Former Graduate Research Assistant
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

gbethke2@illinois.edu

Biography

Gabrielle Bethke is a M.S. student in the Energy-Water-Environment Sustainability program in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Her research explores residential water use and creating models to disaggregate smart meter data into household end uses.

Gabrielle completed her B.S. in Civil Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018. As an undergraduate research assistant, she studied the performance of green infrastructure under different rainfall conditions. Specifically, she created linear regression models of runoff from a rain garden using different parameters from SWMM. She was also a member of the Fighting Illini Swimming and Diving Team.

Research Topics

• Residential water and energy use
• Data disaggregation, analysis, and visualization

Education

• B.S. in Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018

Awards

• University of Illinois Varsity Swimming 200 Medley Relay school record, 400 Freestyle Relay school record, 400 Freestyle Relay pool record