His energy, both inside and outside the classroom, focuses on the crossroads where sustainability and emerging technologies meet. While much of his research over the past five years has explored and developed general methodologies related to sustainable design, his more recent focus has centered around the sustainable and employment implication of the emergence of on-demand design and fabrication services. Windham is co-founder of Fulcrum Collaborative. Before joining the faculty at Auburn, he spend a number of years working with a small, regional-centric consulting firm, Push Product