Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 55.41
Liaison Deborah Steinberg
Submission Date Feb. 18, 2013
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Carnegie Mellon University
ER-7: Sustainability-Related Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.93 / 10.00 David Dzombak
Hamerschlag University Professor and Department Head
CEE: Civil & Environmental Engineering
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The number of sustainability-related courses offered :
86

The total number of courses offered :
3,095.50

Number of years covered by the data:
One

A list of sustainability-related courses offered:
FALL 2011 Course Sustainability related 12090 Technology and the Environment 12100 Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering 12651/12751 Air Quality Engineering 12702 Fundamentals of Water Quality Engineering 12704 Probability and Estimation Methods for Engineering Systems 12706 Civil Systems Investment Planning and Pricing 12748 Special Topics: Mechanical and Electrical System Design for Buildings 12720 Water Resources Chemistry 19685 Innovation in Science and Engineering 19881 Seminar in Electricity Market Restructuring 24643 Special Topics: Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems 24683 Design for Manufacture and the Environment 27721 Processing Design 27724 Materials for Energy Storage 27729 Solid State Devices for Energy Conversion 27730 Energy Consumption and Minimization in Metal Production 39610 Energy Conversion and Supply 39611 Energy Demand and Utilization 47881 Seminar in Electricity Market Restructuring 47882 Seminar in Low-Carbon Electric Power 48729 Productivity, Health and the Quality of Buildings 90810 Population and Policy 90883 Climate Change 94812 Technology for International Development 99238 Materials, Energy and Environment 99331 India Today: Economy, Technology and People 19710 Special Topics: Environmental Regulation and Manmade Nanomaterials 19440 Combustion and Air Pollution Control 19452 Engineering and Public Policy projects 19883 Special Topics: Seminar in Climate and Energy Decision Making Under Uncertainty 48315 Environment I: Climate & Energy 48722 Building Performance Modeling 48738 Special Topics: Ecological Footprints 48752 Zero Energy Housing 70376 Energy Systems 79289 Energy, Environment, Globalization in the Americas 79375 China's Environmental Crisis 90798 Environmental Policy & Planning 90803 Environmental Economics 90808 Energy Policy SPRING 2012 Course code Sustainability related 9710 Introduction to Green Chemistry 12604 Transportation Engineering 12629/12729 Environmental Microbiology for Engineers 12648 Civil Engineering Project 12651/12751 Air Quality Engineering 12657 Water Resources Engineering 12718 Sustainable Engineering Project 12721 Environmental Biotechnology Principles 12724 Biological Wastewater Treatment 12726/19726 Mathematical Modeling of Environmental Quality Systems 12728 Special Topics: Remediation Engineering 12730 Special Topics: Environmental Nanotechnology 12750 Infrastructure Management 12751/19751 Advanced Topics in Air Quality 12781/19781 Fundamentals of Atmospheric Aerosols 18310 Fundamentals of Semiconductor Devices 18418 Electric Energy Processing: Fundamentals and Applications 18472/19472 Fundamentals of Electric Power Systems 18601 Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Technology 18875 Engineering and Economics of Electric Energy Systems 19101 Introduction to Engineering and Public Policy 19882 Seminar in Low-Carbon Electric Power 24422 Special Topics: Energy System Modeling 39613 Energy Transport and Storage 45765 Operations Management 47882 Seminar in Low-Carbon Electric Power 48205 Architecture Design Studio: Materials 48405 Architecture Design Studio: Systems Integration 48420 City as Landscape: Geography as Method and Metaphor 48706 Urban Design Studio 48723 Performance of Advanced Building Systems 48728 Special Topics in BPD: Redesigning Our Built Environment 79354 Energy & Climate: History, Science, Technology, and Policy in the US 1776-2076 79372 Perspectives on the Urban Environment 80244 Environmental Ethics 80344 Management, Environment, and Ethics 88352 Environmental Economics and Policy 88412 Economics of Global Warming 90733 Urban Development 90734 Urban Policy 90754 Engineering Public Policy Change Seminar 90758 Ethics & Public Policy in a Global Society 90765 Cities, Technology and the Environment 90827 Economics of Development 96705 Architecture and Design 19653 Special Topics Climate Change Mitigation 19666 Energy Policy

The website URL where the sustainability course inventory that includes a list of sustainability-related courses is posted:
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-related content and curriculum. The sustainability course inventory can be found at the Carnegie Mellon University's Environmental Education website. It should be noted, however, that the website is updated at the beginning of each semester to aid students during the registration process. Therefore, a course inventory had been separately created 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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