Transformational Research and ANalysiS for Modeling Sustainability
Description: A center of excellence with faculty that identify opportunities to invent and design technologies to move the needle on sustainability through technological and economic systems modeling.
Rationale: Modeling to uncover the pathways to sustainability that are most effective, likely in the near term, cost-efficient, and that offer multiple sustainability benefits guides research and development for impact.
Landscape: There are very few departments/centers in the United States that combine key elements of process modeling, techno-economic analysis, life cycle assessment, material flow analysis, and integrated assessment modeling – all tools that when combined offer power and insight to benefit Northwestern, the United States, and the globe.
Vision: Building on strengths in life cycle assessment, human behavior modeling, systems optimization, McCormick will be home to the nation’s leading analysis center of excellence that will transform approaches to sustainability for effectiveness and impact.