Erick Jones

Founder and Operator of EngineerLiving.com and DreamsfromAfar.com

Ph.D. Student – Department of Mechanical Engineering – Operations Research and Industrial Engineering

Former Aggie (Texas A&M) – Chemical Engineering Graduate

Academic/ Professional Goals

• Build and operate urban and rural communities that are:
  • Sustainable
    • Clean energy
    • Rain and Recycled water
    • Greener Transportation Paradigms
  • Healthy
    • Walk-able
    • Numerous Greens Spaces
  • Social communities
    • social infrastructure such as:
      • libraries
      • community centers
      • parks
• Accomplished by:
  • collecting data
    • Open City databases
    • smart meters
    • Internet of Things
  • processing that data
    • Machine learning
  • analyzing that data
    • optimization
    • Monte-Carlo simulation
  • visualizing that data
  • Creating and improving systems with the organized data

Interests and Hobbies

• Political and Economic Commentary
• Science and Technology
• Travel
• Drones
• Photography
• Education
• Board Games
• Gatherings
• Texas

Other Profiles

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erickjones2/

Leibowicz Research Group: http://sites.utexas.edu/leibowicz/team-2/

UT INFEWS Research Cohort: https://sites.utexas.edu/infews/scholars/