- Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Donna Walker Faculty Fellow
- Phone: 979-458-0360
- Email: alayton@tamu.edu
- Office: MEOB 416
- Website: Research Webpage
- Linkedin: Profile
Educational Background
- Ph.D, Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology — 2014
- B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Minor in Studio Arts, University of Pittsburgh — 2009
Research Interests
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- Sustainable and Resilient System Design
- Bio-Inspired Design
- Systems and Systems of Systems
- Circular Economy
- Industrial Ecology
- Ecological Network Analysis
- Human Networks including e.g. industrial resource and manufacturing networks, complex energy systems, supply chains, and water distribution networks
Awards & Honors
- 2021 Peggy L. and Charles Brittan ’65 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering
- 2020 Best Paper Award CIE-SEIKM at the ASME 2020 International Design Engineering Technical Conference: A. Chatterjee, R. Malak, A. Layton. “Exploring a Bio-Inspired System of Systems Resilience vs. Affordability Tradespace.”
- 2019 Finalist (top 8) for the Leo Best Paper Award at the 2019 CIRP Life Cycle Engineering Conference: C. Brehm, A. Layton. “Designing eco-industrial parks in a nested structure to mimic mutualistic ecological networks.”
- 2017 2nd place, 2016 Graedel Best Paper by a junior author, Journal of Industrial Ecology: A. Layton, B. Bras, M. Weissburg. “Industrial Ecosystems and Food Webs: An expansion and update of existing data for eco-industrial parks and understanding the ecological food webs they wish to mimic.”
Selected Publications
- A. Chatterjee, R. Malak, A. Layton (2021) "Exploring System of Systems Resilience Versus Affordability Trade-Space Using a Bio-Inspired Metric," Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 21(5): 1-13. doi: 10.1115/1.4050288
- C. Brehm and A. Layton (2021) "Nestedness in eco-industrial networks: exploring linkage distribution to promote sustainable industrial growth," Journal of Industrial Ecology, 25: 205-218. doi: 10.1111/jiec.13057
- T. Dave and A. Layton (2020) "Designing Ecologically-Inspired Robustness into a Water Distribution Network," Journal of Cleaner Production, 254(1): 120057. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120057
- V. Panyam, H. Huang, K. Davis, A. Layton (2019) "Bio-Inspired Design for Resilient Power Networks," Applied Energy, 251: 113349. doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.113349
- A. Layton, B. Bras, M. Weissburg (2016) "Designing Industrial Networks Using Ecological Food Web Metrics," Environmental Science & Technology, 50(20): 11243-11252. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.6b03066