Dr. Laura M. Arpan is the Theodore Clevenger Professor of Communication and Director of Doctoral Studies in the School of Communication at Florida State University. Dr. Arpan’s research examines risk perceptions, human motivation and responses to pro-environmental messages, interventions, and related technologies. Her projects focus on the effectiveness of promotional messages and outreach efforts designed to encourage sustainable behaviors such as energy conservation and efficiency. Recent work has examined Americans’ attitudes toward energy conservation and sustainability, factors enhancing the effectiveness of information campaign messages promoting energy-use-reduction and sustainability
Dr. Laura M. Arpan is the Theodore Clevenger Professor of Communication and Director of Doctoral Studies in the School of Communication at Florida State University. Dr. Arpan’s research examines risk perceptions, human motivation and responses to pro-environmental messages, interventions, and related technologies. Her projects focus on the effectiveness of promotional messages and outreach efforts designed to encourage sustainable behaviors such as energy conservation and efficiency. Recent work has examined Americans’ attitudes toward energy conservation and sustainability, factors enhancing the effectiveness of information campaign messages promoting energy-use-reduction and sustainability
Omer Karaguzel, Ph.D.
Dr. Karaguzel is a WELL accredited professional, designer, scientist and an educator with expertise on computational design decision support systems for environmentally responsive and generative buildings with increased resiliency for human habitability. His research focuses on the improvement of the whole building energy performance through systematic and simulation-based analyses of passive architectural design strategies, mechanical system design and advanced control strategies as well as building integrated (solar power and solar thermal) renewable energy technologies. Dr. Karaguzel has 17 years of experience in building
performance simulation and environmental design analysis of actual building projects ranging from test chambers, residential buildings, large office buildings, health care facilities and to university halls and net zero energy research centers located in the U.S. and around the world
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He teaches both undergraduate and graduate level courses on the subjects of parametric modeling for architectural design, building physics, building performance modeling and building controls & diagnostics. He also has industry experience as an energy
modeling manager in a large size US-based engineering consultancy firm. His research works include multiple
national projects supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and Department of Energy (DOE). Dr. Karaguzel is a scientific reviewer for the U.S. DOE’s Building Technologies Office (BTO) Commercial Building Integration (CBI) and Emerging Technologies (ET) programs’ merit and peer review activities (2015-2018).
Selected Publications
Talele, S., Traylor, C., Laura, A., Curley, C., Chen C.F., Day, J., Feiock, R., Hadzikadic, M., Tolone, W., Ingman, S., Yeatts, D., Karaguzel, O.T., Lam, KP., Menassa, C., Pevnitskaya, S., Spiegelhalter, T., Yan, W., Zhu, Y., Tao, Y. “Energy Modelling and Data Infrastructure for Sustainable Human-Building Ecosystems (SHBE) – A Review”. Frontiers in Energy (2018). Online ISSN: 2095-1698.
Xu W., A. Chong, O.T. Karaguzel, K.P. Lam. “Improving Evolutionary Algorithm Performance for Integer Type Multi-Objective Building System Design Optimization” Energy and Buildings. 2016. Vol. 127, Issue. 1, pp. 714-729. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2016.06.043
Zhao, J., K.P. Lam, B.E. Ydstie, O.T. Karaguzel. "EnergyPlus Model-based Predictive Control within Design Build-Operate Energy Information Infrastructure". Journal of Building Performance Simulation. May, 2014. Taylor and Francis, UK.
Karaguzel O.T., Zhang R., Lam K.P. “Coupling of Whole-Building Energy Simulation and Multi-Dimensional Numerical Optimization for Minimizing the Life Cycle Costs of Office Buildings”. International Journal of Building Simulation. April, 2014. Vol. 7: 111-121.
Interesting Facts
Hiking and bicycling, Swimming & scuba diving, cosmology & quantum physics and reading Alan Watts.