A new study on “Technical feasibility of powering U.S. manufacturing with rooftop solar PV” published by CEE Associate Professor Matthew Eckelman in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research: Sustainability and Infrastructure has been featured in EurekAlert!, Yahoo News, Newswise, SciTechDaily, Electrek, PV Magazine, ScienceBlog.com, SolarPowerWorld, Gizmodo, AZO CleanTech, and USTimePost.
Feb 08, 2023
Building a Carbon Negative Future with Steel and Cross Laminated Timber
In a new $3.1M grant from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), Northeastern Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Chair and CDM Smith Professor Jerome Hajjar will lead a multi-institution team of researchers developing a new carbon sequestration technique using cross-laminated timber composite floor systems in bolted steel construction for building structures.
Nov 02, 2022
2022 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2 percent of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above. The list below includes […]
Oct 27, 2022
‘If I Were a Hospital, I’d be Reading the Tea Leaves’: Pressures Grow on the Health Care Industry to Reduce its Climate Pollution
The widely quoted statistic that health care accounts for 8.5% of the nation’s emissions was developed by Matthew Eckelman, associate professor in the department of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University, Yale’s Sherman, and other colleagues. (Featured in Stat News)
Sep 26, 2022
Impact Engines Spur Multidisciplinary Research Innovation to Solve Global Challenges
Northeastern University has selected its first cohort of Impact Engines to ignite measurable change in problem-solving, three of the five of which are led by engineering faculty.
May 09, 2022
How Bad Are Incandescent Light Bulbs for the Environment?
CEE Associate Professor Matthew Eckelman was featured in the Popular Science article “How bad are incandescent light bulbs for the environment?“
Apr 28, 2022
FY23 TIER 1 Award Recipients
Congratulations to the 15 COE faculty and affiliates who were recipients of FY23 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 13 different projects.