{"id":1742,"date":"2020-07-02T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2025-07-08T13:31:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T17:31:40","slug":"new-faculty-in-mae-welcome-professor-kristen-schell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/2020\/new-faculty-in-mae-welcome-professor-kristen-schell\/","title":{"rendered":"New Faculty in MAE &#8211; Welcome Professor Kristen Schell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        New Faculty in MAE &#8211; Welcome Professor Kristen Schell\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department welcomes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Professor Kristen Schell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/Original5472x3648-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/Original5472x3648-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/Original5472x3648-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/Original5472x3648-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/Original5472x3648-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/Original5472x3648-1400x933.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/Original5472x3648-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/Original5472x3648-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/Original5472x3648-700x467.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Kristen Schell joined the CU Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering faculty on July 1, 2020. Prof. Schell\u2019s research areas include: wind power modeling and forecasting, power systems planning for negative emissions, strategic behaviour in electricity markets, renewable energy policy design, and design for adoption of adaptable, modular microgrids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Schell\u2019s current focus is on amplifying the share of electric power generated through renewable energy sources like wind power and overcoming the problems that the integration of these sources poses to system resource adequacy, reliability and resilience. Her models are informed by large, empirical datasets from wind power producers, electric utilities, independent system operators, numerical weather prediction models and earth systems models. She works to develop novel machine learning and optimization methods that support&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decision-making for the energy transition<\/a>, from the community to the federal level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously, Dr. Schell was an Assistant Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY, where she was part of a team awarded a US Department of Energy (DOE) ARPA-E grant. Prior to RPI, Dr. Schell was an IVADO Post-doctoral Fellow at Polytechnique Montreal and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan. She holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, an MS in Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, and dual Engineering PhDs from Carnegie Mellon University and the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto, Portugal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department welcomes Professor Kristen Schell Professor Kristen Schell joined the CU Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering faculty on July 1, 2020. Prof. Schell\u2019s research areas include: wind power modeling and forecasting, power systems planning for negative emissions, strategic behaviour in electricity markets, renewable energy policy design, and design for adoption of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1748,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions\/1748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}