Joshua Loughman
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Phone: 480-287-2889
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ENGINEERING G #231 TEMPE, AZ 85287
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Mail code: 8409Campus: Tempe
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Student Information
Graduate StudentHuman and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology
College of Global Futures
Systems engineer, climate and energy expert, policy researcher, futurist.
Joshua Loughman is a Principal Data Scientist for Decision Theater.
This position builds on the 20 years of experience across a wide array of domains including as an aerospace and defense systems engineer, a university educator and program director, a water and power utility strategist, and as an interdisciplinary researcher focused on how complex decision making about uncertain futures can be done with greater care using models, simulation, scenario analysis, and foresight methods.
Graduate Certificate, System Dynamics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
MEng, Systems Engineering, Arizona State University
BSE, Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University
Climate Science and Policy
Renewable Energy Futures
Sustainability Studies and Policy
Sustainability Engineering
Resilience and Complexity Science
Future Studies
Technology Studies and Innovation
Decision Making Under Uncertainty
System Dynamics Modeling
Public Health
Affiliated Researcher, Center for the Study of Futures, Institute for the Future of Innovation in Society, ASU. Fall 2017 – Present.
Affiliated Research, Center for Energy and Society, ASU. Spring 2016 – Present.
Knowledge Exchange for Resilience, 2020 & 2024 Fellowships.
Participant, Global Futures Laboratory Research Accelerator. Fall 2020 – 2021.
QESST Scholar, Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technologies, Engineering Research Center, ASU. Fall 2016 – Spring 2020.
En-ROADS Technical Reference, October 2024. Lori S. Siegel, Chris Campbell, Adem, Delibas, Sibel Eker, Tom Fiddaman, Travis Franck, Khaled Gaafar, Jack Homer, Andrew P. Jones, Charles Jones, Joshua Loughman, Stephanie McCauley, Elizabeth Sawin, Chris Soderquist, John Sterman. Link: https://docs.climateinteractive.org/projects/en-roads-reference-guide/e…
C Miller, LW Keeler, J Loughman, B Davis. 2022. Pathways to a Carbon-Neutral Arizona Economy. Tempe, Arizona: Arizona State University, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, College of Global Futures. Report. DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/DRT7X.
J. Collofello, D. Fox, L. Jamieson, E. Lindsay, J. Loughman, J. Morgan, W. Oakes, J. Schoepf, C. Smith. 2021. “Dissemination and Adaptation of the EPICS, Engineering Projects in Community Service, Model”, Advances in Engineering Education.
J. Loughman. May 14, 2020. “An intentional energy transition after COVID-19 will generate gains for climate and society”, World Economic Forum Global Agenda.
J. Loughman. “Lessons from the Snake: Energy and Society”, The Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures”, J. Eschrich, C.A. Miller, Eds., March 2019, Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University.
C.A. Miller, J. Loughman, W. Herche, D. Ravikumar, J. Eschrich, R. Wylie, E. Finn, C. Honsberg, S. Bowden. “Designing in Sunlight”, The Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures”, J. Eschrich, C.A. Miller, Eds., March 2019, Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University.
M. Emanuelli, G. Federico, J. Loughman, D. Prasad, T. Chow, M. Rathnasabapathy. 2014. “Conceptualizing an Economically, Legally, and Politically Viable Active Debris Removal Option.” Acta Astronautica, 104(1): 197-205.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
J. Loughman. 2020. “Energy and prospective methodological choice”. Changing Values and Energy Systems Workshop, TU Delft.
J. Loughman. 2020. “Reciprocal Social Innovation – Reimagining university service-learning enterprises”. 4S/EASST Conference 2020.
L. Keeler, S. McAllister, J. Loughman, S. Wiener, J.P. Nelson, J. Cordero, E. Hajric, M.A. Comisso. 2020. “Emoji technology assessment: experiment in sociotechnical engagement”. 4S/EASST Conference 2020 Making and Doing.
J. Loughman. 2020. “Model Structure and Scenario Analysis Archetypes Translation – An Approach to Mixing Methods”. 38th International System Dynamics Conference.
J. Loughman. 2020. “Making Futures – Deep Decarbonization and Alternative Ways of Imagining Energy Futures”. SPRU PHD Forum 2020, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex.
S. Gillespie, M.V. Huerta, J. Schoepf, J. Loughman. 2019. “The Impact of Multidisciplinary Teams on Sustainability Projects in EPICS”. 2019 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. (Best Paper)
N. Irshad, J. Loughman, C.A. Miller. 2019. “Community Solar Financial Model”, Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technologies, Annual Site Visit.
J. Loughman. 2018. “Scenarios and Simulations – Methods for Constructing Futures”. 4S Sydney 2018.
J. Loughman. 2018. “Current and Future Efforts to Model the Sustainability of PV Configurations”, Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technologies, Annual Site Visit.
J. Loughman. 2017. “Thought experiments on problematizing solar energy transitions”, Society for the Studies of New and Emerging Technologies.
J. Loughman. 2017. “Analysis of Solar Energy Scenarios and Sustainability”, Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technologies, Annual Site Visit.
J. Loughman. 2017. “Comparative Analysis of Scenario Projects and their Conception of Solar Futures”, 1st International Energy Research and Social Science Conference.
Courses
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| FSE 570 | Data Science Capstone |
2025 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| TPH 550 | Data Science for Public Health |
| FSE 570 | Data Science Capstone |
| FSE 570 | Data Science Capstone |
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| FSE 570 | Data Science Capstone |
2021 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| FSE 294 | Special Topics |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| FSE 104 | EPICS Gold I |
| IEE 470 | Stochastic Operations Research |
| IEE 470 | Stochastic Operations Research |
| FSE 404 | EPICS Gold: EPICS in Action |
| FSE 104 | EPICS Gold I |
| FSE 404 | EPICS Gold: EPICS in Action |
2020 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| FSE 100 | Introduction to Engineering |
| FSE 100 | Introduction to Engineering |
| FSE 100 | Introduction to Engineering |
| FSE 100 | Introduction to Engineering |
| FSE 100 | Introduction to Engineering |
| FSE 100 | Introduction to Engineering |
| FSE 404 | EPICS Gold: EPICS in Action |
| FSE 104 | EPICS Gold I |
AWARDS AND HONORS
2019 – Present Expert, Future of Energy, World Economic Forum Expert Network
2019 – 2020 Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies Internship Programme
2017 Aspen Institute Socrates Fellow
2017 Human and Social Dimensions Advancement Award
2015 Aspen Institute Socrates Fellow
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2024 Resilience Fellow, Alumni Capstone Team, Knowledge Exchange for Resilince, Arizona State University.
2021 Center for Philosophical Technologies Fellowship, Arizona State University
2020 Diversity and Inclusion Initiative (DII) @ FSE Seed Funding Program.
2020 Resilience Fellow, Knowledge Exchange for Resilience, Arizona State University.
2019 Global Sustainability Summer School Fellow, Santa Fe Institute.
2018 – 2019 PLuS Alliance International Interdisciplinary Researchers (PIIRs) Program Fellow.
2017 STEPS (Social, Technological, and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) Summer School Fellow, Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex.
Advisory Board, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 2022-2023.
Editorial Assistant, Journal of Responsible Innovation. Summer 2018 – 2021.
External Reviewer, Project Drawdown, 2020.
Expert Reviewer, Renewables 2020 Global Status Report, REN21 Renewables Now, 2020.
Contributor, “Response to the U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis Request for Information”, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University. Submitted November 22, 2019.
Data Contributor and Reviewer, Renewables in Cities – 2019 Global Status Report, REN21 Renewables Now, 2019.
Expert Reviewer, Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 C (SR15), International Panel for Climate Change. 2017.
Project Cities Faculty, ASU Project Cities, Arizona State University, 2019 – 2021.
Member, The Engineering and Design Institute (TEDI) Curriculum Development Workshop, November 2019.
Member and Secretary, New Faculty Advisory Committee, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, ASU. Fall 2016 – Spring 2018.
Member, Search Committee for Assistant Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society. Spring 2018.
Planning Committee, Emerge Festival of Futures, ASU. Spring 2018.
Board Member, Southern Arizona Museum of Science and Technology
Former Board Member, Stardust Building Supplies, Mesa, Arizona
Director of Modeling and Technology, Climate Interactive, 2022 - 2024
Senior Strategic Planning Analyst, Salt River Project, 2021 - 2022
Senior Systems Engineer, Orbital ATK, 2005 - 2015