Daniel J. Sambor
He/him
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Active
Office
Milas Hall 358
education
- PhD, MS Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
- BS Mechanical Engineering, Brown University
Dan Sambor is passionate about designing food-energy-water systems to provide clean, reliable, and affordable energy services to communities. His research focuses on optimization of renewable energy and building systems to reduce energy costs and support the smart grid transition.
Prior to Olin, he was a post-doctoral scholar in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, where he spearheaded a collaboration with the US Army Corps of Engineers and an agricultural non-profit, testing integrated microgrid and building technologies with optimization algorithms. He earned his PhD and MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford; during his doctoral research, he created energy system models to support renewable energy systems for local food-energy-water security in remote Arctic communities, in collaboration with University of Alaska researchers.
His teaching philosophy focuses on living laboratory education by getting students to interact with daily building energy systems.
In his free time, Dan is an avid skier, cyclist, backpacker, and gardener.