Chris Hendrickson, Ph.D., M.ASCE

Chris Hendrickson is the Duquesne Light Company Professor of Engineering, Co-Director of the Green Design Institute and Director of the Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research at Carnegie Mellon University. His research, teaching and consulting are in the general area of engineering planning and management, including design for the environment, system performance, project management, finance and computer applications.  He has co-authored five books: “Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Goods and Services: An Input-Output Approach (Resources for the Future, 2005), “Project Management for Construction” (Prentice-Hall, 1989, and now available on the web at www.ce.cmu.edu/~cth/pmbook ),  “Transportation Investment and Pricing Principles” (John Wiley & Sons, 1984), “Knowledge Based Process Planning for Construction and Manufacturing” (Academic Press, 1989) and “Concurrent Computer Integrated Building Design” (Prentice-Hall, 1994). In addition, he has published numerous articles in the professional literature. Prof. Hendrickson has been the recipient of the 2002 ASCE Turner Lecture Award, the 2001 Fenves Systems Research Award, the 1994 Frank M. Masters Transportation Engineering Award, Outstanding Professor of the Year Award of the ASCE Pittsburgh Section (1990), the ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Award (1989), the Benjamin Richard Teare Teaching Award from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (1987) and a Rhodes Scholarship (1973).  He holds degrees from Stanford (BS/MS), Oxford (M.Phil Economics) and MIT (PhD).  He is currently the Managing Editor of the ASCE J. of Transportation Engineering.