Research Associate
Energy, Environment and Resources Center
University of Tennessee
311 Conference Center Building
Knoxville, TN 37996-4134
Phone: (865) 974-8752
Fax: (865) 974-1838
rdhingra@utk.edu
Selected Publications:
Sujit Das, Rajive
Dhingra et al., A
Supporting Infrastructure and
Acceptability Issues Associated With Two New Generation Vehicles: P2000 and
ESX2,@
Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Energy
Division, ORNL/TM-2000/91, May 2000.
Rajive
Dhingra et al., "Life-Cycle
Environmental Evaluation of Aluminum and Composite Intensive Vehicles,@
Prepared for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory by the University of Tennessee
Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies, March 5, 1999.
Rajive
Dhingra et al., "An
Environmentally Conscious Decision Support System for Life-Cycle
Management," Journal of Industrial
Ecology, Vol 2 No 1, 1998.
Gina LoBosco and Rajive
Dhingra, AAn
Environmentally Conscious Decision Support System for the Automotive Industry,@ in Proceeedings
of the 1998 SAE Southern Automotive Manufacturing Conference and Exposition,
Paper Number 982103, Publication Number P-338, August 1998.
Rajive
Dhingra, "Case Study on
Solvent-Based Painting Alternatives," U.S.-Japan Center for Technology
Management at Vanderbilt University, 1997 (http://shogun.vuse.vanderbilt.edu
/gge/CaseStudy/paintcas.htm).
Rajive Dhingra et al., "Functional Redundancy as a Means of Achieving Optimum Results in Remanufacturing Operations," in Proceedings of the 3rd International ECDM Congress (Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing Congress held in Las Cruces, NM 1995).
B. Tech., Textile Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India.
Mr. Dhingra's research interests within the Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies include developing tools and techniques that help design products with minimal life-cycle environmental impacts and conducting environmental evaluations of manufacturing processes. Some of his work has focused on the development of a life-cycle assessment (LCA) tool for Saturn Corporation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a comparative LCA of CRT and LCD desktop monitors, and a number of life-cycle based environmental evaluations of new generation vehicles, including hybrid electric vehicles and fuel cell vehicles for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory under the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles program.
In addition to his work at the Center, Mr. Dhingra is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Management of Technology program at Vanderbilt University, where he has worked in the area of Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing for several years. At Vanderbilt, Mr. Dhingra was involved in the development of an Internet-based cost- and risk-assessment tool for evaluating product design and manufacturing process alternatives, using streamlined life-cycle assessment, EcoDS (Environmentally Conscious Decision Support System). He also conducted research on functional redundancy for extending the useful life of a product. The title of his Ph.D. dissertation is "A Streamlined LCA Approach for Conducting a Cost and Residual Risk Based Evaluation of Automobile Recycling Alternatives in the United States, Japan, and Europe."
With a background in engineering and management, Mr. Dhingra has held diverse technical and administrative positions in industry, both in India and the United States. In fact, Mr. Dhingra made two research trips to the University of Tokyo in 1995 and several visits to leading automobile manufacturers in 1999 under the auspices of the U.S.-Japan Center for Technology Management at Vanderbilt University.
His other interests include developing and maintaining Web sites, traveling, hiking, and spending time with his family.