We ❤️ our Scholars! Congratulations to EREF Scholar Thomas Maani for successfully defending his PhD! Thomas, you know our motto - once a scholar, always a scholar!
Congratulations, Thomas Maani! Thomas (advised by John Sutherland) successfully defended his thesis, "Sustainability Analysis of Critical Materials in Electric Vehicles with Emphasis on Circular Economy Principles." Thomas is from Kampala, Uganda. He received his bachelor’s degree in #CivilEngineering from the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) (Tanzania), and master’s degree in Civil and #EnvironmentalEngineering from The University of Toledo (Ohio). His work focuses on using material flow analysis (MFA), life cycle assessment (LCA), and technoeconomic analysis (TEA) to investigate critical materials availability for a clean energy transition. He is also a visiting scholar at Argonne National Laboratory where he is contributing to the development of a new module to investigate the #greenhousegas #emissions of vehicle lightweighting in their Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Technologies (GREET) model. We are proud of you, your effort, and accomplishments and we wish you the best in your future endeavors! #Purdue #PurdueEEE #BoilerUp #sustainability #purdueengineers #MySmallStep