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Lloyd Connelly
Lloyd Connelly
Doctorate Student
University of California, Berkeley
Before graduating from Santa Clara University in Mechanical Engineering, Lloyd Connelly knew he was interested in environmental issues and thermosciences. His senior thesis: "The Design, Construction and Competition of a Human Powered Vehicle" gave Connelly practical experience with integrating environmental concerns and engineering. After graduating, Lloyd worked for a few years for an environmental consulting firm designing soil and ground water remediation systems. In 1991, he began working on a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley. For his masters thesis, he studied the wall temperature effects in flame-wall interactions. For his doctorate, Connelly decided to move away from combustion sciences and study the energy implications of recovering materials from industrial waste streams.
Currently, Lloyd Connelly works with Professor Catherine Koshland (see accompanying article) and hopes to apply concepts from the thermosciences (specifically, energy and exergo-economic analyses) to the task of optimizing the recovery and re-use of specific industrial wastes. Lloyd's current research relates most directly to the relatively new field of Industrial Ecology-a broad term that describes a diverse array of efforts to reduce material throughput in industrialized societies by increasing the recovery and re-use of industrial and post-consumer wastes. Lloyd still has a few years to go before he completes his doctorate. As for his future, Connelly speculates, "I would like to teach eventually--but I view that as an ending to my career. I'm most interested in working with policy issues relating to renewable energies or clean production technologies." Connelly concludes, "I may work in the United States with an non-governmental organization but am also interested in working in developing countries where environmental problems are most acute. Both of these avenues seem to provide opportunities to escape bureaucracy and perhaps see the results of your efforts."
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