Sustainable Infrastructure Engineering

Catalog description

This course aims at providing students with simple scientific techniques for the optimum design of materials to improve its performance while minimizing cost and environmental impacts. The course aims at providing students with metrics of sustainability, principles of design for the environment, methods for pollution prevention, and use of mass and energy balances in the design of sustainable systems. In addition, concepts of Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) and cost analysis are introduced to students. The concepts of carbon footprint and embodied energy of construction materials will be introduced to the students. The course will include new technologies, materials, and design processes for sustainable infrastructure; energy management and renewable energy and efficiency in structures; and connections between societal needs and infrastructure development.