Programs

  • Royce Fellowship
Joshua
Apte

Concentration 

Environmental Science

Award Year 

2003
The Energy and Climate Change Implications of Current and Future Window Technologies in the U.S

Faculty Sponsor: Steven Hamburg

Recognizing the potential for reducing home energy consumption is limited by available window design, Joshua evaluated the contributions those window technologies in the USA make to global warming. He also examined emerging window technologies that can reduce energy consumption and utilized a cost/benefit analysis to ascertain the most promising technologies.

Since graduating from Brown, Joshua's career has focused on understanding the energy and environmental consequences of urban infrastructure systems. He is especially interested in methods to characterize and reduce human air pollution exposure caused by urban transportation in low-income countries. Much of his research focuses on Asian countries, and he even spent a year in New Delhi on a Fulbright award. Joshua received his M.S. and Ph.D. (2008; 2013) from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2014, he will join the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering.