2023-2024 Catalog and Student Handbook

ENVE 401 Green Engineering & Sustainable Design

Study of green engineering, focusing on approaches to achieving sustainability through engineering design. Topics include current design, manufacturing and disposal processes; toxicity and benign alternatives; policy implications; pollution prevention and source reduction; material and energy efficiencies and flows; system analysis; biomimicry; and life-cycle design and analysis. Students, working in teams, develop a green and/or sustainable design relating to an environmental problem. Students apply interdisciplinary knowledge to research the problem and recommend possible solutions.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Complete ENVE 301, ENVE 304; plus 1 of the following: LEAD 301, LEAD 305, MNGT 320, or PHIL 321