Carey W King
Lecturer, Department of Business, Government and Society, Red McCombs School of Business
Research Scientist, Jackson School of Geosciences
Mailcode: C2400
Carey W. King is an assistant professor of instruction in the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. He teaches in the Department of Business, Government, and Society and does interdisciplinary research on how energy systems interact within the economy and environment.
His research goals revolve around rigorous interpretations of the past to determine the most probable future energy pathways. King also examines how our policy and social systems can make decisions and tradeoffs among often competing factors.
King holds a B.S. and a Ph.D., both in mechanical engineering and both from UT Austin.
Areas of Expertise
Macroeconomics; Energy and renewable energy generation, usage, conservation, policy, and education; energy systems approaches; energy return on energy invested (EROI), net energy; carbon capture and sequestration; nexus of water and energy; renewable energy and electricity integration
Research Locations
Rosenfeld Plaque --- link: http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/page/Rosenfeld plaque - Environmental Research Letters (Institute of Physics, Science) (2012 - 2012)
Best Paper, 2010 International Energy Sustainability Conference - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2011 - 2011)
National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellowship (2003 - 2003)
College of Engineering (CoE) Endowed Presidential Scholarship (2003 - 2003)
Bruton Fellowship (CoE) (2001 - 2001)
Thrust 2000 Fellowship (CoE) (2000 - 2000)
University Fellow (1998 - 1999)
Engineering Graduate Fellowship (CoE) (1998 - 1998)
Cooperative Education Work Program Engineering Scholar (1997 - 1997)
Ernest Cockrell Jr. Scholarship (1996 - 1996)
Engineering Scholar (1995 - 1997)
Graduate Students
Daniel Greer, M.S., 2022
(Supervisor)
Energy and Earth Resources
See Dr King's personal research website
This is Dr. King's personal research website with convenient links to his papers and research.