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Sustainable Design, Manufacturing, and Management
Submitted by sprowles on October 31, 2007 - 3:47pm.Department:
ENGIN
Course Number:
298A
Course Title:
Sustainable Design, Manufacturing, and Management
Instructor:
Dornfeld
Description:
Sustainable Design, Manufacturing and Management as exercised by the enterprise is a poorly understood idea and one that is not intuitively connected to business value or engineering practice.
This course will provide the basis for understanding (1) what comprises sustainable practices in for-profit enterprises, (2) how to practice and measure continuous improvement using sustainability thinking, techniques and tools for product and manufacturing process design, and (3) the techniques for and value of effective communication of sustainability performance to internal and external audiences.
Material in the course will be supplemented by speakers with diverse backgrounds in corporate sustainability, environmental consulting, and academia.
Discussions of papers in the reader including case studies will be used to illustrate topics. A final class project will be required (for those registered for 3 units), with students working individually or in small groups. Cross functional groups including both engineering and MBA students are encouraged. Class projects will apply the analysis techniques covered in this course to design and develop environmentally mindful products or processes or analyze policies that lead to environmental improvements. Interaction with industry and collection of real-world data will be encouraged.
Units:
2
Offered:
Spring
Course Type:
Graduate
Energy, Sustainability, and Business Innovation
Submitted by sprowles on October 31, 2007 - 3:56pm.Department:
ENGIN
Course Number:
298A
Course Title:
Energy, Sustainability, and Business Innovation
Instructor:
Isaacs, Rosen
Description:
This course is for students who are interested in developing and commercializing innovative energy technologies that can help move society toward greater sustainability with respect to environmental impact and energy independence. Currently, a wide range of technological, environmental, geopolitical, geological, regulatory, economic, and consumer demand factors are creating new opportunities for alternative energy technologies. The course will prepare students to:
assess commercial viability of new technologies
obtain venture capital and other funding for projects
position and market new energy solutions
identify business strategies
develop productive relationships with partners in industry, the environmental movement, and state, local, federal, and international agencies.
Units:
2
Offered:
Spring
Course Type:
Graduate
Business and Technology for Sustainable Development
Submitted by sprowles on October 31, 2007 - 3:53pm.Department:
ENGIN
Course Number:
298A
Course Title:
Business and Technology for Sustainable Development
Instructor:
Feferman
Description:
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to an overview of the role of
business and technology in poverty alleviation and sustainable development in
developing regions of Africa, Asia and Latin America through:
-understanding the key development challenges facing the developing world in the
21st Century;
-identifying opportunities for sustainable business in developing countries, especially
among the poor;
-analysing, from theory and practice, the link between technological innovation,
entrepreneurship and sustainable development;
-identifying and analysing the prevailing features of the overall policy and reform
environment that shape business and technology development in Africa, Asia and
Latin America;
-introducing and discussing foreign aid, trade and foreign direct investment as tools
for developing capacity to do business for sustainable development;
-building a higher level of generic expertise of what it takes to do business in
developing countries;
-understanding the role of public-private partnerships in sustainable development.
Units:
2
Offered:
Spring
Course Type:
Graduate
Newton, Richard
Submitted by cmjones on March 5, 2007 - 3:03pm.Name of Person:
Richard Newton
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Department:
Engineering, Professor
Research Interests:
Richard Newton's teaching and research interests include all aspects of the design of electronic systems, the application of information and communication technologies (ICT) to the solution of societal problems (CITRIS), and B-2-4B: the role of ICT in the creation of an inclusive global society.
Koshland, Catherine
Submitted by cmjones on March 5, 2007 - 2:25pm.Name of Person:
Catherine Koshland
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Department:
Energy and Resources Group, Professor
Research Interests:
Professor Koshland's research is at the intersection of energy, air pollution and environmental (human) health. It is conducted at multiple scales, from mechanistic analyses of combustion products in flow reactors to control strategies in urban airsheds
Koshland, Catherine
Submitted by cmjones on April 2, 2007 - 2:33pm.Name of Person:
Catherine, Koshland
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Department:
Engineering, Professor
Research Interests:
Professor Koshland's research is at the intersection of energy, air pollution and environmental (human) health. It is conducted at multiple scales, from mechanistic analyses of combustion products in flow reactors to control strategies in urban airsheds
Koshland, Catherine
Submitted by cmjones on April 2, 2007 - 2:28pm.Name of Person:
Catherine Koshland
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Department:
Public Health, Professor
Research Interests:
Professor Koshland's research is at the intersection of energy, air pollution and environmental (human) health. It is conducted at multiple scales, from mechanistic analyses of combustion products in flow reactors to control strategies in urban airsheds
Canny, John
Submitted by cmjones on March 2, 2007 - 1:52pm.Name of Person:
John Canny
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Department:
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Professor
Research Interests:
Artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, control, robotics, and biosystems.
Bajcsy, Ruzena
Submitted by cmjones on March 2, 2007 - 1:11pm.Name of Person:
Ruzena Bajcsy
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Department:
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Professor
Research Interests:
Tele-immersive Environments, Computer Vision, AI, Robotics, Sensor Networks
Pister, Kristofer
Submitted by cmjones on February 28, 2007 - 1:54pm.Name of Person:
Kristofer Pister
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Department:
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Professor
Research Interests:
Control, robotics and biosystems, micro-robotics, integrated circuits, low-power circuits, micromechanical systems.
Achievements:
Kristofer Pister was awarded the Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovation for his successful pioneering achievements in developing and inspiring the commercialization of “Smart Dust”, a wireless network of miniature sensors. The network consists of a series of highly miniaturized motes, each of which contains a sensor, about the size of a grain of rice that detects and records things; a miniature transmitter/receiver that communicates with other motes; and a battery about the size of an aspirin that allows operation for longer than a year. These features allow the network to operate in an autonomous, self-discovering, and self-configuring fashion. Applications that will be changed forever are almost too numerous to enumerate. According to Dr. Tariq Samad, Corporate Fellow at Honeywell, “Professor Pister envisioned a future where pervasive ‘dust’ motes self-configure, self-adapt, and auto-network with other motes to provide sensor data for monitoring building health, ensuring industrial safety, improving industrial processes, sensing precursors to earthquakes, and safeguarding the environment”.