Students will explore the application of sustainability to engineering practice. Topics covered will include the social, economic, and environmental pillars of sustainability; biogeochemical cycles, energy management, and life cycle analysis. Students will develop solutions to an engineering problem and evaluate their solutions for sustainability.
Prerequisites
MATH 120 or MATH 180 or permission from instructor.
This course is designed for upper-level students who wish to learn about how to develop and analyze the sustainability of solutions to environmental issues. Students will need a reasonable understanding of math to perform these analyses, so statistics or calculus is necessary to understand a portion of the material. Because not all students need to take these courses, appropriate substitutions for majors outside of engineering will be acceptable.