Emily Monroe

Overview

As Dartmouth's Cook Engineering Design Center (CEDC) director, Emily leverages her engineering experience to connect industry sponsors with Dartmouth Engineering students. Emily is a licensed professional engineer, and a member of Tau Beta Pi and Phi Beta Kappa honor societies.

Research Interests

Engineering education; design; manufacturing; project management

Education

• BSME, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2010
• MEM, Duke University 2017

Awards

• Outstanding Service Award for Faculty, Thayer School of Engineering, 2024
• Lauren Tsai Memorial Award for Excellence in Mechanical Engineering, MIT, 2010
• AMP, Inc. Award for Outstanding Performance in Mechanics and Materials, MIT, 2008

Professional Activities

• Member, National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE)
• Associate, American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)

Selected Publications

• McCollor M and Monroe EH. Climate Change Impacts on Water Availability in Namibia. Tearline (NGA). 2024 Jun 25. <tearline.mil/public_page/water-availability-in-namibia>
• Broughton D, Welling AL, Monroe EH, Pirozzi K, Schulte JB, Clymer JW. Tissue effects in vessel sealing and transection from an ultrasonic device with more intelligent control of energy delivery. Med Devices (Auckl). 2013 Sep 16;6:151–4. doi: 10.2147/MDER.S51663. PMID: 24072978; PMCID: PMC3783500.

News

Thayer Team Receives Constellation Prize for Peace Engineering
Jun 08, 2026

Dartmouth Engineering Student Team Is NASA Competition Finalist
Mar 27, 2026

Research Quick Takes

Jul 30, 2026

NSF FINDERS Foundry Award

Professor Sol Diamond (co-PI), Lecturer and CEDC Director Emily Monroe, and Design Research Project Manager Paula Olson are part of a team…

Professor Sol Diamond (co-PI), Lecturer and CEDC Director Emily Monroe, and Design Research Project Manager Paula Olson are part of a team collaborating with Makerspace Central on a project that received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Fostering Interdisciplinary Network Driven Educationally Responsive Solutions (FINDERS) Foundry Award. The project, titled "Shaping Career Pathways with AI-Enabled Design and Making," aims to design an AI-coach-plus-educator tool for K–12 classrooms. The coach would empower students to design with AI tools while the human educator guides ethical, responsible use.

May 28, 2026

Environmental Impacts of NICUs and Their Alternatives

An undergraduate capstone project team—Will Clendenning Th'24, Chad Klaas '24 Th'25, Samantha Melgar '24, and Ismael Rosales-Albarran '24—along with…

An undergraduate capstone project team—Will Clendenning Th'24, Chad Klaas '24 Th'25, Samantha Melgar '24, and Ismael Rosales-Albarran '24—along with co-author and CEDC Director Emily Monroe, published their project results titled, "Using Life Cycle Assessments to Measure the Environmental Impact of Alternative Care Models in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit" in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The team compared traditional hospital NICUs against "Hope Grows at Home," a home-care model for premature infants. Although other evidence shows no difference in health outcomes, their assessment showed significant reductions in both carbon emissions and solid waste by shifting to the home-care model.