Engineering
Systems Division Announces New Joint
Faculty Members
David
Geltner and Christopher Zegras of
the School of Architecture + Planning
by
Stefanie Koperniak – January
5, 2009
The
Engineering Systems Division welcomes
two new joint faculty members, Professor
David Geltner and Assistant
Professor Christopher Zegras,
both from the School of Architecture
Planning. With the addition of Geltner
and Zegras, ESD now has faculty with
appointments in all five schools at
MIT.
Prof.
David Geltner is the outgoing Director
of Research for the MIT Center for
Real Estate, as well as the George
Macomber Professor and Professor of
Real Estate Finance in DUSP. As Director,
Dr. Geltner shared responsibility
for the overall planning and management
of the Center, and headed MIT’s
Master of Science in Real Estate Development
(MSRED) program. His current research
focuses on real estate investment
performance measurement and the related
areas of asset valuation and private
asset market functioning. Lately,
he has been working closely with ESD’s
Professor Richard de Neufville on
a new ESD course. Dr. Geltner received
his PhD in 1989 from the MIT, in the
Civil Engineering Department in the
field of infrastructure finance and
economics. He also has degrees in
urban studies from Carnegie Mellon
University and the University of Michigan.
Prof.
Christopher Zegras’ research
interests include the influence of
the built environment on individual
travel behavior, transportation infrastructure
and system financing, developing indicators
of sustainable transportation, comparative
analyses of metropolitan transportation
systems, and mitigating transportation
greenhouse gas emissions. Along with
teaching graduate-level courses in
urban transportation planning, statistics,
and land use-transportation planning
in the Department of Urban Studies,
he serves as the MIT Lead for the
MIT Portugal Program Transportation
Systems Focus Area. He is also a member
of the Campus Energy Task Force of
the MIT Energy Initiative. Zegras
holds a Master in City Planning and
a Master of Science in Transportation
from MIT and a PhD in Urban and Regional
Planning, also from MIT.
About
the Engineering Systems Division
ESD aims to solve complex engineering
systems problems by integrating approaches
based on engineering, management,
and social sciences—using new
framing and modeling methodologies.
ESD seeks to facilitate the beneficial
application of engineering systems
principles and properties by expanding
the set of problems addressed by engineers,
and to position its graduates as tomorrow’s
system thinkers and leaders in tackling
society’s challenges. ESD is
an interdisciplinary academic unit
that spans most departments within
the School of Engineering, as well
as with all five schools at MIT. Visit
esd.mit.edu.
About
the School of Architecture + Planning
The School of Architecture + Planning
enrolls approximately 650 students
a year from all corners of the world
in an array of courses ranging from
Renaissance architecture to the cities
of tomorrow, digital fabrication,
motion graphics, shape grammars, photography
and construction finance. The unifying
theme of all its activities is design.
Through the design of physical spaces,
and through the design of policies
and technologies that shape how those
spaces are used, the school aims to
sustain and enhance the quality of
the human environment at all scales,
from the personal to the global. Visit
sap.mit.edu.
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