Publications

Potential Impacts of Technological Advancements

1. Jones, E. C., & Leibowicz, B. D. (2019). Contributions of shared autonomous vehicles to
   climate change mitigation. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment,
   72, 279–298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2019.05.005
2. Burgos, J. C., Jones, E., & Balbuena, P. B. (2011). Effect of the Metal−Substrate
   Interaction Strength on the Growth of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. The Journal of
   Physical Chemistry C, 115(15), 7668–7675. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp200919j
3. Burgos, J. C., Jones, E., & Balbuena, P. B. (2014). Dynamics of Topological Defects in
   Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes during Catalytic Growth. The Journal of Physical
   Chemistry C, 118(9), 4808–4817. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp412708h
4. Jones, E. C., & Leibowicz, B. D. (2021). Climate risk management in agriculture using
   alternative electricity and water resources: a stochastic programming framework.
   Environment Systems and Decisions. https://doi.org/10.1007/S10669-021-09838-8
5. Jones, E. C., & Leibowicz, B. D. (2021). Co-optimization and community: Maximizing the
   benefits of distributed electricity and water technologies. Sustainable Cities and Society,
   64, 102515. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2020.102515
6. Jones, E. C., Yaw, S., Bennett, J. A., Ogland-Hand, J. D., Strahan, C., & Middleton, R. S.
   (2022). Designing multi-phased CO2 capture and storage infrastructure deployments.
   Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition, 2, 100023.
   https://doi.org/10.1016/J.RSET.2022.100023
7. Biney, J., Jones Jr., E. C. and Jones, E. C. “Understanding the EV Semiconductor Chip
   Sustainable Supply Chain Chip Shortage” International Supply Chain Technology Journal,
   vol. 10, no. 2, 2024, https://doi.org/10.20545/isctj.v10i2.336
8. Thompson, L., J. Hovey, J. Sigler, R. Smalls, S. Rahman Mohammadpour, V. Sharma, J.
   Sood, E. C. Jones, Jr., J. M. Rosenberger, and V. C. P. Chen (2024). Training Teachers to
   Employ Design and Analysis of Computer Experiments for Research on Sustainable
   Building Design. In Proceedings of the 2024 American Society for Engineering Education
   (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, Portland, OR, June.
9. Varekar, S., Srinivasan, S., Shah, N. Gopalakrishnan, N. N., Jones Jr., E. C., “Analyzing the
   Connectivity of Combined Statistical Areas in Different Census Regions Using ArcGIS”
   International Supply Chain Technology Journal, vol. 9, no. 10, 2023,
   https://doi.org/10.20545/isctj.v9i10.319
10. Jones, E. (2020). Decomposing Systems: Illustrating the Utility of Distributed Energy
    Resources with Decomposition Techniques. Proceedings of the 2020 IISE Annual
    Conference.
11. Jones, E.C., Jr., Chen, V.C., Sharma, V., Gudikandula, S., Smalls, R., Sigler, J. (2023).
    Training Teachers to integrate a Sustainability Assessment for Green Building and
    Retrofitting Project into a K-12 Classroom. Proceedings of the 2023 ASEE Gulf-Southwest
    Annual Conference.
12. Alavi S., Attebi, O.S., Evans, T., Jones, E.C. (2024). Multi-Source Biofuel Supply Chain
    Network Optimization. Proceedings of the 2024 IISE Annual Conference.
13. Aghapour, R., Jones, E.C., Alavi, S. (2024). Green Building Design Surrogate Optimization:
    Exploring Off the Shelf Machine Learning and Mixed Integer Programming Integrations.
    Proceedings of the 9 th North American Conference on Industrial Engineering and
    Operations Management.

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Pathways to Overcome Systematic and Technological Barriers to Adoption of Key Technologies or Infrastructure

• Improving programs
• Developing new investment structures
• Developing new control or management devices and software

1. Harmon, D., Jones, E., Moss, J., & Wolfe, E. (2020). Pathways for Reducing Energy
   Burdens in Harris County. Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, 13.
   https://www.txenergypoverty.org/2021/03/pathways-for-ders-to-reduce-energy-
   burdens-in-low-income-households-harris-county-full-report/
2. Jones, E. C., Azeem, G., Jones, E. C. Jr., Jefferson, F., Henry, M., Abolmaali, S., & Sparks, J.
   (2021). Understanding the Last Mile Transportation Concept Impacting Underserved
   Global Communities to Save Lives During COVID-19 Pandemic. Frontiers in Future
   Transportation, 0, 25. https://doi.org/10.3389/FFUTR.2021.732331
3. Jones, E. C., Azeem, Gohar, Jones, Erick C., and Jefferson, F., “Impacting at Risk
   Communities using AI to optimize the COVID-19 Pandemic Therapeutics Supply Chain”,
   International Supply Chain Technology Journal (ISCTJ), Vol. 6, No. 9 September 2020.
   DOI: doi.org/10.20545/isctj.v06.i09.02
4. Jones, E.C., Jr.; Reyes, A. Identifying Themes in Energy Poverty Research: Energy Justice
   Implications for Policy, Programs, and the Clean Energy Transition. Energies 2023, 16,
   https://doi.org/10.3390/en16186698
5. T. Kemabonta, E. Jones, D. Harmon and J. Pittman, “A New Approach to Developing
   Community Solar Projects for LMI Communities in ERCOT’s Competitive Electricity
   Markets,” 2021 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), Seattle, WA,
   USA, 2021, pp. 86-93, doi: 10.1109/GHTC53159.2021.9612482.