Sarah Slaughter

E. Sarah Slaughter

E. Sarah Slaughter is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the National Academy of Construction. She was elected to the NAE "for research and the development of technology to enhance the resiliency and sustainability of critical infrastructure systems."2

Slaughter is the founder and CEO of the Built Environment Coalition, a research nonprofit. She holds SB, SM, and PhD degrees from MIT. Previously, she was associate director for buildings and infrastructure in the MIT Energy Initiative.1

She has served as an advisor to the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) and other organizations, providing expert advice on technology, science, and public policy, and the relationship between the constructed and natural environments and their interaction with human activities. Slaughter currently serves as Co-Chair of the Resilient America Roundtable in NASEM and recently served on the Green Building Advisory Committee to advise the U.S. General Services Administration and the Federal government on sustainability and resilience in Federal facilities.134

Slaughter was a professor at MIT in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and at Lehigh University, where she conducted research in the NSF Center for Advanced Technology for Large Structural Systems. At MIT, she and her students created a micro-simulation system to assist in controlling cost, schedule, and scope in complex projects and programs, and founded MOCA Systems, Inc. to commercialize the software. She was also a co-founder and lead faculty for the Sustainability Initiative in the MIT School of Management.15