Kyle Siler-Evans

Engineer

Off Site Office

Education

Ph.D. in engineering and public policy, Carnegie Mellon University; M.A. in teaching, Johns Hopkins University; B.S. in mechanical engineering, Colorado State University

One Page Bio

Overview

Kyle Siler-Evans, Ph.D., is an engineer with at the RAND Corporation where his work focuses on disaster management, energy systems, infrastructure resilience, and cost analysis. Prior work includes an analysis of alternatives for a multi-billion dollar stormwater management plan in Pittsburgh, a cost assessment of maintenance and sustainment options for the F-22 aircraft, an assessment of the health and environmental benefits of renewable energy, a cost analysis of cogeneration, and a risk analysis of pipeline accidents. Siler-Evans' work was named Editors’ Choice in the journal Science and has been featured in mainstream media, including the Washington Post and Businessweek. Siler-Evans holds a Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, a Masters in Teaching from Johns Hopkins, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University. Siler-Evans is a Certified Cost Estimator/Analyst (CCEA) through the International Cost Estimating and Analysis Association (ICEAA).

Research Focus

Recent Projects

Puerto Rico Cost Validation
Disaster-Resilient Codes and Standards
RAND Operational Energy Decision Aid

Selected Publications

Kyle Siler-Evans, Inês Lima Azevedo, M Granger Morgan, Jay Apt, "Regional Variations in the Health, Environmental, and Climate Benefits of Wind and Solar Generation," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(29), 2013

Kyle Siler-Evans, M Granger Morgan, Inês Lima Azevedo, "Distributed cogeneration for commercial buildings: Can we make the economics work?" Energy Policy, 42, 2012

Kyle Siler-Evans, Inês Lima Azevedo, M Granger Morgan, "Marginal emissions factors for the US electricity system," Environmental Science & Technology, 46(9), 2012

Kyle Siler-Evans, Alex Hanson, Cecily Sunday, Nathan Leonard, Michele Tumminello, "Analysis of pipeline accidents in the United States from 1968 to 2009," International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, 7(4), 2014

Jordan Fischbach, Kyle Siler-Evans, Devin Tierney, Michael Wilson, Lauren Cook, Linnea Warren May, Robust Stormwater Management in the Pittsburgh Region, RAND (RR-1673), 2017

Frank Camm, John Matsumura, Lauren A. Mayer, Kyle Siler-Evans, A New Methodology for Conducting Product Support Business Case Analysis (BCA): With Illustrations from the F-22 Product Support BCA, RAND (RR-1664), 2017

Gabriella C. Gonzalez, Kyle Siler-Evans, Gerald Hunter, Nicholas Broten, Wages, Employment, and STEM Education in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia: Report No. 2, RAND (RR-1863), 2017

Gabriella C. Gonzalez, Kyle Siler-Evans, Gerald Hunter, Matthew D. Baird, Wages, Employment, and STEM Education in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia: Report N0. 1, RAND (RR-1357), 2016

Publications

Journal Article
Modeling the Uncertainty of Potential Impacts on Robust Stormwater Management from Neighborhood-Scale Impervious Cover Change: A Case Study of Population-Based Scenarios in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This work presents a method for applying high-spatial resolution population-based scenarios to pre-existing stormwater models. We explore the impact of two long-term population growth scenarios for the Pittsburgh region.
2020
Report
A New Methodology for Conducting Product Support Business Case Analysis (BCA): With Illustrations from the F-22 Product Support BCA
This document explains how to apply guidance on project evaluation to product support business case analyses in a way that allows senior Department of Defense decisionmakers to use net present value to compare courses of action.
Jun 13, 2017
Report
Robust Stormwater Management in the Pittsburgh Region: A Pilot Study
This report provides an independent study of how the stormwater problem in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania metropolitan region could grow with future change, and discusses potential long-term solutions using new analytical approaches developed by RAND.
Apr 24, 2017
Report
Wages, Employment, and STEM Education in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia: Report No. 2 (2017)
This report focuses on employment and wages in energy and advanced manufacturing-related industries and on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education indicators in twenty-seven counties in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.
Mar 22, 2017
Research Brief
Kids Who Attend More Benefit More: Voluntary Summer Learning Programs
This brief summarizes the outcomes of two summers of voluntary academic programming (2013 and 2014) on 3,192 low-income urban students accepted into the programs who had completed third grade before the first summer.
Sep 7, 2016
Infographic
Learning from Summer: Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Urban Youth
This infographic summarizes several student outcomes from an assessment of five voluntary, district-led summer learning programs offered at no cost to low-income, urban elementary students.
Sep 7, 2016
Report
Learning from Summer: Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Urban Youth
RAND researchers assess voluntary, district-led summer learning programs for low-income, urban elementary students. This third report in a series examines student outcomes after one and two summers of programming.
Sep 7, 2016
Report
Wages, Employment, and STEM Education in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia: Report No. 1 (2016)
This first of five reports focuses on employment and wages in energy and advanced manufacturing-related industries and on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education indicators in the Appalachia Partnership Initiative region.
Mar 9, 2016
Draft
Personalized Learning Instructional Staff Survey Results (Spring 2014)
Descriptively summarizes instructional staff responses to a survey administered by RAND in 23 personalized learning (PL) schools in Spring 2014.
Nov 5, 2014