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G L E 421

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY ENGINEERING

3 credits.

Uses the three paradigms of sustainability (environmental, social, and economic) for strategic environmental initiatives in an engineering setting. Proactive environmental management opportunities, including practices of pollution prevention, industrial ecology, and design for the environment. A systems approach to manufacturing, examining the life cycle of products, incorporating total cost accounting, extended producer responsibility, and design for end-of-life.

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: (MATH 217 or 221 ) and ( CHEM 104 or 109 ), or graduate/professional standing or member of Engineering Guest Students Course Designation: Core GenEd - Mathematics & Quantitative Reasoning Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Articulate why sustainability is important and relevant within the practice of engineering Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Apply sustainability tools such as industrial ecology, life cycle assessment, economic assessment, material flow analysis, and criticality to inform engineering decisions Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Analyze sustainability issues and/or practices using a systems-based approach Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Describe the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of engineering and identify potential trade-offs and interrelationships among these dimensions at a level appropriate to the course Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Identify and critique recent peer reviewed sustainability literature Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Articulate why sustainability is important and relevant within the practice of engineering Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Apply sustainability tools such as industrial ecology, life cycle assessment, economic assessment, material flow analysis, and criticality to inform engineering decisions Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Analyze sustainability issues and/or practices using a systems-based approach Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Describe the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of engineering and identify potential trade-offs and interrelationships among these dimensions at a level appropriate to the course Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Identify and critique recent peer reviewed sustainability literature Audience: Graduate

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