Knute Svenson

Knute Svenson has a diverse work experience spanning several companies and roles. Knute began their career as a Project Designer for Duke Smart Home at Duke University from 2008 to 2010. Knute then worked as a Senior Consultant at Navigant Consulting, where they performed market, technology, and engineering analyses for the Department of Energy's rule-making process on energy efficiency standards for commercial HVAC equipment. Knute also conducted physical teardowns of commercial air conditioners to develop manufacturing cost models and examine energy-saving technology options.

From 2014 to 2015, they served as a Process Engineer and MIT Graduate Researcher at AvCarb Material Solutions. Here, they helped bring an experimental calender machine line to full production, calibrated and synchronized a SCARA robot with a web conveyor, and set up a calender machine for AvCarb's heat spreader production line.

From 2016 to 2018, Knute worked as a BAS Application Engineer at EMS Technologies. Knute led a project for monitoring power flow status and alarms for datacenters, designed control system solutions for building automation networks, wrote custom programs and generated graphics for user interfaces, diagnosed and troubleshooted automation networks and programs, and created bill of materials for each project.

Currently, Knute is an Engineer at Baebies, where they began working in 2018. Further details about their role at Baebies are unavailable.

Knute Svenson completed their Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E) with a major in Mechanical Engineering from Duke University, attended from 2006 to 2010. Subsequently, they pursued a Master of Engineering (MEng) degree in Manufacturing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, attending from 2013 to 2014. In addition to their academic qualifications, Knute Svenson also obtained the EPA Universal HVAC Certification from the EPA in July 2013.