Sustainable Engineering

Catalog description

Provides a framework for the theory and practice of sustainable engineering. Introduces the importance and role of technological, social and sustainable systems in the modern world, which is increasingly characterized by integrated human/natural/built complex adaptive systems at local, regional and global scales. Develops critical problem solving approaches, including life-cycle assessment, global awareness, consciousness of patterns in technological evolution, and strategies for addressing environmental, economic and social equity issues in engineering design.