Trevor Crain

Dr. Trevor Crain has worked at Argonne National Laboratory on workforce development and applied research programs for the past decade. He currently serves as the Applied Research, Education, and Deployment (ARED) Group Manager, where his team supports a growing portfolio of advanced technology workforce and applied research programs designed to foster job growth, education, and technology deployment in advanced energy and transportation. His technical background focuses on designing, deploying, and evaluating advanced energy and vehicle technologies spanning electrification, charging deployments, connectivity, and automation. He and the ARED group support a variety of STEP workforce programs designed to accelerate innovation, education, and workforce development across mobility technologies, battery manufacturing, and stationary energy storage. He also supports his ARED team as they facilitate Clean Cities and Communities programs such as the Accelerate internship program. As a task lead for the Joint Office for Energy and Transportation, his multi-lab team worked on synthesizing findings from the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program state plans and other charging initiatives.  

Prior to beginning his Argonne career, Trevor attended the University of Washington for his undergraduate, master’s, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering. During his master’s he helped found and lead the University of Washington EcoCAR 2 Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition (AVTC) team. After graduation he was hired as an organizer for EcoCAR 3 leading the Controls, Innovation, Energy Consumption, and ADAS activities for the competition. As the competition evolved to include active controls and connectivity during the EcoCAR Mobility Challenge, he led the establishment of Connected and Automated Vehicles activities. In this initiative EcoCAR students learned to design and deploy sensing, connectivity, AI/ML algorithms and compute systems on their prototype hybrid Chevrolet Blazer platforms to optimize energy consumption while under automated control. Trevor recently completed a University of Washington PhD in Mechanical Engineering focused on evaluating Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAV) features for energy impacts in track and dynamometer environments.