2018 Issue

11 FEATURED SPEAKER OF THE ENGINEERS WEEK 2018 BANQUET Dr. Kerry Kelly D r. Kelley is a Chemical and Environ- mental Engineer and Assistant Pro- fessor at the University of Utah spe- cializing in the links between the energy, air quality and human health. Her research is motivated by local and regional air quality challenges along the Wasatch front. Dr. Kelley co-founded the University of Utah’s program for Air Quality, Health and Society - A multidisciplinary program which facilitates collaborations between health sciences, with a goal of bringing together researchers to understand and address local air quality challenges. Dr. Kelley presents regularly to community groups and classrooms to discuss local air quality challenges and potential solutions. She led the development of Bad Air Day: Play It Like UCAIR, BadAirDay.org: an air quality video game aimed at teaching students how policy and individual decisions af- fect local air quality. She plays a key role in two complementary National Science Foundation sponsored projects to develop the next generation of low-cost particu- late matter sensors, to develop real-time estimates of particulate matter concentra- tion and uncertainty, and to help engage high-school and middle-school students as citizen scientists, air.coe.utah.edu and www.aqandu.org. Among her notable achievements, Dr. Kelly served 8 years on Utah’s Air Quali- ty Board, and she currently chairs Utah’s Air Quality policy Board. She performed ground-breaking work that led to an improved understanding and subsequent policy solutions to addressing the sources of particulate matter winter-time inversions along the Wasatch Front.