Carol C. Menassa is an Associate Professor and Tishman Faculty Scholar with the Intelligent and Sustainable Civil Infrastructure Systems Laboratory (ISciS Lab) in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Current research in Intelligent and Sustainable Civil Infrastructure Systems Laboratory (ISciS Lab) focuses on understanding and modeling the impact of occupants on energy use in buildings, and developing decision frameworks to assist in building operations and management; as well as, sustainable retrofit decisions. The research team used several tools such as energy simulation, complex adaptive systems modeling, high-level architecture and informatics.