Sustainability Course Descriptions

MGT 594 Intro to Sustain Development and Management

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CEE 598 Industrial Ecology & Sustainable Product Design

This course will introduce the student to conceptual aspects and build skills in the field of industrial ecology. Methodological/tool foundations to be developed include Material Flow Analysis, Life Cycle Assessment, and Ecodesign. Material flow analysis is a tool to understand the consumption of resources and emissions associated with industrial systems. Life cycle assessment deals with estimating the impacts of a product or service from a holistic perspective, including manufacture, use and product end-of-life. Ecodesign uses design strategies and environmental information such as life cycle assessment to design or redesign products and systems with minimized environmental impacts.

IEE 598 Sustainability Supply Networks

This is an interactive course focusing on organizational strategies for technology companies competing in a global environment. Focus will be on: strategic and tactical decision implications of a life cycle value proposition, modeling and analysis for strategic decisions about product / service bundles and delivery mechanisms, innovation, technology including the linkages to the firm strategy and empirical evidence, supply, demand and value chain as well as research of laws, guidelines and international agreements. The class is divided in teams with three to four members per team. The teams are given case studies, journal articles and topical projects that reinforce the presentations by the instructors from the text. The teams will prepare and give the presentations. Class will have invited speakers from major global multinational companies.

CEE 598 Earth Systems Engineering and Management

Course Objectives: To introduce students to the conceptual and practical challenges arising from the practice of engineering in the context of the anthropogenic earth, characterized by integrated human/natural complex adaptive systems at local, regional and global scales. Emphasis will be on systems behavior and evolution, and associated cultural, ethical, and managerial behaviors, with a focus on the need for multidisciplinary approaches. The historical context within which current technological systems have arisen will also be covered.

IEE 598 Capstone Project

The Sustainability Capstone course is an opportunity for a student to demonstrate their comprehension of the fundamental aspects that have been introduced in the classroom AND the synthesis of these fundamental aspects into a demonstrable project that can be presented and defended.