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Jean Rogers Full-time fall 1997 and Photo by Doug Cogger.
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Jean Rogers is an environmental engineer and planner whose work in the US and Europe has focused on amelioration of the impacts of industrialization on the environment since 1990. As a management consultant for Deloitte & Touche in San Francisco, she has integrated strategic business planning and interdisciplinary design approaches to balance market forces, social needs, and environmental concerns. Dr. Rogers has directed feasibility studies and facility siting for numerous multinational clients such as ARCO, Kaiser Steel, and Hewlett-Packard. For public sector clients, she has conducted infrastructure planning to attract private investment and prioritize water, wastewater, telecommunications, and transportation projects. She has led strategic planning initiatives for re-utilization of defunct military facilities and conversion to commercial enterprises. Recent work includes development of a "design for the environment" methodology which employs life cycle analysis to incorporate environmental, performance, aesthetic, cost, cultural and legal requirements into the design process for new facilities and products. Dr. Rogers is a registered professional engineer who holds degrees in civil and environmental engineering, including a PhD from Illinois Institute of Technology. She has lectured at IIT and the University of Moscow on environmental management. As a Loeb Fellow, she planned to investigate alternative forms of industrial development and corollaries to resource management on a regional scale. She focuses on increasing competitiveness through design for the environment.
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