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Several clothes washing alternatives are investigated with a specific emphasis on characterizing the benefit, if any, associated with servicizing a washing machine product. The pay for use alternative will consider a laundromat, in which people wash their clothes and pay a fee for that service. Another alternative is selling washing machines for home use. The alternatives are evaluated in terms of their economic costs and environmental impacts to provide a quantitative comparison of the alternatives. The environmental evaluation is obtained using SimaPro 7.0. Specific measures of performance that are considered include costs, energy, and water usage.

completed her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Technological University in 2006 and 2008 respectively. During her undergraduate tenure she was an active member of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) and currently serves on the Board of Directors. She is also the President of the ASEE student chapter at Michigan Tech. As the recipient of a King-Chavez-Parks graduate fellowship, Ms. Jordan has agreed to seek an engineering faculty position upon completion of her Ph.D. degree. She is also the recipient of a GEM Fellowship. Tammy Haut Donahue obtained earned a Ph.D. from the University of California at Davis where she received the Allen Marr Distinguished Dissertation Award in Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Haut Donahue was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Orthopedic at Pennsylvania State University before joining the faculty at Michigan Technological University in Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics.