Davis Chacon Hurtado
Assistant Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Human Rights, Co-Director Engineering for Human Rights Initiative
Davis Chacón-Hurtado is an Assistant Professlor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut. He co-directs the Engineering for Human Rights Initiative, which aims to promote and advance interdisciplinary research in engineering with a focus on societal outcomes and to develop a curriculum at the intersection of human rights and engineering. Before his current role, Dr. Chacón-Hurtado worked as a Civil Engineer in the design and construction of infrastructure to advance social and economic development in rural areas of the Andean region of Peru. His research interests include transportation equity, environmental justice, human rights, engineering education, and economic resilience. Dr. Chacón Hurtado grew up in Cusco, Peru, where he obtained his B.S. in Civil Engineering at the University of San Antonio Abad of Cusco. He completed his Ph.D. in Transportation and Infrastructure Systems at Purdue University and earned an MSCE degree from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, where he worked on incorporating community preferences into infrastructure designs as part of a project focused on Appropriate Technology.
