Bakshi recognized with ACLCA Award for Education Leadership
Professor Bhavik Bakshi, an internationally-recognized expert on sustainability engineering, was selected to receive the American Council for Life Cycle Assessment Education Leadership award. ACLCA Leadership Awards recognize the role of perceptive and forward-thinking individuals or organizations that have been instrumental in the advancement and application of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and life cycle thinking.
The Life Cycle Assessment (ACLCA) Annual LCA awards program is an opportunity to recognize those leaders at all levels and in all areas that have shown powerful support and a clear vision for the implementation and application of LCA.
ACLCA Awards recognize organizations and individuals in three categories: leadership, career achievements, and best practices that have advanced the field.
Education LCA Leadership Award: Bhavik R. Bakshi, Morrow Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University
Bhavik Bakshi is the Richard M. Morrow Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at The Ohio State University. He is also on the Faculty Advisory Board of Ohio State's Sustainability Institute and has a courtesy appointment in Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering.
Bakshi's research focuses on developing systematic methods to ensure that engineering solutions make positive contributions to sustainable development without causing unintended harm. Bakshi's goal is to help ensure that such solutions enhance human well-being, are socially desirable, and respect ecological limits. Developing such solutions requires interaction across disciplines such as process systems engineering, systems ecology, environmental economics, energy policy, and applied statistics. Specific areas of Bakshi's expertise include Sustainable product, process, value chain design, Life cycle assessment, Circular economy, and Ecosystem services.
In addition to many papers and invited talks, his contributions include a textbook on sustainable engineering, Sustainable Engineering: Principles and Practice, user-friendly software for life cycle assessment, editorial board memberships of several multidisciplinary journals, and short courses taught across the world at institutions such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay.
Last year, Bakshi received two of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers' (AIChE) most prestigious awards in the realm of environmental and sustainable engineering: the AIChE Lawrence K. Cecil Award in Environmental Chemical Engineering and the AIChE Sustainable Engineering Forum Education Award. Both awards are highly regarded in the AIChE community and represent top-level achievement in the field.
Recently, he won a highly competitive National Science Foundation Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) grant supporting research efforts to eliminate end-of-life plastics and two cutting-edge projects on creating a world without waste were funded in NSF's 2026 Idea Machine program.
Bakshi received his bachelor of chemical engineering degree from the Institute of Chemical Technology in Mumbai. He earned his master's degree in chemical engineering practice and doctoral degree in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a minor in Technology and Environmental Policy through courses and research conducted at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
