Sustainable Energy Systems
In 2006,it was estimated that 471 exajoules of energy, equivalent to nearly 80 billion barrels of oil, were consumed globally. As energy demands rise, and the impacts of greenhouse gases become more prevalent, where will future energy come from? Students in the Sustainable Energy Systems specialization graduate with an understanding of the magnitude of earth's energy crisis and the tools to design more sustainable energy solutions. The chemical engineering curriculum builds upon traditional chemical engineering topics with energy-focused courses such as ChE 686: Case Studies in Sustainable Engineering and NRE 574: Sustainable Energy Systems. To place this design within a ecological context, students complement this technical foundation with such courses as NRE 527: Social Institutions for Energy Production and NRE 580: Integrated Problem Solving. Sustainable Energy Systems students are set apart by their combination of deep technical knowledge of sustainable energy systems and a broad understanding of complex social, environmental and economic impacts.

Degree Requirements with Mechanical Engineering (pdf)

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Sustainable Design and Manufacturing Systems
Sustainable technologies and products: Do they truly exist? Moreover, a greater challenge may be the design of sustainable technological or product systems, rather than sustainable technologies or products themselves. Fewer and fewer of today's design and manufacturing engineers are cognizant of the larger systems that incorporate new technologies and products with potentially large consequence. Students in the Sustainable Design and Manufacturing Systems specialization focus on the design of new sustainable technologies and products while examining effects on larger systems, evaluated through environmental, social and economic impacts. Mechanical engineering courses in Eco-design and Manufacturing (ME 599) and Sustainable Manufacturing (OMS 742) form the engineering foundation for this program. SNRE classes in Risk-Benefit Analysis (NRE 595) and Industrial Ecology (NRE 557) give students a broader understanding of the ecological impacts of these new technologies from a systems-based perspective. By understanding both ecological science and engineering fundamentals, Sustainable Design and Manufacturing Systems ESS graduates are uniquely placed to make balanced design decisions on more sustainable technological and product systems.
 

Degree Requirements with Mechanical Engineering (pdf) 

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Sustainable Water Systems (Water Resources and Water Quality Management)
The dual degree in Natural Resources and Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) provides the tools needed to help protect, conserve and manage water resources as well as the ecosystems and societies that depend on them. Integrating CEE coursework in engineering principles of quantitative analysis and modeling with NRE course work in natural and social system dynamics provides students with the tools and skills demanded by public and private institutions dedicated to sustainable water resources as well as the ecosystem goods and services they provide.

Sustainable Water Systems: Degree requirements with CEE and Sustainable Systems (pdf)
Sustainable Water Systems: Degree Requirements with CEE and Aquatic Sciences (pdf)
Sustainable Water Systems: Degree requirements with Environ Engineering and Aquatic Sciences (pdf)
Sustainable Water Systems: Degree requirements with Environ Engineering and Sustainable Systems (pdf)

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