Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 55.41
Liaison Deborah Steinberg
Submission Date Feb. 18, 2013
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Carnegie Mellon University
ER-6: Sustainability-Focused Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.87 / 10.00 David Dzombak
Hamerschlag University Professor and Department Head
CEE: Civil & Environmental Engineering
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The number of sustainability-focused courses offered :
27

The total number of courses offered :
3,095.50

Number of years covered by the data:
One

A list of sustainability-focused courses offered:
FALL 2011 Course Sustainability focused 12301 Civil Environmental Engineering Projects 12401 Civil & Environmental Engineering Design 12712/19712 Introduction to Sustainable Engineering 12747 Special Topics: Sustainable Buildings 19423 Special Topics: Environmental Science Technology & Policy 19424 Energy and the Environment 19688 Innovation for Energy and the Environment 19696 Special Topics Sustainability and Innovation 48454 Futures of the City/Cities of the Future 48708 Sustainable Urbanism Studio 48731 Sustainable Design Synthesis Prep 67353 IT & Sustainability 79359 Sustainable Innovations: Ideas, Policies & Technologies to Make a Better Planet 90821 Special Topics: Innovation for Energy and the Environment SPRING 2012 Course Sustainability focused 12351 Environmental Engineering 12714 Environmental Life Cycle Assessment 18618 Smart Grids and Future Electric Energy Systems 45960 Sustainable Operations 45978 The Sustainable Business: Energy and Environmental Policies 48596 LEED Buildings and Green Design 48731 Sustainable Design Synthesis Prep 48769 Sustainable Design Synthesis 48795 LEED Buildings and Green Design Concepts 79359 Sustainable Innovations: Ideas, Policies & Technologies to Make a Better Planet 90789 Sustainable Community Development 90893 Policy Topics: Environment Policy 93836 Managing Cultural Heritage: Identity and Sustainability

The website URL where the publicly available sustainability course inventory that includes a list of sustainability-focused courses is available:
A copy of the sustainability course inventory:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Carnegie Mellon University does not deliberately distinguish between courses that focus or concentrate on the concept of sustainability throughout the course and courses that relate to an aspect of sustainability or include sustainability as part of the course in its definition of sustainability in the curriculum. However, the University does offer courses that could be defined as either sustainability-focused or related courses. Each of listed courses reflect such implied sustainability-focused content and curriculum. The sustainability course inventory can be found at the Carnegie Mellon University's Environmental Education website, however that website is updated at the beginning of each semester to inform students during registration. Therefore, the course inventory for Fall 2011 and Spring 2013 had been separately created in a Microsoft Excel document and attached. *An additional note about the total number of courses: We arrived at the total number of courses by taking the approximate number of courses offered during Fall 2011 (3,075) and Spring 2012 (3,116).

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