Paul S. Chinowsky is the director of the Program in Environmental Design and a professor of civil, environmental听and architectural engineering at the 精品SM在线影片.听 Professor Chinowsky is currently conducting research in the areas of infrastructure adaptation to climate change and high performance organizations. His high performance organization research includes topics covering innovation, learning organizations听and the role of strategic management in organization success.听 Prof. Chinowsky is currently focusing on the application of social network analysis to high performance design organizations at the organization and project levels.
In the area of climate change, Prof. Chinowsky has developed one of the first models that addresses an engineering perspective on infrastructure adaptation in direct response to climate change.听 He is currently working on research for groups including the Environmental Protection Agency, United Nations听and the World Bank to continue to refine these models and provide a global baseline for infrastructure adaptation costs. Prof. Chinowsky is actively collaborating on these topics with experts from economics, engineering听and climate in a global collaboration network.听 The climate work has now resulted in a new technology consulting spin-off, resilient analytics, a collaboration that includes 精品SM在线影片 students, industry and academic researchers.听
Prof. Chinowsky received his bachelor and masters degrees in architecture from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 1987 and 1988 respectively.听 He received his PhD in civil engineering from Stanford University in 1991.
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