Bryan D. Jungers, EIT
M.S. from U.C. Davis in Civil & Environmental Engineering - Transportation (In Progress)
B.S. from Humboldt State in Environmental Resources Engineering; minor in leadership studies (2004)
Lead Powertrain Engineer for The Vehicle Design Summit
GATE Fellow (2006)
Institute of Transportation Studies
University of California at Davis
Davis, CA 95616 USA
Office: 530-754-5829
Skype: bryan.jungers
E-mail: bdjungers@ucdavis.edu
http://steps.its.ucdavis.edu/People/bdjungers
Recent interviews:
Peak Moment: Team Fate - Designing the Next Generation of Hybrid
Recent publications:
Battery Electric Vehicles: An Assessment of the Technology and Factors Influencing Market Readiness
Assessment of Technical and Market Readiness of Fuel Cell Vehicles
A Survey of Air Quality Dispersion Models for Project-Level Conformity Analysis
Recent presentations:
Balance & Flow: Evaluating the Sustainability of Energy Pathways
Enhancement of the UC Davis Fuel Cell Vehicle Model
General Research Interests
Analyzing and comparing the various potential pathways to sustainable, world-wide personal mobility. It is rarely refuted that one of the most significant keys to the success and sustainability of new vehicle technologies is the degree to which they are capable of efficiently storing and utilizing low-carbon energy resources. Bryan intends to compare and combine the most viable near-term powertrain technologies, based on their ability to meet consumer needs; reduce dependence on foreign, exhaustible, high-carbon energy resources; and efficiently utilize domestic, renewable, low-carbon energy resources.
Recent Research Projects
As
a student leader of the Challenge X team and a researcher in the Hybrid
Electric Vehicle Center (HEVC), Bryan worked on the design,
construction and analysis of a latest-generation plug-in hybrid
electric vehicle (PHEV) named Trinity. Bryan was the lead or co-author
on several technical papers documenting the development of Trinity from
2004 to 2006. You can find more information about the Challenge X
project and UC Davis team by visiting their website at http://www.team-fate.net.
Bryan worked part-time at the California Energy Commissions as a Graduate Student Intern in Fall of 2006. Along with researchers and policy makers in the CEC’s PIER program, he helped to craft a contract and statement of work for the new Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Center (PHEVC) at ITS-Davis, which was approved by the CEC commissioners in December, 2006.
Bryan is currently collaborating with student researchers from MIT and 35 other universities around the world to design a vehicle with a 95% reduction in energy and materials input; fuel economy improvements of over 200 mpg (energy cost equivalent); and all without compromising the regionally-specific utility and performance of a 4-passenger personal vehicle. You can find more information about this project by visiting the group's website: http://www.vehicledesignsummit.org.
Personal Interests
Bryan is motivated by the potential to make positive impacts on the world through social equity, innovative collaboration, and a gentle environmental footprint. He has worked on projects through Engineers Without Borders in El Salvador and Guatemala, and intends to involve himself in many future appropriate technology projects around the world. Bryan is an avid bicyclist, a percussive musician, and a gourmet vegetarian cook.
Five students graduate from STEPS Program