Titles

• Affiliate Global Futures Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Polytechnic School, Ira A Fulton Schools of Engineering

Biography

Dr. Briana Lucero is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in The Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. She is a senior researcher within the Systems Engineering Environment and Studio (SEES) Laboratories with a focus on advanced energy systems modeling and optimization for the global economy. Her previous work in design-by-analogy and humanitarian engineering has laid a foundation for her current research in the design, optimization, and deployment of concentrating solar power systems in emerging markets. Her background as an aerospace engineer working on satellites and scientific imaging instrumentation at Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation has informed her use of systems engineering in basic science and applied research.

Education

• PhD, Engineering Systems, Colorado School of Mines, 2014
• MS, Systems Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 2015
• MS, Mechanical Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 2011
• BS, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 2009

Expertise

• design for communities
• human-centered design
• biologically-inspired design
• design-by-analogy
• product design
• multidisciplinary design
• complex systems engineering
• system of systems design