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Emily Monroe

Lecturer

Director, Cook Engineering Design Center

emily.h.monroe@dartmouth.edu

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.

Patents

Ultrasound medical instrument having a medical ultrasonic blade | 11324527
Electrosurgical instrument for delivering blended energy modalities to tissue | 10314638

News

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

Research Quick Takes

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 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.