Designing Sustainable Systems

Undergraduate catalogue cross-listing

The course presents human impacts on the environment and their relationship to sustainable design. Students learn using labs, experiments, tours, and design projects and focus on how computing tools like AI and IoT facilitate rapid and deployable sensors and systems to better understand the environment and campus. Themes of population, food, water, energy, climate, and pollution provide fundamental material that is then translated into initial labs and open-ended assignments considering Princeton's campus. Finally, students work in groups to create a sustainable design intervention addressing campus sustainability challenges.